Okay party people, you can find #SomtoIhezue reading "When Trees Laugh It Sounds Like This" on our youtube channel! His award-winning story "We Begin Where Infinity Ends" will be included in the anthology. Enjoy! youtu.be/zu3cLrOg2Kg... http://kck.st/4wtYJ6...

Congrats to @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and the entire GCWS team (volunteers, speakers, everyone) for what everyone is saying was a fantastic weekend!

Jason Sanford@jasonsanford.bsky.social · 3d ago

FYI that this year's Gen Con Writers Symposium has been the best and most diverse conference in years, with writers and readers packing panels and workshops. Props to @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and the GCWS staff for doing such amazing work! 3/

When you’re reading a romance involving Fae bargains and you start to hear a sweet little distant melody chiming through the air… Then you realize it’s an ice-cream truck. Then you remember you live on a side street backed up against the woods and have never once seen an ice-cream truck here.

We survived GenCon Writers Symposium 2026, y’all (and that’s saying something considering the occasional tornado). I was so busy running around I barely got to enjoy it. Luckily, my interns and friends made sure to slow me down to experience what we were curating.

This year's GenCon Writers Symposium was amazing! Check out this thread from @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social to learn why the convention is a must-attend for writers. Maurice and his staff have truly transformed the Symposium in the last two years. I can't wait to see what they do next time!

Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · 2d ago

We survived GenCon Writers Symposium 2026, y’all (and that’s saying something considering the occasional tornado). I was so busy running around I barely got to enjoy it. Luckily, my interns and friends made sure to slow me down to experience what we were curating.

A friend who I greatly respect and admire just dubbed me The Queen of Weird. I wear that crown proudly. #Necronomicon

Re-Upping cause we at GenCon baby!

Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred@lpkindred.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm a late addition to GenCon and I know how to write un cursive! Come see about me!

Cats out of the bag! Stay tuned to find out who all coming to The Cookout

The Cookout Anthology@tco-anthology.bsky.social · last wk.

Author Announcement! Please welcome to The Cookout: Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora… K. S. Walker! @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social

I'm a late addition to GenCon and I know how to write un cursive! Come see about me!

From the geniuses at the National Public Housing Museum

ICYMI The Neon Hemlock Novella Series VOL. 7 Kickstarter is up! (Related: Dizzy is back in 2027) www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven

Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly

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@neonhemlock.bsky.social partyyyyy!!! By which I mean, please consider supporting their latest KS and helping with next year's novella series with some very very amazing ones coming out! Squeeee!!!!

Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred@lpkindred.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of my favorite holidays is the day @neonhemlock.bsky.social drops the Kickstarter for the next year's novella series! But also! My Clarion sibs @tkrex.bsky.social and @shingai-be-like.bsky.social have a novella and a collection, respectively, among them. Please check it out AND stretch goals!

Wanna support queer writers? Back the project here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven

Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly

kickstarter.com

📚 Our seventh novella series crowdfund is now live 📚 Boosts appreciated!

One of my favorite holidays is the day @neonhemlock.bsky.social drops the Kickstarter for the next year's novella series! But also! My Clarion sibs @tkrex.bsky.social and @shingai-be-like.bsky.social have a novella and a collection, respectively, among them. Please check it out AND stretch goals!

The best thing about the writing community is the writing community. Shoutout to @alexjennings.bsky.social for reading me down. Shoutout to the Twins ( @shingai-be-like.bsky.social and @olivasthewriter.bsky.social ) for gently reading me about my novels. Shoutout to @jordankurella.com for peptalks.

The aftermath of loved ones is so heavy and tedious and expensive. Purse help Zin's family.

intelligentwat 🇹🇹 BRING BACK ŁINK@zinrock.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm sorry to do this again, but we really need your immediate help. my partner's kids' mom died suddenly and we need to settle affairs as well as paperwork to get life started on this new normal. this will cover the time we need to take off. please help. gofund.me/f4ba517ba

I'm sorry to do this again, but we really need your immediate help. my partner's kids' mom died suddenly and we need to settle affairs as well as paperwork to get life started on this new normal. this will cover the time we need to take off. please help. gofund.me/f4ba517ba

Donate to Support for John, Teri, and Kids After Tragic Loss, organized by Teri Clarke

hello. My name is Teri Clarke and my partner John Grimm and I need yo… Teri Clarke needs your support for Support for John, Teri, and Kids After Tragic Loss

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Also Weird Dream Report had to wait until I made what I saw, but: I dreamt I was at a lit festival and once again (!!) saw books with my name clearly on them that I don't remember having written. In this case: a trilogy of thick hardbacks with light, silvery covers and shapes on each like this:

Coolest thing I've heard today, and also -- please YES @lpkindred.bsky.social write something gayer!! Write all of the gay things! 🖤🖤🖤

Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred@lpkindred.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did I tell y'all I'm in the speculative cohort for @lambdaliterary.org emerging voices retreat where our instructor is the @andreahairston.bsky.social? The closest I've gotten to this many queers in a workshop was my Clarion Class (we had a Gay Majority). Makes me want to write sumn gayer...

Huge congratulations @lpkindred.bsky.social!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred@lpkindred.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did I tell y'all I'm in the speculative cohort for @lambdaliterary.org emerging voices retreat where our instructor is the @andreahairston.bsky.social? The closest I've gotten to this many queers in a workshop was my Clarion Class (we had a Gay Majority). Makes me want to write sumn gayer...

Did I tell y'all I'm in the speculative cohort for @lambdaliterary.org emerging voices retreat where our instructor is the @andreahairston.bsky.social? The closest I've gotten to this many queers in a workshop was my Clarion Class (we had a Gay Majority). Makes me want to write sumn gayer...

i think about form size a lot, bouncing between epic fantasy series and standalones, short stories, and novellas. generally, i’m pretty disinterested in the categories themselves, but i’m interested in using the space well, to best effect. so how do you write a good story at any length?

Adib Khorram@adibkhorram.bsky.social · 4w ago

anyone have any favorite resources about writing a novella (vs a novel)—like what makes a good novella, what uses the form well, etc? I've READ plenty of them but if you asked me what the difference is between one and a novel I would still just say "they're shorter" even though I know there's more.

also, hey, if you want to read more novellas, Fate’s Bane is out now and Fortune’s Wake comes out in August and you can preorder it! shorturl.at/Lj5xV

Stretch goal, you say? Let's go!

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 3w ago

We hit our base goal, but there's still 33 hours left to go, and your continued support means the world to us! With our first stretch goal, we can pay our ultra-talented human artists more, we can increase our average story length to 4000+ words, and expand to author interviews 🧡

We hit our base goal, but there's still 33 hours left to go, and your continued support means the world to us! With our first stretch goal, we can pay our ultra-talented human artists more, we can increase our average story length to 4000+ words, and expand to author interviews 🧡

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...

ICE killed a random guy today.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.

over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3w ago

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.