Gwynne Garfinkle
@gwynnega.bsky.social
My short fiction collection SINKING, SINGING is available from Aqueduct Press. Work published in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Escape Pod, and Uncanny. she/her. gwynnegarfinkle.com
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Gwynne Garfinkle
@gwynnega.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Sinking, Singing by Gwynne Garfinkle
I'm pleased to announce the release of Gwynne Garfinkle's wonderful new collection, Sinking, Singing. Aqueduct Press is publishing i...
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Hello to the new folks following me! I write novels, stories, and poetry (mostly speculative). My collection of short fiction, SINKING, SINGING, came out at the beginning of October. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/sink...
I walked to Trader Joe's, which wasn't as chaotic as I'd feared, and they played Aretha's "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)." I was wearing my Let's Go to the Bookstore t-shirt, and the cashier and I discussed our favorite Los Angeles bookshops.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I walked to Trader Joe's, which wasn't as chaotic as I'd feared, and they played Aretha's "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)." I was wearing my Let's Go to the Bookstore t-shirt, and the cashier and I discussed our favorite Los Angeles bookshops.
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
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Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
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New poem with The Vertigo Project! Club Planet Vertigo, wishing the world was playing a song that was easier to dance to: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New poem with The Vertigo Project! Club Planet Vertigo, wishing the world was playing a song that was easier to dance to: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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New story with The Vertigo Project! Advice for Wormhole Travelers: a little help for when you find yourself in another, weirder world! vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New story with The Vertigo Project! Advice for Wormhole Travelers: a little help for when you find yourself in another, weirder world! vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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i always follow up with, “this is what public libraries are for, ppl. and libraries pay authors."
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
i always follow up with, “this is what public libraries are for, ppl. and libraries pay authors."
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We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
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!!👀
BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
!!👀
Cable guide description of Atom Age Vampire (1960): "A reptilian professor restores a scarred singer's beauty with serum from the dead." I don't see how the movie can surpass that synopsis.
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Cable guide description of Atom Age Vampire (1960): "A reptilian professor restores a scarred singer's beauty with serum from the dead." I don't see how the movie can surpass that synopsis.
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Poetrye, theatre, storyes, daunse, art, scholarlye researche about literature, historye, and language -- all of these thinges mattir more now, not less.
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Poetrye, theatre, storyes, daunse, art, scholarlye researche about literature, historye, and language -- all of these thinges mattir more now, not less.
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reposting this because this is what saved my life post-covid.
We've enrolled more than 700 participants (of 1,000 planned) in 3 weeks to a randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid
Founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, @erictopol.bsky.social, and Julia Moore Vogel, co–principal investigator of the Long COVID Treatment Trial, were featured in @wired.com, sharing insights on a nationwide study testing GLP-1s for long COVID.
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
reposting this because this is what saved my life post-covid.
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Peter Lorre knows what’s up with this trash.
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Peter Lorre knows what’s up with this trash.
Watching episodes of The Doctors from 1974 is making me crave an olive rotary phone.
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Watching episodes of The Doctors from 1974 is making me crave an olive rotary phone.
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Hi folks! Odd timing, but what is time. I wanted to say a few words about @bogiperson.bsky.social 's new book, Song of Spores. The launch was somewhat swallowed by the News Cycle, alas...
Usual disclaimer: the author is my spouse, I love them, etc.
This book is awesome!
Usual disclaimer: the author is my spouse, I love them, etc.
This book is awesome!
My brand new book Song of Spores is just $4.99 on the Kindle!
A fun space opera adventure that's also very trans, queer and intersex (like me). So um, *now* might be a good time to pick it up!
Spread the word! Costs less than an iced matcha latte 😆
amzn.to/47ES674 (Associate link)
A fun space opera adventure that's also very trans, queer and intersex (like me). So um, *now* might be a good time to pick it up!
Spread the word! Costs less than an iced matcha latte 😆
amzn.to/47ES674 (Associate link)
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Hi folks! Odd timing, but what is time. I wanted to say a few words about @bogiperson.bsky.social 's new book, Song of Spores. The launch was somewhat swallowed by the News Cycle, alas...
Usual disclaimer: the author is my spouse, I love them, etc.
This book is awesome!
Usual disclaimer: the author is my spouse, I love them, etc.
This book is awesome!
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I didn’t realized this had gone live but it seems that you can now read my flash, “What Happened That Night,” at Short Edition.
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What Happened That Night
Josh is gone, but I see him everywhere. Even now, it's his reflection I see in the puddle as the storm brings me back to reality. I shiver. Seems I'm always cold these days. I need to get my shit
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November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I didn’t realized this had gone live but it seems that you can now read my flash, “What Happened That Night,” at Short Edition.
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
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eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
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this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
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I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
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Anyway, all this is to say: keep going, other writers out there. It's not alway fun, and sometimes it's really not fun at all. But if you keep writing, eventually, you'll have written. If you just scroll, well, you end up with a grumpy brain and no pages.
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Anyway, all this is to say: keep going, other writers out there. It's not alway fun, and sometimes it's really not fun at all. But if you keep writing, eventually, you'll have written. If you just scroll, well, you end up with a grumpy brain and no pages.
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Please help @lpkindred.bsky.social stay in school in these difficult times. He's a great person who's had a rough go and deserves all the good things.
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Please help @lpkindred.bsky.social stay in school in these difficult times. He's a great person who's had a rough go and deserves all the good things.
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
Today I heard someone on NPR say (in reference to recent online outages), "I was trying to get onto ChatGPT..." and I couldn't focus on anything she said next. If you consult garbage for your work, why should I listen to you?
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Today I heard someone on NPR say (in reference to recent online outages), "I was trying to get onto ChatGPT..." and I couldn't focus on anything she said next. If you consult garbage for your work, why should I listen to you?
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Again for the morning crowd: Cover and pre-order link for Muñeca, out next June!
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: 9798217047574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Nat...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Again for the morning crowd: Cover and pre-order link for Muñeca, out next June!
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
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ICYMI last week, you can now read or listen to my short story “In the Zone,” about a bipolar artist who discovers she has a special power to aid immigrants, at Lightspeed: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...
In the Zone - Lightspeed Magazine
As her head hit the pillow, Yadira felt exhausted and relieved. Exhausted, because she’d worked on a very large collage almost the whole day straight. Her shoulder blades ached from hunching over her ...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
ICYMI last week, you can now read or listen to my short story “In the Zone,” about a bipolar artist who discovers she has a special power to aid immigrants, at Lightspeed: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...