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Nara Monteiro

@notesfromnara.bsky.social
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🇧🇷🇨🇦 • 🏳️‍🌈 they/them • writes as N.S. Monteiro • nerd, cultural hybrid, hobbit • managing editor at Augur Magazine, sr editor at Tales & Feathers, crunching numbers at House of Anansi + Groundwood linktr.ee/notesfromnara

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Helena Ramsaroop @hramsaroop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My review of Cadwell Turnbull's A Ruin, Great and Free is out now in Strange Horizons!
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A Ruin, Great and Free by Cadwell Turnbull
The Convergence Saga as a whole grapples with existential questions for which even the gods don’t have answers.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you so much 💚 it was a pleasure to see a fantastic editor at work—Helena worked on Horse Trailer, Ash, Pumpjack with EC Dorgan. You can it here: augursociety.org/horse-traile...
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Horse Trailer, Ash, Pumpjack by EC Dorgan
Jamie does a double-take when the olive green SUV pulls in front of her on Highway 2—it’s been years since she’s seen another car on the road.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This issue is full of writing that made me gasp and cry and laugh and rage. I’m still stunned and grateful that my first issue of Augur got to be this intense, this sharp. It was a true pleasure to work on ❤️‍🔥
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Folks going to Can*Con, and folks looking for cool mostly-Canadian SFFH writers to follow, I made a starter pack with the folks I could find from the program: go.bsky.app/SE8c2SQ #BookSky @canconsffh.bsky.social
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 18/09/2026
Canadians! Sign the official parliament petition for regulating Data Centers in Canada www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7550 - Petitions
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Ed Morland @edmorland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As we're getting into the back half of 2026 do think about whether there's any works you'd recommend for the Otherwise Award for SFF "that expands or explores our understanding of gender". The jury can't consider works they aren't aware of so do give them a heads up of stuff they shouldn't miss.
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2026 Otherwise Awards Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Awards jurors to consider!
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Karakwan 🇨🇦 @karakwan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Please contribute to this challenge of Alberta’s refusal to provide gender affirming health care. It’s also about protecting indigenous sovereignty. Both are super important! The UCP is bound to fight this.
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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nearly all stores that sell new books can order a book for you even if they don't have it on their shelves. Here's a quick thread about how that works, and how it's ESPECIALLY helpful for writers who self-publish or have work with small presses.
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Actually you know what, let me just
A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Spotted :) @ianli.bsky.social
A poem in an ad space on the Toronto subway:

Light of my Life by Ian Li

I smile.
She waves.
A train cute between us.
I become a beam of light, bouncing
off the top of the staircase to reach her platform.
She's still there. We grab coffee. She's a physicist.
Light is a particle, etching out each encounter on speckled film.
Glittering sunrises, flickering candlelight dinners, holiday lanterns.
Under dusky moonlight, she shares news with a gleam in her eye.
Not the glow of pregnancy—she landed a professorship abroad, tenure track. We're different wavelengths. Light is a wave. illuminating two paths, diffracting into many outcomes.
She's beside me, but she's also on the departing train.
She waves.
I smile.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Queuing up some questions for Suyi :) see you there
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I am very mature, part 2
The cover of the pulp magazine Analog Science Fact & Science Fiction from October 1962. The image is of a planet, with an enormous hand reaching down with an index finger forward to enter a hole in a cloud formation that looks like a hurricane of some kind. It is very suggestive.
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Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Narrative design.
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Jana Bianchi | Fantástico Guia @janapbianchi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Falta praticamente um mês pro meu livro vir ao mundo e estou em puro estado de aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! 🥹
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Reading submissions isn't difficult because so many submissions are bad. Reading submissions is difficult because so many submissions are good.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It’s gensus time :) I always enjoy reading the report after
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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 24/07/2026
I spoke to an Ingram rep about this and it is, unfortunately, a real thing that they are forcing us all to do. Shit like this shouldn't be "opt out" and if you just happen to miss the notice the machines eat your art 🤬
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Like all Canadian government surveys on AI, this is hilariously pro-AI. But it only takes like 5 minutes to fill out, and at the end you can make it clear that the only focus of the government when it comes to AI and culture is that Canadian artists need copyright protections from AI scraping.
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
📚 Our seventh novella series crowdfund is now live 📚 Boosts appreciated!
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Sam Beck @sambeckdraws.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
everyone should reflect on the fact that they can open up their little electronic boxes each morning and see the most beautiful art made by your contemporaries. how lucky we are
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
A photo of the wildfires in canada. Fire rages through forest area with vright orange flame and dark gray smoke.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 16/07/2026
Please donate to the community if you can.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Going on 36 hours holed up in my bedroom with an air purifier trying not to hack my lungs out. And that’s nothing to the folks who’ve lost homes. Feeling angry today.
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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A native fish species is eating some of the most damaging invasive species in the Great Lakes…AND making a significant impact! Freshwater Drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of Zebra & Quagga Mussels in Lake Erie www.canr.msu.edu/news/freshwa...
An angler holds a Freshwater Drum prior to release.
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Lisa Brideau @lisabrideau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'm so angry this is our every summer now -watching Canada burn, watching ecosystems die and homes burn, & we just keep digging oil out of the ground. Our politicians keep spending public dollars on the oil industry; subsidies, more pipelines, sending our clean energy to run LNG plants. Insanity.
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 15/07/2026
Reminder that you can and should preorder the FORGED IN FIYAH, the anthology celebrating 10 years of FIYAH. Out in September. www.ldlewiswrites.com/news-updates...
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FORGED IN FIYAH: 10-Year Anniversary Anthology from Tordotcom — L D Lewis, Author. Editor. Sea witch apologist
Preorders are now open for FORGED IN FIYAH, the 10-Year Anniversary Anthology for FIYAH Literary Magazine.
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Hailey Kaas - Cancer Fund ($215/$650) @transqueerfem.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hi! We lack only $150 to achieve this goal. Can you help? You can check my thread about LGBTQIA+ rights in Brazil! Every $5 and $10 helps a lot ❤️ #trans #EN #mutualaid #helpsky
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André Geleynse @andregeleynse.com · 13/07/2026
khōréō is one of the most important voices in the short fiction world right now, and has been consistently publishing absolutely stellar work since they started. They're ALMOST at their funding goal, and there's only a few days left to back; let's make sure they continue.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Two days!!!!
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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My review of @talesfeathers.bsky.social volume 4 for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online! locusmag.com/review/tales...
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Tales and Feathers: Review by A.C. Wise - Locus
Tales and Feathers Vol. 4 Tales and Feathers Vol. 4 opens with Covenant of Salt by Erin Keating, a lovely and quiet story of a lighthouse keeper who finds herself haunted by a ghost made of salt. The ...
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I am very mature
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Such beautiful art from @florencechien.com’s launch today!! I was raised on YA fantasy fandom and all I ever want is good character art ✨
Florence Chien’s book The Revenant of Surolifia with three art cards featuring beautiful illustrations of the characters (whose names I will learn soon!!), and a black envelope with a purple seal
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 08/07/2026
As someone who reads slush on a regular basis, I have many many thoughts on the AI-subs stories being shared right now, but one thing is for sure: I hate what AI generated stories are doing to zines and publishers and writers. It makes things harder for everyone who is doing legit work.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
An incisive thread
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Hailey Kaas - Cancer Fund ($215/$650) @transqueerfem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hii good morning/afternoon for all awesome folks reading this thread and helping me boost my crowd! 😊 You know the drill, right? 1 like = 1 fact ab LGBTQIA+ rights in Brazil. I'm doing this to help my mom survive cancer and you can read more about it here: ko-fi.com/haileykaas #mutualaid #LGBTQIA+
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Buy Hailey Kaas a Coffee
Become a supporter of Hailey Kaas today!
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B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
clear distillation of a damning colonial angle to the current cross-genre zeal for purple nonsense metaphors lauded as "poetic" (in re: Granta & AI): "The real question... is why a particular form of trained, statistical incoherence was so readily legible to its judges as postcolonial seriousness."
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How to read postcolonial writing
The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive...
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André Geleynse @andregeleynse.com · 08/07/2026
Hugely appreciative of Bona Books doing their due diligence in verifying suspected AI use by one of their contributors, and bringing this issue to light. A depressing read well worth your time.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Last year I read submissions curled up under a blanket while it snowed. This time I’ll be on the balcony with my garden for company. We‘ve long tried to pull our production earlier into the year but I don’t think I realized how successful we were until just now :) Anyway send us your stuff!!!
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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
fans of If Found Return to Hell (i know you're out there) watch out for the latest @augursociety.bsky.social issue for a little more from the world of king death & world weary reapers
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Just hit this scene in @emdashliu.bsky.social’s If Found, Return to Hell & let out a little yelp of excitement! Keep an eye out for Lark in issue 9.1 of @augursociety.bsky.social later this summer :)
A photo of the opening page of the chapter “Eighth Court” in Em X. Liu’s book If Found Return to Hell, where a character named Lark, who is a reaper, is introduced.
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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Submissions for FIYAH #40 are OPEN! Deadline July 31. Get more info about "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars" at the link! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Submissions Open "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars"
Deadline July 31. Image showing magical energy above a school facade and courtyard. https://fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📌 SUBS ARE OPEN this July!! Submit your fiction and poetry to @augursociety.bsky.social Issue 10 📚️ Scroll for more info! 👇️ buff.ly/AKmSaxU 🧵
A purple background with a leaf silhouette border. Within the border, the following text appears: "Augur Magazine, 2026, July 1 - July 15, submissions now open. $100 cad per poem. $0.14 cad per word (Fiction, 800+ words). $112 cad per flash fic (<800 words). augursociety.org/submissions. SCIFI. Fantasy. slipstream." Within a peach-coloured box, there is an icon of a paper plane with the text "Pass it on."
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André Geleynse @andregeleynse.com · 30/06/2026
There are literally more than 8 people listed proposing this amendment
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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth! Read Black poets and Black SFF writers today and every day and forever and ever!
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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Queer POC take note!! This is tomorrow!
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