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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq

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PERIPLUS: An FAQ

PERIPLUS: AN FAQ Updated August 2025 Hi! Thanks for your interest in Periplus, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. We're glad you’re here. Rea...

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Announcements on announcements this week! Calling all ARTISTS: We're searching for next year's cover art contributors! Check out the sub page for details and how to submit your portfolio: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/ Share with a Black creator who the world needs to know about 🔥🔥🔥

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

SUBS are OPEN for our special reprint issue, SINNERS, SAINTS, & HAINTS! If your prose or poetry features the Black American South, this one is for YOU. *reprints only!* This call closes August 30. Details on our submissions page: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/Writers

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

📣Official #DVPit Rules & Guidelines are LIVE📣 Please go to dvpit.carrd.co for our official rules & guidelines! Any official announcements will ALWAYS be made here, Discord, or dvpit.carrd.co ONLY* #DVPit will be Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM ET-8PM ET! *No other website or URL represents us or our event!

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pitch event for creators from marginalized communities.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 20/08/2025

Khoreo centers immigrant and diaspora voices like no other SFF venue. skipped two years in a row!!! we are so sorry your work was minimized 🖤 come on Worldcon. you have to do better.

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is featured in Kirkus Review's Fall Preview print edition! Here's a bit of the lovely review - Read it all here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... #mostanticipated #southerngothic #psychopompandcircumstance #fantasy #booksky 📚 #Blackbooksky #skybrarians #books

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“...A refined, pensive tale, where the magical trimmings fade away to focus on the larger, fable-like narrative at play.
A tale of loss and hope and how the present can give way to new futures.” -Kirkus review

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 17/08/2025

This Pennsylvania county stopped charging people 'lodging fees' for the time they spent in jail. Then commissioners voted to forgive over $65 million in these fees. “What a light of hope this has been,” said one woman whose son owed $17,000.

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This Pennsylvania County Wiped Out Millions in Jail Debt

After Dauphin County ended the practice of charging people while they’re detained in jail, Commissioner Justin Douglas pushed it to forgive more than $65 million in lodging fees.

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Foglifter Press & Journal @foglifterpress.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

📣 Foglifter is adding an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ISSUE to its annual publication roster. 📣 For 1.1, our theme is Body Politics. Submissions are open until October 15, but we love early submissions. foglifter.submittable.com/submit

Foglifter Online Exclusive Issue. Body Politics. Call for Submissions seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, comics, visual art, scripts, multimedia, and other digital work that may not fit within the constraints of the print medium.

Foglifter Online Exclusive Issue Body Politics. Bodies are sites of power, protest, pleasure, oppression, transformation, and resistance. They are legislated, labeled, liberated, and loved. In a world where bodies are constantly scrutinized, marginalized, and controlled-especially queer, trans, fat, disabled, racialized, and reproductive bodies-we want to create a space for work that responds, reclaims, and reimagines. Call for Submissions. August 15 - October 15.

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Nicole Shawan Junior @nicoleshawanjunior.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

In IRE & THE GIRL, SLICE, a queer marriage between The Old Guard & Sinners, female fantastics Ire & Slice battle a solar eclipse-born vampire surge while traversing New York City's ruins to save Mugs: Slice’s father & prisoner at an undead-overrun prison. 😥Grief 🫣 Shame 😡Rage 👊🏾Redemption #QueerPit

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