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Eliza Rose (aka Jo)

@eliza-writing.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, actor, general nut SFF/horror as Jo Niederhoff, romance as Eliza Something-or-Other (if I ever finish a whole book)

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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One star, another We turn our gazes outward And new eyes meet ours #ScifaikuSaturday #poetry #AmWriting
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I need to edit a short story and finish writing another and work on a CoC scenario and somehow on top of that actually do the job I get paid for, and instead all I want to do is play animal guessing games and eat pretzels.
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It's very quickly becoming a summer tradition for me to make a pie for the county Fair and immediately wonder if it's good enough. (Twice counts as tradition, right?)
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
IT’S ALMOST TIME!! Anathema officially opens to submissions on June 20th! ✨ We cannot wait to begin this journey after a four-year hiatus. Thank you for all of the support!! 🥹 Check our website (link in bio) for submission guidelines. We’re excited to begin reading!! 💜
ANATHEMA opens to submissions in two days! After a 4-year hiatus, Anathema is back and ready to bring you outstanding speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by queer artists of color! We are happy to announce that we OPEN to submissions from June 20th to July 20th! Mark your calendars and prepare your best work! We’re proud to announce that we pay our creators a professional SFWA rate! Thinking of submitting? Check out www.anathemamag.com/guidelines for our guidelines!
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I got my short story rejection for this week! Time to see if I can fix the start of another story so it's good enough to get turned down somewhere else next week.
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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Whatever you're doing as a creative person, if it works for YOU, and you feel good about it, and it's not a destructive shortcut like AI, then it's the right way. And it may take time to figure out that right way, because everyone is a little different in their needs and priorities. (9/10)
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Me: okay, I've got some time off from work, time to edit the two projects I've been letting sit for the past few months My brain: actually let's take long walks and watch Leverage and think about getting into romantasy Friends, I do not even read romantasy. (But maybe give me a rec or two?)
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Submissions to @bafflingmag.bsky.social will open up again on June 1st. We'll be reading for unthemed stories as well as on the theme of "gossip" for the upcoming issue edited by @bendibarrett.bsky.social. 🪶 queer speculative stories 🪶 <1200 words 🪶 8¢/word
Baffling Magazine

Open to submissions June 1-15

Two categories:
Unthemed
Gossip
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Diminish a book: The Raisins of Annoyance
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I may have managed to finish the first drafts of some stories? One is about hope after a devastating battle and one is about butterfly evolution. I just have to remember to actually edit them. #Writing #AmWriting #ButNotEditing
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com This is America.
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What We Saw in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
We put out a call for #ICEOutForGood vigils 24 hours ago. There are now more than 1000 events taking place across the country this weekend. Find yours: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...
Map of event locations for #ICEforGood
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
To be clear: I brook no Genre Wars. I love Fantasy, LitFic, Horror, Comedy, etc. The remedy to genre chauvinism is open-mindedness, not more genre chauvinism.
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I've got to work on remembering my dreams again, because lately some of them have seemed like really good story seeds.
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My silly parody song idea won't leave my head (and grows less silly by the day) so maybe I should spend my week off working on that instead of any actual projects.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Since everyone has Frankenstein on the brain: more people should read Ahmed Sadaawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
New story day! "Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.
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Phantom View - Reactor
A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father try to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I'll have a proper ghost story for Christmas this year; I'm playing Belle in a production of A Christmas Carol! (And hopefully doing some writing backstage, if I can pick a project to focus on.)
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Even if we disregard every other living thing on Earth, humans also need darkness. We need it to prompt our bodies to rest, and we need it for the wonder and joy of looking at the night sky. And, the smallest problem of all, naming this Earendil is a slap in the face. The elves knew to value stars.
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
whoa october is around the corner! reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon. more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
neon hemlock logo

novellas

open for subissions october 15-30
most interested in queer speculative work
all welcome to submit

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/09/2025
Evergreen post for every writer ever
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It turns out, being in a show where I'm onstage for almost an hour and a half makes keeping up a writing schedule hard. I'm hoping I can get back to my short story (and maybe even do some editing) after closing night!
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Parable of the Sower really messed with me, but one of the ways it MOST messed with me (in a good way) was its insistence on the inevitability and persistence of change. We're never going back, but also we never WERE going back. This rollercoaster never had a reverse button. Time never does
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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 20/07/2025
"We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" is one of the best stories I've ever read. It's one of only a very few stories that I would give a 10/10. (Yes, I'm very stingy with 10/10s.) At the very least, please make sure to read it! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...
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We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read - Lightspeed Magazine
This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration. The first time you get our message, you only / find one thread. It mimics your language in / its simplest form, a sin...
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Does anyone have any domestic horror recs? Not cozy -- something along the lines of We Have Always Lived in the Castle. #horror #amreading #amwantingtoread
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This is something I talk about a lot when I talk about my job. For five years I've worked with preschoolers who have high needs. For the first four, I made about 20k a year, because I was "just" a paraeducator. Now that I'm an SLPA? Over double that. I can maybe afford rent. I'm saving for a house.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It's a wild world—which is why writers rely on community to figure out what's important and what's unusual in our industries. For this first piece in "Writer Beware® Presents: Creators and Their Contracts", we dive into moral rights. What do writers need to know? www.sfwa.org/2025/07/03/m...
This series from SFWA, "Creators and Their Contracts", comes directly from our Writer Beware program. This article is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as legal commentary or advice.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/06/2025
Hey folks, this is a super simple one: ALWAYS READ YOUR FUCKING CONTRACTS. (I have an agent and lawyer reading my contracts before they are sent along to me, looking out for my specific interests, and you know what? I STILL read the final before I sign, because it's me bound by the contract.)
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
As another forgetful person (and someone who takes pictures rarely enough not to have a habit of alt-text yet) this is super helpful!
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Happy Pride to Jim Obergefell. bsky.app/profile/eram...
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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I've never won an award. But! I've been a finalist 21 times, including SIX times for “We Will Teach You How to Read...” which is a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, & Eugie Awards. I'm proud of this story and deeply honored. I'd love for you to read it: tinyurl.com/mry6kpx6
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We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read - Lightspeed Magazine
This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration. The first time you get our message, you only / find one thread. It mimics your language in / its simplest form, a sin...
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Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"Do our stories exist to pacify an audience that’s on the verge of taking action by telling them they’ve already done enough? Or are we inspiring people to use their hammers to break and fix and build?" - @sarahgailey.bsky.social. Go break and fix and build. stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
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Hammer Speech
Last night, I got to stand up in front of the audience at the Locus Awards ceremony. I wound up presenting the Locus Award for Best Short Story (congratulations, Isabel J. Kim!) – but first, I deliver...
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azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
📌 "Inertia is a choice. There so many other choice you can make instead." 👇🏽
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.
Notecard by a homeless person expressing what object was most devastating to lose: Dentures were thrown away and coping isn’t something I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
“…We teach children pro-social behaviors… But then, when they grow up…they are often rewarded for many anti-social behaviors.”
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Me in the morning: okay, I'm going to be productive today and do grownup things, like sorting my mail and getting my summer online trainings ready Me during the morning: actually let's just do some rp posting and check AO3
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"let copilot help you draft" "can gemini write that for you" I have now taken the only reasonable course of action in the circumstances
it's a vintage typewriter
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"Because everyone deserves an education to have a fighting chance against those who would take advantage of them. Because every person deserves the critical thinking skills that naturally follow reading and writing. Every person deserves an education." jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-real-a...
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The "Real" Americans
Plumbers and Harvard
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Ivy - "Perfect Pervert" @ivynyx.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Luddites weren't anti-tech. They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker. I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The school year is finally done! Time to actually write and maybe try dipping my toes back into being part of a community.
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Interviewer Caroline M. Yoachim! Caroline’s “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” is a finalist for the Best Short Story Locus Award! You can read it here! buff.ly/Er1DU6u
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Robert G. Reeve @robertgreeve.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.
On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.”A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.
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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Awash with nerves and afire with pride to share my latest Churchlands story, courtesy of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/here...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Here-and-Now-and-Then by Jonathan Olfert
The carved rock warmed in his palm, and the memory he needed became clear: young Churchmen trembling around a fire, hands numb from the frosty iron latches on their tithe-purses. Speaking together ove...
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
After a bit of a dry spell, I've finally gotten a short story picked up! Here's hoping my acting life can pick up too. (Also here's hoping I can hold off on turning this short story into a fantasy epic, at least for a few months.)
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Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I'm active in a couple community theaters (scripted and improv) and those activities either call to good men or help keep them good. Boys (and people in general) need collaborative pretend play!
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NPR @npr.org · 09/03/2025
The time change can be hard on our health. There are more car accidents, strokes and heart attacks this week. People eat more junk food and have more migraines. Here's why — plus tips to help you adapt.
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Daylight saving time has started. Here's how to adjust
The time change can be hard on our health. There are more car accidents, strokes and heart attacks this week. People eat more junk food and have more migraines. Here's why — plus tips to help you adap...
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/02/2025
This tax season, we're here to remind you about TurboTax's 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free. (Published Oct. 2019)
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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Maya Rodale @mayarodale.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul." --Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1866
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll? Try the short story "Hands Like Gold and Starlight" by K.S. Walker! (@kswalkerwrites.bsky.social) You can read it here! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/han…
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 56, “Resurrecting Venus" by Galen Dara: In the background, two planets overlap. A large red one is eclipsed by a blue one, the surface is decorated with waves. At the forefront, a woman's face is split in three pieces that are slowly coming together. Spread throughout the motif of sea waves are present in shades of light blue, dark blue, and purple. The outline of koi are spread throughout too, accompanying the woman. The quote reads: "To my eye, it seemed as if the residents were desperately trying to make up for something. As if their homes’ gay appearance was specifically designed to keep some darkness or depravity at bay. I told my mother this and she accused me of being dramatic."
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