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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · 8d

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · 9d

Backers for the Short Story Critique tier can get feedback from different short story authors, including me! 🥰 Support Otherside! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · 9d

I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · 9d

Support Otherside! Now is the time!!

OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 9d

Our co-founders made the mistake of taking a quick break after we funded... only to come back and find out WE ALREADY HIT OUR FIRST STRETCH GOAL?! ISSUE 5 IS NOW FUNDED! We are one step closer to funding Year TWO! Thank you so much, everyone!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." The first goal, of $6900, is now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to it. The remaining goals of $8300, $9700, and $11000 show a closed lock next to them.

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 15d

TUESDAY RELEASE: “The Things You Bought for the Robot” by Stefan Alcalá Slater is LIVE and free to read! This story gave me feelings about a pair of robot slippers of all things… 🥹
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #sciencefiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

The Things You Bought for the Robot

Extension Cord.The robot was secondhand. Because its solar unit was too complicated to fix, it was just easier to plug it in and forget about it.Cleaning supplies.It had a job to do, you needed the…

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 19d

Our Kickstarter launches in TEN DAYS! September 29 is in fact SOMEHOW ten days away!!! We’re nervous and excited and SO ready. We're only screaming intermittently.

Sign up to be notified when it launches. We have a lot of fun rewards and goals planned… you won’t want to miss this 👀

www.kickstarter.com

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 19d

Reminder because of this month and spooky season (October is looking busy already): Need me for anything? Book event? Library thing? Workshop? Class on diversity in publishing? I also do weddings, bar mitzvahs, birthdays, and interventions. Email Jayme Boucher or DM me.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 20d

Richard Siken, speaking on poetry better than I ever could. His collection, Crush, was life-changing.

(Read the whole interview on @adroitjournal.bsky.social: theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-...)

"The fundamental power of poetry is the friction between the sentence and the line. The sentence is a unit of meaning. When you break it, you get two or more units of meaning that exist simultaneously with the original meaning. No other form of writing has this quality. Since we’re not really writing in traditional forms anymore, it’s even more important to find ways of saying and writing that make shapes, support voice and music and rhythm, and help build architectures."

https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-seven/a-conversation-with-richard-siken/

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 22d

Hey y’all, this short story collection came out today, and it is great! www.tarvolon.com/2025/07/14/s...

Sci-fi/Horror Review: Uncertain Sons by Thomas Ha

Review of debut sci-fi horror collection Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, by Hugo and Nebula nominated rising star Thomas Ha.

www.tarvolon.com

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · 22d

I loved this one!

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 22d

Auto-cannibalism, transformation, messy family relationships and more: "Erysichthon’s Daughter" is a story that has it all and holds it all together wonderfully. Read this story by M.R. Robinson in our issue 21 today:

Erysichthon’s Daughter - Small Wonders

Daddy, I know you didn’t mean to fell the sacred oak. I know you wouldn’t lie to me. You swore you’d never lie to me.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · Apr 5

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 29d

This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

www.humblebundle.com

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Sep 9

“Five Things You Can See” by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social from @strangehorizons.bsky.social, “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by @effies.bsky.social from @diabolicalplots.com, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social -

Strange Horizons, Diabolical Plots and Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Reviews by Charles Payseur

Strange Horizons 5/5/25, 5/12/25 Diabolical Plots 5/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/29/25, 6/12/25 The May 5 Strange Horizons opens strongly with Adam Ford’s “The Strangers Came”, a narrative poem ab…

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Sep 7

Magazine reviews in a different order this month. Today, we’re taking quick dips into Asimov’s, khoreo, and Translunar Travelers Lounge! www.tarvolon.com/2025/09/07/t...

Tar Vol's Magazine Minis: Asimov's, khoreo, Translunar

Review of sci-fi fantasy short fiction magazine issues from Asimov's, khoreo, and Translunar Travelers Lounge, with standouts from Natasha King and Monte Lin.

www.tarvolon.com

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · Sep 5

thank you all for the kind words <3

Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · Sep 5

<3 thank you, christine <3

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think this is the best thing I have ever written: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/sile...

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much! We disabled the Live because it had that minute of the hosts peering at the camera and asking variants of "is this thing on?", so this is the permanent one that gets straight to the good stuff! youtu.be/CutdQgqel20

September 3, 2025 Story Hour: Karen Heuler and RJ Aurand

YouTube video by Story Hour

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you missed this live, it is still available on YouTube! A really lovely time, two great readings! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcqZ...

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is live now! Would highly recommend!

Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · Sep 3

This week, we’re excited to have Karen Heuler return to read us a dark fairy tale! Annnnd RJ Aurand makes her triumphant Story Hour debut! Join us Wednesday, September 3 at 7:00 PDT! @karenheuler.bsky.social @rjaurand.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Color photo of writer Karen Heuler, a fair-skinned woman with straight hair worn short and dyed blue. She wears a fleecy gray-and-white shirt and looks up at the camera, smiling slightly.

Black-and-white photo of writer RJ Aurand, a woman with long, straight hair worn parted on the side and without bangs. She wears a dark shirt and wire-rimmed glasses. She poses in front of framed artwork and looks down at the camera with a challenging expression.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Aug 28

My usual magazine mini post is replaced this month by a dive into the 2017 Hugo longlist. But I still have the usual thread of favorites 🧵

Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · Aug 27

We're eight years out at this point, but Hugo longlists are a ton of fun, and I can be pretty extra about @shortficbookclub.bsky.social sessions. Put them together, and we have a necro-review of the entire longlist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story: www.tarvolon.com/2025/08/27/a...

Reviewing the 2017 Hugo Longlist for Best Short Story

An extremely belated review of the 2017 Hugo Awards longlist for best short story in sci-fi and fantasy, with standouts from Carrie Vaughn and more.

www.tarvolon.com

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · Aug 25

Love Post Games? Share it with a friend!

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