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Parlei Rivière

@priviere.bsky.social
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Parlei Rivière is interested in language, anti-colonialism, and space. Member of SWFA and Codex. My work can be found in Uncanny Magazine. Parleiriviere.com

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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jokes on you, writing rejection that I received 273 days after submission. I've given up on writing because I can't keep my family afloat any longer and this post will go into the void anyway. Best wishes to those who keep hope alive. It is no longer me.
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
plantations too; I first read about that aspect of them in Anna Tsing's "On Nonscalability" scalability.airgallery.org/wp-content/u...
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/05/2026
Via IG 💔
A screencap of a post from source books announcing that Piper J Drake, amazing author of sff and romance, has passed away.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 21/05/2026
Piper J. Drake’s obituary says she was “survived by 33 titles” and that’s the best way of describing a writer’s life that I could possibly imagine. I particularly recommend Wings Once Cursed and Bound: piperjdrake.com/books-by-pip...
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Books by Piper J. Drake - Romance, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Learn about books by Piper J. Drake in romance, science fiction, and fantasy including the bestselling True Heroes series.
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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"There is so much joy and imagination on display and the interjections of Tina Tona’s art throughout the tale is as much part of the story and adds a splash of literal colour amongst all the literary colour." A lovely review of "Soil Na Baba" by @staniforthmick.bsky.social! Read the full comic here:
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Soil Na Baba! | Tractor Beam
Have you joined the movement?
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I was a little young when it happened live, but I was a McNair scholar and let me tell you, if you don't think intergenerational trauma is real yet...
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#FundraiserPerk It is ZOOMAPALOOZA TIME! All our Zoom chats with authors are half off this week! Don't miss your chance to ask questions about upcoming projects or learn from the best about writing or the writing industry. Donate at locusmag.com... or through our bio!
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Get a discounted Zoom chat from one of our amazing authors!
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Holly Black
Sarah Pinsker
Mary Robinette Kowal
L.D. Lewis
Tobi Ogundiran
Nisi Shawl
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Honestly this is what made the movie/book, whose themes have otherwise been rehashed many times, feel refreshing and interesting. "[Dr. Grace] tries to break the rules of his own game to avoid being honest with the students, who call him on it."
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"Why send a schoolteacher to space?" @leahschnelbach.bsky.social on how Project Hail Mary answers the question: #ProjectHailMary
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How Project Hail Mary Makes the Impossible Possible - Reactor
This movie walks a thin tightrope over a bottomless void, and I love it
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✨Stephanie Drew✨ @drpaint-png.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hail Mary Full of Grace #projecthailmary
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呉々 @krgrmo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
#ProjectHailMary
映画プロジェクトへイルメアリーのファンアート。主人公のグレースが異星人であるロッキーとハグをしているイラスト。
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#FundraiserPerk Talk to Wole Talabi for a 30-minute one-on-one video chat. Warm beverages and friendly chatter encouraged. Comes with the April e-issue of Locus and digital cover art. Donate at locusmag.com... or through our bio!
headshot of wole talabi on phone screen
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AimEEK!! Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 12/02/2026
The novelette "We Begin Where Infinity Ends" by @somtoihezue.bsky.social:
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We Begin Where Infinity Ends by Somto Ihezue
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🥺
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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 21/03/2026
Remember: Octavia Butler wrote we should save seeds to plant, pick up skills like sewing and carpentry, learn how to shoot guns, practice how to fight, and create the futures we need, even as we look to the stars.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"Agnes hiked into the woods in her bathing suit and never came back." 👙🌲 New fiction today by @angelaliu.bsky.social: "The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood" By Angela Liu. Apex Magazine, Issue 152.
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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 16/03/2026
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Seals, shipwrecks and a screaming swallower: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026 – in pictures
The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life
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VLAD-ventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"The third week of a planetary exorcism is the hardest—at least if the planet in question has megafauna to deal with." What Any Dead Thing Wants by @aimeeogdenwrites.com. #FirstLineMondays www.adventitious.net/stories/what...
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What Any Dead Thing Wants
A Nebula-nominated work of literary speculative fiction by Aimee Ogden exploring death, exploitation, and what we owe to those that are gone.
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Glad to see Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is still hoppin on the #merriam-webster top lookup list.
Screenshot of Merriam-Webster dictionary Top Lookups list. From top to bottom 1) Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, 2) fortuitous, 3) devastate, 4) America, 5) phyll-, 6) harper, 7) big boy
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Hope this reminder doesn't get on your nerves! 💢🍄 You have THREE WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! March's theme is MYCELIUM. You have until the end of the month to submit! www.patreon.com/posts/march-...
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a long white mushroom with a black top is growing in the woods
Alt: A timelapse of a bridal veil stinkhorn mushroom sprouting on a forest floor
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GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
New story up at GNS: “The asshole knew I loved him,” said Gerry. “At least I hope so.” “Nothing wrong with telling him again,” I said. “I talk to dead folks all the time.” Read “About Face” by Teresa Milbrodt giganotosaurus.org/2026/03/01/about-face
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About Face - GigaNotoSaurus
Gerry and I didn’t have kids though we’d tried. I’d lost those babies in the fourth month, the fifth month, the fourth month again. By then I was so exhausted by hope and disappointment that I didn’t ...
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Android Press @press-android.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Submissions are now open for THE COOKOUT, an anthology of speculative fiction from the African diaspora. Send us your sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and everything in between! #authors #blackauthors #speculativefiction Submission guidelines and link can be found at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If I had to suffer this jumpscare in my inbox this morning, so should you. #jumpscare #AIisreal #isthisloss
Text above reads "LOSS is real" above a game show style graphic. A female-presenting android with giant purple eyes, bob cut hair, purple metal turtle neck and orange and white metallic jacking raises a metal android fist in a 'pumped up' position.
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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! “What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...
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What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom - Uncanny Magazine
After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never...
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Jokes on you, my protagonists are historians but so is my villain 👀
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Our gorgeous Issue 7.2 cover, designed by Frances Philip, still stops us in our tracks! 😻
An illustration of a large purple side profile of a human with their face painted with splashes of red, purple, and orange, along with trees and birds. There is a small human figure standing on their purple outstretched hand. In the background are a green sky, orange mountains, and a moon. In the corner of the illustration reads: “7.2 cover by Frances Philip” in white text.
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Ouch, get out of my head please 😭🫠
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
For Black History Month, we’re showcasing Black creators’ stories, voices, & illustrations! 🌟📚 From the light-hearted to the heart-wrenching to the deeply mysterious, these creators' imaginations captured our team's hearts. Scroll down to see their work! ⬇️
An illustration of a Black little girl walking through a field of yellow-purple grass, towards a yellow light. At the top of the image reads: “augur + tales & feathers” in white text. Below it reads: “Black Words & Worlds.” in white text. In the middle of the image is a spread of the covers of Augur Issue 8.1, Augur Issue 8.2, Augur Issue 8.3, Tales & Feathers Volume 3, and a cellphone with an illustration of murmurstations podcast. Underneath reads: “Celebrating voices, art, and stories during Black History Month and every month” in white text. There is a yellow arrow pointing right below. At the bottom of the image is a white border with the Augur logo.
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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work
A whiteboard leaned against a shelf with many trinkets. On the whiteboard, it says “When you look at a blank page, think of who you love”
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
writing productivity doesn’t alway have to look like writing. Sometimes it’s doing research by watching deep dive videos of ocean friends. Or so I’m telling myself RN. #amNOTwriting #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritingscifi The sauce: www.instagram.com/reel/DU63BQ5...
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a large octopus is sitting on a rock in the ocean
ALT: a large octopus is sitting on a rock in the ocean
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I think this is especially hard for those of us working parents who only can focus on a few rewards at a time. And how much harder it is to write something like a novel, where writing is often contained to tiny rewards (e.g. I wrote 50 words) because you're building something so big/long term.
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I wrote Space Treads as a subtle sci fi discourse to mirror words by Carter G. Woodson, founder of #BlackHistoryMonth: the classroom was and still is a site of violence, but students themselves can shape possibility for freedom. Read here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/spac... Thread (1/?)
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Space Treads - Uncanny Magazine
“There would be no lynching if it did not start in a schoolroom. Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?” —Carter G. Woodson, 1933   “Like desi...
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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 18/02/2026
in the last few years, I've tried many ways at being a writer. One was treating it like this artisan garden that must be always perfect for viewing. You count every word, prune with abandon, and march forward like a soldier to their last battle.
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I used to think if I couldn't support an author by buying a book directly for $$ reasons, borrowing it from the library was just a cop out. Until a prof was like "PLEASE just request it from the uni library, it's much better for me." Anyway, don't be a perfectionist like me. Borrow those books.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Roses are red Read this thread curiously Colorless green ideas Are sleeping furiously
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 14/02/2026
Most R1 English departments, my entire career: *very skeptical of English education* @manshel.bsky.social: The high school English classroom is the most important literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars. Me: 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
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High School English and the Making of American Readers
Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars
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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Happy Friday y'all! We'll be posting more about our 2026 themed issues, but here's a sneak peek to get your ideas percolating for the upcoming submission windows: Summer: Black Kishōtenketsu Fall: Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars Share with a friend who you know will eat this up 🍽️
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A reminder that people who engage with your art will always have criticism that reveals they never really understood (or tried to understand) your art.
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
F y'all for this @adobe.com Exploiting people who are already tired on a product that we used to actually get to have on our computers?
Picture of Adobe Photoshop charging $115 early cancellation fee.
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A sweet and haunting story about growing old, ethics of care, and missed amends.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Reading for the Hugos, Nebulas, or Locus Awards? Please consider @thomasha.bsky.social's novelette "Uncertain Sons" in your long fiction categories. Free to read here: undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
Screen grab showing web page with UNCERTAIN SONS. Black text on grey background
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I saw this making the rounds last night and was too tired to bother clicking. I was so, so wrong.
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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 10/02/2026
Almost 3 years since the publication of SECRET OF THE MOON CONCH by Guadalupe García McCall & me. It's still timely. The premise? A teen from Mexico—crossing into the US to escape violence and find her father—is captured and caged by ICE. But she has an unexpected ally, connected to her mind. 1/
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Secret of the Moon Conch
Award-winning authors David Bowles and Guadalupe García McCall join forces to craft a sweeping fantasy romance about falling in love despite all odds.In modern-…
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Listened to this on the way to school with my kids. They giggled at the CFMs and some of it went over their head (haha) but we all truly enjoyed it. Touching, thoughtful, genuine heartfelt reflections on life while in the clutches of space capitalism, and the narrator is great!
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I've been feeling rather hopeless about writing lately but these words from Dr. Jade Singleton on linked in resonated: "The Harlem Renaissance didn’t happen AFTER the Great Depression. It happened DURING it... (1/2)
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I wish I was capable of writing something under 5K but perhaps you are capable)! I've enjoyed One Story workshops in the past.
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Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Lest anyone be scared away by the term, “advanced” here mostly means that you’re familiar with workshop, will submit something that meets the specs, and will treat our group with respect!
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
😭😅 Me rewriting the first three chapters of my novel once again after brutal feedback…
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