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Jenna Hanchey
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"Badass fairy." BSFA nominated fiction. Ignyte & BF nominated narration. Collage artist. Podcast host. Poetry ed. Prof of Rhetoric & Critical/Cultural Studies. Writing on decolonial dreamwork & African SF & land & kinship. she/her. https://jennahanchey.com
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Jenna Hanchey @jennahanchey.bsky.social · 6d
This is, I suppose, the one award-worthy thing I have for your consideration this year. A mystical, grief-laden, yet imminently hopeful poem in collage form
jennahanchey.bsky.social Jenna Hanchey @jennahanchey.bsky.social · 7d
Aw thanks for asking! I've spent the past few years turning to collaging in times of overwhelming grief or fear or pain, when I couldn't form words of my own. I didn't realize they might speak to others, too -- so I was really excited when Worlds of Possibility published "After" as a collage poem ✨
A collage poem on a white paper background. The images are sepia-toned. The primary background image is a full moon rising over a snowy mountain, with other collaged planets and stars bordering it. The words across the pictures read: after. all speak up. rampaging CHANGING THE WORLD HAPPILY, WE Think outside the box. Beyond Your Dreams Give in to spontaneous creativity desire you'll get caught up in the mystique and magic TAKE CARE be a softie Psssssst..... --it's far from over
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Our November newsletter is out! Join us on Patreon (for free!) if you want behind-the-scenes stats from our Kickstarter campaign, a handy overview of our nonfiction/reprints opening on the 24th, and… an introduction to our intern of the month, PEACHES!

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OTHERSIDE intern of the month for November 2025: PEACHES! An image of a cute small brown and white dog in a pumpkin shirt for Halloween in a plaque on a blurred purple background.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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My take on the damage to the human psyche:

www.radonjournal.com/issue5/hello...

Hello, This is Automatic Antigrief: What Problem Can I Solve for you Today? Originally in @naturefutures.bsky.social, reprinted (and accessible for free) in @radonjournal.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Simultaneous Times episode 93 is live and available on your favorite podcast player. Featuring stories by Jason P. Burnham & @elianeboey.bsky.social with music by TSG & Phog Masheeen.

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The Simultaneous Times logo (a painting of an astronaut watching a supernova, with author headshots.
November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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What is our responsibility as SFF writers in the face of genocide and anti-Muslim violence?

Read Tanvir Ahmed's excellent essay in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
&
Listen to our chat with him this week on @justkeepwriting.bsky.social for some thoughts

www.justkeepwriting.org/podcast/epis...
A Letter Dispatched from the Hills of Afghulistan and the Ramparts of Tarouz
Language blasts through the malicious intentions and blows them to ash. Language rises triumphant over fangs and claws. Language, in other words, is presented as something more than a medium for co…
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November 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Happy Book Birthday! One year today! 🍾🥂 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @tobiogundiran.com, @xanwriter.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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I wrote a story about this. It was meant to be a *warning*

(Originally published in Nature, reprinted with free access here in Radon)
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I've been banging on & on about Fargo Tbakhi's essay in @proteanmag.com ever since it came out almost 2 yrs ago

this part spoke to me the most, cuz i've been pleading with ppl to stop using this word, so i am sharing it again with y'all.

"t*r*or*sm is the great weapon of the West. It is used only
We must remember that t*r*or*sm does not describe an objective reality; it is, like other pieces of language weaponized to murder, an ideological word used by ideological powers, with specific legislative and carceral bodies attached to its use. C. Heike Schotten, in Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler-Colony, offers us the only definition of terrorism that matters. She writes that the figure of the te*ro*ist: “…can be understood as the contemporary settler state’s moralized imperial name for the unthinkable indigenous remainder that, in the insistence on remaining, challenges the settler state’s claim to sovereignty, security, and civilizational value. Indeed, indigenous peoples’ continued existence not only challenges settler sovereignty’s claim to legitimacy and ‘first’-ness, but is the harbinger of that sovereignty’s death insofar as they become legible to it as existing.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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40% off books -- including mine!

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November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Books that remind you why you love reading <3
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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OMG! My first review for Dispelling Fantasies! Huge thank you to @danhartland.bsky.social for bringing my thoughts about genre into such a brilliant, nuanced conversation ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/12/s...
Snap! Criticism: Sanchez-Taylor and Onyebuchi
Dan Hartland What should you read if you want to understand what you’re reading? Gang, this column would of course advise that you read criticism. But there are other, and less eccentric, answers. …
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November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list!

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What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
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November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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When I was writing the messy space queers of RED STAR HUSTLE, I made a playlist of songs about addiction.

And I asked for help, in the dying twilight years of Twitter. And holy hell did you come through!

382 songs strong.

Please enjoy!!!

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Songs about Addiction
YouTube video by Sam J. Miller
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November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This one time on Twitter, @lecagle.bsky.social asked ppl to link to 1 pub of theirs they loved, but maybe slipped under the radar. I got SO many good recs from that list, so I wanted to replicate it here: link to one of your pubs that you wish more people read/cited!

#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction

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Weird Science Fiction Submission Call
Submit before 01/01/2026
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November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The new film featuring firsthand testimonies of Israeli soldiers in Gaza reveals patterns of systematic abuse.
‘You can do anything’: Israeli war crimes in Gaza aired in UK documentary
The new film featuring firsthand testimonies of Israeli soldiers in Gaza reveals patterns of systematic abuse.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Hooking readers with the first sentence -- pass it on!

Here's my 2025 story, "Among the Beginnings Scattered Across the Kitchen Floor" in @iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social

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Black text on white background, reading: Among the Beginnings Scattered Across the Kitchen Floor Jenna Hanchey From: If There's Anyone Left, Volume 5 I have nowhere to put my beginnings
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours... because I am behind on my 2025 reading, and I need allll the reading recs!

(If you like stories about grief, ghosts, and exceptionally good dogs, you can read "Handsomest Gentlest" here: www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...)
Everybody said Black Shuck was a great big fearsome devil, but I wasn't so scared the night I met him in the woods. I'd only been dead for two hours, and I was too busy feeling sorry for myself to be afraid of some old black dog curled up crying in the bushes.
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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So who needs some art or comic writing done? 😃

Let's talk!
[email protected]
killianfantasy.bsky.social Sarah IS LOOKING FOR WORK!!! @killianfantasy.bsky.social · Aug 19
I am actively looking for a decent paying remote job (publishing or publishing adjacent would be 👌🏾) but in the meantime ⬇️
A drawing of a Black woman standing next to a movie poster featuring a pirate holding a noble woman close and brandishing a sword. The Black woman is wearing a red jacket, black and white shirt, and dark jeans. Her natural hair is tied up with a teal scarf. The text on the fake movie poster reads: Sarah A. Macklin is... Looking For Work. hiresarahamacklin@gmail.com. The website sarahamacklin.com is in graffiti near the bottom of the wall.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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@sameemwrites.com's beautiful and slowly heart-rending "Driver" is in here, as well!!
davegoodman.bsky.social David Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 5d
Really pleased to get my contributor copies for the new THINK WEIRDER anthology, put together by Joe Stech. My story ‘Best Practices for Safe Asteroid Handling’, first published in Analog magazine, appears alongside stories from a host of industry legends and fellow new writers. thinkweirder.com
Two copies of the Think Weirder anthology on my bookshelf.
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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"What I like most about the speculative is the joy... The exuberance, the joie de lire, the fucking about. It’s such a fun form to work in. You can free yourselves to any degree that you please from constraints that otherwise tend to be invisibly ubiquitous, such as physics, location, and selfhood."
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 5d
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
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November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.

📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines." Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Just the one thing published this year. So far.

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jennahanchey.bsky.social Jenna Hanchey @jennahanchey.bsky.social · 8d
People are doing year wrap-ups already (give December a chance, people!) buuuut I'm curious -- What's the thing that's most dear to you that you've published this year and why?
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Definitely "Drosera regina," about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant.

It was published in Lightspeed and then in Gizmodo for Halloween: gizmodo.com/a-woman-hide...
A Monstrously Alluring Secret Comes to Light in This Eerie Short Story
October's Lightspeed short story is 'Drosera regina' by A.L. Goldfuss, and it's perfect Halloween reading.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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New to all this and I got my first four acceptances in the last two months but I believe only one will be published in 2025 on Dec 26 so it’ll have to be my favorite of the year 😂 (I do really like it though, it’s about heritage speakers and a rip in spacetime and moral injury)
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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A series of 4 stories (2 out, 2 soon; 3 short, 1 novelette; 2 in BCS, 2 in Lightspeed) about Ander Carmora, a disillusioned tithe collector raised in church schools and cut off from his family history, grappling with complicity, sexuality, the hollowness of absolution, the weight and use of memory.
Ninnagan Says Remember - Lightspeed Magazine
A decade since the Fivefold Church conquered the mile-high godpines and hanged their priests, settlements picked at the trunks like termites. Each godpine’s felling had shivered faraway cities to thei...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM