Our second poem "love note from my guardian angel" by Caroline Hung is shocking and tender. When we designed broadside, had ideas for adding accents but it naturally came together minimalist, its words' artistry plenty 'nough. www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... #WriterShareWednesday #WeeknightWriters

Poem 2: “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung | Spec Colorways In Verse

Poem 2: “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung by Spec Colorways In Verse on Patreon. Join Spec Colorways In Verse's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good morning! It's #WriterShareWednesday ! Share a pitch for your WIP or one of your published works (including links if you have them) and we'll give it a boost! Please use alt text in your images for accessibility & note that AI "work" will not be shared

it's a double release week for me! celebrating the Weird and Queer with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social, please do support these amazing presses if you can! (1/3) 🧵

THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!! so honored and happy to be part of Spec Colorways!!! 😊💜

Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're here & still queer with our 2nd poem, "love note from my guardian angel" by 💐 @carolinehung.bsky.social 💐, a devotional haibun/blackout that's a real . . . stunner. Hope you brought your appetite: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... (1/2)

It's almost time to feast 🔔, who's hungry?

Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · last mo.

Our 2nd poem/broadside, “love note from my guardian angel” by @carolinehung.bsky.social, is live Jul 17 at noon! 💌🫦🍽️ Not subscribed? Purchase the individual post (including an author recording) when it's up for $4—or right now, the '26 Poems + Q&As Collection for $14: www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor...

👽💀Into the Weird we go once again💀👽 BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4, is OUT NOW! 23 of the finest & Weirdest stories of 2025. Congrats to all this year's winners🖤☠️ Get BRAVE NEW WEIRD wherever books are sold, or direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com

Our 2nd poem/broadside, “love note from my guardian angel” by @carolinehung.bsky.social, is live Jul 17 at noon! 💌🫦🍽️ Not subscribed? Purchase the individual post (including an author recording) when it's up for $4—or right now, the '26 Poems + Q&As Collection for $14: www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor...

We have hit 20% of our fundraising goal and there is only two weeks left to donate! Help support the next year of khōréō here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

gods this new story by Boon Carmen is WILD.... khōréō just keeps publishing the best of SFF/H from immigrant & diaspora authors The era of genAI slop is a great time to support indie mags !! As a nonprofit led by volunteers, khōréō relies on donations to operate➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In "So You Want to Make a Killing" by Boon Carmen, a funeral parlour director struggles to keep their business afloat in a future where death is rare and near impossible. The solution? Fill the gap in the market—with more dead bodies.

what an emotional and musical piece from Dkéama! support Queer and Black poetry 🫵🌈

Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌠❤️Happy Juneteenth! And what dis?! Our first poem! Do add "MOKO"'s liberation rhythm to your celebration playlist: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... 💚🌊 💐Dkéama Alexis💐 Support queer BIPOC spec poets by sharing, subscribing, tipping on ko-fi.com/speccolorway... #CaribbeanHeritage #Juneteenth #Pride

I'm so proud to have this essay out in support of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social fund drive. I have thoughts about worldbuilding, and I hope after reading that you will, too ✨

Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Find-drive update: we’ve just hit our next funding milestone, so we’re delighted to bring you @jennahanchey.bsky.social’s brilliant essay on - and critique of - worldbuilding: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... To help us keep publishing such work, back us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I started my summer reading with The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away by @tanawir.bsky.social, and it will be so hard for anything to follow this gorgeous, heart-rending book. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy ✨ dancingstarpress.com/product/the-...

The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away | Dancing Star Press

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🌠❤️Happy Juneteenth! And what dis?! Our first poem! Do add "MOKO"'s liberation rhythm to your celebration playlist: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... 💚🌊 💐Dkéama Alexis💐 Support queer BIPOC spec poets by sharing, subscribing, tipping on ko-fi.com/speccolorway... #CaribbeanHeritage #Juneteenth #Pride

Poem 1: “MOKO” by Dkéama Alexis | Spec Colorways In Verse

listen to Dkéama read “MOKO” below! 🖤💚♥️✊🏾♥️💚🖤 Dkéama Alexis is a Black trans—writer, dreamtender, death doula, and bricoleur living on unce

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"love note from my guardian angel" is my god-eating poem that combines Haibun and Blackout poetry. Available July 17th only for Patreon members of @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social ! Audio included narrated by the Angel itself 🙂 www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...

📯Announcing our '26 lineup📯 @carolinehung.bsky.social @gailguerrero.bsky.social "Moko" by Dkéama Alexis will be available to all subscribers. (Onward, paid tiers [$3–5] & $4-post-purchasers will have access to poems—digital broadsides & audio recordings.) patreon.com/SpecColorway...

🖤☠️MEET @carolinehung.bsky.social, BRAVE NEW WEIRD AWARD WINNER🖤☠️ The plane is now boarding. Thank you for choosing to flee war with us today; we hope you have a pleasant flight. Please be sure you have your "Ticket po mamser." handy. Preorder The Best New Weird Horror v4: store.tenebrouspress.com

Congratulations to all the Hugo Award finalists! Strange Horizons is grateful for everyone who helped us become a finalist in the Best Semiprozine category: authors, voters, our entire readership, and everyone else who keeps us in mind as an SFF publication to read and submit to! ❤️

Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

(37/55) Best Semiprozine 🚀 [4 of 6] Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @darthj.uno, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, @danhartland.bsky.social, @vanessajae.bsky.social, austindewar.com

'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine. Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨ Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...

thank you so much!!😊

Emmi Khor - Writer@emmikhor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just enjoyed listening to this little story that follows the rebirth of a mechanical qilin by @carolinehung.bsky.social in @khoreo.bsky.social Give it a read! www.khoreomag.com/fiction/rain... #shortstories #flashfiction

I'm so grateful and honored to be in Reckoning's special issue!! Maraming salamat po!!

Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today from IT WAS PARADISE, our issue on war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "Adobo Sky" by @carolinehung.bsky.social originally appeared in Nonprofit Quarterly in 2023; it's a bonkers, far-future flash story which falls satisfyingly in the ACAB camp: reckoning.press/adobo-sky/

New from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "In the Video: A Woman with Her Newborn [Content Warning]" by Bahar Davoudi, a poem that goes incredibly hard affirming life in the face of violence reckoning.press/in-the-video...

In the Video: A Woman with Her Newborn [Content Warning] | Reckoning

Why don’t these people stop having babies during a war, under the air strike? —A comment under the video In other words, why don’t they stand at their windows, watch the offerings of fire falling from...

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IT WAS PARADISE, our long-awaited special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, is out today in ebook form, and the print edition is up for preorder! Edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social and with (terrifying) war monster art by @monarobot.bsky.social! reckoning.press/it-was-parad...

新年快樂! 🧧 Happy Year of the Fire Horse. This is my story about a mechanical horse that loves arson and revolution 🔥free text and audio available @khoreo.bsky.social issue 3.4

RAIN FIRE CLOUD

On the seven hundredth Day of Founding, the Imperial Sun Palaces open their gates for a joyous celebration, broadcasted live to every corner of the Heavenly Empire. The sleek automobiles roll in throu...

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I'm obsessed with that cover..... so grateful to be part of the ToC!! ✈️

Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are elated to announce the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners, Class of 2025! This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird. BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July. Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/47f6tt48

In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones. Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed — strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence

Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…

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get XANAX HAMSTER!!! sick ass zines by @frombeyondpress.bsky.social 💥 frombeyondpress.com/product/xana...

Ruth Joffre@ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 9mo ago

all the AI slop out there makes me want the most aggressively analog stories out there. like I want a one-of-a-kind homemade zine someone tucked into a baggie in the hollow of a tree, and I want that zine to include a shitty hand drawn map to a treasure it may or may not take 30 years to find

Hey hey hey, SH has a call for Indigenous submissions. And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers! If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit! Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous: Taiwanese aborigines. Ainu. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Indigenous Author Submissions

On November 3rd, we will be opening for speculative fiction stories written by Indigenous authors. We will be capping submissions at 500.

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super happy and grateful that people have read "Ticket po mamser." I remember being worried about writing some of the dialogue in Tagalog. It must have been gibberish to everyone else but I'm just glad I got the chance to do something like this

Renan Bernardo@renanbernardo.com · 9mo ago

My recommendation today is Ticket po mamser., by @carolinehung.bsky.social! Powerful and gripping tale about immigration published @strangehorizons.bsky.social. strangehorizons.com/fiction/tick...

(1/?) 🧵 I'm doing #Peacetober2025 a daily artivism challenge run by @/CoffeesForGaza on IG with their prompt list www.instagram.com/p/DOz9c_9iEl0/

Coffees for Gaza - Open Collective

Creative community collecting mass micro donations for 25 families in Gaza.

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CFG is running #Peacetober again this year, an awareness-raising artivism initiative to help drive funds for the 25 families the collective is supporting. Artists, writers, crafters, if you're looking for an October project, consider joining. More info here: www.instagram.com/p/DOz9c_9iEl... #art

Why translate from Taiwanese to Gaelic and back again? Here, @drhannahstevens.bsky.social and I try to give an answer on #Taiwan Insight. Do read the other essays in this special issue as well (from Elissa Hunter-Dorans and Lisa MacDonald, with the final one soon to land from Naomi Sím).

Tâigael: Orchids, Maternal Care, and a New Rosetta Stone

Written by Hannah Stevens and Will Buckingham. The article introduces Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic, a translation project linking two minoritised languages through English and Manda…

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