Renan Bernardo
@renanbernardo.com
Nebula and Ignyte Finalist • Reactor, Clarkesworld, Apex • DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE - NOW OUT! • DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE also OUT! • Codex • He/him • Brazilian author
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Renan Bernardo
@renanbernardo.com
· Dec 2
Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members! ☄️ This year, I'd be very humbled and delighted if members considered my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, in their ballots.
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
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Wonderful #solarpunk discussion today. Thank you to @yenooi.bsky.social for facilitating. And @renanbernardo.com Francesco Verso and Wren James for joining us.
Our next panel is debating whether hope is enough to change the future: it's time for some solarpunk. @yenooi.bsky.social moderates @brightflame.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, Francesco Verso & Wren James discuss the need to bring the Global South into the narrative + the radical act of hope.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Wonderful #solarpunk discussion today. Thank you to @yenooi.bsky.social for facilitating. And @renanbernardo.com Francesco Verso and Wren James for joining us.
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Our next panel is debating whether hope is enough to change the future: it's time for some solarpunk. @yenooi.bsky.social moderates @brightflame.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, Francesco Verso & Wren James discuss the need to bring the Global South into the narrative + the radical act of hope.
January 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Our next panel is debating whether hope is enough to change the future: it's time for some solarpunk. @yenooi.bsky.social moderates @brightflame.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, Francesco Verso & Wren James discuss the need to bring the Global South into the narrative + the radical act of hope.
Join me in less than 2 hours for a conversation about solarpunk and counter-narrative with @brightflame.bsky.social, @yenooi.bsky.social, Francesco Verso and Wren James! 🔆
Our second panel of BFS Online: The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing takes place Saturday 10th January 2026, 2:30pm to 3:30pm (GMT).
Solarpunk & the Counter-Narrative
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
@renanbernardo.com @yenooi.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social
Solarpunk & the Counter-Narrative
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
@renanbernardo.com @yenooi.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Join me in less than 2 hours for a conversation about solarpunk and counter-narrative with @brightflame.bsky.social, @yenooi.bsky.social, Francesco Verso and Wren James! 🔆
Astronaut Day in the US is on May, but it is TODAY in Brazil, so it looks like a good day to take home a bunch of ill-prepared astronauts in a decadent spaceship!
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Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle
Check out Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle - <p>In 2144 AD, the generation ship Kap's Needle</em> left Earth to settle a new world. It all went wrong. Now, two years into a desperate return trip, ...
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January 9, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Astronaut Day in the US is on May, but it is TODAY in Brazil, so it looks like a good day to take home a bunch of ill-prepared astronauts in a decadent spaceship!
bookshop.org/p/books/disg...
bookshop.org/p/books/disg...
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Love Lethal Death Divine is on NetGalley!
You can request it today!
You can request it today!
January 9, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Love Lethal Death Divine is on NetGalley!
You can request it today!
You can request it today!
Pretty cool spotlight blog from @emmiechristie33.bsky.social! She started with some stories by Robin Duncan. Worth checking out!
www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...
www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...
Writer Spotlight: R.K. Duncan — Emmie Christie
I’m so excited to kick things off with my first installment of Writer Spotlight with R.K. Duncan ! I’ve reviewed 14 of Duncan’s short pieces, 13 individually on Inkfoundry’s “Get WYSR” feed. (In ...
www.emmiechristie.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Pretty cool spotlight blog from @emmiechristie33.bsky.social! She started with some stories by Robin Duncan. Worth checking out!
www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...
www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...
I've got my author copy of We're Here 2024! This beautiful thing was edited by @rykaaoki.bsky.social and @cypayseur.bsky.social and published by @neonhemlock.bsky.social, including my story "The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds", originally published by @diabolicalplots.com. 🚀🏳🌈🌌
January 7, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I've got my author copy of We're Here 2024! This beautiful thing was edited by @rykaaoki.bsky.social and @cypayseur.bsky.social and published by @neonhemlock.bsky.social, including my story "The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds", originally published by @diabolicalplots.com. 🚀🏳🌈🌌
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Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members! ☄️ This year, I'd be very humbled and delighted if members considered my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, in their ballots.
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members! ☄️ This year, I'd be very humbled and delighted if members considered my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, in their ballots.
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
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Or something like @renanbernardo.com's astounding "A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair". Ideally shorter. But I will probably include this anyway just because I love it.
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podcastle.org/2024/08/13/p...
PodCastle 852: A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair PART ONE - PodCastle
A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair by Renan Bernardo – 1 – I was conceived by a carpenter with quivering hands in the back of a lumberyard. She was called Anatólia. Some days she had to fix fl...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Or something like @renanbernardo.com's astounding "A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair". Ideally shorter. But I will probably include this anyway just because I love it.
podcastle.org/2024/08/13/p...
podcastle.org/2024/08/13/p...
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The New Year's Party Continues! Uncanny Magazine Issue 68 Part 1 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/StNiGd0
January 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The New Year's Party Continues! Uncanny Magazine Issue 68 Part 1 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/StNiGd0
This is coming next Saturday! 🔅
Our second panel of BFS Online: The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing takes place Saturday 10th January 2026, 2:30pm to 3:30pm (GMT).
Solarpunk & the Counter-Narrative
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
@renanbernardo.com @yenooi.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social
Solarpunk & the Counter-Narrative
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
@renanbernardo.com @yenooi.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM
This is coming next Saturday! 🔅
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Hopepunk publisher Shiraki press ( @shirakipress.com ) is doing some exciting things—I recommend getting on their newsletter, look for upcoming #smallpitch and check out their bookshop page of hopepunk... as well as their submissions:
www.shirakipress.com/submissions/
bookshop.org/lists/hopepu...
www.shirakipress.com/submissions/
bookshop.org/lists/hopepu...
January 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Hopepunk publisher Shiraki press ( @shirakipress.com ) is doing some exciting things—I recommend getting on their newsletter, look for upcoming #smallpitch and check out their bookshop page of hopepunk... as well as their submissions:
www.shirakipress.com/submissions/
bookshop.org/lists/hopepu...
www.shirakipress.com/submissions/
bookshop.org/lists/hopepu...
I'll have good news about Different Kinds of Defiance soon!
January 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I'll have good news about Different Kinds of Defiance soon!
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Por isso que eu defendo a necessidade do Solarpunk. Em inglês tem cada vez mais, inclusive brasileiros como o @renanbernardo.com . Mas por aqui ainda tem sido bem restrito. Inclusive aproveito pra trazer uma newsletter que escrevi sobre isso há mais de um ano: tocadolobo.substack.com/p/044-onde-e...
January 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Por isso que eu defendo a necessidade do Solarpunk. Em inglês tem cada vez mais, inclusive brasileiros como o @renanbernardo.com . Mas por aqui ainda tem sido bem restrito. Inclusive aproveito pra trazer uma newsletter que escrevi sobre isso há mais de um ano: tocadolobo.substack.com/p/044-onde-e...
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the final story of our final issue of Fantasy Magazine went up as free-to-read, Ichthyosis, and it's seriously SO GOOD - do yourself a favor: if you want to read something beautiful and startling, put your eyes on this.
there's lots of great fiction and poetry on the site! please enjoy! : )
there's lots of great fiction and poetry on the site! please enjoy! : )
the time has come
the final GLORIOUS story ✨
"When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea."
Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
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the final GLORIOUS story ✨
"When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea."
Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Ichthyosis - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is how it begins.
psychopomp.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
the final story of our final issue of Fantasy Magazine went up as free-to-read, Ichthyosis, and it's seriously SO GOOD - do yourself a favor: if you want to read something beautiful and startling, put your eyes on this.
there's lots of great fiction and poetry on the site! please enjoy! : )
there's lots of great fiction and poetry on the site! please enjoy! : )
Reposted by Renan Bernardo
Honored to see my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” (published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com) on afrocritik's list of 50 Remarkable African Short Stories of 2025, alongside other brilliant African authors.
Afrocritik’s 50 Remarkable African Short Stories of 2025 - Afrocritik
Are our stories accessible to their primary audience? Whose interests are served by placing our stories behind paywalls, not to mention in print anthologies? By Afrocritik’s Literature Board As 2025 d...
afrocritik.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Honored to see my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” (published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com) on afrocritik's list of 50 Remarkable African Short Stories of 2025, alongside other brilliant African authors.
In some bit of great news, I finally received the author copies of my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! It spent quite an extended vacation back and forth from customs, but now I finally got them in my hands. 🖤💀
January 3, 2026 at 5:53 PM
In some bit of great news, I finally received the author copies of my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! It spent quite an extended vacation back and forth from customs, but now I finally got them in my hands. 🖤💀
The US bringing the democracy to other nations. We all know the script. It's becoming repetitive.
January 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
The US bringing the democracy to other nations. We all know the script. It's becoming repetitive.
Last day to get your free copy of my solarpunk piece, The Doglady and the Rainstorm, set in a near-future version of Rio. It's about eco-anxiety and caring for the vulnerable.
A Merger in Corn Country, by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social, is also free!
A Merger in Corn Country, by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social, is also free!
Last Day to grab these two #solarpunk stories free!
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@renanbernardo.com
@daniellearostegui.bsky.social
#booksky
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@renanbernardo.com
@daniellearostegui.bsky.social
#booksky
January 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Last day to get your free copy of my solarpunk piece, The Doglady and the Rainstorm, set in a near-future version of Rio. It's about eco-anxiety and caring for the vulnerable.
A Merger in Corn Country, by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social, is also free!
A Merger in Corn Country, by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social, is also free!
Honored to appear in Sarena's list of favorites with my novella Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! 🖤 And in such great company!
I read 47 books in 2025. Here are a few of my favorites, including books by @danielolivas.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @theferrett.bsky.social @olivasthewriter.bsky.social @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social and more!
What were your favorite reads for the year? 💙📚
What were your favorite reads for the year? 💙📚
January 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Honored to appear in Sarena's list of favorites with my novella Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! 🖤 And in such great company!
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Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only!
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
www.havenspec.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only!
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
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Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings'
inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
Submission guidelines
Our next issue will be our last one, so we are looking for stories on the theme of endings. We'd like to read about loss, change, grief, relief, hope, and possibility.
What to submit
* Sci...
inner-worlds.ghost.io
January 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings'
inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
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Plus I've got some free BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES stories, from the anthology based on guests from my podcast about stories to build a better world...
from @renanbernardo.com and @daniellearostegui.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/susa...
PODCAST: brightgreenfutures.substack.com
from @renanbernardo.com and @daniellearostegui.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/susa...
PODCAST: brightgreenfutures.substack.com
Two free stories from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES solarpunk collection: these stories are the warm light a lot of us need right now.
Download the two stories FREE and if you like what you've read, get the full collection!
newsletter.susankayequinn.com/v5y8e9o6w3
#booksky #hopepunk #climatechange
Download the two stories FREE and if you like what you've read, get the full collection!
newsletter.susankayequinn.com/v5y8e9o6w3
#booksky #hopepunk #climatechange
December 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Plus I've got some free BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES stories, from the anthology based on guests from my podcast about stories to build a better world...
from @renanbernardo.com and @daniellearostegui.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/susa...
PODCAST: brightgreenfutures.substack.com
from @renanbernardo.com and @daniellearostegui.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/susa...
PODCAST: brightgreenfutures.substack.com
Happy New Year, folks! This year was a punch in the face of the creative industry for many reasons, but there were plenty of good stuff happening too. I wish you all a great 2026! 🚀
December 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Happy New Year, folks! This year was a punch in the face of the creative industry for many reasons, but there were plenty of good stuff happening too. I wish you all a great 2026! 🚀
My most recent @escapepod.org piece, Baron Quits the Payloaders, is featured in Charles's great list!
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My most recent @escapepod.org piece, Baron Quits the Payloaders, is featured in Charles's great list!
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...