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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

tis official!! a new book coming to y’all 2028 with @erewhonbooks.bsky.social / @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social 🥺🤍👻 background art: Da Huang Chan 💫

Publishers marketplace deal announcement for Ai Jiang’s VESSEL EATER

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So excited that my story "Reverent" is a Eugie Award finalist!!! Huge thanks to @podcastle.org for giving this one a home. Honored to be in such good company on the finalist list!! In case you want to give it a listen: podcastle.org/2025/12/30/p... ⏳🌅🌌

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PodCastle 924: Reverent - PodCastle

Reverent by Leah Ning It’s the smell of gravity that tells me Father’s been to my rooms: empty and metal-sweet, the way you’d think a black hole would smell before it crushed your nasal cavities. Ou...

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Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I have a new story out!!! 🖤✨️🌈 It might be my weirdest and darkest child yet. I love it very much and I hope you do too.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Live in BCS #451 double-issue for Science-Fantasy Month 8: "What Might Come of Today" @leahning.bsky.social "That uncertainty comes back, flaying the grin from Fray's face. But what's he supposed to do? Let Drift kill Wander when he goes cross-wired?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/what...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - What Might Come of Today by Leah Ning

That uncertainty comes back, flaying the grin from Fray's face. But what's he supposed to do? Let Drift kill Wander when he goes cross-wired? There's a lot of shit Fray would take to avoid that eventu...

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Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

If you're looking for a story to read while you're nesting in a pile of warm blankets this autumn, check out, "The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been" by @leahning.bsky.social ✨

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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Take a look at what's new and keep sending your own links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

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What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Also got interviewed by the delightful @marissavu.bsky.social ❤️ I always appreciate the research and thoughtfulness she puts into her interview questions!

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New story day!!! If you need some weird sad eco body horror in your life, this one is for you! 🌊🦀🐠 Thank you for believing in this one @lesleyconner.bsky.social ❤️

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

✨NEW RELEASE!!!✨ It’s pub day for my fox spirit Chinese Cinderella romantic fantasy folklore tale, YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST! 🥳🎧🦊🍜💖 Listen for free via Spotify Premium, purchase from Libro.FM, Audible, or your fave audiobook retailer, or request from your local library!!! 🎧🦊🍜💖

Photograph of Chinese American woman looking up to the side at a superimposed image of the cover for Ye Xian and the Celestial Feast.

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It's new (ish) story day!!! PodCastle made a delightful production of "The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been", originally published in Monster Lairs (edited by Anna Madden). Hope y'all enjoy!! There might be a fresh story coming out with PodCastle in the future, too... 👀

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In the Tongue of Unbanished Ghosts: 🏜️ A desert full of war 🔪 A mother whose secrets lead to her murder 🩶 A clueless, clumsy widower who forges watches with soul 🩵 A war criminal who is, unfortunately, very attractive 🏍️ And there was only one dirt bike #dvpit #f #a

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Gay JOHN WICK x MAD MAX FURY ROAD + soul magic When his ma’s murdered, Noah embarks on a cross-desert hunt for answers—w/ an annoyingly attractive war criminal offering help. As Noah’s suspicion turns to feelings (ugh!), secrets from his companion’s past threaten to destroy them both. #dvpit #a #f

A mood board of eight pictures: reddish dunes, the wheel of a dirt bike, two silhouettes of men, silhouettes in a nightclub, a truck driving through dust, tents in a desert, and a lone house on flat sand.

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰 Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳

Photograph of a smiling Chinese American woman in a skull crown holding a copy of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 31/08/2025

Hi! (the ebook version of) The Long List Anthology Volume 9 will be officially released on Monday September 8th! You can pre-order it at many ebook vendors right now, which are super helpful as they all count as release day sales toward the sales algos. www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Just a reminder that i have a story in this upcoming Best Of Anthology! "A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I feel like I'm late to the game in this discovery but...the @clarkesworldmagazine.com website has a dark mode?? This fills me with inordinate amounts of delight.

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Sean Wallace @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I have need for two reprints, preferably published within the last two years, only in print (not online), either in a magazine or an anthology or a ss coll, under 6,000 words, sent to submissions@thedarkmagazine.com. TIA!

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Marie Croke @mariecroke.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Issue #437 of BCS has my story "Turn to Stone Ourselves" as the From the Archives pick 😊 (and two new stories by Rosemary Claire Smith & Malda Marlys!)

From the Archives (of BCS) "Turn to Stone Ourselves" by Marie Croke. "Could i taste the inklings of my first life, when flesh had ruled me rather than stone?"

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Slowly preparing to exist at Seattle Worldcon. Excited to see some folks there - shout if you're going and want to say hi!!

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Submissions for our last themed issue of the year CLOSE in TEN DAYS! Get it polished, get it in. The squad can't wait to feast on your words 🍽️ All the info you need to submit is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/ Share with a Black writer who needs to rip the band aid off. Don't self reject!!!

Title: GODS & MONSTERS.
July 31 2025
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

Augur press novella and novelette submissions now open! Be a part of augur press’ debut line up. We’re looking for works from 12,500-40,000 words to launch as print books in 2027-2029. Canadian & international authors welcomed. Open July 6-August 30. Guidelines at augursociety.org/press-submissions.

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Short story sale!!! Super excited to be returning to the pages of @apexmag.bsky.social with "We Used to Wake to Song" this October. Read if you're into messed up parent-child relationships, body horror, and the ocean claiming our bodies to fix what we destroyed. 🌊🪸

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible Widower enlists the help of a war criminal to rescue his mom, accidentally falls in love, ohshit.jpg

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

BCS needs our support!! They are good people and they publish amazing fiction.

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Baby's second full request?? Don't mind me, I'll just be over here screaming??

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Get this on my bookshelf immediately please thanks

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

incredibly honoured to see A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (@titanbooks.bsky.social ) included in this @nytimes.com article by @marthawells.com 😭‼️✨

screenshots of Martha Well’s NYT article “Want to Escape Reality? Try One of These Books.”

Screenshot of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND mention in Martha Well’s NYT article “Want to Escape Reality? Try One of These Books.”

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I cannot possibly express the depths of my excitement and delight 😭

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Finished and submitted my first short story in a while today! Nice to be submitting again. I expect my yeet from The Dark in *checks watch* five...four...

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Baby's first full request 👀

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This book is WILD omg I cannot wait for it to be in the world. Congrats Kelsea!!!!

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Querying update: Novel #2 is definitely getting a better reception than novel #1 in the query trenches. Which feels like progress! I've had a couple partial requests and more personals than I got on the first novel by far. And I got a partial recently on novel #1 from an agent that I am just 👀👀

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Last day to enter the giveaway for both of these amazing novellas - if you haven't yet, why??

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo Awards? "We Drink Lava" by Ai Jiang @aijiang.bsky.social is a finalist for a Best Poem Hugo Award! Read it here or in the Hugo Award Packet! buff.ly/Jxpsnqs

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 56, "Resurrecting Venus" by Galen Dara: In the background, two planets overlap. A large red one is eclipsed by a blue one, the surface is decorated with waves. At the forefront, a woman's face is split in three pieces that are slowly coming together. Spread throughout the motif of sea waves are present in shades of light blue, dark blue, and purple. The outline of koi are spread throughout too, accompanying the woman. The quote reads: "We, the rebirthed gods, drink their past,
we drink their anger, and we feel the ashes
scrape against our lips, the heat boiling
our skin, snaking its way in and its rough
texture, cooling against our icy tongues"

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I am not looking for discourse. I am not looking for head pats. I only want a public record of my actions and my stance. I have withdrawn from program participation for Seattle Worldcon 2025. I've included screenshots of my reasons for ease of reading, and will also thread for accessibility.

First part of my reasoning for withdrawing from Seattle Worldcon 2025 programming. Long text - please go to thread for screen reader accessibility.

Second part of my reasoning for withdrawing from Seattle Worldcon 2025 programming. Long text - please go to thread for screen reader accessibility.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

To celebrate ANHPI month, @anovelescape.bsky.social & I are teaming up with our publisher, @titanbooks.bsky.social for a giveaway!! Five winners will receive a hardcover of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND + an ARC of DEMON SONG!! 🥳 To enter, repost and comment recommending a book!  GOOD LUCK!!👀✨🙆🏻‍♀️🌬️🎭

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Man, querying is a trip. You send little chunks of your soul out into the ether as often as possible and every second of every day you may receive an email that could change your life but we're all just chilling??

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Do you love reading speculative fiction and want to be part of khōréō magazine? We’re looking for First Readers, who can read submitted stories and provide their input on which ones might be good fits for khōréō! Read more details and apply here: www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"I’m consistently in awe of the strange and wonderful-terrible worlds Ai Jiang creates and the lovely whimsy she infuses them with." New review by @leahning.bsky.social: "A PALACE NEAR THE WIND by @aijiang.bsky.social" 📚 Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

A graphic featuring the text: "Book Review: A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang // by Leah Ning" next to the illustration on Apex's Issue 149 cover, a queen in a black dress standing beside a black wolf in a field at dusk.

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I got to review @marygthompson.bsky.social 's new novella for this issue of Apex!!! Congrats on the release, Mary, it's a great read!

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

OKAY Y'ALL I HAVE NEWS. @probablyharmless.bsky.social and I are making THE FUCKED UP DEER anthology a reality!!! Kickstarter is next month! I am so fricking excited!!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

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Coming soon: THE DEER IS MESSED UP

An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer.

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Odyssey graduate @leahning.bsky.social describes her workshop experience. If you want customized guidance to improve your writing, Your Personal Odyssey #WritingWorkshop can help. App Deadline 4/1 odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo... #amwritinghorror #amwritingfantasy #amwritingscifi

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I got lucky enough to get an eARC of @roannelau.bsky.social 's The Serpent Called Mercy and it was AMAZING. More gushing in the link below.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

BCS Archives: "Witchbreaker" by @leahning.bsky.social, BCS #359: "what's worse? Coming back to what you thought would be home and finding out they've been dead for years? Or finding out you missed it by an hour, one that only felt like seconds to you?" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/witc...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Witchbreaker by Leah Ning

Suddenly I don't want to know how much time we missed. I don't want to know by how long I missed being there to fight whatever’s killed my wife and daughter. Not knowing is better. Because, what's wor...

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

After months of rumors, I can confirm that the "big 3" SF/F magazines of Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have been purchased. The new owner is Steven Salpeter and a group of investors. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/123173...

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Asimov's, Analog and F&SF purchased by new owner | Jason Sanford

Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Hey friends and fiends! Haven Spec’s Kickstarter is about 60% funded and we only have 11 days left, so if you love speculative fiction and want to help @havenspec.bsky.social keep paying pro rates, please consider contributing if you can. And please boost? Ty www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...

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Haven Spec Magazine, 2025

A digital science fiction and fantasy magazine publishing five issues in 2025 and featuring fiction and poetry for the 21st century!

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