Joy Baglio
@joybaglio.bsky.social
Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of @pvww.bsky.social. Rep'ed by @peter23.bsky.social. Novel in progress. Adventurer. Bagpiper.
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#SFWA folks reading for Nebula noms! My dystopian short story “We Are Sorry For Your Suffering” (One Story) is on the Reading List & eligible! It's about humanity's destruction by sentient AI, yet also about the last human child found in the ruins, parenthood, consciousness, hope (somehow).
Can’t wait to get my hands on this fairy tale anthology from wildly talented @jpullen19.bsky.social!
My anthology of shapeshifter fairy tales comes out in 8 days. I'm so proud of this book from
@lfpbooks.bsky.social it was a blast to write the informative, wild, & weird footnotes for each story! You buy it online, at your local bookstore, & get it at #AWP26 #books
@lfpbooks.bsky.social it was a blast to write the informative, wild, & weird footnotes for each story! You buy it online, at your local bookstore, & get it at #AWP26 #books
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Can’t wait to get my hands on this fairy tale anthology from wildly talented @jpullen19.bsky.social!
One thing that's gotten clearer as I get older is the sense of gut-level knowing of what I NEED to do, what's urgent, how my time should be used. It's amazing to me how insistent this voice gets, and how it gnaws if ignored. Well, I'm listening to it - here at my desk every morning, noveling hard!
February 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
One thing that's gotten clearer as I get older is the sense of gut-level knowing of what I NEED to do, what's urgent, how my time should be used. It's amazing to me how insistent this voice gets, and how it gnaws if ignored. Well, I'm listening to it - here at my desk every morning, noveling hard!
#SFWA folks reading for Nebula noms! My dystopian short story “We Are Sorry For Your Suffering” (One Story) is on the Reading List & eligible! It's about humanity's destruction by sentient AI, yet also about the last human child found in the ruins, parenthood, consciousness, hope (somehow).
February 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
#SFWA folks reading for Nebula noms! My dystopian short story “We Are Sorry For Your Suffering” (One Story) is on the Reading List & eligible! It's about humanity's destruction by sentient AI, yet also about the last human child found in the ruins, parenthood, consciousness, hope (somehow).
TOMORROW, Sunday February 8th (4 - 5pm ET)! Live (and free to attend) on Zoom! I'm excited to host this "Pre-AWP" reading featuring the writers of our #AWP26 panel (of the same name): @sequoian.bsky.social, @erikaswyler.bsky.social, Allegra Hyde, & Jane Pek! Learn More / RSVP: tinyurl.com/wc9na74y
February 7, 2026 at 10:46 PM
TOMORROW, Sunday February 8th (4 - 5pm ET)! Live (and free to attend) on Zoom! I'm excited to host this "Pre-AWP" reading featuring the writers of our #AWP26 panel (of the same name): @sequoian.bsky.social, @erikaswyler.bsky.social, Allegra Hyde, & Jane Pek! Learn More / RSVP: tinyurl.com/wc9na74y
Cover reveal for the reprinting / second life of my short story “Frog Heart,” as a stand-alone chapbook, thanks to @ikeproject.bsky.social! This is a handcrafted papercut from UK artist Darin Mount! Preorders are open! Gift idea for your fairy tale-loving friend! More here: tinyurl.com/4jmt4nhj
February 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Cover reveal for the reprinting / second life of my short story “Frog Heart,” as a stand-alone chapbook, thanks to @ikeproject.bsky.social! This is a handcrafted papercut from UK artist Darin Mount! Preorders are open! Gift idea for your fairy tale-loving friend! More here: tinyurl.com/4jmt4nhj
“The weirder your writing the more specific it will be.” - Molly Aitken, on how to find your authentic voice
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
“The weirder your writing the more specific it will be.” - Molly Aitken, on how to find your authentic voice
I'm super excited to share this interview the amazing Stevie Billows did with me for Straw DogWriters Guild! It was so much fun, and I got to ramble on about why I love fairy tales, fairy tale tropes, also my process, projects, and some publishing advice too! Check-it out here: tinyurl.com/4b2725s8
February 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I'm super excited to share this interview the amazing Stevie Billows did with me for Straw DogWriters Guild! It was so much fun, and I got to ramble on about why I love fairy tales, fairy tale tropes, also my process, projects, and some publishing advice too! Check-it out here: tinyurl.com/4b2725s8
Had a great time reading last weekend at in Florence MA! It was a full house! Thanks to all who attended! This first photo feels very apropos of the current moment: Reading a post-apocalyptic story in what feels like the nuclear last-gasp of our civilization. Yet does that green plant portend hope?
January 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Had a great time reading last weekend at in Florence MA! It was a full house! Thanks to all who attended! This first photo feels very apropos of the current moment: Reading a post-apocalyptic story in what feels like the nuclear last-gasp of our civilization. Yet does that green plant portend hope?
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Joy Deva Baglio talks about how she wrote One Story issue #332, "We Are Sorry for Your Suffering," in an interview with Contributing Editor Karen Friedman. To read more, visit bit.ly/48IYtrO
#writing #writingadvice #shortstories
#writing #writingadvice #shortstories
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Joy Deva Baglio talks about how she wrote One Story issue #332, "We Are Sorry for Your Suffering," in an interview with Contributing Editor Karen Friedman. To read more, visit bit.ly/48IYtrO
#writing #writingadvice #shortstories
#writing #writingadvice #shortstories
A haunted house but the ghosts are your unfinished writing projects (only able to be freed from their liminal state by you writing, which you are perhaps doing now...)
January 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
A haunted house but the ghosts are your unfinished writing projects (only able to be freed from their liminal state by you writing, which you are perhaps doing now...)
So excited for this! My story “Frog Heart” - first published in @pshares.bsky.social - will have a second life as a stand-alone chapbook! Follow amazing press @ikeproject.bsky.social for updates!
We’re thrilled to share that IKE: A Publishing Project will be publishing Frog Heart, a luminous and unsettling short story by @joybaglio.bsky.social, as a standalone chapbook—arriving April 18th.
Baglio’s work captivates with its blend of the uncanny and the deeply human.
Baglio’s work captivates with its blend of the uncanny and the deeply human.
January 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
So excited for this! My story “Frog Heart” - first published in @pshares.bsky.social - will have a second life as a stand-alone chapbook! Follow amazing press @ikeproject.bsky.social for updates!
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✨Writing advice for the New Year, from One Story's 2025 Authors: Lauren K. Watel, Randy F. Nelsen, Nini Berndt, Achy Obejas, Dino Enrique Piacentini, Weike Wang, Owen Egerton, Gemma Clarke, Lauren Acampora, Sam Dunnington, Senaa Ahmad & Joy Deva Baglio! Check out their stories at: bit.ly/4aGrC8w
January 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
✨Writing advice for the New Year, from One Story's 2025 Authors: Lauren K. Watel, Randy F. Nelsen, Nini Berndt, Achy Obejas, Dino Enrique Piacentini, Weike Wang, Owen Egerton, Gemma Clarke, Lauren Acampora, Sam Dunnington, Senaa Ahmad & Joy Deva Baglio! Check out their stories at: bit.ly/4aGrC8w
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I read this this weekend and it’s tremendous. Thank you for the great read!
January 5, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I read this this weekend and it’s tremendous. Thank you for the great read!
I know it's been the holidays, but what's the best way to get a Nebula-eligible story that was published at the end of December (2025) onto the Nebula reading list? I've emailed @sfwa.org and the Nebula Awards Commissioner multiple times over the past weeks and no response...can anyone help?
January 2, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I know it's been the holidays, but what's the best way to get a Nebula-eligible story that was published at the end of December (2025) onto the Nebula reading list? I've emailed @sfwa.org and the Nebula Awards Commissioner multiple times over the past weeks and no response...can anyone help?
Happy New Year! New Substack post, with 3 questions for writers to contemplate at the start of the new year + 3 prompts for (strange) new fiction! Also a hopeful message for the new year! Hope you enjoy! Read here: joybaglio.substack.com/p/a-short-bu...
January 1, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Happy New Year! New Substack post, with 3 questions for writers to contemplate at the start of the new year + 3 prompts for (strange) new fiction! Also a hopeful message for the new year! Hope you enjoy! Read here: joybaglio.substack.com/p/a-short-bu...
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Tomorrow at 6pm ET on Zoom! Join me for a special Community Writing, focused on setting intentions for our creative projects and lives in the new year.
RSVP here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/event-details/community-writing-setting-creative-intentions-1
#writing #writingcommunity
RSVP here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/event-details/community-writing-setting-creative-intentions-1
#writing #writingcommunity
January 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Tomorrow at 6pm ET on Zoom! Join me for a special Community Writing, focused on setting intentions for our creative projects and lives in the new year.
RSVP here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/event-details/community-writing-setting-creative-intentions-1
#writing #writingcommunity
RSVP here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/event-details/community-writing-setting-creative-intentions-1
#writing #writingcommunity
🎉 PVWW's 2026 Manuscript Program is now open to applications on a rolling basis through January, or until all spots in the Program have been filled!
Learn more and apply: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/manuscript-p...
Learn more and apply: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/manuscript-p...
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
🎉 PVWW's 2026 Manuscript Program is now open to applications on a rolling basis through January, or until all spots in the Program have been filled!
Learn more and apply: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/manuscript-p...
Learn more and apply: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/manuscript-p...
Tomorrow at 6pm ET on Zoom! Join me for a special Community Writing, focused on setting intentions for our creative projects and lives in the new year.
RSVP here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/event-details/community-writing-setting-creative-intentions-1
#writing #writingcommunity
RSVP here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/event-details/community-writing-setting-creative-intentions-1
#writing #writingcommunity
January 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Tomorrow at 6pm ET on Zoom! Join me for a special Community Writing, focused on setting intentions for our creative projects and lives in the new year.
RSVP here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/event-details/community-writing-setting-creative-intentions-1
#writing #writingcommunity
RSVP here: www.pioneervalleywriters.org/event-details/community-writing-setting-creative-intentions-1
#writing #writingcommunity
The way in, if you're stuck in a writing project, isn't always the most obvious way. For me, it's re-reading a passage I like, sketching out a character description, brainstorming a part of the story I'm excited about. Low bars = a way in.
December 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The way in, if you're stuck in a writing project, isn't always the most obvious way. For me, it's re-reading a passage I like, sketching out a character description, brainstorming a part of the story I'm excited about. Low bars = a way in.
The way I start to multi-task as the holidays pick up and I'm (all at once) completing work and getting food ready and writing my novel and posting on social media and excitedly announcing things to whoever will listen and cleaning and pacing is just...I feel superhuman (for better or worse)!
December 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The way I start to multi-task as the holidays pick up and I'm (all at once) completing work and getting food ready and writing my novel and posting on social media and excitedly announcing things to whoever will listen and cleaning and pacing is just...I feel superhuman (for better or worse)!
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Whoa. This amazing story by @joybaglio.bsky.social in @onestorymag.bsky.social whose curation just seems unerring.
December 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Whoa. This amazing story by @joybaglio.bsky.social in @onestorymag.bsky.social whose curation just seems unerring.
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I absolutely love this story by @joybaglio.bsky.social in @onestorymag.bsky.social. It arrived this morning and I read it without stopping - it’s so, so good on human emotion, instinct and need for connection.
#WritingCommunity #shortstories
#WritingCommunity #shortstories
In One Story's new issue, @joybaglio.bsky.social's "We Are Sorry for Your Suffering," a collectively conscious AI confronts the destruction they caused while raising a child in a post-apocalyptic world. To read an interview with the author and buy the issue, visit: bit.ly/48IYtrO
#shortstories
#shortstories
December 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I absolutely love this story by @joybaglio.bsky.social in @onestorymag.bsky.social. It arrived this morning and I read it without stopping - it’s so, so good on human emotion, instinct and need for connection.
#WritingCommunity #shortstories
#WritingCommunity #shortstories
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One of my faves IN one of my faves! Congruatiations to the extraordinary @joybaglio.bsky.social !!! 😍✨🔥
My short story “We Are Sorry For Your Suffering” - a sci-fi epistolary tale about the end of the world - is the December issue of @onestorymag.bsky.social! Read an excerpt and an interview with me (and/or order a copy!) here. It’s surprisingly hopeful! one-story.com/product/we-a...
December 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
One of my faves IN one of my faves! Congruatiations to the extraordinary @joybaglio.bsky.social !!! 😍✨🔥
Reposted by Joy Baglio
In One Story's new issue, @joybaglio.bsky.social's "We Are Sorry for Your Suffering," a collectively conscious AI confronts the destruction they caused while raising a child in a post-apocalyptic world. To read an interview with the author and buy the issue, visit: bit.ly/48IYtrO
#shortstories
#shortstories
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
In One Story's new issue, @joybaglio.bsky.social's "We Are Sorry for Your Suffering," a collectively conscious AI confronts the destruction they caused while raising a child in a post-apocalyptic world. To read an interview with the author and buy the issue, visit: bit.ly/48IYtrO
#shortstories
#shortstories
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new Joy Baglio story! In one of my favorite magazines! tell your loved ones you want a subscription for the holidays
For those who aren't One Story subscribers &/or want to read more short fiction: One Story sends out JUST one story each month, in the mail (or digitally). It's perhaps the MOST readable literary magazine you could subscribe to if you have trouble reading full issues of journals. Highly recommend!
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
new Joy Baglio story! In one of my favorite magazines! tell your loved ones you want a subscription for the holidays