Archita Mittra
@architamittra.bsky.social
29 • writer, critic, editor and artist from Kolkata, India • 2x Ignyte Award finalist • ✍️ in Lightspeed, Locus, PseudoPod, Portalist, MIT Press, Reactor, Strange Horizons, etc • she/they🌈🍉
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❄️🔮I haven't written much in a while but an old horror flash of mine "My Heart in a Snow Globe" resurfaced in @pseudopod.org last month. It's a lil dark, twisty tale about motherhood as an art & the things we'd do to protect our loved ones. I hope you enjoy reading it!
pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...
pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...
PseudoPod 984: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIV: Thy Shields Between Them and the Light
“The spears of the day shall not touch them, the chains of the sun shall not hale them forth.” Beneath a forest canopy of flowering trees and fruiting vines, there lived a talented beetle.
pseudopod.org
ICYMI: My latest horror flash out in @pseudopod.org featuring:
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
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From Susan Cooper's The Shortest Day, a poem of the winter solstice:
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
December 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
From Susan Cooper's The Shortest Day, a poem of the winter solstice:
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
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Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
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Vajra Chandrasekera, author of "Rakesfall" and winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize 2025 shares a nifty piece of advice for speculative fiction writers.
🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
December 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Vajra Chandrasekera, author of "Rakesfall" and winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize 2025 shares a nifty piece of advice for speculative fiction writers.
🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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I know the moment a writer goes on hiatus, promo dies and nobody cares.
So while I have connection now...
So while I have connection now...
If you enjoyed Wolf's Path, get it as a stocking stuffer for a writer-friend!
Likewise, if you love Wolf's Path - leave a review, tell your friends.
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Likewise, if you love Wolf's Path - leave a review, tell your friends.
www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...
Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng
within a running wolf, four-pawed, howling
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December 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I know the moment a writer goes on hiatus, promo dies and nobody cares.
So while I have connection now...
So while I have connection now...
Please help Amal and her daughter Alma survive! Please donate and share widely!👇
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Please help Amal and her daughter Alma survive! Please donate and share widely!👇
Low-key thrilled to receive some good news on the eve of my 29th birthday: I've been longlisted for the Toto Award for Creative Writing for the third time.
I've been beating myself up this whole year for not writing much but I'm taking tonight as a win!
totofundsthearts.org/2025/12/long...
I've been beating myself up this whole year for not writing much but I'm taking tonight as a win!
totofundsthearts.org/2025/12/long...
Longlist 2026 - Creative Writing (English) - Toto Funds the Arts
Longlist 2026 - Creative Writing (English) TFA is pleased to announce the longlist for the twenty-first edition of the Toto Awards forCreative Writing in English. From a total of 174
totofundsthearts.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Low-key thrilled to receive some good news on the eve of my 29th birthday: I've been longlisted for the Toto Award for Creative Writing for the third time.
I've been beating myself up this whole year for not writing much but I'm taking tonight as a win!
totofundsthearts.org/2025/12/long...
I've been beating myself up this whole year for not writing much but I'm taking tonight as a win!
totofundsthearts.org/2025/12/long...
Popping back here to say I'm alive, mum's alive, we've been through hell and back & we're still healing. I'm honestly blown away by the support that my fundraiser has recieved & I'm grateful to everyone who has taken the time to donate, share & help out in whatever way they can. Thank you so much 🫶
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Popping back here to say I'm alive, mum's alive, we've been through hell and back & we're still healing. I'm honestly blown away by the support that my fundraiser has recieved & I'm grateful to everyone who has taken the time to donate, share & help out in whatever way they can. Thank you so much 🫶
Many congratulations to all the winners and fellow finalists! 🎉
October 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Many congratulations to all the winners and fellow finalists! 🎉
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In my latest review for @locusmag.bsky.social, I discuss @freyamarske.bsky.social's upcoming gorgeously poignant novella CINDER HOUSE--a haunted house story, a ghost story and a queer Cinderella retelling all at once!
Check out @architamittra’s review of CINDER HOUSE by @freyamarske.bsky.social: “Tender and heartfelt, it’s an ideal match not just for lovers of fairy tale retellings but for anyone in the mood for an elegantly written, unconventional love story.”
Cinder House by Freya Marske: Review by Archita Mittra
Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom 9781250341716, $24.99, 144pp, hc) October 2025. Freya Marske’s new novella Cinder House is a charming Cinderella retelling that puts a refreshing spin on the …
locusmag.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
In my latest review for @locusmag.bsky.social, I discuss @freyamarske.bsky.social's upcoming gorgeously poignant novella CINDER HOUSE--a haunted house story, a ghost story and a queer Cinderella retelling all at once!
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Explore @architamittra’s review of IMMACULATE CONCEPTION by Ling Ling Huang: “Overall, it’s definitely one of the most uniquely captivating and sustained interrogations of artistry and technology… I’ve read this year.”
Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang: Review by Archita Mittra
Immaculate Conception, Ling Ling Huang (Dutton 9780593850435, $28.00, 304pp, hc) May 2025. Ling Ling Huang’s sophomore novel Immaculate Conception is a compelling, meticulously crafted foray into…
locusmag.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Explore @architamittra’s review of IMMACULATE CONCEPTION by Ling Ling Huang: “Overall, it’s definitely one of the most uniquely captivating and sustained interrogations of artistry and technology… I’ve read this year.”
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ICYMI: My latest horror flash out in @pseudopod.org featuring:
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
❄️🔮I haven't written much in a while but an old horror flash of mine "My Heart in a Snow Globe" resurfaced in @pseudopod.org last month. It's a lil dark, twisty tale about motherhood as an art & the things we'd do to protect our loved ones. I hope you enjoy reading it!
pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...
pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...
PseudoPod 984: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIV: Thy Shields Between Them and the Light
“The spears of the day shall not touch them, the chains of the sun shall not hale them forth.” Beneath a forest canopy of flowering trees and fruiting vines, there lived a talented beetle.
pseudopod.org
September 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
ICYMI: My latest horror flash out in @pseudopod.org featuring:
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
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#HowToTouchGrass is a comics anthology for anyone searching for their proverbial watering hole in the concrete desert! 🤠🧶🐴
Less than 60 HRS LEFT on Kickstarter: buff.ly/ROsqvvJ
Featured work by @sharpibees.bsky.social ✨
Less than 60 HRS LEFT on Kickstarter: buff.ly/ROsqvvJ
Featured work by @sharpibees.bsky.social ✨
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#HowToTouchGrass is a comics anthology for anyone searching for their proverbial watering hole in the concrete desert! 🤠🧶🐴
Less than 60 HRS LEFT on Kickstarter: buff.ly/ROsqvvJ
Featured work by @sharpibees.bsky.social ✨
Less than 60 HRS LEFT on Kickstarter: buff.ly/ROsqvvJ
Featured work by @sharpibees.bsky.social ✨
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BCC Fave, @joamettegil.bsky.social returns to the show tonight at 9 pm EST to discuss the How To Touch Grass #kickstarter. Listen live at www.twitch.tv/blackcomicsc... and support the campaign at www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...
September 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
BCC Fave, @joamettegil.bsky.social returns to the show tonight at 9 pm EST to discuss the How To Touch Grass #kickstarter. Listen live at www.twitch.tv/blackcomicsc... and support the campaign at www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...
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Sometimes all you need is a deep breath of fresh air for everything feel all right! 🐌💚
Back #HowToTouchGrass on Kickstarter today: buff.ly/ROsqvvJ
(Art from "I'm no different from a bug" by @castrike.bsky.social) 🐌 💚
Back #HowToTouchGrass on Kickstarter today: buff.ly/ROsqvvJ
(Art from "I'm no different from a bug" by @castrike.bsky.social) 🐌 💚
September 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Sometimes all you need is a deep breath of fresh air for everything feel all right! 🐌💚
Back #HowToTouchGrass on Kickstarter today: buff.ly/ROsqvvJ
(Art from "I'm no different from a bug" by @castrike.bsky.social) 🐌 💚
Back #HowToTouchGrass on Kickstarter today: buff.ly/ROsqvvJ
(Art from "I'm no different from a bug" by @castrike.bsky.social) 🐌 💚
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"Huang’s novel is an intimate deep dive not just into how advances in technology can alter the way we create or experience art, but what it means to be a “successful” artist in this day and age." Read my full review of IMMACULATE CONCEPTION in @locusmag.bsky.social! 👇
Explore @architamittra’s review of IMMACULATE CONCEPTION by Ling Ling Huang: “Overall, it’s definitely one of the most uniquely captivating and sustained interrogations of artistry and technology… I’ve read this year.”
Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang: Review by Archita Mittra
Immaculate Conception, Ling Ling Huang (Dutton 9780593850435, $28.00, 304pp, hc) May 2025. Ling Ling Huang’s sophomore novel Immaculate Conception is a compelling, meticulously crafted foray into…
locusmag.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Huang’s novel is an intimate deep dive not just into how advances in technology can alter the way we create or experience art, but what it means to be a “successful” artist in this day and age." Read my full review of IMMACULATE CONCEPTION in @locusmag.bsky.social! 👇
"Huang’s novel is an intimate deep dive not just into how advances in technology can alter the way we create or experience art, but what it means to be a “successful” artist in this day and age." Read my full review of IMMACULATE CONCEPTION in @locusmag.bsky.social! 👇
Explore @architamittra’s review of IMMACULATE CONCEPTION by Ling Ling Huang: “Overall, it’s definitely one of the most uniquely captivating and sustained interrogations of artistry and technology… I’ve read this year.”
Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang: Review by Archita Mittra
Immaculate Conception, Ling Ling Huang (Dutton 9780593850435, $28.00, 304pp, hc) May 2025. Ling Ling Huang’s sophomore novel Immaculate Conception is a compelling, meticulously crafted foray into…
locusmag.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Huang’s novel is an intimate deep dive not just into how advances in technology can alter the way we create or experience art, but what it means to be a “successful” artist in this day and age." Read my full review of IMMACULATE CONCEPTION in @locusmag.bsky.social! 👇
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We're $1,339 away from hitting 25% funding!! Peep the latest Previews Section pages before they disappear for good: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow... @garbagepatch.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We're $1,339 away from hitting 25% funding!! Peep the latest Previews Section pages before they disappear for good: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow... @garbagepatch.bsky.social
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Only 10 days left to back #HowToTouchGrass!
And wouldn't you know it... only 4/5 slots left if you want to PAY ONCE and receive EVERY DIGITAL RELEASE we will EVER publish.
Yes, you read that correctly: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...
And wouldn't you know it... only 4/5 slots left if you want to PAY ONCE and receive EVERY DIGITAL RELEASE we will EVER publish.
Yes, you read that correctly: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...
September 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Only 10 days left to back #HowToTouchGrass!
And wouldn't you know it... only 4/5 slots left if you want to PAY ONCE and receive EVERY DIGITAL RELEASE we will EVER publish.
Yes, you read that correctly: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...
And wouldn't you know it... only 4/5 slots left if you want to PAY ONCE and receive EVERY DIGITAL RELEASE we will EVER publish.
Yes, you read that correctly: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...
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❄️🔮I haven't written much in a while but an old horror flash of mine "My Heart in a Snow Globe" resurfaced in @pseudopod.org last month. It's a lil dark, twisty tale about motherhood as an art & the things we'd do to protect our loved ones. I hope you enjoy reading it!
pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...
pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...
PseudoPod 984: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIV: Thy Shields Between Them and the Light
“The spears of the day shall not touch them, the chains of the sun shall not hale them forth.” Beneath a forest canopy of flowering trees and fruiting vines, there lived a talented beetle.
pseudopod.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
ICYMI: My latest horror flash out in @pseudopod.org featuring:
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
❄️🔮I haven't written much in a while but an old horror flash of mine "My Heart in a Snow Globe" resurfaced in @pseudopod.org last month. It's a lil dark, twisty tale about motherhood as an art & the things we'd do to protect our loved ones. I hope you enjoy reading it!
pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...
pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/p...
PseudoPod 984: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIV: Thy Shields Between Them and the Light
“The spears of the day shall not touch them, the chains of the sun shall not hale them forth.” Beneath a forest canopy of flowering trees and fruiting vines, there lived a talented beetle.
pseudopod.org
September 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
ICYMI: My latest horror flash out in @pseudopod.org featuring:
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
🔮 enchanted snow globes
👩🎨 a helicopter mom
🎨 art & crafts
☃️ winter vibes
If you're looking for a short, creepy read do check out "My Heart in a Snow Globe" in the July issue! ❄️
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The people have spoken: "Touch grass, Jo! We're all BROKE!"
Introducing the SOFTCOVER edition of HOW TO TOUCH GRASS! Same content, same quality, just without any bells, whistles, or hullabaloo.
The price will increase from $30 USD ~after~ the Kickstarter, so get it while it's HOT: buff.ly/HbA2TT6
Introducing the SOFTCOVER edition of HOW TO TOUCH GRASS! Same content, same quality, just without any bells, whistles, or hullabaloo.
The price will increase from $30 USD ~after~ the Kickstarter, so get it while it's HOT: buff.ly/HbA2TT6
September 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The people have spoken: "Touch grass, Jo! We're all BROKE!"
Introducing the SOFTCOVER edition of HOW TO TOUCH GRASS! Same content, same quality, just without any bells, whistles, or hullabaloo.
The price will increase from $30 USD ~after~ the Kickstarter, so get it while it's HOT: buff.ly/HbA2TT6
Introducing the SOFTCOVER edition of HOW TO TOUCH GRASS! Same content, same quality, just without any bells, whistles, or hullabaloo.
The price will increase from $30 USD ~after~ the Kickstarter, so get it while it's HOT: buff.ly/HbA2TT6
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Ever since I was a kid I loved all sorts of myths and have always understood that myth was one of my early paths to loving SFF. Does that resonate, @architamittra.bsky.social ?
@kendareblake.bsky.social series looks good!! new to me!
theportalist.com/fantasy-book...
@kendareblake.bsky.social series looks good!! new to me!
theportalist.com/fantasy-book...
The Best Fantasy Books Inspired by Greek Mythology
These seven fantasy books were heavily influenced or inspired by the classics of Greek mythology.
theportalist.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ever since I was a kid I loved all sorts of myths and have always understood that myth was one of my early paths to loving SFF. Does that resonate, @architamittra.bsky.social ?
@kendareblake.bsky.social series looks good!! new to me!
theportalist.com/fantasy-book...
@kendareblake.bsky.social series looks good!! new to me!
theportalist.com/fantasy-book...