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Lynne Sargent

@lynnesargent.bsky.social
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Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codex. LCP. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction. THOUGHT EXPERIMENT REVOLUTION forthcoming from ECW Press. linktr.ee/LynneSargent

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 19h
The work is the work. The author knows the story better than anyone. I can say, I think the pacing is wonky here, or can you clarify this, or is this truly in character, or this doesn't feel like it sings. But editors are not ghostwriters or grammar police.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 20h
Have you heard about Canada's House Hippo infestation? Do you know crocodiles used to swim in the Great Lakes? @jdnicoll.bsky.social separates fact from fiction with the help of the National Film Board of Canada's impressive public archive...
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Canadian House Hippos and Other Obscure Fauna - Reactor
House Hippo infestations? Crocodiles in the Great Lakes?!
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 19h
Congratulations!!
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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 20h
So this is the best news. I really admire both Jennifer and Stephanie, so I am thrilled to get to work with them. This collection is full of 90s horror pop culture and explores being a teen in small town Texas where horror was a lifeline 🖤
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 21h
New speculative poetry recs from Angela Liu in MicroVerse! Angela collected some gorgeous poems for you - check ‘em out! @angelaliu.bsky.social
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Special Issue * Poetry Recs from Angela Liu
Welcome to this special guest-edited issue, featuring poetry recommendations by Angela Liu! I fell in love with Angela’s short stories several years ago with a double-whammy of her amazing work— &#…
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 19h
My updated @canconsffh.bsky.social schedule! I've got a few more things on Saturday now, the Year's Best Canadian SFF Volume 3 Launch, and the (official) inaugural Can*Con Cabaret! Come say hi!!
Lynne's Can*Con Schedule.
16 Friday 7pm - Class Conflict and Resolution in SFF with Sarah Gailey, tonia laird, and Rachel Rosen
17 Saturday 2:30pm - Year's Best Canadian SFF Vol. 3 Launch
17 Saturday 7pm - A Can*Con Cabaret
18 Saturday 1pm: Noble Knight, Courageous Cop with S.M. Carriere, tonia laird, and Erin Rockfort.
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just bought a new dress for Can*Con and my god, you guys, you are gonna love it. 😍
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Some beautiful decay for this sunny October of summer's undeath.
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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 08/10/2026
"The Vampire Contemplates Skin Care" in our April issue is a perfect poem for an October day. Lynne Sargent lays out one of the consequences of undeath:
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The Vampire Contemplates Skin Care - Small Wonders
Bloodsucking is drying work / the leftover saliva slimed / around my lips
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 08/10/2026
Stories are one of the most effective technologies for connecting one mind to another.
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Andrew your annoyingness about your books is an inspiration to us all! 🌟
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Everything becomes stale under its purview. We become barred from change on all sides, because change means that objects will no longer fit the box of the algorithm. This is not revolutionary. This is not a path towards a future. It's suffocation by slow preservation in amber.
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Want them to recommend/create new things? Algorithm regresses to the collective mean. Want them to moderate shit online? Well, they lack context and sufficient corpus data punishing both in-group reclamations of previously harmful language, and missing out-group novel slurs and dog-whistles.
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"AIs" are marketed as being a super cutting-edge technology that's gonna revolutionize everything. But they're actually like the least revolutionary thing possible. Want them to learn new things? Whoops, catastrophic forgetting.
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Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🌈🚀💫Queer & trans* SFF poets: share your work pub'd this September! Drop the title/link for your recent poetry to be included in the monthly Queer Spec Poetry Roundup on Stardust & Verse! Originals & reprints welcome; feel free to interpret queer/trans* and speculative broadly. Shares appreciated!
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And to you as well!!
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you!
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you for sharing this with us 💜 It's really so, so lovely.
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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have a new poem out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social today! It’s my first new poem of the year. “Butterfly Effect” is inspired by all the unfinished stories and all the things I wish we could take back. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/butt...
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Butterfly Effect - Uncanny Magazine
I always liked this idea: how we’d walk to the end of the subway tunnel and there’d be a door where everyone was waiting on the other side with all the things we’d ever lost.   I always liked how to d...
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you!
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you!!
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you!
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you!
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you!!
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So delighted to be in this year's best anthology! My first time ever for a short story!!! It's always such a wonderful collection and there's never been a better time to celebrate the work of Canadian writers
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell has some great Autumnal vibes
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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't think I ever got around to putting my trade reviews for Love Never Dies in one place, but a fake movie poster is a great way to do it. This past week has been a whirlwind and I'm so glad the book is out in the world (and I need to keep telling you all about it). bookshop.org/p/books/love...
"Smart and passionately argued, this is a trenchant ode to all things scary and steamy." - Publishers Weekly
"Cole's conversational tone and focused interest yield a work that reads like an illuminating podcast episode." - Library Journal
"An authoritative and accessible journey through horror films that feature romance, written in a conversational tone, with the goal of helping others find connections they might not have seen. This book will ensnare legions of romance and horror fans." - Booklist

LOVE NEVER DIES
ROMANCE IN HORROR MOVIES

EMMA COLE     BEACON PRESS
OUT NOW
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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In @macleans.bsky.social, I push back on AI doom discourse
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The AI Doom Discourse Only Helps Big Tech - Macleans.ca
Instead of focusing on the potential destructive power of these systems, we should be look at the humans developing and wielding them
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amongst many other wonderful pieces, find my poem about the end of eclipses on Earth, "Team Cockroach vs. Gravity" in Cozy in the Apocalypse out now!!
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
you know, applying turing's methodology concerning 'could a machine think?' to the *original* turing test is either remarkably trans-inclusive, or objectionably trans-exclusive, depending on how you're inclined to look at it
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just want you all to know, that when you're a cool writer who says nice things about me, I totally snip images of that to send to my non-writer friends and fangirl about the praise. You're all my heroes.
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Full cover reveal for Cozy in the Apocalypse. Available October 6th! angrygablepress.com/2026/09/29/c...
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Cozy in the Apocalypse: Full Cover Reveal
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do we think Deca from Slay the Spire has a six-sided ass? Gotta be right? Altho Donu would prob be supportive even if his best friend was an Octahedron with unearned claims to deca-ness. That's what it means to be ride-or-die
Donu and Deca from Slay the Spire. They're a boss battle team-up that just whooped my ass. Deca is an orange shape with four faces that we can see (hence my question about the number of cheeks in the rear). Donu is a green torus. The vibe of the two is Best Buds Out To Brawl. I dont think they're boyfriends but I would support them if there was a relationship reveal.
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hello and happy Fullmetal Alchemist Day! We're about ready to get started with this year's winner announcement A very special thanks to our first-ever sponsors: @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, @laworldcon.bsky.social , and @revmindi.bsky.social ! #2026IgnyteAwards
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kerby doing his best to ensure I work as hard as he does
Kerby, a sand coloured chihuahua lays in Lynne's lap belly up, blissfully enjoying a belly rub
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What poetry collection organization is looking like today
Kerby, a sand coloured chihuahua oversees four piles of documents.
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 02/10/2026
Our community needs to do better.
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My birthday was last week, and folks were really lovely giving me flower prompts with which to create a birthday bouquet. I've now collected the tiny poems in one place on my website if you're feeling like you need a flower today: scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/a...
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A Birthday Bouquet
Last weekened, I had the priviledge of turning 32! As is tradition, I accepted some prompts over on Bluesky and wrote mini poems for folks in respones. This year, I asked that all the prompts be a …
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lol, that's just her face honestly. She's a persnickety old grandma!
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Luna says thank you!
a grey tabby cat sits in a tower while a human hand holds up a copy of Sylvain Neuvel's THE MANY. She looks unimpressed about it
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My extremely timely poem, "The Monster's Toybox," is now available in the October issue for @foofarawpress.bsky.social subscribers! You can buy an issue at the link! foofaraw.press/october-zine/
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📮 October Zine
Periodic Aggregation: Routed Carefully & Electronically Logged
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I really dislike submission calls that tell me all the guidelines I must follow up front otherwise my submission will be set on fire but then hide or don't tell me how much they are paying. Excuse you.
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You are so radiant! 🌟
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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time they point to something impressive that generative AI has done, one of three things is invariably true: 1. It didn’t do it. 2. It’s not very impressive. 3. The real effort was actually done by one or more humans.
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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tell me SOMEBODY has written a fantasy Casablanca homage about events in and around a "djinn joint." I will be terribly disappointed if they haven't (and then eagerly await someone filling that gap).
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