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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Don't miss your chance to get in on limited attendance sessions at FoF! Lots of FFers there, as usual: Chill-n-chats with @ewenmaer.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @priyachand.bsky.social and @mruthrobinson.bsky.social (of Otherside) and a workshop on xenofiction with @aardwyrm.bsky.social!

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I have a story out in Fusion Fragment ICYMI!! A fun romp about a cranky old cabbie and a wee lion cub in a city called H. It’s a story that’s rather near and dear to my heart, and I’d greatly appreciate it if y’all gave it a read! 🦁

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Live in BCS #450 – Science-Fantasy Month 8: "Precipice Sun" by @ewenmaer.bsky.social "Do you remember Vaihuei-Sing still, Aohane? I’m just sorry you aren’t here to see this star through my eyes. You would have fallen in love with it the way I have." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/prec...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Precipice Sun by Ewen Ma

Do you remember Vaihuei-Sing still, Aohane? Or have you shed even that part of yourself when you broke your own chains so long ago? I’m just sorry you aren’t here to see this star through my eyes. You...

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My new (scifantasy, F/F) novelette "Precipice Sun" is now free to read in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social! This piece has a special place in my heart, and I'm really excited (and nervous) for it to finally be out in the world alongside the other excellent stories in this science fantasy issue of BCS. 🖤

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Precipice Sun by Ewen Ma

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 06/02/2026

"Medusa's Ship, or the Thing About Bodies" is out now! Formally Experimental Greeks in Space, anyone? www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/medu... @bcsmagazine.bsky.social also did an incredible job podcasting the story. Listen, I am in awe: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-35...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies by Natalia Theodoridou

—she the ship recalls stories she never read of women and men in rivers weighed down their pockets full of stones she wonders at her cavities and hollows wonders am I an I am I my cargo does the I I a...

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine Poll? Try the short story "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" by Ewen Ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/2INC09Q

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, “Barbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "Our meetings have become ritual by now: me and Tsing, once every few seasons, or years, or decades, or however long it takes for one of us to buckle from the weight of our individual lonelinesses and contact the other first."

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I hardly ever post here, but since I'm back I just want to highlight this new animation from Hong Kong-- it's a gorgeous dark Ghibli-esque fantasy called "Another World" that's screening across the UK right now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaux...

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Another World 世外 Official UK Trailer

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 26/01/2026

📣 New novel announcement: ANNA DREAMS OF A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY is coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2028. When people ask what it's about, I say it's like SOUR CHERRY, except the haunted house is Greece, and Bluebeard is fascism. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊ Keep writing your queer, trans, antifascist books, friends.

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, and it's the science fantasy month special double issue! Featuring stories by @nassos.bsky.social, @rhiannonheld.bsky.social, @ewenmaer.bsky.social, and @eskaftun.bsky.social and cover art by Tyler Edlin: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Cover art by Tyler Edlin for BCS Science Fantasy Month Issue 8, featuring two space-suited figures approaching a monolithic statue of an alien with a glowing amber gem in its forehead

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The beautiful cover for FF#27 has arrived! Stunning work once again by @abistevensart.bsky.social! Stories are coming your way soon from @ewenmaer.bsky.social @jyzh.bsky.social @julialicia.bsky.social @catenotkate.bsky.social @rossshowalter.com @katharinetyndall.bsky.social and Anya Leigh Josephs.

Fusion Fragment #27 Cover, mostly in various shades of green, features a skull on a floor, with green stalks, leaves, and shoots growing out of them, some with pink and purple flowers blooming. Bees alight on the flowers and skull, while red pills are scattered throughout.

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hello! I've been radio silent since I'm pretty burnt out on everything (this year has been A Lot 💀), but I have 3 things out this year so: a 2025 awards eligibility thread!

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity! Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤

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Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
"The Republic of Ecstatic Consent" by Sam J. Miller
"Trans World Takeover" by Nat X Ray
"The Orgasm Doula" by Colin Dean
"The Shabbos Bride" by Esther Alter
"MoonWife" by Sarah Gailey
"Forever Won't End Like This" by Dominique Dickey
"They Will Give Us a Home" by Wen-yi Lee
"There Used to Be Peace" by Margaret Killjoy
"Fettle & Sunder" by Ramez Yoakeim
"Six Days" by Bendi Barrett
"The They Whom We Remember" by Sunny Moraine
"When the Devil Comes From Babylon" by Maya Deane
"Copper Boys" by Jamie McGhee
"A Few Degrees" by Ash Huang
"Where the World Goes Sharp and Quiet" by Ewen Ma
"Circular Universe" by Ta-wei Chi, trans. Ariel Chu
"Blueprint for the Destruction of Solitude" by Paul Evanby
"The Garden of Collective Memory" by Neon Yang
"Sugar, Shadows" by Aysha U. Farah
"A Step into Emptiness" by Aiki Mira, trans. CD Covington
"pocket futures in the present past" by Katharine Duckett
"Bang Bang" by Meg Elison

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" by Ewen Ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/xYpVeCp

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Hi my story "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" is on this list, alongside a bunch of fantastic stories by some really incredible authors! Please give these stories a read, and if you enjoyed "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent", I'd be very honoured if you would consider it for 2025 SF/F awards nominations. 🖤

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Emerging out of my hermit cave for a bit to say that I'll be attending Flights of Foundry (26-28 Sept) as a participant! This year I'll be doing a bit of reading, a chill-and-chat (where you get to ask me stuff!), and a panel, plus moderating two other super cool panels as well. Come say hi!! ✨

Ewen's Flight of Foundry 2025 attendence schedule

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Need some reading recs? This list includes tons of great stories, including some recent work by FFers @authorizedmusings.bsky.social and @ewenmaer.bsky.social!

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

What a delightful surprise to find "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" (www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pale...) mentioned here along with a bunch of other incredible stories!! This is one of my fave stories I've written, and it's super close to my heart. Thanks so much, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social ✨

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A vital and necessary anthology! AMPLITUDES is timely, at moments painfully so, rooted in persistent determination, and powerful in its hard-won perseverance. We have always been here and we will always be here, come flood and famine, beyond the atmosphere and in the heart of memory. A must read.

An advance copy of Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity ed. by Lee Mandelo on a white mantle alongside a prismatic rainbow wash.

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Diana M. Pho (she/her) 📚 🔊 @dianapho.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Happy pub week to Lee Mandelo and AMPLITUDES: Stories of #Queer and #Trans Futurity! These stories will stay with you, and it's an honor to bring out this anthology at a time when readers need tales like these more than ever 🌈 🩵🤍🩷 #AuntieEditor @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @leemandelo.bsky.social

Cover for Amplitudes, a radiant glowing title

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It's out!! A million thank yous to Lee for putting so much trust in my story-- it's such a joy to be able to share an anthology with all these extremely brilliant contributors <3 <3. Support queer and trans authors, buy the book!

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Today’s the day: ‘Amplitudes’ is here!! Several of our contributors pitched in on this set of sneak-previews of their stories over at @lgbtqreads.bsky.social — check it out (and then maybe go pick up the book yeah? ✨)

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14/05/2025

The ebook of my first novel, last year's Nebula and Ignyte-winning, Le Guin and Hugo-nominated THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, is on sale at $2.99 right now across most ebook retailers! If you were holding out for a really good deal 👉🏾👉🏾 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Check out The Saint of Bright Doors - Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel! A 2023 New York Times Notable Book “The best book I've read all year. Protean, sin...

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Aaand I also have another short story ("Where the World Goes Sharp and Quiet") out soon in Amplitudes!! Alongside 21 incredible authors and stories which you should all be reading! ✨

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My new flash story “Pale Serpent, Green Serpent” is out in this issue of Uncanny!! 🐍

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable

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Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Issue 64 Table of Contents and Grace P. Fong cover! buff.ly/FCFfZwj

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

hi I wrote a short contemporary queer riff on 白蛇傳/the white snake myth! "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" comes out in Uncanny issue #64 on 6th May yipee🐍

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It’s that time again: the Barnes&Noble 25% off pre-order sale! ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ comes out in just one more month and pre-orders are a huge part of bookstore placement, so now’s the perfect time to snag a copy if you’re feeling the vibe.

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New short story on the way, coming to Fusion Fragment soon!! Very excited about this one 🦁

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 01/04/2025

It's publication day for Sour Cherry! I can't thank enough everyone @tinhouse.bsky.social and @wildfirebooks.bsky.social who worked to make this book happen. And now here we are! I hope it finds its readers. 🍒 US: tinhouse.com/book/sour-ch... UK: www.headline.co.uk/titles/natal...

'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' - Karen Joy Fowler

"Questions monstrosity, masculinity, romance, and power... deeply affecting and unsettling." - Reactor

"Striking... ingeniously weaves tales within tales." - Locus

'A magnificent novel and, unbelievably, a debut -- you must read this as soon as you can' - Vajra Chandrasekera

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

👀March 2025 Issue Highlight👀 "What Does Your Revolution Look Like?" is a poem by @ewenmaer.bsky.social that you can now read with the rest of issue 19! Find it here: www.havenspec.com/what-does-yo...

An excerpt of the poem "What Does Your Revolution Look Like?" by Ewen Ma, published in Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 19, March 2025. The text reads:

Soup’s gone cold. I didn’t mean to forget.

Beneath the window, the unpeopled street is a hollowed-out thing, broad strokes of smudged paint clinging to the walls and the shutters like swirls of coalescent spirits.

It’s Ghost Festival tonight and I am still hungry.

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Daydreamer, by Abi Stevens Art.

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I have a new poem out and free to read in Haven Speculative! The rest of this issue is SO GOOD and filled with really incredible writers and poets, y'all.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

8 days left in our Kickstarter, so let's highlight some of the amazing content we'll have in 2025! "What Does Your Revolution Look Like?" is a poem by @ewenmaer.bsky.social that you can read in our March issue! Subscribe through our Kickstarter to get it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...

An excerpt of the poem "What Does Your Revolution Look Like?" by Ewen Ma, slated for Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 19, March 2025. The text reads:

Soup’s gone cold. I didn’t mean to forget.

Beneath the window, the unpeopled street is a hollowed-out thing, broad strokes of smudged paint clinging to the walls and the shutters like swirls of coalescent spirits.

It’s Ghost Festival tonight and I am still hungry.

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Daydreamer, by Abi Stevens Art.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Poetry in 2025: Anchor Spindrift by @popelizbet.bsky.social Bandits of Dream City by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social What Does Your Revolution Look Like? by @ewenmaer.bsky.social she brings me waves, she brings me wind by @angelvleal.bsky.social

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ewen ma @ewenmaer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Coming back to Bluesky after a long break (I'm Bad at social media.....) just to say that oh my god I watched Happyend (2024, dir. Neo Sora) the other day and can't stop thinking about it I need everyone to watch it so I can talk about it IT'S SO GOOD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6fi...

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Happyend Trailer #1 (2024)

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