🖤💚Trivia 1: What did the coeditors struggle with when they started designing “MOKO” by Dkéama Alexis?♥️✊🏾 First 2 that correctly comment on this post, get a 2-month gift membership to our highest tier. (If you arrive too late, don’t worry. We'll be doing a few more of these before '26 calls it😊)

Wondering what's next after our last poem drops in November? Here's what's cooking on the horizon—also, we have a "preorder" discount on '27 collection for first 20, and will be doing trivia giveaways for 2 free months through the end of '26 🍲🥳: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... Gratitude, 🫶🏾, 💐

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Before we hop on into things, a big thank you to all of our contributors, current and forthcoming. To all of our subscribers, readers, folks

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Silly me, I didn't know there was a #MushroomDay lmao but it's the perfect day to tease my new poem about a bored mushroom peeking at the secrets of the corpses in the graveyard 🍄 💀 🖤 This is a mushroom-shaped game poem when you can make your own ending by playing with the hyphae of the mycelium!!!!

Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 4d ago

Did someone say it's #MushroomDay?! 🪏🍄🧩 So, here's a broadside preview of "Fungal Avocation" by @gailguerrero.bsky.social (2026's last 🥹). We're finishing up audio this week for author approval, then it'll be time to schedule for Nov 6. 🧩🍄‍🟫🪏 Subscribe or purchase www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor...

Did someone say it's #MushroomDay?! 🪏🍄🧩 So, here's a broadside preview of "Fungal Avocation" by @gailguerrero.bsky.social (2026's last 🥹). We're finishing up audio this week for author approval, then it'll be time to schedule for Nov 6. 🧩🍄‍🟫🪏 Subscribe or purchase www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor...

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Linda D. Addison@nytebird45.bsky.social · last wk.

What an incredible blessing to help others in a way I didn't see coming from qilinpress.bsky.social (Frances Lu Pai Ippolito) and in my name while I'm still here! I'm breathless with gratitude. Please share Application open 1/18/2027!

Our last meet of the year. Come hang out and celebrate with us 🗨🎉: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...

(Zoom Link) Final Drop-In & Chill Oct 24 5:30😌 | Spec Colorways In Verse

Rather than prompts this month, we'll simply be doing as headlined. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89854346933?pwd=l3ox3Z8wjrGq

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"Manila in the Cradle of Light" is now available to read in the Fall 2026 Issue from @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social! A feel-good sci-fi short story about typhoons, bangka, friendship, food trips, and Ligaya!

Manila in the Cradle of Light | Tractor Beam

Why is that baby typhoon following you?

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🌈🚀💫Queer & trans* SFF poets: share your work pub'd this September! Drop the title/link for your recent poetry to be included in the monthly Queer Spec Poetry Roundup on Stardust & Verse! Originals & reprints welcome; feel free to interpret queer/trans* and speculative broadly. Shares appreciated!

October poetry recommendations thread! In this thread, I'll highlight some fantastic poems I read and reviewed in September on Stardust & Verse. If you want to check out all the reviews now, you can do that here: www.patreon.com/StardustAndV...

September 2026 Review Round-Up! 💫 | Stardust & Verse | SFF Poetry Reviews

Welcome to the first Stardust & Verse Review Round-Up! These posts collect reviews and interviews that are now free to everyone (free membe

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6. “love note from my guardian angel” by @carolinehung.bsky.social in @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social An extraordinary poem that blends erasure, haibun, and prose poetry into a delicious, vivid concoction. Dark and bloody and weird, unafraid of itself. I loved every syllable.

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a zine and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry

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Nilā's “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” is now freely available ➡️ speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#poems 🌌🎶🌊 If you enjoy the journey, consider subscribing www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor... or tipping us ko-fi.com/speccolorway... so we can pay more queer BIPOC poets for their incredible work.

Spec Colorways in Verse

a zine and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry

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". . . the different insects that regularly visit my door, and all the other such tiny, wonderful, encounters, are the foundation of much of my curiosity (and hope)." 💚 www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...

Poem 3 Q&A: Nilā | Spec Colorways In Verse

Here’s the link to “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” if you haven’t yet embarked.

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If you've still got some con left in you for the year, I/Jeane' will be at Rainbow Space Magic. All virtual, all about community.

Jeané D. Ridges@jdridges.bsky.social · last mo.

Since reading right before, planning something that aligns with panel 🦌🍸🐕♿️♾️🛵📜🧜🏿🪩. www.rainbowspacemagic.org/rsm-2026-sch...

NEW CALLOUT ALERT! We are seeking Indonesian speculative fiction in Bahasa Indonesia and English for publication in khōréō’s Volume 7 in 2027. The callout is open from now until November 5, 2026, details on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Issue 6 of Tractor Beam is out! The water issue: www.tractorbeam.earth/issue/hell-o... #scifi #clifi #solarpunk #soilpunk

Hell or High | Tractor Beam

A seasonal publication of soilpunk fiction: Radical visions rooted in soil

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TOMORROW!!

Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️@nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

THIS WEDNESDAY on #StardustAndVerse: An interview with Nebula winner @jenniferhudak.bsky.social! Join now as a free or paid patron to access the post. "What often gets me to start a new poem is a strong emotion... that doesn't have an entire narrative behind it but wants me to write it anyway."

Subs close for '26 on Nov 1: speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#guidelines 📜 Speculative. Poems. Drippin' activated curiosity, antipossessive exploration, eryday out dis 🌍🌌, with/out narrative, tantalizingly unexpected, imaginative in form play as well as evoking emotion . . . POSSIBILITY

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Thank you to everyone who came to our showcase @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social 😄. To our contributors current and forthcoming for sharing such fabulous work to broadside and gush over 💐. To the best coeditor @lyszflo.bsky.social , loving spec poetry and talking that talk together is ever joyfull 🫶🏾.

It's indeed a good time all around, and only a full day in! Ready for our showcase tomorrow. Prepare to (re)experience our thus-far-pubed poems and hear about the editorial/design things that add up to broadsides—plus maybe a teaser for the year's finale in verse and a little 🎁 for participants 😃.

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

Eager for all the happenings at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social 😃 If you wanna know how we make this broadside magic, pull up! www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...

We officially identify as a zine. (Still up to community and celebrating queer BIPOC spec poetic things of course.) That is all. Care for you and what you care about. 🫶🏾

From animal conscription that satirizes the surveillance state, to soft power parlayed through food, to body-hopping as survival and rebellion, our Revolution-themed issue is live! Head to our website to buy a copy and read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com/product/volu...

Issue 3 is OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🧡 If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today! Patreon: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpe... Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe...

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🍃September Updates🍂 | Spec Colorways In Verse

Hey y'all, it's almost fall—in the southeastern US, so just hold on. (Speaking of which, this ain't gonna be a four-page letter but lengthy.

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Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're on track to earn over payment costs for '26 🥳 (thank you subscribers 🫶🏾). But, planning for next year, we're reconsidering how to boost support so we can boost its lineup (translation: poems say yes to) and stay consistent. ✌🏾 ways you can help 🧵: 🛣️1️⃣$3-5/month www.patreon.com/c/speccolorw...

Eager for all the happenings at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social 😃 If you wanna know how we make this broadside magic, pull up! www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...

🌌🎶🌊♾️🌊🎶🌌 It's time to embark! “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” by Nilā is here*: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... 🌌🎶🌊♾️🌊🎶🌌 (*Available now to paid subscribers [$3-5 tiers]. You can also purchase post for $4 or the whole '26 collection + Q&As for $14.)

Poem 3: “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” by Nilā | Spec Colorways In Verse

Poem 3: “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” by Nilā by Spec Colorways In Verse on Patreon. Join Spec Colorways In Verse's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Eager for all the happenings at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social 😃 If you wanna know how we make this broadside magic, pull up! www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...

🌌🎶🌊♾️🌊🎶🌌 It's time to embark! “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” by Nilā is here*: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... 🌌🎶🌊♾️🌊🎶🌌 (*Available now to paid subscribers [$3-5 tiers]. You can also purchase post for $4 or the whole '26 collection + Q&As for $14.)

Poem 3: “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” by Nilā | Spec Colorways In Verse

Poem 3: “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” by Nilā by Spec Colorways In Verse on Patreon. Join Spec Colorways In Verse's community for exclusive content and updates.

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We've got another poem coming your way this Friday 🤩. A full-bodied sensory experience traversing the pluriverse. Want it hot off schedule? Ensure you're subscribed or purchase the '26 collection: www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor... (P.S. Still open to subs and we'll be discussing next meeting 📥👀.)