Spec Colorways In Verse
@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social
we 🫶🏾 queer BIPOC spec poetry ☆ https://www.patreon.com/c/speccolorwaysinverse/about ☆ https://ko-fi.com/speccolorwaysinverse ☆ https://speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co/#guidelines ☆ Coeditor/creators @jdridges.bsky.social (BSKY) & @lyszflo.bsky.social (IG)
"I'd already been stewing on a concept for unhinged love letters (or notes), and I found the haibun form fit so well, the words flowed right out of me. I was aiming for cheeky, spiteful, indulgent, provocative. It was glorious." www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... *
Poem 2 Q&A: Caroline Hung | Spec Colorways In Verse
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Much to shout about coming in August 🥳: the return of prompts, our first creative gathering Aug 21 (7 pm EST/11 UTC), & our first con and panel—Black, Queer, & Speculating In Verse @laworldcon.bsky.social (Virtual, Aug 27 4:30 pm PST/7:30 EST, guide.lacon.org ) www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...
![The Return of Prompts! [Next to text: a thought bubble full up with ragged haint, spacecraft-ridin’ antennaed entity departed from a ringed planet, robot dog and qilin ready for play, sparkly spell book and wand-wielding fantastical figure, and scatterings of question marks.]
#1 Releases Aug 7 & #2 Aug 21
12 pm EST/4 UTC
Our FIRST Creative Gathering! [Next to that text and Join Us!: Someone with a determined sticked-out tongue types on their laptop as the chat/livestream pops off.]
Aug 21
7 pm EST/11 pm UTC
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Our FIRST Con!
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Black, Queer, & Speculating In Verse (Online Panel Aug 27 4:30 pm PST/7:30 EST)
Official Description: During this panel, poets will delve into poetry to explore meaning with an eye towards utility in speculating with wonder while encouraging community.
(Pitch: During this panel, Lysz and Jeané will responsively, duetishly read a selection of their work. In the course of the ebb, flow, and afterglow, they will delve into their offerings on a distinctive as well as collective level; what it means, what it do to poetically speculate toward wonder for its own sake and calling up present futures of us/our communities fullest living; and talk about the journey thus far jointly cultivating a community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry with Spec Colorways In Verse.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ynoaws4ejwzsca25rkdkmdjd/bafkreih5qemhjobhkhg6lqgjkqcef6ogsg7cxw5ml7ylml7pksrkan2fnm)
📚 Our seventh novella series crowdfund is now live 📚 Boosts appreciated!
Our second poem "love note from my guardian angel" by Caroline Hung is shocking and tender. When we designed broadside, had ideas for adding accents but it naturally came together minimalist, its words' artistry plenty 'nough. www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... #WriterShareWednesday #WeeknightWriters
Poem 2: “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung | Spec Colorways In Verse
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Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2w agoGood morning! It's #WriterShareWednesday ! Share a pitch for your WIP or one of your published works (including links if you have them) and we'll give it a boost! Please use alt text in your images for accessibility & note that AI "work" will not be shared
Went postal and local today slinging stickers 📨👟. Glad I picked up a snack and wrapped with the bookstore to literally chill in a comfy chair before calling it 📚.
![Jeané holds stickers (showing back that has Spec Colorways address label with website QR [speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co] and icon of fist clenching rainbow) and their business card before NoRa Cafe in Raleigh's door.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ynoaws4ejwzsca25rkdkmdjd/bafkreihviq7dayvq6zjwyieegi5neugvagllphif54xrjbg7eodzq6ng2a)
![Jeané holds stickers (showing back that has Spec Colorways address label with website QR [speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co] and icon of fist clenching rainbow) and their business card before Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh's door.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ynoaws4ejwzsca25rkdkmdjd/bafkreidcdlkoukcppnpx7enwnb7pnw7piuwighigjrkk6vcq5zujxl2kye)
I love alt-format and form play of all kinds, so instant gimme and chatting with Lysz was clear it's not just how Caroline engaged and experimented with form but the deftness of doing so, of holding angel's casual tone through things had us: 🫨/whaaat. Don't have characters to get into language!
Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're here & still queer with our 2nd poem, "love note from my guardian angel" by 💐 @carolinehung.bsky.social 💐, a devotional haibun/blackout that's a real . . . stunner. Hope you brought your appetite: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... (1/2)
THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!! so honored and happy to be part of Spec Colorways!!! 😊💜
Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're here & still queer with our 2nd poem, "love note from my guardian angel" by 💐 @carolinehung.bsky.social 💐, a devotional haibun/blackout that's a real . . . stunner. Hope you brought your appetite: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... (1/2)
it's a double release week for me! celebrating the Weird and Queer with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social, please do support these amazing presses if you can! (1/3) 🧵
We're here & still queer with our 2nd poem, "love note from my guardian angel" by 💐 @carolinehung.bsky.social 💐, a devotional haibun/blackout that's a real . . . stunner. Hope you brought your appetite: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... (1/2)
Poem 2: “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung | Spec Colorways In Verse
Poem 2: “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung by Spec Colorways In Verse on Patreon. Join Spec Colorways In Verse's community for exclusive content and updates.
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It's almost time to feast 🔔, who's hungry?
Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · last mo.Our 2nd poem/broadside, “love note from my guardian angel” by @carolinehung.bsky.social, is live Jul 17 at noon! 💌🫦🍽️ Not subscribed? Purchase the individual post (including an author recording) when it's up for $4—or right now, the '26 Poems + Q&As Collection for $14: www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor...
![Preview of Spec Colorways broadside for "love note from my guardian angel" by Caroline Hung, a haibun/blackout, showing title and first line of blackout: "Hail [blacked out], full of [blacked out] you;"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ynoaws4ejwzsca25rkdkmdjd/bafkreihkhr7bgi2t5umxveietq6gjvzxx3ypsyaqbfeio2guznjlbj3wqq)
I’m part of the *fun*, frank ‘We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space’, w @sfmontgomery.bsky.social, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Emily Rapp Black. From how publishing treats disabled art to unexpected reality TV talk. On YouTube THU July23, 7PM ET. #CripLit www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...
We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space
Join The Writer’s Desk for a special virtual event to commemorate Disability Pride Month! “We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space” premieres on July 23 with authors Khairani Barokka, Emi...
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From professional mourners to the unique pain of being the longterm caretaker for a dying loved one, I wrote about the inspirations behind my Hugo-, Nebula, and Rhysling-nominated poem "The Mourning Robot" (in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social). Hope you'll check it out.
A Story About A Poem: “The Mourning Robot”
In one of my favorite books, “On Earth We’re Briefly Beautiful” by Ocean Vuong, there is a surreal scene toward the end of the book where after a heartbreaking experience with his schizophrenic, ca…
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We reached our fundraising goal!❤️🔥🎉 Thank you all for your support & making it possible for us to continue another year of creating human art, meaningful stories, & publishing speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers. Your support & being part of our community has made this possible! 🧡
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur 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...
Another round of submissions read, reread, thoroughly discussed. Thanks to everyone for sharing, we continue to be in awe💐—on that, please if you have verse drippin (deeply-engaged) curiosity, (antipossessive) exploration, (eryday) out dis world, tend & send! speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#guidelines
Spec Colorways in Verse
a newsletter and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry
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Just a little over $2000 to go before we're FULLY FUNDED! We're down to the wire folks, with about three days to go, so let's get this over the hump and across the finish line! 🙌
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur 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...
We're still seeking poems for our '27 lineup. If you've got verse that makes you go I DID THAT, share so we can be hype with you! speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#guidelines Need an idea of what we publish?⬇️
Spec Colorways in Verse
a newsletter and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry
speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co
Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · last mo.Our 1st author Q&A is live—little taste: ". . . I centered this poem on the Moko Jumbie not simply for the sake of invoking a Carnival scene, but to enliven the Moko Jumbie’s origins within resistance and revolutionary witness." ~Dkéama Alexis www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...
6 days left and we are 70% funded—toss a coin, spread the word, help us reach the finish line!
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur 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...
Speculative Poetry Reading for Disability Pride Month, Sunday, July 12 at 7pm featuring Ennis Rook Bashe, Akua Lezli Hope, John C. Mannone, & Silvatiicus Riddle.
SPECULATIVE POETRY READING FOR NATIONAL DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH
Join us online for a cool speculative poetry reading celebrating National Disability Pride Month!
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"If we stay quiet out of fear, then we will continue to lose these secret battles alone, outflanked by bad actors dedicated to exploiting an ecosystem built on trust." 🫂
Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼@bonabooks.bsky.social · 4w agoAI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
Our 2nd poem/broadside, “love note from my guardian angel” by @carolinehung.bsky.social, is live Jul 17 at noon! 💌🫦🍽️ Not subscribed? Purchase the individual post (including an author recording) when it's up for $4—or right now, the '26 Poems + Q&As Collection for $14: www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor...
We're still seeking poems for our '27 lineup. If you've got verse that makes you go I DID THAT, share so we can be hype with you! speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#guidelines Need an idea of what we publish?⬇️
Spec Colorways in Verse
a newsletter and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry
speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co
Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · last mo.Our 1st author Q&A is live—little taste: ". . . I centered this poem on the Moko Jumbie not simply for the sake of invoking a Carnival scene, but to enliven the Moko Jumbie’s origins within resistance and revolutionary witness." ~Dkéama Alexis www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...
Our 1st author Q&A is live—little taste: ". . . I centered this poem on the Moko Jumbie not simply for the sake of invoking a Carnival scene, but to enliven the Moko Jumbie’s origins within resistance and revolutionary witness." ~Dkéama Alexis www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...
Poem 1 Q&A: Dkéama Alexis | Spec Colorways In Verse
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Next up in our Infinite Branches series is "firefly in a graveyard" by lorenzo barajas. A beautiful exploration of the speculative in the form of a screenplay. magazine.interstella...
Our ✨June 2026 Issue✨ is now free to read online! Find it here: havenspec.com/issues/issue... Or get the EPUB and PDF: ko-fi.com/s/90e1d65c0d Please read it and please spread the word!
Issue Twenty-Three, June 2026, Haven Spec Magazine
Fiction and poetry for the 21st century
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haunting the homeowner by Hikari Leilani Miya "also, i’m haunting this home as a raccoon." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
We have hit 20% of our fundraising goal and there is only two weeks left to donate! Help support the next year of khōréō here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur 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...
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...
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"So much of writing is fun. It's first letting your interests and your imagination take you anywhere at all. Once you're able to do that, you'll have more ideas than you can use. Then the real work of fashioning them into a story begins. Stay with it. Persist." Octavia E. Butler (Bloodchild p. 142)
