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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
San Francisco Book Launch
Green Apple Books on the Park
October 6, 7 PM
In conversation with M.M. Olivas

Book Tour

October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch
Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas

October 7&8 – Chicago
7th: Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway
with Michi Trota

October 9 – New York
New York City Comic-Con

October 14 – Boston
Brookline Booksmith
with Cecilia Tan

October 15 – Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books with Andrew Liptak

October 16-18 – Ottawa
Can*Con

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

San Francisco! Tuesday 10/6! Start the season right at my book launch for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD, @greenapplebooks.bsky.social on the park. I'll be talking to @olivasthewriter.bsky.social about tentacles, slime molds, and ancient Pompeii! Come say hi! It's free! greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-1...

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9th Ave: Annalee Newitz with M.M. Olivas

Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

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gwendolyn hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i have a very gay novelette out in @thefuturefire.bsky.social 🌧️ a goatherd travels to the edge of the world as she knows it, searching for missing rain, but what she comes upon instead is a lonesome woman in a lighthouse. i hope you enjoy “A Word, and Its Keeping”: futurefire.net/2026.77/fict...

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A Word, and Its Keeping, Gwendolyn Hicks

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

there's clearly no point in scolding most people for their indifference to anti-trans bigotry. the refusal to leave Harry Potter behind, the hemming and hawing about the NYT's puzzles. people won't even put down their toys for us. I cannot express the white-hot frustration boiling in my stomach.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Four khoreo magazine covers over an orange background.

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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

One day I'll collect my thoughts about how despite how much gore and blood American horror movies can have, they're still too pussy shit to add cum or bile or anything that acknowledges the human body's functions beyond being meat

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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A new evil dead, and I am again disappointed on the lack of green blood. I knew there wouldn't be. But I'm a single issue voter, 0/10

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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Anyway, here's my favorite moment from the Heisei films.

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We Bleed Orange & Black @webobpodcast.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

STOKERCON 2026 Audio Diary featuring: @caitlinstarling.com @patricktumblety.bsky.social @lamaupin.bsky.social @leonp.bsky.social @sonorataylor.bsky.social -Chiwan Choi @olivasthewriter.bsky.social -15,000 Bees -Joe Historybot -a ghost …and the city of Pittsburgh for StokerCon 2026!

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I am still reeling from this incredible gift. Professional model maker Dennis Chan (and husband of the talented @alawinans.bsky.social!) made this INCREDIBLE figurine of my grandparents. I can't stop turning it over in my hands. What a wild thing to see @yasimamura.bsky.social's work in 3D.

A figurine of Tama and George walking with books tucked in their arms, hand in hand, in front of a copy of LOVE IN THE LIVRARY illustrated by Yas Imamura

Component parts of the Tama figurine, painted but not yet assembled

The finished figurine, in front of a black background

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Charm City Spec Official @charmcityspec.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

CCS alumni M.M. Olivas—

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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Took one of some of my Godzilla sofubi to Sf Japan Town's cherry blossom festival ~

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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Seeing my name beside these authors and I'm trying to be sooo normal about it 😳 Really appreciate this shout out to my story that came out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. while not my usual dark horror bag, this was more me exploring cultural grief and the inevitably of your loved ones passing.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"Here are four stories that thread kindness and hope throughout difficult times." 🍲🪢 New today by @acwise.bsky.social: "Words for Thought" 🌟Feat. @edenroyce.bsky.social, @olivasthewriter.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com and @wiswell.bsky.social Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"Words for Thought" By A.C. Wise. Apex Magazine, Issue 152

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 10/04/2026

Hello everyone I have a NEW short story called "She's Still Here?" out in Cleaver Mag. It's about a 55th birthday party for a woman who everyone was pretty sure was going to die young, and it's getting so awkward www.cleavermagazine.com/shes-still-h...

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June Martin: SHE'S STILL HERE? • Cleaver Magazine

June Martin is a writer and comic artist. Her novel, Love/Aggression was a finalist for the Lambda Award in Transgender Fiction.

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 10/04/2026

Here's the beginning of my new short story, "She's Still Here?"

Fiction by June Martin
SHE’S STILL HERE?
For as long as any of us had known her, Jennifer had carried herself with the dignity of someone who was going to die young. She knew it would happen soon, and everyone else agreed, and we used to spend every moment with her like it would be our last chance to appreciate the brief flicker of her vibrant spirit. But the moments kept piling up and her heart beat strong and even on her fifty-fifth birthday her skin flushed red like her blood itself could barely contain all the life that still pulsed inside her. She didn’t look a day older than thirty-five, and what everyone took as tragic beauty back in her twenties now seemed like self-indulgence.

Still, we came together a hundred strong to celebrate her birthday; some of us had been in her life so long—longer than we ever thought—that we remembered when those well-wishes were jokes that all of us, even Jennifer, could laugh at. Others had only come in during her thirties, back when she could have died any day from a car accident, a stray fish bone, or a meteor strike, and the tone was mournful, certain that we would lose our friend any moment. Now, in her fifties, she greeted each person at the door in an apologetic tone. Thanks-for-coming-yeah-I-can’t-believe-it-either.

Dominic, her husband, greeted each of us further inside the house, sitting on his antique leather couch, feet kicked up on his hand-carved coffee table. Jennifer’s paintings crowded the walls around him. In her late twenties, Jennifer had a brief spell of popularity as an artist. Though the paintings were overly cheerful, a Lisa Frank by way of Thomas Kinkade fusion of insipid joy, some gallery owner agreed to show her work once he met her and discovered the effect of her deathly air juxtaposed with the bland optimism of her art. She sold work at increasingly high prices for a few years, but the art community moves on quickly and got tired of waiting for her to die before the rest of us.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/03/2026

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

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The Ratchet

In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Uncanny Magazine is eligible for the Best Semiprozine Hugo, & Michael Damian Thomas is eligible for the Best Editor (Short Form) Hugo. (Note: If you are nominating Michael Damian Thomas in this category, please only list Michael. They solo edited Uncanny Magazine in 2025.)

Cover: Mushroom Mother of Us All by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The text "Uncanny," "November/December 2025," "Issue Sixty-Seven," and the credits are in white.

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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Blushing over this list and the honorable mention of Whale Fall of You, my lil story abt a disheveled, depressed lesbian grieving her partner while marooned under the shadow of a dieing space whale. I'm always so appreciative of Michael Damian Thomas's edits~ www.uncannymagazine.com/article/whal...

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Whale Fall of Yours - Uncanny Magazine

Notebooks, Conchas, y Un Café con Leche Those are the items that make up your world the day the girl with the side buzz and brown bomber jacket says to you, in the back of a crowded cafetería, “Explíc...

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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Come through to our panel at AWP!!!

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Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

awpeople....i am here!!!! find me places. especially would love for you to come to Crafting Trans Horror ft. @zefrrr.bsky.social @lunareyhall.com @olivasthewriter.bsky.social @nicanstett.bsky.social it's going to be so so so awesome!!! 👻

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Whale Fall of Yours - Uncanny Magazine

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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I'm sooo excited pilled. Gonna totally be writermaxing as AWP this week with such incredible trans divas and lil ol me 🖤 Be there or be ◽~

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Clare @claresears.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

sad I can’t make it in person but look at this incredible line up with @jeannethornton.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @olivasthewriter.bsky.social

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Jessica Rose Sanford 🏳️‍⚧️ @jess6k.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

My work bestie surprised me with a little birthday present ☺️ Been wanting to read this by @olivasthewriter.bsky.social for a while!

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

📣SPECIAL UNEXPECTED SUBMISSION CALL ANNOUNCEMENT📣 If you hate ICE and love horror and Weird fiction, please take a look at our current, very specific and necessary sub call. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Special sub call (open now through march 31st) Later this year, we’re putting out a surveillance horror/Weird fiction anthology. I’ve loved the stories I’ve solicited and their di…

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

disrespectfully, what the fuck are you talking about. you don't need an ID at the library. you need a library card, which anyone can get.

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Persephone Possum 🔞🇵🇸 @plaguingpossum.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Twin Peaks: Fire Wakka-Wakka With Me

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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hell yea watch me nervously yet cuntly read out a chapter from my novel Sundown at San Ojuela while turbo charged on caffeine :3🖤 Ty @plaguingpossum.bsky.social

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Persephone Possum 🔞🇵🇸 @plaguingpossum.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

@olivasthewriter.bsky.social recently did a reading of her novel Sundown In San Ojuela at Dark Carnival Books in Berkeley, CA, and we have a live recording for all who couldn’t make it. Check back soon for a Q&A hosted by me! m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRYJ...

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M.M. Olivas Reading at Dark Carnival Books (Jan 2026)

YouTube video by Escapist Comics

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Advance reader copies arrived in the mail today from @stelliform.press 🥹

It’s my hand holding a physical copy of my first book, The Wildcraft Drones. The cover has a flying tentacle robot hovering in a deep forest and also my name on it, and there’s a whole box of them. And also a box and some packing material.

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Persephone Possum 🔞🇵🇸 @plaguingpossum.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Bay Area friends! Dark Carnival is doing a signing with friend of the store and local author M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social next Saturday the 24th from 1pm-3pm! I’ll be hosting a little Q&A with her as well, so if you wanna see two horror girlies queen out, come on by 🖤

A poster advertising a book signing at Dark Carnival for local Bay Area author MM Olivas, Saturday January 24th from 1-3pm

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Kate Maruyama @katemaru.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I'm so excited to be faculty for this wonderful horror retreat w/ @olivasthewriter.bsky.social at the end of Feb! Escape to The Weller House, a gothic mansion on the foggy Mendocino Coast. The ultimate horror writing retreat awaits among the redwoods.... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-t...

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Tales of The Weller House: A Mendocino Coast Horror Writing Retreat

Escape to The Weller House, a gothic mansion on the foggy Mendocino Coast. The ultimate horror writing retreat awaits among the redwoods.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Soooo.... it seems that ICE goons in MN pushed into a house and forced their way inside in order to capture someone. They did not have a judicial warrant. www.sfgate.com/news/article...

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Video captures Minneapolis immigration arrest in a city on edge after shooting of Renee Good

Federal agents are carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

As promised, here is the cover for Muñeca, out June of 2026! Described thusly: A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...

Screenshot of a book cover. A woman, visible only from the neck down, is holding a bouquet of flowers, the petals falling off -- are they rotting? -- and blood dripping down from the book title -- Muñeca -- onto the author's name (Cynthia Gómez.)

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The sheer craven indignity of the We're All Looking for the Guy Who Did This hot dog costume man trying to sound somber as he reads a young trans woman's eulogy is going to give me a rage stroke.

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gwendolyn hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

ICYMI, a formal post: “Full Fathom Five,” my novelette about a boy who tries to save his father’s soul from a merrow, is out today in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social. To introduce it, here is some fanart of the opening scene by @olivasthewriter.bsky.social 🖤 kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Judging my book by its cover. Can be legitimately inferred: - It’s sci-fi - It’s weird - there’s forests - flying tentacle creatures, yes - spiders Not apparent but good to know: - The sci-fi is near to distant future - The forests are in California and Florida - tentacle creature is robot - cats

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Naysh @nayshintheory.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Nine other incredible novelettes from 2025 I recommend people read are: • Peter Watts' The Twenty-One Second God (www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...) • @olivasthewriter.bsky.social's ¡Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror (www.uncannymagazine.com/article/sang...)

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

done! (mostly, will probably do some minor edits and weathering when I get back to my laptop haha) #sinners

sinners poster. the composition of the poster is sort of like in a guitar shape

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