Thank you @thenewquarterly.bsky.social and Vestige Story. ❤️🌊 You can read the beautiful couplets by the other finalists here: tnq.ca/vestige-story/

It's the Big Day for COMMON BONDS 2! If you missed on our crowdfund and long "late pledges" tail, you can now get COMMON BONDS 2 from (most of) your favourite retailers 💙 🧡 Massive thank you to all of our backers who made this possible Buy it: buy.bookfunnel.com/yilbsiz3a6

COMMON BONDS lovers, you can get even more of the good stuff. An entire anthology of short stories and poems that have: 💚 science fiction and fantasy 💚 aromantic MCs 💚 a focus on platonic relationships! Coming March 26, 2026 : buy.bookfunnel.com/yilbsiz3a6 🌈📚

We hope these will make you laugh, and tense, and cry, that they will make you feel seen and loved, that they will give you the strength to love in your own way, on your own terms, in all the queer glory you desire. Here is our full list of authors and stories! (ALT text to have it written down)

Very excited to share that my story "Wish, Wish" will be a part of the COMMON BONDS 2 anthology! 🎉 It's the last story I wrote as part of this summer's @clarionwest.bsky.social flash fiction groups, and somehow the most uplifting 🥹

Claudie@clh2oars.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The time has come! Today is our Table of Content announcement for COMMON BONDS 2! You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla... But I'll also thread them below!

Book haul from the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (MONSFFA) book sale 🤩 I have been trying to hunt down the sequels to The Winter Prince since I read it last year! 🎉

I sold a story to khoreo magazine! 🥹

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.

Deeply obsessed with Edward Gorey

So excited for my piece to be featured in the latest issue of @trampset.bsky.social. Do check it out & the amazing work of fellow writers <3

trampset@trampset.bsky.social · last yr.

"Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison." @lisobeltang.bsky.social's "China Dog" trampset.org/china-dog-68...

"Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison." @lisobeltang.bsky.social's "China Dog" trampset.org/china-dog-68...

China Dog

by Lisobel Tang

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#BookFilmPairing rec of the day: The Bear and the Nightingale by #KatherineArden, The Bird King by @gwillow.me, and Conclave (dir. Edward Berger) Both novels feature extremely frightening villains that, like Cardinal Lawrence, invite you to examine the relationship between faith and doubt.

I know some writers hate revising. But let me make a case for the feeling of polishing your prose like a diamond until 3am. Monastic or ecstatic? I have never found it easier to enter a flow state. It always starts with, “I’ll just give this another 15 minutes…” 💎

I miss her so much, but the work is on the rest of us now. @ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...

Ursula Le Guin

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