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Lynne Sargent
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Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codexian. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 12h
It's awards eligibilty season! Here's a highlight of some of my favourite works I had published this year, with a bonus photo of Kerby failing to be a unicorn for Halloween as a sacrifice to the algorithm gods.

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Awards Eligibility 2025
I can’t believe it’s already basically over and writing “2025” as the year when I date things still feels foreign. It’s always strange to me how this annual accounting…
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augursociety.bsky.social
Last year we received 87 applications & choosing was incredibly difficult! Thank you so much to everyone who applied! 💜

P.S we’re still OPEN to 2026 grant applications! 👀 Visit www.arts.on.ca/grants/recom... on eligibility and how to apply by January 15, 2026 @ 1 p.m. ET.
Ontario Arts Council - Recommender Grants for Writers
www.arts.on.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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The vibe
A picture of a computer playing Taylor Swift's Fearless, while loading magic the gathering: arena, on which the Avatar: The Last Airbender gang are represented. There is also a blankie and a bowl of raspberries and nutella in the shot. It's all very cozy.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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It's said that I read a lot, but assuming I live to be 80 and keep up my current pace of ~110 books a year that's *only* 5,500 more books I get to read in my lifetime and that is... not enough books. Clearly people who think immortality would get boring are not readers.
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I’m glad to see a Liberal MP taking a principled stand against the government’s decision to abandon environmental targets and fighting climate change and instead invest in fossil fuels and pipelines
stevenguilbeault.bsky.social Steven Guilbeault @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social · 4h
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.

You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Re: Awards Eligibility. If you prefer a thread, this is for you!

As a recap, here's the whole blog post: scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...

Below you'll find each piece I'm recommending! Starting with Short Fiction
Awards Eligibility 2025
I can’t believe it’s already basically over and writing “2025” as the year when I date things still feels foreign. It’s always strange to me how this annual accounting…
scribbledshadows.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Today is many things but I do give thanks today and every day that Stanislav Petrov saved the world when I was a child. so I wrote him a poem and @utopiascifi.bsky.social published it.

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Thanks to Stanislav Petrov for Fairy Tales about Birds by Elizabeth R. McClellan
February 2021 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
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November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
lynnesargent.bsky.social
It's awards eligibilty season! Here's a highlight of some of my favourite works I had published this year, with a bonus photo of Kerby failing to be a unicorn for Halloween as a sacrifice to the algorithm gods.

scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...
Awards Eligibility 2025
I can’t believe it’s already basically over and writing “2025” as the year when I date things still feels foreign. It’s always strange to me how this annual accounting…
scribbledshadows.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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clpolk.com
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder

And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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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
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ecatherine.com
I love this poem so much—start your week off right!
thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 3d
"My friend’s dead father
visits her as a bird,

but my husband is the light in the kitchen
that comes on all by himself"

Not a Bird by Ellen Romano

😭 we are weeping, beloveds 🖤 read this beautiful poem here:

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Not a Bird - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
My friend’s dead father / visits her as a bird
psychopomp.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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✨ 2025 Publications ✨

A thread of links to read and access everything I have published in 2025, updated as new stories become available.
October 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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"Swamp Witch Season" is a poem that's near and dear to my heart, and Solarpunk is a market I've been trying valiantly to crack for years. I'm extra chuffed that this work of mine is the one to grace their pages. 💚🐸☘️
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Published! #SolarpunkMagazine Issue 24 features cover art by Anselmo J. Alliegro, Short Stories by Great Opara & Dana Wall, Poems @thepinkhydra.com & @lynnesargent.bsky.social Essay by Yuliia Vereta.
#solarpunk #readingcommunity
Get a copy at solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpunk-magazine-issue-24
Solarpunk Magazine Issue #24
Solarpunk Magazine Issue #24 is now available!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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My poem 'The Olive Tree of Vouves' is in the latest issue of
@poetrybrum.bsky.social 🌳 You can read Issue 11.5, exploring the fragility and endurance of nature, here: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue
Mammoth contemporary, she has been fruiting for four thousand years. Branches twist into minotaur horns, rising from a hollow labyrinth of roots. The vast trunk is bulbous, beautiful; rippled bark tenses like a muscle in the calf of a crouching titan. She is a monument, outlasting empires and human heartache, a weathered ark resisting drought and fire and flood. Every year, twigs plump like knuckles with olives, green currency, ready to anoint kings and restaurant crockery. Her crown is cornucopia, world basket, reaching upwards like Daphne’s arms, dwindling to wreaths. Her heartwood has worn away but, pulseless, she persists.
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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canonically the best lake
lakesuperior.bsky.social Lake Superior @lakesuperior.bsky.social · 18d
On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.

My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.

I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.

My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction

open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...
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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100% FUNDED!!!! IT HAS OFFICIALLY HAPPENED!

thank you to EVERYBODY who has made it so this audiobook is officially going to happen!

come party with @siennatristen.bsky.social and I for the next 18 days of victory laps and chaos!!!

WAHOOOOOOOOOOO

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
Brendan May, Avi Silver, and Sienna Tristen smile over a table of books from the Shale Project. On top of the image is a green badge that says "Just Funded Kickstarter". A musical bar swirls over their heads. The bottom of the image has a blue shimmery background with the words "Kickstarter 100% funded in six days!" and an image of The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming with headphones on.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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...and if you attended our underground-concert-style secret hotel party and listened to me & Brendan do a LIVE PIANO VERSION of the reading, you know we also take requests. 😂 @lynnesargent.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social @anoteinpink.bsky.social @faye-gabriel.bsky.social
A photo shot from the far corner of a hotel room, featuring approximately 18 smiling faces seated on the bed, on couches and chairs, and on the floor. In one corner of this party, an electronic piano is set up; behind it, a musician; beside him, his co-conspirator, author Sienna Tristen.
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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My main contract gig is being cut, and my family responsibilities are less demanding than a few years ago. So please get in touch if you know of writing/editing/research/workshop positions, any hours, ideally remote or Ottawa. Extra points for good causes. I know it's rough out there for everyone.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Missed murmurstations EP 7 with @lynnesargent.bsky.social?🎙️💫

Listen back as Sonia & Lynne explore what it means to be "blameworthy." They also discuss how transgressions play out in Lynne’s poems, "The Wolf Of Your Passions" & "Beauty Sleeping.”🐺📖

Check it out NOW on Spotify & Apple 🔗 Link in bio!
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · May 22
MURMURSTATIONS EP 7 with @lynnesargent.bsky.social is NOW LIVE! 🚨

Join Sonia Urlando & @lynnesargent.bsky.social as they discuss societal norms, individual transgressions, fairytale retellings, & Lynne's two Augur poems, "Beauty, Sleeping" (Issue 2.2) & "The Wolf of Your Passions" (Issue 5.2)! 🐺💤
The background is the murmustations graphic of a woman with blue eyes and fair skin. Surrounding her are shades of pink and purple feathers. The background has an overlay of purple. At the top of the image is a pink bar that has a blue microphone and reads: "New! Podcast Episode Release" in white text and next to it is the augur logo in white. Below it reads: "Episode 07: Lynne Sargent” in white text. Underneath that reads: "murmurstations" in white text. On the left side is purple text box and inside of it reads: "This episode explores In this episode, we explore reimagined fairytales and their rules that, once broken, drive the story forward. Lynne also discusses how her role as an ethicist shapes her perspective about fairytales and how agency and blame are depicted in her poems, The Wolf Of Your Passions and Beauty, Sleeping." in white text. To the right side of the image is a iPhone graphic with the murmurstations graphic with the play, pause, and forward buttons. At the bottom of the image is a white rectangular bar with the graphics of a green Spotify logo and a red Apple logo inside that reads: "Listen now" in black text.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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TIFFANY MORRIS LESBIAN CANNIBAL NOVELLA
tiffmorris.bsky.social Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 22d
Cover reveal for Carnalis, my lesbian cannibal novella, which is out in MARCH from @nictitatingbooks.bsky.social!!
Abstract photo of a woman’s face, distorted through smears of water. Shades of pink, brown, and white. At the top Carnalis is written in a serif font. At the bottom is my name.
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Breaking the social media avoidance to signal boost Sienna Tristen's Kickstarter for an *orchestrated audiobook* of the first Heretic's Guide to Homecoming novel!

I've heard a sample (you can too, below) and trust me, if you like audiobooks, you need this.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming: An Orchestrated Audiobook
Help fund the long-awaited audiobook of this cult-classic fantasy novel, complete with musical accompaniment.
www.kickstarter.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Hey! Apparently it's #IReadCanadian day! If only there was somewhere readers looking for new #Canadian SFF authors to read could find a bunch of them all in one place... 🤔

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Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three eBook : Kotowych, Stephen: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three eBook : Kotowych, Stephen: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
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November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Yay! Paperbacks of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL have started to become available for pre-order. Barnes & Noble for now, but we’ll get there. Here’s all the pre-order links so far but more are coming!
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl – Stars and Sabers
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl by award-winning author P.A. Cornell is a sci-fi romance novelette set in a retrofuturistic Toronto, publishing February 3, 2026 via Stars and Sabers Publishing.
www.starsandsabers.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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It only costs $10 to join the CSFFA and it lets you nominate and vote for the Aurora Awards! We’ll be nominating eligible pieces from our Canadian contributors, including our amazing cover artist Alice M.

I say this every year, but it would mean everything to see our artists recognized with a win 🫀
csffa.bsky.social Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social · 22d
Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025.

If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) – Home of the Prix Aurora Awards and CSFFA Hall of Fame
www.csffa.ca
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM