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sff writer/playwright · pop culture critic at Reactor, Lit Hub, Den of Geek, NPR Books · stories at PodCastle, Icarus Writing Collective · Viable Paradise 2025 · PlayPenn Playwright Entrepreneur Program 25/26 · she/her
This cover!! Psyched to have my story "Last Edit to THE ALL BANGERS LIST Made By Your Sex Robot at 11:39 A.M." running free in this issue next month.
The Outlander premiere did a fair amount of scene-setting for the final ten episodes, but when that involves stabbings and posthumous literary bombshells from the future, you know it's gonna be a good road to the end.
Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?
Thinking about this wrt how LLMs are being posited for archival scanning/digitization, creating records, and doing research. LLMs distract from the actual systems problems of a lack of funding, lack of resources, and lack of staff paid at a liveable wage.
Reminder: we are OPEN to reprints all month long! We are looking for reprints that cannot currently be read online for free! This includes stories that were never available online or are no longer online after a publication closed, etc. Find all the details in our guidelines!
THIS but also as someone on the other side -- i.e. second kid is almost 2 and keeping up with her 4-year-old brother -- it kinda rules
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
IT'S SO GOOD I was just thinking about it again this week (even before the latest news bleh). When I first heard of Tilly I was like, "there's an SF story in this" and then Betty Gilpin just blew it out of the water.
Ooh, just put in a library hold—thanks for this! Didn't realize she had a whole collection.
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
My latest story is very angry and timely and I'd like it to stop being timely.
Gideon Nav:
let the new (FINAL sniff) Outlander theme song get you amped for this week's premiere, and enjoy this analysis slash song feels post that I've updated every season for the last eight (!) years
My open call with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! ffo.submittable.com/submit/35050...
it's march, beloveds
which means we are currently open for
POETRY SUBMISSIONS
read the guidelines and send in those poems 🖤💀
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
Nominations open for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize!
www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
For awards season, I'd like to take a moment to hype FF's 2025 cover artists. FF's cover art is commissioned, based on stories from each issue, and @abistevensart.bsky.social @almosthomefree.bsky.social and @evelynepark.bsky.social did an incredible job of bringing these stories to life!
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As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else
*gutting (complimentary)
but also yes, there's probably a German word for it
I've had this tab open to read for weeks and this was a useful reminder to finally sit down and do it -- damn!! Gutting on so many levels.
🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨
Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.”
Please send in your mycelial pitches to gautam.strangehorizons@gmail.com.
For word-count, formats, and remuneration:
strangehorizons.com/submit/non-f...
Reminder: we open to reprints on March 1st! We are looking for speculative stories (by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors) that cannot currently be read for free online.
We will stay open to reprints until the end of March and will likely open again later this year.
📝Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
So psyched to share a TOC with all these incredible authors! Adventitious Issue 2 letsgoooo
The empire needs someone to play the prophesized hero. Instead, they get Gev, a 40yo quartermaster with more talent for the logistics of supply lines than killing actual gods. Fake-it-till-you-make-it…or die trying (spoilers: he'll probably die trying). #WSPit #Q #A #F #LGBT
