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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We’ve got a new story for you today! “The Embroidered Garden” by @manahil.bsky.social weaves together delicate stitches, vibrant flowers, and the love of family.🧵🌸 Also, don’t miss the gorgeous illustration by Andrea Viñas Notaro! Read it here! ⬇️ augursociety.org/the-embroide...

An orange illustration of two glass bottles that hold magic liquids. There are two yellow stars at the top and one at the bottom left. At the top of the image reads: “The Embroidered Garden” in white text. In the middle of the graphic, there is a quote from the story that reads: “When Baba was working at the port near Thatta, he stayed there for weeks at a time. He was due back in a few weeks, just in time for Cheti Chand, and my tenth birthday, which fell at the midpoint of the forty-day festival. Last year, he arrived late at night, in the last hour before my birthday was over. His present to me was an intricate kameez.” in brown text. Underneath it reads: “Tales & Feathers Magazine — Volume 4” in white text. At the bottom is the link to the story: https://augursociety.org/the-embroidered-garden/

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g @thrillandgrace.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Kind things said about Be Water, out with @anvilpress.bsky.social on June 30, by @manahil.bsky.social. It’s a true privilege to be so seen by a poet I admire very much. Thank you ❤️ #poetrysky #booksky #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky

Dark blue text in a white box, set on a background of blue waves: “We can’t know what our future holds once we’ve made radical decisions to leave familiar homes and family, but Grace brings us found family, queer joy, and a Nils Frahm record. The poems in Be Water are generous and openhearted, and resist the notion that certainty is the only way to bring comfort and security. The world seems to move at a lightning-fast pace, but spending time with Grace’s poetry brought the feeling of a warm sun on a chilly winter day, a desire to open up my arms to a downpour. — Manahil Bandukwala, author of Heliotropia”

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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We are pleased to share that Manahil Bandukwala's Heliotropia has been named the 2025 Archibald Lampman Award winner! This year's jury says, "With form and language that surprises and delights, Manahil Bandukwala has crafted a perfect set of love poems for our current moment." Congrats, Manahil!

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

49th Shelf's Spring Fiction Preview is here & we're thrilled that You Crushed It by Jean-Philippe Baril Guerard, tr. by Neil Smith, I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur, The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel, & Iris and the Dead by Miranda Schreiber are included! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/02...

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

research for a story, fitting response to the overview panel

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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

CBC Poetry Prize winner Natalie Lim’s debut collection, Elegy for Opportunity, is coming out this April 8, 2025 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social—and we have review copies available now! (Yes, even hard copies!) Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... More deets in comments!

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My friends, I am so beyond thrilled to share the second installment in Love Letters: Reasons To Be Alive, written by none other than the absolutely legendary @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social

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The Party Downstairs

A Love Letters Feature by Helena Fitzgerald - January 2025

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Ah, thank you! I adored this poem. My partner was reading the issue and asked if he could read this poem out loud to me. I was so pleasantly surprised to see your name when I picked up the issue for myself a few days later!

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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Trumpeting in @arcpoetry.bsky.social and thrilled about it. Thanks to the team for including me!

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Held in hand weighed is definitely more chaotic so I’m going to go with that

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

New chaotic book sorting system: by weight of book

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hmm, might have to schedule a trip to Toronto March 1st!

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The crabs!! Beautiful reading ❤️

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

So far I’ve seen two listings for Neil Gaiman books up on FB marketplace and I have no doubt I’ll be seeing more

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natasha ramoutar @spondeee.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I’m an acquiring poetry editor with Wolsak & Wynn and wanted to remind poets based in Canada that our submissions window is open now until March 31! I would love to see your work.✨ For more info, check out our submissions guidelines: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/submissions

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Submissions — Wolsak & Wynn

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

At last, they solved soups biggest problem: Wet

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I would like to not download an app just to access something (although as I type this I am enjoying the Libby app)

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

this is exactly me right down to the weird dreams

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

THE Hatecopy is reading Heliotropia and thinks it’s a joy to read 🥺

Screenshot of an Instagram post by Hatecopy of a poem from Heliotropia

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The @sfpoetry.bsky.social’s Rhysling Awards are open! I have two poems eligible - wela’lioq for your kind consideration 💚 The first is from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social:

Screenshot of “The Sea-Witchss at Nightfall” from an uncanny Magazine’s website. The text is as follows:

Clutched in cold hands
and freed to blue topographies
a sacred transmission pulses
as the light lowers
a bright chorus
metewintoq is heard singing
from night’s dark throat—

Each moment is a pearl
spat from shell
gesigawitgl
they flow swiftly—
into our depths,
where we divine the future
far from the closed
mouth of the
nacreous moon—

In the place of low light
wasoqonmeg we keep it lit—
the gleaming lantern
of every eye—
and fish trail stars on silk
as hope sways silver above us
on a sky that toqjua’t sipug
swims upstream.

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 wrote a book called echolalia echolalia 🎃 @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Just $48,500CAD until $2M CAD! We are running critically low on funds and the pace of spending is higher than donations at the moment! Please share and donate if you can <3 bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

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Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This spring, on April 1st, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my debut poetry collection, Myth! It's a little tropical, a little lyrical, a little speculative, something for everyone! 🌴🧜🏾‍♀️👽🌙 Preorders are open! Please share if you can! houseofanansi.com/products/myt...

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Myth

Myth, the much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre, weaves between worlds (‘real’ and ‘imaginary’) unearthing the unsettling: our jaded and joyful relationships to...

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Assembled and onto the dreaded sewing in ends. No one tells you that part takes as long as the crochet

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

anything you say I must immediately do (account is made)

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It was a very good writing year for me, with my first fiction pub, the CBC prize longlist, etc. But I’m definitely most proud of Heliotropia, love poems intersecting with space and joy, a theme that feels the most “me”

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I had to really think about what books I finished reading this year so maybe this is my drive to track my reads for 2025? I read way more prose, and way more SFF than I have in recent years. I also juried for a couple of awards so the first half of 2024 reads is a blur of those books.

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Top books of 2024: - Relative to Wind by Phoebe Wang - Thyme Travellers, ed. @soniasulaiman.bsky.social - In Exile by Sadiya Ansari - An Astonishment of Stars by @beingkirti.bsky.social - The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty - Rakesfall by @vajra.me

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Before and after. Shorts are in progress and are looking cute!

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Spent 2 hours undoing stitches on a crochet sweater that I’ve decided would be better as shorts

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I love that! The story has inspired me to use my own name the next time

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ah thank you! All your stories made me emotional, but I adored the baking show story (I'm a huge baking show fan), and the one where the narrator uses her white husband's name - I read that one the day after giving my white partner's name for a bar tab, so it hit especially hard.

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I love this game! I'm reading short story collections as I put the final touches on my manuscript, and have just finished @beingkirti.bsky.social incredible "An Astonishment of Stars." I tag @conyerclayton.bsky.social @teresempierre.bsky.social and @ehjchang.bsky.social

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Your holiday shopping post about Heliotropia, a collection of poems for lovers of poetry, love, science fiction, plants, and souls. If you're in Ottawa in particular, I'm happy to coordinate so you can ensure you have it in time for the holidays and aren't crossing any strike picket lines

Heliotropia by Manahil Bandukwala on a ledge in the sunlight, with a felt figure resting on top.

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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Read this story this morning and that’s it that’s my day

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I've updated the Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading list! If you know of any other fantasy and science fiction works by Palestinian writers around the world, do let me know! soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

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Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List

The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

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Chyx Xyng (they / them) @chyx-xyng.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Had a fantastic time meeting my mentor, Angel Di Zhang & fellow mentee, Sarah Ariza-Verreault, as well as some amazing authors, including @sydhegele.bsky.social , @manahil.bsky.social , Chido Muchemwa & Holly Cassidy at the Angel Reading Series last night.

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Christina Cooke @christinajcooke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

obligatory promo post for the #holidays: you should definitely buy BROUGHTUPSY for the right-leaning uncle in yr life who high key hates the gays. it absolutely won’t spark a WWE smackdown at the holiday table. nope, no chance of that at all: www.oblongbooks.com/christinacooke #BookSky #Christmas

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It's a mystery: every three days for the past month, a new squash has appeared hidden inside your house. You've collected pumpkin, butternut, acorn, spaghetti, and several you can't identify. Today at last, you've figured it out. What is causing this glut of gourds? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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