gwendolyn maia hicks
@prioryruins.bsky.social
tender-hearted writer of fiction (and fanfiction). they/them
🖇️ Clarion ’22, SFSU MFA ’27, Lambda ’25
🖇️ Rhysling finalist
🖇️ words now or soon in Heartlines Spec, Small Wonders, Trollbreath, Uncanny, Kaleidotrope
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🖇️ Clarion ’22, SFSU MFA ’27, Lambda ’25
🖇️ Rhysling finalist
🖇️ words now or soon in Heartlines Spec, Small Wonders, Trollbreath, Uncanny, Kaleidotrope
🌐 prioryruins.carrd.co
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GWENDOLYN MAIA HICKS: HAND SIGNS | COTTONMOUTH
www.cottonmouthjournal.com
I wrote a poem about Close Encounters of the Third Kind, my favorite Spielberg film. 🛸
I wondered if Roy Neary’s oldest son missed his father the same way I miss mine.
“Hand Signs” is now free to read in Cottonmouth Journal Volume 1, Issue 4: www.cottonmouthjournal.com/gwendolyn-ma...
I wondered if Roy Neary’s oldest son missed his father the same way I miss mine.
“Hand Signs” is now free to read in Cottonmouth Journal Volume 1, Issue 4: www.cottonmouthjournal.com/gwendolyn-ma...
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Subscribe now magazine.trollbreath.com to get the full issue on Dec. 1st!
@bernie-jsyk.bsky.social @kkoopman.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @jonathanhelland.bsky.social @brandoncase101.bsky.social @kergankergan.bsky.social @wallet55.bsky.social Alex Atkins Matthew Sanborn Smith Phil Emery
@bernie-jsyk.bsky.social @kkoopman.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @jonathanhelland.bsky.social @brandoncase101.bsky.social @kergankergan.bsky.social @wallet55.bsky.social Alex Atkins Matthew Sanborn Smith Phil Emery
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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@bernie-jsyk.bsky.social @kkoopman.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @jonathanhelland.bsky.social @brandoncase101.bsky.social @kergankergan.bsky.social @wallet55.bsky.social Alex Atkins Matthew Sanborn Smith Phil Emery
@bernie-jsyk.bsky.social @kkoopman.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @jonathanhelland.bsky.social @brandoncase101.bsky.social @kergankergan.bsky.social @wallet55.bsky.social Alex Atkins Matthew Sanborn Smith Phil Emery
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“If you were that sick you would be dead.”
“If it were that bad you would get help.”
“If you can post on social media you’re fine”.
Disabled people are constantly subjected to “if” statements from people who have no concept how bad it can get & how little help is available
“If it were that bad you would get help.”
“If you can post on social media you’re fine”.
Disabled people are constantly subjected to “if” statements from people who have no concept how bad it can get & how little help is available
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“If you were that sick you would be dead.”
“If it were that bad you would get help.”
“If you can post on social media you’re fine”.
Disabled people are constantly subjected to “if” statements from people who have no concept how bad it can get & how little help is available
“If it were that bad you would get help.”
“If you can post on social media you’re fine”.
Disabled people are constantly subjected to “if” statements from people who have no concept how bad it can get & how little help is available
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MIDLVLMAG presents issue no. 7
RETAIL HELL 2: Retail Never Sleeps
Available now at midlvlmag.com. Link in our bio.
RETAIL HELL 2: Retail Never Sleeps
Available now at midlvlmag.com. Link in our bio.
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
MIDLVLMAG presents issue no. 7
RETAIL HELL 2: Retail Never Sleeps
Available now at midlvlmag.com. Link in our bio.
RETAIL HELL 2: Retail Never Sleeps
Available now at midlvlmag.com. Link in our bio.
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🌵 🤠 Saddle up! Issue 10.2 is on its way! Check out for our first round of poetry sneak peeks!
💝Special thanks to our amazing poetry editors for bringing these gems to Issue 10.2: Summer Farah (Guest Editor), Rob Macaisa Colgate, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Gabrielle Grace Hogan, and Charlie Neer.
💝Special thanks to our amazing poetry editors for bringing these gems to Issue 10.2: Summer Farah (Guest Editor), Rob Macaisa Colgate, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Gabrielle Grace Hogan, and Charlie Neer.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
🌵 🤠 Saddle up! Issue 10.2 is on its way! Check out for our first round of poetry sneak peeks!
💝Special thanks to our amazing poetry editors for bringing these gems to Issue 10.2: Summer Farah (Guest Editor), Rob Macaisa Colgate, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Gabrielle Grace Hogan, and Charlie Neer.
💝Special thanks to our amazing poetry editors for bringing these gems to Issue 10.2: Summer Farah (Guest Editor), Rob Macaisa Colgate, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Gabrielle Grace Hogan, and Charlie Neer.
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i’m in this one! with a story about:
🧡 immortals coming to terms with death
🧡 the smell of loam and moss
🧡 friendships that transcend life
🧡 how much i loved my cat
🧡 immortals coming to terms with death
🧡 the smell of loam and moss
🧡 friendships that transcend life
🧡 how much i loved my cat
We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
i’m in this one! with a story about:
🧡 immortals coming to terms with death
🧡 the smell of loam and moss
🧡 friendships that transcend life
🧡 how much i loved my cat
🧡 immortals coming to terms with death
🧡 the smell of loam and moss
🧡 friendships that transcend life
🧡 how much i loved my cat
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This is a scheduled post for anyone awake at midnight ET (very likely not our co-founders) to check our submissions guidelines. Perhaps a certain Moksha link at the bottom is now active, and perhaps certain Moksha forms are now open to submissions 👀
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
othersidespec.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is a scheduled post for anyone awake at midnight ET (very likely not our co-founders) to check our submissions guidelines. Perhaps a certain Moksha link at the bottom is now active, and perhaps certain Moksha forms are now open to submissions 👀
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
i’m in this one! with a story about:
🧡 immortals coming to terms with death
🧡 the smell of loam and moss
🧡 friendships that transcend life
🧡 how much i loved my cat
🧡 immortals coming to terms with death
🧡 the smell of loam and moss
🧡 friendships that transcend life
🧡 how much i loved my cat
We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
i’m in this one! with a story about:
🧡 immortals coming to terms with death
🧡 the smell of loam and moss
🧡 friendships that transcend life
🧡 how much i loved my cat
🧡 immortals coming to terms with death
🧡 the smell of loam and moss
🧡 friendships that transcend life
🧡 how much i loved my cat
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We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
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The wait is over. Welcome to the 2026 Virtual Writers Retreat Faculty! 🥳
Check the 🔗 in our bio to read more about our faculty and the bright future of the Writers Retreat!
Applications will open November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026.
Don't miss this one. Things may never be the same. 👀
Check the 🔗 in our bio to read more about our faculty and the bright future of the Writers Retreat!
Applications will open November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026.
Don't miss this one. Things may never be the same. 👀
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The wait is over. Welcome to the 2026 Virtual Writers Retreat Faculty! 🥳
Check the 🔗 in our bio to read more about our faculty and the bright future of the Writers Retreat!
Applications will open November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026.
Don't miss this one. Things may never be the same. 👀
Check the 🔗 in our bio to read more about our faculty and the bright future of the Writers Retreat!
Applications will open November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026.
Don't miss this one. Things may never be the same. 👀
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New issue of Fantasy has arrived from @psychopomp.com! weightlessbooks.com/fantasy-maga...
September 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
New issue of Fantasy has arrived from @psychopomp.com! weightlessbooks.com/fantasy-maga...
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
watching my roommate play ff16 after bullying him into doing it for months <3
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
watching my roommate play ff16 after bullying him into doing it for months <3
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Did you miss "Lexicographer of Quiet Corners of the Mind", one of Bogi Takács's "Jobs for Magical People (That Do Not Involve the Military)" series of poems? If so, you're in for a treat.
Lexicographer of Quiet Corners of the Mind - Small Wonders
Words borne out of need, of a reaching-out, of / tact and impoliteness and long shudders / of breath— / and you to write them all down
smallwondersmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Did you miss "Lexicographer of Quiet Corners of the Mind", one of Bogi Takács's "Jobs for Magical People (That Do Not Involve the Military)" series of poems? If so, you're in for a treat.
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"Sympathy for Wolves," by John Gregory Betancourt, asks you to consider werewolves in a different light, specifically the warm light of a cabin in winter.
Sympathy for Wolves - Small Wonders
I could hear wolves scratching like dogs at my door again. It was a full moon, or close to it, and I still felt a stirring deep in my soul, a longing to join them for the hunt, just as they longed to join me.
smallwondersmag.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"Sympathy for Wolves," by John Gregory Betancourt, asks you to consider werewolves in a different light, specifically the warm light of a cabin in winter.
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A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social
Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social
Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
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Reading for awards? I'd be honored if you considered my SFF poetry and short fiction!
www.nicomartineznocito.com/eligibility-...
www.nicomartineznocito.com/eligibility-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reading for awards? I'd be honored if you considered my SFF poetry and short fiction!
www.nicomartineznocito.com/eligibility-...
www.nicomartineznocito.com/eligibility-...
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Loved this conversation around art and war and the role of the speculative. issues.org/not-now-but-...
Not Now, But Soon: The Art of Portraying War
Brigitte van der Sande discusses how art humanizes the victims of war and spurs action, and how imagination can be a force for resistance.
issues.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Loved this conversation around art and war and the role of the speculative. issues.org/not-now-but-...
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European green crab
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
European green crab
so this was neat @kqedforum.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
so this was neat @kqedforum.bsky.social
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you can always flip off a waymo. it’s always morally correct
August 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
you can always flip off a waymo. it’s always morally correct
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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Just for funnsies, here's an interview with one of the co-editors of Trollbreath Magazine, posted by @duotrope.com today.
Said editor being me (Jennifer helped me write the answers once she got up)
duotrope.com/interview/ed...
Said editor being me (Jennifer helped me write the answers once she got up)
duotrope.com/interview/ed...
Duotrope's Interview with Trollbreath Magazine
Read Duotrope's editor interview with Trollbreath Magazine to learn what they're looking for and gain more insight into this publication.
duotrope.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Just for funnsies, here's an interview with one of the co-editors of Trollbreath Magazine, posted by @duotrope.com today.
Said editor being me (Jennifer helped me write the answers once she got up)
duotrope.com/interview/ed...
Said editor being me (Jennifer helped me write the answers once she got up)
duotrope.com/interview/ed...
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Winter Cover Reveal!!!! Issue 6 drops on December 1st, 2025
Subscribe now at magazine.trollbreath.com
Subscribe now at magazine.trollbreath.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Winter Cover Reveal!!!! Issue 6 drops on December 1st, 2025
Subscribe now at magazine.trollbreath.com
Subscribe now at magazine.trollbreath.com