Marty Cahill

I had the immense pleasure of putting together an illustration for this new australian Magazine, very humbled that that @serrels.bsky.social and @jacksonwryan.com chose me to scribble on their first cover.

Please consider backing local australian journalism. there are stories here worth telling.

T Kira Madden Is Not the Dark Person You Might Expect The Whidbey author’s process prioritizes play, even as she crafts deep, difficult stories.

Profiled T Kira Madden for ELLE! Read not only for WHIDBEY BTS, but also for a true example of what committing to this writing life can look like—and how freaking fun it can be amidst all the hard work. www.elle.com/culture/book...

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.

This is beautiful!! Congrats, Can't wait to read!!

Book cover for the forthcoming book The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. An Asian woman in a red Gilded Age ballgown faces the viewer defiantly holding a mask made to resemble a white woman's face. There are dark smoky hands reaching for her out of the darkness, grabbing her arms and caressing her face.

NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER!

I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is!

On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

Nearly 700,000 Displaced by War in Lebanon, U.N. Says

A humanitarian catastrophe is cascading across Lebanon, where 700,000 people have been driven from their homes. (1/3)

Also YES HI sorry I forgot and I guess it's official now? I am giving an author keynote at the Academic Conference for Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy at the end of May!

(If you are in Toronto and coming to this, we can hang out!)*

www.yorku.ca/accsff/

great video from @fdsignifier.bsky.social—this is such a solid essential breakdown that all people benefit from hearing, and i'd bet so many in your audience wouldn't get anywhere else, especially the call to action to get people to organize for clean air in workplaces and schools!

pamphlet for NYSWI with Martys book dead center

If you're in the Albany area, I'm doing an event with the NYS Writers Institute today at 4:30pm in the UA Campus Center! Full circle moment for me, I hope you can come through!!

The best advice I have for writers is: the harder you try to impress people with your prose, the worse your prose will be. Sit down and try to communicate honestly, you will find the places for your flourishes and metaphors that actually serve greater meaning rather than your own ego.

pamphlet for NYSWI with Martys book dead center

If you're in the Albany area, I'm doing an event with the NYS Writers Institute today at 4:30pm in the UA Campus Center! Full circle moment for me, I hope you can come through!!

For real get home safe though YouTube video by Pat Smith

Good morning, Bluesky.

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At one of the classes I spoke with yesterday, the professor assigned them to pick a story of mine and read it, and goddamn, I don't think I've ever had the chance to talk about my short fiction that much in my life 😭

CONGRATS!!

We wrote a book!!!! I'm feeling very normal today!!!!!!!!

HURRAH!!! So happy for you, congrats!!

Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.

USAID: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

I knew a bunch of this already but seeing it all in 20 minute clip is overwhelming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8S...

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

Man.

The world fucking is on fire.

So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.

Live whats left of your only life.

If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.

Fuck the haters.

She asked me if, when I was writing, I was happy. And if I was, then the rest would sort itself out 💜

This Wednesday, join us with C.S.E. Cooney & Kristina Ten for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, this Wednesday, March 11th, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all!
@csecooney.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social

Back at my alma mater to speak to writing classes & students (plus a book event tomorrow!) and I feel like I’m doing what I’m meant to be doing, AND I got to give advice that @maryrobinettekowal.com gave ME over a decade ago to save my creative brain and now I’m overwhelmed with emotion 💜

They’re saying nobody has ever done a national suicide as beautiful as mine. They say to me, eyes full of tears, “Mr President I’ve never seen a country kill itself as bigly.” And I smiled to myself. Think of that. Killing yourself. I’d do it. Maybe I will do it right now, who’d stop me? I wouldn’t.

A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.”

Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.

I just finished The Iron Garden Sutra by @thesuiway.bsky.social and it was phenomenal - will definitely be on my Hugo ballot next year!

a rock with googly eyes is sitting on the ground Alt: a rock with googly eyes is sitting on the ground

Rewatched Everything Everywhere All At Once tonight and I think I cried even more than the first time around. Battling despair with kindness, entropy with love. Now more than ever, a necessary message.

🎥 🎞️ COMING SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 🎞️ 🎥

As revealed in @people! MAZYWOOD, a haunting new literary thriller from @tananarivedue, author of the New York Times bestseller The Reformatory.

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