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Casey Aimer

@caseyaimer.bsky.social
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Nebula-nominated poet repped by Tasneem Motala – Debut scifi poetry collection on sub – Elder emo, SFWA Poetry Committee & SFPA – Radon Journal EIC – Publishing MPS & Poetry MFA – Poems in Penumbric, Trollbreath, and many more. CaseyAimer.com

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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some weeks I still get the urge to go for a PhD. But there are only 1–3 programs in the world offering doctorates with a focus on science fiction publishing. Half of those are in the UK and for all of them I am not in the right tax bracket to afford it.
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I finally finished reading Neuromancer. It took seven months but don't dwell on that. I did not enjoy reading it. Look, I love the plot, the vibe, and what it's done for cyberpunk. But the prose was the most difficult I've read in my life. Half the time it felt like I forgot how to read English
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Hugo's Best Semiprozine category has a problem. Every single nominee in the semi-pro category pays professional rates. Every single nominee in the semi-pro category is not a semi-pro magazine. The exact same professional publications get nominated every single year.
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Finished my second watercolor half-sleeve
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I promised my agent I'd stop fiddling with poems from my first full-length that's on sub. The cheeky SFPA Poetry Contest got me to check my long poems and I got carried away making it perfect. Word change turned into a re-format and I've never loved this poem more. But uh, don't tell anyone
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In another life I was a slam poet, touring the country with my chapbooks and leading workshops. But I hadn't spoken my words aloud (in person) in over seven years. This week I attended my first public poetry workshop and shared what I wrote that night. I hope to get back on that metaphorical horse
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I'm working on more poems again and my god I hate the writing phase, and long for the beautiful editing. We all know getting the rough draft idea on the page is the toughest part. But it's still hard to read the draft, know so intimately that it's shit, and not be discouraged from continuing
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Hugo Poetry Award still needs more nominations from you. Just a few days left. Are you a fiction person who needs help judging poetry? I've got just the thing for you: bsky.app/profile/case... The best free outlets to find said poetry listed below
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Star*Line (SFPA's premier speculative poetry journal) announced today it's raising its pay rates for poems and articles sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/
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Star*Line – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The best wine sweet spot is when you're just inspired enough to break out your ukulele and learn more emo songs
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Great news for the poets, in that the Hugo Award for Best Poem has been secured until at least 2029. And the voters each vote during this years-long process get more and more % in favor of speculative poetry.
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Books are all fun, until you have to move them in bulk more than 10 feet. Then they're your worst enemy
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Got an extra-nerdy book present for my birthday
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CB Droege (Manawaker) @cbdroege.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
New "Meet the Manawakers" interview! This time: Casey Aimer, author of “Descending Digital Mind” , from Dangerous to Go Alone 2. Free to read! Follow Manawaker Studio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/manawaker/po... #AuthorInterview #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #FlashFiction #SpecFic #Patreon #Booksky
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My MFA taught me that the world sees poets as the weird bohemians in the corner talking to themselves. And fiction writers as the cool kids in leather jackets gaining media attention and drawing crowds, drinking like Hemingway, and always just about to write the next Great American Novel
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Some days the urge is strong to post overly-cryptic emo statements, like how we did in 2005 with our AOL away messages
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Many writers (especially poets) will try to submit works with quotes or song lyrics beginning the text. Please don't do this, as journals have to reject you for this. These things are both copyrighted and you need express permission to use them. No journals have the resources to buy the rights
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I challenge fiction editors in the SFF industry to add poetry editors to your teams and begin publishing SFF poetry at an equal elevation to your prose. Don't know where to begin? PM me and I'll help. If I can't help, I know poets. If I don't know enough poets, the SFWA Poetry Committee can help
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
My Saturday: Watching Starship Troopers, MMO events, and plotting 40/100 poems for the next book
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
My first Nebula, as a finalist no less, was memorable. Even if my introvert battery often died sooner than I'd like. I didn't meet one non-great person. I always considered a nomination a not-very-likely career-topper, and it's an honor to receive one while just getting started in my early 30s
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Why SFF Poetry Matters panel starts at 1 central time today at the Nebula Conference. If you've been curious what all the new hoopla is about poetry in the spec world, this is the best panel to go to this weekend for that answer
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Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A couple days late here apologies! It's the cursed thirteenth issue of the absolutely fantastic @radonjournal.bsky.social available for download freely or £3.50 P/C for the physical copy :) seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
An illustration of a man on a rocky outcrop looking out, somewhat reminiscent of WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG by Caspar David Friedrich only in the distance is a foreboding tower. Text reads "Radon Journal Issue 13"
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Issue 13 will always be the Cursed Issue to me. Having to edit this on a boat, journal finally getting hit with AI, all the sci-fi body horror in it, the artist going dark at key moments while they went into Iran to protect their family living there Still crazy to me to think we're on Issue 13 now
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
As an active SFF journal editor dealing with increasing levels of AI bullshit, who spends more and more hours analyzing and reading and investigating all of it I'm increasingly worried my subconscious will accidentally pick up some of their writing ticks
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I'll be a panelist at two Nebula Conference panels next week: 1) Why Speculative Poetry Matters @ 4 PM Central (Fri, June 5) 2) Best Poem Finalists in Conversation @ 8 AM (Sat, June 6)
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Booked a new session with my tattoo artist. Officially doing that rather than getting tested for neurodiversity this summer
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Special MicroVerse roundup with poetry recs by the amazing Ai Jiang! @aijiang.bsky.social
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Special Issue * Poetry Recs from Ai Jiang
Welcome to this special guest-edited issue, featuring poetry recommendations by Ai Jiang! I met Ai through an online writing group several years ago. Watching her career soar has been such a treat.…
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
One of the best parts running a semi-pro journal is working so closely with the authors for developmental and copy editing. For some it's the first in-depth experience they've had among spec journals with the process. Getting to know so intimately someone's story feels like getting to know them.
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Here I am re-reading Jack Gilbert's poem "Failing and Flying" and bawling my eyes out. I've read this so many times and I can't move past it in the book. Just eternally stuck in this one resonating moment of beautiful heartbreak.
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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Well this is neat! We are still pretty fresh in our poetry publishing days (although I want to publish more and have increased our rates), but Casey’s “Black Hole Framing” continues to be one of my favorites and the one I point to when people ask what kinds of poems I’m looking for.
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Some good news amid my writer's block: "Black Hole Framing" has been announced as a Rhysling Award finalist, having cleared the jury hurdle. Run-off voting by SFPA members happens this summer. Cheers to @foofarawpress.bsky.social for the good run the poem's been having
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Tonight was a good night. I took myself on a date and started two mosh pits and one circle pit
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
How all us SFWA members feel as the final day of Nebula voting dawns
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Good overview of some great speculative poetry markets. Good for poets to read as well as curious folks wondering what the poetry scene in the Industry looks like
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I officially have my Nebula Conference ticket, and I'll be there physically June 3-7. My first time being able to attend, and doing so as a finalist is a double treat
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I love that Project Hail Mary and the Artemis II moon flyby are reigniting excitement for space and sci-fi. That sense of awe and wonder that only comes from gazing into the cosmos is hard to beat. Fantasy just doesn't do it for me like that
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I can either get tested for neurodivergence or get another half-sleeve tattoo. A hard decision.
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Frankly just too depressed to think of a good April Fool's
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This week we’re reading the Nebula finalists in the poetry category! Links to each nominee below - give these poems a read! @sfwa.org #Nebulas
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The biggest holiday for poets is coming up on Wednesday. Everyone's heard of NaNoWriMo, but poets in April have NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month). I'll be aiming to write my next poetry collection via a poem a day. But the emotional taxation is so great, I'll probably extend it through June
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
To be a poet is to realize you'll have to come up with hundreds of unique metaphors for crying And then get tired a couple dozen in and vow to never write tears again And then need those metaphors anyway And then wonder aloud why the hell the speakers in your poems are always crying
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I hope folks nominating for the Hugo's Best Semiprozine surprise us all and nominate a bigger spread this year of smaller semi-pro mags and not the same labeled-semi-pro-but-actually-pro-mags that have shown up the last two decades
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The best part of the Poetry Nebula Award is that you can read the entire slate of nominees with only five minutes of your time. Poets are like late-night robbers, coming to beat your heart with emotions, and then fleeing before your nervous system alarms go off. Links below
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Excited, humbled, surprised, nervous, happy, bewildered, and a thousand other adjectives, to share that I'm a finalist for the first Poetry Nebula Award. Thank you @penumbricmag.bsky.social for taking a chance on "They Said Robots Are" Free for the world to read: www.penumbric.com/archives/Jun...
Nebula Award Finalist for Best Poem
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I am so honored to share this category with @mariness.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @caseyaimer.bsky.social @nytebird45.bsky.social and @directorh.bsky.social -- I have so much to learn from all of you and I am humbled to be here with you in this category!
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If you're looking to get into Radon's potentially cursed Issue #13, I can tell you directly that I'm looking for bread-and-butter sci-fi short stories to round out the issue, ideally on the shorter side (up to 3k words). That's what I'm hunting the slush pile for over the next month
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Two days later, and my social battery (and voice) is still recovering from AWP. Loved being an oasis for genre fans, and they made their joy known. Got to tell plenty of young writers what SFWA and SFPA were about. Many were young MFA writers happy to know a professional genre org even existed
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Another good day with SFWA and SFPA. Many SFF fans have found us but not all. Come get a respite from the literary journals and enjoy a speculative space.
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'll be at AWP working the combo @sfpoetry.bsky.social and @sfwa.org table at spot T346 We won't be there and live until Thursday so have fun today without us. But be seeing everyone Thur-Sat I'm making this year's theme be, "Yeah, sci-fi poetry does exist. And you should write it."
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