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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Inside you'll find... 🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest 🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens 🫐 a berry world of grief and awe & so much more! 🔗 Link in bio! More details below 👀⬇️

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/10/2025

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway We don't even have a word or a phrase for this! theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

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Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2025

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

From my hemiplegic migraine group

“You don’t look sick” Thanks that’s the goal. But here is what you don’t see. I cancel plans, I rest for hours after a shower, I forget basic words mid sentence, I grieve a version of myself barely remember, fight everyday against a body that doesn’t cooperate. It is not just tired. It is chronic illness.

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Meet one of our talented editors, ViNa @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social! ✍️✨

A purple background with an illustration with dark purple birds. At the top of the image is a circular photo of an Asian person with long black hair that has blonde ends flowing down their right side. They're in a black top and looking off into the distance. The left side of their face is digitally smeared into a horizontal streak.There is a white rectangular boarder enclosing that reads: "Hi! I’m an Editor at Augur and I really loved reading The Employees by Olga Rvn, translated by Martin Aitken." in white text. At the bottom of the image is a dark purple banner that reads: "augur" in white text.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I'd love for you to spread the word or if you're able and interested, to buy one. These are NOT prints. They're one-of-a-kind acrylic paintings! :) DM me if you're interested! Thank youuu ❤️‍🔥 If you live outside Calgary but really want to buy a painting DM me and we'll figure out how to transport it.

Five framed paintings, two hanging on a white wall and three below them on an orange mantel arranged in a row. Paintings feature 3 portraits and one landscape and one vase with flowers. First overlaid black text in a white box in the top left reads: The 5-Painting Abolition Fundraiser for Mutual Aid Canada and @wallsdowncollextive. The second text box is on the bottom and reads: $200/painting is not a is-this-worth-$200? but a I-can-vibe-with-this-painting-while-feelin -awesome-redistributing-my-wealth-towards-an-abolitionary-cause. Third text box is teal in the middle right under a portrait painting and reads: First one purchased! Painting 5 "Watermelon Skin"! Thank you @monday_ks you amazing human and breakdancer extraordinaire! Fourth text box is yellow on the top left under a painting of white flowers in a blue vase says: Second one purchased! Painting 4 "Evening's Dream"! Thank you Ellen @ehichang you star human and poet! And thank you Dianne @dimsummo for transporting the painting on your next trip.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Painting 🎨 2 "Vision" is my favourite one for the colours--I love the pinks, browns, and purple-blues--and it's the first one I did after getting back into painting in the fall 🍂. The eyes are my favourite feature of this painting and the textured background is a close second.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hey beautifuls, ✨ 3 paintings ✨ left! As some of you may know, I'm trying to raise $1000 for Mutual Aid Canada and Walls Down Collective by selling 5 of my paintings. This post highlights the 2nd one: Painting 🎨 2 "Vision". Some notes on this one...

Painting is of a bald person staring straight at the viewer. Pinks, browns, a d dark browns, and purple blues make up the skin and background. Painting is framed in white and black mats inside a simple black frame on a white wall with a snake leaf protruding over the lower right of the frame.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'd love it if you could spread the word or if you're able and interested, to buy one. These are NOT prints. They're all one-of-a-kind acrylic paintings! :) DM me if you're interested! Thank youuu ❤️‍🔥 AND THE 5TH PAINTING IS SOLD! 🙈⭐✨ Thank you Kirsten (she's not on Bluesky)! 💜❤️‍🔥💜

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Painting 1: I tried different primary hues so it was a challenge for me. I enjoyed creating the strong contrast between foreground and background and the harsh shadows. The powdery look makes me think of the dust that settles on things hence "Reminiscence" 😜 lol something like that.

Painting of a face turned slightly left with closed eyes on a dark background. A red butterfly rests on their nose. Yellow strokes suggest blonde hair. Picture is framed with a white mat and simple black frame. A snake plant leaf points up below the right side of the painting on a white wall.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Hey beautifuls, as some of you may know, I'm trying to raise $1000 for Mutual Aid Canada and Walls Down Collective by selling 5 of my paintings. This thread highlights the first one: Painting 🖌️ 1 called "Reminiscence" (or what might you title it once it's in your home? 😜), okay, some notes...

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Just a note to approach buying a painting with the idea of not whether it's worth $200 but hmm... do I like this art enough to hang it in my kitchen while feeling good about my money going to mutual aid or to support the unhoused without police interference? ❤️‍🔥💜❤️‍🔥

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Painting 🖼️ 5 "Watermelon Skin" (this one was more challenging since I used a computer drawn reference so the colours and shading were different from a photograph)

Painting of a person turned left with pink skin and black shiny hair down past their shoulders with bangs on a green background. Painting framed in an ornate bronze coloured frame on a white wall with a plant leaf in the lower right corner below the frame.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Painting 4 🖌️🎨 "Evening's Dream" (my first time painting flowers; I like the composition and textures background in this one)

Painting of whitish purple flowers in a blue vase on a brown surface with a dark background. Framed in a gold and black simple frame on a white wall with a snake plant protruding a leaf over the bottom right.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Painting 🖼️ 3 (I usually don't do landscape paintings; I love the complementary pinks and greens in this one)

Landscape painting has conifers in the background with a pinkish green island on the front right and a smaller island in the left foreground. Water shows reflections in blue green hues. Painting framed in beige mats inside an ornate coffee frame on a white wall with plants below it.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Painting 🎨 2 "Vision" (my favourite one for the colours and first one I did after getting back into painting in the fall 🍂)

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In case you don't have or don't want to get back into IG, here are photos of the paintings (my video is too long for bluesky): Painting 🖌️ 1 "Reminiscence"

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hey babettes, I'm trying to raise $1000 for Mutual Aid Canada and Walls Down Collective by selling 5 of my paintings. I'd love for you to spread the word or if you're able and interested, to buy one. These are not prints. :) DM me if you're interested! Thank youuu ❤️‍🔥 www.instagram.com/reel/DFay8RI...

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Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

hello!!! in case you don’t know me, my name Farah Ghafoor, poet and author of the forthcoming collection, Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 currently booking readings, talks, etc for 2025!

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If you're still looking for a gift, here's an idea: HOW TO TELL WHEN WE WILL DIE (Johanna Hedva) Pulled quite from the book in the second photo. 💜😈🥰🙌🏼

Blush pink book cover of Johanna Hedva's How to Tell When We Will Die. Black text in a white box on the right says: Read this. It's funny and paradigm-shifting, reframing disability not as a physical issue but a social one.
We will all become disabled at some point if we aren't already. How do our society and our relationships with one another and with disability accept it as a natural evolution of the human condition?

Pencil sketch of a person with long dark braids turned to the right and looking up above them where a peach box with black text reads:
"I BRING DOOM INTO THE CONVERSATION TO SHOW THAT IT IS A PLACE TO BEGIN, NOT TO ΕND.

ONCE I STARTED THINKING OF DOOM AS LIBERATORY, I FELT FREE FROM THE DREAD IT CONSTITUTES WHEN IT LOOMS IN THE FUTURE.

HOW MANY OF US HAVE ALREADY MET OUR DOOM AND THEN HAD TO GET OUT OF BED AND GO ON?

HOW MANY GROUPS OF PEOPLE HAVE HAD THEIR WORLDS END, KEEP ENDING, AND STILL THEY FOUND WAYS TO COOK FOR EACH OTHER?

HOW PRIVILEGED ARE YOU IF YOU FIRST REQUIRE HOPE IN ORDER TO ACT?"

-JOHANNA HEDVA

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

We are currently sitting at $22.2K CAD for the Kickstarter. 🤩 We funded T&F. We funded the podcast. We funded FOUR books for the new press. 🥳 Now, we're less than $300 CAD away from funding a new CANSPEC AWARD!! ✨️🪶 Help us celebrate the future of SFF! 🙏🏾💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...

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Augur Futures—Tales & Feathers, Augur Press & Murmurstations

Fund 2 more years of pro-rate slice of life fantasy. Launch a new scifi-fantasy press. Invest in the future of Augur's SFF podcast.

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Today’s Kickstarter update ✨ follows our first readers Chido Muchemwa, @loislkchan.bsky.social, and Perseus Rebelo as they talk about their first-reading experiences at Augur 📚 Our submissions bring a plethora of creative pieces and reading them is SUCH a transformative experience 🧜‍♀️ 🧵

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

These aren't great when walking in the wind though!

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I received these noise-cancelling bluetooth earphones (Soundcore Life Dot 2 NC) a few years ago and love them. They have 3 different noise-cancelling states that are customizable with their app. It's been great when I work in coffee shops, walk through traffic, and work through noisy construction.

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

AUGURIANS !! ✨ 🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP! 🚨 Back us on Kickstarter to fund -> 🪶 TWO more years of @TalesFeathers 📚 A NEW SFF press from Augur 🎙️ Podcast production There's TONS of rewards—incl. EARLY BIRDS! But if you can't give 💰, shares are JUST as good! 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...

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Augur Futures—Tales & Feathers, Augur Press & Murmurstations

Fund 2 more years of pro-rate slice of life fantasy. Launch a new scifi-fantasy press. Invest in the future of Augur's SFF podcast.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

JK Rowling hasn’t tweeted in 12 days. Give Imane Khelif another gold medal.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

There are many other things to not be okay with that I feel better doing something about. Writing will always be there. Writing care is more than a word count. 😱

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

I haven't written a single new thing for almost 6 months and I'm okay with it. 😎🫀

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

On Monday, Parliament will vote individually on a motion by the NDP to end the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. You can send an automated letter every day to your MP and our PM to pressure them. to MP www.cjpmecontent.org/support_ndp_... to PM www.ndp.ca/vote-for-peace

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Indigenous Editors Association @indigeditors.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

The first webinar of the 2024 season is "Indigenous Representation in Literature" with staff from Salt and Sage books. Join us to learn about including Indigenous Peoples in your writing and the importance of sensitivity reads. To register, visit www.indigenouseditorsassociation.com/Events.

Summary of poster that provides information on first webinar of the 2024 season called Indigenous Representation in Literature, which will be held on March 23, 2024 at 2:00 PM EST. The presenters are Erin Olds, Jordan Merica, Ronkwahrhakónha D, and Hinahina Gray. The poster includes bios of the four presenters and Rita Bouvier, who is hosting the Kitchen Table Talk for Indigenous participants.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Me, too, on persuading libraries to get books! But then I actually didn't even think of it in this situation. 😂 Thanks for the timely suggestion!

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

In case you might be interested, a wonderful writer/editor friend of mine is running this novel navigator course. Sign up ends soon! 6 weeks, on Tuesdays, Starting in the next couple of weeks! $300 or $225 if you're an AWCS member. www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p432/t...

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ONLINE The Novel Navigator

This course gathers in one place everything you need to make a good start on writing a novel. We’ll define terms, examine novel structure, make important first decisions, learn different outlining m...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/12/2023

Hey, so THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS ebook is *hugely* discounted for the day (Dec 21) down to $2.99. If you've been waiting to pick up a copy, or would like to gift copies to people in your life, today is totally the day for it. Amazon: www.amazon.com/Saint-Bright...

Screencap of Amazon kindle store thumbnail for THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS. The cover has an "editor's pick" sticker and the price is $2.99 after today's discount!

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

I appreciate this article's point on thinking more fluidly about narrative structure and how multiple forms can map onto the same story. And Jane Alison's book is indeed mind-opening; personally, it helped me to realize my current novel-in-progress is best served by a spiral narrative. 💜

A book cover comprises of a mosaic of blue-hued rectangles with interruptions of blue serif font on a white rectangular background throughout the mosaic, reading, "Meander, Spiral, Explode." There is a white border on the book. At the top right is "Jane Alison" in larger blue serif font. At the bottom in italicized smaller blue serif font is: "Design and Pattern in Narrative."

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

It is with great sadness and outrage that I pass along word that Samer has died of his wounds.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 15/12/2023

Well heck. It looks like Nebula nominations are open already. I only have one single thing that qualifies. It’s a novelette and it just published last week, hahaha I don’t think it’s even on the recommended reading list, but who doesn’t like a long shot? www.tor.com/2023/12/08/i...

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Ivy, Angelica, Bay

When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l’Abielle steps up to protect her community with the help of a mysterious orphaned girl in this charmin…

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

My 2023 Eligibility Post is on my website devanbarlow.com/2023/12/11/2... It would make both me and Editor Ben very happy if you read some of the things I published this year!

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

ex-puritan.ca/sequoyahs-tree In the near future on Earth as the magnetic poles weaken and flip, a vital and covert rebel group fight to resist and remember their humanity in a parched, dying world.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

tnq.ca/writers/vina... Imagine your "beloved" extended family poking and sizing up the literal hole spewing sand from your body on your birthday. What would you do?

Burgundy serif font title at the top of a white square background reads: "Body of Sand" by ViNa Nguyễn
Below in black serif font reads:
Content warning: fatphobia, body shaming, light body horror.
My body feels sluggish. I was excited this morning for the party. Even the thought of my extended family sleeping over didn't faze me. But these days I often speak of excitement in the past tense.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

This is a longshot into the void, but here goes my first eligibility post! 🐢🤪 "Sequoyah's Tree" - sci-fi short story (thank you The Ex-Puritan) 🌌⌛🌳 "Body of Sand" - speculative short story (thank you The New Quarterly) ⏳👩‍👧‍👦🥩 Both are ~ 4K words. 👇🏼

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Friends, Tales & Feathers is OPEN to submissions! Dec 15-Jan 31— Everyone, everywhere Feb 1-14— Extended call for BIPOC, trans, and disabled creators (internationally) Send us your slice of life, cozy, and vibes-first fantasy! ✨🐉🪶 Details here:

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Submit to Augur Magazine

We're looking for surrealism, dream touched realism, and SFF! Now with higher pay.

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ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

I was lucky to work with Alyssa Donnelly in this issue on her Gumiho 🦊✨ story "June in Winter" that will absorb you into its pores, line by line. The overall joy, suspense, creativity, and atmospheric feels in 6.2, The Vast Fantastic, are astounding. Don't miss this magic.💜

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