I have a chapter in this! Looking at transgression and the cartography of swamps in Sauna. That's a great horror film, if you haven't come across it yet.

University of Wales Press@uniwalespress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Out now! 'Baltic Horror in film, gaming and literature', edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, is the first collection dedicated to analysing horror audiovisual media and literature produced in the Baltic region. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/baltic-... @xaldanareyes.bsky.social

Very excited to announce our latest special issue submission call: for an all flash fiction issue edited by @andrewkozma.net! reckoning.press/reckoning-fl...

Reckoning Flash Fiction Call – Reckoning Gets Weird | Reckoning

For Reckoning’s next special issue, we are asking for environmental justice flash fiction of 1000 words or less. While we'll take 0-1200 words, we strongly prefer things in the 500-1000 range. Outside...

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There's a bowl of strawberries sitting next to me and I want to eat them because I'm hungry, but I don't want to eat them because they're making the room smell like delicious summer.

It's that time of paper-writing when I'm forced to use Chicago's notes referencing style and am once again annoyed by its horrible redundancy.

Have you read Narnia, and were you dismayed by what happened to Susan? You're not alone. Fanfic has your back - and in my upcoming book, "Nylons, Lipstick, and Narnia: Rewriting Susan Pevensie in Fanfiction", I look at how fanfic writers re-imagine her story and give her a different ending.

Luna Press Publishing@lunapress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pre-orders are now open for Nylons, Lipstick, and Narnia: Rewriting Susan Pevensie in Fanfiction, by @octavia-cade.bsky.social ! The book will be out August 18 2016. Through all the usual retailers and of course, the Luna store. Cover by Shauna McDonnell 💄 www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...

The cover's out! Happy to say that I've got a chapter on how libraries explore the Necrocene and ecological grief in "Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief", edited by @librarianchef.bsky.social and @kpalex91.bsky.social. Out from Bristol Uni Press next year!

Andi's work is fantastic, especially their cosy fantasies! And that's such a beautiful cover... I can't wait to read it.

Andi@andiwrites.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Spellcasting On is out now! Cosy sapphic romance with yarn 🧶 and magic ✨. Available now on all the usual platforms: buy.bookfunnel.com/psfdv1soqy

It's the NZ bird version of Wordle!!! birdle.nz From Forest and Bird.

I have a new story out! The Barrens, which is body horror and swarming sea urchins, is in the new issue of @3lobedmag.com! It's wonderful to be in Three-Lobed Burning Eye again, especially alongside @acwise.bsky.social, @ecatherine.com, and @mariness.bsky.social. www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe....

3LBE Magazine - The Barrens by Octavia Cade

The first body found belonged to a stranger. That made it easier to forget, after the first fascinating horror, even if the circumstances were gruesome.

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The latest issue of @3lobedmag.com is out today. It contains a new short story by yours truly, along with several other fabulous folks like @octavia-cade.bsky.social, @mariness.bsky.social and @ecatherine.com. I can't wait to read the other stories in the issue! www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/

3LBE Magazine - Issue 45: Contents

A magazine of speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Issue 45 features stories by Christi Nogle, Octavia Cade, A.C. Wise, Mari Ness, E. Catherine Tobler, and Avra Margariti.

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NZ writers, the Ursula Bethell residency at the University of Canterbury is open for applications. Closing date is August 3rd! jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

I can finally announce it! I'm happy to say that I'll be spending next year in Berlin, thanks to Creative New Zealand awarding me the Berlin Writer's Residency. I'm so grateful to our national arts funding body for the opportunity. Thank you CNZ!!! creativenz.govt.nz/news-and-blo...

Oh yay! My article "Fact, Fiction, and Feeling: Ecological Grief in a Changing World", published by @clarkesworldmagazine.com, has just won Best Production/Publication at this year's Sir Julius Vogel Awards! Thank you to everyone who voted! clarkesworldmagazine.com/cade_10_24/

I've seen a thylacine!!! Thanks to curators Moira and Kane, I got a behind-the-stage look at the Otago Museum collections yesterday. There was a cave bear skull and moa bones and lots of wonderful things, but the big surprise was the stuffed thylacine! @stelliform.press

This is a fantastic book - if you like short stories about science and the lives of scientists, you should give it a go!

Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · last yr.

The first review of this week at @strangehorizons.bsky.social is from @octavia-cade.bsky.social, of Pippa Goldschmidt’s BSFA-shortlisted collection from @goldsf.bsky.social. “I didn’t quite shove all the other reviewers out of the way to get to this, but it was a near thing.” On lives in science:

I've got a chapter in press on the Finnish horror film Sauna (2008)... but the book's run overlong so all the contributing authors have to cut 500 words from our chapters. Hopefully I've waffled so much it will be easy! It's a great film, btw. Historical, atmospheric and quietly disturbing.

I'm super happy to be able to announce this! I'm a big fan of fanfiction, and I've written a study on how Narnia fanfic reimagines Susan Pevensie. I've held a grudge several decades long on her behalf (nylons, lipsticks, and invitations, oh my) and clearly I'm not the only one.

Luna Press Publishing@lunapress.bsky.social · last yr.

We are delighted to unveil a new literary work by Octavia Cade, for Academia Lunare: Nylons, Lipstick, and Narnia: Rewriting Susan Pevensie in Fanfiction! @octavia-cade.bsky.social

I'm three weeks into my year as Robert Burns Fellow at Otago Uni, and things are going great! I'm spending the year writing a novel on algal blooms, as well as doing a short study on how NZ speculative fiction looks at ecological invasion. Both projects on track so far!

Passing this on for anyone interested: there's a BMI Summer Institute on Environmental Justice looking for 15 fellows to join them this summer in Chicago. www.theblackmidwest.com/summer-insti...

Looking forward to working through the slush pile for this! Send us your stories, please.

Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · 2y ago

Announcing a submission call for IT WAS PARADISE, a new, special issue themed around war and conflict, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social and with cover art by @monarobot.bsky.social! 15c/word! Submission deadline is the summer solstice, 6/22/25: reckoning.press/special-subm...

Abstract acceptance, yay! There's an academic collection being put together on sharksploitation films - I saw the call for papers, and suddenly all those years of watching shark horror films had a purpose. My chapter will be on shark horror in urban environments - like Under Paris. Fun!!!

The Neverending Story is on tv right now. It was ALWAYS played on NZ tv at Xmas when I was a kid, because there's nothing like trifle and presents and Peace on Earth when Artax is dying in the Swamp of Sadness.

The most important Boxing Day question: should I have trifle for breakfast or not???

Looking at you, Microsoft copilot.

dynamoe.bsky.social@dynamoe.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

I have finished the most ridiculous project and I don't know what to do with it. For decades I've held a grudge that Susan Pevensie got kicked out of Narnia for liking nylons, lipsticks, and invitations, and now I have a 45k word analysis on how fanfic retells her story better.

Withdrawing an article after THREE YEARS in peer review and still no feedback, despite my following up on it. Time to try this thing somewhere else.

I remember reading this and promptly demanding a sequel, because the end was so exciting I wanted more immediately! If you like hard sci-fi novellas, this will be right up your alley.

Simon Petrie (he/him)@fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 2y ago

My attempted-first-contact novella 'Wayfaring Stranger' is out now (yay!) but is still not marketing itself (boo hiss!), so I am morally obligated to provide accompanying blurbage, as below with words from @octavia-cade.bsky.social, Adam Browne and Thoraiya Dyer

I've just read the best thing! The Mires by @tinamakereti.bsky.social. It's near-future cli-fi with supernatural elements and is occasionally narrated by a sentient swamp. But mostly it's about people and how they are basically decent: Indigenous families and climate refugees and neighbourhoods.

I have just packed up two boxes of books and dropped them off for the local Life Education Trust book fair. I now have space on my shelves for the different books I can buy at the book fair!

And the sheer fucking nerve to be hiding behind Ernest Rutherford when this government STILL hasn't named a Chief Science Advisor! Maybe start with that, Nicola?

Octavia@octavia-cade.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nicola Willis, quoting Ernest Rutherford: "We haven't got the money, so we'll have to think." #nzpolitics Rutherford's greatest breakthroughs were made in Canada and the UK because there wasn't sufficient science funding to keep him in NZ. The more things change... www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...