Eleanna Castroianni, querying

Bot . . . girl . . . resistance!

This story hits all the right notes.
Nice job @ecastroianni.bsky.social

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Some Queer Short SFF - September 2025 | Charles Payseur Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈
I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!!
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Your Halloween read is here, by yours truly ✨ So excited to share this with you!

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Stories by:
@ecastroianni.bsky.social
@grantcollier.bsky.social
@gregegansf.bsky.social
Rich Larson
@kyliu99.bsky.social
James Morrow
@trnapper.bsky.social
Amal Singh
Lavie Tidier
Jay Werkheiser
@librariangoblin.bsky.social

‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe t...

This article about the Elfashir siege is so illuminating, and at the same time infuriating & BAFFLING. It is beyond comprehension that *all this* is happening to a population, and no one in power feels any sense of urgency at all.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A must read!

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Friends, I'll be doing a smol reading at FoF on hour 14, which is Saturday 6:00 AM UTC so if anyone can make it I will be happy to see you there! ❤️

Genre Grapevine on the Anthropic AI Settlement | Jason Sanford Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
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Publishing since "Song of Achilles": [absolutely milking Greek culture without including actual Greeks or GS Cypriots]

Lone voice: "But what's the Greek perspective on this?"

Publishing:

I am reminded how I desperately need to re-read *this* trilogy more than the others and how Robin Hobb managed to produce the best love story ever written, conveniently wrapped in 16 massive tomes of epic fantasy.

The cover for Fantasy Issue 98! A brown-haired, light-skinned figure kneels next to a giant white bird, tending to an arrow wound. The cover is awash in autumnal shades of orange, cream, and brown.

And now for our Issue 98 COVER 🎉 🎉 🎉

Wound, by Zi Xu

I have a new story coming up! 😍

^this tbh

Palestinian families like Nehad's are being starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare:

Loved that story, so excited we share a toc!!

A poster with a background of a pink, maroon, and yellow embroidered fabric (tatreez). Text reads: An evening of community in solidarity with Palestinians Funds for Falasteen Join us on Sat 2nd August, 9pm IST in sharing work by Palestinian writers, poets, singers, and artists. Make a donation to any Palestinian fundraiser https://shorturl.at/h2mJZ Send the receipt to falasteenfund@gmail.com to get a meeting link

Friends, I'm hosting another fundraiser for Palestine on Saturday. This time I've linked to a campaign by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social in aid of the Sameer Project and the wonderful @refaatlibrary.bsky.social is matching the next $11,000 in donations

If you're able to donate or attend, please do! 🍉

Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

on a summer break, so I'm late to see this but SO excited to be part of this ToC with my @clarkesworldmagazine.com story "The Lark Ascending" 🤩🤩🥰🥰

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death

PRESS RELEASE

Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!

curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."

thread/

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I had a dream in which I saw myself in the mirror but it was actually a zoom call for work and instead of a powerful transformative experience I was panicking because I forgot I was wearing pink pajamas with kittens

is this life in your late 30s/after 2020

6 Greek Mythology Retellings for Fans of 'Circe,' 'Hadestown' and 'Kaos' (Exclusive) We love a great myth remix — and they come in all shapes and sizes. Here are 8 stellar novels and short stories, many written by actual Greeks.

For People Magazine, I wrote about creativity in Greek Myth retellings, including stories by many actual great Greek authors of today. Behold novels and short stories by @ioannapauthor.bsky.social, @mayadeane.bsky.social, @ecastroianni.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social & @thisisguan.bsky.social!

Strange Horizons 2026 A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

We are now mid-way! Help us hit all the goals and the stretch goals. :D

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My new "What to Read" column also features fiction by @ecastroianni.bsky.social @avgreenewrites.bsky.social @ravenjake.bsky.social @derrickboden.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @translunarytree.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social & more.

Ah thank you!! This column is great, so many good stuff to read 😍

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Their Eyes the Shape of Orchids by Eleanna Castroianni Something in your mother's acceptance of my cruel words makes me see how, for a moment, I am the pathetic one. I’ve seen those eyes before. I’ve seen them on the faces of Surna girls who come to me to...

From the Archives w BCS #429: "Their Eyes the Shape of Orchids" @ecastroianni.bsky.social BCS #362 "I’ve seen those eyes on the faces of Surna girls who come to me to do the dampening and I know they’re carrying unwanted Innachor children inside them." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/thei...

Congrats as well! 🥰

Oooo midwife story in BCS with my own midwife story from the archives! 👀

Your story absolutely deserves it, and more! <3

AAAhHH my story "Zarghána" is shortlisted! And I have so many weird stories to read now, YAY!!

ooooooooooooooo!!!!