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Bethany Crowe Powell

@bethanypowell.bsky.social
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Speculative poet and YA novelist. Bookseller at Odyssey Bookshop. She/her. bethanypowell.com

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is what real solidarity looks like: being willing to sacrifice opportunities and to relentlessly recenter what actually matters.
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So many cute journals’ potential snuffed by being wide ruled
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 05/09/2026
Also I LOVED THIS THREAD! One of my favourite things at the plant where I used to work was that you would see the same train cars quite often, so I had my particular favourites. This was one of my faves. :D
a grayish-brown train car painted with some word graffiti and a drawing of a person in a baseball cap, with a piece of barley or wheat between their teeth, holding something tied to their finger with several black-and-white strings. the person is rendered in soft, loose strokes of white and red.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It is my birthday! So I have an audiobook giveaway for the good children of the land.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Britain is having its hottest summer on record, but one place has remained green. Brits in Holnicote have put rivers back onto their floodplains, restored wetlands, and released beavers that now build ponds and maintain the wetlands themselves. Countryfile buff.ly/CchGxpW #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Drought has ravaged the UK but this one nature site has been left untouched – this is how | Countryfile.com
Allowing nature to do its own thing could be the simplest solution to the UK's drought problem.
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sometimes you think about being in jail yourself if you go there, so I was thinking about how bad it would be without fermented foods for my gut which naturally led to thoughts of prison pickling Illicit fermentation but for kraut is 100% the way I’d get sent to the SHU (or die of botulism)
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yesterday’s sickest line wasn’t in a poem but one of the writers talking about hers saying “I pursue my recovery like I pursued drugs”
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A struggle I have in building new prompts for class is closing tabs of poems that spoke to me but didn’t lend themselves. The only solution I’ve found is sharing them on Tumblr, haha.
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
hahahaha wait do I get stuck in books with POV switches because of my IRL issue with transitions?? BRO
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
what is it with the ADHD mains in my life and the precarious towers of dishes in the dish drain? 🤣
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A Tiny™ Concert for the No-Name King by Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social "I didn’t know if this was transformation gone too far, or the usual way magic blotted out identity in a monarch so they could truly stand in for their people." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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Instead of a face, a transcendent halo emerged from a uniform collar, the depths of light suggesting the frame of curling hair. Maybe the posture, gloved hand on hip, a slight angle to the glow in place of a head. I didn’t know if this was transformation gone too far, or the usual way magic blotted out identity in a monarch so they could truly stand in for their people.
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
To the Reader by Mary Soon Lee @marysoonlee.bsky.social "his deeds but paper deeds slender as river reeds." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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his deeds but paper deeds
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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 18/08/2026
All this talk of promoting books is reminding me that you can pre-order my book at 30% off with code BOWMAN30 here: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...
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Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons
In Abolition Ecclesiology, Hannah Bowman offers a spatial analysis of theological beliefs that contribute to society's enormous reliance on incarceration and punishment. The book presents an alternati...
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19/08/2026
Oh crap! Uh! I wrote this thing! It comes out next week! It has romance and giant pillbug scholars! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Daggerbound
DELUXE EDITION—a beautiful hardcover featuring bright pink sprayed edges, a foil case stamp and endpapers.New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher r...
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 18/08/2026
I wrote some perspective on a piece I published at @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social back in 2022 and it's now out in the Climate Fiction Writers League page! How it was to write utopian fiction while Brazilian democracy was under threat and how it changed. substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Writing Utopian Science Fiction in a Dystopia
by Brazilian sci-fi author Renan Bernardo
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I went through some of the art I’ve shared recently to see if I could find any that vibed for the story and found this which isn’t INaccurate strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
A crop of Maxfield Parrish’s The Young King—figure in dark clothes on a glowing white throne, face hidden in an arm resting on a blocky armrest, a large glowing circular art piece hanging behind him
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thrilled to share this! Read for a short moment being restored by music, erased by fame…or let me know what it’s about after you read it? strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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A Tiny™ Concert for the No-Name King
Building this setlist had been terrifying. Of course we’d debated our Tiny™ Concert set over the years, but never pictured this.
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Genuinely obsessed with this novella. Pretty sure I got it on sale like this, too!
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Yesterday my whole Tumblr dash was saying we could only read There Will Come Soft Rains on the day TODAY and I’m here to reveal it is equally satisfying to read this morning www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...
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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 04/08/2026
I did NOT realize that many supermarket sushi counters are actually run as franchises within stores, & that the working conditions are horrendously abusive. Journalism like this surfacing these issues is so important, so if you like this, please donate to @prismreports.org so they can keep doing it!
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The hidden cost of America's supermarket sushi boom
Myanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuit
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A fantastic read about community, and the difference between harm and discomfort with unpleasant people.
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Sirens @sirensconference.org · 03/08/2026
It’s hot! We ought! To read a book out on the beach! It’s summer! Hey, hey, it’s summer! And in summer 2027, Sirens is back, friends. Bring your rage, find your joy, and let's build a revolution.
A summer-colored popsicle graphic with the words: "Read. Learn. Hope. Change the World. Sirens: The Summer Vacation Edit. New Haven, CT -|- July 28-August 1, 2027 -|- sirensconference.org"
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Realizing I’ve made a huge error—it’s page 133 and I’m just now realizing this boat needs a *name*
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
If you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses.
Bethany is wearing both her own cycling sunglasses and her niece’s tiny pink ones on top of her headBethany mugs while wearing her brother’s nice sunglasses
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
the lovely frisson in a tech support conversation as the support person goes “Hmm…” in an interested way
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
OK, I've covered Friday of Readercon in approximately 50 fweets I'm going to have to come back to this tomorrow, haha
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Kate Nepveu @katenepveu.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I had a very fun #Readercon panel with @bethanypowell.bsky.social @marissalingen.bsky.social @swingingstorm.bsky.social @victoriajanssen.bsky.social about Lois McMaster Bujold, Megan Whalen Turner, and Tamora Pierce, and what they might have in common! notes: kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1107659.html
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It was an absolute pleasure @readercon.org - including all who were part of it! I was thrilled to be a program participant this year and have some extras/links to share from some of them! #readercon35 #readercon
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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 12/07/2026
sell your book in 5 words: warrior woman confronts mecha god bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Mx. Coreo Jones @coreopsismajor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This week's GFM update on my debt paydown fundraiser is up! Please share with those who might be able to help, and anyone who likes seeing a big goofy dog relaxing in the summer evening (I'm visiting family). gofund.me/68e9e4664 #transcrowdfund #disabledcrowdfund
A porch in a wooded back yard, with multicolor patio rug, flower boxes, grill, and a black dog with white spattered paws lounging around. Heavenly. A big black dog with white spattered paws lounges on his side on a multicolored outdoor rug, and a human's feet are visible in the foreground.
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
People came!! We read poems and celebrated!
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It’s terror before the event that no one is coming hours!
Bethany mugs in front of a “Welcome Poetic Justice” letter garland
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Had a rainshower out of nowhere at the bookstore & one of our neighbors came up from their storage and started cussing it out since she has to cross the courtyard. I felt sheepish about popping my head out to offer a lost-and-found umbrella but it was well received, lol.
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Writing a very neurodivergent novel and my third POV character is the most saddest because she has a flat affect when she is panicking so everyone thinks she’s unbothered and unpleasant Not that this comes from anything personal 😭
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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The UK conversion therapy ban has carveouts for therapy provided by mental health care professionals according to standards of care. This is what I received: in a state psychiatric hospital, according to the standards of care. TW CW for general unpleasantness, suicidal ideation, gender, harm
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Awful and important:
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
At the dentist’s today I received a good grade in saliva, which is normal to want and I did not know was possible to achieve
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
For anyone who might need this today. ❤️
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 18/06/2026
Can't wait!!!!
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Getting my veg in the most time-honored fashion—to stretch a costly commodity
Stonewear plate with breakfast tacos
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I got my answer about whether my scar was still too new to be out in the sun. :stings: 40 years a ginger and still finding new ways to fail at sun!
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hit me with your fave recent history/international affairs podcasts? I’d love to know more about post-WWII history, especially, and smaller nations!
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
06/09! Nice! :)
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Er. June 9th. It's been a long week.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I'll be interviewing @zanzjan.bsky.social at @odysseybks.bsky.social in South Hadley MA to celebrate the launch of this awesome book on Tuesday, June 8!! Come on down!
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I love an eclectic breakfast :picks seaweed out of my teeth:
A motley of containers with food including pork belly and kimchi, seaweed salad, apple slice and broccoli stalks on a counter
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
In honor of today's cover reveal, this week's Thursday snippet comes from Melting the Ice Queen, which is available to preorder in North America now! bit.ly/MeltingTheIc... #romancelandia
Against a background of the Northern Lights, this snippet of text is shown above the North American cover of Melting the Ice Queen:
“Clothilde had never dreamed of easy, thoughtless victories. She’d only ever dreamed of one brilliant, powerful woman.”
The cover itself shows two women facing each other, holding twin candles, in the midst of a cathedral made of ice. The woman on the left is slim, Black, and wears an icy crown above her cool blue wedding gown, with more shards of ice held ready in the air behind her as she regards her new bride with open suspicion; the woman on the right is white, red-haired, lushly curved, and wearing a gold wedding gown as she grins mischievously at her new wife, with rainbow-colored heat rays beaming out from behind her own figure. The tagline reads: Nothing melts the heart like an old flame.
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Women ARE erratic, the other day the guy who banters a bit at the security desk held my license down so I couldn’t actually grab it and I laughed after a few mistimed retries but TODAY the guy who is new on rotation & has never spoken to me did that and I just ignored it
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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I *was* able to cross the threshold! Wasn’t too worried but thought backup plans couldn’t hurt
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