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Hype event for all creators: ☀️November 13, 2026☀️ 🌱community building & vision for resilience #solarpunk, #clifi, #hopepunk, #mindfulness, #permaculture, & #magic Let's elevate these genres & future vision!

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Lesley Parry @lesleyparrybooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What if medicine was illegal and you learned you had the power to heal? HEIRS OF BALANCE ANDOR x NAUSICAÄ 🌱Post-apocalypse hopepunk 🤐 Family secrets 🧬 Science-based magic ❤️‍🔥 Slow-burn romance 🥹 Found family REP: 🧠 ND 🤎 BIPOC and 🌈 LGBTQ+ characters #QuestPit #Q #SFF #RF #WritingCommunity

Heirs of Balance by Lesley Parry - Adult Science Fantasy, 90,000 words. ANDOR meets NAUSICAÄ where healing is heresy and compassion sparks rebellion. @lesleyparrybooks #Q #SFF #RF

What if medicine was illegal...and you had the power to heal? Includes images of a group of houses in a meadow, surrounded by forest and wind turbines, a mortar and pestle with ground herbs, a pair of glowing hands, and an eco-futuristic castle with glass dome towers.

In a post-collapse world where medicine is illegal and even touching the sick is forbidden, Mira Elders risks her life every time she secretly treats the ill with contraband herbs. But when she lays hands on a dying boy in public and magically heals him, secrecy is no longer possible. Her gift should be a miracle. Instead, it marks her for execution.

To survive, Mira flees her village and enlists in the very regime that hunts people like her. As the Median regime tightens its grip through a project that harvests health from prisoners to extend the lives of the elite, a new crackdown on healers looms. But when Mira learns that medicine played a role in causing the Collapse, even rebellion stops looking simple. To join the fight, she will have to wield the very power her world was built to fear—and risk proving the regime right.

If you liked THE SURVIVING SKY by Kritika H. Rao (eco-magic + rebellion), THE GRACE YEAR by Kim Liggett (oppression + survival stakes), SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh (authoritarian control + messy awakening)

Wattieza is Querying @onismick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#questpit #Q #F #RF #NA

The unofficial cover for Withering to Bones by Wattieza Nieves. It features a dark plant background with lungs in the foreground that are growing roots.

Comps are show. The Jasmine Throne by Gasha Suri is comped for its political and emotional weight. Blood and Bone for its themes of systemic oppression and resistance. The marrow thieves for the ecological urgency and mythic resonance.

There is an includes section which highlights: Eco apocalyptic elements, MLM relationship, power as both inheritance and burden, lyrical, and introspective, pros, intimate, character, first storytelling, and literary tone with major backdrop.

A picture depicting chapter 1 of the novel is shown. The main two characters are of scaring all, but the first paragraph which says, “ April 13, XX35. This godforsaken world, made to witness his own descent into chaos, with all that ever was, and now all that would ever be. Once vibrant with life and beauty, it had been blessed with effortless harmony, untouched by the greed and destruction that now strangled it. What has been a gift upon its creation was now a curse, it’s brilliant slowly suffocated by the weight of its people’s selfish undoing.”

The character on the left is a brown skinned man with long braids, a blue choker, and blue modern – indigenous wear. To the right of him is another man who is taller with long curly hair that is half up in a bun. He is also brown skinned, but lighter. He wears a red beaded necklace with golden adornment. He also wears a green Polynesian style shirt that has a few buttons open at the top.

Alex, the Warrior of Write @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 2w ago

NAUSICÄA x PRIORY OF THE 🍊 TREE 🌳 Sapphic Epic Eco-Fantasy 🌳 Solarpunk ideology 🌳 Polyam endgame 🌳 Unlearning imperialism 🌳 Sky empire vs rebuilt surface world 🌳 Slow & sprawling storyline 🌳 Travelogue across multiple biomes 🌳 Kaiju magic system FREE serial coming August 7th! #questpit #f #a #w

A pitch deck with a forest background. The slide says "From Under a Poisoned Bough, a serial by Alex Harvey-Rivas"

followed by

Sapphic ecological epic fantasy
Weekly serial starting August 17th

A pitch deck with a forest background. On the left side, it lists tropes and themes. On the right side, it lists four pieces of media and how they inspired the book. The media starting from top left and moving right are: Final Fantasy 13, Naucisaa of the Valley of the Wind, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, and Hollow Knight.

A pitch deck over a forest background. On the left is the summary. On the right is a series of excerpts from the work.

A pitch deck over a forest background. It's titled "The Characters" and shows four characters with a grayscale picrew picture to accompany them. From top left and moving right then down:

Lili, a woman with long hair that goes down her back and billows out. She wears a mesh top and has several piercings. Her entry is titled "A Woman Out of Time"

Myrtle, a woman with long hair that goes down her back and is fairly narrow. She wears a low cut shirt and sweater and is holding a knife. Her entry is titled "A Peasant Fighting for Her Life"

Ahelicia, a woman with long hair in twin braids. She wears a lace up tunic and is carrying a sword. Her entry is titled "A Soldier Longing for Home"

Sorrel, a woman with short dark hair. She wears a button up shirt and has her eyes closed. Her entry is titled "A Savior Entombed in Stone"

Alex, the Warrior of Write @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 2w ago

FINAL FANTASY XIII x PRIORY OF THE 🍊 TREE Four women are intertwined across a surface world rebuilding after 300 years and the sky empire responsible for its destruction when the result of centuries of unfathomable greed comes home to roost. Serializing August 7th! #QuestPit #F #A #W

A square graphic with a pale green background. It is titled "FROM UNDER A POISONED BOUGH: A sapphic epic eco-fantasy serial coming August 7th". Below, the image is split into two columns.

The left column from top to bottom is as follows: a dark brown rectangle with a circle image of an overhead shot of a forest and a circle image of a stone corridor; "A woman out of time. A soldier longing for home. A peasant fighting for her life. A savior entombed in stone."; a shot of the elbow and rib/waist of a suit of armor with yellow detailing.

The right column from top to bottom is as follows: a close-up of a tree stump in the woods with a whole mushroom colony growing from it; a suit of black armor beside a stone archway carrying an apple-sized object; a brown rectangle containing the story's color palette, which includes the same pale green as the background, a sage green, a stone grey, and a pale pink.

Cheyne & Sarah are querying 📜🖊️@goodrenwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

YOU PIERCE MY SOUL x NAUSICAA In the face of an arranged marriage, Humboldt flees their ocean home to the irradiated mainland, only to find people in the very place deemed unlivable. ☢ Post Apocalypse 💜 Ace MC 🏳‍🌈Nonbinary MC ⚧️Intersex MC 🫂Found Family #questpit #Q #YA #SF #CliFi #LGBT

A moodboard designed to look like Netflix. It displays a black and white preview image of a non-binary person wearing a poncho who is in a kayak. They are next to an orca whale with 2 dorsal fins. The text reads, Currently Querying. The title listed is: Smoke Signals. Below is a summary blurb which reads: After the nuclear apocalypse land is unlivable, but Humboldt would rather face the radiation and monsters than their wedding night.
Below it says: More Like This. Thumbnails are displayed in a row showing the following titles: Wilder Girls, Deadendia, Kipo Age of the Wonderbeasts, Loveless, Just Lizzie, You Pierce My Soul, Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, The Witch King, Beyond the Black Door, and The Circus Infinite.

Cheyne & Sarah are querying 📜🖊️@goodrenwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

KIPO x THE CIRCUS INFINITE After the apocalypse every resource counts, so when teenage Humboldt is taken in by strangers in fallout bunkers after fleeing their home, they must define their role quickly or face the radiation and monsters on the surface alone. #questpit #Q #YA #SF #CliFi #LGBT

Info card with a squid constellation. The text reads: The Kraken hunts whales and can be relied on to lead. Rumor has it, they traded a piece of their humanity for their skill, making them less than human.

An info card with a flame constellation. Text reads: The Flame. Burns bright and hot, but may scorch those close to them. The flame is a beacon, communicating across great distances. His temper and responsibility doesn't give him time to consider his own desires.

An info card showing a book constellation. The text reads: The Story Teller breathes a soul into those around her. Though she may be trapped, she has experienced worlds beyond herself. This has made her understanding and thoughtful.

Kamela H is trying, okay @pamela-with-a-k.bsky.social · 2w ago

A smartass cyborg, a deeply tired gangster, and a literal manufactured pop star walk into a wall of sand, called by a revolutionary musician who’s cheated death. But in the ruined city beyond is a power far greater. #questpit #W #SF #LGBT #hopepunk

On a background of a cracked desert with a solitary, gnarled tree float four pictures suggestive of the ensemble cast. Far left is Eden, a wide-eyed pouting beauty who recently found out that she was designed and created in a lab. Her picture is labeled "A literal manufactured pop star." Below her is Terrah, a butch-looking Black woman sitting at a computer in sunglasses. She is labeled, "A jaded security wrangler," as she has spent much of her career doing street-tough work in spite of her considerable tech skills. Up and to the right is a robot-looking fellow, representing Cid, an ex-military guy who chose to replace his body with a mech, and lost quite a few memories along the way. His caption says "A smart-ass full-conversion cyborg." Below is a skinny figure crouching in front of a laptop, wearing some kind of headset with glowing red "eyes." The prodigy hacker of the group, like all of them, is not what she seems. Her caption says, "And a cat-girl hacker." Two text boxes provide more context. The first says: "In this hollowed-out world, they thought that this was as alive as they would get." The second says, “But when they cross through the sand wall into the digital jungle, they'll learn more than they bargained for about the nature of life.” Finally, in the bottom right is a text box with the words: Working title: The Thorn. Under this, a bulleted list. First: “Cyberpunk but make it about people.” Second: “What if an Al was traumatized though.” Third: “What makes a person ‘real’?” Fourth: “What does it take to change the nature of humanity?” Last: “No irredeemable characters allowed.”

🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊@arachnereid.bsky.social · 2w ago

Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built When marauders menace her village, an empath leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. #W #YA #S #hopepunk #CliFi #Questpit Which do you prefer? I 💚 all feedback!

Title: "Light After the Fall"
/an adventure guide to thriving teh post-apocalypse
by Iza Krendl Titus

colorful background of orange & purple abstract desert scene with river path into horizon, a figure standing on a cliff holding a sunflower

An empath leads a hopeful tarot themed odyssey across climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.
elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk
#hopepunk
#tarot

🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊@elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble? 🌱an informative adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse An empath leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the former US to bring home a 🗝️ to peace, using psychic powers and earth-based survival skills #W #YA #S #hopepunk #CliFi #Questpit

kksween.bsky.social @kksween.bsky.social · 6mo ago

AWAKENING OF THE KI QUERY READY 😊✨ #Questpit #MG #Fantasy #Booksky #Hopepunk #Query

Jane @jane-fenriz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

WINTER'S ORBIT x A PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT Queer solarpunk romance 🔅a junkyard city up in the sky and a pristine capital 🔅one stolen invite to an elite Scientific Brotherhood 🔅one improbable romance growing out of revenge 🔅one rotten secret under the perfect facade #SF #R #LGBT #W #QuestPit #A

A solarpunk moodboard with greenhouses, two men, and a pile of rusty bolts

Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 2w ago

MONK & ROBOT X EMILY WILDE When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down her hero's fabled garden with the help of an archaic engineer—but secret origins and disillusionment lurk between hard drives and petals. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby LI #QuestPit #W #A #SF #R

Floral background with the text Mending Glass. By Florrie Auclair. Solarpunk Romantic Sci-Fi

Character portrait of a blond woman making a heart with her hands. Juniper Penrose. An archivist specializing in botany. She idolizes the old world botanist, Miriam, who helped lead the resistance centuries ago. Optimistic and a little reckless, she seeks to uncover the past and find Miriam’s garden. Her drive to help people, sometimes comes at her own expense—like the reason for the mechanical leg she now cherishes.

Next to that is a character portrait of a nonbinary character with light blue eyes and duotone hair in black and blonde. Eli Winter. An aloof engineer who specializes in old world infrastructure programming trying to prove their skills are just as important as the nouveau programmers of the city. They leave their home and grandfather to help Juni break into archaic servers and hard drives—and often pull her out of trouble.

Comp slide with Horizon Zero Dawn, Emily Wildes, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Violet Evergarden, and Fruits Basket. The text pointing at the various media are Ruins of a fallen industrial world, Solarpunk, Flower Motifs, Traveling to help others and find self discovery, Joyful but melancholic character connections, and Sunshine MC x Sunshine Protector

Data is as fragile as flower petals. That’s why Juniper, an archivist in a recovering solarpunk world, wants to immortalize the past in the Glass Archives. Safe from time’s decay, unlike the archaic hard drives of the old world. Specifically, information on her hero, Miriam, a botanist who legend says grew a garden of resistant plants—ones that could survive the blight ravaging their crops. But to find it, Juniper will need the help of Eli, an engineer who specializes in old world technology. Together they traverse ruins and follow a trail of flower language from village to village to unearth what led to the dark age of information. But Juniper starts to question her identity when they uncover that the woman she modeled herself after was not the hero she believed.

Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 2w ago

#HopePit returns!

#HopePit Community@hopepit.bsky.social · 4w ago

New Hopepit dates for November 2026! Calling artists & creators with hopeful vision! Please JOIN US Nov 13, 2026 for #Hopepit hype & community event, uplifting all types of media under the big #hopepunk & #clifi ⛱️ umbrellas. Here on 🦋. #solarpunk #hopecore #artsky #WritingCommunity #musicsky 🌞🌱

Flier for #Hopepit
Sunday, Nov 13
community connect Nov 9-12

🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞

An inclusive community-building hype event for voices of light & vision in the darkness.

Open to creators of all media telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation

#Hopepit

🌞Use the #Hopepit hashtag to share your pitches, books, videos, articles, and art

🌱We encourage the use of additional tags, like: #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, etc

🌳Not sure which genre? JOIN US anyway!

🌱We 💛 resource sharing & discussion threads!

@hopepit.bsky.social

climate fiction hopecore hopepunk clifi #Climatefiction nomadpunk solarpunk #solarpunk #hopecore indigenous futurism pitch hype permaculture

Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Earth is recovering from agricultural collapse. Scientists travel to another planet in hopes of a compatible soil microbiome. Only Izzy finds herself not just studying soil, but thrown into Tzio’s labor organizing. 💜 ace rep 🔥 slow burn 🦎 cat-sized geckos 🐓 chickens in space #QuestPit #W #A #SF

Green background with light green text. Photos of: barren fields, a galaxy, custom art by croverfield of a green alien, green fields

Text:

WORK IN PROGRESS:
THE NEW FARMER’S ALMANAC FOR EXOPLANETS

Isabel Meyer
Agronomist
Unit 5

File folders: soil samples / almanac archive / chickens 101 / ütska dictionary

Objectives: study soil to ensure viability for implantation on earth / learn from native farmers / keep chickens alive

Planet name: Mtskhütska
Alien name: Tzamarkh

Valentina Rojas @styxteeth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Grieving widower Simon discovers his support group is an eco-terrorist group communing with cosmic trees who promise to save humanity—if he's willing to pay the price. EVIL HAS LONG ROOTS tags #questpit #W #H #SF

Utopia Science Fiction Magazine @utopiascifi.bsky.social · last mo.

We're nearing the mid-point of our annual art contest and we've had some wonderful submissions so far. If you need some inspiration, why not check out some of our previous cover art? www.utopiasciencefiction.com/archive

Jerri Jerreat @jerreat.bsky.social · 4w ago

My friend, writer AE Marling posted this inspiring art .

Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sell your book in 5 words: Anticolonial zoomies in space wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Coming May 2027

T. K. Rex@tkrex.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sell your book in 5 words: Rewild everything with food forests bookshop.org/a/122239/978...

Solarpunk Magazine @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social · 3w ago

FYI today is your last day to submit work for our consideration for our Solarpunk Horror issue coming out in November!

Submissions

Solarpunk Magazine is an online publication imagining a better world through speculative literature.

solarpunkmagazine.com

Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’d love to build a community here on Bluesky- so please help me build this list! go.bsky.app/Jm58kNg

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Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 3w ago

Submission opportunity! Bending the Arc, July 6-31 #writesky #solarpunk #clifi #ecofiction #scifi bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

Bending The Arc | Substack

publishing stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth. Click to read Bending The Arc, by Bending The Arc Magazine, a Substack publication.

bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 3w ago

The eSpec Books Author Reading Series presents Brenda Cooper reading an excerpt from her #clifi novel POST youtu.be/8CDGAJuO3Bg #YA #dystopia

Brenda Cooper reading Chapter One of POST

Brenda Cooper reading an excerpt from her novel POST. http://amzn.to/2gqIyps (this is an Amazon Associate link.) The world, for some, has crumbled. Disease and natural disasters have brought on…

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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊@arachnereid.bsky.social · 2w ago

🤔 interesting... Informative video by @duke.silver79 #Flock #DeFlock #FlockAI

🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊@arachnereid.bsky.social · 2w ago

saw this on a bike ride always here for community & #Hope "Support local, support each other keep our community strong" 💚 #Portland #urbangaze

sign on telephone pole that says "Market of Hope"
pre-loved & handmade goods
Sunday, July 26 11-5
SE 100th off Holgate

Degrowth or Extinction @ecosurrealism.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

#solarpunk

DJ Jones @colloquypublishing.bsky.social · 2w ago

Looking for you next #scifi #solarpunk book? Check out Don’t Face the Open, set in a utopia future where we work with the land instead of against it. But something #cosmichorror creeps in at the edges, and it’s up to the MC to figure out how to fight that which defies reality. #bookrelease #indie

A book titled Don’t Face the Open by DJ Jones rests in a wooden book stand on a table. The cover depicts a man walking through people working amongst row crops. The man looks into the distance at a spiral that draws the eye toward it.

Yuumei Art @yuumeiart.bsky.social · 2y ago

Respire Part of my Ashes collection #art #painting #mask #gasmask #solarpunk #fire

Mads Schubert 🌹@mads-schubert.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Part 23 in my weekly poster series of 2025 #art #hopepunk

@quellepalaver.bsky.social · 3w ago

People learning about soil is important So I am making a permaculture strategy game It's open source It's called Permaculture 4 Squares Have a look youtu.be/XRi13-IyEUI?...

let's make a permaculture strategy game

YouTube video by Condemned Wood

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#HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 4w ago