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Applications for my upcoming Short Story Cohort are due on Thursday, March 5. You'll join an intimate group, receive critique (including from me), build your short story writing skills, and write and polish pieces for submission. Learn more and apply here: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...

The Fall of the House of Valenziaga: A Special Edition Novel It’s Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets The Chronicles of Amber in this queer post-apocalyptic science-fantasy extravaganza!

The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall.

Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber.

High drama and high CAMP!

Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops!

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i’m an ethical hater. i’m hating on u from a nuanced and multifaceted standpoint

Academic Neutrality - Lightspeed Magazine When Amy begins to flay herself during office hours, you aren’t quite sure what to do. You hate office hours. You used to enjoy them, actually, back before the flayings started. Sure, it’s hard sharin...

New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I'm late to this absolute banger of a story, full of beautiful queer rage and cunty antics. 11/10, would (against all advice) let Courtney Lovecraft psychically read me for filth.

i have a book about the Death of Mountains visiting a middling hill in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's a short little book, and on sale from my publisher (@lethepress.bsky.social)!

Come sit on the swamp pier and tell Grandpa your dreams…or nightmares, if that’s all you’ve got.

Ahh same! I‘m halfway through La Belle Sauvage right now. So excited for the finale.

Portland was a lovely time, y'all! Good books and good company. Wishing safe travels to you both, and lots of rest afterward.

I want to gently push back on this: not being able to read complex writing is not the same as being a low information citizen. Many people can comprehend the topics involved just fine if they are presented in an accessible and understandable manner.

No worries and no rush! I'm writing under Ray Chanteur. Thank you again, both for the shout out and for the editing!

Ok, it is extremely cool to be on anyone’s must-read list. Do I have to play it cool or can I say I was totally floored this morning when someone tagged me?

Looking forward to reading everything here! Thank you for the recommendations!

This is so cool!! I’m honored — thank you for the shout out!

Small question: I am starting to transfer work to a pseudonym. Is it too late/too much trouble to edit the article to reflect that?

there seems to be an emergent trend of "queer" fantasy works being framed as escapism in the sense of ostriching from our current political situation and like, while I get the sentiment and that some folks probably need that,

there seems to be erasure of Pride being a brick-throwing riot

Congrats on the new family 💚

I don’t mean to alarm you, but I think an angel fell asleep in your lap there.

This is incredibly sweet, thank you!

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all those movies about society refusing to recognize the humanity of robots but it turns out if you glue googly eyes to a roomba about half the country is ready to propose

a bumper sticker which reads "Proud Parent of the Omelas Child"

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"

grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...

#Worldcon

This year, Scalzi is eligible for the Most Wholesomely Supportive Dad Energy Award. And he has my vote.

OUR INDUSTRY WILL DIE IF WE CAN'T STEAL YOUR WORK BUT EACH OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY CREATED NOTHING OF VALUE

I mean idk if it was me I might have workshopped that one for a little longer.

15 Lit Mags That Are About to Change Everything Chill Subs Incubator Winners & Finalists Winners • Folly • NWF Journal • Dreamworldgirl Zine • Notch Magazine • Space and Time Finalists • Paratextos • Gather • OTHERSIDE • OyeDrum • Ubwali Literary Magazine • Pafuera • Silly Goose Press • Zine Machine • Chabutra • Stanchion CHILL SUBS®

About 3 months ago, we launched a lit mag incubator to give $1000 to 5 mags willing to try something new, serve underrepresented communities, and prove ethical publishing can actually work.

Today we picked our 5 (okay, and 10 finalists) and it’s time to CELEBRATE THEM✨

How I feel when I see wild violets too tbh

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026 A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

the @3lobedmag.com kickstarter is up to $7106 out of a $10,000 base goal! They have until NOON THURSDAY (edt) to get all or nothing!

Donate if you can, share share share!

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The most concerning thing in this Playplace is not the ball pit pee!

New story is out in Flash Point:

hi, cis folks!

this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.

hi, cis americans!

this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”