Helena Ramsaroop

ARB Awards Eligibility 2025 The Ancillary Review of Books turned five this year! We’ve had an excellent year, and are very pleased to continue publishing criticism with an emphasis on the speculative and the utopian, thanks t…

For everyone nominating for next year's SFFH awards: ARB's 2025 Awards Eligibility

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Ok yall, seriousness needed. Nya's vulnerable family of eight, are stranded in a tent in this cold and rain, which we saw endanger the lives of children and the elderly the last two winters.

Help with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...

a photo of ATANA AND THE FIREBIRD, a middle grade graphic novel

a photo of ATANA AND THE JADE MERMAID, a middle grade graphic novel

if you're looking for gifts this holiday season, may I suggest the Atana graphic novels for your consideration?

perfect for lovers of:
✨fantasy
✨magic, witches, mermaids...
✨adventures with friends
✨finding yourself stories

available anywhere books are sold, including your local bookstores!

My friend is halfway through now, please boost so they can reach the goal before the 20th Dec 🙏❤️
gofund.me/3950280e6

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...

A simple ask on this first Saturday of December: click “weekly” or “monthly” on a coffee.

The math adds up. Almost two hundred people have pledged around this, and it has meant sustained, dependable support for six families & a camp—to survive.

Donate to Help Ramzi's family to survive in gaza, organized by Bouchra El idrissi My name is Ramzi from Gaza, I am 20 years old. My house was destroyed and we… Bouchra El idrissi needs your support for Help Ramzi's family to survive in gaza

Some Gaza fundraisers as the winter weather gets worse, a thread: Ramzi is needing money for food and tent rent if you have anything to donate, no matter how small. www.gofundme.com/f/help-ramzi...

The Hungering Years by Summer Farah Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...

Looking for the latest Palestinian poetry? I got you. Pre order The Hungering Years by Summer Farah: hostpublications.com/collections/...

I loved being a reviewer for the 100 notable small press books project. My reviews of One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com (published by @psychopomp.com) and Redundancies and Potentials by @domsdickey.bsky.social (published by @neonhemlock.bsky.social) are included in this list!

Donate to Hybris Press Help support Hybris Press by donating or sharing with your friends.

OTHERSIDE is published by Hybris Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the publication and promotion of queer speculative fiction. Every donation on #GivingTuesday - and every day - helps us support 2SLGBTQIA+ creators. Thank you so much for all your support this year!

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

did you know that we published a NOTABLE SMALL PRESS BOOK this year??? 👀

it's ONE MESSAGE REMAINS by the AMAZING @premeemohamed.com 🎉🎉🎉

read the list, and get your own copy here ✨ psychopomp.com/one-message-...

lithub.com/100-notable-...

Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Very cool to see REDUNDANCIES AND POTENTIALS by @domsdickey.bsky.social on this list of 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!

lithub.com/100-notable-...

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Delighted to see ONE MESSAGE REMAINS (published by @psychopomp.com in February this year) on LitHub's Best 100 Small Press Books of the year!

"Dark, eerie and thought-provoking, these stories show the importance of even the smallest acts of resistance."

(Thank you @hramsaroop.bsky.social !)

You're welcome! These stories have stayed with me and I'll be thinking about them for a long time.

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!

Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.

Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...

Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

If you’re looking for Palestinian speculative fiction for #ReadPalestine week, I got you: soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

An illustration with a purple overlay of decaying purple and yellow tree branches that lead down to an opening. There are white birds flying around and on one of the yellow-purple branches are three people walking. In the top and bottom corners are purple branches and yellow leaves. At the top of the image reads: "contents." There is a black rectangle and inside lists the table of contents: "Observer Effect by Morgan Cross. Leave Your Skins by the Shore by Natasha King. Flame Weeding by Colleen Coco Collins. Rocky Mountain Gothic by Ev Datsyk. Bonds of the Forest by Ally R Colthoff . Blueberry by Jade Riordan. On Fields of Purple Grass by Ian Li. Tapetum Lucidum by U.M. Agoawike. The Great Divide by Meryem Yildiz. Chlorophilia by Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer.” At the bottom of the image is the augur logo and a link to the website: www.augursociety.org

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Inside you'll find...
🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest
🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens
🫐 a berry world of grief and awe
& so much more!

🔗 Link in bio!

More details below 👀⬇️

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: October 2025 - Reactor This month's short fiction recommendations include ghosts and grief, recipes and multiverses...

Check out the must-read short fiction of October 2025 if you:

- are a short fiction author
- love reading short stories
- could not be located at 12:35 AM on Wednesday, April 4th, in 1945

The background has an image of flowers with a purple overlay. At the top of the image is the Ontario Arts Council logo and the Augur logo. In between these two logos are a white plus sign. Below it reads: Open Now” in white text. Underneath that reads: “recommender grants 2025. SSF fiction | Poetry | Short Fiction” in white text. There a red pin graphic in the middle and underneath it reads: Apply to the August Recommender Grants via the OAC. Grant Amounts: $1,500-$5,000. Deadline: January 15th, 2026 at 1 p.m. ET. Below it is a yellow banner and inside it reads: “Apply Now” in white text with a paper airplane beside it. At the bottom of the graphic is a dark purple banner with the link to apply: https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/recommender-grants-for-writers

We’re so honoured to be BACK as an Ontario Arts Council Recommender for grants this year! 🎊

We’re interested in receiving applications for various lengths of SFF & dreamy realism projects, including:
⭐️ fiction
⭐️ poetry
⭐️ short fiction

Donate to Help finish Alice’s work, organized by yomi wrong Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, needs us. As yo… yomi wrong needs your support for Help finish Alice’s work

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...

here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

Looking for something to curl up with this fall? Check out our newly released Augur Issue 8.2! ✨

Also, you can find 2 FREE samples on our site! 📚💫

🔗 Link in bio!

Cartoon illustration of a megaphone with text reading: Submission open from November 1 to 30th, under the theme of Revolutions.

Our submissions are open to fiction exploring the theme of "Revolutions" 📣

Visit our website to read the full submission guidelines: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Exploding colors with overlayed text reading: Submissions open on November 1 and run until November 30th under the theme Revolutions.

November submissions are OPEN!

The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS!

We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

An illustration of a field on a sunny day and here’s a clothing line with yellow and red sheets flowing in the wind, and behind them are two people, one with purple wings touching hands. with a blue overlay. At the top of the image reads: “Read it Now” in a yellow banner and underneath reads: “Augur Issue 8.2.” Bellow is the link to the website: http://www.augursociety.org. In the middle of the image is a book with the cover art of Issue 8.1. There are 6 arrows around the book pointing to blurbs from some of the pieces that read: elemental aftermath of an affair, toxic love festers through shed skin & wet sheets, young love, rusted metal, & shattered sunlight, monstrous hymn of awe & destruction, old age drama between two languages, and devastation dripped in honey and rain .

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!

🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

NINE HOURS LEFT.

When support stops—as it has now—it stops for 21 FAMILIES. For the first time in six months we missed our goal last week. And we’ll miss it again this week.

One hundred Palestinians. Whom you can and DO help. Who are still in genocide and reliant on YOU.

Last check 496/1000….