Shreya Ila Anasuya (she/they)

It's an extremely great story you should read it right now! And nominate it!

I didn’t make an eligibility post this year, because I am out of spoons and all kitchen utensils, but Hugo noms are open, and if you consider anything from me, I’d love it if you considered my @fantasymagazine.bsky.social story “Ichthyosis," that involves the sea, a queer throuple, and a fish.

Spring in Ithaca Come see me at Cornell and/or the Ithaca Irrealist Readings in March!

I’m doing two in-person events in Ithaca, NY in March: I'll be at Cornell talking about speculative fiction on Mar 19 and I'm joining Debbie Urbanski to read for the Ithaca Irrealist Readings (@irrealist.bsky.social) on Mar 20. Come say hi if you are Ithaca-adjacent!

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Please help Mahmoud's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them sick, starving & homeless in winter.

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WTF... this is satire by a human, right? Satire by a human please?

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A young girl sitting crosslegged with her head resting on her palm looking frustrated.

Shahd, the little girl, cannot sleep because of the harsh cold…💔
She doesn’t have warm clothes or a blanket.
All we need is just $100 to provide her with a simple warmth that every child deserves.
Please… help us before the cold turns into illness.🙏
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INDRA DAS | MBIFL 2026 Speaker | Literature Festival | Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters | Regional, National, International Indra Das is an award-winning writer and editor from Kolkata, known for his work in speculative fiction and literary fantasy. He is the winner of the Lambda Literary Award, Shirley Jackson Award and B

I'll be speaking on 3 panels at the Mathrubhumi International Festival Of Letters (February 1, 11:30 am, 2 pm, 4 pm, Kanakakkunnu Palace) in Trivandrum on Saturday. Come join if interested and able, or come say hello if you're a friend or a mutual! (Leaving Kerala the next morning):

This is excellent news, and Samit is an excellent teacher/guide. His support has been invaluable to my own work and I highly recommend signing up if you write speculative fiction, want to finish a novel, and would benefit from a teacher and a community.

'My hand is broken and I can’t work🤕
I urgently need treatment.
Strong winds and heavy rain destroyed our tent🌧️
We have no shelter from the cold🥶
I’m only asking for help to buy a tent and get medical care🙏
Any support, even small, means a lot
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Immediately thought of my favourite Twitter account. IYKYK.

Bless you, M. I'll love you forever.

I can't begin to articulate the safety, comfort and care I feel with my partner. Especially after a long history of CPTSD and an unsafe idea of 'home' (a place I had to constantly escape) and more recently as an immigrant. Life-changing love.

Resisting the Hivemind: Pluribus, Generative AI, and Empire - Reactor While its creator tell us that Pluribus is not about advent of generative AI, it's difficult not to spot the many places where the fledgling tech and extraterrestrial hivemind overlap.

I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

Photo of a desi stray dog (Tinker), brown with white patches, curled tight into a ball on a doormat by a door and yellow walls.

January 1, 2026.
Tinker sleeps.

(Photo credit: @thresholdrose.bsky.social)

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Please help Lubna keep her son alive if you can:
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The Nightward: An Epic Fantasy Adventure of Magic and Darkness Inspired by Caribbean Mythology (Waters of Lethe Book 1) Amazon.com: The Nightward: An Epic Fantasy Adventure of Magic and Darkness Inspired by Caribbean Mythology (Waters of Lethe Book 1) eBook : Garcia, R.S.A.: Kindle Store

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If you'd like a gift idea for an SFF fan -- or if you'd like to read a scifantasy that's basically THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian folklore & Caribbean mythology -- there's a $1.99 Ebook sale now for my book, THE NIGHTWARD!

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Why Bother? The "Is Anyone Listening" Edition. Essay on writing for a small audience. When art is created in a forest, and no one tells you they like it, does it matter? What happened when I ran into someone who directed a play I saw years ago. Also a weird chicken story.

My latest newsletter post! You have to read it to see why the chicken picture makes sense.

Why Bother? The "Is Anyone Listening" Edition.
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

What's one way you lose spare change per week? Can you turn that into a pledge for the survival of six families & a camp in Gaza?

About 200 folks have made this pledge and it means a little bit of reliable, weekly support. But it isn't enough. So join in: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Donate to Help Abdul's family in Gaza to buy food, a tent, and meds!, organized by Erin S My name is Erin, I am raising money for Abdulrahman Hamad and his fa… Erin S needs your support for Help Abdul's family in Gaza to buy food, a tent, and meds!

Please support my friend Abdul's fundraiser; he and his kids are in Gaza where basic provisions are still very expensive and their shelter is being lashed by rain. Anything you can give is not too small:

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The title of the talk is taken from Agha Shahid Ali's poem 'In Memory of Begum Akhtar,' dedicated to Saleem Kidwai.

This talk is based on one of the chapters in my work-in-progress PhD dissertation. But it will be conversational, intimate, and I will play some music afterwards.

A graphic with a green and red background and ornate black and white border, and the Lucknow Bioscope and Sanatkada Festival logos. Text above image reads: 'A Noteless Raga': Saleem Kidwai and Begum Akhtar by Shreya Ila Anasuya, and text below image reads 14th Dec 2025, Sunday 6.30 pm, Studio Bari, Kolkata. Image shows a black and white picture of Shreya wearing a saree and her long dark hair swept to her right shoulder.

Black text against a yellow background reads: Shreya Ila Anasuya is an award-winning writer and researcher from Kolkata whose body of work examines history, gender, music, mythology and the supernatural, which she has explored through fiction, research, editing, journalism, teaching, and performance. She is currently a PhD candidate in cultural history at King's College London. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country's Finest New Writers. Her first novel, The Poison Palace, will be published in early 2027. The yellow background is superimposed onto a green design with an ornate black and white border, and has the logo of the Sanatkada festival on top.

Saleem Kidwai was a renowned historian and translator, an editor, and a queer elder. He was also a close friend of legendary singer Begum Akhtar. This Sunday I will have the great pleasure of talking about them for the curtain-raiser of this year's Sanatkada Festival in Kolkata:

A river, light blue and grey, with a pale sun and hazy bridge in the distance. In the foreground to the left are clustered some small boats, one more is in the centre, and one further to the right. There are buildings visible to the right, beyond the furthest boat.

Kolkata on a Sunday.

All ChatGPT writing is awful, but my god, the similes and metaphors are especially grim.

Thank you so much ❤️

I read THE POISON PALACE while travelling in Italy, finding rare moments to commune with deep time amid the hills and castles, and the book unfolded settings and eras I've rarely seen in fiction with a graceful, fiery verisimilitude both intimate and mythic. It resounds in time.