Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaAnushree Nande @anushreenande.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This is a wonderfully immersive story by @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social. Go read! 032
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaBeneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Live BCS #461 "The Teahouse" @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social "For the General, who dons gauntlets carved in bones, she has drawn the milk from a Shibrasi cow, the descendant of a calf once brought to the teahouse by a merchant from the distant valley." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...beneath-ceaseless-skies.comBeneath Ceaseless Skies - The Teahouse by Prashanth SrivatsaThere’s a heady blend of cardamom and cloves that go in the third, along with tea leaves that resemble charred twigs. It is the third she fears today, for the Shibra leaves demand time (time she does ... 076
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Hello! I've a new short story published in the excellent Beneath Ceaseless Skies. (@bcsmagazine.bsky.social) It's about tea and other revolutions. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...beneath-ceaseless-skies.comBeneath Ceaseless Skies - The Teahouse by Prashanth SrivatsaThere’s a heady blend of cardamom and cloves that go in the third, along with tea leaves that resemble charred twigs. It is the third she fears today, for the Shibra leaves demand time (time she does ... 11610
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaM. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026EYYYYYYY WE CROSSED $10,000 YOU GUYS, let's keep this goinggggkickstarter.comkhōréō: Year 6Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration! 12420
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I wrote about the excellent Daura by Anukrti Upadhyay, and magical realism. This is the fourth piece about my recent reading, and I'm not gonna lie, I am quite enjoying this! open.substack.com/pub/prashant...open.substack.comA Reading of Daura by Anukrti UpadhyayOr the many pleasures and trappings of magical realism 100
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaBeneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026BCS #461 ebook out early today @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of serving food and steering life by @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social and Louis Morris, behind cover art by Tyler Edlin: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...weightlessbooks.comBeneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #461Issue #461 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Prashanth Srivatsa and Louis Morris and cover art by Tyler Edlin. 063
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Had an absolute ride reading and reviewing this book! The level of thought Mahmud has put into every thread of the story is, very much, madness. The review is also from a new substack of mine, so feel free to follow if you're interested in such writing. 132
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaMahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Just received my new favourite comment about TROM from @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social. "It thrills me to bear witness to the madness of a writer." 😂 Read his excellent substack on TROM and language and society in India here: substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comA Reading of The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El SayedOr our doomed quest for a common language 051
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaWeightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Today we add 8 issues of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social! Featuring modern sword and sorcery by tons of great authors including Michael Moorcock, @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social, @jayxwolf.bsky.social, @mollytanzer.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, and more: weightlessbooks.com/category/pub... 09626
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Interstellar Megachef, by @lavanya.bsky.social which is both a delightful story about a cooking show in an interstellar civilization and a thoughtful tale about immigration and social class. Absolutely a perfect summer read. Plus the sequel just came out! 13210
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The Nazir story is definitely AI. Way too many tells to refute it. Shambles that an institution like the Commonwealth Foundation Creative is rewarding slop (regional winner ffs!), which in turn is being published blindly by Granta. We're in the end times, fellas. 0101
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 07/02/2026One of those braindead mornings where I sent an email signing off as the person I was sending the email to. 170
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaFoz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 05/02/2026At this point, I think the entire publishing industry needs to have a serious conversation about the degree to which the last 15 years have increasingly seen book promo become an online venture, and what that means now that entire social media and digital platforms are getting torched overnight. 🧵 3326103
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026@rati.bsky.social 's story was such fun! Incredibly well-written. 131
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I've a story in one of these absolutely fantastic issues and they're all sure to be worth your time. 083
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaPossum Punks Comics & Games @possumpunks.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Issues 5 thru 7 of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social are now available in the Bodega! ⚔️ If you're longing for the scifi/fantasy anthologies of yore, with a heavy emphasis on Queer perspectives: this is your magazine⚔️ 48449
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaNathan Long @nathanrlong.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Wow, Issue #7 of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social has some Sword and Planet bangers! I loved the pace and voice of Dariel Quiogue's Corsairs of the Crater Sea, the wit and charm of @jamesenge.bsky.social's The Red Road to Lost Amarkh, and @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social's moving The Promise of Dilli. 1124
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaSB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 23/12/2025I'm honored to have won the 2025 Sushila Devi Award for LOKA! 🙏 Very grateful to the Bhopal Literature & Art Festival and Shri Ratanlal Foundation for the award, and to the jurors for their kind words. 💙 to the team at Hachette India and to Cameron McClure for supporting the book! #sciencefiction 168420
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaTasavvur Magazine @tasavvurnama.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Tasavvur is a non-profit, self-funded magazine. With your help, we can continue to pay writers and artists to bring wonderful stories to light. Donate today, as your support means everything to us! Link: buymeacoffee.com/tasavvurnama 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction 043
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Why is this so accurate and painful and also hilarious all at the same time 051
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 07/11/2025If you've got one thing for the weekend, let that be to watch Pluribus. 171
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaReactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 03/11/2025The winners of the 2025 World Fantasy Awards have been announced—congratulations to all! reactormag.com/here-are-the...reactormag.comHere Are the 2025 World Fantasy Awards Winners - ReactorCongratulations to the winners! 04616
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Why does Slow Horses have only six episodes? And a teaser ready for the next season! And then the next season promptly arrives in a few months, and you're seated! Why can't all shows be like Slow Horses? 061
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 31/10/2025This seemed at first like a very interesting, albeit mainstream, map of authors across the globe, until I came across Edward Said being labeled an Israeli and just - wow. hammockmag.github.io/literarymap/...hammockmag.github.ioLiterary Map by HammockDiscover great fiction writers from around the globe. 000
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaBoo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 30/10/2025*A French restaurant* "Oh, waiter?" "Oui, monsieur?" "I don't wish to appear rude, but this wine...well...it tastes a bit of petrol." "Oui! That is the Vin Diesel." 1115331
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaDAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 27/10/2025In case you missed the news, The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell is available for preorder 🎉 Preorder now, available June 23, 2026! buff.ly/SvZQ82W 0134
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 30/10/2025It's over for us. In one day, I have now received two feedbacks from two readers who read my story and both critiques are so unabashedly Chatgpt generated, and I say that not only just they were IDENTICAL. People need to realize that if I wanted feedback from a fucking bot, I'd go get it myself. 151
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025In current social media parlance, if you say something's your favorite, it ends the conversation. If you say something's the best, it's rage bait. In between lies the wasteland of decorum. 030
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025It really bothers me that offering has only one r while occurring has two. 000
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Huge congratulations to @wiswell.bsky.social for a well-deserved Locus win! Everyone go red Someone You Can Build A Nest In if you haven't. 180
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaUrsula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 18/06/2025We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: 603862689
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaDorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 14/06/2025it is really weird that publishing decided that instead of having a marketing budget, writers should just become cult leaders 271865431
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaShinyFluff @shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social · 24/05/2025oh wow, another book I loved! a portal fantasy that I feel is somehow not getting read enough is The Spice Gate by @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaIndrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Also delighted to see @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social's wonderful Indian fantasy epic THE SPICE GATE as a finalist for First Novel. & other great work I enjoyed from last year on the ballot, including by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @scumbelievable.bsky.social @vajra.me @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social: 1124
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Delighted to be a Locus finalist for The Spice Gate, under the first novel category. Congratulations to many friends and excellent authors who have made the list! 3131
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025One more day left for the Locus Award nominations voting. THE SPICE GATE is up on the longlist in the First Novel category. If you've read and enjoyed the book, please do take some time to vote. Thank you! :) poll.voting.locusmag.compoll.voting.locusmag.comWelcome to the Locus Awards Poll. Deadline for voting is April 15. You can return and edit or add to your ballot up until the deadline. 032
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Fascinatingly, this nakedness (which is not a matter of shame or lack of civility but a common virtue) is compensated with flowers and jewelry that adorn the bare upper body and legs. Class distinction occurs in this manner, as is evident in old Sangam poems and post-Sangam epics. 052
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Delighted to inform that researching people's attire for my 2,000-yr old sangam era historical fantasy has abruptly ended after discovering that most commoners roamed naked. 0152
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 26/03/2025It is impossible not to see the correlation between this excellent article and the regular online discourse around why cozy sff has primarily been a white author's genre. The author demographic might have evolved somewhat over the last 2 years, but this is still a great critique. 1100
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Just fyi that there are several immensely talented artists who have for years honed their craft on developing ghibli-like aesthetics and y'all chatgpt-ing your summer picnic snaps for 6 seconds of awe and clout 041
Reposted by Prashanth Srivatsasunyi @sunyidean.com · 25/03/2025I've been thinking a lot about my author career lately, and the precarious position I feel like I'm in. I haven't put out a book since 2022, and my next isn't until at least May 2026. All the publisher folks who first acquired my debut are gone. My momentum is very stalled. 2227628
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Yes, I watched the whole 50 minutes. And no, my opinion has not changed. 040
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaNew Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 27/02/2025⚔️SECOND BONUS POEM UNLOCKED🪐 It will be a Sword & Planet poem chosen through open submissions! Subs will open shortly after the crowdfund ends on March 15th, and we'll provide further details then. Meanwhile, onward to 350+ shares of the original post and unlocking a third poem! 1109
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I have killed so many darlings in my current WIP they've become an entire book by themselves, where the darlings stage an uprising for retribution 1131
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Is there anything more useless than a Thai red curry in a menu that also has Thai green curry? 020
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaVinayak Varma @eyefry.bsky.social · 22/02/2025FYI, many of these excellent South Asian writers / editors are on bsky, so please follow them if you don't already. In order: @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social, @amalsingh.bsky.social, @vajra.me, @blaftrakesh.bsky.social, @lavanya.bsky.social, & @indrapramitdas.bsky.social 0175
Reposted by Prashanth SrivatsaPrashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Why do fantasy novels have impossible large libraries, but very few characters who are writers? 2223
