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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It looks like Jamal Hodge will be submitting as well. I'll see if I can get Linda D. Addison to join in the effort.

Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@shereereneethomas.bsky.social Let's talk about having a Black speculative prose and poetry presence at the Gaithersburg Book Festival (GBF) in Gaithersburg, MD. I'm on the GBF Committee. GBF will be held on Saturday, May 15, 2027 from 10 am-6 pm. GBF covers hotel. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have an online book launch for my new speculative poetry collection "Lounging with Strange" on October 17, 2026 at 3 pm EST. linktr.ee/gnashingteet...

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

Just finished a Flights of Foundry panel on "Writing about Exoplanetarians from a First-Person Perspective: Prose and Poetry" with @spires.bsky.social and Malda Marlys. Great conversation about getting away from human-centered world views and sensory experiences. flights-of-foundry.org

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Flights of Foundry – For Speculative Creators and their Fans

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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

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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 ...

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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.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Another tool of this fascist regime! We have to stop this now!

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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

Only worry about spaceship propulsion if it adds to the wonder. I had a starship powered by the spite of a non-corporeal entity. I had another powered by a collective dream state. It doesn't have to be science-y.

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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 · 30/03/2026

Over my 65 years, I have had three cats die and each time it destroyed me. But I love cats like you do. We just have to enjoy every moment we're with them.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

That is a terrible dream! I get those when I'm dehydrated or am having trouble breathing - the goal I guess is to wake me up. If it keeps using frightening images, I found that I can train my brain to not do that again. It's like negotiating with your subconscious.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I'm so excited to read the conclusion!

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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.

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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

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

Truth! I would add: (1) Some ICE agents get arrested and sentenced to state time (no pardon) to send a message. (2) The Minnesota Gun Club sues ICE and the DHS for violating Pretti's Second Amendment Rights. (3) White folks hire armed security to keep ICE out of their neighborhoods.

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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 · 20/01/2026

It's a true period piece for the 1960s (when I was a kid).

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I recommend Godfather of Harlem. A very smart real Black crime lord, Bumpy Johnson, who in actual history turns the tables on the Italian mob and lives out his days not in prison.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Well, I'm thankful for your Herculean efforts because I love the prose that is the result.

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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?

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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.

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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 · 03/12/2025

I am working on making SpecPoVerse a 501c3 non-profit for 2026.

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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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