Lauren Ring
@ringwrites.bsky.social
she/her | 26 | jewish femme lesbian | WFA winner, nebula finalist | photo credit: rowan hurt | stories in F&SF, Nature, Lightspeed, and more!
https://laurenmring.com/fiction.html
https://laurenmring.com/fiction.html
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FEELIN' PRETTY NOW OR NEVER TO ME
January 12, 2026 at 10:36 PM
FEELIN' PRETTY NOW OR NEVER TO ME
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As promised in our newsletter, we're organizing a giveaway of the Summer Eternal Anthology Deluxe Firestarter Bundle!
To enter:
1. Follow us
2. Repost this post
Winner receives one free pre-order for the Anthology Deluxe Bundle.
To enter:
1. Follow us
2. Repost this post
Winner receives one free pre-order for the Anthology Deluxe Bundle.
December 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
As promised in our newsletter, we're organizing a giveaway of the Summer Eternal Anthology Deluxe Firestarter Bundle!
To enter:
1. Follow us
2. Repost this post
Winner receives one free pre-order for the Anthology Deluxe Bundle.
To enter:
1. Follow us
2. Repost this post
Winner receives one free pre-order for the Anthology Deluxe Bundle.
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It's awards eligibility season and we at ConCurrent are definitely eligible for one award: the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. However, if you think we're a good fit for other awards, please do consider us! Short fact thread incoming. 1/
December 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It's awards eligibility season and we at ConCurrent are definitely eligible for one award: the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. However, if you think we're a good fit for other awards, please do consider us! Short fact thread incoming. 1/
@sfwa.org: bro wtf
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
@sfwa.org: bro wtf
a love-hate letter to the game of my childhood 😌
"The Loneliest Passenger on the Hook-Death-Kill" by @ringwrites.bsky.social
Spaceship status: Tired
Crew status: Tired
What are they doing on the ship?: Playing an interminable game of Werewolf
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-12/
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Spaceship status: Tired
Crew status: Tired
What are they doing on the ship?: Playing an interminable game of Werewolf
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-12/
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Issue #12
“A Ship Called Moon” by Mahmud El Sayed: hard-boiled detectives / ship-minds / patsies”Explorer / Cartographer” by John WM Thompson: portals (sort of) / creation (sort of) /…
www.fusionfragment.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
a love-hate letter to the game of my childhood 😌
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windows into the soul
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
windows into the soul
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Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
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I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
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So it seems a lot of short fiction readers don't know about @inkfoundry.bsky.social! This is a great site to look for your next great read.
InkFoundry
Welcome to Inkfoundry! A curated, searchable library of short fiction tagged and organized to help readers find stories and authors they'll love.
inkfoundry.net
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
So it seems a lot of short fiction readers don't know about @inkfoundry.bsky.social! This is a great site to look for your next great read.
developed some film i accidentally partially exposed to light and it made this pic from worldcon look like star trek transporter sfx
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
developed some film i accidentally partially exposed to light and it made this pic from worldcon look like star trek transporter sfx
"lauren are you okay all you ever do is retweet the streets and sodium lights quote"
no. but its somewhere to be
no. but its somewhere to be
October 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"lauren are you okay all you ever do is retweet the streets and sodium lights quote"
no. but its somewhere to be
no. but its somewhere to be
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No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
October 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
this story was constructed in a lab to appeal to me specifically
September 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
this story was constructed in a lab to appeal to me specifically
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Tired: check on your strong friends
(unclear, mixed framework)
Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch
(actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)
(unclear, mixed framework)
Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch
(actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)
September 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tired: check on your strong friends
(unclear, mixed framework)
Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch
(actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)
(unclear, mixed framework)
Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch
(actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)
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Wow... 75% funded in less than a day!! Help us push our sapphic adventure anthology over the finish line!! 🏳️🌈😍🦄
Another three chapters of Intent Magic edited! Getting close to the climax...
But even more important, the campaign for Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back started today and we're almost 60% funded in 6 hours!
#amediting #amwriting
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
But even more important, the campaign for Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back started today and we're almost 60% funded in 6 hours!
#amediting #amwriting
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Lesbians in Space 2: The Sapphics Strike Back
Enjoy the followup to our bestselling anthology, Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before! Can't get enough? This time we've got another 20 great stories for you in Lesbians in Space: The Sapph...
www.backerkit.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wow... 75% funded in less than a day!! Help us push our sapphic adventure anthology over the finish line!! 🏳️🌈😍🦄
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My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
Genre Grapevine on the Anthropic AI Settlement | Jason Sanford
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September 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
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YOU - (Look at your wrist.) “It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming.”
September 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
YOU - (Look at your wrist.) “It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming.”
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For sale: ship of theseus
Condition: used, like new
Condition: used, like new
December 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM
For sale: ship of theseus
Condition: used, like new
Condition: used, like new
realized i have not yet catposted here so good moomin morning to you all
September 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
realized i have not yet catposted here so good moomin morning to you all
is there still a way to join for the settlement? i thought i wasnt in there but actually at least five of my stories are ☠️
September 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
is there still a way to join for the settlement? i thought i wasnt in there but actually at least five of my stories are ☠️
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Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there.
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there.
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Yet another night of terror for our friends in Gaza City 🚨 The giving circle supports 6 families + a displacement camp of fifteen more in Jabalia.
Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Yet another night of terror for our friends in Gaza City 🚨 The giving circle supports 6 families + a displacement camp of fifteen more in Jabalia.
Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...
unfortunately for this bingo card, i love that book! need to find something i havent read 😭 ty for the rec!!
August 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
unfortunately for this bingo card, i love that book! need to find something i havent read 😭 ty for the rec!!
im missing just one very apt square from #BookBingoNW2025 and would love some recommendations for books about hope!! looking for fiction only and preferably scifi :)
(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)
(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)
August 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
im missing just one very apt square from #BookBingoNW2025 and would love some recommendations for books about hope!! looking for fiction only and preferably scifi :)
(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)
(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)