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BrightFlame (she/they)

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I write, teach, make magic for bright futures. THE WORKING: feminist #Witch #solarpunk novel. Short #CliFi in noted anthologies & mags. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #SpecLit #SFF CliFiWritersLeague @bsfwriters #SFWA #LGBTQ+ #justice #resist brightflame.com

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · Feb 5

I wrote The Working to offer ways to exercise power & agency to counter harms & oligarchs. Reminder that my "fantasy" has real tools for resilience, activism, and change.

+ I'm donating all royalties to #climate & #justice organizations.

#BookSky 💙📚 #WitchSky #WritingCommunity #SpecLit #solarpunk

"Reminder! contains tools for resilience & agency" atop image of book cover. Words surround: Hope! Justice, Magical Activism, Solarpunk...

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 4d

Very true. I should add that!

BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 5d

Finally began @aemarling.bsky.social 's Neon Riders and love the #solarpunk features of the story.

The novel was selected as one of the 5 best Solarpunk books by @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social (mine too!)

So join me in reading it!

@fivebooks.com #BookSky

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 5d

#solarpunk book club with @susankayequinn.bsky.social ! Next up is a wonderful anthology that decenters humans, edited by @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social .

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 5d

Solarpunk Creatures (also includes stories by @teffeau.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social @nroshak.bsky.social ) is also part of the #solarpunk Starter Pack on the Bright Green Futures website:
brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/solarpunk-...

Come to bookclub to discuss these great stories!

Solarpunk Starter Pack

Wondering where to start with hopeful climate fiction?

brightgreenfutures.substack.com

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 6d

Check out my latest blog that notes many #writers would rather write #horror #grim #dystopian works than #hope these days. (Is that what you all prefer to read?)

Hope you'll take a look: brightflame.com/writers-frau...

#hopepunk #solarpunk #SFF #SpecLit #WritingCommunity

Writers' fraught relationships with hope ⋆ BrightFlame

Why are authors reticent to write hopeful fiction? So many write dystopian, grim, and horror stories. Where is the hope?

brightflame.com

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 11d

I highly recommend @teffeau.bsky.social 's A HUNGER WITH NO NAME. A story of rebellion and #hope. Take a look.

#solarpunk #hopepunk #SpecLit #SFF
#BookSky

Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 13d

This is still ongoing!

Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 16d

A Hunger with No Name has been out in the world for a year! I'm still in love with this story of hope in the high desert, dealing w so many things we’re grappling w now.

Like, follow, share for your chance to win the book in the format of your choice (internat'l e-book only) #giveaway

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 12d

We left good vibes and sundry greetings for you during the previous session in the room! @davering.bsky.social

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 13d

@acwise.bsky.social Just noticed the reverse side of your postcard for Ballad of the Bone Road (that I look forward to reading). "Wish you were here darlin' xoxo Jimmy Valentine" Really fun to see that following your reading at #Capclave!

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 14d

I'm procrastinating from a story deadline. So here's a little chipmunk for you.

#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Writing (not) #WillIMakeThisDeadline?

@susankayequinn.bsky.social , I think you can relate!

#SpecLit #SFFH

brown chipmunk with darker brown back and white stripe on side stuffs their cheeks with chewed leaves. They sit in a flower pot filled with green leaves of many shapes--all volunteer plants.

BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 15d

...drafted the blog plus inched along on the story. Blog out soon about how authors respond to writing hopeful fiction. (you can subscribe to my blog on my site brightflame.com)

BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 15d

good one! I had to look at your alt-text to make sure you were seeing what I was seeing!

BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 16d

Nice to meet Syd at Capclave! Hope to see you all in November!

BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 16d

How ... honorable! (I've not been to Arisia yet. One of these years!)

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 16d

I should be finishing a story I'm writing against a deadline ... so of course, I'm inspired to write a blog post instead.

#WritingCommunity #SpecLit

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 16d

Nice to meet you in person ... and note how your math background + spec fiction intersect!

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 16d

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

The Working

A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and …

www.goodreads.com

BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks to @buchanan.today , I'm adding The Binding to my TBR as well! Lovely to discover!

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Gianaclis Caldwell @gianaclis.bsky.social · 17d

I hope you enjoy The Binding. Looks like you kind of have a theme going with both of these titles :-)

Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today · 17d

The postie was doubly kind to me today, delivering not one but two books - @brightflame.bsky.social’s “The Working” and “The Binding” by @gianaclis.bsky.social. Apologies in advance - with 500 pages of Daniel Ottalini’s “Legion Rising” to go, it may be a few days before I get to either! #BookSky

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 17d

Enjoy! (And thank you! )

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 17d

Webbing up! Growing community that lifts #solarpunk and hopeful #climate fiction. Follow @hopepit.bsky.social

#hopepunk

#HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 17d

What actually IS #hopepunk? How do we define #solarpunk, and what are some good examples? Let's talk about it!

There have been several relevant discussion threads here on Bluesky before.

bsky.app/profile/tanz...

TanzPunk @tanzpunk.bsky.social · Jan 29

Totally agree with this. I like what has been written about the genre at @solarpunkstories.bsky.social at www.solarpunkstories.com/blog/what-is... and prefer the idea of "rooted" solarpunk myself.

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 19d

Fun to see #authors I know at #Capclave and meet new folx.

Full day of interesting panels ahead.

#WritingCommunity #SpecLit #SFFH

BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 20d

Nice to know both of you! 😁☀️

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 20d

I look forward to reading!

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BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 20d

From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"Propping up fossil fuel is like propping up white supremacy: the future of the USA is a nonwhite majority, and the future of the human race is renewable energy."

I highly recommend following her for #truth #justice
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-war-on-t...

The War on Truth Heats Up (just in time for Constitution Day)

Hannah Arendt famously wrote, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 22d

I love my writing group! Go @bsfwriters.bsky.social !

#WritingCommunity #SpecLit #SFF

BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 22d

Our opinions on current issues in the technosphere:

AI is theft
Diversity encourages innovation
If you won't fix this planet, you don't deserve a new one
There is no such thing as a completely self-made human
Oppose both violence and whitewashing

Remember, you are here:

A map of the Milky Way showing the position of Sol and various galactic structures.

BrightFlame (she/they) @brightflame.bsky.social · 23d

fyi, checked #Solarpunk Mag website and the #CliFiPit event is postponed.

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