Lysz Flo aka 🇭🇹Bat Yo Ministries🇭🇹
@lyszflo.bsky.social
Reimaginer of worlds Afrocaribbean 🇭🇹🇵🇷⚔️ Ignyte Award Winner Poet | Educator | Afrofuturist | Oracle Lyszflo.com
Don't forget to read and vote for the Ignyte Awards! The deadline is August 16th, and "Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity" is nominated alongside so many excellent books and stories.
The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations finalists! Public voting is now open thru August 16: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/ We encourage you to read or otherwise engage with the nominated works/folks between now and then. Thanks for tuning in!
The sooner we fund, the sooner we can reopen to submissions and achieve our awesome stretch goals!!!!
Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 5d agoBreaking News, Space Unicorns! Highly detailed analysis of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 KICKSTARTER has revealed that having made VERY GOOD progress it is IMPORTANT to KEEP GOING!! LETS MAKE ANOTHER YEAR OF UNCANNY HAPPEN!! (Also, even this graphic beats AI!!) buff.ly/9vsnOnl
we require everyone's gay dollars please process them here (if you have straight dollars we will take them as well but the exchange rate is weird so you should give us twice as many)
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · last wk.You can back the crowdfund here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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
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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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
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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Subscribe to our Patreon at the Sweetgrass Shovel ($4) or Viridian Verse ($5) tier and get exclusive access to this content. [Next to text: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColorwaysInVerse]
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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)
Have you read and listened to out poems yet? If not you are not being well fed speculative poems All details at @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social
Lysz Flo aka 🇭🇹Bat Yo Ministries🇭🇹@lyszflo.bsky.social · 2w agoKeep reading !
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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)
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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)
Since the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter reached 60% yesterday, here is Uncanny Magazine Podcast Reader Matt Peters's EPIC Uncanny Kickstarter Wrestling Promo!!!
Uncanny Magazine Podcast Reader Matt Peters's EPIC Year 13 Kickstarter Wrestling Promo
Uncanny Magazine Podcast Readers Matt Peters's EPIC Year 13 Kickstarter Wrestling Promo
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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) 🧵
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)
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)
Doing workshops genuinely make me happy
Note: Broadsides publicly available on our site 1 month after posting, but if ya can't bear the wait, aren't yet subscribed, and wanna support queer BIPOC spec poetry right now, get to it ⬆️. Also, should you have access needs or issues, please reach out. (That's it. Love it as we do, let us know 🙂)
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)
Free Fiction Friday is here! "I love a wedding as much as the next man. The food is good and I’ve already mentioned the entertainment. But the fatality rate these days is almost eighty percent. It simply is not worth the risk." magazine.trollbreath.com/or-forever-h...
Imagine a world where your desires for the world are real and tangible — add magic and/or technology — thats what we are discussing this friday at my class Come join @fifthwheelpress' workshop hosted by me tomorrow, 7/17 @ 6pm
2026 Summer Workshop tickets - fifth wheel press's Ko-fi Shop
More information about our workshop offerings can be found at https://fifthwheelpress.com/workshops
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I love getting these wonderful stories! Another year would be a delight. I just backed Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!
Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
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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 heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
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Not to be all "it's my birthday, buy my books" but it is and you should. THE DEAD WITHHELD: tiny, quick read, queer, paranormal neo-noir, grumpy protag with questionable decision-making YEAR OF THE MER: big, special editions, fantasy, slow burn sapphic tragedy, grumpy protag, worse decisions
EYYYYYYY WE CROSSED $10,000 YOU GUYS, let's keep this goingggg
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
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M. L. Krishnan@emelkrishnan.bsky.social · last mo.All right, I’ve kept quiet for a bit because of real life crap, but come on guys. Our KS is moving at a snail's pace, and we can do better. And I’m not just saying this because I’m the marketing director of @khoreo.bsky.social, or because khōréō is my ride or die fam (which they are, ALWAYS)
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...
You can also listen to the poem being read. !
Spec Colorways In Verse@speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 2mo ago🌠❤️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
🌈🚀 Open call: *Constellations of Becoming: Queer Futures and Other Worlds* 📚 2,000–6,000 words ✨ Queer-centered speculative fiction 📅 Sept. 15, 2026 deadline 💰 Royalty share + possible Kickstarter bonuses horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #SpecFic
