Me unboxing This Mortal Coil @bonedustpress.bsky.social 😃! And yasss that's Call and Response by @seraph76.bsky.social fresh from the lib! (I been eager to read, but wanted to see if they'd go for another indie request and they did 😄.) The kind of stories that sustain my love for fantastical spec.

So pumped to read the whole issue, it's gonna be a good one!!🙌🏻

Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 5d ago

It's RELEASE DAY! Lower those shoulders, take a deep breath, and read some fantastic short fiction and poetry! www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-11/

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...

And if you'd care to hear @somtoihezue.bsky.social chatting with me about that wonderful @clarkesworldmagazine.com story of his, check out this episode of my Eating the Fantastic podcast which went live earlier this month. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Somto Ihezue@somtoihezue.bsky.social · last wk.

Voting is still ongoing for the Ignyte Awards, and I'm on the ballot for the first time, with my novelette "We Begin Where Infinity Ends" alongside other brilliant writers and finalists. Do read, recommend and vote for your favorite works✨💫

This Self Published Author Appreciation Week ( #SPAAW ) we'd like to share some of the authors we've featured over the years. To begin with, here's @zzclaybourne.bsky.social's amazing guest post about reading as a connection rather than as an escape. www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-w...

The library provides 🫶🏾, but decided it was time for my shelves to have some @wiswell.bsky.social . Excite to reunite with Shesheshen and Homily and meet Garrodigh. Always appreciate the heart, care, and care for wonder in his words.

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 ago

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)

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

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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...

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 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...

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 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 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...

29 = bookstore bright across senses, beckoning empanadas, birds and trees backup Kehlani, a breeze sneaks through the heat, rough comfort of pages as a story moves toward its end . . . beginning? . . . something possible

I've done my best, as Ancestor Octavia urges, and sent my first novella out with love. Think this good—grounded, opening, joyous—energy during our birthday week isn't just a sign of the moment but what I've tended, what's before me. 🕸️💜🕷️🩶🕸️

"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)

🌠❤️Happy Juneteenth! And what dis?! Our first poem! Do add "MOKO"'s liberation rhythm to your celebration playlist: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... 💚🌊 💐Dkéama Alexis💐 Support queer BIPOC spec poets by sharing, subscribing, tipping on ko-fi.com/speccolorway... #CaribbeanHeritage #Juneteenth #Pride

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listen to Dkéama read “MOKO” below! 🖤💚♥️✊🏾♥️💚🖤 Dkéama Alexis is a Black trans—writer, dreamtender, death doula, and bricoleur living on unce

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📯Announcing our '26 lineup📯 @carolinehung.bsky.social @gailguerrero.bsky.social "Moko" by Dkéama Alexis will be available to all subscribers. (Onward, paid tiers [$3–5] & $4-post-purchasers will have access to poems—digital broadsides & audio recordings.) patreon.com/SpecColorway...

Apt that, realizing who's behind it, I should immediately decide "designated" book money from my workshop payment should go to Bonedust because Brooms and Where Black Stars Rise are among the chock-full recs of the Packet of Plenty I gave my students. (also think I subscribed to newsletter twice 😆)

Jasmine W.@mythjae.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#ThisMortalCoil got it's first feature!! 💀✨ We're rolling closer to the release date and I cannot wait for readers to see what's in store from me and @soengery.bsky.social! (Not to mention that gorgeous cover art by @artwins.bsky.social) Check it out here: comicon.com/2026/06/12/a...

khōréō publishes what's not just evocative and genre expanding but showcases the rich breadth of diasporic spec fic--stories we're all better for being out in the world. And 🫶🏾 to the crew who commits and cares about how it gets done.

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...

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The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello hello and welcome to the shortlist announcement thread for the #2026IgnyteAwards, recognizing outstanding contributions to SFFH and its community in 2025! We are grateful to be supported this year by sponsors @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, & @laworldcon.bsky.social

From a flash out on sub (that I'll be reading for my class 😁) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The #WIPSnips word for June 3rd is "nectar" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

For us queer/aligning in another (un)naming, it's Pride whether celebrating solo in our hearts or shared with beloveds of all connections, but may this month be full up with the good stuff, the showing up stuff, the boogiein all by your bad self stuff, the joying in spaces made for communion stuff.

Why don't we fall in love? (Did you hear 🎶? If not, we're still friends.) Anyhow, today me Jeané brings you our first Spec Colorways In Love post, where I muse on how duplex has become a beloved muse: www.patreon.com/posts/spec-c... 💜🏘️💜 What beloveds have you been returning to?

Spec Colorways In Love 1: Duplex | Spec Colorways In Verse

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Update. Please keep the incredible submissions coming 😀💐.

I'll be on the panels: ⌨️🌈📰What's New in Queer Speculative Fiction (Fri 7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Online Zoom Room 3) 🐞🐛🕸Bug/Insect Tropes in Speculative Fiction (Sat 10:30 AM–11:45 AM, Online Zoom Room 3) 🐕💜🌬Multicultural Magic in the Works of Darcie Little Badger (Sun 1:00 PM–2:15 PM, Online Zoom Room 1)

WisCon on Bluesky@wiscon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wait? Are you telling me you aren't registered for WisCon yet? We have panels, community, games, readings, and... hold up! Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed as our Guests of Honor. Let's go! Get your tickets today. wiscon.net

And if you missed us, or wondering who we be, you can rewatch or listen on whatever podcast platform of your preference: www.patreon.com/posts/record... In 🫶🏾 & verse

Recorded Live Video: Spec Colorways First Gathering May 16 7-8:30 (EST) | Spec Colorways In Verse

Recorded Live Video: Spec Colorways First Gathering May 16 7-8:30 (EST) by Spec Colorways In Verse on Patreon. Join Spec Colorways In Verse's community for exclusive content and updates.

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We're open to subs till the end of the month or reach 100 cap📥🏯🌈✒️🤖🎊🧙🏿✏️🚀📥: speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#guidelines

This workshop is a gathering from years of pouring love and care and breath into my work/characters/worlds which helped me nourish how I did in this here beyond self. Immeasurable gratitude and I can't wait to hold this space with folks to language and dream conjure tapping into that energy.

Carl Brandon Society@carlbrandon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Carl Brandon Society is proud to present an all-new class: The Language of (Dis)ability and Chronic Illness in SpecFic! Join Jeané D. Ridges on Jun 13-14 to explore the possibilities of worlds made for (dis)abled and chronically ill characters to flourish. events.humanitix.com/the-language...

🎊Know it's been said before, but here with our first-gathering official announcement (📅May 16 7 pm EST), including community agreements for your perusal. Come chat with us, satisfy your burning questions, and maybe get a little writing in🎊: www.patreon.com/posts/our-ve...

Our Very First Gathering (May 16 7 pm EST) & Community Agreements | Spec Colorways In Verse

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I remember part of how LeVar Burton signed off from his pod was to say of its producer, I think, she was the best in the business, and that's how I feel about this one-of-a-kind mag/its crew. I've grown as an editor, caretaker of stories, and it's a true, constant joy whenever an issue is afoot.

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’re so happy to be Hugo finalists again alongside wonderful peers