Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Half a cup of coffee and an oat bar does not a full days worth of food make. 120
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Psst www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...backerkit.comTeeth Anthology — Physical Edition!Teeth is a queer SFF anthology about things that bite. It’s about the startling gleam of a fang in the moonlight, the vulnerability of soft flesh, the sensual pleasure of sinking your teeth into somet... 025
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Also, omg, guess I’m (we’re) running a worldcon! 2223
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I’m racing the departure time of this flight with the end of the Hugo Awards. Thanks, LA. It’s been a blast. 250
Reposted by Vix RichardsonRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Timeless... Elegant... Discreet... 5937170
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Days until Clive Palmer finds a way to use AusAlert to send messages? 010
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAddy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026SFF friends in Australia! (Sydney in particular) A small crew of us are running a writers con over 11-13 September at Old Government House in Parramatta Park. At the moment we're open for EOI for panels: forms.gle/a4oiRLjmpLcb...forms.gleConSYDeration PanelsFor appearances over the weekend of 12-13 September 2026. ConSYDeration 2026 is the inaugural speculative writers con programmed by Sydney Speculative Scribes in partnership with WestWords. Held at ... 057
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026shout out to The Strand bookstore staffer who did this 100133781950
Reposted by Vix RichardsonLos Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards voting is still open until August 8th at 12 pm Pacific! Don't forget to submit your ballots if you're an Attending, Virtual, or WSFS member. If you don't have a membership yet, you can sign up through our site now: lacon.org/register 05228
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 02/07/2026hear me out: www.realestate.com.au/property-hou...realestate.com.au 100
Reposted by Vix RichardsonChristopher Ruz, Aussie Author @ruzkin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Hey friends! I'm doing something I should've done a billion years ago and spinning up a book-stuff-only insta account. I'd be chuffed if you followed me over there, too. www.instagram.com/christopherr...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 021
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Want to help fundraise for the National Oz Horror Con? Want to party and dress up? events.humanitix.com/the-death-of...events.humanitix.com'The Death of Winter' Masquerade FundraiserJoin us for a night of dirges, dancing and darkness to raise funds for the National Australian Horror Convention. 054
Reposted by Vix RichardsonThe Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Novella are: Audition for the Fox – @mcflycahill90.bsky.social Descent – @wtalabi.com Psychopomp & Circumstance – @edenroyce.bsky.social The Iron Below Remembers – @sharangbiswas.bsky.social The River Has Roots – @amalelmohtar.com 28134
Reposted by Vix RichardsonPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/06/2026www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...japantimes.co.jp‘AI simply can’t replicate it’: Japan embraces zine trendIndependent artist and writers have been turning ever more to self-published or handmade small print publications, reflecting a love of paper in the digital era. 4814215
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Just gonna drop this here: www.gofundme.com/f/xcdkp-help...gofundme.comDonate to Help Sam Afford Top Surgery!, organized by Samuel FranksHi! My name is Sam, I'm 20 and live in the Southeast Suburbs of Melbourne (Victoria, Austra… Samuel Franks needs your support for Help Sam Afford Top Surgery! 010
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Site Selection for the 2028 Worldcon is now open! Only members of LAconV can vote. The $50 USD voting fee gets you a WSFS membership to the 2028 Worldcon with access to Hugo Nominating and Voting and the Hugo Voter's Packet. And the winning bid gets that money up front to help finance the Worldcon. 01817
Reposted by Vix RichardsonJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Historian of something cool and niche? i've got some episode slots available on the Untitled History Podcast in the coming weeks. so if you're up for coming on and talking about your area, DM me! Think In Our Time but more casual. ESPECIALLY if its non-mil stuff. (spread the word, peeps) 39165126
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 01/06/2026We’d like to thank Nuremberg in 2028 for running alongside us in the race to win the 2028 Worldcon. And while they’ve now stepped away from the race, we’re a better bid for having had the competition.nuremberg2028.deNuremberg 2028 – Worldcon BidWe are standing down from the race for the 2028 Worldcon. A statement from Florian and Ruben. 24418
Reposted by Vix RichardsonKai Noble @kaithewaterguy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026FINALLY I can announce the author line-up for the FIRST EVER We Write at Dawn Anthology!! 🥳 We have a truly incredible group of writers who contributed to the anthology, and I can't wait for you all to read it!! P.S. When you see the cover made by @augustsstudio.bsky.social you are going to DIE. 063
Reposted by Vix RichardsonEmma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Today GRIEF EATER is out!! It has been an incredible journey to get to this point. Thank you everyone who has been involved in its making, and thank you reviewers for supporting it! Big love!! @interstellarflight.bsky.social (Cover by Dante Luiz!) 1610748
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 31/05/2026au.news.yahoo.com/170-year-old...? I have been told I can’t have more projects. But has anyone said that to you lately?au.news.yahoo.com'Unique opportunity' for Aussies to take over 170-year-old lighthouseApplications to run the heritage site are open for one more month. 010
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 30/05/2026A Masquerade? A fundraiser? Aug 1st? www.facebook.com/events/17009...facebook.com 001
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 29/05/2026While I'm sad I'm missing #Swancon some of our @brisbanein28.bsky.social team are there (lucky things) Go say Hi if you're on site. 030
Reposted by Vix RichardsonEddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 25/05/2026After a short delay, hot of the press we have the Queersar Not An Award for Excellent In Queer SFF & SFF with Queers 2023! This list might, more than any other so far, reflects the key kaupapa I've been trying to capture: Quality commercial midlist SFF with real artistic merit & a bunch of queers.borrowed-and-blue.beehiiv.comThe Queersar Not An Award 2023For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2023 315169
Reposted by Vix RichardsonJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2026For those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4youtu.beOnly In Monroe --- May 22, 2026YouTube video by Stephen Colbert 651876413
Reposted by Vix RichardsonSL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com · 21/05/2026Phone ate a Bluesky thread I was working on and it was incredibly demoralizing and then I got an email from my agent that THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is entering a second printing!!! Y'all are so wonderful, go little book go us.macmillan.com/books/978125...us.macmillan.comThe Language of LiarsA story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language, The Language of Liars is a poignant, thought-provoking new masterpiece from award-winning author... 612714
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAcerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026TOOT TOOT IT’S THE TOBLERTRAM 3747141
Reposted by Vix RichardsonMark Lawrence @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Over on inst@ the Locked Library are giving away two signed copies of their edition! 0187
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Introducing Trent Jamieson… ( @trentonomicon.bsky.social) I live in Brisbane (Meanjin as it is called much more beautifully by the Turrbal and Yuggera people). I tend toward darkish fantasy with a taste and flavour of the places I grew up in rural New South Wales, and urban Queensland. 1910
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I shouldn’t feel too proud of being in bed by my bedtime. It’s 2am. (And yettt) 130
Reposted by Vix RichardsonTufty McTavish @tuftymctavish.com · 12/05/2026📬 It’s taken me a while to haul but I finally have two books discussed on the #StarshipAlexandria podcast with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social - Holdstock’s “Mythago Wood” and Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future” 🤗 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦 3194
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Kell Woods' ( @kellinthewoods.bsky.social) two publised novels take fairytales you might think you know and makes them something new and often darker. Upon A Starlit Tide won the 2025 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. www.kellwoods.com.au #AustralasianSFF #Meanjinin2028 #BrisbaneIn2028 0106
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Introducing Grace Chan! I’m based in Melbourne; find me at www.gracechanwrites.com and gracechanwrites.substack.com My brain is hardwired for sci-fi. I write everything from literary SF about the intimate impacts of technology to space operas with bounty hunters and sentient ships. 2167
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Lee Murray ONZM - @leemurraywriter.bsky.social - writes horror and poetry and essays, is an editor, and generally advocates for NZ creatives. She has a long list of distinctions, and a longer bibliography - check it out: www.leemurray.info/books. 186
Reposted by Vix RichardsonGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Along with the Champaca Bookshop, I am curating a science fiction book box + book club. Six months, six books, over three themes: climate fiction, space opera, and classics revisited. For the book box: champaca.in/products/sci... 0133
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I wish state labor would take a leaf out of mamdani’s book and set up some govt run supermarkets. I don’t need money off my rego, I need there not to be a shareholder driven hegemony on food prices. 060
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Today’s interview: Eugen Bacon! Where are you based? Melbourne Describe your work: Dark literary cross-genre Afro-surreal speculative fiction: Muntu, Sauúti Terrors, The Nga’phandileh Whisperer and Crimson in Quietus. Where we can find you: eugenbacon.com @EugenBacon, @genni.bsky.social 11110
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The #DitmarAwards nominations were released this month. The #DitmarAward was first awarded in 1969 at the Australian National Convention, named for meteorologist and artists Martin James Ditmar "Dick" Jenssen). #AustralasianSFF #MeanjinIn2028 #BrisbaneIn2028 locusmag.com/2024/03/dick... Thread....locusmag.comDick Jenssen (1935-2024) - Locus OnlineArtist Dick Jenssen, 88, also known in fandom as Ditmar, died March 7, 2024. Jensen was active in Australian fandom for many years, and was a prolific fan and cover artist. Australia's annual achievem... 188
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Submissions are open for teeth! orpimentpress.inkorpimentpress.inkOrpiment PressFine purveyors of queer SFF eroticism 010
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This year Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social won the @bsfa.bsky.social award for Short Non-Fiction: "Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other" which you can find here: #AustralasianSFF #MeanjinIn2028 #BrisbaneIn2028strangehorizons.comSpec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in OtherBlack speculative poetry works this way too. It’s text that is flexible and immediate. It’s a safe space to explore Afrocentric text rooted in story, song, dance, rhythm that natural flows from my … 0137
Reposted by Vix RichardsonAussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 25/04/2026The campaign to bring #WorldCon to #BrisbaneIn2028 needs your support! #AustralasianSFF#MeanjinIn2028 Follow us! Share our bluesky posts! 22120
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 24/04/2026David Malouf died, which is sad because he was great, but also because it’s taken me 19 years to check a line he wrote actually existed. He’d not remembered it when I asked him to write it out and sign it. So I just pulled the book off the shelf and there it is. Bookmarked and underlined. 110
Reposted by Vix RichardsonOrpiment Press @orpimentpress.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Psst. You wanna sell some smut? We're buying! orpimentpress.inkorpimentpress.inkOrpiment PressFine purveyors of queer SFF eroticism 033
Vix Richardson @nefarious-vix.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I have mutated the recipe For overnight oats That you posted Online And which You were probably Hoping Would not be misused Forgive me, It was so delicious So caffeinated So cold. 050
Reposted by Vix RichardsonTalia al Ghoul 🏳️⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/ 1092162844