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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My queer sword & sorcery novella The Cursed Blade of Wek is in this series and I CANNOT WAIT for the cover art reveal you guys it’s so so good. I’m also extremely excited for the first collection by my dear friend and inspiration @shingai-be-like.bsky.social ! SHARE THE HECK OUT OF THIS

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Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Another round of submissions read, reread, thoroughly discussed. Thanks to everyone for sharing, we continue to be in awe💐—on that, please if you have verse drippin (deeply-engaged) curiosity, (antipossessive) exploration, (eryday) out dis world, tend & send! speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#guidelines

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Spec Colorways in Verse

a newsletter and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just a heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō: Year 6

Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026

Not to be all "it's my birthday, buy my books" but it is and you should. THE DEAD WITHHELD: tiny, quick read, queer, paranormal neo-noir, grumpy protag with questionable decision-making YEAR OF THE MER: big, special editions, fantasy, slow burn sapphic tragedy, grumpy protag, worse decisions

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#Booksky #PrideMonth Pride StoryBundle Title of the Day: WE’RE HERE: BEST QUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION 2024 edited by Ryka Aoki and Charles Payseur from @neonhemlock.bsky.social! Get this and 15 other great queer reads and support Rainbow Railroad’s work with LGBTQ refugees! storybundle.com/pride

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"Muñeca is a short, sapphic, delightfully-paced dance between a cleaning lady’s witchy daughter and a gothic sleeping beauty — except the sleeping beauty isn’t as asleep as everybody thinks she is, and she is very out for revenge about it." Yeeeeee. Also, T.K.'s blade book is a delight.

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Spend four Mondays with me getting deep into Octavia Butler's last novel Fledgling. I'm teaching a class online all about its puzzles and rewards: literary-arts.org/event/octavi...

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Octavia Butler: Fledgling

Octavia Butler’s final novel, Fledgling, is a powerful, disturbing book about humanity and Otherness that is also a vampire coming-of-age story. Delve guide Nisi Shawl, a friend of Butler’s during her...

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

So many wonderful reads, orgs, & ppl on the Ignytes list! I'm EXTREMELY happy to see Ichthyosis by ML Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social included! @shingai-be-like.bsky.social & I are proud of everything we did with @fantasymagazine.bsky.social and it's SO COOL to see this story be celebrated!!!

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

incredible, yes i often think of a convo between @older.bsky.social & @mexicanity.bsky.social about chisme that i once got to be a fly on the wall for & also @shingai-be-like.bsky.social talking about gossip and oral storytelling traditions gossip divorced from its negative connotations, right?

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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Big news 🎊 My chapbook BLACK BOX FLIGHT RECORDER is now available for pre-order after winning the 2025 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest out of 1,000+ submissions. 🏆 Interested in experimental poetry, Afrofuturism? Pre-order here and share the link with your network: buttonpoetry.com/product/blac...

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Gearing up to start promo for our next novella series! This will be another set of novellas alongside a short story collection, with an especial interest in queer speculative fiction. You can sign up here to get notified when we go live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

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Shingai @shingai-be-like.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My second book is coming out with my favorite press!!! 🥰😍 I might be the star that is about to explode lol

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If you were programmed to be respectable, what would you do to break your code? In "Mycelium Memory Makes A Monster," Imani is imprisoned by a cop and finds an unlikely ally in the Once Girl Made of Mycelium, a vast, interconnected network of fungi. Read the full story out now on Tractor Beam! 🍄📖✨

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Mycelium Memory Makes a Monster | Tractor Beam

If you were programmed to be respectable, what would you do to break your code?

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

One of the things I frequently have to tell editors is how a particular construction is a Nigerian use of English. It probably feels/reads wrong to British or American ears. It's not wrong. It's how we remixed it.

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 22/04/2026

“What do we owe our ancestors, what do we owe our history, and what do we owe ourselves?” today on the blog!! River of Bones by @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social, reviewed by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social 🖤 psychopomp.com/river-of-bon...

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River of Bones Review - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Shingai Njeri Kagunda talks with author Rebecca Roanhorse.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 19/04/2026

Good morning YEAR OF THE MER is not romantasy. This has been a PSA. Enjoy your bookconning.

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Shingai @shingai-be-like.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I loooovvvee @tkrex.bsky.social and their collection and you should order it and read it if you can!

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My book is at the printers and also @shingai-be-like.bsky.social wrote me the most beautiful blurb gonna turn off the phone now and pretend like this is the only thing happening for the rest of the day 💖

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 13/04/2026

we are so excited to see One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com on the 2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists list!!! congrats to all the finalists!! and get your own copy of One Message Remains here: psychopomp.com/one-message-...

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the-astro-stud @the-astro-stud.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

#FundraiserPerk We say Locus is like a potato chip—you can never have just one. Receive all of the 2025 electronic issues of Locus magazine, plus digital cover art by designer Francesca Myman. Donate at locusmag.com/igg26/ link in bio

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Everybody go read this new story by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social

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Shingai @shingai-be-like.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I have a new story out! 🌱🔆 I gave a lot of what I'm feeling about this moment in time over to the story, and I'm excited for folks to check it out! If you're into Black queer baddies collaborating with the earth to destroy systems of power then you may like this one.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

extremely psyched to share a ToC with @shingai-be-like.bsky.social theirs drops 4/1, mine drops 4/5

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

COVER REVEAL IS HERE!! 👀‼️🤍 🌊🪷🎭An Empire in the Clouds🎭🪷🌊 forthcoming in September!

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hey! I had a queer cyberpunk story out in Clarkesworld in February. clarkesworldmagazine.com/pauling_02_26/

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Remember Me in the Meat by Sarah Pauling

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?" arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

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By the Numbers 10 - Arley's House

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Emmanuel Damas, another individual killed in ICE custody. He had a toothache. They ignored it. He died of spesis. Read that again. Why do we need to fund this murderous agency? www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

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Haitian man dies in US immigration custody with untreated toothache, brother says

A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months after the denial of his asylum application has died in the hospital

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Shingai @shingai-be-like.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Being in conversation with @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social felt like a gift for me as a writer and reader in this moment of rumours of war and unceasing terrible political news. There may be some words in this conversation that offer your heart & imagination something more to hold onto too.

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Rebecca Roanhorse @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This interview is one of my most honest and upfront. I also wax poetic a few times bc I’m old. Anyway, thank you Shingai Njeri Kagunda. Great questions!

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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026

I’m always thrilled whenever stories from Issue V get love! Congratulations to @shingai-be-like.bsky.social & @formerlykevin.bsky.social! Read their stories & the rest of this stellar anthology for free on willthisbeaproblem.co.ke #AfricanSFF #KenyaMentioned

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Once again if you are not currently following @shingai-be-like.bsky.social , do so now

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Here’s what you need to know about @shingai-be-like.bsky.social's short fiction published in 2025. The Kenyan writer would appreciate your consideration in the relevant categories this award season. Link below. #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙

Award eligibility graphic for Shingai Kagunda’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a dark blue background with subtle cosmic illustration and teal and orange accents.

The title reads: Khaya Maseko | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration

The graphic lists Acceptance, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025.

Main text reads: In this haunting story, a young girl learns a disturbing secret about those in power and ponders this truth as she grows up to be a journalist and becomes exhausted by reporting on the never-ending violence and exploitation in our society.

Kagunda likens the vices of corruption, violence and war to parasitic creatures living under the skins of Kenyan politicians, transferred over to them by the white colonizers. A story that reminds readers about the importance of holding onto our stories, and of oral tradition.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 14/01/2026

Continuing @crsutton.bsky.social's Blurb Week with praise from @shingai-be-like.bsky.social for KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE!

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

hey Fantasy lovers did you know that both @arleysorg.bsky.social and @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are eligible for this year's Hugo award, Best Editor Short Form? THEY ARE and Best Editor Locus Awards, and the Special Award for World Fantasy just saying for REASONS 💖💜🦄 (get those noms in!)

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Deeply biased here because @prioryruins.bsky.social is one of my favorite writers and favorite humans. I read one of their @clarionucsd.bsky.social app stories in 2020 and it took me years to recover. Check out SONGBOOK but their bib fucks hard. Read it all!

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Christopher Hennessy @thealtchris.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Every author dreams of readers waiting for their work to come out! Here are some! Includes @sunyidean.com , @isabel.kim , @johnchu.bsky.social , @acwise.bsky.social , @annleckie.com Might have to put a few of these on the tbr list. theportalist.com/most-anticip...

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The Most Anticipated Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2026

Here are the science fiction and fantasy books we're most excited to read in 2026.

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Shingai @shingai-be-like.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I didn't publish a lot in 2025 but grateful to have what I did published received with such generosity 💕

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The review features the following stories: “The Language We Have Learned to Carry in Our Skin” by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social “If Memory Serves” by @formerlykevin.bsky.social

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