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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 14d

Figured I'd drop a link to my mailing letter about fic and sundry since we're all talking about it. This piece has gotten the most engagement of all the letters I've sent out.

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Liner Notes #21: No, I Won't Tell You My AO3

Confession, however little of one this may be: I have an AO3 account, have had one for a long time, and have been in fandom since the mid 1990s. I have read...

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

Dear [Author],

Your book [Title] is wonderful. I had painful urination and blood in my urine for years, until I read [Title] and now there is a clear golden stream.

[Title] deserves a wider readership. My team of 5,000 cyber-turtles can post honest reviews and raise your Zoob ranking, for a modest

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 5d

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gwendolyn maia hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 1d

YAAAAAY KATHERINE!!!!

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Chapbook Category

First Place: The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)

Second Place: Water-Kin • @mahailasmith.ca • (Metatron Press, 2024)

Third Place: Micropoetry for Microplanets • @bugthewriter.bsky.social • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)

gwendolyn maia hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 1d

INCREDIBLE LINE-UP! congratulations to all the winners 🦞 ❤️

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Winners

The Rhysling Award honors the year's best in speculative poetry ✨

Nominees were selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: Long and Short poem

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 6d

So happy to see my poem, “The Final Trick,” get an honorable mention in the Rhysling Awards! Thanks to everyone who read and voted! Eternally grateful to @ajodasso.bsky.social who gave this poem the perfect home at @strangehorizons.bsky.social.

Congrats to all the winners and nominees!

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Winners

The Rhysling Award honors the year's best in speculative poetry ✨

Nominees were selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: Long and Short poem

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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Submit a Claim

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gwendolyn maia hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · Sep 1

I wrote a poem about Close Encounters of the Third Kind, my favorite Spielberg film. 🛸

I wondered if Roy Neary’s oldest son missed his father the same way I miss mine.

“Hand Signs” is now free to read in Cottonmouth Journal Volume 1, Issue 4: www.cottonmouthjournal.com/gwendolyn-ma...

GWENDOLYN MAIA HICKS: HAND SIGNS | COTTONMOUTH

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 8d

Autumn scenes in western Massachusetts.
1. Field of goldenrod gone to seed.
2. Tree arches over the trail.
3. Color in the forest.
4. Goldenrod again.

Photograph of fluffy seed heads of goldenrod. A field rises to a line of trees in the middle distance. Out of focus mountains line the horizon.

Photograph of a tree with a horizontal limb that stretches across a footpath at the edge of a field.

Wide-angle photograph of a forest already gone into full autumn color. Shadows stripe the ground from the trunks.

Up-close photograph of a fluffy goldenrod seed head, with yellow goldenrod fields out of focus behind it. Trees rise in the background.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 11d

Woot, attention! 😊 check out our open material and subscribe. We aim to keep paying talented writers and cover artists for years to come!
Magazine.Trollbeath.com

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gwendolyn maia hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 10d

we read small things like these for class last week

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gwendolyn maia hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 10d

i’ve been doing literally nothing else but play it AAAAGGGHH MELIIIII

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 12d

“But you didn’t even know me,” you sob.

“And then I did.”

Damn, love so many things in this story. The necromancy line, the line about asking the sword if it would hurt, the characterization of Charli, the foreignness/weirdness of that intimacy, the not needing to be *for* anything. Beautiful.

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gwendolyn maia hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 10d

oml 😭🖤 so elated that you enjoyed it

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 12d

“And Charli is your friend? You try not to laugh. Charli is my sight. Charli is my owner. Charli is my gallant, my secret-keeper, my gravemate. Charli is the only one who would see me at the grocery store and know that it’s a lie, everything, all of it.”

MY HEART???😭🩵 THIS FRIENDSHIP. THIS KINSHIP.

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

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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gwendolyn maia hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social · 12d

my @lambdaliterary.org retreat reading has its own lil video now!

tricia’s ASL interpretation of my prose is a thing of beauty. <3

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Gwendolyn Hicks Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow Reading

YouTube video by Lambda Literary

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking to join the Augur team? 👀 Now's your chance!

We are looking for dedicated, experienced, and compassionate folks to join our all-volunteer Editorial team! 💫🖋️ If you want to help shape the future of Augur magazine--APPLY NOW!

DEADLINE to submit your application is Sep 21 🗓️

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15d

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

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