wren d
@awritingwren.bsky.social
they/them. SFF author who might be a bird or a cat or a secret third thing. wrendouglas.carrd.co
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The Endangered Species Act is under attack!
I’ve been drawing an endangered animal everyday to bring awareness! Originally posted as speeddrawing reels on insta, I’m posting the final drawings here.
If you want to find out how to help protect these animals, read the following posts!
I’ve been drawing an endangered animal everyday to bring awareness! Originally posted as speeddrawing reels on insta, I’m posting the final drawings here.
If you want to find out how to help protect these animals, read the following posts!
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The Endangered Species Act is under attack!
I’ve been drawing an endangered animal everyday to bring awareness! Originally posted as speeddrawing reels on insta, I’m posting the final drawings here.
If you want to find out how to help protect these animals, read the following posts!
I’ve been drawing an endangered animal everyday to bring awareness! Originally posted as speeddrawing reels on insta, I’m posting the final drawings here.
If you want to find out how to help protect these animals, read the following posts!
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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
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My apocalyptic science-fantasy short story ZEN SOLARIS AND THE GOD-CHILD is here on sale for a single dollar! Main character is an intersex trans masc with a switchblade and a bad attitude. (CWs for dystopian goverment-mandated medical abuse)
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
My apocalyptic science-fantasy short story ZEN SOLARIS AND THE GOD-CHILD is here on sale for a single dollar! Main character is an intersex trans masc with a switchblade and a bad attitude. (CWs for dystopian goverment-mandated medical abuse)
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Defending SFWA's take about AI as an author communicates you've used it.
You used it "before anyone told you it was bad" doesn't fly because everyone said it was bad from the get go. You chose to ignore the critics.
Dunno what to say other than sci fi writers would know better, you'd think.
You used it "before anyone told you it was bad" doesn't fly because everyone said it was bad from the get go. You chose to ignore the critics.
Dunno what to say other than sci fi writers would know better, you'd think.
December 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Defending SFWA's take about AI as an author communicates you've used it.
You used it "before anyone told you it was bad" doesn't fly because everyone said it was bad from the get go. You chose to ignore the critics.
Dunno what to say other than sci fi writers would know better, you'd think.
You used it "before anyone told you it was bad" doesn't fly because everyone said it was bad from the get go. You chose to ignore the critics.
Dunno what to say other than sci fi writers would know better, you'd think.
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I've seen some people saying that the new SFWA rule on "AI" in the Nebulas will prevent people from being transparent about their LLM use. Newsflash: They wouldn't have been anyway. It would cost them readers. It would cost them votes. It would potentially cost them opportunities with publishers.
December 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I've seen some people saying that the new SFWA rule on "AI" in the Nebulas will prevent people from being transparent about their LLM use. Newsflash: They wouldn't have been anyway. It would cost them readers. It would cost them votes. It would potentially cost them opportunities with publishers.
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We're reopening to submissions on January 1st.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
December 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We're reopening to submissions on January 1st.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
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Happy to announce my story "Schema" is coming to @trollbreathmag.bsky.social next March!! Can't wait for everyone to meet my toxic sapphics and their very peculiar flock of sheep 🐑
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Happy to announce my story "Schema" is coming to @trollbreathmag.bsky.social next March!! Can't wait for everyone to meet my toxic sapphics and their very peculiar flock of sheep 🐑
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Coming soon: What Elegant Stars
Queer Tales of Impossible Style
www.kickstarter.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Baubles from Bones #7 is out and in it you can find a story of mine. It's about environmental destruction, capitalism taking advantage of disadvantaged communities through the promise of labor, and saints made of squid flesh 🐟🏭🦪 www.baublesfrombones.com/a-hagiograph...
"A Hagiography in Two Acts" by Wren Douglas
After pollution poisons a city's coastline, a girl discovers a saint's head in the surf.
Featured in Baubles From Bones: Issue 7.
www.baublesfrombones.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Baubles from Bones #7 is out and in it you can find a story of mine. It's about environmental destruction, capitalism taking advantage of disadvantaged communities through the promise of labor, and saints made of squid flesh 🐟🏭🦪 www.baublesfrombones.com/a-hagiograph...
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We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.
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I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
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Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please donate otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign:
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Help Sustain the Otherwise Award! « Otherwise Award
Please donate to help us raise $9,000 for the next year of operations.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please donate otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign:
otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...
otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...
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Tomorrow, a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is voting on passing KOSA & several other age verification bills.
We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW
Call 202-224-3121
www.badinternetbills.com
Tomorrow, a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is voting on passing KOSA & several other age verification bills.
We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW
Call 202-224-3121
www.badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Tomorrow, a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is voting on passing KOSA & several other age verification bills.
We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW
Call 202-224-3121
www.badinternetbills.com
Tomorrow, a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is voting on passing KOSA & several other age verification bills.
We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW
Call 202-224-3121
www.badinternetbills.com
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"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Grave of the Fireflies. I don't think anyone needs to sit with that kind of sadness more than once, especially considering what we're witnessing around the world in real life
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Grave of the Fireflies. I don't think anyone needs to sit with that kind of sadness more than once, especially considering what we're witnessing around the world in real life
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Although we had planned to stay open to reprints year-round, we’ve received so many fantastic stories that we've decided to temporarily close on January 1st in order to focus on reading original fiction and poetry.
We’ll open again in March 2026 for reprints for Issue 2! Nonfiction will stay open!
We’ll open again in March 2026 for reprints for Issue 2! Nonfiction will stay open!
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Although we had planned to stay open to reprints year-round, we’ve received so many fantastic stories that we've decided to temporarily close on January 1st in order to focus on reading original fiction and poetry.
We’ll open again in March 2026 for reprints for Issue 2! Nonfiction will stay open!
We’ll open again in March 2026 for reprints for Issue 2! Nonfiction will stay open!
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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I know a lot of people aren't familiar with Common Bonds, but it's a series of all-aro anthologies to combat the way aro stories in anthos are often fully eclipsed by ace ones.
Book 1 released in 2021 and now we're back by popular demand with all new stories! Check it out 👇🏽
Book 1 released in 2021 and now we're back by popular demand with all new stories! Check it out 👇🏽
COMMON BONDS 2 Late Pledges close on December 10! Don't miss your chance to get your copy alongside all of our backers!
💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!
Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
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💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!
Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I know a lot of people aren't familiar with Common Bonds, but it's a series of all-aro anthologies to combat the way aro stories in anthos are often fully eclipsed by ace ones.
Book 1 released in 2021 and now we're back by popular demand with all new stories! Check it out 👇🏽
Book 1 released in 2021 and now we're back by popular demand with all new stories! Check it out 👇🏽
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Congrats to @hazelzorn.bsky.social whose incredible Eco-Body-Horror cli-fi novella REEF MIND made @lithub.com.web.brid.gy's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!
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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Congrats to @hazelzorn.bsky.social whose incredible Eco-Body-Horror cli-fi novella REEF MIND made @lithub.com.web.brid.gy's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!
lithub.com/100-notable-...
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The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor.
The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.
The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor.
The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.
The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.
A seagull couple has been nesting on the roof next to my office each year and today they were beefing with two hooded crows. Guess who ended up watching the whole thing and forgetting they were at work
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A seagull couple has been nesting on the roof next to my office each year and today they were beefing with two hooded crows. Guess who ended up watching the whole thing and forgetting they were at work
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Applications for the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices are now open!
Apply for your chance to work with one of our 8 amazing faculty members, attend programming aimed at developing craft and demystifying the publishing industry, and build forever-community. 🥰
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Apply for your chance to work with one of our 8 amazing faculty members, attend programming aimed at developing craft and demystifying the publishing industry, and build forever-community. 🥰
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Lambda Literary - 2026 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Application
Retreat Dates and Location
The 2026 Writers Retreat will be held virtually from August 1-August 8, 2026.
Application Details
Applications to attend the 2026 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ* Voice...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Applications for the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices are now open!
Apply for your chance to work with one of our 8 amazing faculty members, attend programming aimed at developing craft and demystifying the publishing industry, and build forever-community. 🥰
bit.ly/48cM1iy
Apply for your chance to work with one of our 8 amazing faculty members, attend programming aimed at developing craft and demystifying the publishing industry, and build forever-community. 🥰
bit.ly/48cM1iy
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I got hit with an unexpected $200 expense today! I need to buy software to keep my new freelance job. It would be amazing to sell some books or get some new patrons to help cover it 😬
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I got hit with an unexpected $200 expense today! I need to buy software to keep my new freelance job. It would be amazing to sell some books or get some new patrons to help cover it 😬
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io