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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 19h

Friends in the Northeast! I and a whole bunch of authors are headed your way in the next two weeks for @yumewrites.bsky.social 's Traveling SFF Festival! Instead of having conversation partners, we'll be paneling with one another at each stop. More info at
www.yumekitasei.com/travelingsff...

A blue graphic with text on it with information about the Traveling SFF Festival. The text reads:
8 nights, 8 cities, 8 panel discussions

Elaine Cho, JR Dawson, Emily Jane, Micaiah Johnson, Yume Kitasei, Mia Tsai, Julia Vee, with Amanda Foody, Matthew Kressel, Ray Nayler, Sarah Pinsker, Veronica Roth, Fran Wilde

Week 1
Monday, Oct 13: PT Knitwear, New York, NY
Wednesday, Oct 15: Greedy Reads Remington, Baltimore, MD
Thursday, Oct 16: East City Bookshop, Washington, DC
Friday, Oct 17: Mavey Books, Philadelphi, PA (Ardmore)

Week 2
Tuesday, Oct 21: Possible Futures, New Haven, CT
Wednesday, Oct 22: Smith College, Northampton, MA
Thursday, Oct 23: Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT
Friday, Oct 24: Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 18h

Congrats on both!

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 23h

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Cover image to the book, showing the back of an astronaut in a space suit as he steps off into a psychedelic swirl of cosmic colors and stars. The title circles around the figure.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 1d

Ain’t no mail like contributor book mail! So proud to be in this anthology from @aanpress.bsky.social

Cover of a book titled Mmeory. The cover image is abstract, like a face with eyes.

The book is open to a story titled “He Walks the Same Streets” by Guan Un.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 1d

I had a story come out today!

If you think too much about fairy tale witches and also murder and complicated relationships, this one is for you.

theorangebee.substack.com/p/tasting-no...

Tasting notes

Issue seven: flash fiction by Cislyn Smith

theorangebee.substack.com

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 1d

I’m still chewing over the sentence Guan chose and his excellent analysis of how it breaks “rules” and why it works.

Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 1d

New newsletter! A sentence from Lorrie Moore's Birds of America that spins out of sight—

The ballad of the Lazy Susan

Dear reader, Here’s a sentence: But that tiny spot—like any season, or moon, or theater set; like a cake in a rotary display—invariably spun out of reach and...

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 1d

New newsletter! A sentence from Lorrie Moore's Birds of America that spins out of sight—

The ballad of the Lazy Susan

Dear reader, Here’s a sentence: But that tiny spot—like any season, or moon, or theater set; like a cake in a rotary display—invariably spun out of reach and...

buttondown.com

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RJ Taylor @rjtaylor.bsky.social · 2d

My novelette “The Third Movement of Time,” is now free to read in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social !

"Winter observes her frustration at Gorgós's irrational behavior and, within it, a particle of jealousy..."

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Third Movement of Time by RJ Taylor

Winter heard nothing unusual, but she listens harder and there is indeed a sound different than twittering. It is the song of pipes on the wind. It is no tune she recognizes, but she observes in her c...

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats!!

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P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES) @ph-low.com · 3d

this YA horror antho is out today ~ incl. my literally hostile architecture novellette and 12 other amazing stories featuring disabled protagonists!

(it's also @bookshop.org anti-prime day! free shipping!)

bookshop.org/p/books/thes...

These Bodies Ain’t Broken

Check out These Bodies Ain’t Broken - A monstrous transformation within your own body. A sacrificial imprisonment. A fight to the death against an ancient evil. These stories showca...

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats!

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 5d

Welp, in a first for me, my story "Painted Surfaces" has been translated into Estonian: algernon.ee/jutt/varvitu...

Big thanks to Kristjan Sander who translated and the Estonian spec fic scene!

Värvitud pinnad | Algernon

algernon.ee

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday Misty!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 9d

The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai is fascinating look at archival work through a speculative lens.
reactormag.com/book-review-...

Records and Romance in The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai - Reactor

Science fiction and fantasy, dystopian and romance, slice-of-life and adventure blend in Mia Tsai's sophomore novel.

reactormag.com

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 7d

Feeling spicy this morning and might actually send a newsletter in uh ... let's not talk about it.

If you'd like it, you can sign up here! guanun.com

Guan

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 8d

good news everybody, there's a new Sarah Pauling story out in the world to read

🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 8d

My story is free to read today!! meet Gracie, a very responsible camper. please help Gracie save a terrible terrible child

Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 8d

Free Fiction Friday with
“Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine”
by Sarah Pauling
magazine.trollbreath.com/gracie-and-l...

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 9d

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

Welcome to the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website
Are you the legal or beneficial copyright owner of a book included in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement?
You could get a payment from the $1.5 billion Settlement.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 9d

Psst @choiceofgames.bsky.social games are in the Steam Autumn Sale! Mine, in which you teach magic in secret at a liberal arts college and certainly don’t summon potentially world-ending entities, is less than $6! That’s $0.000012 a word! store.steampowered.com/app/1766340/...

Save 34% on Professor of Magical Studies on Steam

Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by...

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 10d

Writer PSA: as submitting to best of year awards and anthologies season rolls around, it's a great time to take any stories you've published this year and save a clean document of the published text, without any editorial comment.

I often forget, but it will come in handy more than you think.

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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 10d

Everybody look!
My debut novelette is out, thanks to @psychopomp.com!
🖤💀🌹🧟🌹💀🖤

Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 12d

"This is the story of what would not be left behind."

we are so excited to share our final novelette of 2025!!

Garden of the Bloodpotter by @babblewocky.bsky.social

and hey, if you want a free ebook of the novelette, drop your email after the story 🖤✨

psychopomp.com/garden-of-th...

Garden of the Bloodpotter - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

The latest novelette by Erin Brown: Garden of the Bloodpotter, published by Psychopomp, read it for FREE.

psychopomp.com

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 10d

You can read the story @flashfictiononline.bsky.social here!

The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or The Grandchild’s First Dragon

Thirty years after the War of Broken Crowns and the fall of the White-Gold King: Sun-Li had a new adversary to face.“So what do you like to do?” he asked his granddaughter, Antha.Antha had been rid…

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 10d

I missed this very sweet review of my story when it came out: "If you need something beautiful to make you feel a bit better about the world, read this."

😭 Thank you Sara!

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 18d

REVIEW: “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon” by Guan Un

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REVIEW: “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon” by Guan Un

Review of Guan Un, “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon,” Flash Fiction Online 144 (September 2025): 13-16 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sa…

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Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 18d

REVIEW: “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon” by Guan Un

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REVIEW: “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon” by Guan Un

Review of Guan Un, “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon,” Flash Fiction Online 144 (September 2025): 13-16 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sa…

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 11d

oh no, i'm so sorry. sending so much <3

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