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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally, the #2026IgnyteAwards Community Award recognizes Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre Congratulations @strangehorizons.bsky.social who also won the inaugural award in this category in 2020.

2026 Ignyte Community Award winner: Strange Horizons

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This award in particular means a lot to everyone at SH - it’s so specifically directed towards the goal that underpins everything the magazine does. By which I mean: shucks. 💜

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Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PRE-ORDER link is live! THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella A cosmic horror that explores identity, ceramics, and murder cults!

THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella, by Z.K. Abraham cover, illustrated black woman, underwater, choking on light coming out of mouth and eyes. "A sharp, compelling read." - Tiffany Morris

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Page One @ukpageone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week, we’re joined by the brilliant @clhellisen.com, who talks about the ups and downs of the publishing industry, why 100 words a day can be enough, and talks about their new book, The Shape of Monsters. Watch: youtu.be/YJr7vo11VMU Listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With Fantasycon getting ever-closer, our online content editor @laurenwrites.bsky.social caught up with this year’s Guests of Honour for a very different sort of interview. Today, it's founder of @lunapress.bsky.social, Francesca T Barbini. britishfantasysociety.org/meet-our-fan...

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Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My latest chat with a Fantasycon Guest of Honour has just gone live! And @lunapress.bsky.social's Francesca is the absolute bestest.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's @stephenrcase.bsky.social on Justin Feinstein's latest: "a quick, compelling read [which] remind[s] us of the panopticon we live within." On AI and on writing about/as/through AI:

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Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein

If you want a depiction of the near future told in a smart, believable, multi-modal fashion, Your Behavior delivers.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now! Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... (The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 02/10/2026

In totally shocking and surprising news.... 🙃 Publishing is making even more money! Writers, on the other hand.... www.thebookseller.com/comment/publ...

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Publishing just doesn't add up for authors

The book trade is economically thriving — but its creative engine is not.

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Narrative Damage @narrativedamagerpg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Join our band of scoundrels in Doskvol as they start their adventure... Will they rise up from the murk or sink into the Void Sea? Part 1 of our Blades in the Dark actual play, CITY OF WHISPERS, is out now! Watch: youtu.be/VHccRDLlN08 Listen: linktr.ee/narrativedam...

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Raf ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ @rtorrubia.com · 01/10/2026

This is the most fun I've had in long time. Like, subscribe and come meet our haunted crew. 🗡

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/10/2026

Happy October: our nonfiction book submissions queue is now open!!! Our editor @athenadixon.bsky.social and her team will be reading your essay collections, your memoirs, and your nonfiction/hybrid book projects from now through December 1. Nonfiction Season HAS BEGUN!! splitlippress.submittable.com

purple text on brown background: OPEN CALL FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION MANUSCRIPTS. 125 page minimum, reading period October 1 - December 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com

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s. m. hallow @smhallow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am so excited to chat about some of my favorite topics! I’ll also have a Meet the Author slot, so you can simply come hang out with me virtually for a bit!

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rebecca Goh reviews Asian Pirate Musical, a production directed by Zhui Ning Chang: "Asian Pirate Musical is fundamentally an invitation to honour ancestral knowledge, redefine cultural legacy, and decentralise contemporaneous hierarchies of visibility in live media." On 2049 ... and 2249, too:

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Asian Pirate Musical

It is imperative to consider this project’s positionality within the wider theatre landscape in modern Britain.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 29/09/2026

oh no it's me

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The reviews are in! Xicanxfuturism: Codex 1 edited by Scott Russell Duncan reviewed by Jacqueline Nyathi @hararereview.com Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here’s @hramsaroop.bsky.social on the concluding volume of Cadwell Turnbull’s Convergence Saga: “Over the course of the series, Turnbull paints a vast picture of an interconnected multiverse and the humans, monsters, and gods that live within it, highlighting the power of people coming together.”

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A Ruin, Great and Free by Cadwell Turnbull

The Convergence Saga as a whole grapples with existential questions for which even the gods don’t have answers.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New review at SH of Smita Singh's horror series Khauf. @amritesh.bsky.social sees in it a kind of testament of the possessive gaze: "Amid demands for revenge justice, everyday rape culture goes unexamined. After all, examining the culture would mean examining ourselves."

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Khauf

What is a gaze but a form of possession?

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The Kaidankai--Ghost and Supernatural Stories @ghoststorylover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No one will tell Peter the truth about the house at the edge of town. Eventually, he decides to see the place for himself. “The Old Carter Place” by Whitney R. Holp on The Kaidankai podcast: www.spreaker.com/episode/the-... #Kaidankai #GhostStories #HorrorFiction #HauntedHouse #Macabre

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The Old Carter Place by Whitney R. Holp | Haunted House Horror - Kaidankai: Ghost, Supernatural, and Dark Short Fiction

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Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The ever-delightful (don't tell them I said that) @clhellisen.com gets a physical release of their Audible fantasy book The Shape of Monsters in mere days from now!

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 21/09/2026

REMEMBER KIDS It's only cannibalism if both parties are human. Otherwise it's just lunch.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Very happy that @hararereview.com returns to SH today to write about an anthology of xicanxfuturism. “What all of these futurisms and the work produced in them have in common is resistance: pushing back against hegemony, and against erasure.”

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Xicanxfuturism: Codex 1 edited by Scott Russell Duncan

What all of these futurisms and the work produced in them have in common is resistance.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison reviewed by Ryan Elliott Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Booker longlist week at SH closes with @chloroformtea.bsky.social on the stranged fantasia of Rebecca Perry's May We Feed The King. This is a story in which immersion and its absence are constantly in play, and in fact become the major tools the author uses to just play."

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May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry

May We Feed The King may be misread; but in the open spaces where that opportunity lives there is more space for joy and wonder.

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Gareth @garethavonb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A lovely, sensitive, thought-provoking review of an enigmatic and exhilarating book #booksky

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 17/09/2026

Featuring our audio producer, the fabulous @chelsead.bsky.social!

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 17/09/2026

It's ONE WEEK to go before The Shape of Monsters is out in print! I am so amped for readers to meet Aleks, Vai and *evil grin* my sweet innocent precious Ilea. Come join @heatherpalmer.bsky.social and me at Blackwell's in Edinburgh at 7pm on Thursday the 24th September!

Cl Hellisen: The Shape of Monsters in conversation with Annabel Campbell (sadly she can't make this,but the wonderful Heather Palmer is taking her seat)
Thursday 24th September, 7pm

And a picture of me in a stripy top, with the red and dark purple cover of the Shape of Monsters with its creepy stag head

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Booker longlist week continues with @chelsead.bsky.social on Missouri Williams’ The Vivisectors. Love how this review focuses on that traditional “literary” effect of characterisation, while siting it in the book’s interesting approach to that supposedly “speculative” technique of “worldbuilding.”

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The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams

This novel cues us to distrust metaphor.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 16/09/2026

While the print edition of The Shape of Monsters is only coming out this month, the original audiobook with narration by the incredible Omari Douglas (Black Doves) is shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award for best Audio Work (Fiction) I love an excuse to go to the banquet!

The 2026 British fantasy Awards Shortlist best Audio Work (fiction)

The Shape of Monsters - CL Hellisen, Omari Douglas
The Tiny Bookcase
Podcastle
Pseudopod

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Crow & Cross Keys || SUBS OPEN @crowkeys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An entity handed us an orange earlier. It was the most perfect orange we have ever seen. We are dedicating a room in the tower to what remains of its peel. While we memorialise, why don't you read today's poem? "The Iron Queen" by Amanda Reck crowcrosskeys.com/2026/09/16/t...

A muted greyscale banner for poem, The Iron Queen by Amanda Reck published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring a macro shot of pomegranate seeds.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"snow angel" or the "angel of death," is the rare imprint left by an owl as it swooped down to catch prey

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 15/09/2026

It's not long til FantasyCon, and here's where I'll be, including a Very Exciting Double Launch with @annabelcwrites.bsky.social because for some reason we write tonally different books about voids, dragons, idiot over-powerful mages, and women who are Done With Everything

Promo post for fantasy Con Glasgow CL Hellisen

Friday 8pm Women's rage in Horror
Saturday 10 am What Makes a Monster
3pm reading
Sunday 12 pm Launch with Annabel Campbell - the Void Dragon and CL Hellisen The Shape of Monsters
1 pm Creating Likeable Unlikeable Characters

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#WhatWereReading : Joe is very much enjoying local scribe @clhellisen.com 's intriguing The Shape of Monsters, just out from @torbooksuk.bsky.social #books #livres #Booksky #fantasy

Bookseller Joe holding up a hardback copy of The Shape of Monsters, in the Edinburgh Bookshop

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're having a Booker longlist-themed week at SH with three reviews of books in the running that have a speculative element. First up is a piece on M John Harrison's The End of Everything. Ryan Elliott has delivered for us one of the fullest explorations of this confounding text I've yet seen.

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The End of Everything by M. John Harrison

When asked in a 2012 interview how he feels about being called a “writer’s writer,” M. John Harrison “describes the ‘practice crag’ found in almost every Peak District town or village”: “It may no…

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 14/09/2026

Wake up! It's cover reveal and preorders day for Rivka Clifton's nonfiction chapbook ACTION: TRANSITION NOTES! ACTION will be published on Feb 16, but it is available for preorders (as well as ARC requests) NOW! Order at the link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/product-page... !

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Action | Split/Lip Press

Meditating on both the individual nature of transitioning and how it reverberates through a larger community, the essays in Rivka Clifton's Action pay loving homage to the shifting memorials of all bo...

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 14/09/2026

The coming month is going to be busy for me! Hopefully I'll catch some of you at one (or more) of these events

book promo post foe The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen.

Text is pale yellow on a deep crimson background, and reads:

Where to find me

Thursday 24th September – Blackwell’s Edinburgh
Friday 2nd October – Waterstones Sauchiehall Glasgow
October 9-11 – FantasyCon Glasgow
Saturday 24th October – ComicCon London

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The reviews are in! Beatrice the Sixteenth by Irene Clyde reviewed by Elizabeth A. Allen Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fancy donating your book / some of your books to the FantasyCon book bags, dear publisher / author?

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🍿 On pop fiction: Me: Why should we be covering this stuff? Why should we be reviewing this stuff? AJ Odasso: Because there is often genre content in it, because it often straddles the boundaries and borderlines of several different genres at once.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New SH review from a new SH reviewer! Here's @janpriddy.bsky.social on Wendy Waring's attenuated dystopia, The Hunger of Those Who Built It (@stelliform.press). The novel "forces readers to confront the current drift of history into disaster," says Jan.

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The Hunger of Those Who Built It by Wendy Waring

The Hunger of Those Who Built It is a mystery about developing an egalitarian Eden.

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Electra Pritchett @electrapritchett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was not actually wearing my Heir to the Empire shirt when we recorded this podcast, but obviously I should have been.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Critical Friends Episode 27: Pop Fiction with AJ Odasso @ajodasso.bsky.social Electra Pritchett and Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social SFF has a long and complex relationship with questions of popular culture. Where does this stand today? Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Critical Friends Episode 27: Pop Fiction

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, AJ Odasso and Electra Pritchett join Dan Hartland to talk about popular fiction.

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lawiedc.bsky.social @lawiedc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I found great joy in reading, thinking about, and writing on a Papal Encyclical, both from the SF and from the technological perspective - and will be talking about it further at the end of the month: codeharbour.co.uk#meetups

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codeHabour

Tech meetup in South East England

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The reviews are in! Magnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV reviewed by Duncan Lawie Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📝 We have new editors at SH Reviews! @kateem.bsky.social will be curating a monthly strand of reviews focusing on SFF at least 50 years old. Novelty bias begone! And @ajodasso.bsky.social is moonlighting from Poetry as our new Media Reviews Editor, ensuring films, TV, games get their regular due.

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A Note From Reviews

We’re especially happy to announce some new appointments at the Reviews Department.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Besides being a feminist text, a utopian text, and a trans text, Beatrice the Sixteenth is also an Orientalist one.” Nick is as so often correct: a *lot* in this one.

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Beatrice the Sixteenth by Irene Clyde

Reading Beatrice the Sixteenth is an experience in deep strangeness.

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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As @thehubble101.bsky.social doesn't quite say in the replies, blimey there's a lot going on in this.

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