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KT Wagner

@ktwagner.bsky.social
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Writes speculative fiction with a touch of Gothic horror, and non-fiction. Knits and collects strange plants, weird trivia, and obscure tomes. Canadian. Member: HWA, CODEX Writers, SFCanada, Federation BC Writers. northernlightsgothic.com

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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Local to me writers: Golden Ears Writers meets at The ACT Maple Ridge in the lobby (a lovely space with plenty of light, seating, and a concession) on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Everything is free to attend, there's lots of low-cost parking below ground, and we'd love to see you!
Golden Ears Writers fall schedule poster: Sept 22nd Compiling a Collection with JM Landels Oct 27th Spooky Season Stories Nov 24th Is it still possible to freelance in 2026? Dec 22nd An evening of winter holiday readings
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For every like I am supposed to answer one question. 🙂
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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
So, what have I been up to all month long? The One-Page RPG Jam 2026 that's what! I finally finished my project: "Y/N", a TTRPG of live, competitive fanfiction to get folks reading short fiction! It's free/PWYW, PDF downloads, with color, B&W, and text-only options. I hope you enjoy!
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Y / N by Catherine Tavares
A self-insert TTRPG to help you discover and immerse yourself in stories!
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I didn't realize how often I write about Grandmas biting people. 😂
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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New week, new author thread! This week I'm reviewing KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social 1. Moist Breath of a Cold Stranger | WYSR Review @flashfictiononline.bsky.social Neve returns to her hometown to prove the local legends wrong about the frost giants. inkfoundry.net/review/moist...
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 27/04/2026
Canadas Strong Fund 🇨🇦
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Amen!
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Here is the updated version of the poster for Golden Ears Writers' spring season! Next up, April 28th @roxysnopek.bsky.social will talk about using rhetorical devices to amp up your fiction. Looking forward to it! Thanks to the @mapleridgecity.bsky.social for the support. @girlwithapen.bsky.social
Golden Ears Writers Lobby Night poster - april 28th, May 26th, and June 23rd, at The ACT Maple Ridge, British Columbia.
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'm signed up for this!
Graphic with the words The Flash Fiction Challenge, May 1, 2026 nycmidnight.com
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My short story "Zugunruhe" is in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! Thrilled to see the anthology on the final ballet for a Bram Stoker award!
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The pterodactyl-riding main character is from my story "Song From Above"! Woohoo ❤️❤️❤️
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon" & "Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology" made the Bram Stoker award preliminary ballot! My stories "Not With a Splash but A Gurgle" and "Zugunruhe" appear in them respectively. Congrats @carinabissett.bsky.social & @thisjulieday.bsky.social
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Reminder that doomscrolling isn't activism. Log off and rest if you need to. The world will need you tomorrow. There's a lot to do.
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The speech Mark Carney gave at #Davos was nothing short of historical. It will be replayed around the world. Now we watch who stands with him, or who capitulates to autocracy, or blind ideology hardened by mass propaganda. #WEF #MarkCarney @mark-carney.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/uStuQ-T...
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Two of my short stories from 2025 are on the SFWA Recommended Reading List. Yay! www.sfwa.org/full-reading...
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Full Reading List Directory - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Return to the Randomizer! Recommend a Work Random Pick from the Full Archive Directory of Recommended Works Looking for someone […]
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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We would just like to casually point out that the @sfwa.org Recommended Reading List currently contains Hell Itself stories by @rachiea.bsky.social, @crboltz.bsky.social, @deborahldavitt.com, @reggiekwok.bsky.social, @gerrileen.bsky.social, @tedmorrissey.bsky.social, @ktwagner.bsky.social, and more!
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The Reading List - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Full Searchable List of Recommended Works Recommend a Work Welcome to the New Recommended Reading List! We’re proud to open […]
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2025 has been my best ever for short story sales and publications! (For context, I've been at this for a decade and for the last 5 years, I've aimed for 150 submissions a year.) Happy New Year! I've linked the stories in the comments of a public FB post - www.facebook.com/CitizenKathe...
2025 Round up of short story and poem submissions and publications for author KT Wagner. In summary: 160 submissions, 12 stories accepts plus her short story collection which includes 3 original stories for a total of 15. 2025 publications listed - 12 stories and one poem.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/12/2025
I don't think you could come up with a list more designed to inflame sentiments than "here is a list of things that publishers MUST use AI to do and remain competitive, but don't worry, this isn't pushing out creative labor"
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
My story “Christmas at Grandma Minerva’s” is podcast at Cast of Wonders as part of their Creepy Christmas episode! (It’s the second story at about 11:45) (Thirteen stories and one poem published in 2025!) www.castofwonders.org/2025/12/cast...
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Cast of Wonders 670: Little Wonders 47 - We Wish You a Creepy Christmas | Cast of Wonders
I’m hanging Great Aunty Jane on our tree by one pipe cleaner leg, while my sister Daisy places Great Uncle Richard. “Careful with those ones,” Mama warns. “They’ve always been a bit flimsy.
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The final issue of On Spec magazine is now available and includes my short story "Forever Bound." A supernatural tale set in nineteenth-century British Columbia. #tattoo #seance #alternatehistory #fiction onspec.ca/2025/12/22/o...
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On Spec: The final voyage
The absolutely final issue of On Spec Magazine is now ready for you to read. Copies will be sent to our subscribers and Patreon donors today, and new readers can buy theirs on our Ko-fi page.  Copi…
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
My flash story "Change of Life" is up at Timber Ghost Press. ❤️
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Reactor is proud to continue our history of genre-focused literary criticism. Here's some of our favorite essays on reading, writing, and fiction from the year:
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Some of Reactor’s Best Articles About Fiction, Reading, and Writing in 2025 - Reactor
We're looking back at some of our favorite non-fiction articles from the past year, highlighting book-centric essays.
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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 11/11/2025
For today's Editor Pick: Mother’s Little Poppet by KT Wagner—a chilling tale of family, memory and vengeance. We hope you enjoy it! Read it on gavagai.com
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The 20th annual Short Story Challenge by @nycmidnight.bsky.social takes place on January 23rd! I'm signing up. (Get a discount code by posting to social media.) Learn more at nycmidnight.com/ssc
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The Short Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Short Story Challenge is an annual creative writing competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories based on genre, subject, and character assignments in as little as ...
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Tyche Books 🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Lest We Forget. "In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below." -In Flanders Field, John McCrae
A ghostly butterfly alights on a red poppy blossom, just opening up.
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My story "Mother's Little Poppet" is free to read at Gavagai, a new horror writing and reading community. You may need to sign up to view it, but it doesn't cost anything to join. 🙂 www.gavagai.com/posts/467
Victorian-era doll next to an ecru lace curtain
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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 07/11/2025
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy stylized as cover text.
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Today is publication day for the anthology Bizarro Circus of Madness edited by Riley Odell! My story, Gothic Heroine Pixelated, is included. 🙂 www.amazon.ca/Bizarro-Circ...
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Bizarro Circus of Madness
Bizarro Circus of Madness eBook : Odell, Riley, Starr, Em , Chambers, John, Dorr, James , Gray, Sebastian, Morris, Jacy, Carson, Nathan , Rogers, Alex, Millard, Stephen , Swann, Madeleine : Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
👻 👻 👻 My story “Charlatan” is in this new anthology. “Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: An anthology of haunting tales from Canada”. 👻 👻 👻https://books2read.com/u/3GkdOL
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
😂 waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...
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Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software
FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...
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Julie C. Day is communing with tiny dinosaurs @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Two lovely reviews for Storyteller just showed up! I'll be on the Tanith Lee panel at the World Fantasy Convention later this month. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you can find it at all the usual places, including tanithleestoryteller.com
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“Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is a lovely tribute, indeed. From the first tale to the last, a deep love and admiration for Lee’s life and work shines through in each authors’ interpretation of her distinctive style and voice. These sixteen stories capture the spirit of Tanith Lee’s fiction with their elaborate world-building, complicated consequences, and wild magic everywhere. 

It is a wonder to see how unique and yet how familiar this anthology feels.”--Nerdgoblin.com“Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is a lovely tribute, indeed. From the first tale to the last, a deep love and admiration for Lee’s life and work shines through in each authors’ interpretation of her distinctive style and voice. These sixteen stories capture the spirit of Tanith Lee’s fiction with their elaborate world-building, complicated consequences, and wild magic everywhere. 

It is a wonder to see how unique and yet how familiar this anthology feels.”--Nerdgoblin.com
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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We're pleased to announce that you can now download each month's stories in a handy .pdf digest, available on our website at the beginning of the following month. September's is out now, featuring stories by @rachiea.bsky.social @crboltz.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com and @ktwagner.bsky.social
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Downloads – Hell Itself
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I have another short story out today!
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crboltz.bsky.social @crboltz.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@hellitself.bsky.social posted another fantastic story today: "On the Rainy Sid of the Mountain..." by @ktwagner.bsky.social. I really really loved the story. (And the person I most want to recommend it to is not on bsky so I'll have to send an email.) hellitself.com/on-the-rainy...
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On the Rainy Side of the Mountain They Grow Columbine, Nightshade, and Stinging Nettle – Hell Itself
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's release day for Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror from Renaissance Press. My story is "With Child" www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... #choicesanthology #sciencefiction
Red paint background with the cover for Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror on the left. The cover lists the editor, Dianna Gunn, the author of the foreward, Alex Woodroe, and the names of the authors: R Haven, Ondine Mayor, Enoli Lee, Ash Vale, Justine White, Kelli Etheridge, Ava Victoria Black, Allay Rei, Soyam Siddha, Sam Rosewilde, A.H. Davison, Meg Calendaria, KT Wagner, Anne Wilkins, Bogi Takacs, Amanda Cecelia Lang, Elise Scott, Mia Dalia, Raluca Balasa. 

The right side says: A human-shaped figure lies on a table in the centre of the room. Astrid. A pale green cotton sheet flows over her breasts, flat stomach, and full hips. Lifelike in every way, except no adult female human can claim a functioning uterus. The state is thorough, funneling a lot of resources to ensure this is the case. Women cannot be trusted with the future of mankind.
~ Excerpt from With Child by KT Wagner
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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 26/09/2025
35 days to Halloween…
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a cobblestone street with pumpkins and candles on it
Alt: a cobblestone street at night with pumpkins and candles, leaves falling to the ground
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My story "With Child" is in Choices: An anthology of reproductive horror! I'm taking part in the October 5th virtual launch.
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Check out Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026 by Andrew S. Fuller on @kickstarter.com I've backed it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026
A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Are you up for a scary writing challenge? @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story Challenge on October 31st! nycmidnight.com/scary
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Scary Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Scary Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create scary short stories based on assigned prompts in 48 hours.
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Wonderful review of Fractured Reveries: "A powerful and timely anthology told with razor-sharp, devastating prose. Perfect for fans of dark fantasy, fairy tales, and stories of resistance." ~ Gwendolyn Kiste, 4-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Haunting of Velkwood & Reluctant Immortals
Cover of Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon edited by Carina Bissett. anthology
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Never thought about it before, but I think this is true for me too. 🙃
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 19/07/2025
Yesterday @citymystic.bsky.social sent this to me and I’m just so grateful to have been able to live the kind of life where people immediately think of me when they come across headlines like “Yeti Blood Oath Divides Denver Seminary”
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‘Yeti blood oath’ divides Denver seminary
‘A well-intended moment, it clearly went badly wrong and never should have happened.’
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I'm looking forward to teaching a writing workshop at the virtual Off Topic Publishing conference in August about one of my favourite topics: The Power of Writing Prompts and Constraints. @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social offtopicpublishing.com/conference
Picture of KT Wagner with text: Featured Speaker, The Power of Writing Prompts & Constraints - August 10th, 2025 13:40-14:35pm EDT Online offtopicpublishing.com/conference
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
My story "The Drowning Pool" is upcoming in the anthology "Back Into The Ground: Horror Inspired by the Pacific Northwest" from Caretaker Press. Release date: July 24th. The anthology is currently available for Kindle pre-order. It will be available in print (details forthcoming).
Cover image: Back Into the Ground, A collection of horror inspired by the Pacific Northwest. Caretaker Press. Edited by James Strayer and Erick Mertz
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 29/06/2025
On a dark and stormy night, a kid watches their grandmother take matters into her own hands and avenge her husband—by murdering Death itself 💀🖤🌩️ My latest short story, "The Fishwife Who Killed Death", is out now in On Spec: ko-fi.com/s/ad25118618
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On Spec Magazine VOL 35 No 2 Issue #132 - On Spec Magazine's Ko-fi Shop
Award-winning magazine of the Fantastic, since 1989. New fiction and poetry, cartoon and art, with a beautiful cover by Dan O'Driscoll.
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My contributor copy of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology from Essential Dreams Press, edited by @thisjulieday.bsky.social, @carinabissett.bsky.social , and Craig L. Gidney, has arrived!!! All original stories, including mine. The main character of "Zugunruhe" is a Canada goose. 😀
KT Wagner holding up a copy of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute AnthologyOpening page of KT Wagner's story Zugunruhe
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Julie C. Day is communing with tiny dinosaurs @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
10 days! Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology ships JULY 1st! I'm thrilled with how it turned out. These authors are fire! tanithleestoryteller.com @marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and more
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KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I'm teaching a workshop - The Power of Writing Prompts & Constraints - as part of Off Topic Publishing's 2025 online Conference, the weekend of August 9th and 10th. Check out the entire schedule at the link and join me! @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social offtopicpublishing.com/conference/
Poster for Off Topic 2025 Writing Conference
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My first GenAI Grapevine column is out and examines if generative AI will change how people think and experience the world, a look at the manipulative language used to promote AI, if James Frey's the new posterboy for writers using AI, plus other news and info. www.patreon.com/posts/131375...
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