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Elaine Cuyegkeng @ecuyegkeng.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So this happened: carlbrandon.org/awards/ I'm honoured that, five years after it was first published in Black Cranes, "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter" has won the 2020 Carl Brandon Parallax Award for Short Form Category.

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Carl Brandon Society Awards

About the Awards The Carl Brandon Parallax Award is given to works of speculative fiction created by a self-identified person of color. This Award includes a $1000 cash prize. The Carl Brandon Kind…

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We love our indie, DIY, and grassroots publishers! We see so much work from lesser-known publishers and authors & our readers and our reviewers love to discover those little-known gems. Submission guidelines for reviews here: locusmag.com/aboutlo...

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Dear workers who have not previously organized in a hostile workplace: 1) Do not use your company's messaging system to talk to your coworkers 2) Do not use company hardware (laptops, phones) to talk to your coworkers. 3) Do not sign up to receive organizing msgs with your company email address

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This is the fundraiser for Keffy Kehrli's in-laws and it has been kind of stuck! I think a lot of the people in the SFF community haven't seen it yet, so I am boosting again - please spread the word.

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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. The Luddites weren’t anti-tech. Many were operators of complex looms that were absolutely a form of tech. The question they asked was ‘If technology does not benefit most people, provide nourishment for their minds or bodies, what’s the point?’

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Jess ✡️ 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 @jewisharchivist.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

"Luddism was a working-class movement opposed to the political consequences of industrial capitalism. The Luddites wanted technology to be deployed in ways that made work more humane and gave workers more autonomy. The bosses, on the other hand, wanted to drive down costs and increase productivity."

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 13/10/2023

Many smart people have been saying this for decades, but the Internet really must become a public utility. No idea how to make that happen (children's lit professor and ELA educator here), but the part that bothers me is that a few people grew rich off the creative work & thought of millions.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Hey, all. Julie Rehmeyer has made it easy to donate Blue Sky invite codes to folks in the disability community for whom Twitter was a crucial support. If you have extras you can drop them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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BlueSky Invites for the Chronic Illness Community

Please fill out this form if you're the chronic illness community and you'd like to either (1) donate invite codes or (2) request an invite.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 25/09/2023

A tech startup worth millions remixing and monetizing my work without permission or compensation while I, the author, have to work two jobs to afford health insurance and pay off my medical debt is peak capitalism

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Elaine Cuyegkeng @ecuyegkeng.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Michael Flanagan watched Succession and said: but what if you handed those terrible people over *to me?* youtu.be/yvuAWVzP6wI?...

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · 14/09/2023

Game devs are tired. Writers are tired. Comic book creators are tired. Musicians are tired. Actors are tired. Every industry that produces media you love has been ravaged by a parasitic executive class who want to starve creators to feed some shitcunt's desire for a seventh house

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Over the next two weeks, Apex is doing a push for new subscribers. We need 300 new subscribers to be able to keep publishing issues at the size we currently are. If we don't get that, then beginning in January we have to cut back. Read all the nitty gritty here: apex-magazine.com/apex-blog/it...

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It's Not a Sub Drive but It's a Sub Drive - Apex Magazine

If we gain zero new subscribers over the next two weeks, then beginning with the January 2024 issue, each issue will have 16,000 words of original fiction, one essay, one reprint, two interviews (one ...

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Elaine Cuyegkeng @ecuyegkeng.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Thank you, @escritorasdeurras.bsky.social for publishing both audio and text for the Spanish translation of The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter ❤️❤️❤️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/08/2023

I'm going to send a comment to the copyright office. Here's my suggestion for those sending comments: a small part of what you're doing is showing the copyright office how many people are against each side. But that's not the most important part.

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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 01/09/2023

With submissions about to open, we'd like to assure everyone that the blast shields have been repaired and there will be no repeat of that "clouds of ash that turns your ears inside out" incident. Promise!

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ursine @spookz.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

i realize i need some stories focusing on hope, recovery, building. readers, writers, what do you know? what books? shorts etc? skeet this skyppl, i need some hope

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Megan E. O'Keefe @meganeokeefe.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

We have until Oct 18th to submit comments about LLMs ("AI") to the US copyright office. You can make a comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Octavia @octavia-cade.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

This entire thread is well worth reading, but the sheer scale of work that goes into sifting through slush at a magazine like F&SF bears repeating. Expecting infallible investigations into prospective authors as well is just deeply unrealistic.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 23/08/2023

So I'm in contact with Sheree over at F&SF. We're talking about options/optics and I really feel like I need to impress upon y'all how unhelpful this need for instant self-satisfying and public ramifications is to the ultimate resolution of issues in a way that in this case keeps a Black woman safe.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

A must-read thread for folks who are freaking out about F&SF stuff. I hope people stop screaming at Sheree, who is one of the all-around best people in publishing.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

!!! Sign up to be notified when the Kickstarter for this super cool Ukrainian SFF anthology launches! Many stories, both translated from Ukrainian and written originally in English. www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

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Coming soon: Embroidered Worlds

An anthology of fantastic stories from Ukraine and the Diaspora

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Please Repost! "Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors Once Again!" We are taking applications until September 4! Come and join Team Uncanny! www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-maga...

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

It's time to polish up your coziest tales because we are going to be opening up for submissions ✨THIS OCTOBER!✨ October 1-21st—Open to BIPOC, Trans, and/or Disabled creators October 8-21st—Open to everyone We can't wait to see what you have for us! 💖✨

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Anya K. Jordan @anyakjordan.bsky.social · 06/08/2023

Three things you will always find in an Anya book: 🌈 queer found family 💀 ruminations about death and meaning 🐶 carefree dogs #author #writing

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Elaine Cuyegkeng @ecuyegkeng.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

Watching Stephen King's The Stand and uneven as it is, there's something beautiful watching strangers find each other in the wreckage to remake the world they've lost

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 27/07/2023

It's reminder time again. We have no idea who our Kindle subscribers are, but there are a lot of them. Losing those subscribers is going to be brutal, so we'll keep bringing this up. We have no choice.

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