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J.R. Dawson

@jrdawson.bsky.social

She/They. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (Tor, 2025). The First Bright Thing (Tor, 2023). Nebula, Sturgeon, and Hugo finalist. Goldie award winner. ✡️🏳️‍🌈🍉Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jrdawsonwriter Rep: Stevie Finegan

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Jennifer Laughran@literaticat.bsky.social · 23h ago

Heads up, Bookworms: There will likely be💀supply chain issues💀 this holiday season. So if there are specific books you have your heart set on for holiday gifting, I strongly suggest you buy/order them ahead of time (✨like now✨) rather than waiting until November/December.

J.R. Dawson@jrdawson.bsky.social · yesterday

I was reading a short story recently and it was about all the different attempts in different multiverses for this person to forgive themself for something ... and I got pulled away from my computer and didn't get very far and now I can't find it. Any ideas?

J.R. Dawson@jrdawson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Found this old picture of me working on a book in my old writing room. This is what most of writing looks like. Sitting alone, planning and plotting and hoping it all works.

Brown haired woman sitting writing on a dry erase board
J.R. Dawson@jrdawson.bsky.social · 4d ago

I love learning about people’s hyperfixations. The more niche and involved the better. A movie no one’s heard of from 1996? A specific type of stamp? One dude who changed the way we wrap candy in the 1800s? Please tell me your most specific obsession and info dump on me.

Rachel Gutin@rachelgutin.bsky.social · last wk.

New year, new story day! This story is the vibe I want all of us to carry into the new Jewish year. And for anyone in NYC who was annoyed by this morning’s rain, it was clearly my story’s fault. Enjoy!

The Sunday Morning Transport@morningtransport.bsky.social · last wk.

The Sunday Morning Transport ducks inside today with a story from Rachel Gutin (@rachelgutin.bsky.social) that explores a jewelry shop that has everything you need. Read a sample or subscribe for the whole story! www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/when-it-ra...

J.R. Dawson@jrdawson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today is a weird day. It’s 9/11. Thirteen years ago, we buried my grandma. And sixteen years ago, I met my wife for the first time. And twenty-five years ago, … you know. Just a weird day.

J.R. Dawson@jrdawson.bsky.social · 3w ago

First, MASSIVE congratulations to Thomas Ha for his Hugo win. His short story, “In My Country,” is FANTASTIC and one of my favorite stories of 2025. I wanted to finally share my rebel loon dress for the awards ceremony. Necklace is @midnightxartist . And the speech explaining why this dress.

A pretty blue mockingjay dress with red boots and blue hair Wow. Thank you. This is a literal dream come true. I wrote this story because I wanted to see how I fit into the world, and give myself permission to show up as myself. The fact that so many people resonated with that journey, found themselves in Liz, it goes to show how none of us are alone, even if we feel like it. All of us are worthy. All of us are enough.             Thank you first and foremost to my beautiful wife, Jessie. To my parents and my grandma and my sweet sweet dog Paddington, and thank you to Uncanny Magazine for believing so much in this story. Thank you to my agent, Stevie Finegan. Thank you to the speculative fiction community, especially the queer and disabled readers and writers who have lifted not only me but all of us up. A special thank you to Ryka, John, and Effie, for your kindness and your friendship and lyour stubborn belief that I could do this. To all the other short story nominees, for writing such beautiful work that was needed in this time of all the fears and scars and pains that they wrote about, AI, ableism, fascism, apocalypse, identity.             And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all the stories this year were strong meditations on the uncertain times we live in. We need to understand and to talk about and to act on the horrors surrounding us. Tonight, I’m dressed as the rebel loon symbol to represent my city of Minneapolis. In the past year, there have been terrible things, lives ripped apart, and it’s still going on as we sit in this arena tonight. A few days ago, someone at the convention asked me, “Do you think there’s hope?”             And yes, I do. Because there has to be. And because we as a community are desperately writing about it. Keep writing. Keep hoping. As one of my favorite authors, Suzanne Collins, wrote, “Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous.”             Fellow writers, be dangerous.See second photo See second photo
J.R. Dawson@jrdawson.bsky.social · 3w ago

First, MASSIVE congratulations to Thomas Ha for his Hugo win. His short story, “In My Country,” is FANTASTIC and one of my favorite stories of 2025. I wanted to finally share my rebel loon dress for the awards ceremony. Necklace is @midnightxartist . And the speech explaining why this dress.

A pretty blue mockingjay dress with red boots and blue hair Wow. Thank you. This is a literal dream come true. I wrote this story because I wanted to see how I fit into the world, and give myself permission to show up as myself. The fact that so many people resonated with that journey, found themselves in Liz, it goes to show how none of us are alone, even if we feel like it. All of us are worthy. All of us are enough.             Thank you first and foremost to my beautiful wife, Jessie. To my parents and my grandma and my sweet sweet dog Paddington, and thank you to Uncanny Magazine for believing so much in this story. Thank you to my agent, Stevie Finegan. Thank you to the speculative fiction community, especially the queer and disabled readers and writers who have lifted not only me but all of us up. A special thank you to Ryka, John, and Effie, for your kindness and your friendship and lyour stubborn belief that I could do this. To all the other short story nominees, for writing such beautiful work that was needed in this time of all the fears and scars and pains that they wrote about, AI, ableism, fascism, apocalypse, identity.             And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all the stories this year were strong meditations on the uncertain times we live in. We need to understand and to talk about and to act on the horrors surrounding us. Tonight, I’m dressed as the rebel loon symbol to represent my city of Minneapolis. In the past year, there have been terrible things, lives ripped apart, and it’s still going on as we sit in this arena tonight. A few days ago, someone at the convention asked me, “Do you think there’s hope?”             And yes, I do. Because there has to be. And because we as a community are desperately writing about it. Keep writing. Keep hoping. As one of my favorite authors, Suzanne Collins, wrote, “Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous.”             Fellow writers, be dangerous.See second photo See second photo
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 4w ago

Good morning (again, again) — a few more #timeloop short story recs to get you (re)started today! "Marley and Marley" by @jrdawson.bsky.social (and if you get the Muppet Christmas Carol song stuck in your head it is NOT my fault) is a delightful story and I love it: escapepod.org/2020/01/09/e...

Escape Pod 714: Marley and Marley | Escape Pod

I never wanted to turn out like her. When I met her, I was twelve. There was no one else to take care of me. Before she showed up, she was preceded by this man in a pinstriped suit. A harbinger.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey pals, come follow my next BackerKit campaign and help me bring a TIME LOOP ANTHOLOGY to life next month!! (It will have an open submission period for writers in October.) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

<alt>opportunity window: a time loop anthology, with artwork by Mildred McMillen edited to be framed within multiple smaller frames; it shows a person in a painting studio by an attic window</alt>