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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026

Working on this special issue with @sillysyntax.bsky.social was truly a bucket list moment for my writer journey. So much fun, and so proud to share stories from fellow Caribbean writers. 💜 Our islands may be small but our imaginations are limitless. 💜

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I *know* there are thousands of gothic horror fans who haven't found my aggressively queer vampire book yet Give this a boost and help me reach them? #BookSky #HorrorSky

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Interestingly, the intuition I felt and spoke from -- that embodied knowing -- is precisely the kind of thing AI, for all of its performative anthropomorphic gesturing at the simulacrum of personhood, can't do. Tech billionaires want us to believe that our embodied/human ways of knowing are useless!

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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This Caribbean Heritage Month, I don't want folks to read my peers like they're crossing off a bucket list of countries where they would like to vacation before they die. I want folks to read my peers because they know that my peers have valuable things to say & are very adept at writing about them.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

June is Caribbean Heritage Month! To get you started, here's LINCOLN & THE HARVESTER C-100, the fun sequel to my Nebula & Sturgeon Award winning short, TANTIE MERLE & THE FARMHAND 4200. Our favorite bot meets another in future Trinidad. Shenanigans ensue! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/linc...

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Lincoln and the Harvester C-100 - Uncanny Magazine

Well, Officer, the trouble really start when Mr. Vincent dead. I shouldn’t have been surprise eh. My neighbour wasn’t studying he health at all. He was young still, in he sixties, so he spend a lot of...

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

AUGURIANS !! Kickstarter support MAKES or BREAKS a pro mag ✨💪 Our cozy fantasy sibling has 3 GOALS—& only your backs, shares, and IMMACULATE vibes can get us there. 🔥🐉☕️ We need: $6.5k CA / $4.8k US for YEAR 5! $13k CA / $9.6k US for YEAR 6! $15.5k CA / $11.4k for PRINT! Share, share, share !!

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

An anthology you DO NOT want to miss! Featuring some of the incredible authors we've been so privileged to publish over this past decade! Please share this post with fans and readers of Black SFF. Guaranteed you will help someone find their next favorite storyteller in these pages!

Forged in FIYAH anthology cover. Featuring two beings forging a magical object with a vivid starscape in the background.

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Kristin Knowles @kzknowles.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Hey friends, can I ask you all to give our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Crowdfundr a look? Any amount helps us with our workspace renovation plans, if you're not able (which I understand!), if you could share the link that would be amazing. Love you all! 🤗🧡 👻📚 crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

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Little Ghosts Books Workshop Space

Little Ghosts Books horror bookstore & community hub is looking to expand its space by renovating our back garage into a studio to host our workshops, book clubs, and author events.

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!

A poster for the Toronto book launch for As The Earth Dreams:
Thursday November 13
Doors at 6, Event at 7
745 Queen St West
Featuring: Zalika Reid-Benta, Chinelo Onwualu, Trynne Delaney, Terese Mason Pierre and DJ Myles

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

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Support Jamaica

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 27/10/2025

I know there's a lot in the world right now but if you like, you can go to Mars for a bit with my guy Winston in my latest short story "On the Crossing of Mars" read for free or PWYC: fusionfragment.com/issue-26

A spaceman in a spacesuit faces a landscape of loose red dirt and rocks. Next to him are the words: "The ultrasuit, its working splayed open for Winston to climb inside, stands violet and gunmetal under the warehouse lights. Purple carbon plating, modified polymer weave joints, boxy onboard storage, helmet array. Winston takes and holds a deep breath and slides his arm into the machine's while Eliza helps him in: 'There,' she murmurs; 'there.'"

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

SUBS are OPEN for our special reprint issue, SINNERS, SAINTS, & HAINTS! Send us your lovelies! Spread the word! Details here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 01/08/2025

Louder for the people in the back!! Issue 8 released yesterday and is a labyrinth of delicious words: 8 short stories, 5 poems, 1 Horizon Zero Dawn essay, 1 review on spec-fic books Not to mention the delightful @angelvleal.bsky.social acting as Guest Poetry Editor ✨✨✨

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House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre, is a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers. AS THE EARTH DREAMS is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-... #booksky #blackbooksky

The cover of AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES, edited by Terese Mason Pierre, features a blue and purple bug on a black background.

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

Augur press novella and novelette submissions now open! Be a part of augur press’ debut line up. We’re looking for works from 12,500-40,000 words to launch as print books in 2027-2029. Canadian & international authors welcomed. Open July 6-August 30. Guidelines at augursociety.org/press-submissions.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

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Strange Horizons 2026

A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Apologies for the spoiler but... A TRINIDADIAN JUST WON #TopChef oh my God yes yes yes!!!!

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“I think the world need a lot more young angry women,” Thunberg said Tuesday in response. 🔥

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It's my periodic hi I have queer Caribbean anticolonial books that deal with themes of immigration, identity, even a biased legal system, folk lore and shapeshifting. If you've read either I'd appreciate a review. Thank you to everyone who has read and boosted them. You've been the best 🖤

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Strange Horizons’ annual fund-drive is now live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str... We are entirely community-funded, and this is our main source of income. Help us enter our 26th year?

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Strange Horizons 2026

A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

🎊 And the Nebula for Best Novella goes to... THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT by @thesuiway.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social). Congratulations!!! #Nebulas2025 🥳🥳🥳

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Hot Girl Summer? This is too much. Women deserve air conditioning.

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 29/05/2025

It’s us!! We’re open til the end of the month for short fiction and poetry: ❣️ it must be SFFH ❣️ there must be a long-term relationship as part of the focus ❣️ bonus points if Canadian

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/05/2025

Hello hello my fellow Canadians! Some local folks are putting together a little online showcase/party to support Canadian WorldCon bids (like @edmontonin2030.bsky.social !) -- since some people are not attending WorldCon in the US this year. Aug 15/16, spread the word? :)

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Montreal and Edmonton: online bid party

Hello everyone: we are planning to run an online party during the Seattle 2025 Worldcon. We have not yet decided on which day this event will run, but it will be either Friday 15th or Saturday 16th A...

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I am, once again, asking you to share this call for stories widely: The Apocryphal will be an anthology of Palestinian horror and dark fantasy/sci fi published by Roseway. Details below! soniasulaiman.com/the-apocryph...

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The Apocryphal -Call for Submissions

Palestinian Dark Fantasy and Horror Fiction Anthology -Call for submissions – a·poc·ry·phal /əˈpäkrəf(ə)l/ adjective adjective: apocryphal (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, althou…

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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Before I forget to mention it: ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon is your father’ has been reprinted in the latest issue of Candela Review, accompanied by a Spanish translation by Loretta Collins Klobah & Maria Grau Perejoan. www.candelareview.com/moriviv%C3%AD

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moriviví | Candela Review

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Seconded. Possibly my favorite story from 2024. Easily in my top three. The first time I ever got to chat with @nadiaradovich.bsky.social after reading it, I felt like I was meeting a celebrity. If you haven’t read this one, what are you even doing??

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 16/04/2025

WOOT! “And When She Shatters“ by @kercoby.bsky.social is a finalist for Best Story Story in the Aurora Awards! Read it and weeeeeep (in best way) www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today’s the day! Submissions for the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealism Special Issue are now open! We’re excited to read your work👇🏾 strangehorizons.moksha.io/publication/...

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Sarah Ramdawar @sararam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Terese's launch of her poetry collection MYTH is tonight. I'm sad I can't go. This collection fills me so. It starts from the sea and goes to the stars ✨ "a new mythology, of sand and shells / and touching every other creature / that has breathed an air of full faith / beyond a warped chain—"

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Rebecca Bennett @rebecca-b.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I have a short story you can nominate! The Water Doesn't Want You published in @augursociety.bsky.social and recently reviewed by @mariahaskins.com Do you like ice cream and dread? Everybody likes ice cream and dread, come on augursociety.org/the-water-do...

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The Water Doesn't Want You by Rebecca Bennett

The closer they are to the beach, the more Jay's ice cream tastes of salt. Persimmon and vanilla swirl, tart and sweet just three feet back, ebbs into a burning taste.

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Join me for the Toronto launch of my debut poetry book, "Myth"! 🌴🧜🏾‍♀️👽🌙🌺 April 9. 7PM. Society Clubhouse. Featuring performances by the amazing: @farahghafoor.bsky.social @faitharkorful.bsky.social @spondeee.bsky.social and @suntorya.bsky.social! Come through!! ✨️✨️

An event poster for Myth, dominantly orange with white text, with a mermaid, a rocket ship, a palm trees and a crescent moon.

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hi hi hi!!! I'm guest editing for Eye to the Telescope @sfpa.bsky.social with the theme of BIRDS. Here's a bird I saw at a conservatory recently!! Send me your poems!!! 💜💜 Guidelines & submitting link bit.ly/SFPAettt57

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hello friends! Today's a good day to pre-order @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons and Other Stories. @kellylink.bsky.social says you need this book. And they are right! You do. Order direct from us or your fave vendor.

Blurb from Kelly Link for Thomas Ha's UNCERTAIN SONS. "You! Yes, you! You need this book! The stories in Uncertain Sons already feel like classics of the uncanny. As inventive as Ray Bradbury, as unsettling as Thomas Ligotti or Carmen Maria Machado, Ha knows how to produce that peculiar, pleasurable, creeping sense of wrongness and dislocation so particular to weird horror. I am such a fan of Thomas Ha's writing-and I expect that you will be, too."

-Kelly Link, Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Book of Love and Get in Trouble

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 07/03/2025

friday mood from the signage aisle at home depot

a pack of vinyl letters for signage. the letters showing at the front of the pack read

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 07/03/2025

Issue 7 stretches beyond worlds, beyond stars, beyond time, beyond family. Our writers are bringing you some gorgeous prose and poetry that we can't wait for you to read! From our computer screens to your eyeballs, Issue 7 is launching March 31st!

A piece of white ripped paper partly covering the cover art for Issue 7. The cover art is a bright blue table with several pairs of hands on top. They are conducting a seance with a ghostly presence at the table and reflected in the mirror.
The white paper contains the following text: Stories by Laura Chilibeck, Chezza Lee, Z. M. Asafzah, S. C. Mills, Leo Oliveira, Camden Rose, Em Rowene, J. Y. Zhang. Poetry by Devan Barlow, Jennifer Crow, Diem Okoye, Daniel Oluremi, Ayida Shonibar

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hey. What a day to be posting about award nominations. Hugs all. If you are a member of the CSFFA association my novella Countess from ECW press is eligible to be nominated. Thank you and keep well in these times.🖤

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Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Nominations are OPEN! CSFFA members can now submit their nominations for works done in 2024. Our nomination form closes at 11:59pm Eastern Time on April 5th. Any questions or concerns, you can contact us here or on our website!

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Carnival is a special time of year for Trinbagonians everywhere. Born of revolution, it celebrates our humanity, resilience, culture, creativity & history. It's commercialised. But it's also us claiming our story. Here's my story, inspired by us, ever & always. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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12 Things A Trini Should Know Before Travelling To A Back In Times Fete™

Congratulations, ForeverFete™ Member! By now, you've received your Portal Ticket confirmations and ForeverFete™ Mas Pack, which should include essentials such as several period correct costumes; on…

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I think you should read my new story because it’s worth reading (in my unbiased opinion) but also because I’m in a really really really long meeting rn, and I need the dopamine of Bluesky notifications to survive 😌

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Sarah Ramdawar @sararam.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I am so disheartened. Went to vote tonight and it looked sparse. At a friend's polling station, they were told the registration machine was giving trouble all day. Another tried to vote for the first time through mail, and their ballot was "displaced". It never arrived. Now can't vote traditionally

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