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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To celebrate the official launch of our Solidarities issue today, we're offering a curated bundle of four issues that explore the idea of writing, literature, and art as forms of expressing and practising solidarity. Can storytelling play a role in liberation? buff.ly/YbeORbL

Four magazine covers are displayed. Above it says 'Solidarities'. Below it says '£30'.

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Interesting. I had a pretty good period without brain fog and with fewer other symptoms after I started on methlyphenidate in 2024. I always wondered if there was a connection, something to do with increased blood flow to the brain. (Unfortunately it returned in Dec 2025, then redoubled in Feb.)

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's a day ending in 'day', so I thought I should post about this collection of both the spectral and the bodily horrific: 14 stories of unease and alienation, bleak elation and despair. Ghosts and illness and pain and catastrophe. All the good stuff. undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would...

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I Would Haunt You if I Could — Undertow Publications

COVER ART: Jana Heidersdorf I would haunt you … The debut short story collection from Seán Padraic Birnie does indeed haunt. Sown with seeds of sorrow and grief, and imbued with disquieting bodily h...

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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For anyone only recently joining us, here's a start pack for Swan River Press associates: writers, artists, editors, and other people we've worked with. (If we've worked together and you're not on here, let me know.) go.bsky.app/DJ1R1MF

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 15/09/2026

The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 13/09/2026

Gamergate & its aftermath, straight into this. Good things in threes - can't wait for the next plague 👌

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 13/09/2026

As someone who was in game dev and currently can't stomach a return... 😭😭😭 If I read one more job listing that says the equivalent of "we don't just USE AI, we set industry trends" I stg

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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 09/09/2026

My ecological sci-fi horror about fake worms rehabilitating the soil and rich people trying to avoid a poisoned Earth is now up on Phano.

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Wake Me When It’s Better

They’re fixing all of these big problems, aren’t they? Someone must be.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕

Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000.

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.

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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New project I've teased a few times is officially live! You'll see trading cards at the bottom of every story now and if you tip the authors at certain levels, you'll receive a physical card in the mail! Booster packs are coming to the shop soon and you can see the cards here: foofaraw.press/cards/

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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 03/09/2026

This is such a cool idea and a great way to directly support stories you like, authors who write those stories, and the venue that publishes them.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/08/2025

This is what the audience for a Long COVID conference looked like today. Notice anything? 😷

Audience for a Long COVID conference all wearing masks

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 28/08/2026

All great. Here's one from 2025 that I continue to love. By @kawaishen.bsky.social, who also happens to have a book out for pre-order. ergot.: www.ergot.press/authors/Kawa... book: metatron.press/news/waverin...

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A really basic thing that people who use generative AI to make flyers, menus, book covers etc don't seem to grasp is that it makes it look like a scam. Using an image which has been generated makes it look like the real thing doesn't exist. No one wants to buy a ticket or whatever. It looks fake.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 25/08/2026

Have found this to be extremely enlightening & would recommend!

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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 24/08/2026

I am in this! Well, some cats I know are in this. Patrick's cats, actually. He should really take better care of them.

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Kawai 加鬼 Shen 👻 @kawaishen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

New guest edited issue of Glyphöria is live with readings and more from the METAMOOD book launches for Wavering Futures ✨ Ft Lee Suksi, Katia Lo Innes, Gabrielle Marceau, Ryan Akler-Bishop, Sennah Yee, Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch, Trynne Delaney, Kate Brooks, Marcela Huerta, Nirris Nagendrarajah 🧡

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Issue VII – WAVERING FUTURES – Kawai Shen

❋ What is a community? What is a community for? What makes a community different from a family, or a circle of friends, or a scene? ❋ How do we face the future together? ❋ Are you looking to be seen? ...

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Look who it is. The birthday boy. You ain't little no more, kid. You’re a man now, by law. Been invited to the fuck parties yet?" Today on ergot.: 'Schlieren Dots Over Poggendorff Eyes' by @odinmeadows.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...

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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 21/08/2026

My story "The Beast" is live on @bulbculture.bsky.social, revived after it first was born and died on the Cheek Teeth blog long ago. It's a flash about a beast. Wait, hold on, I'm reading here THE Beast. Okay, well, whatever that means, here you go. www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/the-bea...

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The Beast - Andrew Kozma — Bulb Culture Collective

You come to believe that the beast was meant to be there.

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

[at the top of the stairs] [is a painting of a clown] [with yellow dots for eyes] Today on ergot.: 'Schlieren Dots Over Poggendorff Eyes' by @odinmeadows.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Odin... Note: suicide

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tomorrow on ergot.: clownin' around with Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our autumn 2026 issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities, is available to order now! Can storytelling play a role in liberation? Read through powerful interviews with major writers, poetry, life writing, and fiction on encampments, the university, protest, and more. wasafiri.org/shop/issues/...

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Wasafiri 127: Solidarities

What shapes do solidarities take in these strange times we are living in?

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 19/08/2026

a range of criticism and reviews covering work by Dalit, Maori, Kashmiri, and Kurdish writers, and much more.

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 19/08/2026

new research on histories and legacies of Palestinian and Black resistance in the UK; art by Arab Jewish painter Massoud Hayoun, whose work 'General Strike' (2025) forms the issue's cover; the 2025 Essay Prize-winning paper;

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 19/08/2026

Read through powerful interviews with major writers such as Daniela Catrileo, Isabella Hammad, and Mirza Waheed; poetry, life writing, and fiction on encampments, the university, protest, transnational solidarities, student struggles, archives, queerness, and more.

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 19/08/2026

turning to our foremost thinkers and artists for clarity, sagacity, a silver lining of hope.'

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 19/08/2026

From Wasafiri: Can storytelling play a role in liberation? 'This special issue of Wasafiri,' writes Sana Goyal in the issue's Editorial, 'holds uneasy questions, ambiguities, contradictions, and vagaries within its pages...

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 19/08/2026

Thank you to Vamika Sinha for her thoughtful editing, @sanagoyal.bsky.social for her support, and the entire @wasafirimag.bsky.social team for their continued work in this increasingly vital space.

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 19/08/2026

My reimagining of the xiezhi myth is out today in @wasafirimag.bsky.social 's newest Solidarities issue! Available in.. Print: wasafiri.org/shop/issues/... Online (Taylor & Francis subscribers): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Wasafiri 127: Solidarities

Approaching ideas and forms of solidarity from different positionalities and perspectives, this urgent, topical issue aims to make us question, remember…

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 18/08/2026

"Today's the day I write again. It'll be great. I'm caffeinated and have no other obligations. Writing has my undivided attention. I feel inspired."

Black background and white text that reads, "Everyone was excited at the prospect of a magic fork."

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Introducing the cover of our forthcoming issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities ✊ Showing a 2025 painting by LA-based artist Massoud Hayoun, titled ‘General Strike’.

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

📢 Call for Support! We’re looking for bookshops and cultural venues across the UK and internationally who would like to stock Wasafiri. We offer great rates on an outright or sale-or-return basis and would love to bring our engaging writing to your readers. 📧 cassie.lawrence@qmul.ac.uk

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Delighted to be back in ergot today.

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

come dance with me

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 16/06/2026

Just finished reading this one and loved it -- the choice to personify & separate Day's heart from Day, especially.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 11/06/2026

Just re-upping this while the announcement is hot. (And, don't worry, we'll send out the info again as the deadline draws closer. This is for all those who want to write 5 words a day ONLY.)

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This month, in honor of pride, we're going to be reposting stories from some of the LGBTQ authors that published work on the site. First up: 'The Houseguest' by Ava Devries @avadevries.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Ava_...

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In case there were any questions on the matter: ergot. is down with pride This month, in addition to new work from queer writers and on being queer, we'll be spotlighting past work from some of our many unparalleled writers who are LGBTQ+.

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Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I used to think the scariest part of being a writer was being vulnerable, but no, the scariest part is definitely going to the post office.

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Part 4 of my dark fantasy novella is out! More stories within stories, and the first steps of a quest voyage buttondown.com/crosshatches...

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Iron Kelwas, the Raven Knights, and Their Little Sister - 4

Housekeeping; The Raven's Tale; Wolf discovers something; The King's Tale (conclusion); the Old Lord's command

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"These idolaters went out–the jailer let them out, who would want anything so monstrous?–and as they exited, kowtowed over and over, producing silver-tongued promises. Outside her domain, many moons came and went..." Today on ergot.: 'Photopsia' by @ckliu.com www.ergot.press/authors/C.K....

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innovative + experimental horror

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 22/05/2026

Thank you so much! ❤️

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 22/05/2026

It was ergot. that sparked my interest in horror & experimental writing, so this one's especially meaningful to me. Huge thanks to Sam @ergot.bsky.social for all the support leading up to publication!

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C.K. Liu @ckliu.com · 22/05/2026

Also happy to talk if needed / when you're ready. I was present at the first walkouts and can speak to what it was like from a (specific) junior female dev perspective. I've left the industry in the last year and a half, but that's not so long ago.

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