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📣 📣The Open Call for submissions to Vol 2 of Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF is live. 📣📣
Details and submission link in the posts below! 👇🏼
Details and submission link in the posts below! 👇🏼
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📣 📣The Open Call for submissions to Vol 2 of Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF is live. 📣📣
Details and submission link in the posts below! 👇🏼
Details and submission link in the posts below! 👇🏼
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Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
soniasulaiman.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
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Happy writing news: just signed a contract with Interzone Mag for my novelette, “The Five Languages of Grief,” an SF story at the intersection of imperialism and extraction.
It will come out in a future Interzone issue, so watch this space! Couldn’t be happier for it to have found a home here.
It will come out in a future Interzone issue, so watch this space! Couldn’t be happier for it to have found a home here.
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Happy writing news: just signed a contract with Interzone Mag for my novelette, “The Five Languages of Grief,” an SF story at the intersection of imperialism and extraction.
It will come out in a future Interzone issue, so watch this space! Couldn’t be happier for it to have found a home here.
It will come out in a future Interzone issue, so watch this space! Couldn’t be happier for it to have found a home here.
Don't say thisssss - I am still breathing and reading and writing 🥲
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Don't say thisssss - I am still breathing and reading and writing 🥲
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If you can, please donate to help one of our regular contributors in this time of need.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
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October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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A Daniel Hahn translation, must get my hands on it!
Out today - this beautiful, thoughtful journey into the effects of guilt and trauma on the human psyche, set in post WW2 Switzerland. Haunting prose by Antônio Xerxenesky, in a superb translation by Daniel Hahn.
Available now direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...
Available now direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A Daniel Hahn translation, must get my hands on it!
Read, read, read everything by Gautam Bhatia, and then some 🩵
In the latest issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter, I talk about a writer’s journey - or the long, winding road through publishing:
Words for Worlds - Issue 106: "It feels impossible ... until it's done"/A writer's journey —
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
Words for Worlds - Issue 106: "It feels impossible ... until it's done"/A writer's journey —
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
Words for Worlds - Issue 106: "It feels impossible ... until it's done"/A writer's journey
You will need a lot of persistence.
gautambhatia.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Read, read, read everything by Gautam Bhatia, and then some 🩵
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Here’s @akankshya.bsky.social on Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child (trans. Martin Aitken for @ndbooks.bsky.social): “Ironically, in this reimagination of social horror, Ravn creatively makes space for (slapstick) comedy.”
On witchcraft and society, for @strangehorizons.bsky.social:
On witchcraft and society, for @strangehorizons.bsky.social:
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken
We fear that which we don’t understand.
www.strangehorizons.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Here’s @akankshya.bsky.social on Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child (trans. Martin Aitken for @ndbooks.bsky.social): “Ironically, in this reimagination of social horror, Ravn creatively makes space for (slapstick) comedy.”
On witchcraft and society, for @strangehorizons.bsky.social:
On witchcraft and society, for @strangehorizons.bsky.social:
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The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
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Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION
October 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION
"Emerging literary translators often come up and tell me how much they want to be like me. They mean well, and more power to them, but I do find myself thinking: Are you sure about that?"
I wrote an article about burnout for KLN:
I wrote an article about burnout for KLN:
KLWAVE - Magazines | Korean Literature Now | Articles | Articles View
KLWAVE brings together Korean literature information about rights, publishers, authors, titles, and translators all on a single website.
klwave.or.kr
September 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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On the publication day of the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, I talk about the conceptualisation and creation of this anthology in the latest issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter:
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly.
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As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly.
Words for Worlds - Issue 102 || The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF
Hello everyone, and welcome to the publication day of Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF.
gautambhatia.substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
On the publication day of the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, I talk about the conceptualisation and creation of this anthology in the latest issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter:
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly.
gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...
As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly.
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Sometimes I'll say it in what I call a "semi-permeable" space like an unrecorded panel or Instagram stories or a lecture, but for the most part, I find a way to say them. Isn't that what writers are supposed to do? Find a way to say things?
If you can't do that, I don't know if you're a writer
If you can't do that, I don't know if you're a writer
August 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Sometimes I'll say it in what I call a "semi-permeable" space like an unrecorded panel or Instagram stories or a lecture, but for the most part, I find a way to say them. Isn't that what writers are supposed to do? Find a way to say things?
If you can't do that, I don't know if you're a writer
If you can't do that, I don't know if you're a writer
I will take my chances 🤭
August 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I will take my chances 🤭
Looking forward to reading this, Dan!
August 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Looking forward to reading this, Dan!
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It’sss pub day! MAD SISTERS OF ESI is now out in the US and Canada.
To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York!
(*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)
To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York!
(*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)
August 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It’sss pub day! MAD SISTERS OF ESI is now out in the US and Canada.
To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York!
(*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)
To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York!
(*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)
There's a sequel!!?? This is a duology???
July 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There's a sequel!!?? This is a duology???
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May 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Your opening SH review of the week is of @soniasulaiman.bsky.social Locus finalist, Thyme Travellers. Here’s @akankshya.bsky.social on an anthology of Palestinian SF: “The question of what is Palestinian is beautifully tackled in this anthology … Speculative fiction is here a political act.”
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Science Fiction edited by Sonia Sulaiman
Should Palestinian writers only set their stories in the land of their ancestors, or should they exercise their agency to write a different story?
strangehorizons.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Your opening SH review of the week is of @soniasulaiman.bsky.social Locus finalist, Thyme Travellers. Here’s @akankshya.bsky.social on an anthology of Palestinian SF: “The question of what is Palestinian is beautifully tackled in this anthology … Speculative fiction is here a political act.”