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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 1h

Happy birthday! I love this appreciation thread idea. Mine is a primal scream of a story inspired by our present, past, and future. clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/

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This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 2h

You can't fool me, that's swans on a green screen

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 4h

Hey do you need a list of awesome reading recommendations because here you go: bsky.app/profile/effi...

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Rachel Gutin @rachelgutin.bsky.social · 2h

I had a story in The Sunday Morning Transport a few weeks ago and it's about a jewelry store that's only open when it rains, and how it offers so much more than just jewelry. I did things with this story that I've never done before and I'm really proud of it.

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When It Rains

This week, author Rachel Gutin makes her debut with important news about a particular shop in Manhattan.

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Morgan L. Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social · 2h

Happy birthday Effie!! And thank you for doing this! This year I had my translations of a Ñuu Savi poet, Kalu Tatyisavi, come out in Latin American Literature Today. His work reckons with colonialism & language loss in Oaxaca latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2026/09/four...

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Four Trilingual Poems from Because of the Silence - Latin American Literature Today

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 2h

Happy birthday, Effie!🎉🎉🎉 I am having a challenging time picking my favourite work from this year, but I found out today that my 2023 magazine article excerpt about bodily autonomy is now featured in a textbook in France, which folx can read or listen to here!🥹 www.lelivrescolaire.fr/page/18069173

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Body and law: a love-hate story | Lelivrescolaire.fr

Retrouvez la leçon et de nombreuses autres ressources sur la page Body and law: a love-hate story

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Birthday Effie! Love your Gavagai story. Mine is “Venom is Poison is Strength is Venom” from Flame Tree’s July newsletter. Hope you had a wonderful day!! 🥳 www.flametreepress.com/newsletters/...

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annika barranti klein @noirbettie.bsky.social · 2h

happy birthday effie! i lived this story! the translations especially! i have exactly one story out this year and it’s so special to me—this was one of the first stories i wrote and it took around 12 years to be published.

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Stealing Home — Weird Horror Magazine

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 3h

What an awesome day present to us! Fav of mine that can be read right now is "Kings_Gambit.exe" in Adventitious. www.adventitious.net/stories/king... Proud of this piece and horrified that things like it (us being uploaded as AI without our consent to serve as teachers) will come into fruition.

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Kings_Gambit.exe by Yelena Crane

A Grandmaster is resurrected as AI and forced to play forever. Free sci-fi story by Yelena Crane at Adventitious.

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 3h

calling my doctors to the carpet in my best teacher voice: who's ready for a story? let's learn about sloths.

Finally, after months and months of despair, Emma gave up. Fine, she’d climb a damn tree, just to shut people up. She found one in her parents' backyard and started to pull herself up, her claws acting as hooks. It was surprisingly easy, and it felt weirdly good. Unlike trying to do dishes, her body was made for this. She hung by her claws off a branch and took the best nap she’d had in months.

It was hard to wrap her head around, if she were honest. Serious people did not climb trees. Serious people weren’t sloths, right? And it was unbelievably weird, and if there was one thing she wasn’t, it was weird. But it felt so good.

The next month she climbed up again, and spent the night.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 4h

Happy birthday! I'm going to cheat with a collection full of previously published work: Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar is just a beautiful collection full of stories I love.

The cover to Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories

It's a picture of bucolic nature, with a prism in the center, through which a rabbit appears to be chasing a... fox?

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 4h

Happy Birthday!! And thank you for doin' this! I'm a little late only 'cause I was torn between two, but since you posted a Gavagai story-- "I Promise You're Safe With Me", a fave of mine recently featured there! Touching on anxiety, black and white thinking, and who we consider "safe."

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Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social · 4h

Let me add another one and be a little shameless. I still love my Jewish fantasy noir Hornytown Chutzpah and will be forever grateful for your beautiful reaction to it and blurb.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 4h

Hey do you need a list of awesome reading recommendations because here you go: bsky.app/profile/effi...

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 4h

Happy birthday, Effie! Even though I have two other stories coming out very soon, I think my favorite work this year was my flash, "Foreign Objects" published in Typebar Magazine www.typebarmagazine.com/foreign-obje...

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Foreign Objects

Flash fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 4h

Happy birthday, and a joyful way to celebrate! My fav from myself is the conclusion to the fantasy trilogy I set for myself, but fav thing from someone else is the soulfully ambitious MARTYR! by Kaveh Akbar. I love a writer that takes a big swing that winds up being a home run.

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 4h

Happy birthday, Effie! All the best wishes for you (and your family!) Hard to pick a favorite as always, but certainly one that touches me deeply is my Giganotosaurus novelette, The Winter of the Icebergirl! giganotosaurus.org/2026/02/01/t...

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The Winter of the Icebergirl - GigaNotoSaurus

Content Warning: Mentions of hurt children On Saturday morning, Amélia received a call from the Santa Minerva Nursing Home for the Empowered Elderly. They didn’t use to call except for urgent matters....

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Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social · 4h

So impossible to narrow it down to one. I really enjoyed @jomiles.bsky.social Last Chronicle of Yenneh. I thought @slashnburnett.bsky.social Ex Partum was compelling. Patrick Ness' Knife series delighted me too.

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Eliane Boey 🕷🥩SMALL BITES 🥩🕷11.11.26 @elianeboey.bsky.social · 4h

Happy birthday!!! I'm reading @megancheewrites.bsky.social's THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FALLING WORLDS and it's going to be my favourite SFF read of the year

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Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 4h

My favorite work is my poem "The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub," a weird fantasy exploration of complicity in societal injustice published by @strangehorizons.bsky.social! You can read it here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub

Change requires examination of the initial errors

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Hilary 💀 BisenEEKs @hbbisenieks.bsky.social · 4h

my favorite thing i've made this year that's available anywhere is this zine i wrote to get more queers interested in archery! in fact i just published it today after spending a month and some working on it hbbisenieks.itch.io/a-tgirls-gui...

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a tgirl's guide to archery by Hilary B. Bisenieks

a (queer) introduction to archery

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 5h

the fave book i READ this year is "The Iron Garden Sutra" by A.D. Sui a monk of death is super excited when a 900 year old generation ship docks fulla skeletons, but oops the living are also there, and also a buncha angry plants AvP for the gardening set

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 5h

the favorite work i wrote was "Unsettled Nature" in @apexmag.bsky.social, where Beau is an old man who wants to live out the rest of his years on the back of a giant jackalope, but he gets framed for murder.

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Unsettled Nature

Once were a time on a jackalope when folks kept their thinking to themselves. People lived, and people died, natural-like, in this un-natural place. That was, ‘til the first un-natural death, when nob...

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H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social · 5h

my favorite 2026 story by me is my queer madness of grief piece “Age Cannot Wither Her” in @gavagai.com api.gavagai.com/share/posts/... favorite not by me would have to be “Pomegranates” by @gmmitchell.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social flashfictiononline.com/issues/augus...

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Gwynne Garfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 5h

I really love your story! I'm quite fond of my Rosemary's Baby/Harold and Maude mashup poem "Minnie or Maude." strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Minnie or Maude

but to live in that dusty old apartment house... crawling with Satanists

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Bart Leib @metafrantic.bsky.social · 5h

Happy birthday! My fav this year has probably been SERVICE MODEL by @aptshadow.bsky.social. A great story, masterfully told.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you everyone who participated in #DVparty this week! See you all TOMORROW, SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 at #DVPit!! Marginalized creators with completed unagented work come pitch your projects to literary agents and editors from 8AM - 8PM Eastern Time!!

#DVpit 2026
unagented marginalized creators can pitch their unpublished project in 300 characters on bluesky to participating literary agents & editors
Wednesday September 30th 2026
8:00AM - 8:00PM ET
go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info & rules

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 12h

It's my birthday! My birthday wish is for you to share your favorite work from this year and I'll boost it. Here's mine, "The Metamorphosis". Becoming disabled might feel like Kafkaesque horror, but there's a beautiful path to acceptance and a good life. Also there's sloths. gavagai.com/posts/3894

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 8h

Such a great birthday wish. I hope you’re being spoiled today (and every day). Here’s my fave from this year. This thread will give me lots of great reading too! www.adventitious.net/stories/a-ga...

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A Game of Go by P.A. Cornell

Ava is a dying AI Home who raised Christopher on love and games of Go—now she has to convince him to leave her, before he never does. By P.A. Cornell.

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A. P. Howell - Buy my book! @aphowell.com · 10h

Happy birthday! I hope Bagel is not disappointed that celebratory baked goods are not entirely for him. I will boost my space opera, Corners of the Deep Dark; I am pleased to've finally pushed it out the door. aphowell.com/books/corner...

Cover of Corners of the Deep Dark by A. P. Howell, featuring a spaceship zooming over a planetary surface. Cover art by Addison Smith.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 10h

hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020

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Story Hour

Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...

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Laurence Raphael Brothers @lrb.bsky.social · 11h

Many happy returns of the day! I'm touting Pâtissier et Étranger, my historical baking-romance (Paris 1967), spy thriller, and science fiction mash-up. Inspired by Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire. Available from all the usual online shops. brigidsgatepress.com/product/ptis...

Pâtissier et Étranger cover: silhouette of spy with gun incorporating the Eiffel tower, a mille-feuille, a cup of coffee, and a UFO

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 11h

I am really bad at total orderings, but I really liked @johnchu.bsky.social 's THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 11h

Happy Happy birthday!!! My favorite work from this year so far. Hmmm. I am going to go with A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, a fantastic novella by @marissalingen.bsky.social from @hornedlarkpress.com

A DUBIOUS CLAMOR. Take wing little book!

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 11h

I have at least one more potential favorite coming out later this year, but so far, it's this absurdist, experimental piece in Bourbon Penn, about going - perhaps - a tad too far in a scientific study: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...

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Mari Ness > The Great Sock Experiment > Bourbon Penn

AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, Ok, two things: Science explains everything. Except socks. AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, So I guess we, or me, learned one thing from this: Socks are out ...

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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 11h

Happy birthday! My favorite read from this year is the fictionalized biography of Charity and Sylvia, an early 19th century married lesbian couple. www.charityandsylvia.com

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Charity and Sylvia

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Birthday! I love "The Metamorphosis," so much!! My favourite story out this year of mine is "This Tree Will Save the World," a multi-generational cli-fi fable. ex-puritan.ca/this-tree-wi...

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This Tree Will Save the World

Read Lynne Sargent's short story "This Tree Will Save the World” in Issue 72: Winter 2026 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 12h

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy Monday from Bagel! #SomewhatDailyDoggo

dachshund-mix is lying on a green couch, one ear propped up by a person's (cross-legged) knee. He's giving puppy dog eyes.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My cozy mystery Cheddar Luck Next Time is on sale in the UK & US through October 4th! 1.99 for Amazon ebook. Autistic (like me) lead character! Oodles of cheese! Chonky orange cat! Sequel out in February! amzn.to/3ZlFfnR [promo link]

A green book cover is bold against a red background. Amazon Kindle deal for Cheddar Luck Next Time $1.99 limited time offer: 28 September- 4 October 2026.

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KidLitGN @kidlitgn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Agent Tip: Hollie Michaels is a Literary Agent at Martin-Newmans Lit. She is the author of Golda and Ezra, and The Bad News Bestie. 📅 CREATORS PITCH Oct. 3-7 📅 Agents and editors view pitches Oct. 7-31 #kidlitgn #kidlit #kidscomics #pitchevent #interview

Dear Hollie Michaels: What are the best ways illustrators can attract your attention in a pitch event?

Final art that shows a strong sense of character design, showcasing movement (not a portrait) and strong visual storytelling through layout and color. From, Hollie Michaels.

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Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com · 28/09/2026

No, seriously, #kidlit #GraphicNovel creators, don't miss this amazing event! You will kick yourself if you do (I will be kicking myself because I absolutely cannot squeeze in one more thing this fall).

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