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Zhui Ning Chang 曾睿宁 @witchywonderer.bsky.social · Jul 8

We’re live! This is one of the stories closest to my heart—my queer time travel pirate musical set on Southeast Asian seas, now out in the world for everyone to listen to 🏴‍☠️

Asian Pirate Musical @asianpiratemusical.bsky.social · Jul 8

We are so excited to finally share the 2025 studio cast recording of ASIAN PIRATE MUSICAL, live now on all major streaming platforms. Links to Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube and socials here: linktr.ee/asianpiratem...

Asian Pirate Musical | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree

View AsianPirateMusical’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 1d

“An unsparing look at cycles of violence, this intimate epic fantasy from debut author @artofelaineho.bsky.social racks up a body count worthy of GAME OF THRONES...a brutal but impressive start.” @publisherswkly.bsky.social

CRY, VOIDBRINGER is out next month in the UK geni.us/cryvoi

“An unsparing look at cycles of violence, this intimate epic fantasy from debut author Ho racks up a body count worthy of Game of Thrones...a brutal but impressive start.”

Publishers Weekly

Text on a gold background next to a 3D paperback of CRY, VOIDBRINGER.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2d

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 15d

Episode 264 of my Eating the Fantastic podcast is now live with guest @foxesandroses.bsky.social! Join us at the table and learn why she ended up as a fantasy writer rather than a comic book creator, how a pantser handles world building — and much more. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Eugenia Triantafyllou across the table from me holding a spoon with a soup dumpling up to her mouth with one hand while holding chopsticks in the other. Her hair is orange, and she's wearing a green T-shirt with the number 1990 on it in black lettering.

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Eleanor Glewwe @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social · 27d

My fantasy novelette “Limue’s Alphabet” is out now in @thefuturefire.bsky.social, with artwork by Barbara Candiotti!

This is a story about language, writing, colonialism, and divinity, and it’s one of my favorite things I’ve written.

Limue’s Alphabet, Eleanor Glewwe

In the dappled shade of a stand of bamboo, an old woman takes a stick and scratches two curved lines in the dusty yellow earth.

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Zhui Ning Chang 曾睿宁 @witchywonderer.bsky.social · 19d

Excited to be back at Flights of Foundry and to share this panel with such brilliant folks!

You can also catch me on the panels “The Work of Being a Freelancer/Biz Person” and “Pirates and Sea Creatures and Kataw, Oh My!”, details on the Flights of Foundry website.

Join us, it’ll be a good one 😎

Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · 19d

Join us this Friday during the first hour of @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social for a panel about Multilingual Life for Creatives!

Featuring @witchywonderer.bsky.social, @danaiwrites.bsky.social, @jelenawrites.bsky.social, and @foxesandroses.bsky.social.

Register for free at flights-of-foundry.org 🔥

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Panel title: Multilingual Life for Creatives
Panelists: Zhui Ning Chang, Danai Christopoulou, Jelena Dunato, and Eugenia Triantafyllou
Moderator: Millie Abecassis
Date: September 26, 2025
Time: 10 am PDT
Register at https://flights-of-foundry.org/

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you for featuring The Goddess of Loneliness and Misfortune by Anna Bendiy in Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! This story is from our Issue 4.1 and you can read the full story here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 23d

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

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Zhui Ning Chang 曾睿宁 @witchywonderer.bsky.social · 22d

It was a beautiful piece, and a joy to work on it with you!

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Mary Miseon Wu @marymiseonwu.bsky.social · 26d

My short story, Closed Doors, is out in @khoreo.bsky.social today! Edited by the amazing @witchywonderer.bsky.social www.khoreomag.com/fiction/clos...

Closed Doors

The reabsorption began on a Thursday. Channel 9 News reported that two young Korean girls touched palms at recess and that their flesh melted and stuck. Trying to separate them caused the girls immens...

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Zhui Ning Chang 曾睿宁 @witchywonderer.bsky.social · 25d

New issue is OUT! With a lovely essay on symbiosis, parasitism and the line between the two, and five distinct and excellent fiction responses to the theme

khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 26d

Issue 5.3 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A special themed issue on Symbiosis—close relationships between species. The stories creatively explore their own take on this theme. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com

This incredible cover is by @jocelynshort.bsky.social 🧡

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 20

Just a heads up that @haymarketbooks.org's summer sale ends Friday. You can currently get 40% off all books, including my book with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Let This Radicalize You.

Let This Radicalize You

Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Zhui Ning Chang 曾睿宁 @witchywonderer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you for writing this. The most awful part, really, is that these issues are entirely preventable with a bit of care and event planning, and yet year on year the Hugos continue to mangle it

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Grigory Lukin ✨️is on sub✨️ @grigorylukin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"

grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...

#Worldcon

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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · Aug 19

There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.

Isabella @isabellak.bsky.social · Aug 18

Had a great time at Worldcon meeting new and old faces! Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social for letting me be your plus one! Glad we could trauma bond over our masthead being skipped again. I look forward to next year!

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Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharni.bsky.social · Aug 16

Audio version of scifi story ‘The Secret’ by Fumio Takano now live! Feat TWO amazing voice actors @justineleahva.com & ‪Alex Bankier‬, ed @witchywonderer.bsky.social, prod Jenelle DeCosta, xl8 me. Have a listen, support human-made art and creativity! #WITmonth #xl8 www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

The Secret

Year 2102 “Hey. My name’s Michi. Nice to meetcha. So, why do I need to wear this? I thought the job was hacking.” Michi stared down her nose at the frilly white apron over the regulation navy-blue dre...

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · Aug 18

SFF magazines are ecosystems, not a one man show. They’re intricate labors of love, woven together by so many different hands, eyes, voices.

And this plurality needs to be acknowledged and celebrated, not brushed off as an inconvenience.

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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · Aug 5

We’re currently open for general submissions: send us your horrors, up to 6000 words, including flash.

Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don't agonise over your cover letter (really, don’t).

You MUST submit via our Moksha portal (link in reply). We don’t accept email submissions.

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Alt: A poster says portal activated. A low-res portal opens.

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · Jun 3

My new story "If An Algorithm Casts a Shadow" is out at @clarkesworldmagazine.com now! It's the amalgamation of my anxieties around big data and language models, condensed in a narrative about grief and suburban claustrophobia
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_06_25/

If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow by Claire Jia-Wen

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · Aug 11

Voting for the Ignyte Awards closes later this week (August 15th), and ANYONE can vote! Don't forget to vote for what you loved!

ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

Vote - The Ignyte Awards

Public voting for the 2025 AWARDS IS NOW OPEN THRU AUG 15. GO VOTE OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/...

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Aug 7

Amok is in the #BelovedSFFBooks sale, at $0.99 from 7 to 11 August. The other two books in the series are also discounted at $2.99 during this period!

Every book in this list has been recommended by someone who loved it. Cool, eh?

Check out the sale here: talesfromthecircle.com/epicsale2025...

EPIC SALE OF BELOVED SFF 2025.
AUG 7TH-11TH.
OVER 100 RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON SALE
FREE OR $0.99

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · Aug 7

An even better look at the gorgeous Year of the Mer book 1 (of 2) cover! I gasped just about to death when they told me THEEEE Micaela Alcaino was the one doing it.

You can (and should) pre-order it wherever you pre-order your books. Out April 7, 2026. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...

Mockup of book Year of the Mer by L. D. Lewis wherein a blue mermaid tail and tentacles writhe out of a roiling gray ocean around an ornate trident. Book One: 4/7/26. Cover by Micaela Alcaino

Flat image of a book cover: Year of the Mer by L. D. Lewis wherein a blue mermaid tail and tentacles writhe out of a roiling gray ocean around an ornate trident

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · Aug 7

Backreading Hong Kong
Anglophone & Sinophone
November 17-18, 2025

Call for Abstracts—Deadline: September 7, 2025

Explores the entangled, and at times antagonistic, relationship between the 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 and the 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 in the study of Hong Kong’s cultural & literary fields.

backreading.com/2025-2/

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Zhui Ning Chang 曾睿宁 @witchywonderer.bsky.social · Aug 7

All the Greek rage from our editor Danai, in a fiery piece reckoning with Greek retellings, the co-opting of Greek myths as part of white Western imagination, and what actual Greek authors are up to in today’s SFF landscape. Free to read immediately on khōréō’s website!

khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Aug 6

As part of our 5 Year Anniversary Series we're sharing the latest essay, "These Marbles Were Never White," by @danaiwrites.bsky.social. Danai explores the whitewashing of Greek myths & the lack of representation of Greek and diaspora authors, writers, and actors: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

All of my heart and all of my Greek rage went on this one. Forever grateful to @khoreo.bsky.social for letting me talk about this issue.

khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Every Ghost Story" is out in @reactorsff.bsky.social today! Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social, with art by @babswebbart.bsky.social.
Incredibly excited to share this one (what do you mean I may be slightly obsessed with ghosts?)
reactormag.com/every-ghost-...

Every Ghost Story - Reactor

Following a mysterious world-wide event that makes ghosts visible, a young woman is invited to attend Ghost Camp.

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Jul 23

We're still not quite where we want to be with funding, and every little bit helps!

Tell your friends, signal boost, share awesome reads with folks who love to read💞

Help us support some amazing creatives and bring their work to you!

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