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✍🏽 Writes - Speculative Fiction | 👩🏾‍🚀 Sci-Fi | 📜 Alt-Hist | 🏆 AnalogSF EBV Award ‘23 | 🎓 Odyssey ‘24 | 🖋️CODEX Member | 1st Reader 👓 TranslunarTL | 📡 CK EastWest Newsletter - A Place Between Worlds

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Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One more Deep Dive from @clarionwest.bsky.social on Oct 15 in Seattle. I expect this to be incredibly stimulating. There is an option to attend virtually as well! www.clarionwest.org/event/deep-d...
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A.I. In Medicine: A Deep Dive Conversation
Author Justin C. Key (The Hospital at the End of the World) and Lakshmi Krishnan join Clarion West’s Deep Dives conversation series on A.I. in Medicine, discussing data privacy…
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror you MUST already subscribe to Locus Magazine... Right? linktr.ee/locusmagazine link in bio!
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Happy Book-Birthday, Multitude! Book is a book! You can get it anywhere, and also here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/mul...
Multitude book cover with starscape, tentacles, water
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 04/05/2026
Here’s something I didn’t know I needed.
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 04/05/2026
Slightly diminish a book: M.A.C. Foundation and Empire
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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We call ourselves intelligent, yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water --- all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.
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RM Ambrose @rmambrose.com · 30/04/2026
I'll be guest-editing the special Speculative issue of Inlandia Journal - submissions opening in May.
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Want to help humans travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond? Here are four ways you can work with NASA right now. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astronomy #biology #hamradio #scienceathome #citizenscience
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You Can Help Humans Thrive in Space - NASA Science
The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an imp...
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Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The happiest of book birthdays to The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com, a story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language! Speak another people's language. Know them. Become them. And discover you've destroyed them.
Someone holding up a copy of The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang in front of a bunch of bookshelves filled with TDCP novellas.
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 19/04/2026
👀 I’ve been waiting for this since 2018.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This week on Planetside… Our series Writing by Other Means continues with “Using a Newsletter Platform for Serial Fiction” by @angeliqueauthor.bsky.social , read by the author: www.sfwa.org/2026/04/14/u...
An image of Earth from space with the title “This week on…” followed by the Planetside magazine logo.
Featured article: “Using a Newsletter Platform for Serial Fiction” by Angelique Fawns
Teaser: Find out how a sustainable publishing platform can create a deeper connection with engaged readers.
Series name: Writing by Other Means
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A short thread about what this story means to me and why I hope readers continue to find their way to it: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
Graphic shows a banner with the SFWA logo next to the words: 2026 Nebula Award Finalist Best Short Story. Below this is a quote from P.A. Cornell’s “Through the Machine” as published in Lightspeed magazine. The quote reads: "I miss acting. It's like all they left me with are the worst parts of fame. But the good parts, they've all been taken over by some digital version of me that frankly gives me the creeps."
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 22/03/2026
Of course! And guess who’s open to submissions right now? @translunartl.bsky.social 👀
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Aimee Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 21/03/2026
I remain incredibly proud of my work here! With a week left in the Hugo nom period, I'd be honored if you'd consider this work about connection, power, identity, and the erosion of all those things: "Because I Held His Name Like a Key".
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Because I Held His Name Like a Key
When I met the young Mr Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King. Nowadays it has become fashionable for the sons and daughters of the lesser fey gentry to improve their position in the shif…
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 13/03/2026
Writer’s Lament: For the 2nd time IN A ROW, I discovered during a (character vs theme) revision I needed an entirely new or different antagonist / conflict…DAYS before a submission deadline. Good luck rewriting Acts II and III, Chana! 🤦🏾‍♀️ 😢
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"What It’s Like To … Build Space for African Speculative Fiction from Nairobi" www.okayafrica.com/what-its-lik...
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What It’s Like To … Build Space for African Speculative Fiction from Nairobi
As editor of the speculative fiction journal ‘Will This Be A Problem?,’ Olivia Kidula talks to OkayAfrica about building literary space, paying writers, and creating room for African horror, fantasy, ...
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 10/03/2026
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Is the movie we all need to see right now. 👌🏾 Better than EEAAO and I love Michelle Yeoh. For heaven’s sake, do NOT miss this one m.imdb.com/video/vi3734...
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▶️ Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die - Official Trailer
Watch Trailer | 2:06
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Time to polish your stories - or write one if you don't have something ready!
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 04/03/2026
Every time I write a non-Western, non-European story, I have to go thru to remove my Western filter: all those social ideas from a US upbringing that just don’t exist in this hemisphere or language. I’m afraid a Western reader will judge as primitive or backward. Too bad. 🙄 Writing it anyway.
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 03/03/2026
Writer’s Lament: Oh, to behold the first complete rough draft. Something that began in your head like Michelangelo’s ‘David’ but looks more like Michael Bay’s Optimus Prime 🙄
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 03/03/2026
I don’t know if any workshops are listening… I need a class that teaches how to develop great log lines and elevator pitches ASAP. 💰 Just that. Thanks.
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 24/02/2026
Applications to join my next short story cohort are due on March 5. During the three-month period, you'll learn, write, receive critique, and polish stories for submission. I hope you'll consider applying: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...
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Short Story Cohort
WRITING, COACHING, CRITIQUE, and COMMUNITY Join Mary Robinette Kowal for a transformative three-month writing experience, designed to help you learn the craft of short stories while also generating…
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 23/02/2026
It’s grueling sometimes making our protagonist deserving / giving them that ‘unavoidable’ ending. I think last night’s class with @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social and @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social on four-act structure made things waaayy clearer. 🔦⏳🛟
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 22/02/2026
Great Episode. Great Article.
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 18/02/2026
My only interaction was as a freshman, he came to my university to speak. He found out there were 5-6 of us in the audience who had turned 18 after we started university. He brought us on stage and registered us to vote. I remember he had a very warm, ‘uncle’ atmosphere about him. 😭
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 15/02/2026
📣 Check out the Feb ‘26 issue of @translunartl.bsky.social for this epic group of short stories (so many great ones that didn’t make it also)!
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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: excerpts from a Q&A with author & Your Personal Odyssey guest lecturer @henrylienauthor.bsky.social, who talks about nonlinear storytelling & the relationship between unreliable narrators and linearity odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/q...
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Q&A Excerpt: Henry Lien
Henry Lien was a 2025 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Henry is a graduate of Brown University, UCLA School of Law, and Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. He is the auth…
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 03/02/2026
A Writer’s Lament 😢 : So many interesting, new ideas percolating; so much time to get that working draft. (Me: Primal Screaming). Feel better now. Liat, liat (one day at a time).
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 28/01/2026
I wrote a thing about short stories, why they get rejected, and what you can apply to your own work. clhellisen.beehiiv.com/p/a-view-fro...
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A View from the Slush
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Attention Pittsburgh-adjacent SFF writers! The Confluence writing workshops with ME are open for registration!  confluence-sff.org/writing-workshops The 30th annual Parsec Short Story Contest opens on January 1st and closes on March 31st.  
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Short Story Contest – Parsec Inc.
A 501(c)(3) organization: It is the mission of Parsec “to promote awareness of the richness of speculative fiction as literature, art and music; further general education in the sciences and arts, support contributions–both scientific and artistic–to society and to espouse the enjoyment of spe...
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 27/01/2026
There’s a collective feeling of joy and unified relief in Jerusalem right now (both Israeli Arabs and Jews). If that troubles you, you should choose silence. You don’t know as much as you think you do.
The body of Yasam Officer Ran Gvili, last hostage, has been returned home.
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 25/01/2026
👩🏽‍💻👩🏽‍💻👩🏽‍💻
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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Please boost! Applications for Odyssey's Online Winter Classes close on 1/18! Apply today!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 29/12/2025
I wholeheartedly support the great work Jeanne is doing for developing writers. It’s not too late if you can help ❤️
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The Answer-Man (Thaddeus Howze) @ebonstorm.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
COMPACT Writing that refuses to perform will always be mistaken for opacity by readers who expect to be entertained instead of engaged. Modern writing is obsessed with performance. It is more important that you are seen writing, obliterating the difference between being heard and being understood.
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 24/12/2025
Pluribus. 🍎 📺 Well written. Worth the watch. m.imdb.com/title/tt2220...
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Pluribus (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 8.2 | Drama, Sci-Fi
1h | TV-MA
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 05/11/2025
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 430: Read. Read widely. Read what you love, and what you don't. Read what you know, and what you don't yet know. The wider your reading, the better your chance of avoiding the limitations of being influenced by only one author, one genre, one culture, one time.
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 16/10/2025
🥹 I’m pretty sure I had a breakthrough today with my MC’s emotional arc (yes it does change the plot and rewrites the opening, but I hope your 💔 for his dilemma). Needless to say I owe this 💯 to what I learned in @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social
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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I’ll be judging this year’s Afritondo’s Short Story Prize! The theme is “Transition.” Open to African & Black writers. Cash prize $1,000. Deadline Dec 24. Guidelines below👇🏾 www.afritondo.com/call2026
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Afritondo Short Story Prize 2026 - Theme, Judges, Guidelines — Afritondo
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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Time for self promo 🙈 My scifi flash, up on Manawaker Podcast, is on the Nebula reading list 🎉🎉🎉 So please give it a go, and if you are in SFWA and enjoy it, maybe a little push? Flash + audio is a rare and precious mix that needs more support ❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/4Sqd...
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A Pixel, A Word, A Lie, A Speck of You – FFP 1020
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Our submissions portal closes tonight at midnight US Eastern Time (UTC:-4:00). If you have a speculative fiction story of 5000 words or under, be sure to submit before then! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 22/09/2025
👀 ICYMI
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 12/09/2025
Hari Seldon was right. 👑
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a man with a beard is talking and saying it 's not a theory .
Alt: Main character from Asimov’s Foundation series saying ‘It's not a theory.’
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Music For The Resistance @resistmusic.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"Glory" Common & John Legend #resist #resistance #resistancemusic #resistancetunes youtu.be/HUZOKvYcx_o?...
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Common, John Legend - Glory
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 09/06/2025
🧐 Curious about @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social? Check out my graduate interview:
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Cadwell Turnbull shared on this Insta that his secret hack to writing was when he began setting a "floor instead of a ceiling".
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 23/05/2025
This is pretty cool. science.nasa.gov/universe/exo...
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Discovery Alert: A Possible Perpendicular Planet - NASA Science
A newly discovered planetary system, informally known as 2M1510, is among the strangest ever found. An apparent planet traces out an orbit that carries it far
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 18/05/2025
Highly recommended reading 📖 💫
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