iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

me, after devouring an excellent short story collection. plate empty, well fed. (Desperate Bodies by Lydia Matthis. at different points feels desperate, resilient, lonely. each time a story ended, i struggled to accept it was over 🥲) groveatlantic.com/book/despera...

131

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

i'm at 24,547 words of this rewrite. i have written 0 words today (so far i have just been revisiting my outline). i would like to hit 25,000 words 🫡 let's see

130

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Ahhhh, my poem “The Mourning Robot” is a finalist for the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Poem! I wrote this poem in a hospital room and it’s a nod to all the invisible caretakers who love, sacrifice and mourn for the living.

Screenshot from SFWA Nebula Finalist announcement:

Finalist - Poetry
The Mourning Robot
Angela Liu

Featuring cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 66 (September/October 2025) over a background of stars

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-mourning-robot/

4512816

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

222334666965

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This. When I hit 30 I thought, I'm going to die one day and I will have not tried to write and I've always wanted to be a writer. So I made a choice then that I would take time from other things, sacrifice, to work on writing. It's been years and I'm not where I want to be yet.

49013

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 06/02/2026

this guy (and more) are available as PRINTS; exclusively from my INPRNT shop 💫 inprnt.com/gallery/kim_hu FREE SHIPPING on ORDERS OVER 30USD! TODAY! ticktock ticktock- or wait until the next free ship day, no worries these won't go anywhere but thank you for putting food on my table if you buy one

239577

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Ahhh, huge congrats to @audreyzhou.bsky.social, @muteddragon.bsky.social, and all the amazing winners!! 💀🎉

2183

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 26/01/2026

Yep. And you've gotta DO IT. Commit, lean into it. Make it the best darn (metaphorical or otherwise) bagpipe break you can possibly manage. Don't wonder if you can or should. Wonder how anyone can even begin to stop you (they can't).

517745

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2026

olive oil is a legitimate interest

3296492312

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

so honored. i can't wait to meet my cohort and work with Dr. Karen Lord! ✨💙✌️

4141

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Coming off a busy work day to find my collection, three short stories & the peer-reviewed paper I co-wrote with @susankayequinn.bsky.social has made the #BSFA Awards Long List! Congratulations to all fabulous long-listees! Honoured to be among you. Many thanks to everyone who nominated my work 💕✨

6189

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

68167373384

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Aphrodite @desire.gunmetolymp.us · 21/01/2026

*has sex with you in a way that both advances the plot and reinforces the themes of your narrative arc*

3785433141

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Please follow this upcoming queer space opera anthology!

15338

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

i’m taking a break from my novel until march so i can just read, read, read, experiment, play, dig into craft, step out of my comfort zone zone when it comes into genre and format as much as possible

1150

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

tomorrow, dec 27 at 8:45am: my story Our Bones Are the Mortar, beautifully read by Sarah Niles with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, airs on BBC Radio 4 alongside Dickens, Wilde & others. tune in here 👻🎄!! www.bbc.com/audio/play/l...

bbc.com

BBC Audio | Radio 4 | Listen Live

Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Audio.

41011

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Three months ago, my dear friend Hani was murdered while trying to feed his family. His sister Faten has cancer, and sleeps in a freezing tent with her hands, feet, and eyes swelling more and more every day. I love this family with all my heart. I can’t keep watching them die. gofund.me/2550fc5e2

46571

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

my story "Our Bones are the Mortar" (originally published in @khoreo.bsky.social and then Flame Tree Press) will be read live by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a few days. ticket and streaming details in the post! perhaps my long-standing animosity with London will finally abate

open.substack.com

"Our Bones are the Mortar" read live by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

At the Barbican Center. Or your couch, if you are elsewhere and can stream it

242

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

*throws a chair across the room* Nobody asked, but here we are!! substack.com/home/post/p-...

substack.com

My semi-feral opinion of Wicked's "As Long As You're Mine."

Sorry.

160

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Cullen Bunn @cullenbunn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It's insane to me that this anthology hasn't reached its goal yet! Always sign me up for a pirate fiction anthology any time! www.kickstarter.com/projects/133...

kickstarter.com

Rising Tides: A Pirate Anthology!

My crew an’ I bring ye tales of daring! Of makin’ a difference in the face of oppressive guv’mints and fearsome beasties!

2128

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

PaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Authors, what's your plot concept process like? Here's mine: AAAAAAAAAH AAAAAH AH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

5365

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

The Assassin's Apprentice. Convinced two coworkers to read the Farseer trilogy in full and am now working to wear other friends down, as well _rubs palms together gleefully_

270

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Chantaal @chantaal.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Mine was The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez back in May and I STILL CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS DANG BOOK

The cover of The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez. A blend of blue leaves and vines with a green hand print in the middle, as if the leaves and vines created the shape of the hand. In the palm of the hand are the silhouettes of two figures sparring.

4333

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

i just googled “how do i make my dog less insecure”

140

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Hi! I've created an SFFH BIPOC starter pack! Please share around! Also please reply if you'd like to be added (I'm making this an opt-in list)! #sciencefiction #fantasy #sff #horror #writing go.bsky.app/6WxXXBY

68503331

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

wrote a ~*~blog post~*~ about "Your Sword, Your Trumpet," my latest story out in @thedeadlands.com. if anyone ever asks what story is extremely anjali coded, i will show them this one 🫣 blog post: anjalipatel.substack.com/p/your-sword... read story here: thedeadlands.com/issue-33/swo...

thedeadlands.com

Your Sword, Your Trumpet, by Anjali Patel - The Deadlands

This is not the first wake where she’s been called to tear her hair, clothes, and voice to shreds, but it is by far the strangest. Closed casket, empty funeral home. The anonymous letter she received ...

031

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

my latest! "Your Sword, Your Trumpet" is free to read today! @thedeadlands.com ⚔️🎺

020

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 01/02/2024

The first time I saw you was at the beginning. This world was flat and featureless and newly made, and I its named guard- ian. With my hammer in hand, I waited for time to spin into motion. Your Sword, Your Trumpet, by @anjapatel.bsky.social

121

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

wrote a play-by-play of my trek up the volcano acatenango. i'm grateful i got to do it once and will not be doing it again (nature does not play around, especially at elevation). anjalipatel.substack.com/p/acatenango

t.co

acatenango

Welcome to the new year! Toward the end of 2023, I hiked a volcano. It was immensely challenging and not something I would recommend for inexperienced hikers (me). Here is the play by play...

000

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Art needs skill. It takes time to get skills. If you want more great art, give people more control of their time.

326854

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 18/12/2023

If you haven't read @vajra.me's essay on Palestine, art, and the state of this world we find ourselves in, then do so today: "The world is made out of our very matter, and we can change it." vajra.me/2023/11/08/e...

vajra.me

Every Throne Will Fall

Slightly belated announcement of my second novel, RAKESFALL, and an essay on the dire necessity for writers to do their work, and to know what work to do, in the face of horror.

13526

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

A call for submissions: Queer and trans Palestinian utopian themed anthology: www.merajpublishing.com

merajpublishing.com

Meraj Consulting

07696

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

17k words into a project i'm very excited about

150

Reposted by anjali nova patel 🍉

Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

It's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, and this year we have #ReadPalestine week. My offering is my reading list (with links to where you can find these reads) of Palestinian fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

soniasulaiman.com

#ReadPalestinianSpecFic Reading List

The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

0110115

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

i would love to fully participate in #nanowrimo. alas, im too busy-

020

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

"Just as importantly, it got her *where* she wanted, which was always anywhere other than where she was then."

021

anjali nova patel 🍉 @anjapatel.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

my twitter catalogs my ~4 years of working at [redacted] media company as well as a deep obsession with [redacted] anime, so kind of appreciating the fresh start here ✨

080