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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · May 5

Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Finalists!

The Rhysling jury has selected 50 short poems and 25 long poems from the longlist of nominees, each of which will appear this year's Rhysling Anthology.

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LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social · 13d

My new baby kittens have a pricy vet follow-up in a few weeks, my old-man cat still needs his various prescriptions, AND my rent is going up in November, so book revenue is increasingly important nowadays! Please consider ordering a copy or leaving a review somewhere online 🤞

LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social · Jun 13

R E M I N D E R that my debut horror/dark SFF/weird fiction collection Spiritus Ex Machina is available in ebook and paperback versions via Grimscribe Press (there was also a sold-out hardcover). Proceeds are mostly going towards my elderly cat's medical needs

Cover of Spiritus Ex Machina by LC von Hessen, available from Grimscribe Press. This book has . . . dolls! puppets! masks! mannequins!, olde-timey bollocks, extreme social discomfort, dream logic, weird kinks, dubious medical ethics, some Lovecraftian bits if you're into that (or if you HATE that), and D E S P A I R.

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Devin Madson | Rebecca Ide @devinmadson.bsky.social · 13d

is my birthday!🎉

this year around the sun has been awful in many ways, but wonderful in others. i wrote the equivalent of three books, had surgery for my PMDD, finished my degree, got obsessed with tennis, and realised i’m trans and started hormones!

would love for y’all to check out my books!👇🏻

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · 18d

This is just so incredibly good. Entrancing, emotional, bittersweet and beautiful with prose that cuts like a knife. Amazing.

gwendolyn maia hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 22d

“It’s Charli’s Body, You’re Just Living In It” is my ode to fraught queer friendships, portal fantasies, and trying to mend what you can in a wounded world.

Now free to read in @heartlines-spec.com:

www.heartlines-spec.com/its-charlis-...

It's Charli's Body, You're Just Living In It

It's Charli's Body, You're Just Living In It by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks

www.heartlines-spec.com

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · 20d

I can pinpoint the exact line in this when I GASPED out loud. What a wonderful read; thank you for sharing!

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · 20d

Oh, this is excellent. I absolutely love this. Wow.

Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 20d

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed!

"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"

Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting - Lightspeed Magazine

Dear Dr. Erzsébet Krajcsik-Nagy, I am contacting you as a member of the general public, and not as a fellow scholar, though I must say my chosen field of art history does have certain similarities to...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · 21d

Bring me your strange things! Your weirdnesses! The fears and hungers and deep hidden parts of your hearts! I'm here for it all, and I cannot wait to read your work ✨🔭🪐

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · 21d

eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html

Eye to the Telescope

Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.

eyetothetelescope.com

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · 21d

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! I am delighted to be the guest editor for the 59th issue of Eye to the Telescope, which is seeking speculative poetry (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc) on the theme of "Immortality." This is a paid call, open from today through January 15th, 2026. Submissions link below.

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congrats!!!!!!

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · May 21

I'm C. C! I write queer speculative fiction, especially horror/sci-fi/fantasy, and I particularly love to play with unusual found formats and structures. I've got a novella coming out later this year with @dogleechbooks and am currently working on several different novels. ccraynewrites.carrd.co

c. c. rayne

the official author landing page for c. c. rayne

ccraynewrites.carrd.co

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · May 20

thank you so much!

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · May 20

I've truly never been more excited. I can't wait.

c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · May 20

I've gone ahead and made an author landing page, to collate some information about me and my writing! if you'd like to read more of my work, or get in contact with me professionally, please feel free to take a look at ccraynewrites.carrd.co ✨️💖

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · May 8

this is shaping up beautifully so please keep them coming

one week! until the inbox is closing

we want more....

artwork

cis people
stop self rejecting, you also have genders

essays & cnf we'd love more self reflection what have you got?

send your grief, joys, & rage rants on gender to engenderedlit@gmail.com

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · May 1

i'm in this!! it was phenomenally fun to work on, and the finished product is going to be full of SO much incredible work. go check it out! 👀✨️😈

Annalise @annalisejensen.bsky.social · Apr 30

“Dark Fairies”
LIVE NOW ON KICKSTARTER!

A 200+ page fully coloured artbook and anthology of comics, short stories and illustrations about dark fairies and queer desire.

Over 40 artists and 12 writers!

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · Apr 10

new look, new format
en*gendered is open until may 15th

en*gendered
essays poetry cnf fiction art

the inbox is open between now and May 15th for work that speaks to en•genderment in this moment. we want your anger, your defiance, your joy, and your grief.

engenderedlit@gmail.com

requests for anonymity are welcome & honoured

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · Mar 27

(OH YES and Swordcrossed - also by Marske, just not part of the aforementioned trilogy)

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · Mar 27

really can't stress enough how much both of their bodies of queer romance work have brought me joy and delight over the past few years!

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · Mar 27

my ETERNAL queer romance recommendations are the entire Last Binding Trilogy (A Marvelous Light, A Restless Truth, A Power Unbound) by Freya Marske, and anything by Alexandra Rowland (especially Running Close To The Wind, A Taste of Gold and Iron, and Yield Under Great Persuasion!) All time faves!

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j. s. betula 🦇🇵🇸 @jsbetula.bsky.social · Mar 20

i’ve never been more excited for an 11-hour bus ride in my LIFE! i’ve been following @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social for a long time, and i’m so delighted to have an “excuse” to make the trip! can’t wait to meet y’all 🥹

Strange Wilds Press - BOREAL is here! @strangewildspress.bsky.social · Mar 20

And, our wonderful friends at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social will be hosting Jon Gauthier, Sarah Musnicky, @vincentwest.bsky.social and @jsbetula.bsky.social on April 19th!

Please come out and support these amazing authors at some of these events and add them to your calendars!

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c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccrayne.bsky.social · Mar 20

!!!!!

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