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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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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Join me or @ktempestbradford.com for a live @writingtheother.com worldbuilding workshop where we work through writing exercises that dive into aspects of a world/culture that authors often overlook. 📅 October 17th and 18th 🪙 $100 - $150 Scholarships available! writingtheother.com/worldbuildin...
On the left a lush world growing out of a book floating in the air with clouds and birds. a waterfall cascades out of the setting. On the right, text identifying the class title.
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 29/09/2026
Writing is never more challenging than when life gets hard. I had an honest conversation—full of encouragement and tips from my own experiences—with Micah McGuire on the EmberWrite podcast. Listen here: link.emberwrite.com/mrkwritinglife
EmberWrite Expert Craft Chats: Writing when Life Gets Real. Life happens. Learn how to manage your writing life when it does, through practical strategies and exercises. Featuring award-winning sci-fi author Mary Robinette Kowal.
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 30/09/2026
🎯🎯🎯
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 30/09/2026
So sorry, heal soon 💐
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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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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 28/09/2026
Moadim L’Simcha Effie. Copy/Paste the Hebrew lyrics from mshironet into a Google translate app. It can give both the transliteration as well as the English translation: mshironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=... if you have problems I’ll send to you 🍀
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מילים לשיר מכופף הבננות - שלום חנוך
שירים, שמות שירים, אקורדים לשירים, חדשות ועוד
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 31/05/2026
Mazal Tov, Effie!! 🥰
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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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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 17/05/2026
I’m so sorry. May you be comforted 🫂
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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
image of Tanwa Abilu and quote following 

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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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 29/04/2026
Happy Birthday, my dear. 🎁Beautiful photo!
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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
Not ready yet, but one day. 🦋
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 19/04/2026
👀 I’ve been waiting for this since 2018.
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 15/04/2026
😂 OMG ur so funny 🏆
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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...
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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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AimEEK!! 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 · 19/03/2026
Well that’s a beautiful a$$ book you should be proud 👏🏾 👏🏾 Congrats 🤩
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 18/03/2026
Halfway thru, and I’m ‘bout to have a heart attack: 😅
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 13/03/2026
🤔 While we ‘stupid’ SF writers spend our days imagining how tech can make things better, all these DUNCE CAPS do is steal other people’s ideas then valuate it. We’re left holding their ‘Liz Holmes’ 💩 making everything worse. Understood. Future gen will know what losers they are. 👍🏾 ✍🏾
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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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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 01/03/2026
I’m also like: the six people geolocating an ancient Persian civilization to St. Louis weren’t even trying 🙄
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a woman is sitting at a table with her mouth open and says hellooooo !
Alt: Taraji P Henson as Cookie Lyon: sitting at a table, hand up, saying hellooooo!
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 01/03/2026
Congratulations, Eugenia 🎆
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 26/02/2026
🙄 I had to magnify the pic to even see what you were talking ‘bout. Home boy blending in with the door 😂
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 25/02/2026
Me: ❤️ Also Me:
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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
I’m also bummed— I left a tall cup of iced espresso inside the M.A.C store in Jerusalem today. On the bright side, I did leave with two perfect shades of matte/satin lipstick. 🤷🏽‍♀️
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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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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 13/02/2026
Rajiv!!! No…Way… [here me like]:
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a blurry picture of a person with the words `` you never know '' .
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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 10/02/2026
I’m glad for you, Rajiv. I wonder if I’ll ever meet Ted Chiang 🤔
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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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CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com · 01/02/2026
Huh? I also was like, girl. Who you talking to? 🤣
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