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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know why Trump was in a foul mood🤣 20,000 attended Power to the People Concert with Bruce Springsteen Dave Grohl, Dave Matthew,Tom Morello, Flavor Fav,Public Enemy and more in Maryland today (Special sighting Jack Smith)

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In May 2024, Arley Sorg interviewed me to discuss how I weave physics and hoodoo in my work. Arley, it was a pleasure connecting with you for this article, and I look forward to grabbing coffee at World Fantasy Convention in October!!

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bruce Krajewski reviewed THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS for the Ancillary Review of Books, and he was picking up what I was putting down. You can read the full review here: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/06/16/d... Bruce, thank you for such a thoughtful review.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only place I love more than the library is the museum, so I am excited for this event at Mass MOCA happening Sunday October 4 at 12noon. massmoca.org/event/eden-r....

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Something I wrote last winter for Aqueduct Press, about RING SHOUT and SINNERS. It is still up on their blog, Ambling Along the Aqueduct, with everything else I loved reading that year. All of them are a MUST READ!! aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I had a conversation about MINDSCAPE last year with L.S. Johnson. I wrote it in the 90s and it still sounds like right now.. Check out the full article at horrortree.com/living-borde...

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Shaundale Rénā read THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS for AALBC and found personality, humor, and wit in it. Oona would say she was only doing her job. hehe 😂 Full read at aalbc.com/book-review/... Andrea

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

MINDSCAPE was my first novel. There is a new edition out now.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Daniel José Older called MASTER OF POISONS "a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale." This is my is my epic fantasy from Tordotcom.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The New York Times called WILL DO MAGIC FOR SMALL CHANGE a beautifully multifaceted story. Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she’s always been theatrically challenged. That won’t necessarily stop her!

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

REDWOOD AND WILDFIRE won The Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oona is a St. Berdoodle who travels between dimensions, and she is the only one who knows who the killer is. The killer knows she knows. THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS is out now from Tor.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ARCHANGELS OF FUNK was shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize! It honors a work of imaginative fiction that mirrors Le Guin’s ideals: writers who act as "realists of a larger reality" and imagine alternatives to our current world.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Dear Family and Friends, I will be attending the 52nd World Fantasy Convention in Oakland, October 22 through 25, 2026. I am looking forward to stories, conversations, and four days spent among people imagining other worlds. wfc2026.org Andrea

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I will be joining Eden Roberts of Birdie Horne for a reading and conversation at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. You can find the date, time, and full details on the MASS MoCA calendar: massmoca.org/calendar Andrea

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Dear Family and Friends, I will be attending LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, in Anaheim, California, August 27 through August 31, 2026. I am looking forward to stories, speculation, old friends, and new possibilities. Andrea

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This August, I will be teaching speculative fiction at @lambdaliterary’s 2026 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. For eight days, writers will gather online for workshops, conversations, readings, and the work of imagining what comes next. I am glad to be part of it. Andrea

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Brooklyn Jam brought readers and writers together with books in hand and stories still unfolding. I am grateful for the community that keeps making room for imagination. Andrea

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Dear Family and Friends, Tonight I will be reading at Brooklyn Books & Booze with Meg Elison, Lara Elena Donnelly, and Randee Dawn. 7:00 PM Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room 86 34th Street, Brooklyn Free admission Andrea

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dear Family and Friends, I found this picture from Capricon and it made me smile all over again. That's me with LaShawn Wanack and L.P. Kindred. That whole weekend I was Guest of Honor, which meant panels back to back and hallway conversations that turned into real ones. Andrea

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A friend told me to be realistic about the AI, the wars, the climate. I told him about Harriet Tubman. Wasn't realistic either. Got free anyway. Wrote about five books that refuse to be realistic too for Reactor, tied to my new novel THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS. History is fantastic

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Master of Poisons is epic fantasy about decolonizing the mind. Griot storytellers, floating cities, pirate queens, and a world where poison desert eats good farmland. On Kirkus Best SFF of 2020.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Three weeks ago I stood on the Octavia E. Butler Stage at the Schomburg Centennial LitFest in Harlem. I keep coming back to it. The Schomburg Center has been keeping our stories for one hundred years. Thank you to everyone who showed up. Thank you to the Schomburg for a hundred years of holding us.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Readercon has been part of my life for longer than I care to count. I show up every year, talk too much about books I love and books I have strong feelings about, and come away with a sore voice and more to read. This year is Readercon 35. July 9 through 12. I will be attending. With love, Andrea

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The future is not made alone. We are smarter together. The genius is in the collection. Grateful for the conversation at the Schomburg Centennial LitFest. ✨

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Dear Family and Friends, someone said THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS reads like Wednesday meets The Good Place. I can see it. Out now from Tor Books.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My grandmother's neighbor had a St. Bernard who knew things I did not. I was thinking of him the whole time I wrote Oona. THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS is out now.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/06/2026

When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed… Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The STARLOG Podcast is alive, humans!! Find out more about the STARLOG team and what's coming in the print magazine this year! And be sure to sign up for the newsletter and subscriptions at starlog.com!

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STARLOG | Est. 1976

Science fiction brings the future closer. We're here to help you see it coming. The Annual ships November 2026.

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Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

And if you didn't sign up in time for "The Lodestar," the STARLOG newsletter, it lives on the World Wide Web over here: (After reading it, hit the "home" button on the top left and put in your email address.) thelodestar.starlog.com/p/the-lodest... Okay, have a great weekend everyone!

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THE LODESTAR NO. 001 · FIRST CONTACT · JUNE 26, 2026

space-time, alternate worlds, the unknown.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

For the culture, and then for everyone else. Note: the sound quality isn't good, and the footage cuts off, but if you've never had Octavia in her own words, you need this. vimeo.com/163190768

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Julie Dash interviews Octavia Butler (1995)

A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first bla...

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

UNBOXED!!! So grateful for this Bram Stoker Award in Short Nonfiction for my essay in WHY I LOVE HORROR, ed by Becky Siegel Spratford. It was also a history-making night, with Stokers awarded to 6 Black creators. I missed it bec I was Toastmaster at the Nebulas, but I’m grateful to my horror family.

Photo of a Bram Stoker Award shaped like a haunted castle.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Every year we mark Pride Month in June, commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in 1969. Trans women and sissies and drag queens and butch dykes and sex workers and young queers led that revolt. We honour those warriors by standing together as an inclusive LGBTQ+ community now.

Patrons of the Stonewall Inn, young men and a trans woman in shot.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Right now I'm reading @andreahairston.bsky.social's The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays, which is definitely boundary-crossing genre. Mystery, fantasy, SF. Not cozy. (I would have finished by now but my partner grabbed the book and won't let me have it back until he's done.)

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hey friends and family, the paperback is on its way. Barnes & Noble has the paperback pre-order 25% off for members and 35% off for Premium, today through Friday, June 26. If you've been meaning to pick up THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS, this is a good week to do it.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

as usual, maslow was wrong. people create art when they're dying, starving, freezing, not only when they're comfy and have all their needs met. because creating art is a fundamental human function. it's a way to say "i was here" and "i saw, thought, felt something" llms cannot see, think, or feel

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K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com · 24/06/2026

It's Anti-Prime Day! If you're going to buy books, don't buy from Amazon. Buy from @bookshop.org b/c they support local, indie bookstores with online sales that benefit them directly. Free shipping June 23-26! Visit my shop for book recs & to start browsing for more. bookshop.org/shop/kt...

top of a cardboard box that says anti-prime day june 23 - 26 free shipping on all orders

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This Wednesday @andreahairston.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at @portersqbooks.bsky.social at 7pm to discuss her incredible new book THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS

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ANDREA HAIRSTON, AUTHOR OF

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CLOSED ON SUNDAYS, IN
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Cambridge Fiction

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tomorrow!

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"I don't want to be realistic. I want to be fantastic." Something I said at the Schomburg, and meant all the way down. Realism keeps handing us the same walls. I would rather go looking for the door.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Five Books That Make History Fantastic. A shout out to @djolder.bsky.social, @pat-murphy.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, @tananarivedue.bsky.social & BALLAD AND DAGGER; THE ADVENTURES OF MARY DARLING; RING SHOUT; THE WORLD THAT WE KNEW; THE REFORMATORY! reactormag.com/five-books-t...

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It's Juneteenth. Post your favorite Black fictional character. Cinnamon Jones from @andreahairston.bsky.social's Archangels of Funk.

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Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Brooklyn Books & Booze brings out some serious summer HOTTIES for our 7/21 reading -- join us at 7pm at Barrows Intense in Industry City for tales from award-winning authors @megelison.bsky.social @larazontally @randeedawn.com & @andreahairston.bsky.social ! FREE! 📚️🍸️🎙️ Info: BrooklynBooksBooze.com

Authors Meg Elison, Andrea Hairston, Randee Dawn and Lara Elena Donnelly in headshots for an ad for Brooklyn Books & Booze on July 21 at 7pm at Barrows Intense Ginger Tasting Room

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We're accustomed to picturing history as a strict, immutable truth, but it's always been more complicated than that. What if was even...more complicated? Even fantastical? @andreahairston.bsky.social (The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays) recommends 5 books which offer a different narrative:

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Five Books That Make History Fantastic - Reactor

When we make history fantastic, we remind ourselves that the future has not already been written

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Five novels I sent out into the world, and here you are holding them. I write these stories and then they leave home. They go places I never will, into hands I'll never shake. You read them, you pass them on, you put them in front of somebody who needed them. Thank you for carrying these worlds.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

✨ A starred review from Publishers Weekly for The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays. The book is out now. 📚 Find it at your favorite bookstore or ask your library to order a copy.

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

📚 Big June coming up. Schomburg Centennial, Bronx Book Festival, Porter Square Books with Daniel José Older, and more. NYC to Massachusetts. Details in bio. 🤎 #AndreaHairston #BlackSpeculativeFiction #BookTour

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