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Phoebe Wagner

@pheebz.bsky.social
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She/they. Writer, editor, assistant professor. Repped by: Hannah Bowman.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The deadline for The SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship for Trans Writers in cooperation with SAFTA @sundresspub.bsky.social is Sep 1! Residencies - Sundress Publications share.google/GoljlqFdEyDk...
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Residencies - Sundress Publications
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I've got a new class on environmental writing, and I want to show some documentaries and films--what good environmental films have people seen lately? I have some of my old stand buys, but I feel like I'm missing some more recent work...
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hey there August! The free essays we've published in Augusts past have been absolute bangers: 2024: Phoebe Wagner (@pheebz.bsky.social) on the garden in solarpunk; 2025: Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social) on geography in Ivy Grimes' work. Find them both here: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays
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Essays — Speculative Insight
Monthly essays about the ideas and themes in speculative fiction. Free to read.
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Last semester, I taught a worldbuilding class at my college! If want to see what I was up to (and some fun photos of my students, including an incredible map project), here you go: www.lycoming.edu/news/stories... #worldbuilding
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Lycoming College course in Worldbuilding taps into popular pastime
Driven by movie franchises and role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, interest in worldbuilding has grown rapidly in recent years. Lycoming College joined the party this spring with a popular ...
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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you would like to help indigenous communities in northern Ontario who have lost everything in the wild fires, you can donate with True North Aid. Miigwech. truenorthaid.ca
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Home - True North Aid | Canadian Charity Supporting Indigenous Communities
True North Aid provides practical humanitarian support to northern and remote Indigenous communities in Canada through community-led projects
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Always a good feeling to print out the complete novel draft for the first time...
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Me watching the AI doc: BUT CAPITALISM!!!! also wtf you mean we will "control the planet's climate."
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This was a blast!
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Wrote/revised 2k words on the solarpunk novel AND hit a PR on bench press 😤 riding that high all day
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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Difficult post, but past time to rip the band aid off. FIYAH is going on hiatus indefinitely, with issue #40 currently set to be our last for the time being. The mag cannot continue running at a loss, and needs time to reassess operations from top to bottom if a viable path forward is to be created.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 14/05/2026
Reminder: "doom and gloom was single most effective strategy for driving social media shares. It was also worst for motivating real-world action...People exposed to catastrophic framing were less likely to change their behaviour than those who read nothing at all. " www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Climate interventions increase beliefs, policy support, and willingness to share information but not higher effort action.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for @therumpus.net. A huge thank you to the great @roxanegay.bsky.social. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror. therumpus.submittable.com/submit
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The Rumpus Submission Manager
The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
So much good work happening over at Nerds!
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This isn’t just about book content. It’s also a statement on what the company feels teens (predominantly female teens based on market data) should be allowed to think about - no rebellion, no anger, no desire, no engagement with the world as it is, no anything but keep sweet and obey.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
If you're curious about our fanzine, we've made a PDF Hugo Voter packet book of some of our favourite articles from 2025 (with a fabulous cover by friend of the blog @dntlz.bsky.social, who I think also deserves Hugo consideration.) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wall3...
An image of "Are You There God? It's Us, An Unofficial Hugo Book Club blog" featuring Sean Connery as the main character in Zardoz. Looks like a 1970s paperback novel like "Are You there God? It's Me Margaret."
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa
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Announcing United Wizards of the Coast - CWA!
MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.
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Hachette Workers Coalition @hbgworkers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We, the employees at Hachette Book Group, are proud to announce that we are unionizing with Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild-CWA Local 32035, of the AFL-CIO, in order to ensure better benefits, protections, and rights for workers as well as increased equity, transparency, and agency in the workplace.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
*ongoing* ceasefire
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Israeli strikes kill 14 in Lebanon amid ongoing ceasefire
The US announced three days ago that the ceasefire was extended by three weeks after talks.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I regret to inform you that the techno fascist billionaires are continuing to do dumb horrible things. As a result, I must keep writing about them. Alex Karp edition: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Palantir’s Manifesto Promises a Dystopian Future
The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism
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Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Every admin assistant/secretary/staff person (who was the one who actually ran offices/businesses but we don't talk about that) who's had to do this over the years, all their work hidden from their bosses who never cared to know what they do, has feelings on this issue.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly. We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I wrote this dark academia book from the professor's POV, and at least once a year, something that happens in the book happens to me irl--which, not fun, but at least I know I did a good job capturing the toxic system!!!
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Hi! A responsible title to this article would have been something like, "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas calls for violent right-wing revolution against most of the American populace".
Thomas called on Americans to stand up for their principles and endure personal "sacrifices," if necessary, to preserve the nation's democracy.  

“In my view, we must find in ourselves that same level of courage that the signers of the Declaration have so that we can do for our future what they did for theirs,” he said.
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Had a great time chatting with Kimberly at Make Me Smart about #solarpunk! www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...
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Rejecting climate doomerism with solarpunk
The sci-fi subgenre that blends technology with climate hope.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 09/04/2026
Pittsburgh's City Council voted unanimously this week to formally codify its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. This is bigger than a symbolic gesture, here's what it actually does and why it matters. 🧵
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st! If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈
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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Things I've done this morning: call my congress reps, made a plan with friends if communication goes down, signed up for Meshcore and continued to help plan/host an upcoming Mesh workshop. Tonight, I'm seeing Bread and Puppet where I imagine I'll have a moment to feel the grief and fear with others.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Hey call me a crazy radical left wing anarchist extremist but I actually don't think anyone should have the power to threaten the world with nuclear war, even if they use calm, grammatical language to do it.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Now that the "I don't want politics in my science fiction & fantasy" statement/opinion/complaint has come up (yet again) I'm reminded that in 2013 I wrote an essay (in defense of world building) titled "The Status Quo Does Not Need Worldbuilding" reactormag.com/the-status-q...
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The Status Quo Does Not Need World Building - Reactor
The imagination is not context-less. The words and conceptual markers a writer puts on the page arise from thoughts and perceptions and interpretations rooted in our experiences and knowledge and assu...
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Great to see solarpunk in Mother Jones! www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk.
A recent literary genre imagines what happens when our climate changes—and so do we.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A Texas school district has banned HOW LONG TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH, along with over 1500 other books. Mine was kicked bc it's labeled for adults, which is true. But so are every one of my books, which are available in most schools. That's the only one with "Black" in the title, tho.
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This week in my worldbuilding class, we are watching Sinners. Next week, we are watching Andor. I'm glad I scheduled some treats for myself because this semester has been a real test.
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Had a great time reading The Saint of Bright Doors by @vajra.me in my worldbuilding class. Multiple students thanked me for assigning the book and several said they already planned to reread it after coming to the twist! A real blast!
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The fact that clipping. knows about WorldCon just made me so happy.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
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Misha Grifka Wander @mishagw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
really really excited that Ancillary Review will be starting its very first crowdfunding campaign in a few weeks! we're raising money to become a paying market for our hardworking writers - consider giving it a follow? www.kickstarter.com/projects/anc...
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 16/03/2026
Charlie Jane makes a strong case *against* a new Firefly series. "We don't need to rehash a failed show from 25 years ago — we can create something brand new that might actually succeed."
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
As they deliberately attack cultural heritage sites in Iran, the US/Israel is attacking universities in Lebanon. Across the region, Israel is exporting its genocide in Gaza 2 other countries because no 1 who could stopped them from decimating the culture, identity, livelihoods & existence of a ppl
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 11/03/2026
The Literary World's Prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly has surpassed 24,000 followers in the sky. I can't even use the Paris Review over here as my villain because I'm crushing them. We are about to surpass Lit Hub. Taco Bell is your Literary Hub now.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading:

WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME
THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE

Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out-
stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red

Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 06/03/2026
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I just released a long solo episode on the Israeli-US war on Iran and what it might mean for Iran, Lebanon and Israel - on @thefirethesetimes.com On all podcast apps Also available on thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/03/t... and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-2...
The War on Iran (Monologue). Image shows one of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Dan Simmons died and I want to say that being a piece of shit racist overshadowed his amazing work but I can't because Hyperion was overrated anyway
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Phoebe Wagner @pheebz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Writer friends: are folks aware of any MFAs in creative writing (not art) where a student could study/create comics, graphic novels, etc? Looks like Ohio State might be somewhat flexible and of course Lynda Barry is at UW-Madison...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/02/2026
1. Yesterday, we broke the story that Kansas drivers licenses for transgender people were being immediately revoked by the state. This morning, the ACLU filed suit in state court to block that process. Thousands of trans Kansans watch with horror and hope. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Kansas Trans Drivers License Revocations, Bathroom Bounty Hunter Law
The lawsuit was filed in state court on Friday.
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