Kristiana Willsey
@spindlewise.bsky.social
Writer and academic folklorist who lives in Los Angeles. Teaches at USC, opinions my own.
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There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.
Had a great time at Worldcon meeting new and old faces! Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social for letting me be your plus one! Glad we could trauma bond over our masthead being skipped again. I look forward to next year!
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.
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Monte + time travel = insta read
New story out! It's my musings about the free will/predestination paradox of time travel and how it would break some but validate others
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Causality Syndrome
It was a transmission from the future that threw everything into disarray.
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April 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Monte + time travel = insta read
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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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I’m a former IIE Fulbright recipient. I hope to see a statement from Fulbright about the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, doing doctoral research at Tufts’ Child Study and Human Development program. Her work addresses childrens’ media. She is the co-founder of an independent children’s media initiative.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I’m a former IIE Fulbright recipient. I hope to see a statement from Fulbright about the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, doing doctoral research at Tufts’ Child Study and Human Development program. Her work addresses childrens’ media. She is the co-founder of an independent children’s media initiative.
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ICYMI I have a new story out! It contains Greek moms trying to feed you meatballs at the beach and grandmas with their own agendas.
AAAND GRANNIBALS ARE HERE! So happy that @3lobedmag.bsky.social published Grannibal 2, The Return of the Grannibal!
The Bathers is about Katina, a teenage girl who feels seen and judged by everyone. She finds solace in a group of older women who her mother calls witches.
The Bathers is about Katina, a teenage girl who feels seen and judged by everyone. She finds solace in a group of older women who her mother calls witches.
3LBE Magazine - The Bathers by Eugenia Triantafyllou
Have you ever noticed a group of older women having fun, completely indifferent to everyone around them? Have you seen them being unapologetically themselves, doing their thing, despite what people mi...
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March 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
ICYMI I have a new story out! It contains Greek moms trying to feed you meatballs at the beach and grandmas with their own agendas.
As a folklorist, don’t give anyone your spit or blood, these are powerful liminal substances!
23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do.
Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
March 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
As a folklorist, don’t give anyone your spit or blood, these are powerful liminal substances!
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Do consider nominating for this prize. Even (especially) great books on the fringes of SFF. I've found the shortlist a reliable indicator of excellence in past years.
For myself, I've nominated Alex Jeffers's A Mourning Coat, a beautiful book I fear will slip between the cracks of other awards.
For myself, I've nominated Alex Jeffers's A Mourning Coat, a beautiful book I fear will slip between the cracks of other awards.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:
Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
www.ursulakleguin.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Do consider nominating for this prize. Even (especially) great books on the fringes of SFF. I've found the shortlist a reliable indicator of excellence in past years.
For myself, I've nominated Alex Jeffers's A Mourning Coat, a beautiful book I fear will slip between the cracks of other awards.
For myself, I've nominated Alex Jeffers's A Mourning Coat, a beautiful book I fear will slip between the cracks of other awards.
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Patricia McKillip's classic Riddle-Master trilogy is $1.99 for all three books together in ebook at North American retailers.
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Riddle-Master
Check out Riddle-Master - <b>For over twenty years, World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip has captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of readers. Now at last her renowned <i>R...
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March 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Patricia McKillip's classic Riddle-Master trilogy is $1.99 for all three books together in ebook at North American retailers.
bookshop.org/p/books/ridd...
bookshop.org/p/books/ridd...
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Calling poets,prose writers & essayists to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue!Send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic. Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are co-editing
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Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call
The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
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February 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Calling poets,prose writers & essayists to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue!Send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic. Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are co-editing
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ICYMI! Last minute reading for the Nebula Awards?
Try the novelette "Loneliness Universe" by Eugenia Triantafyllou! @foxesandroses.bsky.social
It came in 4th place in the Uncanny Readers' Poll & is on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
https://buff.ly/4i9AYKc
Try the novelette "Loneliness Universe" by Eugenia Triantafyllou! @foxesandroses.bsky.social
It came in 4th place in the Uncanny Readers' Poll & is on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
https://buff.ly/4i9AYKc
February 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
ICYMI! Last minute reading for the Nebula Awards?
Try the novelette "Loneliness Universe" by Eugenia Triantafyllou! @foxesandroses.bsky.social
It came in 4th place in the Uncanny Readers' Poll & is on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
https://buff.ly/4i9AYKc
Try the novelette "Loneliness Universe" by Eugenia Triantafyllou! @foxesandroses.bsky.social
It came in 4th place in the Uncanny Readers' Poll & is on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
https://buff.ly/4i9AYKc
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Nebula Award nominations and BSFA Awards voting both close this Friday! My @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Loneliness Universe" is on the Nebula Recommended Reading List and the BSFA longlist! I would be honoured if you considered nominating it or any other story you enjoyed by me last year. 🙏🏻
Hello friends! This is an #AwardsEligibility thread! (The previous one had a typo... typical). These are all the stories that I published this year. Let's go:
February 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Nebula Award nominations and BSFA Awards voting both close this Friday! My @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story "Loneliness Universe" is on the Nebula Recommended Reading List and the BSFA longlist! I would be honoured if you considered nominating it or any other story you enjoyed by me last year. 🙏🏻
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It contains my novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends" that's formatted as a series of Goodreads-type reviews and an amazing ToC! 💜💜
Space Unicorns! Behold the Galen Dara cover and Table of Contents of Uncanny Magazine Issue 63!!! https://buff.ly/3D3g5S9
February 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It contains my novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends" that's formatted as a series of Goodreads-type reviews and an amazing ToC! 💜💜
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The Locus Recommended List is out! Both Loneliness Universe and Joanna's Bodies are in there! Thank you to anyone who recced them❤️ and congrats to so many awesome writers like @nassos.bsky.social @kerstinhall.bsky.social @vajra.me @angelaliu.bsky.social and many more!
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2024 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! This list is compiled by the Locus editor…
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February 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The Locus Recommended List is out! Both Loneliness Universe and Joanna's Bodies are in there! Thank you to anyone who recced them❤️ and congrats to so many awesome writers like @nassos.bsky.social @kerstinhall.bsky.social @vajra.me @angelaliu.bsky.social and many more!
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Sometimes when I worry that I'm not a serious enough person to be a real scholar, I think about this footnote in Judith Butler's Frames of War citing Rush Hour 3.
January 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Sometimes when I worry that I'm not a serious enough person to be a real scholar, I think about this footnote in Judith Butler's Frames of War citing Rush Hour 3.
Tried to copy a citation and accidentally opened Zotero for the first time since grad school. Lord don't confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them.
January 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Tried to copy a citation and accidentally opened Zotero for the first time since grad school. Lord don't confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them.
Ooof that false evacuation alert! Everyone in LA having an unwarranted heart attack to go with all the warranted ones.
January 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Ooof that false evacuation alert! Everyone in LA having an unwarranted heart attack to go with all the warranted ones.
Every semester I read my teaching evaluations and hope, not for *good* reviews, but for no reviews that are so devastatingly on-point that they live in my heart forever.
January 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Every semester I read my teaching evaluations and hope, not for *good* reviews, but for no reviews that are so devastatingly on-point that they live in my heart forever.
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one of the biggest and simplest ways to both do something, and FEEL like you’re doing something, is to find a small nonprofit with a cause you care about. donate, volunteer, join a board. offer pro bono skills if you have them (tech support, accounting, legal). help them fundraise. they need you
I think people feel exhausted in advance because we’ve trained ourselves to think marches and rallies are the only way to fight, when in fact there are much quieter, more effective, and less exhausting ways to fight - like not conceding in advance, and not panic-sharing stuff without vetting
January 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
one of the biggest and simplest ways to both do something, and FEEL like you’re doing something, is to find a small nonprofit with a cause you care about. donate, volunteer, join a board. offer pro bono skills if you have them (tech support, accounting, legal). help them fundraise. they need you
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I say we beat the shit out of 2025 as soon as it shows up, just as a message to any potential future years
December 31, 2024 at 5:17 AM
I say we beat the shit out of 2025 as soon as it shows up, just as a message to any potential future years
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An absolutely incredible story that you should read right this instant 🐸
🐸 "Frogskin" in @strangehorizons.bsky.social 🐸
A Tamil, anticolonial, gender-bent retelling of the Frog Prince, I wrote this story to chart a way back into the fairy tales I grew up with—through the fragmentary lens of surreal body horror.
A Tamil, anticolonial, gender-bent retelling of the Frog Prince, I wrote this story to chart a way back into the fairy tales I grew up with—through the fragmentary lens of surreal body horror.
Frogskin
Once there lived a princess who was a girl, a corpse, a slippery amphibial nymph. She was tucked within several lives, each life pleating and creasing into silken layers of woe. But for our purpose…
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December 24, 2024 at 1:14 AM
An absolutely incredible story that you should read right this instant 🐸
As a folklorist, fascinating (horrifying) to watch this sea change to my discipline’s key question: who owns culture? We’ve always known “originality” is mostly a useful fiction to justify who we pay and who we don’t, but this is a stark abandonment of what used to be the main defense of copyright.
Absolutely disgrace. Years of trying to lock kids up for Napster, discontinuing movies because of music rights, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR promo bullsh*t and they're ready to give it ALL away to big tech billionaires
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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December 19, 2024 at 6:34 AM
As a folklorist, fascinating (horrifying) to watch this sea change to my discipline’s key question: who owns culture? We’ve always known “originality” is mostly a useful fiction to justify who we pay and who we don’t, but this is a stark abandonment of what used to be the main defense of copyright.
I took a class called The Detective in the City that was an interdisciplinary mash-up of detective fiction, urban planning, architectural theory etc that I still think about all the time! (But I teach college now so all college classes were/are career-relevant 😅)
December 19, 2024 at 3:35 AM
I took a class called The Detective in the City that was an interdisciplinary mash-up of detective fiction, urban planning, architectural theory etc that I still think about all the time! (But I teach college now so all college classes were/are career-relevant 😅)
Look at this gorgeous cover! I read this when it didn’t even have all the same words, they grow up so fast 😭
My first bluesky post is a cover reveal!
Just look at it! It's everything I hoped for and more! I am so grateful and excited.
Can any book live up to such a cover? Only one way to find out! Pre-order SALVAGIA now!
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Just look at it! It's everything I hoped for and more! I am so grateful and excited.
Can any book live up to such a cover? Only one way to find out! Pre-order SALVAGIA now!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Salvag...
December 18, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Look at this gorgeous cover! I read this when it didn’t even have all the same words, they grow up so fast 😭