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Ballerina India Bradley Leaps As First Black Soloist For New York City Ballet Detroit native and ballerina India Bradley has made history as the first Black soloist in the New York City Ballet.

And of course she’s a homegirl! www.blackenterprise.com/india-bradle...

Frost Zone Stories is open to submissions of short horror stories; quiet horror, dark fiction - tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strange. Token $ plus print copy, or 2 print copies. OPEN until Nov01.
For books 3&4 which will be published in spring & autumn 2026

Research Trips - Short Story by Barbara Di Sacco - In Italian with English Translation Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp

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I, a French Jewel Thief, Refuse to Rob the Louvre Before Mid-Morning “Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris’ Louvre museum on Sunday morning, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless object...

In France, we pride ourselves on enjoying life’s simple pleasures: food, drink, and the occasional grand larceny. To rush through these things would not just disrupt our leisurely schedule; it would be a sin. One must savor the moment, not run from robbery to robbery like a buffoon.

brainrot — fifth wheel press a fifth wheel press anthology

belated @sfpoetry.bsky.social related announcement: my poem "The Giant Robot Prefers Not To" is in the free @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social BRAINROT anthology for all to enjoy and will be included in fwp 2025 coming soon in print! fifthwheelpress.com/brainrot

Your Local Hiking Trail Has Had It with You People Hey, it’s me, the closest trail to the metropolis, and I’m begging you to take your midlife crisis elsewhere. Every week, a fresh crop of you forty...

"You inhale richly and muse aloud that you love being off-grid, as the lights of a 7-Eleven glitter in the near distance. You’re about as off-grid as the Times Square T-Mobile."

Three Haiku Triptych Poems by Samo Kreutz Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp

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Re-opening: Variant Literature Journal Variant Literature Journal (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/variant-literature-journal-27746 #amwriting

Variant Literature Journal (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.

Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure

If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.

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#writingcommunity #booksky

Keeping Rauschenberg relevant On the centenary of the artist’s birth, Courtney J. Martin talks to Michael Delgado about running the Rauschenberg Foundation and looking after his legacy

The Rauschenberg Foundation, started by the artist in 1990, has grown into one of the most successful and forward-thinking artist-endowed foundations. Its director, Courtney J. Martin, talks to Apollo about how Rauschenberg’s philanthropy continues to motivate her

Coach Your Characters: A Life Coach’s Toolkit Offers a New Lens | Jane Friedman Life coaches help clients gain insights about how we shape our own life stories, and the same tools can be used to create richer characters.

People seek out life coaches for many reasons, but one theme is ever-present: people strive to achieve a goal but are trapped in a cage of their own patterns, until they gain an insight that sets them free.

Learn how to use the toolkit of a life coach for fiction character building.

Next week on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter 🕷️

Our theme is SUPERNATURAL/ PARANORMAL 👻 ⚡️

- 60 words max.
- Imagistic.
- A startling simile.
- Unexpected metaphor.
- No cliche.
- Title in bold. 🕸️

Optional extras:

- A kenning.
- A compound word.

#writing #halloween #paranormal #supernatural

The Victorians who captured the spirits of the age Easily dismissed as trickery, the ‘ghost’ photos of the late 19th century say much about science, belief and mortality in the period, writes Stephen Patience

Victorian ‘ghost’ photographs are easily dismissed as camera trickery, but they tell us much about science, belief and mortality in the period, writes Stephen Patience

The fourth poem in PERVERSE 9B is 'depression #0' by Lune Loh (@lune.city). Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9b

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away, you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away, you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

NYC Public Library Action Network Join NYC PLAN at our upcoming Public Library People’s Assembly It will be held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on the Upper West Side on Saturday, October 4th from 12:45pm-4:30pm.

If you live in NYC and you would like to plug into public library organizing, you can join NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org. Information is here: nycplan.org

We're kicking off a City Council focused campaign this month so it's a good time to join in and do some work.

Great accumulators down the ages James Delbourgo’s new book explores the obsessions of fanatical collectors, both real and fictional

Is collecting things, as James Delbourgo asserts in his book ‘A Noble Madness’, really a sign of insanity? Susan Moore investigates buff.ly/Ad2C1mX

Let's talk about some awesome women who work (or worked) in video games. Today, lets celebrate them. A THREAD.

Let's start with Yoko Shimomura. She is a video game music composer who worked on Seiken Densetsu, Kingdom Hearts, Street Fighter II and too many games to list here.

yokoshimomura.com

#Writer #Author #Poet If only....!

A #macabre
sense of humour
seems wholly
appropriate
for this month
considering all
that is happening
in this twisted
upside down
world.

#OurPoetryX #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

I love this podcast by Laura Baggaley where she talks to Joanna Penn about #writing and #theatre. She does a nice shout-out for Green Stories and @habitatpress.bsky.social and how to find ways to engage readers in climate solutions without scaring them off! www.thecreativepenn.com/2025/10/20/p...

#writingcommunity #authorsky #writingsky #booksky #amwriting #writerssupportingwriters

norms are defined by so many aspects: our culture, our age, or gender, our ethnicity, our use of technology, and our abilities. Basically every element that makes us human has an impact on what we consider a ‘norm’ or not.

I'm always so intrigued by conversations surrounding norms. It's often a conversation that involves someone complaining that others don't follow their norm, and no thought or consideration that everyone has their own norms. || theeddesigner.com/2024/07/18/s... #EduSky #AcademicSky #UDL

Wisdom
#academicsky

Screenshot of my article on the Science Fiction Studies journal website On the left: Volume 52, Issue 3, November 2025 Article Contents: The City & The City The Real-Town Murders The Mimicking of Known Successes Conclusion On the right: “No One Can Admit It Doesn’t Work”: Unstable Spatial Epistemology in Science Fiction-Detective Fiction Hybrids Available to Purchase Orin Posner Abstract: This article examines the hybridization of science fiction (sf) and detective fiction (df) as a literary reflection of spatial and epistemological instability. Analyzing three contemporary sf-df hybrids—China Miéville’s The City & the City (2009), Adam Roberts’s The Real-Town Murders (2017), and Malka Older’s The Mimicking of Known Successes (2023)—it explores how these texts use both genres to highlight the entanglement of spatial ontology (physical space) and spatial epistemology (the perception and understanding of space). Furthermore, by employing sf’s spatial novums alongside df’s spatial mysteries, these texts present spatial boundaries as malleable, open to manipulation through misinformation and conspiracy. In all three texts, the mystery plots destabilize the fictional worlds’ spatial rules, uncovering conspiracies orchestrated by figures of institutional authority. In this, the narratives reflect contemporary concerns about the erosion of trust in traditional systems of knowledge and power. This study demonstrates how sf-df hybrids engage with the precarities of space, knowledge, and power, resonating with the experiences of readers navigating an increasingly fragmented and uncertain world.

New article published! I’m so thrilled to share my article in Science Fiction Studies, included in its November 2025 issue, is now available to read online: doi.org/10.1525/sfs....
(if you don’t have access and want a copy, let me know)

#academicsky

Exclusive Extract — We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities We're delighted to share an exclusive extract from the forthcoming collection, We Are Each Other's Liberation:

What can we learn from the political organisers who came before us?

Read an extract from the forthcoming collection, WE ARE EACH OTHER'S LIBERATION: BLACK AND ASIAN FEMINIST SOLIDARITIES, edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso (@haymarketbooks.org).

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I'm giving away a signed copy of The Swallows of Lunetto, my novel about fascism in Italy, because I think we need to understand how the madness can happen anywhere.

Just leave a like/comment so I see you, and I'll drop your name in the hat. I hope this book holds its little 🕯️.