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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I will be at Capclave in Rockville, MD, October 2-4. If you're around, come to my book signing on October 2nd at 5:30 pm EST in the Lincoln Room of thr Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel. capclave.org/capclave26/

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Capclave 2026 - Capclave 2026

October 2-4, 2026 Capclave is a small relaxed literary convention with a program that usually focuses on the short fiction form. Our Guests of Honor and other notable authors, editors, artists, and fa...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Submit your poems! Submissions for speculative poetry for SpecPoVerse, Vol. 2, Issue 3 will open on Sept. 1, 2026 and end on October 31, 2026. specpoverse.org/submission

Join us in our mission to create a multicultural vision of speculative poetry.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SpecPoVerse, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (2026) is available: specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-iss...

two hprseshoe crab-shaped spacecraft flying past three planets

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My new speculative poetry book, Lounging with Strange, is now available for pre-order. It's full of songs, song-like poems, love, horror, humor, puzzlement, and the cosmic bizarre bazaar. gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/loungi...

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Lounging With Strange - Gnashing Teeth Publishing

| words that get in your teeth Lounging with Strange is a poetry collection about recognizing how bizarre the denizens of the universe could be and kicking back with those folks, not treating them as ...

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

genderfluid leaks compassion oil lubricating our humanity

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Good news! SpecPoVerse Inc is now a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Time to apply for some grants!

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'll be attending LAcon V virtually. The Virtual Reading is for true nightowls, unless you're in another time zone, so each person who shows up will receive one free poem fom my forthcoming poetry book "Lounging with Strange" each week by email for five weeks (your email must be provided).

Miguel O. Mitchell's participant schedule at LAcon V

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My SFF short fiction collection is ready for first draft review! Here's a taste from Siblings of the Scourge: "We started out as nine Siblings, and now there were seven of us, traveling on an engineless starship propelled by the power of spite. That's what I thought the Scourge was."

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Here's the front cover of my upcoming speculative poetry collection Lounging with Strange, to be published very soon! The front cover is a photo of my painting Old Friends. Updates soon!

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Space & Time Issue 152, Theme: Reject Fake Muse, is now live with my flash fiction story "Finding the Path." Great poems and stories in this issue from Linda D Addison, Jamal Hodge, Pixie Bruner, Maxwell I. Gold, L. Marie Wood, and many others! www.booktopia.com.au/space-time-1...

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Space & Time 152

Buy Space & Time 152, Space and Time Magazine, #152 by Angela Yuriko Smith from Booktopia. Get a discounted ePUB from Australia's leading online bookstore.

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Balticon 60!! Sixty years of science fiction and fantasy fandom!

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

SpecPoVerse, Vol. 2, Issue 1 has launched! Check out all the great poems as we embark on our second year of publication. specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-iss...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

@cdbrown.bsky.social Hi! Would you remind me which future issue will have my short story "Synchronicity Redux"?

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

My poem "Expressions of Love" was published today in Space and Time magazine, Issue 149. books2read.com/u/b66vA0

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Space & Time · 149 by Angela Yuriko Smith

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm going to self-publish a collection of my SFF short stories/novelettes/novellas. Stay tuned!

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

From "The First 27": Hey, I’m Tasha. I’m new here. I returned two months and three days ago. I have two twin eight-year-old girls who want to play with mommy all the time now that she’s not dead anymore. Some days I want to find their real mommy so I can stop babysitting these …doppelgangers.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I submitted a science fiction short story to Space and Time magazine over a year ago. It eventually became a finalist. Now the magazine is restructuring and only publishing themed 1000 word flash fiction and themed poetry, so I now must submit my story to another venue. Suggestions? No MRM please.

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Received 5 copies of the Sauúti Terrors anthology! My poem "Sound healing" is on pp. 332-337.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My horror movie preview idea: "Glamour" Scene: It's late afternoon on a city street "Get out of your car!" yells a masked ICE officer, pulling on the door handle. Two other ICE behind him. The woman inside smiles and says, "This neighborhood is guarded." "What?" Roar, agent screams, blood splatter

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Happy to have my poem "Sound healing" in this anthology! www.facebook.com/share/r/17vN...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I set up a copper electroplating a key experiment as a hands-on STEM activity for students at Baker Middle School students, and I realized that I never got to do fun, practical stuff like this in college. Why did they avoid the useful, interesting experiments?

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

As SpecPoVerse is starting its second year of publication, I encourage folks to donate to keep it going. The zine is sustained by my side gig, and all the money I make is paid to poets and to keep the website around. Any amount helps. Thank you for your support! www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Just baked cardamom orange almond cookies. Very tasty! 1 stick unsalted butter 2 cups freshly ground almonds 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 cup sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp cardamom zest of 3 oranges By hand, combine all in bowl and mix evenly until dough forms. Bake for 14 min at 350 deg. F.

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

SpecPoVerse is completing its first year of poetry publication with the launch of Vol. 1, Issue 3 just after 12 midnight (2400 hrs) EST tonight: specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

@acadialogue.bsky.social So, how would I get a travel fellowship to visit you at your university, perhaps to co-facilitate a cross-cultural speculative poetry workshop or other interesting venture?

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I received the wonderful news today that my scifaiku won Second Place in the 2025 Halloween Haiku Challenge. halloweenhorrorhaiku.com Here it is: the witching hour spirits fly in spell-filled night love that never dies

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Halloween Horror Haiku

A place for people who love Halloween, horror, and haiku.

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I am proud to announce that my science fiction novel-in-verse, Surrealia, won Second Place in the.2025 Elgin Awards for Best Full-Length Speculative Poetry Book!

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

SpecPoVerse has recordings of poets readings their poems from Vol. 1, Issues 1 and 2 (more coming for Issue 2). The tonal nuances, the rhythm, and the emotional coloring transform and elevate the poems. Issue 1: specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss... Issue 2: specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Tonight at midnight EST, SpecPoVerse Volume 1 Issue 2 will launch online! This issue contains amazing verse from poets around the world with themes from science fiction, fantasy, horror, and surrealism. As always, SpecPoVerse is free! I hope you enjoy it. specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

My poem "Sound healing" is being published in the Sauuti Terrors anthology, pre-orders available at $26.99 for 1/20/2026 launch. The Sauutiverse is an Africancentric cosmology with sound-based magic mixed with science in a solar system with five planets. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sauu-ti-te...

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Sauu ti Terrors Short Stories|Hardcover

A powerful dark science fiction collection in a stunning edition, bringing back the revolutionary Afrocentric Sauútiverse.Co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy bring us a p...

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Selfie with SFPA Grandmaster poet Linda D. Addison who signed my copy of her spectacular poetry book "Everything Endless" (co-authored with the amazing Jamal Hodge)

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

September 1st is coming up fast! Get your speculative poems ready to submit to SpecPoVerse for Volume 1, Issue 3. specpoverse.org/submission

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Sold all my copies of Surrealia at Seattle Worldcon plus more with folks using the QR code on my T-shirt.

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

@rachel-aaron.bsky.social You might be interested in being a panelist/book signer at the Gaithersburg Book Festival. We have sold fantasy books like The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark and Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw. Politics & Prose sells the books. www.facebook.com/share/p/1B3g...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I'm proud that my scifi novel-in-verse, Surrealia, was nominated for the 2025 Elgin Award! #elgin #SFPA Voting ends on 9/15/2025. Wish me luck! www.sfpoetry.com/elgin.html

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Science Fiction Poetry Association

Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Book recommendation if you like subversive takes on myths: Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell. Heracles (Hercules) like you've never seen him before. Really fascinating entwined arc of Heracles, the demigod whose name means "glory of Hera," and Hera, who initially despises and curses him.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

SpecPoVerse received 196 poetry submissions for Volume 1, Issue 2, coming out 8/31/2025. Check out the wonderful verse in Volume 1, Issue 1: specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Cyberhaunt Nanowraith drifting Quantum dot swarm shimmers swirls Ghost of dead AI Glides through misty Scottish moor Maker’s spirit never found

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Listen to the fragrances the cymbal crash of cardamom the bluesy bass of basil sleepy soprano saffron cartwheeling chords of chamomille synesthesia on tap neuroimplant catching the tunes from my spice cabinet

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My mom offers me dream play While I lie still in my egg Telepathic teaching tickles We romp with astral fondness Then the bioclock strikes time Emergence exultation Flesh shield ruptured I give savage sentiment Crawling out my first meal I look at the cooling corpse and think, "Thanks, Dad!"

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A scifaiku: Cosmos nears its end Sentients almost god-like Hard drive gets refreshed

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social Great talking to you at #Balticon59 ! I will see your lovely fierceness at #Worldcon ! Keep being your authentic stab-em-with-words self.