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Kelly Robson

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Science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, High Times in the Low Parliament, A Human Stain, Waters of Versailles https://kellyrobson.com/books Trans rights are human rights for f*cks sake she/her in Toronto, Canada

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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 27d

I wrote books. I'm writing more.
kellyrobson.com/books/

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 8h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 36m

Oooooh. This will be my treat for tomorrow!!!

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 13h

WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE CYCLE OF SAMSARA WITH THIS ONE

The Good Place X The Wolf of Wall Street set in the Thai-Buddhist heaven. I hope you enjoy this absurd, divine comedy!

Thank you @malf.bsky.social for the opportunity to gush about the Traibhumikatha and Wenjing Yang for the godlike art!!

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 13h

A minor deva drudging away in the gleaming offices of Buddhist heaven discovers there are easier ways to improve his karma than kind thoughts and spiritual deeds.

"Where the Hell Is Nirvana?" by @champwongs.bsky.social is out now at Reactor!

Art by Wenjing Yang
Edited by @malf.bsky.social

Where the Hell Is Nirvana? - Reactor

A minor deva drudging away in the gleaming offices of Buddhist heaven discovers there are easier ways to improve his karma than kind thoughts and spiritual deeds.

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 1d

Who is an alien? What kind of minds are we meeting? What makes us Other? What makes us the same? @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social and I discuss these matters and his new Cherokee rez-set first contact novel Hole in the Sky on 10/16: www.clarionwest.org/event/hole-i... Streaming or face to face and FREE

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl

Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 2d

Let's talk eels & colonization!

In the early 17th C. London was growing fast and needed more eels.The surrounding countryside couldn't provide enough.

The Dutch importers could...but the English were nervous of the strong Dutch monopoly.

So where did they look? Ireland. 1/5
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Meme. Photograph of a Monopoly board game in Dutch. You're looking at the starting corner, seeing 2 squares in either direction. The directions on the square read:

Ontvang
Bij het passeren
f2000. - salaris
START

So now you know the (or at least a) Dutch word for start.

The game board is sitting on what is probably a table made of a light wood or wood substitute. You can see the grain running left to right, or right to left. Or perhaps east to west. It's hard to tell with grain. The board itself is edged in red, but fear not. It's only red paint, not blood. A blood-edged board would be a far darker shade of red. And a far darker game, over all.

Meme text reads:
"Who wouldn't be
Nervous?"

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 7d

Someone You Can Build A Nest In is a UK Kindle Deal! Get my monster for just 99p.

Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night

Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night eBook : Wiswell, John: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 7d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 8d

Oh hey interview is live! Thank you so so much to @armedwithabook.bsky.social for letting me talk excitedly about THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES -- out tomorrow from @ecwpress.bsky.social !

"Nothing stays a wasteland forever. People hit and roll, and then they get up again."

Premee Mohamed, author of The Annual Migration of Clouds - Interview - Armed with A Book

Come chat with Premee Mohamed about The Annual Migration of Clouds series, its finale, and what it means to bring this story to a close

armedwithabook.com

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 7d

Hey everyone!! I am starting a chapbook press!!!

rev your engines and write your pitch letters and send them off at paperbillpress.ca!

We are as expansive as a chapbook press can be!! now taking fiction! poetry! non-fiction! criticism! hybrid! You write it? we want it!!

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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 8d

My latest Words for Thought column for @apexmag.bsky.social is now available to read online, discussing work by @kellyrobson.com, @thomasha.bsky.social, Jocelyn Szczcepaniak-Gillice, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social and @stevetoase.bsky.social.

www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review

This time around, I’m looking at uneasy stories, the kind that leave you with the creeping feeling of something unsettling happening...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 9d

YAY Charlotte!

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 10d

Just in time to get into the Halloween spirit, I’m teaching a horror writing class with Queens Collaboratory. If you’re in NYC and want to dip your toes into writing horror, this the place to do it. Tickets are $20-$25, and spots are pretty limited. luma.com/9pzyg2tm

Red hands with sharp black nails reach across a dark, smoky background. Text: Horror writing for beginners. October 19, 2-4. LED by Astoria-based author Nino Cipri.

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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 13d

No! I must!

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Paging @naomiokabe.bsky.social !

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TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 14d

Introducing TriCon! ✨May 15-17, 2026 in Kjipuktuk | #Halifax. Celebrating spec fic, we couldn't be prouder to have @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social and @kurestinarmada.bsky.social joining us as our Guests of Honour. Earlybird tickets available now! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/tricon-the...

Blue graphic stating that Earlybird Tickets for TriCon: The Trident Conference for Soeculative Fiction are on sale now. Lower right corner says Kjipuktuk | Halifax, May 15-17 2026

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 14d

Locus is a magazine built for & by readers AND writers. Get insider news about which magazines are publishing what kind of story, as well as our reviewers' favorite books of the year. Immerse yourself in our community, we would love to have you. linktr.ee/locusmagazine

locus cartoon from the 70's, a pencil drawn superman

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 14d

Some wonderful news.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 14d

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”