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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 1d

My December writing workshop is calling to you, and it would like you to know that it wants to read your shitty, emotional, heart-wrenching, most personal, gritty, ick-inducing, vulnerable poems: www.poetrybarn.org/poetry-works...

Confessional Poetry — The Poetry Barn

Dates: Monday, December 1-28 Format: Asynchronous ( learn more ) Where does the line between poet and poem blur? The poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, and Elizabeth...

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to be starting a new workshop tomorrow with my fellow poète maudit (cursed poets!), there are still a few spots left: www.poetrybarn.org/poetry-works...

Writing Poetry from the Shadows: Horror and the Dark Poem — The Poetry Barn

Dates: Monday, October 6 - Sunday, November 7 Format: Asynchronous ( learn more ) Since Edgar Allen Poe wrote “Nevermore!” Poetry has played with the elements of horror. Horror poetry is a recognize...

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to be starting a new workshop tomorrow with my fellow poète maudit (cursed poets!), there are still a few spots left: www.poetrybarn.org/poetry-works...

Writing Poetry from the Shadows: Horror and the Dark Poem — The Poetry Barn

Dates: Monday, October 6 - Sunday, November 7 Format: Asynchronous ( learn more ) Since Edgar Allen Poe wrote “Nevermore!” Poetry has played with the elements of horror. Horror poetry is a recognize...

www.poetrybarn.org

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 3d

This week on Planetside…

What does a Hugo Award for poetry mean for SFF? This in-depth interview with its first winner explores the possibilities.

Read “The First Hugo for Poetry: An Interview with Marie Brennan” by Holly Lyn Walrath here.
@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social @swantower.bsky.social

The First Hugo for Poetry: An Interview with Marie Brennan - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association

by Holly Lyn Walrath. Speculative poetry has just made history with its first Hugo Award. In this interview, winner Marie Brennan explains why this recognition could help readers appreciate poetry as ...

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 4d

From monsters to ghosts to fairy tales, darkness can be a powerful metaphor to explore trauma, gender, sexuality, and grief. In this workshop, we’ll dive into the shadows and write dark, personal poems using speculative tropes. www.poetrybarn.org/p...

Shadow hands with text writing poetry from the shadows horror and the dark poem

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 5d

This week on Planetside… An exclusive interview with the very first Hugo winner for speculative poetry.

Read “The First Hugo for Poetry: An Interview with Marie Brennan” by Holly Lyn Walrath:
www.sfwa.org/2025/09/30/t...

@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social @swantower.bsky.social

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 6d

Poets at the open mic

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee

Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah don’t go back there and make a report with whoever runs that place. That is not okay.

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 7d

So honored that my piece “Ghost in the Shell” was chosen by Radon for a Best of the Net nomination! 🤖

Thanks for the love on this vulnerable piece.

www.radonjournal.com/issue9/ghost...

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 7d

It has been a delight to witness the love for speculative poetry after @swantower.bsky.social won the first EVER poetry Hugo award! Here’s my interview with the winner, you gotta read it! 🏆 Congrats Marie!

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 7d

This week on Planetside…

The Hugos presented their first award for poetry at Worldcon in 2025.

Learn what that means for the genre in “The First Hugo for Poetry: An Interview with Marie Brennan” by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social & @swantower.bsky.social: www.sfwa.org/2025/09/30/t...

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 7d

Me: I’m definitely over my Covid brain fog

Also me: how do I make box Mac n cheese

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 8d

I think this is called “running a small press”

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Brian U. Garrison @bugthewriter.bsky.social · 10d

L.A. stood strong and Portland will too! Terrible decisions continue by the so-called U.S. Department of War, pointing the cannons at its own citizens. Enjoy this lovely poem by @gwynnega.bsky.social

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the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force

our purple clouds of delight rise above your tear gas

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 11d

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee.

It's an award I've cared about for more than 25 years, and loved judging for the past five years.

If you are interested in alternate history, put your hat in the ring.

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Sidewise Award Judge Application

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee. Established in 1995, the Sidewise Award honors excellence in fiction that explores “what if” scenarios t...

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 12d

Is it my dog or is it a blob monster

Dog in a crate in the darkness with bright eyes looking at camera

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 12d

(Phasma is wearing a sock because she ripped a paw pad being rowdy and the sock helps prevent her licking it without the misery of a cone.)

Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 12d

Proof that labs are just made of smoosh

A lab dog with face smooshed into a pillow

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 14d

Are you dark poetry curious? Join me as we dive into the shadows in October. www.poetrybarn.org/p...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15d

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 16d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 15d

Why are you troubling this queen with your human problems 😆

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 16d

So small, so fierce

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 16d

You think you can replace me with this stuffed monstrosity human? 😆

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 16d

Nothing like the ennui when someone who has been known for writing amazing poetry/short stories switches to only novels and never comes back. I get it but I’m also always like “Alas poor yorick I knew him well”

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Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 16d

Many thanks to Interstellar Flight Press for the shoutout! It means the world.
magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/the-best-spe...

The Best Speculative Poetry of the Year Is Award-Worthy

Reading from the 2025 SFPA Elgin Award Nominees

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 16d

Trying to decide if I read the “yoga studio becomes a yawning void” or “Britney spears as queer icon” or “poetry as a metaphor for the pandemic” poem at the @ghoulish.bsky.social Fantastic Fest reading.

Unrelated: the hair gloss I did last night ended up way dark so the goth is gothing

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