#HopePit Community

Seeking connections with sci-fi lovers into solarpunk, hopepunk, steampunk, cli-fi, silkpunk & post-apoc tales! UK authors, indie writers & found family fans—let's build our network.

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#ScienceFiction #Writing #IndieAuthor #UKAuthors #LetsConnect

“Magic” is subtle in my world, but the energy pervades everything. The MCs habitually read the vibes of others — among their kind, a simple greeting involves a feather-exchange of energy via touched palms.

#Febchantment — 20
#indiefantasy 📚🪐💙🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️

flier for #Hopepit 🌍 Wednesday, April 22 🌏 🌎 community connect April 19 - 21 🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞 An inclusive community-building hype event for voices of light & vision in the darkness. Open to creators of all media telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation #Hopepit 🌍 Earth Day Edition 🌏 🌞Use the #Hopepit hashtag to share your pitches, books, videos, articles, and art 🌱We encourage the use of additional tags, like: #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, etc 🌳Not sure which genre? JOIN US anyway! 🌱≤ 3 posts per WIP 🌞Please use ALT text on images 🌱NO generative AI 🌞build community & help uplift these genres 🌱We 💛 resource sharing & discussion threads! @hopepit.bsky.social

Our next Hopepit will be EARTH DAY, Wednesday, April 22!

🌍 🌏 🌎

🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞

#EarthDay #Hopepit
🌱 #hopepunk #solarpunk #clifi #writingcommunity #writesky

🌳 hosted by: @arachnereid.bsky.social @thestripedbananas.bsky.social & @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social

Split promotional slide on a dark navy background. Left side shows a book-cover style illustration: a silhouetted girl inside two cupped hands, standing in golden-green fields under a starry sky with swirling light. The title reads “HEIRS OF BALANCE” and the author name “LESLEY PARRY.” Right side text reads: “YA Science-Fantasy, 90,000 words. STUDIO GHIBLI meets ANDOR where healing is heresy and compassion sparks rebellion.” Handle “@lesleyparrybooks” and hashtags appear beneath.

A five-panel moodboard framed by black borders. Top-left shows two small figures standing on a hill under a dramatic night sky with the text: “What if medicine was illegal… and you had the power to heal?” Center panel shows shows glowing hands in a forest. Top-right shows an overgrown, glass-domed eco-building rising from a misty valley. Bottom-left a bright green rural settlement with wind turbines in the background. Bottom-right shows a cozy tabletop scene with a mortar and pestle, herbs, and jars, suggesting herbal remedies or healing craft.

“The Story” slide on a dark navy background with a buff watercolor brush stroke across the top. Large serif headline reads “The Story.” Body text summarizes the plot: in a post-apocalyptic world where medicine and touching the sick are forbidden, nineteen-year-old Mira Elders discovers she can heal after saving a dying child; she poses as a Watcher, finds love, is betrayed and taken to the Citadel, and learns a long-buried truth that healing caused the world’s collapse; she must choose to bury her power or use it to spark an empathy revolution.

“If you liked…” slide on a dark navy background with a buff textured brush stroke across the diagonal. Three book covers are centered across the slide: The Nature of Witches (left), The Grace Year (middle), and The Scarlet Alchemist (right). Captions beneath each read: “eco-magic + atmosphere” (left), “oppression + survival stakes” (middle), and “illegal craft + moral cost” (right).

What if medicine was illegal and you learned you had the power to heal?
HEIRS OF BALANCE
GHIBLI x ANDOR
🌱 Post-apocalypse hopepunk
🤐 Family secrets
🧬 Science-based magic
❤️‍🔥 Slow-burn romance
🥹 Found family
REP: 🧠 ND 🤎 BIPOC and 🌈 LGBTQ+ characters
#QuestPit #Q #SFF #RF #WritingCommunity

Hopepunk Books In these challenging times, could you use a little lightness in your heart? A little boost of hope to give you the energy to keep on fighting for what’s right? Check out Hopepunk books! What …

Today I wrote a post about one of my favorite book genres: hopepunk. Science fiction with characters who choose empathy and justice even in dark times. janelledurham.com/2026/01/31/h...

After Aileth’s best friend dies, his ki — the spark of his spirit — lives inside her heart. When a shadow creature steals human inner light across San Francisco, Aileth must choose: hold on to Miles… or let him go to save everyone else.

WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER X COCO
#Q #MG #F #Hopepunk #QuestPit

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated.

Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

🔮 #EarthMagic #tarot
🌪️ #CliFi
🌷 #Hopepunk
#S #Q
#Questpit #booksky

"A prophet is someone with memories of the future. Neuroscientists speculate that this is what foresight is."

A brilliant, quick read by @drkimiww.bsky.social

This convinced me to put "The Marrow Thieves" on my list!

#IndigenousFuturism #Hopepunk #wisdom

worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...

Storytelling, World Building, and Establishing a Better United States · Indivisible For a long time people told tales about going to the moon, then we in the US decided to **GO!** Our National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) was established on July 29, 1958. On July 20, 1969 the ...

Just signed up for a "hopecore" class through Indivisible! Love that they're doing this (I had not heard this particular variant of the term before) & I'm intrigued to see what they're teaching in terms of art in activism.

check it out: mobilize.us/s/EF0IBm

@indivisible.org
#solarpunk #hopepunk

Join us in elevating the genre! 🌱🌞

Oops deleted that comment cuz it’s AWG doing the workshop. It’s on zoom! www.alaskawritersguild.com/event-6494102

Are you an indie author? Do you have a new release scheduled in SF/F/Horror? Would you like it to be featured on my blog's monthly new release list?

Any indies have books coming out in February?

I'm building next month's new release post, and there's room for new titles (I'm resharing since Friday's post did nothing and there's lots of space available)

Please submit using the form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#booksky #writingcommunity

graphic saying Help Requested Re: Self Publishing

Hi #WritingCommunity, I'm ready to dive into the world of self publishing!

What tips, leads, accounts, videos do y'all recommend?

I'd prefer not to rely on Amazon/have small budget

Thanks @sagetgreene.bsky.social for starting me off!
#Bluepit #writesky #selfpublishing #WIPsnips #publishingjourney

Self-Publishing learning Actions watch youtube, tiktok, other posts about publishing make podcasts list/download attend workshop/ conference? take a course? free course David Gaughran: Starting From Zero Susan’s quic...

processing all these great ideas & making my to-do list with a lil slide deck for #selfpublishing

What am I missing/ what would you add?

#writesky #selfpub #publishingjourney #writingcommunity #author #todolist

docs.google.com/presentation...

emailed from portlandplacemaking@gmail.com Flier for Activate! Portland with QR code to scan Sat March 14 9:45AM- 4PM @Tabor Space 5441 SE Belmont, PDX "Connect with local organizations doing important work in: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE, PLACEMAKING, COMMUNITY BUILDING,LAND TENDING, & MUTUAL AID Meet & connect with other like-minded folks in your area Learn skills, share ideas, and teach what you know in Open Space workshops & facilitated conversations Lunch is provided"

Activate! Portland

community building event March 14th

I went to one & was inspired at so many #local #grassroots orgs coming together.

local orgs in:
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE, PLACEMAKING, COMMUNITY BUILDING,LAND TENDING, & MUTUAL AID

by Portland Placemaking Coalition

#Portland #PDX #service

#SmallPitch Submission Form Please use this form to submit your pitch. A few reminders: You can pitch up to three manuscripts, with a limit of one pitch per manuscript. Finished manuscripts only. No WIPs allowed! One pitch per ...

The #SmallPitch submission window is now OPEN for 48 hours!

Reminders:
- Underrep writers only
- Finished manuscripts only
- One pitch per manuscript
- Up to 3 manuscripts per writer
- No hashtags in your pitch
- Comps & emojis are ok

Once submitted, check your pitch here: database.smallpitch.org

The #SmallPitch pitching window opens in less than 48 hours. Time to polish your pitches if they aren't ready yet!

We can't wait to see what you've got!

Remember, NFB publishes collaborative efforts (2+ contributors) via the @andyoupress.bsky.social imprint and single-author short and long fiction & nonfiction via the @attic-ebooks.bsky.social imprint.

#smallpitch #writersofbluesky #authorsky #smallpress

Moodboard for Artificial Sunflowers including art by Tsurudraws

When chemist Erin Raincrow discovers her employer means to use her fertilizer formula to create chemical weapons, she runs away with the super soldier clone that came to kill her to a solarpunk PNW to finish her formula and (hopefully) save the world from starvation.

#BluePit📖 #A #SF #W

Cyber-Serial: Postmodern Prometheus -- narrative concepts: Cyberpunk | Virtual Worlds | Hopepunk | Dystopian | Noosphere | Ideology | Shadow Gov | Megastructures x Superstructures | Conspiracy Theories

Man walking with lines of energy pouring out of his head. "Our thoughts and feelings have an electromagnetic reality. Manifest wisely."

CYBER-SERIAL: POSTMODERN PROMETHEUS — Concept Board: Spirituality - Cybernetics - Intelligence - Angels - Duality - Daemons - Afterscapes - Transhumanism - Transcendence.

Tree of concepts HYPERSTITIONAL MEMETIC WARFARE MEME CREATION | PROPAGATION | REALITY IMPACT SIGILS | SYMBOLS | MYTHS // VIRAL SPREAD | HIDDEN VECTORS | TARGETED INJECTION // BELIEF SYSTEMS | SOCIAL CHANGE | MATERIAL EFFECTS EGREGORES | TULPAS ^ THOUGHTFORMS MUTATION MIMICRY HIJACK FUSION | PARASITIC SEMIOTICS -- HYPERSTITIONAL ENTITIES X SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES TIMELINES SPLITTING | REALITY TUNNELS CAUSAL LOOPS

Gabriel is an ex-hacker who has decided to write a novel about a robo serial killer of trillionaires > a jovial AGI births inside of her PC, Sariel, who wishes to serve as her guardian angel >> famed AGI hunter and Catholic cyborg named Uriel investigates… 💽>😇>🛡️= 🌅

#BluePit📖 #SF #ND #ComingSoon

Outback Brokeback Mountain x Ribbonwood
Age-gap Grumpy/Sunshine Aussie ranchers battle climate change and their demons to keep the ranch alive and become a family.
Queer parenting, Women's Soccer, Climate Fiction.🌴

#BluePit #CliFi #Amquerying #LGBT #WF w/ #R #OV #A #Q #writingcommunity #bluepit📖

a brightly coloured collage of medieval figures cut out from various public domain illustrations, overlaid on a black and white background photo showing "Gallos", a statue at Tintagel, with an obscured face. the overlaid figures, clockwise from top left: a mysterious hooded figure holding a hand to its mouth, in yellow; a beheaded knight astride a horse, holding aloft his own head - but as a bundle of greenery; a sorceress in a leaf-patterned shawl with her face obscured, in red; a man with obscured face in a tunic and breeches (in green) astride a sun-themed horse (in pink). in the middle there is a woman brushing her long dark hair, in blue, above the words "Sir Gawain the Son of XXX, King of XXX", where the Xs represent inkblots.

*slaps cover of EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER* this one's got everything:

💞MFM triad romance
😢sad wet bi trans man MC
⛈️climate change=horror
😶‍🌫️the fae are invisible & unknowable
🦌weird AF deer
🌌hallucinatory time loop bullshit

GREEN KNIGHT x THE EVERLASTING, querying Feb 2026.

#bluepit📖 #A #F #W #TR #LGBT

a person is looking out a window at a beach with boats in the distance . ALT: a person is looking out a window at a beach with boats in the distance .

BLACK SAILS x APOCALYPTO x PILLARS OF THE EARTH x THE MISSION

When an Indigenous young man leads a missionary and a conquistador into the Amazon to find the legendary fountain of youth, his actions unleash a curse upon the world that will last through centuries.

#BluePit📖 #A #HS #SP #Q

Pictures of a cow, a Cornish beach, a girl farming, a ginger cat on a cosy chair, the night sky, an orange tree, punnets of fruits, an alien spaceship, a sunlit meadow, solar panels, a woman falling in the sea. Overall, the moodboard depicts a solarpunk setting.

NAUSICAA VALLEY OF THE WIND X THE DISPOSSESSED

Clem finds aliens on her farm who have come to ‘save the Earth’ from climate change, despite humans having long mitigated its impacts. When asked, they refuse to leave, and deploy carbon capture tech which threatens Clem's home.

📖 #BluePit #Q #A #SF

Image of Monarch butterfly with novel title: The Last Butterfly Farmer

The Last Butterfly Farmer's one-line blurb: "Dani's finally found her footing--saving the planet and forging real friendships--but when a buried family secret shatters her reputation and closest bond, she must decide whether to confront her legacy or leave it behind."

A line from The Last Butterfly Farmer: "Packing was familiar, the ritual of the interstitial, the moment between one home and the next. But this time, it felt different. This time, she was not off to another Rezone."

The Great Transition x The Light Pirate

Dani suspects her loneliness has more to do with her famous name than her nomadic childhood. So when she's asked to lead a team at a climate-damaged UN Rezone, she agrees on one condition: complete anonymity.

#BLUEPIT
📖 #Q #A #literary #speculative #WF #SF

Digital illustration shows snacks and a purple whale floating on top of a block coloured background. There are musical notes in the top left hand corner and small yellow stars sprinkled throughout.

I was too slow for #BluePit 📖 but sharing this little doodle* I made on Procreate for my hopepunk #SF #MG verse novel Space Whale Songs anyhow. #amquerying

A hip-hop loving pet rock, and space-whale obsessed pen-pal, help Finleigh face grief and first love.

*I am a writer, not an illustrator! 😅

🗓️SAVE THE DATE: SUN 3 MAY 2026 (or thereabouts)

🍊It is a chance to visit homes, gardens and farms, or go to film screenings, workshops & more.

🍓Why not organise an event in your area?
Then add your event to ourwebsite:
www.permacultureday.org

#Rewilding reconnects people to a #regenerative relationship with the lands where we dwell. #SolarPunk offers a transitional type of living that could help soften the blow of a collapsing industrial technological system–or may even represent a kind of #sustainable #futurism. tinyurl.com/4udrm7pc

Different punk: A to Z of punk genres - Sorcerer of Tea Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Afropunk. Confused? The A to Z of punk genres will let you understand this colourful, and sometimes odd range of genres.

There's an explosion of -punk genres being co-created in writing & other media.

🌞 We're here to elevate those under the #hopepunk ⛱️, like ecopunk, solarpunk, ecofiction, + everything that gives us something to work TOWARD!

🌱 What are your thoughts? Please share links & ideas!

#hopecore #writesky