✨ @otherwiseaward.org Honor's mention for "The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science", by @jessyrandall.bsky.social, illustrated by #KristinDiVona ✨ A clever & compelling conversation that expresses a diverse array of women’s voices & identities, & asserts their right to be celebrated.

Announcing the 2025 Otherwise Award winner! « Otherwise Award

The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce one winner for the 2025 Award: Luminous, by Silvia Park. We’re also announcing an Honor List and a Long List.

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Mrs. Magalina Hoopensteimer Wallenheimer Hogan Bogan’s Wedding Toast

We thought it was a miracle, though not a very useful one, and she got to be on TV

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The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science is out now. The full video of Jessy reading a selection of poems from this collection is up on our YouTube channel! @goldsf.bsky.social @jessyrandall.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC60...

We have a new display in the library vitrines of Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are Gone by @jacbat.bsky.social & @jessyrandall.bsky.social Find out more about their project at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/ff23libraries/ Pics by Shaun Oaten at Bower Ashton Library.

Which of these books would you be more likely to read? You Don't Even Have a Rabbit: Stories or Remedial Kissing Class and Other Stories

@jessyrandall.bsky.social writes poems about #HistoricalWomeninSTEM–“Maybe not the most effective form of resistance, but the project staved off my feelings of helplessness & hopelessness“ ➡️hermathsstory.eu/poetry-as-lens-two-historical-women-mathematicians @goldsf.bsky.socia @mitpress.bsky.social

Just numbering and getting another batch ready to post. If you want one for your library or library zine collection, message me 📚

"I first met Snith in kissing class." "Remedial Kissing Class" by @jessyrandall.bsky.social

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The poems in The Path of Most Resistance by @jessyrandall.bsky.social, her second book of poems about women in science, are witty, whimsical, strange, and deeply profound. Perfect read for people interested in the lives and works that history is always in danger of forgetting. 💙📚 #booksky

If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Strange Horizons 2026

A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

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Just read Mathematics for Ladies by @jessyrandall.bsky.social — a brilliant collection of poems on women in science. AIP has oral histories with several of the women featured in the poems. Thread incoming with links.

Future Fantasteek! No.23 We have some FREE copies for libraries/special collections DM me if you’d like this zine for your library. You can read here: lnkd.in/eas-aqE9 a gift to libraries for all that libraries do. Words Jessy Randall, illustrated by me. @jessyrandall.bsky.social #zines

"Wonderful, imaginative, lively, angry in a good way" -- Nancy Hopkins (MIT) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777553...

The Path of Most Resistance by Jessy Randall: 9781915983275 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Poems about historical women in STEM fields. Women have always worked in technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes they made important discoveries and breakthroughs; sometimes the...

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Oh my LORD, I am only 12% through this so far and I officially want EVERYONE to read this poetry collection. I think it might be my favourite 2025 poetry read. The prose is so precise and well researched. There's... almost nothing else out there like this. Please add this to your TBRs! #Booksky💙📚

How do you first establish how devastating the death toll on childbirth was, then have it echo through in the minds and work of too damn many women who married and gave birth thereafter? Ouch! (but in the good way) #Booksky💙📚

Beautiful books! Coming soon from @goldsf.bsky.social @jessyrandall.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978191598327...

a story about a woman who pretends to be a time traveler in order to break up with her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend. www.spacesquid.com/funny-storie...

Funny stories & weird tales - The Most Amazing Thing Has Happened

Need funny stories 4 brainhole? Free scifi weird tales? Maybe some weed scifi-horror? Read "The Most Amazing Thing Has Happened!"

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Experiencing @jessyrandall.bsky.social's poetry comic expositionreview.com/issues/vol-v... and getting her POEMS ON WOMEN IN SCIENCE in our @bookshop-org.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/math.... #ExpoContributor #ExpoReview #comics #poetry @goldsf.bsky.social

I Keep Looking for You - Exposition Review

by ARTARIANICA Comic       Artists’ Statement Contextualized by a search for interpersonal connection, I Keep Looking for You appraises fluctuations of memory, desire, and voyeurism. Flickering light ...

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There are only 6 hours left in 2024 (in my time zone) and I *know* some of you are still trying to meet annual targets around making enough submissions. You have a few more hours to send poems to Snakeskin! In the body of an email! To @jessyrandall.bsky.social

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I’m guest-editing a speculative poems issue of Snakeskin, snakeskinpoetry.co.uk. Send up to five unpublished poems to jessyrandall@yahoo.com by Jan 1, 2025.

Deadline is today! Send science fiction poems! snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/plans.htm

Don't forget: it's almost time to stop writing 2024 on forms and instead drawing a picture of a skull with blood pouring from its eye sockets

Making magnets for the new book! @goldsf.bsky.social

Paul March-Russell with #JonathanThornton on #thefantasyhive for a guest post about Gold SF and our mission 💛 fantasy-hive.co.uk/2024/11/why-...

Why Feminists Are Reinventing The Future – Again – GUEST POST by Paul March-Russell (GOLD SF)

Today we're joined by writer, editor, and co-founder of Gold SF Paul March-Russell, who's here to tell us about the incredible feminist SF they're currently publishing!

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Working on a #manuscript? ✍️ We’d love to hear from you! GoldSF is now open for #submissions We are looking for fresh&exciting intersectional #feministSF, & especially keen to see formally experimental novels. Initial submissions c.15k words, full ms (if requested) max 80k. Deadline: 20th Jan 2024

GIVE ME YOUR POEMS POMES POMPOMS PEEMES POMIES PEPLUMS PLUMS I’m guest-editing a speculative poems issue of the online lit mag Snakeskin. Send up to five unpublished science fiction poems to jessyrandall@yahoo.com by Jan 1, 2025.

Best books I read this year. A Haunting on the Hill Wylding Hall Burnam Wood Julia Idlewild Land of Milk and Honey The Mars House The Half Life of Valery K. The Kingdoms The Bright Sword A Guest in the House The Ministry of Time Slow Dance The God of the Woods What are yours?

I’m guest-editing a speculative poems issue of Snakeskin, snakeskinpoetry.co.uk. Send up to five unpublished poems to jessyrandall@yahoo.com by Jan 1, 2025.

petition to bring back slightly deranged fish balloons to the Macy's Day Parade (From the 1928 parade: "The goldfish balloon was led from Harlem to Herald Square by King Neptune and a group of twenty pirates")