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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If Flights of Foundry means something to you, if you've gotten something out of it - whether that's inspiration for a project or a friendship or good memories or the comfort of knowing someone out there is designing events like this... Put some money in, please. flights-of-foundry.org/donate/

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Donate – Flights of Foundry

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if you don't support trans rights, you are a loser

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Will I ever stop talking about how much I love THE KINDOM TRILOGY by @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social? No. It's not like it's an unloved series, but I desperately need more people to read it and talk to me about it because it's top tier space opera and the fact it's a debut is mind-blowing.

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Time for me to share a tiny selection of some of my favourite short stories I've read recently*! ✨ *in the past few months

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026

Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.

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For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 26/08/2026

Guess who's opening to Original Flash Fiction on September 1st?! This magazine! We'll be open for the month of September, and once the portals to slushlandia have opened, you'll be able to submit here: smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

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Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders

Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The audiobooks of Lois McMaster Bujold's World of the Five Gods being unavailable to purchase with credits on Libro FM is my villain origin story

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly just wasn't enough for one week, huh? RIP to this legend, who will always be both Long John Silver and Nigel Thornberry to me.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The sassiest Lord of Darkness, and the absolute best ever to do it. Tim Curry forever.

Tim Curry as Lord Darkness (who is basically the devil with horns and hooves and everything) in Legend, pouting

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is so lovely, and a reminder to myself to read more translated poetry.

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I feel like I've been seeing a lot of, "we don't need sad queer stories anymore" takes going around lately, and it'll never not annoy me. As a queer person who loves bittersweet and tragic stories as much as I love joyous stories, I don't want to see a lack of sad stories about queer people. 1/?

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

if there's a writer you like, and you'd like to keep reading that writer's work, *you need to pay for their work*

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Huge congratulations to E.J. Swift!! 🎉 Also many congratulations to the other five nominees, including @solarisbooks.bsky.social's own @rainewilson.bsky.social—if you've already read and loved WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN, it's time you got your mitts on THE SALT ORACLE for more excellent cli-fi

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thrilled that my sapphic horror short story, "As Sweet", is in this issue! 🥀 👉🏻 www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Looking for weekend reading inspiration? 📚 Check out the Clarke Award shop page supporting independent booksellers 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/clarkea... Includes our 2026 shortlist + wider book recommendations, collections & non-fiction from Clarke Award nominated authors! 🚀

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 07/08/2026

This was incredible. I thought I was getting a dark cottagecore domestic thriller and it ended up being a feminist cottagecore Library at Mount Char???? I haven't had one hit me this hard with that visceral "oh shit, it me" gut punch in a very long time. Just wow. Don't sleep on this one #booksky

Cover of Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist. A sheet stares at you

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Even medieval monks struggle to identify AI

That letters and seals were forged and used for personal advantage at this time there is no doubt. Lanfranc himself was deceived on one occasion when a monk came to him from Normandy with a letter purporting to be from the Archbishop of Rouen. After the ploy had been uncovered, he wrote in distress: 'I assure you categorically that he brought a letter sealed with your seal, which I know well; in that letter (if it was genuine) you urged me to receive him honourably . . . all this I have done out of affection for you . . . I am greatly astonished if the letter he presented was a forgery – how could he have got hold of such a great man's seal to make his tale look true?'

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 01/08/2026

Ha there just seems to be a steady stream of articles with genAI "thought leaders" saying "if people don't pay for our product then we will not have money to produce the product" as if this is some profound statement.

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We're over halfway through 2026 (what), so here are my favourite things I've read so far this year! (As always, not including the excellent books I get to work on)

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So you loved the Odyssey, and you're looking for something EPIC? "the sensibilities of an epic poem" @suyidavies.com "a brilliantly layered story of myth and magic, gods and monsters, warriors and lovers" @premeemohamed.com Try Simon Jimenez's THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER! geni.us/Spearcuts

The UK book cover for Solaris' edition of THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you want to read a book and your library doesn’t have it, it is truly a massive favor to an author to request that the library acquire it. It really and truly is

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Page One @ukpageone.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Brilliant horror author @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social joins us this week to chat about her novel Home Sick. We also discuss why horror is ‘having a moment’, the effect of literary awards, marketing for authors and more! Watch: youtu.be/3cypHfgui5E?... Listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🎉ROLL UP ROLL UP!🎉 @waterstones.bsky.social are running a 25% off sale for selected preorder titles, so you can grab the shiny new 10th anniversary edition of Yoon Ha Lee's NINEFOX GAMBIT (featuring a new introduction from @annleckie.com!) at a substantial discount. Don't miss out! Ends tonight!

A copy of NINEFOX GAMBIT by Yoon Ha Lee (10th anniversary edition) against rainbow fabric dotted with crystal stars.

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Picked up the latest @fusionfragment.bsky.social issue & the opening story by @estrubbe.bsky.social, "Birdguts", is a stunner. 🤌🏻 Always love when short fiction mags introduce me to authors whose writing scratches my brain in just the right way. I'll be devouring the rest of the issue this weekend.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

As someone who is very deeply into preservation and archival work of media, this ain't it. It is one thing to have back-ups of media that is no longer easily purchased or long out of print but these are recently published, actively sold works that are directly tied to the writers and artists' income

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TBRCon @tbrcon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Western worldbuilding is not all that's out there. What if you want to branch out? Our panel NonWestern Worldbuilding Approaches is here to help! @fantasybookcritic.bsky.social Caskey Russell @omersarae.bsky.social @taowong.bsky.social & @xuetingni.bsky.social. Join us on July 31th at 11AM CST!

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TBRCon @tbrcon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

How do you write the politics of a utopian or dystopian society? We bring you the perfect panel to solve every last question you have! Right? Right..? Join @taranhunt.bsky.social @krystlematar.bsky.social @wtalabi.com.bsky.social @mosesoseutomi.bsky.social @stricklandia.bsky.social & Brian Penn!

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We reached our fundraising goal!❤️‍🔥🎉 Thank you all for your support & making it possible for us to continue another year of creating human art, meaningful stories, & publishing speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers. Your support & being part of our community has made this possible! 🧡

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Sad news, but huge thanks and much applause to the entire team for championing SFFH all these years!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Best “remove glasses to look at something unbelievable” in cinema history.

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Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise

Alt: Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

For this event, we're heading to Scotland! Or at least bringing Scotland to Yorkshire! Outwith Reality - Scottish Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Leeds Waterstones, Wednesday 26th August, 7pm @ianthegreen.bsky.social @shonak.bsky.social @rtorrubia.com @rainewilson.bsky.social

Shown is a graphic of the Scottish flag (white cross on a blue background) with a green silhouette of Scotland and two black silhouettes of unicorns. Photos: Shona Kinsella and the cover of Daughters of Nicnevin (top right), Ian Green and the cover of The Deep and the Drowned (top left); Rafael Torrubia and the cover of The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver (bottom left) Lorraine Wilson and the cover of The Salt Oracle (bottom right).

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's back! @tbrcon.bsky.social is a virtual FREE SciFi/fantasy/horror con, streaming live or on catch up from Jul 26th-Aug 1st. inc. @briewoodfiction.bsky.social @xuetingni.bsky.social @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @alexgrecian.bsky.social & more! fanfiaddict.com/tbrcon2026/

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TBRCon @tbrcon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Don’t worry! It’s not the end of the world. Yet. But here is a panel on the Best and Worst Doomsday Scenarios! Featuring M.J. Kuhn @voidcricket.bsky.social @abbygoldsmith.bsky.social @meganeokeefe.bsky.social & @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social! Sunday, July 26th at 4pm CST. See you there! #tbrcon2026

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Such an interesting shortlist, as always! And one that's reminded me I still need to get to Slow Gods, The Works of Vermin, and Notes From a Regicide.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Fusion Fragment is now open to submissions! Full details at www.fusionfragment.com/submissions/

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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land -from 'Home' by British-Somali poet, Warsan Shire

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Eric Clapton, Nina Simone, Genesis, The Doors, and Led Zeppelin

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

👀🎉 We've got some VERY exciting news and a slightly different kind of acquisition announcement! From 1st July, Solaris will have a new home @profilebooks.bsky.social ! Hop over to @thebookseller.com for the exclusive announcement! www.thebookseller.com/news/profile...

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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Excited to become part of Profile Books, and very pleased and thankful that I still get to work with my fellow editors and brilliant marketing team. Hopeful for the future!

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Dr Natalie Sorrell Charlesworth @tooshorttoread.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Some very exciting news for the Solaris team: we’ve got a new home!

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The news is out! Very excited to be joining the @profilebooks.bsky.social family with four of my brilliant @solarisbooks.bsky.social colleagues 🎉

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

Larry the Cat, located at 10 Downing Street, London

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

And here we are at the end of the exercise. The Queersar Not An Award for excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers 2024! It's been fun, & I hope you find something new that's slipped between the cracks. The book I spotlight in this list is the most shamefully under-read of the whole exercise.

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The Queersar Not An Award 2024

For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2024

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

🧵🧵🧵 ALERT! FF re-opens to submissions on July 1st and so, between now and then, I'll be sharing updates from members of the reading team on the stories they love and what they wish they saw more of in the reading queue. So, read on to find out what's on the wishlist! 1/

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

Anathema: Spec from the Margins is now OPEN for submissions from June 20th to July 20th! We’re looking for speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by queer creators of color! We pay a professional SFWA rate! Check the link in bio for submission guidelines!

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