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Another FIYAH issue is headed your way soon! In the meantime, we feast on the stunning cover art for April's next unthemed issue: fiyahlitmag.com/2026/03/09/f...
Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now — but it’s because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
I've been struggling with how to express my dismay at the war coverage by our top newsrooms, and how it dances around the central fact that Trump is deranged and unfit to command. I finally wrote something. Please read it. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...
email to "opt out": expertoptout@superhuman.com
(My literary agent is looking into this, I believe, but he's on the road right now so...)
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
hell even the hot Shakespearian gargoyles were telling you to read:
"Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
Give us gossip wicked and vital, dinner parties salacious and droll, debutantes vile and intrepid.
Give us unforgivable rudeness and oppressive etiquette, scathing asides and dire gaffes."
Under 6K words
article is pure clickbait but it got me too—it's so difficult to resist the gift of righteous outrage lol. the weirdest thing is how the article seems to understand point of view even less than the people it's mocking allegedly do, e.g. identifying third person entirely with omniscient narrators
I, too, clicked and read and wondered why the writer kept calling third person “all-knowing.” No acknowledgement of close third, which even if it’s not the current trend in romance, is still strongly prominent. And other genres exist!
Also while I was fighting despair by sorting laundry and watering plants I want to say Happy International Women's Day to the women and especially the women who are in the closet about that
It's your day! Even if it's a secret
And now for my own very incomplete list of inspiring SFFH women writers!
@aimeepicchi.bsky.social
@bethgoder.bsky.social
@itsamia.bsky.social
@sambansil.bsky.social
@fondalee.bsky.social
@isabelcanas.bsky.social
Happy International Women’s Day! I’d love to see others’ lists as well!
Thanks to Cressida for the shoutout! And while you’re here, check out her excellent story “The Memory Swap” www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"
arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...
‘We Couldn’t Say the Title’: @littlebadger.bsky.social on the Words Banned at a Utah University pen.org/darcie-littl...
Get your tickets to the Locus Awards in May! Guests of Honor are Nnedi Okorafor, Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due, we are so excited to be partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley!
Tickets at locusmag.com/2026-lo... or via the link in our bio!! C U there.
“At the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. “It felt like a betrayal of the utmost.” Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was “no longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. “It drove me to a point of saying, ‘She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.
this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%.
boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
Fifteen African Authors Make the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List – They Need Your Votes! brittlepaper.com/2026/02/fift... via @brittlepaper.bsky.social
One of my favorite parts of last night’s election results.
The only Democratic talking point should be: we don’t abandon anyone.
losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now
Out: Vote Blue No Matter Who
In: PRIMARY THAT FUCKER OR YOU'RE A SUCKER
Deeply evil and not at all the case when I began teaching in 1999. You wouldn't have much left over, but you could eat without having a side hustle.
Everyone my age and older needs to call out the ridiculously low wages being paid to PK-12 practitioners these days.
It is women in horror month. I am one of those and here is my gothic/horror lit collection that people said was pretty good.
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/skin-...
Horrifying doesn't even begin to cover it. This is, legally and practically, torture. They will deny HRT even to those who can no longer produce their own sex hormones, which can and will have dire medical consequences. They will drive people to suicide.
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
IT’S HERE ‼️ And yes I cried when I hit send on the issue for subscribers. I hope you love this issue as much as we do.
Today is the last day to submit your Nebula ballot! Don't forget to vote in the things you loved in 2025!
It would be nice if statements by members of Congress on the U.S. attack on Iran started with something like:
“This attack is an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s war powers.”
I’m so sorry, Wendy.
Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.
Cover: Mushroom Mother of Us All by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The text "Uncanny," "November/December 2025," "Issue Sixty-Seven," and the credits are in white.
Last minute reading for the Nebula Awards? The Nebulas close on March 1, 2026 at 11:59 PST! Here are the Uncanny Magazine 2025 Award Eligibility and Poetry Eligibility lists!
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