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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

day two of the @mccormackwc.bsky.social speculative online workshop, & i’ve already been learning so much from the wonderful array of faculty writers! i’m so excited to have this opportunity.

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

very proud of my hometown bookstore for speaking up, as always. the book industry should not turn their eyes from the rise of censorship or the erosion of free speech.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 26/08/2026

I'm excited to share that The Best Science Fiction of the Year: 2025 anthology will be published by Wyrm Publishing in November. Full details on my blog: neil-clarke.com/next-install...

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Next installment in the Best Science Fiction of the Year series – Neil Clarke

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

i have a new poem out!! it’s a queer love story set in the appalachian mountains :) whitewallreview.com/blue-ridge/

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Blue Ridge – White Wall Review

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

While everyone's "all the love to trans folks" posts are nice and it is good to see support We have been getting them for a decade now. If you want to support trans folks, hire us. Support GFMs and asks for mutual aid. Put yourself between trans folks in public if you see harassment.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

i want to offer editing services!

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

i’ve been working on my website the past few days; now, i’m pleased to share my first blog post!! you can sign up for my newsletter for book reviews, conversations about publishing, & updates on my writing :) lizvaughanwriter.com/2026/06/16/p...

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Past Book Reviews

Hello, welcome to my first blog post! I’m Liz, a fiction writer, editor, and MFA student. I love reading and talking about books, if you couldn’t guess from that list of descriptions. D…

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

okay, good to know. do you have any recommendations for alternate sites or specific strategies?

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

i’m thinking about picking up some freelance book beta reading & copy #editing, but i’m not sure the best way to go about it. is fiverr a reliable platform for those who don’t have their own customer base yet? do any editors have any advice?

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

exciting find at my neighborhood little free library!! >:) now i have decide what book from my shelf to trade for it…

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

finally read my copy of elatsoe by @littlebadger.bsky.social!! what a beautiful, whimsical, moving ya fantasy book. highly recommend :)

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hello hello and welcome to the shortlist announcement thread for the #2026IgnyteAwards, recognizing outstanding contributions to SFFH and its community in 2025! We are grateful to be supported this year by sponsors @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, & @laworldcon.bsky.social

The 2026 Ignyte Awards, sponsored by Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the Edmonton in 2030 Worldcon Bid, and LA Worldcon 2026

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

i’m only a few chapters away from finishing the first draft of my ya gothic fantasy manuscript!! i can’t wait to begin the revision process :)

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So thrilled that my story “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award!! huge congrats to the other finalists, and an extra shoutout to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and the other SILK & SINEW authors💗💗

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

happy pride month!! 💚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Now more than ever, check out a physical novel from your public library and read it in long, big gulps. It's like meditating. It's like putting your bare feet on the grass. It will help heal you.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I wrote this essay last fall for print only & I'm republishing it with their permission bc we're talking about didactism in kidlit right now and I have HAD thoughts about the connection between instructive lit and book banning. I'd be honored if you read it. www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2026/5/...

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Who's Afraid of Children's Books? — Pretty Ok Maggie

This essay was written for the print only periodical, THE APPROACH, in Fall of 2025 and has been republished here with their permission.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

my apocalyptic love story “road trip” will appear in issue 44 of @zoeticpress.bsky.social‘s NonBinary Review!! i’m very excited to publish more speculative fiction :)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

next time you’re looking for new books, please consider getting them from firestorm!! they’re a pillar of the wnc literary community & a wonderful community space.

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

i was very pleased to see how many genre fiction magazines, presses, & panels were at awp!

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

i personally wouldn’t submit work to a magazine that’s pro-ai. it shows that they don’t value art, & that my writing wouldn’t be safe with them—i would never want an ai illustration, or ai ‘editing’, or anything of that nature.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 01/03/2026

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

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Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

i’ll be going to the AWP conference in Baltimore this week, on behalf of the UNC Wilmington creative writing program—i’m very excited to meet writers, attend panels, & explore the bookfair!

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

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Time to Fight: H.R. 7661

Call To Action

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/02/2026

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

tell me it's not true

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Trans people deserve better.

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Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Not just a novelist, @ursulakleguin.com was also a cartographer. Her fictional geographies were on display this fall at London’s Architectural Association Gallery, and a companion book on Silver Press sheds new light on her peerless world-building. Read our interview with editor/curator Sarah Shin.

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Maps and Legends: The Spectacular Cartography of Ursula K. Le Guin - Library of America

Mapmaking lay at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin’s worldbuilding. An able illustrator whose subjects ranged from realist watercolors to cartoon cats, the author of such SFF classics as The Left Hand of...

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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

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First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition

Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Sharing the Sameer Project/Translating Falasteen's holiday campaign (text and slides from their x page) "The holiday season is filled with family, warmth, comfort, and memories to last a lifetime. You might get together with loved ones for a meal, you might exchange gifts…please keep Gaza in mind:

From Sameer Project on X:
Jesus was Palestinian.
Consider making Christmas a little brighter this year for those who need it most. Support our winter campaign and help us spread some warmth and hope to those in Gaza.

Food for thought this holiday season
Although Bethlehem is technically a Palestinian city, it is surrounded by Israeli checkpoints that severely restrict the movement and entry of Palestinians. A 27-kilometer journey from Ramallah can take up to five hours.
Gaza's churches have historically doubled as shelters for families displaced by the Occupation's relentless targeting of Palestinians for almost a century. Since 2023, Israel has bombed every church in Gaza.
The Christian community of Gaza is one of the oldest in the world, with almost 2,000 years of history. Israel has killed around 5% of Gaza's Christians.
Christmas is inextricably linked to Palestine, both in its history and in the many ways it has been curated to distract us from the many crimes our governments are funding. This holiday season, consider starting a conversation, even if it's uncomfortable. And if you can, consider donating to mutual aid initiatives.

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

i’m so happy with how this turned out!! the best book cover illustration i could have imagined :)

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

a short story of mine was recently nominated for the AWP intro journals project!! i received this news as i was feeling disheartened about this particular story’s chances of publication, given that it’s fairly niche + weird, but not strictly speculative either. now i’m feeling much more hopeful :)

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

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creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 29/11/2025

What if buying a book was like a magic spell, and every time you did it an awesome social movement space got its wings, or could pay its water bill or something 💫 That would be pretty incredible, right?

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

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Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List

The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action. Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions. You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice. The working class has much more power than they think.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced @nkjemisin.bsky.social as the 42nd recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Congratulations!!

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SFWA Names N.K. Jemisin the 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master - Reactor

The Broken Earth trilogy author joins a prestigious group of past recipients.

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Liz Vaughan @creaturewriting.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

yallfest 2025 was very fun! met some lovely authors & collected some exciting arcs. i haven’t been since i was a teenager myself, so i enjoyed participating in the event with a deeper understanding of the book publishing industry :) & i got to accompany my partner to her first book festival!!

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