Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Finalists!
The Rhysling jury has selected 50 short poems and 25 long poems from the longlist of nominees, each of which will appear this year's Rhysling Anthology.
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@ccrayne.bsky.social
author of all things weird, wonderful, & queer β¨οΈ words in The Deeps, The Razor, Strange Horizons, and more π ccraynewrites.carrd.co
Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Finalists!
The Rhysling jury has selected 50 short poems and 25 long poems from the longlist of nominees, each of which will appear this year's Rhysling Anthology.
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18.09.2025 00:23 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! I am delighted to be the guest editor for the 59th issue of Eye to the Telescope, which is seeking speculative poetry (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc) on the theme of "Immortality." This is a paid call, open from today through January 15th, 2026. Submissions link below.
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23.06.2025 15:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm C. C! I write queer speculative fiction, especially horror/sci-fi/fantasy, and I particularly love to play with unusual found formats and structures. I've got a novella coming out later this year with @dogleechbooks and am currently working on several different novels. ccraynewrites.carrd.co
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this is shaping up beautifully so please keep them coming
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01.05.2025 03:18 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0en*gendered essays poetry cnf fiction art the inbox is open between now and May 15th for work that speaks to enβ’genderment in this moment. we want your anger, your defiance, your joy, and your grief. engenderedlit@gmail.com requests for anonymity are welcome & honoured
new look, new format
en*gendered is open until may 15th
(OH YES and Swordcrossed - also by Marske, just not part of the aforementioned trilogy)
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the cover of my adult debut w/ @sagapressbooks.bsky.social, YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN, about a mute, autistic trans man forced into an unwanted pregnancy, is LIVE!
Includes an exclusive excerpt β¨
Cover by Druscilla Adeline!
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