Syr Beker

Yes hello hi, whatever it is, based on this image, I'll have three.

I mean honestly any single one of these could cause me to explode into glitter, but FWIW, my book is What A Fish Looks Like from @stelliform.press and after I explode, you can check out their entire catalog.

TIL Deezer has a darkmode also, which makes it a nice thing to have alongside Bandcamp and the wretched homophobic brightness of that otherwise perfect app, which I will continue to use also except when I don't need the neighbors to know i'm listening to metal sea shanties at 2am.

REVERSE MERMAID!!! OMG! I have written like 10000 image descriptions trying to figure out what to call this figure, now I know. Also how to explain to people that this cover glimmers without glitter?

Yellow/purple ink blobs. Open to submissions: Dec 1-15. arrows pointing to "unthemed" and "timefuckery" (the two themes for issues we're reading for).

Baffling will open for submissions on December 1st!

More info here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions

Cover of The Deadlands Magazine by Carly AF featuring a kind of apocalyptic road up a narrowing cliff leading up to a giant skull in a red sky shattering into maze.

<3 Thank you <3 I love it so much - but that's because @carlydraws.bsky.social is a genius. Have you seen her cover for Deadlands? I mean!

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The perfect merx story premise doesn't exi- Can't wait to read this in @reckoningmag.bsky.social

My Favorite Bit: Syr Hayati Beker talks about WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE Syr Hayati Beker is joining us today to talk about their novella, What a Fish Looks Like. Here’s the publisher’s description: What are the stories we need to survive? In ten days, the last spaceshi…

Really meant a lot to me to be on @maryrobinettekowal.com's My Favorite Bit and get to talk about why we need indie presses like @stelliform.press at the apocalypse. Thank you!

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Seconded. Reef Mind is FANTASTIC.

I want this book already. Send work! YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices

YESSSSSSSSSSSS THIS IS SO EXCIIITINGGGG!!!!!!

Must-Reads and Some Ways to Support Native People This Weekend "Colonialism has been destroying worlds for hundreds of years."

If you've donated to Native Organizer Alliance and want to keep giving, you can check out some of the groups I've uplifted in previous years in this newsletter edition from last year:

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.

I made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Take a look at what's new and keep sending your own links my way!

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This @kristinaten.bsky.social story is an absolute banger. Well done, F(r)iction.

we are going to win

"As of now, our union, Starbucks Workers United, has the facility under a full blockade."

Starbucks worker Silvia lays out the ULP strike escalation at Starbucks' York regional distribution center #NoContractNoCoffee

And on Their Graves a Fall of Angels - Uncanny Magazine He was ten when he shot his first angel. He remembers its stupid dark eyes staring at him from the foliage above, its two sets of wings flapping, the sound of something breaking. It was shortly after ...

I can't give up on this timeline because it contains the magnificence that is @nassos.bsky.social, and his new story in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is everything I needed right now, maybe you too, so here you go. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/and-...

Ahhhh so excited!!!!!!

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

Now: Thousands of people in Charlotte have gathered to let Border Patrol & ICE know they’re not welcome here. We will not bow down in the face of Trump’s terror tactics. When our communities are under attack we stand up and fight back!

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Small Press Dispatch: The Thing You Do When Crying Isn’t Enough Roseanna Pendlebury In Syr Hayati Beker’s What A Fish Looks Like, a book of fairytales is transformed by annotation into a collection of new fables, more suited to the climate-change-ravaged future…

Didn't know a review could feel so vulnerable, loving, and seeing. So deeply moved by this magnificently written review of What A Fish Looks Like by @chloroformtea.bsky.social in @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org. What an honor. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/06/s...

2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award We need your recommendations of works for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider. If you’ve read a recently published work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our understanding of…

Please recommend works of #SpeculativeFiction published in 2025 that explore or expand our understanding of gender! Nominate for the Otherwise Award:

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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Oh no. I am so sad to hear this. What a terrible loss. Thank you for spotlighting, subscribing with a grateful heart.

Image ID: Flyer for Stories vs. Apocalypse at A Room Of One's Own Bookstore, Wednesday November 5th, The Reading Room. 2713 Atwood Ave. Flyer features a meteor flying through space and announces: and Q/T open mic and raffle prizes and spaceships! On the flyer are portraits of writers and their books: B. Pladek, and his book Dry Land featuring a tree with many roots bursting through the soil, and Syr Hayati Beker, and their book What A Fish Looks Like, featuring a Merx and a hybrid fish leaning in for a kiss as the ocean becomes space.

In other news this is TONIGHT at A Room of One's Own Bookstore! @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social Come see me and the incredible @bpladek.bsky.social and special guests!!