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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TPC Review Issue 3 is live! It has been a delight serving as managing editor with such a vibrant team! Read the full issue, with poems from @aurorachang.bsky.social @ewenglass.bsky.social & others, for free at tpcreview.com/issue-3/

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks, Prime Number Magazine, for selecting my poem “Do Barn Cats Dream of Alternative Lives?” as a summer challenge winner! And thanks to Dasher for inspiring it! www.press53.com/issue-293-pr...

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Issue 293, Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge — Press 53

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day! users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

new ecocriticism / migration / anti-imperialism poem in failbetter failbetter.com/content/no-w...

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“'Stripped down to the glittering nodes': Toward an Ecstatic Queer Cyberpunk Future" on @annaleen.bsky.social's _Autonomous_ & 紀大偉 Chi Ta-wei's _The Membranes_《膜》is out now in _Science Fiction Studies_. doi.org/10.1525/sfs.... #SF #ScienceFiction #cyberpunk #sexuality #QueerTheory #trans #TransJoy

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In "Prescient Plague Fiction," I argue @sarahpinsker.bsky.social and @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social anticipate corporate exploitation of the COVID pandemic that @naomiaklein.bsky.social theorizes as shock doctrine disaster capitalism. Free @mfsjournal.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Poets, Taipei Poetry Collective Review subs are open! tpcreview.com/submit/ #FreeSubs #SubsOpen #poetry #LitMag

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

prancing sedately over the new Moss Puppy issue, which includes my poem "postprandial habits of Elderly Maltese gentlemen"

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This Sunday, May 17th, 2:45–6:00pm at NTU, come discuss and even craft poetry around human rights in this free event co-organized by Taipei Poetry Collective, Amnesty International Taiwan English Speaking Group, and @derspekter.org! RSVP + more info: forms.gle/nVH9kmd1MTBN...

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

my favorite poem from my residency at Taiwan Literature Base, inspired by a visit from my mother-in-law, has found a home in the latest Redivider! @redividermag.bsky.social redivider.emerson.edu/house-of-fis...

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So thrilled to have the physical book between my paws! Thank you, Ewa Kowal, Olga O'Toole, and Aleksandra Kamińska for your remarkable work editing this volume, and for including my essay "Alien Landscape, Alien Gender: New Hopepunk Genders in Space"!

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Tuesday 7th April, 17:00–18:30, Dr Fareed Ben-Youssef is a colloquium talk “'I was born with a bike between my legs': The Queering of the Transnational Western in Lola Quivoron's Rodeo"! Thanks to Alexander Paulsson Lash for moderating together, and NTU DFLL for hosting this colloquium talk

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

certainly lifts my mood to see 2 excerpts celebrating trees and other life of Taiwan in the newest Gone Lawn, alongside work from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social ‪@beerdistributor.bsky.social @brettpribble.bsky.social @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social etc gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

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Peatsmoke Journal @psmokejournal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"So, together, she and the new boyfriend, they just weren’t “baby” type people, it seemed, or at least not earnest baby type people." Read "Baby" by Marie Buck and ponder your baby-ality. Art: "忠孝東路 Loyalty and Filial Piety East Road" by @acadialogue.bsky.social

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Come discuss 3 classic Edgar Allen Poe works with the American Center's Book Club in Taipei! My session, on his 1836 essay "Maelzel’s Chess-Player" engages contemporary debates around so-called "AI"—do we have artificial intelligence, or is it a ruse, like the "Mechanical Turk" under the blankets?

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Thrilled and still astonished to have an essay in here, reviewing Julia Armfield's Private Rites and Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep! I struggled with sharing the first-person vulnerability, and could not have done it without @claireoleson.bsky.social! kenyonreview.org/piece/a-home...

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A Home is Not Your Home - The Kenyon Review

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Thanks, Peatsmoke, for pairing my photograph with Marie Buck's flash "Baby," and letting me share some context of my title, "忠孝東路 Loyalty and Filial Piety East Road." www.peatsmokejournal.com/winter-2026-...

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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Read "labyrinth" written by @acadialogue.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social. "The only person standing in the tiny windowless club, I hold in any move to dance like a secret, battling urges to conceal or spill it." tinyurl.com/4ktyn5pf

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labyrinth — Ghost Parachute

The only person standing in the tiny windowless club, I hold in any move to dance like a secret, battling urges to conceal or spill it. The DJ stares at her controller, so I can stare at her: tape wou...

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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Sentences too full and brimming to snip a quote from, read the whole thing down to the last syllable and feel the title come up and slam you to the mat. @acadialogue.bsky.social whew. templeinacity.com/fiction-l-ac...

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Temple in a city Literary journal

Flash Fiction All's Fair by author L. Acadia. Published in Temple in a city Literary journal.

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Literary/theory salon in Changhua Friday, 19th Dec! After a screening of A City of Sadness, Tzuchien Tho will speak about the film, then I will speak about the Unbecoming Trope of Suicide in Taiwanese Queer Literature (a project with Lainey Hsu). RSVP/more info: www.instagram.com/nice.h0use247/

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

You are invited! Literary translator @yilinwriter.bsky.social will give a talk, "Translating Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poetry into English: A Feminist and Sino Diaspora Poet-Translator's Approach," New NTU Humanities Bldng rm B208 Tuesday, November 4th 3:30–5PM (free & open to the public)

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

my favorite historian says “Evangelicals want to keep Israel real for the rapture,” now their plans are falling into place: their bombs are... read the whole poem here: www.almamagazines.com/fiction-and-...

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"on either side of the river was the tree of life" | Poetry | ALMA MAGAZINE

Poetry by L. Acadia.

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David A. Rozansky @davidrozansky.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Seattle Special #Hugo Award for Best Poem: Ä War of Words”by Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons, Sept. 2024) The Hugo committee is considering adding Hugo for Best Poem as a permanent award. If you found this poem moving, remeber the threat presented in it is one faced by many, everyday. #SciFiChat

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Translated Hugo Initiative @translatedhugo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come. translatedhugo.org

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The Translated Hugo Initiative

Putting the World in Worldcon

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

What a treat to get personalized reading recs from @hugobookclub.bsky.social in the #Worldcon book exhibit: @carysgreenauthor.bsky.social’s Always On My Mind, @aptshadow.bsky.social's The Hungry Gods, and @nedbeauman.bsky.social’s Venomous Lumpsucker!

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Great to finally attend #SFRA in-person for this year's 'Trans People are (in) the Future' conference at the picturesque University of Rochester! @sfrareview.bsky.social

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Poets, subs are open for Taipei Poetry Collective Review! #FreeSubs #SubsOpen #poetry #LitMag docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

“'Ocean green of shadow': Coloring the Speculative Urban Landscape in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon and Beyond" is out and #OpenAccess from Tamkang Review tamkangreview.org/data/10000/u... #SpeculativeFiction #Africanfuturism #ClimateChange #ColorTheory @nnedi.bsky.social

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

LAST CHANCE! Today is the last day to reach our fundraising goal & we can use all the help we can get!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #books

text: 0 days left to reach our fundraiser goal, we need you ! Indiegogo and Locus logos and Cluso alien

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

#CFP! Project+ June 2025 Issue: Apocalypse Deadline: May 15, 2025 Email full pieces ( #essays, #reviews, #poetry, #ShortStory, #memoir, #cnf, 'Collective (Re)Definition') to: Lainey Hsu r12122028@ntu.edu.tw

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Flash Fiction writing workshop with @karissachen.bsky.social?! What a treat! Tuesday, April 29th 1:10PM—free and open to the public at NTU. Come learn from a celebrated local Taiwanese-American author, and get your copy of Homeseeking signed! Bookman Books will have a few for sale.

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

How do 21st-century film adaptations of 'Red Classics' resurrect the socialist past? Come learn more at Yvonne Lin (UC Berkeley)'s DFLL colloquium talk Thursday April 24, 3:30–5PM at NTU! Free & open to the public

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"Universality reborn: Hannah Arendt’s natality in feminist ethics" is out today from Continental Philosophy Review. rdcu.be/eg7zH Thanks to @dananaomymills.bsky.social and particularly our supervisor, the late Professor Pamela Sue Anderson, always.

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Happy #NaPoWriMo, Poets! I'm thrilled to be starting this April with a residency at Taiwan Literature Base and a speculative marine poem in Abyss & Apex! www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/03/noct... (you can also listen to me reading the poem)

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Laura Moye is offering a Workshop on Making a Case for Human Rights this coming Tuesday afternoon at NTU! Thanks to @bootssky.bsky.social for designing the poster, and NTU's DFLL for sponsoring this free workshop!

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

You're invited! I'm running two free creative writing workshops at 臺灣文學基地 Taiwan Literature Base as part of my residency in April (#NaPoWriMo), both in English with Mandarin translation. Taipei Poetry Collective is co-hosting the first, on current events poetry! Register at reurl.cc/4LRVej

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Tomorrow at NTU! Thanks @bootssky.bsky.social for the gorgeous poster design and ordering the donuts!

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Taipei, 3 free upcoming talks at NTU: Tues. 3/11: Sheila Cavanagh “Shakespeare through Culinary History" Wed. 3/19: Kevin Wu "Perng Ching-Hsi’s Rendition of Shakespeare" Thurs., 3/20: Elly McCausland "Why You're Still Singing Along" details: www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/%e5%ad%b8%e8...

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