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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 12h

💚💚💚 So delighted, and a warm congratulations to all other winners and nominees. Thank you also to Alter Mag for commissioning a long-form essay on the history of Indian SF as the debut piece in their magazine. It’s available to read for free here: altermag.com/articles/the...

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The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.

Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IT’S HERE! And YOU’RE GONNA LOVE IT. (If you love sapphic vampires and eldritch whales and ravenous wolves and strange miracles and heartbreak and hunger and desire and duty and devotion—) In all seriousness: thank you to our authors and our readers for being one of the best parts of my life 🧡

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p.v. vamsidhar 🌞 @pvvamsidhar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this was so gorgeously told and SUCH a good read/listen during work!! very topical and had a delightful weirdness to it 🙂‍↕️

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GOOD MORNING I AM A USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR!!! 😭😭

A screenshot of Our Cut of Salt on the USA Today bestsellers list with the title “A NATIONAL BESTSELLER”

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μL @muliter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great story! Spoilers below.

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Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a wonderful story for you to check out today!

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 25/09/2026

We continue back to school season with a marvellously original take on the dangers of making deals with dangerous entities…

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very grateful to have my weird flash piece about the stories that make us who we are—literally, figuratively, physiologically—included in this month's issue of Small Wonders! This piece is close to my heart (🫀), and it means so much to me that both SW and @apexmag.bsky.social have given it space.

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What a gorgeous, eerie narration by @shwetaadhyam.bsky.social!! ✨️ I'm incredibly grateful to PseudoPod, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and @shortwavebooks.bsky.social / @aijiang.bsky.social / @christinogle.bsky.social for giving this Faustian story about student loans such wonderful homes. 🖤

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Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New micro story out with the incredible @fracturedlit.bsky.social: fracturedlit.com/i-should-lik... Thank you to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for the opportunity to share!

Opening paragraph of the microfiction story 'I Should Like to Collapse,' including photograph of a tiled bathroom.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When I tell folks I work on a virtual convention, they get an image of like maybe 16 hours, spread out over two days. Perhaps two dozen speakers. All about writing. They don't get FoF. They don't understand 60 continuous hours of programming, 243 program items, 168 speakers, 8 program tracks.

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This story made me cry (complimentary)!!! It doesn't shy away from the painful, messy consequences of loneliness and hurt and understandable mistrust, and I so appreciated seeing that explicitly explored on the page. ❤️‍🩹

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Looking forward to Flights of Foundry this weekend!! It's an online convention for all things speculative and one of my favourite events. ✨️ I'll be participating in a fungus panel, running a speculative fungal workshop, and moderating a panel on hope through creativity. 🍄🌱 Hope to see you there!

Flights of Foundry 2026

Saturday, September 19

4 PM ET, Panel:
The Fungus Among Us

6 PM ET, Workshop (limited seats):
Fantastical Facts for Strange Fiction: Building Speculative Concepts from Fungal Science

Sunday, September 20

2 PM ET, Panel (moderating):
Finding Hope Through Creativity

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026

“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life.” That’s how Sakariye Abdi Mohamed described the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, where he and a handful of other Somali immigrants are being held by ICE. He and 11 other men were reportedly not told they were being taken to the notorious military base.

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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is so fucking true. I NEVER thought I'd see people in my lifetime of all stripes wearing keffiyehs in public and risking their careers for Palestinian liberation. I couldn't imagine this. Ever. It's moving, it's beautiful, it's unbelievable. And yet it's real.

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Sara S. Messenger サラ @smessenger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NEW SARA AND SIMO STORY IN @diabolicalplots.com!!! My first cowritten short story... grotesque chatter between a car and a cougar and roadkill. hazardous POVs. If you like your prose kaleidoscopic, you should read 🤑🤑 we did it @srinivassimo.bsky.social! www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

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DP FICTION #138B: “We Burst Across the Theoretical Gore” by Sara S. Messenger and Simo Srinivas – Diabolical Plots

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Now finally free to read at @adventitiouswords.bsky.social! www.adventitious.net/stories/a-ga...

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Jeanna Cammarano @wordrat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Back to our regularly scheduled resistance, we bring you I am My Art by Ayida Shonibar where love and art can topple empires. I think what I enjoyed about this piece, alongside the fantastic imagery is that love is the baseline here regardless of everything else. #resist

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Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Less than $500 until QUIET HOURS is funded. I know that you want to get fucked up by Queer Community horror sooner rather than later, so consider backing the kickstarter if you haven’t www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven

Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

My heart has been with Black British academics all day. It's my friend's story to tell, but one of the most horrific stories I know about a Black doctorate's journey was over in the UK. The United States is its own "rough beast." But they, they're dealing with the beast's mother. My God.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

I’m not trying to hear about plagiarism from people who can’t get anything done without AI. You’re disqualified on this one. That plagiarism is bad is supposed to be a settled social belief. AI use muddies the whole thing.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our Issue 3 TOC is HERE and it is AMAZING 🪐 🗡️ Seven pieces of original fiction, four poems, two reprints, and a special guest essay come together in an issue full of desperation and longing. We can't wait for you to read it in September! More details in the 🧵(1/7)

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Issue 3, September 2026

Original Fiction

One Floor, One Phoenix - Crystal Koo
Wine-Dark - Cyrus Amelia Fisher
His Face, in the End, Inches From Mine - Elijah J. Mears
Ivan Ivanovich - Kristina Ten
Field Notes on Liturgical Rites, Co-Authored Li and Albrecht - Mina Yeh
The Illuminated World - Rebecca Schneider
This Is Not a Place of Honor - RJ Aurand

Nonfiction
a special essay from Theo Marcial!

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Issue 3, September 2026

Original Poetry
The Clay King - Arda Mori
Tiktaalik Rosae, or, If We Were the Earliest Example of a Link Between Fish and Tetrapods Would You Climb onto the Mudflats with Me? - Kym Deyn
Feral thing in a lightbox - Madeleine Poole
trans/formative - Nico Martinez Nocito

Reprint Fiction
The Monster at the End of This Film - Algae Ross
BLIGHT - Samir Sirk Morató

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My flash piece—on crafting the statues of colonisers and toppling them—is now free to read! I'm so honoured and delighted to have this story first published in the Luminescent Machinations anthology by @neonhemlock.bsky.social and now shared through Flash Fiction Online's iconic RESIST anthology!!

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We're getting so close to funding already! As an incentive, here is my little love letter to QUIET HOURS by Esther Alter (@esther-alter.bsky.social) that I'd love to include in this novella series if we reach that first stretch goal. It's really effective piece of queer housing horror.

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Scroll @scroll.in · 22/07/2026

Chief Justice Surya Kant said that the bench was ‘not interested in videos’ that show police allegedly using excessive force during Monday’s demonstration. scroll.in/latest/10944...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

OK, so to give a bit of earlier backstory as to why they're called the CJP, the chief justice of India referred to NEET youth in India as "cockroaches" within the system who were a threat to Indian society who turned to activism or journalism www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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‘Cockroach Janta Party’: Top Indian judge’s comment sparks satire, protest

Controversial remark by Supreme Court chief justice triggers a political movement, with thousands of Gen Z signing up.

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Maya @mkrspm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Young people putting their bodies on the line, while standing up for their rights, are being tear gassed and lathi charged. Children as young as 12 years old. The state will not tolerate dissent or protests (that matter).

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p.v. vamsidhar 🌞 @pvvamsidhar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

very hyped to be featured alongside sooo many crazy good stories!!

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This ecological, diasporic frog & scorpion fable retelling is one of my more experimental pieces: non-linear, shifting voice/perspective, skating around science & speculation. I wrote it for people boxed into stereotypes by condemnations like "It's in your nature." tasavvurnama.com/in-their-nat...

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In Their Nature - Tasavvur

In Their Nature is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Ayida Shonibar for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.

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In Their Nature - Tasavvur

In Their Nature is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Ayida Shonibar for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.

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gwendolyn hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

have you had the chance to read my nerdiest poem yet? ⚡️

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Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is how I found out that 17 years after my first nomination, my writing actually won a Shirley Jackson. Thanks @johnlangan.bsky.social. Thank you to the jurors. Thank you to my publisher @ghoulish.bsky.social. This is wild, lol.

Text message
John: Congratulations!!!
Me: ???
John: The Jacksons!
Me: Ohhh?
John: Collection, man!
Me: No fucking way lol????
John: Yes fucking way!

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Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We celebrate SILK & SINEW contributors with a look at the inspiration behind @ayidashonibar.bsky.social Ayida Shonibar's story, "An Unholy Terroir"! open.substack.com/pub/kpkulski... #badhandbooks #silkandsinewantho #folkhorror #authors #bramstokeraward #asiandiasporastorytelling

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Eeee!!! It me!!! I am so thrilled my story "Shelley's System Data for the Play Test of Sinister Susurrations" will be in this anthology. And I cannot wait to read all these other stories. I mean, wow, those titles are PERFECTION! 😍

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Seoung @seoungkim.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

my story "the old mill" will be in here!! 🔜🔥🌲

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Submissions for FIYAH #40 are OPEN! Deadline July 31. Get more info about "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars" at the link! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Submissions Open "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars"
Deadline July 31. Image showing magical energy above a school facade and courtyard. https://fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My ecological, diasporic retelling of the frog and scorpion fable is in this issue! 🦂 I'm always so blown away by the gorgeous covers featured in Tasavvur's issues. This season's surreally beautiful art is by Samriddha Roy! tasavvurnama.com/in-their-nat...

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In Their Nature - Tasavvur

In Their Nature is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Ayida Shonibar for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵

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Strange Horizons - BackerKit

Back projects you want to see in the world.

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Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

An incredible discussion and analysis of @ayidashonibar.bsky.social's layered and fabulous story, "An Unholy Terroir" found in Silk & Sinew. I am awestruck. Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social, thank you @r-emrys.bsky.social and Anne M. Pillsworth for all the careful research and excellent deep dive!

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Really surreal to get to say that my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story (??) “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” will be in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol 2! Huge thanks to Michael, @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, and @badhandbooks.bsky.social ❤️pre-orders are available now!

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I can't describe what it means to see such in-depth analysis of my writing—including extensive, thoughtful research into the various folklore traditions, historical references, & sociocultural themes in my story (from the Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social!) 🖤✨️

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ayida shonibar @ayidashonibar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

So honoured to be included in Flash Fiction Online's timely collection, alongside this amazing lineup, with my story "I Am My Art," which is about crafting the statues of colonisers—and toppling them. 🔥

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p.v. vamsidhar 🌞 @pvvamsidhar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

my story about gender and past lives is now online in @othersidespec.bsky.social and YOUU can read it!!! i love this story and i am so happy to see it in a magazine that i adore 🧡🐅 othersidespec.com/pieces/we-wh... some thoughts on this piece in the thread !

A photo of Henri Rousseau’s “Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo.” The painting has a landscape of lush green foliage and fruit trees bearing bananas and oranges. In th center, a tiger has buried its face into a buffalo’s neck. Text reads, “We Who Have Been Raised by Tigers.”

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