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@kitcalvert.bsky.social
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storyspinner, sentient swarm of bees | 🖋️domestic fantasy, solarpunk, nature that is wild and weird | she/her | 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 kitcalvert.com

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Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hexagon’s Year Five Anthology is now available to all subscribers! 🧡 For as low as $1, you could be enjoying everything Hexagon published in its fifth year, marvelling at fantastic cover art, and gasping for air as you drown in never before seen concept art.
Hexagon’s Year Five Anthology cover features a human with long hair rising from a mangrove river with an enormous red snake watching ominously behind them. The human’s bottom half is sort of pixelated into small hexagon shapes as it emerges from the water.

Includes stories by Calvert, Cato, Del Valle Berríos, Dorgan, Gayet, Geleynse, Guay, Haab, Heike, Hirsch, Joines, Jones, Muscato, Novak, Nwaka, O’ Mahoney, Scheina, Stamp, Vona, and Wallace. Edited by JW Stebner.
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Nickferatu @nickeldoodle.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Tales and Feathers: Review by A.C. Wise locusmag.com/review/...
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Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Better late than never! Hexagon’s Year Five Anthology is coming soon. 🧡 With cover art from the brilliant @gustaffovargas.bsky.social 🐍
Hexagon’s Year Five Anthology cover features a human with long hair rising from a mangrove river with an enormous red snake watching ominously behind them. The human’s bottom half is sort of pixelated into small hexagon shapes as it emerges from the water.

Includes stories by Calvert, Cato, Del Valle Berríos, Dorgan, Gayet, Geleynse, Guay, Haab, Heike, Hirsch, Joines, Jones, Muscato, Novak, Nwaka, O’ Mahoney, Scheina, Stamp, Vona, and Wallace. Edited by JW Stebner.
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bunny ✤ @oakfrogs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
happy pride month ! let's all protect eachother ⚔︎
Digital oil painting of two knights in side profile, facing eachother. One knight has a red plume and the other has a blue plume. They are surrounded by twisting organic ivy / thorns, a heart between them, and the text 'happy pride'
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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🍎Just 3 apples oxidizing. #BarnOwl #Owls #BirdArt #BirdIllustration #WildlifeArt #FantasyArt #DigitalArt #Illustration #Apple #OddlySpecific
illustration of 3 different colored barn owls
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
one week to go until @cymerafestival.co.uk! very excited to get back into the writing workshops
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sfé r. monster @sfemonster.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A drawing of some empty beasts from a zine i made called Moon Chase ♥︎ #sfedrawing
a black and white illustration by sfé of over a dozen liminal creatures in a star-lit parade.
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Hearth Stories @hearthstories.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Our fifth issue was just released this morning. You can download it here at no charge: hearthstories.org/issues/5.html @aliciaadamswriting.bsky.social @kitcalvert.bsky.social #fantasy #magazine #cozyfantasy #shortstory #free
Hearth Stories Issue Five Winter Solstice 2025 cover, featuring a lush green forest and a rock outcropping
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
serially procrastinating novel progress by considering doing a repeat of my peachtober stamps this year
Stamps drawn for the 2022 peachtober art challenge
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
me: realises i did not buy cake to eat while watching bake off tonight me, ten minutes later: cake in oven, flour everywhere
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
worm or snake-like fantasy creature with rainbow feathered body, black feathered wings, and black feathered head with large fish-like eyes
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
another writing competition done! excited for a summer break from comps and figuring out what to scribble down next
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
my story is battling it out in the Wonder Final Showdown tomorrow evening! 🌱
Writing battle announcement post with three prompt cards: Adventure, gardener, lipstick, with illustrations for each. The illustration for adventure is a wooden mask with a ribbon and leaves covering it. The illustration for gardener is a man in a robe and brown hat looking at a bush with yellow flowers. The illustration for lipstick is a red lipstick in a black case. The text below reads "Flowers for the Apocalypse" "Congratulations! Your story is headed to the final showdown!". The writing battle logo is underneath.
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
so excited for this to come out!!
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Happy #Invertefest! Celebrate invertebrate biodiversity 🐛💕
A circular illustration of 19 colorful different species of invertebrates across various phyla (arthropods, cnidarians, echinoderms, sponges, mollusks, annelids, flatworms). Black arching text surrounding them reads “Celebrate Invertebrate Biodiversity”. They are illustrated on a light blue background.
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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Valley Carpenter bees and their fun sexual dimorphism for #invertefest
Two valley carpenter bees side by side, the one on the left is colored like a typical male with orange fuzz and green eyes, and the female on the right colored so black that it is hard to distinguish any features. Speech bubble from the left bee reads, "Hi, I'm Sunny B and this is my wife, VOID"
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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
ye olde trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️🌿
A digital illustration of a medieval banner. It says in medieval inspired script "ye olde trans rights". It is decorated with plants and blue, pink, and white flowers.
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“biological sex” should refer only to having sex in a lab, knocking over microscopes and shit, contaminating every surface while scientists watch you and take notes
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Two other groups that work really hard for trans people and their loved ones (as I can attest from personal experience) are Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence, and they could both use donations: mermaidsuk.org.uk?form=donate genderedintelligence.co.uk/donations
mermaidsuk.org.uk
Mermaids Website
Helping gender-diverse kids, young people and their families since 1995
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Here's my long comic essay about breaking up with Harry Potter and JKR's increasing transphobia. Please boycott the new TV show and all of her future projects ✨ #harrypotter #transphobia #jkrowling redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/718...
redgoldsparkspress.com
The Problematic Author
The online portfolio of Maia Kobabe.
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
i've been playing a game where you're a critter running a train line for... most of saturday, and it's incredible 🚂
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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Apiarist This month’s riso print subscription print, and excuse for me to draw bees and desert flora. Join my Patreon to get this for half off, and weigh in on what I do for future month’s prints
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Unbelievably stoked to share that the r/Fantasy team has been nominated for Best Related Work! We're up against an impressive field but it's an incredible honor just to have our fun not-so-little game included! See y'all in Seattle! ✨🚀
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SOVKA ✶ @monstersovka.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️
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Virgil Casper 🏳️‍⚧️💫💕 @vcyarr.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
#TransDayOfVisibility is tomorrow! be sure to uplift trans creators! Let's start with trans authors and writers~ 🏳️‍⚧️✨ #booksky #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity #TDOV go.bsky.app/VamK3SD
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It's International #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 And for trans authors in particular: We see you, we read you, we wanna give you money 📖👀💰. Which SFF works by trans authors should we be squeeing excitedly about? #TDOV 📖💙📖🏳️‍🌈📖
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 31/03/2025
It's trans day of visibility! Transness has been made very scarily visible over the last few years but through a warped and harmful filter of politics and media. Today, I hope that visibility might be more human and that cis allies might be inspired to do something about it.
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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 29/03/2025
Its a tired day today.
Drawing of a crow in a bed with an elaborate quilt.
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
after a few disappointing battles, today's results cemented the heart battle as the best i've ever done in writing battle! and there are more results coming next week 👀
writing battle results graphic showing prompt cards for the story 'in search of eternity' - romance, assassin, statue. the text below reads 'in search of eternity' 'congratulations!' 'your story finished in the SWEET 16!'
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Here are some nice mushrooms
A swirling pair of blue and orange turkey tail mushrooms grow off the sides of a fallen tree branch on the floor of the forest. All photos by me
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
just got through to the final showdown in the heart flash fiction writing battle!
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
digital drawing of a rainbow colored worm-like creature with many short legs and antennae. most of its body is covered in a mix of colors, like an oil slick. the head, legs, and tip of the tail are all black.
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
rereading anne of green gables with my partner the past couple of days and id forgotten how good it is!! id love to see more kids like anne in modern releases
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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
UK AUTHORS AND AI HATERS: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY! respond to this consultation and tell the bastards what you think. You don't have to answer every fiddly question - and if you want, sample answers are available to c&p.
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
filled this out just now - there are 2 days left to have your say! there's plenty of information in the replies of this post for talking points if you're not sure how to structure your answers, including answers for questions that are unnecessarily complex
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Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Cover art and TOC for Hexagon’s 20th issue! 🧡 🐸 “Ant Soup” by Jordan Hirsch “To m’Pa, Between Two Planets” by Uchechukwu Nwaka “Seeds of Hope” by Sylvia Heike “What Was Lost Can Be Returned” by Carol Scheina “When We Go, the Frogs Persist” by Kit Calvert Cover art by @elainemwill.bsky.social
Two space-suit-wearing figures are reflected in a pool of water surrounded by bright fungus and pink dander. A frog watches them walk away on the cover of Hexagon’s 20th issue.
Featuring work by Kit Calvert, Sylvia Heike, Jordan Hirsch, Uchechukwu Nwaka, and Carol Scheina. Edited by JW Stebner.
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
an excellent birthday present - my froggy, fungus-y sci-fi story is out in the latest issue of hexagon for patreon readers today!
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
it's my birthday today!! 🎈 milo cake is baked and cosy writing time organised
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
reddit.com
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
digital drawing of a snake-like dragon with two wings and four legs, colored with a mottled mixture of black, blue, teal, pink, and yellow. It has three black horns and yellow eyes. its pose is vaguely heraldic
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
woke up to some very exciting things in my inbox!! 🐸
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
this is a really fun competition format and i'm so excited to see all the stories coming out of it!
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Ok, Bsky - a MISSION for you. We want as many subs to Wrath Month as possible, from as diverse an array of voices as possible. POC voices, disabled voices, neurodiverse voices, trans voices, ace and aro voices - everyone. Scream it from the rooftops, folks!
SUBMISSIONS OPEN

We’re seeking fantasy, science-fiction, and horror short stories that embrace punk and queer rage.

There’s a glass ceiling in SFF representation, and we want you to throw a brick through it. Bring us the coven that burned Salem and your roaring bear-serkers. We want gangs of acid-wash werewolves, furious bipyromancers, flesh-eating femmes, and vengeant celestial bois—a cast of the downtrodden who make ruins of their oppressors.

Wrath lies at the heart of queer liberation—it can be a spur to action and the only righteous response to a world that would prefer we didn’t exist. So crash mainframes, collapse empires, and break normativity.

Pride month is over. It’s time for— 

WRATH MONTHInstructions for Subs:

Kneel.

Good author.

Stories can be fantasy, science-fiction or horror

Stories must be queer (broadly defined), and fit the theme of punk / queer wrath

Length up to 6,000 words

Payment is $0.08 per word

No multiple submissions, no reprints

No AI-assisted writing ever ever ever

Subs via our website (see below), no cover letter needed

Submissions open until the close of May 31st 2025

Full details:
www.bona-books.com/submissions
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
excited to get home where a new book on rare veggies awaits (could it be... novel research?)
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
spent most of saturday picking away at another writing battle story (👽)
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
this is incredible!!
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
this big tree brings so much joy every time i see it
photo of a tree without branches at sunset, with crows roosting in the top branches
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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
i've spent the past few days struggling my way through the first pages of a new novel for a prize submission and - i did it! with 13 hours to spare! (what do you mean writing battle is next weekend again)
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