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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred

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Citizen of the Wildeeps! Writer Editor Podcaster TeachingArtisr of Speculative Fiction! Words in Apex, Fiyah, Anathema, Prismatic, Escape Pod, PodCastle. Ghost Class/Clarion c/o 2030-2022. Just Keep Writing co-host. Art Institute Chicago BFAW c/o 2027.

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · Aug 6

Looked up and realized my flight to Seattle for @seattlein2025.org and @concurrentseattle.bsky.social are in just a week.

I've heard I'm all right live so I'm sharing my con schedule and I'm hoping to connect with folks!

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 11d

Money's been dunny but I finally contributed to @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social @gofundme.com for 2025.

Just a reminder that they're less than $300 from their goal. We need venues which service flash fiction at $.10 per word because flash and weird are as important as shorts and novels.

Please help.

The Cosmic Background @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hellllooooo from the static! It is fundraising season for many spec mags out there. We are doing things a little differently with a small gofundme to help us into 2026.

We are already at $2 and just need a little boost to help us to our goal of $2400 👻

www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher

For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices

www.gofundme.com

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 14d

omg, ECO24 got a starred Publisher's Weekly review!
"23 stellar tales"
🌿✨🥲✨🌿
High-five to all the authors who make this collection so wonderful!
And an extra high-five to @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and @louisevans.bsky.social, whose stories are highlighted in this review as standouts 👀🫶

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 14d

"[ECO24] is a triumph. Every entry is equal parts thought-provoking, insightful, and impactful." ⭐

Thank you so much to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the starred review of ECO24! 💜🍄

Read the full review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9781955765404

Preorder your copy of ECO24 FOR 30% OFF below!⬇️

ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction

Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 11/18/25 A must-read annual showcase of the best nature-based science fiction and fantasy short stories published around the world every year. Speculative ecofictio...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Becca Gomez Farrell @becca.gomezfarrell.com · 20d

Honestly, a plus of wanting to better prioritize my media subscriptions is that fewer options are a boon in this land of plenty (too many) choices.

wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 20d

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 21d

Okay but Bullshit and world on fire aide, this is actually my favorite thread that i made today

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 21d

Whenever people talk about no modern language in high fantasy

I think about kai ashante Wilson, who does it beautifully

I think about how much black speech gets erased in accepted rules in fantasy writing

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 23d

Congrats to my good, good Judy on winning one of the Indie Ink Award for Writing the Future We Need! SORDIDEZ is an amazing piece of literatrue, @boriscrito.bsky.social is an beautiful author/human, and @stelliform.press addresses the changing world with grace and perspective.

E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

The Indie Ink Awards category "Writing the Future we need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author", with book covers displaye. Sordidez by E.G. Conde is highlighted as a winner, with a cover that features a pale woman amid leaves in a watercolor bleed of red and blue at the edges.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · Sep 8

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."

Really meant,

"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 27d

That's so cool!

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 27d

In which I very publicly thank @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social for blurbing my upcoming book Muñeca, because Cina is the hardest working woman in horror and still squeezed in the time.

I am a very lucky human.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 27d

See also why I have nothing but eye rolls for takes that manage to thread the needle of whole lotta nothing pretending to be a moral high ground of justice.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 27d

Numerous journalists and writers purged today for posting factually about a slain regime ally, a bomb threat at the DNC HQ, 6 HBCUs closed due to bomb threats, shots fired at the Naval Academy, and that's just today.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 28d

Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.

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mamamoo @thelovelymc.bsky.social · 28d

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 28d

Josh Johnson really is such a masterclass in the tying together of different bits of a stand up routine

like he's so good at choosing what things to explain at length, letting them feel like a fun aside, and then landing the world's funniest connecting joke

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 28d

We shall see. TinHouse and Periplus do not agree, historically.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 28d

1. Trans people exist
2. Trans people have the right to fully participate in society.
3. Trans rights are human rights

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29d

"But I don't want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!"

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 29d

"By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue."

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 29d

I'll do my best!

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 29d

Thug it out with.

Anyone else prepping for this?

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 29d

With all the school and year of novella going on in my life, I think I'm going to apply to @clarionwest.bsky.social Online Novel Writing Workshop with Karen Lorde.

I'm still processing REDEMPTION IN INDIGO 3 years later and I don't necessarily want/need writing instruction so much as a cohort to

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Bill Mitchell @modalbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 9

So then how does Hotwheels and the GOP keep “winning”? They cheat of course, every single time!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Sep 8

Go get 'em, tiger!

Apple Sued by Authors for Copyright Infringement

On Friday, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of illegally using their books to train its AI.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · Sep 8

She is done. No more last looks. No more polish. No more what if I added this or that.

She is proofread, revised, edited and all shined up.

I am euphoric. This is a high I have not experienced before.

I wrote a fucking Trinidadian lesbian gothic banger. Dear publishers come get her. 😃

💥💥💥💥

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 4

Last night, yet another person died on Rikers Island — the fifth New Yorker to lose their life in City custody within the last two weeks and the 13th this year.

These deaths are a result of Eric Adams' failure to reckon with the crisis of violence and neglect in our jails.

Detainee Dies at Rikers, the Fifth Fatality in 2 Weeks in N.Y.C. Lockups

www.nytimes.com

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · Sep 3

did a breakdown

A picture of Uncertain Sons and a lot of arrows from words that say a variation of short stories pointing at the book

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · Sep 3

Happy 25th Anniversary Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social - Our first issue was published 1st September 2000.

!!!

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