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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 9h

Can I just say how well deserved this is, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social!!! I am such a huge fan of Alex’s important work in the industry, in libraries, and beyond!

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 9h

OMG OMG OMG OMG?????? CONGRATS TO ALL THE FINALISTS AND WINNERS AND ALSO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heartily seconded! @sillysyntax.bsky.social's SKIN THIEF is one of the best single author collections I've read in a long while. Just be prepared to have your heart broken a few times (in a good way, of course).

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON! Join 10 authors of reality-redefining Fiction as they converge in a bizarre bazaar for the imagination: Oct 4, 3-4:30 PM Eastern www.twitch.tv/csecooney Read more about the authors and their works here: csecooney.com/2026/09/23/o...

An orange and yellow poster with black lettering depicting ten genre authors.
Top (left to right): Amanda McGee, Steven Gibbon, Emma Gibbon, Francesca Forrest
Middle (left to right): Zig Zag Claybourne, Christa Carmen, Virginia Mohlere, Eden Royce
Bottom (left and right) Nadia Bulkin, A T Sayre
The text reads: 10 Authors of Reality-Redefining Fiction converge in a bizarre bazaar for the imagination
Sunday, Oct 4, 2026 3-4:30 PM Eastern Time
twitch.tv/csecooney

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 02/10/2026

ICYMI, the 2026 Q4 #SFFH small press new release lists went live yesterday! #BookSky Check them out to find your next spec fiction indie read 👇

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#SmallBooks

Small Press New Releases Subscribe and receive all the lists of quarterly new releases in your inbox Have an upcoming small press SFFH book? Fill out the form. For now, we only list science fiction…

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October 31 is Run With the Hunted Day! That means you've got the WHOLE MONTH to catch up with the series (they're novellas, it's FAST, run is in the title)! Run With the Hunted is cyberpunk heists, with rotating narrators. How cyberpunk it is depends on who's telling the story! also how reliable!

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As a Chicagoan, I have never so badly wished to be in NYC as I am with this brown man in office. (Also Nevada has VERY little arts money 🥲) SUPPORT HUMAN-MADE ART ALWAYS!!!!!!

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 02/10/2026

It's not REALLY spooky season until you've read your first October Flytrap Fridays post luckily this one from @sesmith.lol is fuckin excellent and omg this @meowwwls.bsky.social illo

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Worst Vacation Ever

Underneath every quaint small town, there's class war. It's just a little more literal in some.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't believe I have to keep doing this, but time to tap the sign again. Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing me and others. Read my original report for details. New details in following thread. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...

Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing Jason Sanford. Read Jason's original report for more details. https://www.patreon.com/jasonsanford/posts/genre-grapevine-161758874

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

~two more weeks for this!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026

In no circumstances ever should the state be murdering people. Judicial or extrajudicial. Period.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 01/10/2026

oh my god this is fucking horrifying. they lethally injected her twice and she didn't die and now they're trying to save her so they can presumably.... try again? I ran out of words for the barbaric horror with the Alabama gas executions but somehow TN is inventing new nightmare torture

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🧑🏻‍🦽‍➡️🦄 Eva Roslin (they/them) ⚨ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Okay seriously, everyone!! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social has done an effective, amazing write-up of things to keep in mind if moderating panels or being on them. And they're so good! Subscribe to their newsletter!

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We love the Ignytes in this house.

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Cristina Jurado @cristinajurado.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

📕 En LIBRISIMO, que podéis disfrutar aquí www.youtube.com/@CJ-ro7wt, más lecturas sugeridas por nuestros/as invitados/as: #libros #literatura #ficción #novelas 📚 Hoy, Darío Vilas @dariovilas.bsky.social y Naseem Jamnia @jamsternazzy.bsky.social

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

AHHHHHHHHH only ONE WEEK left! OoOo SEVEN DAYS oOoO If you haven’t picked up a copy of The Glade yet and are local to Reno, it’s available at The Radical Cat or Thistle and Nightshade! Vote now: bit.ly/vote4glade

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2026 Ignyte Award Ballot

The Ignyte Awards are open to any member of the speculative fiction community who wishes to vote on them. You do not have to vote in every category, but YOU MAY ONLY SUBMIT ONE BALLOT. The deadline…

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🧵 We need more stories about marginalized kids at the intersections. Kids who are queer, neurodivergent, and racialized, even if they don’t know it. I didn’t see myself in a book until I was 21. I never want another kid to feel as alone as I did—I wrote The Glade to encompass those intersections.

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

HEY YOU 🫵! Wanna support a trans, queer, neurodivergent Muslim kid to Iranian immigrants? My middle grade debut The Glade is nominated for IGNYTE’s Outstanding Middle Grade award. Support my work by voting now: bit.ly/vote4glade.

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2026 Ignyte Award Ballot

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One of my geologist husband’s biggest pet peeves is when writers (or anyone) say “outcropping(s)”; the term is “outcrop(s).” So of course I’m aspirationally reading all of the ATLA novels (which I’m enjoying!! HIRE ME FOR ATLA IP I BEG) and noticing the half dozen ”outcropping”s 🥲

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“Be the change you want to see in the world” is a colonial misinterpretation of Gandhi’s writings, but the sentiment stands! Folks, we’ve got a chance to celebrate books that center marginalized voices. My middle grade debut, The Glade, features an autistic Iranian tween struggling with anxiety.

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m up for an award, but I need YOUR help to make it happen! My MG debut, The Glade, is nominated for IGNYTE’s Outstanding Middle Grade award. My activism doesn’t end with my writing, but it certainly begins there. Help me tell more stories and support the slow activism of art:

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2026 Ignyte Award Ballot

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"hey jamnia how are you preparing for your residency class in a couple weeks" so glad you asked

a very "graphic design is my passion" powerpoint slide that says "We are living in fascist times. Speculation is one way to resist." A different text box says: "Current genocides the US is funding or complicit in (not exhaustive): Indigenous people on Turtle Island, Black people, trans people, Palestinians, Lebanese people, people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudanese people." Another text box says "We are on the ancestral home of The People who inhabited the Great Basin area: the Numa/Numu (Northern Paiute), the Washeshu (Washoe), the Newe (Shoshone), and the Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) peoples."

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

if you want a reason to join my newsletter before tomorrow, where I give tips for moderating panels and being on them!!! naseemwrites.kit.com/join

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The Tuesday Telegrams

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Keeling Your Love Alive in the Nth Draft with Claire Houck, Delia Sherman, @jamsternazzy.bsky.social and @sallywienergrotta.bsky.social

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

One final photo capturing more of the fun I had at Readercon — this from a trip to the nearby Holy Cow — my second of the weekend — with old friends @sallywienergrotta.bsky.social and Stuart Pye, plus new friend @jamsternazzy.bsky.social. If you didn't make it this year, remember to do so next!

The four of us side by side inside Holy Cow, with Naseem and me holding cups of ice cream with blue spoons sticking up out of the scoops.

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Bethany recapped our panel at Readercon with some great resources on fighting for the freedom to read!!

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Bethany Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thinking about this topic and reading on it has reminded me that books are one of the few ways many kids can find the vocabulary of autonomy and personhood they need. And making reading fun is SO crucial to keeping that pathway open.

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My next newsletter "Tips for conference panelists and moderators" is coming tomorrow. Subscribe to get it and stay in the loop on everything I'm creating. naseemwrites.kit.com gosh that is pretty stale copy. HELLO I HAVE A NEWSLETTER I SEND IT OUT EVERY OTHER WEEK

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Hi! I'm Naseem Jamnia.

Every other week, I send out a newsletter as part of my Tuesday Telegrams; one is on writing, publishing, and craft, and the other personal reflections on my life and the times. THE BRUISING OF QILWA,...

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hey Readercon! I’m headed out this morning, but there are signed copies of The Bruising of Qilwa at the @tachyonpub.bsky.social table in the dealer’s room!! help a nonbinary pal and their publisher out and grab a copy!! @readercon.org @readercon.bsky.social #Readercon34

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Ola | Aleksandra Hill @aleksandrahill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We’re close to the end of our fundraiser and still haven’t met our goal — we need ~$4k in four days. Frankly: I’ve used… a lot of personal funds to keep us afloat over the years between Kickstarters. I now have a child who’ll need daycare. I won’t have enough left over to bridge khōréō’s gaps.

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Major retailers: books2read.com/ourcrimsoncage Payhip: payhip.com/b/cReyN Itch: ladzwriting.itch.io/our-crimson-... Buy Cammie's books: aninkwellofnectar.com/Books/

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WORKS BY CAMILLA ANDREW

Top row: THE SANGUINE SORCERESS and WHEN THE STARS ALIGHT
Bottom row: WE WILL DEVOUR THE NIGHT and AND THE AGE OF SUMMER WILL RISE

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6 logos sit in the upper corner, top row being Amazon, Apple Books, Itch, and the bottom row being Kobo, Smashwords, and payhip

PREORDER NOW coming August 11, 2026

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gothic folk horror
HEA (horribly ever after)
1850s Poland
fuck/marry/kill
menstruation
toxic lesbian vampires

The cover of OUR CRIMSON CAGE by Ladz. It features a witchy woman hovering her hands over a flaming skull

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Another OUR CRIMSON CAGE blurb coming to you this morning by @aninkwellofnectar.bsky.social, a dear friend and writer of lush prose If you enjoy female rage and cathartic stories with hard-won endings, I highly recommend picking up THE SANGUINE SORCERESS and The Essence of the Equinox trilogy

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BLURB REVEAL

Like NOSFERATU but make it sapphic

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“A blood-tinged erotic thriller exploring themes of repression, shameful longing, and female emancipation from the binds of puritanical tyranny. Like NOSFERATU, but make it sapphic.”

- Camilla Andrew, Author of THE SANGUINE SORCERESS

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We are SO close to our next stretch goal - doubling the size of the anthology! Help make this book happen and launch a new annual series for SF and fantasy. Thank you all so much! Locusmag.com/anthology (link in bio) sharing helps tremendously :) #backthebook #SFF #booksky

Text reads "Now announcing" then the cover for the new Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1.

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My Readercon dance card is starting to fill up for meals, but not for the in-betweens!! Find meeeeeee!!

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I still contend that this not sweeping awards in 2021 is a travesty. This book is utterly brilliant, revolutionary in its visions of the future, and a STEAL at this price!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 09/07/2026

Fuck ‘em up, Elizabeth Bennet!!!

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What up Boston-area, I'm headed to #Readercon34! Here's my schedule. Five panels (the last two of which I'm moderating), one workshop, and one party! Come through and hang! @readercon.org @readercon.bsky.social

A green flyer that says "Readercon" in purple on the side and "Naseem's Readercon schedule" in pink on the top. On Friday, there is How to Give a Great Reading at 12pm in Salon E; Writing in Conversation with our Ancestors and Heritage at 5pm in Salon E; Building Inclusive Worlds workshop at 7pm in Salon A/B; and Meet the Pros(e) Party at 10:15 in Salon E. On Saturday, there's Keeping Your Love Alive to the Nth Draft at 10am in Salon C/D; Subliminal Cultural Artifacts at 1pm in Salon A/B; and Fighting for the Freedom to Read at 3pm in Salon E.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

With ONE ACTION you can: 1) Protect higher-risk trans, BIPOC, & disability communities! 2) Show anti-capitalist, pro-worker, class solidarity! 3) Protect yourself from illness while healthcare collapses! 4) Engage in community care! 5) Reject ableism! Action: wear an n95 in public. Mutual aid:

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Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc

MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

WE ARE LIVE! Help us have a great first day? We REALLY want to make this SFF anthology work & start a new annual SFF Best Of series! Head to locusmag.com/anthology (link in bio) to get a pledge in! Be a part of something special! #BacktheBook Sharing helps us tremendously:)

At the top of the image, text says: "now announcing..."
In the center of the image, a hardcover book. The cover of the book shows: "The Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Of the Year: Volume 1"
Below the book, text says: "find Locus on kickstarter"

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