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Naomi Simone Borwein

@nsborwein.bsky.social
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Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Star*Line | co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Full cover reveal for Cozy in the Apocalypse. Available October 6th! angrygablepress.com/2026/09/29/c...
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Cozy in the Apocalypse: Full Cover Reveal
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cover reveal for Cozy in the Apocalypse! angrygablepress.com/2026/09/23/c...
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Cozy in the Apocalypse: Front Cover Reveal
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Erwin Arroyo Perez is now in the author spotlight! angrygablepress.com/2026/09/16/e...
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Erwin Arroyo Pérez
Author Spotlight This Exquisite Topology
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Amy Grech @amygrech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m selling books at the @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social #AuthorBookFair2 TODAY from 11AM - 5PM! #AuthorSky #BookSky #PoetrySky @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @angrygablepress.bsky.social
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“There is no graceful way to carry hatred. While hidden it is everywhere.” — Alice Walker
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Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Open to submissions of speculative literary poetry duotrope.com/anthology/ka...
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
University Press of Mississippi is having a sale at the moment! @upmississippi.bsky.social www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Glob...
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Global Indigenous Horror
SHORTLISTED AS A 2025 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG NON-FICTIONContributions by Katrin Althans, Jayson Althofer, Naomi Simone Borwein, Persephone Braham, Krista Collier-Ja...
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“bitterness […] is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat” — Zora Neale Hurston
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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh, wow! @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social has started a SFF Poetry review blog called Stardust & Verse! Check it out here: www.patreon.com/cw/StardustA...
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Stardust & Verse | SFF Poetry Reviews — Positive reviews of new science fiction and fantasy poetry
Get more from Stardust & Verse | SFF Poetry Reviews on Patreon. Positive reviews of new science fiction and fantasy poetry. Support Stardust & Verse | SFF Poetry Reviews and get exclusive access to th...
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Check out our author spotlight for Sam E. Sutin! angrygablepress.com/2026/09/10/s...
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Sam E. Sutin
Author Spotlight This Exquisite Topology
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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are currently reading for our Winter issue! ❄️☃️ And submissions will stay open until October 31! :)
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Duosuma @duosuma.com · 08/09/2026
Orion's Belt @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity
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Featured on Duosuma: Orion's Belt
Orion's Belt @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity
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Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Speculative literary poetics duotrope.com/anthology/ka...
Dragonfly art, Katabatic Circus
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We are happy to feature Deborah L. Davitt for Angry Gable #35! angrygablepress.com/2026/09/06/t...
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The Angry Gable #35
Featuring Deborah L. Davitt
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Michael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The latest issue of Specpoverse is live!!! As always, it’s such a treat to showcase all the different genres and styles of speculative poetry. specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-iss...
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Specpoverse
Join us in our mission to create a multicultural vision of speculative poetry.
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 01/09/2026
The new Kickstarter is live! We’ve published original horror, fantasy, and science fiction in since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf... Many haunted rewards available!
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027
Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!
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Duosuma @duosuma.com · 01/09/2026
Orion's Belt @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions on 4 calls. #CallforSubmissions
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Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: Orion's Belt @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social ⭐
Orion's Belt @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions on 4 calls. #CallforSubmissions
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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Orion’s Belt is now open for submissions until October 31!🎃 We are accepting flash fiction, micro fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews! For more information on submitting, please see the link below! We can't wait to read your work! 🔅 www.orions-belt.net/submissions
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Submissions — Orion's Belt
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The SFPA Poetry Contest closes today! Consider submitting. There is still time! @mrpoemguy.bsky.social
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Check out our spotlight for Steven Mathes! angrygablepress.com/2026/08/29/s...
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Steven Mathes
Author Spotlight This Exquisite Topology
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Congratulations to all of the Hugo Award winners and finalists!!
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2026 Hugo, Lodestar & Astounding Awards Winners - Locus
The winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced on August 30, 2026 by LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention. The winners are: Best Novel WINNER: The Everlasting,Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK) amazon / bookshop A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) amazon / bookshop …Read More
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Contemporary Indigenous Horror (UPM) is looking for original, unpublished short horror fiction, poetry, and experimental works by self-identifying Indigenous creatives. Honorarium: $250 (CA) per accepted piece Deadline: Aug 30, 2026 @lnuonhorror.bsky.social www.cfplist.com/CFP/46993
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The CFP List
An academic call for papers database.
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Interested in becoming a Poetry First Reader at Orion’s Belt? 🌞 See further details: www.orions-belt.net/volunteer @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social
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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As we look forward to reopening our submission window next Tuesday, we are delighted to announce Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social as our new Poetry Editor! Congratulations!! 🌞
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 24/08/2026
We are OPEN for early submissions from equity-deserving writers, looking for poetry and short fiction. Submissions fully open on Sept 1st: ❣500-3500 words ❣pre-existing relationships ❣Fantasy! Sci-Fi! Horror! www.heartlines-spec.com
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Heartlines Spec
Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best.
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Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Katabatic Circus speculative poetics duotrope.com/anthology/ka...
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Contemporary Indigenous Horror (UPM) is looking for original, unpublished short horror fiction, poetry, and experimental works by self-identifying Indigenous creatives. Honorarium: $250 (CA) per accepted piece Deadline: Aug 30, 2026 @lnuonhorror.bsky.social www.cfplist.com/CFP/46993
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The CFP List
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Global Indigenous Horror www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Glob... @upmississippi.bsky.social
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Global Indigenous Horror
SHORTLISTED AS A 2025 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG NON-FICTIONContributions by Katrin Althans, Jayson Althofer, Naomi Simone Borwein, Persephone Braham, Krista Collier-Ja...
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Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our fourth and final featured poet for Katabatic Circus (Volume 3) is the amazing Tiffany Morris! @tiffmorris.bsky.social
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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Have you been considering entering the annual SFPA poetry contest? Contest closes Aug. 31, so get those poems in! 🌟 forms.zohopublic.com/scienceficti...
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Contest 2026
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 18/08/2026
We're one week out from re-opening for equity-deserving stories and poems for Issue 12! This is the perfect time to shuffle through your pieces or...GASP...write something new? Perchance even... read Issue 11 with new pieces releasing on Tues & Thurs www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
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Submission Guidelines
Learn all about our submissions guidelines, what we're looking for, and our payment details
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
ICYMI!! Get ready to send your poetry submissions to Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki at Uncanny Magazine!!! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
Graphic with uncanny magazine header at the top with space unicorn logo, below is a purple background with faded unicorn logo, on top of that in white text in a large size it reads “Uncanny Magazine will be open for poetry submissions from August 17 to August 31”
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's (SFPA's) Annual Poetry Contest is open to submissions until August 31st! Submit your entries using the following form: bit.ly/SFPAcontest2... More details: sfpoetry.org/wp/annual-co... Duotrope listing: duotrope.com/contest/sfpa...
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Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Open to submissions of speculative poetry: duotrope.com/anthology/ka...
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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Lil' note: while all stories & poems will be free to read online this fall, if you'd like to get a digital copy of our latest summer issue, OB#36, you can now do so on Ko-fi! & you'll also receive a free OB sticker! Your support helps us pay our writers & keep us going 🧡 ko-fi.com/s/95de821dd4
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Orion's Belt Issue #36 - Orion's Belt Magazine's Ko-fi Shop
Orion's Belt summer issue #36 features eight works of fiction, five poems, and two interviews with poets. Fiction Turkey Jesus · Colin Alexander To...
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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Have you ever wondered why poetry awards matter? Bibhushan Khadka dives into that question in the newest SFPA blog post. The Itch to Be Seen: A field Guide to the SFPA’s Awards sfpoetry.org/wp/2026/08/0...
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The Itch to Be Seen: A field Guide to the SFPA’s Awards – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 28/07/2026
Today's listing of the day is: SFPA Speculative Poetry Contest (fee-based) #WritingCommunity
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Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: SFPA Speculative Poetry Contest (fee-based) #WritingCommunity
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The deadline for SFPA’s Annual Poetry Contest 2026 is August 31st. Get your submissions in! @sfpoetry.bsky.social @mrpoemguy.bsky.social
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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🌞 OB summer issue #36 is now live for our subscribers, & also available to buy (link below). This issue was made possible by powerful, transformative stories, poems, & interviews that invite us to look inside ourselves, into our past, and at the world around us. Join the read & the journey! 🌞
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Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Katabatic Circus duotrope.com/anthology/ka...
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“On Knowing Your Endings” by Timons Esaias is our Angry Gable #34 angrygablepress.com/2026/08/02/t...
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The Angry Gable #34
Featuring Timons Esaias
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Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happy bookiversary for Extrasensory Overload!
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Congratulations to our Angry Gable Column contributor Ryan T. Pozzi! His debut nonfiction book, The Mess That Made Them: How History’s Greatest Artists Failed, Floundered, and Made Something Brilliant Anyway, will be published by Bloomsbury USA in Sept. 2026. www.publishersweekly.com/9798216382478
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The Mess That Made Them: How History’s Greatest Artists Failed, Floundered, and Made Something Brilliant Anyway by Ryan T Pozzi
Historian Pozzi argues in his insightful debut that the world’s most celebrated artists were not necessarily “geniuses” but crea...
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
One more birthday, but it is also the anniversary of my father’s death. I wrote this poem to reflect on that moment. It was published in Beautiful Tragedies III by HellBound Books.
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Deborah L. Davitt in the author spotlight! angrygablepress.com/2026/07/29/d...
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Deborah L. Davitt
Author Spotlight This Exquisite Topology
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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We are thrilled to reveal the cover art for our summer issue #36, coming out in August! More here: www.orions-belt.net/issues Cover Art “SUN II” by David Alvàrez, with design by @ashsmash.bsky.social. To subscribe & read it as soon as it’s released, & support our work: bit.ly/orionsbelt-patreon
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
UPDATES Call for creative writing: Contemporary Indigenous Horror (University Press of Mississippi, 2027) solicits original, unpublished short horror fiction, poetry, and experimental works by self-identifying Indigenous creatives. www.cfplist.com/CFP/46993
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The CFP List
An academic call for papers database.
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Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Submissions open to speculative poetry: duotrope.com/anthology/ka...
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My chapter with Veselin Jungić on experimental math education is in this impressive handbook: www.amazon.com/Handbook-Vis...
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Handbook of Visual, Experimental and Computational Mathematics: Bridges through Data
Buy Handbook of Visual, Experimental and Computational Mathematics: Bridges through Data on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
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