Phoenix Alexander

if you wanted a baseline against which to recalibrate just how niche your sense of the genre might be: this is a pretty good example of currently popular, mainstream fantasy. NYT bestseller, Goodreads Choice award nominee, 30k+ Amazon reviews at a rating of 4.4, touring to packed rooms of fans &c.

First ever Comic Con: check! I had a blast on this panel with @noethematt.bsky.social, Daryl Maxwell, Lauren Salerno, Misty Jones, and our wonderful moderator Eric Guignard, sharing what libraries can do for creators and their materials #sdcc

if you read books about writing, you owe it to yourself to read this book about writing

*orders for the Eaton Collection*

📣 Submissions are OPEN July 1 - 31 📣

We invite immigrant and diaspora authors to submit their stories & share their unique perspective through speculative fiction✨ www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

#SubmissionCall #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction

Haven Spec Magazine, Issue Twenty, July 2025. Cover and table of contents. The issue will very soon be available to subscribers, and its contents are as follows: Cover Art by Saleha Chowdhury. Fiction: Visions of Althea by Alex Woodroe, Fish Upon A Star by AR Frederiksen, Brother, What Is Your Name? by Leanne Howard, and Restaurant Space for Lease by Vivian Chou. Poetry: she brings me waves, she brings me wind by Angel Leal, Anchor Spindrift by Elizabeth R McClellan, and Cryptid Sister by H.V. Patterson. Nonfiction: Letter from the Editor, Ya Herd? By Leon Perniciaro.

Our ✨July 2025 issue✨ is ready at last!

Subscribers will get it first thing tomorrow morning, and everyone else can read it next Wednesday! Why not subscribe and be the first to take a gander at all these great stories and poems?

Subscribe through Patreon:
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Here is your SUDDEN REMINDER that if your library allows you a certain amount of purchase requests each month, you need to use them now before they go away forever!!

Other people will be delighted too! Truly! I speak from experience here.

Threading some lists for ideas -

There are a few! 😀 There's the Merrill Collection in my town which is part of the Lilian H Smith library branch, and I know that @dracopoullos.bsky.social does phenomenal work at the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy! 📚 AND the amazing Ben Rubin does the UPitt Horror Collection!

The Arthur C. Clarke Award Ceremony 2025 Award presentation and drinks reception for the 39th annual Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.

Join us as we announce the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award 🚀

Public tickets to the award presentation now available 👇

An email stating the Taco Bell Quarterly has been added to the Library of Congress

Oh my God!? We've been added to the Library of Congress. A literary magazine that I make for fun in my basement as my midlife crisis has been added to the historical record, called the uh, ahem, Taco Bell Quarterly. We are the most prestigious literary magazine of all time.

For all those waiting for a reply from AFTERLIVES 2024: The Year's Best Death Fiction, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has her final TOC, and emails will be going OUT this week, so please stay tuned! 💖💀💖 @psychopomp.com

Find it in the March issue of The Dark:

www.thedarkmagazine.com/malo-malo-ma...

The Dark, Remains, and New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran The Dark 3/25 Remains #1 New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #3, #4 Louis Inglis Hall’s “Malo Malo Malo Malo” in The Dark #118 is a stunning and indescribable story about a powerful man compelled…

Really glad to see ‘Malo Malo Malo Malo’ get some love in Paula Guran’s column in @locusmag.bsky.social! It’s an extraordinary story.

locusmag.com/2025/06/the-...

Wildfire destroyed a historically Black town. These artists won’t let its legacy disappear As Altadena prepares to rebuild after the devastation of the LA fires, an exhibition centers its creative history

"Wildfire destroyed a historically Black town. These artists won’t let its legacy disappear

As Altadena prepares to rebuild after the devastation of the LA fires, an exhibition centers its creative history"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ignyte Awards 2025: Shortlist announcement and public voting open June 9

*blows dust off account*
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

Ahem

I have returned. And with news, no less.

Thank you! 🙏🏼

Thanks so much!! I do really love this story 🙈

Cheers! :)

Thanks so much! 🤗

Huge thanks to @witchywonderer.bsky.social who was a *dream* editor to work with, and who shaped ‘Letters…’ into one of the stories I’m proudest of 🙏🏼

a black hole in the middle of a galaxy ALT: a black hole in the middle of a galaxy

The contract is signed, so I can finally share that I sold a story to @khoreo.bsky.social!! ‘Letters from Light’s End’ follows a gay astronaut trying to escape the accretion disk of a black hole to return to his husband and children. Coming March 2026!!

Ooh I like this, it’s giving liminal spaces melancholy!

Happy Anniversary!!!

Ahh thank you so much!! ❤️

🤭

Thank you so much, Nalo! ❤️ I hope you’re doing well!

ACK! Vaguepost, vaguepost!

*delighted shrieking*

Always! ☺️