Delighted to announce a @kaleidotrope.bsky.social acceptance for my poem "God Falls", about Gods, Hunger, and, perhaps, eating the rich. Star tuned!

Fantastically scary poem by Chris Clemens in @heartlines-spec.com. Give it a read and come scream with me:

Six Minutes Till School

Six Minutes Till School by Chris Clemens

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Here is my round-up of the poems nominated for the Hugo Award in 2025 and 2026! magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/award-winnin...

Award-Winning Speculative Poetry Is Easy to Read

Review: The First Two Years of a Speculative Poetry Hugo

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Villanelles are my white whale btw.

April feels like it was years ago already, but I think a lot about my prose poem, Sacrifice Homecoming, out in Small Wonders and I'd love if you read it 👇 ⚰️Came back (but home is wrong) 🍇Dark fantasy 🪹Social injustice smallwondersmag.com/piece/sacrif...

Sacrifice Homecoming - Small Wonders

It is not a kindness, warns the beast, and lets you go

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April feels like it was years ago already, but I think a lot about my prose poem, Sacrifice Homecoming, out in Small Wonders and I'd love if you read it 👇 ⚰️Came back (but home is wrong) 🍇Dark fantasy 🪹Social injustice smallwondersmag.com/piece/sacrif...

Sacrifice Homecoming - Small Wonders

It is not a kindness, warns the beast, and lets you go

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I have updated the "Crowdsourced Award Eligible Speculative Poetry" spreadsheet for 2026, please add your published works: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Crowdsourced Award Eligible Speculative Poetry 2026

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If you only read one of my poems this year, I hope you'll make it 'The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub', pub'd by @strangehorizons.bsky.social! ✨ Complicity in societal injustice 🌊 Weird fantasy 🧜‍♀️ Mermaids? 🏳️‍⚧️ Queer undertones (+ trans-written!) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub

Change requires examination of the initial errors

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If anyone was wondering, I have never and will never use AI in my writing. I am extremely anti-AI for so many reasons (Theft! Environmental damage! etc. etc.), and I have no interest in outsourcing my creativity to a machine built from extraction and oppression.

Portals #1 update! This call will be CLOSING to submissions on August 16th at 11:59 pm Eastern… unless we hit the cap before then, so don’t wait! Last chance to send us your darkest, strangest, queerest horror! 🖤 Current subs: Fiction: 121/150 Poetry: 44/100 hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)

if there's a cat in your house you gotta go bother 'em. hurry

I was literally thinking the same lately. My newsletter has had a "story behind the story" section for years. My books have story notes. I enjoy that and my readers seem to too, but I'd hate for that to be a requirement.

Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY@wtalabi.com · last wk.

I'm one of those authors who enjoys talking about my stories, why I made certain choices, what ideas I was going for, etc. (its why all my short story collections include authors notes) But I'd hate if that became the default expectation for most writers because of concerns around AI nonsense.

Maybe the real cake is the subscribers we made along the way 🎂 www.heartlines-spec.com

Heartlines Spec

Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best.

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Emily Yu@emilyyu.bsky.social · last wk.

It's also pub day so give her the ultimate birthday gift by supporting Heartlines Spec :D

For behind the scenes info, our Editorial by @rebecca-b.bsky.social is free-to-read! We got themes, we got stress, we got slices of (virtual) cake.

Editorial

Editorial by Rebecca Bennett

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Happy birthday to our fearless leader of @heartlines-spec.com , the talented, kind, and far too humble, @rebecca-b.bsky.social !

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/

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

Are you an emerging BIPOC author in Canada? You have until August 3 to apply for this. writersunion.ca/bipoc-writer...

Ribbiting 😭🤣🤣

Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 2w ago

Small Wonders stories and poems are a ribbiting read! With a subscription, these wonders are delivered straight to your inbox so you don't have to hop around looking for them. It's toadally a good deal, with subscriptions as low as $2.99 a month! store.smallwondersma...

Subscriptions help keep magazines like Small Wonders alive! If you'd like to find other venues to support, check out @sffmagazines.bsky.social! And if you haven't subscribed to us yet, we'd love to have you on board! store.smallwondersma...

I am overjoyed that the Poetry Hugo Award has once again PASSED. It will need to be re-ratified in 2029 to be officially officially permanent. Complicated rules aside, thank you to everyone who voted or supported this goal. Us poets truly love y'all! To read more about this see poetryhugo.com

Speculative Poetry Initiative

What Works Are Available for Nomination in the 2026 Awards?

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Good. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Quebec scraps AI and automation projects in the public sector

Quebec has abandoned initiatives related to automation and artificial intelligence (AI) within the public sector, including the implementation of a chatbot on the government website “Quebec.ca,” follo...

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And we now have an OFFICIAL HUGO AWARD FOR BEST POEM! (until at least 2029, heh) (when we get to do all of this ratification stuff AGAIN)

It’s a pizza and Star Trek evenin.

I used a lot more acrylic inks on this one, letting the inks pour and run across the paper and then painting over the top of them once they dried. I really like the effect! "All That Will Grow" Watercolor, acrylic ink, gouache, and color pencils.

Julie Dillon@juliedillon.bsky.social · last mo.

Working on a new piece; thinking about star thistles, how in the western US they are an invasive and noxious weed that readily takes over land that has been disturbed and degraded. or something.

This is so important. Please if you are going to #LAConV and care even a little bit about #specpo it would mean so much if you could find some time in your day to come to the WSFS meeting and vote.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 2w ago

I realize I am radically annoying on this topic but once again, a reminder that the vote to ratify the speculative poetry Hugo award is July 26 and if you love speculative poetry or just wish you could win a Hugo for a haiku, please consider voting/speaking at the meeting! poetryhugo.com

I realize I am radically annoying on this topic but once again, a reminder that the vote to ratify the speculative poetry Hugo award is July 26 and if you love speculative poetry or just wish you could win a Hugo for a haiku, please consider voting/speaking at the meeting! poetryhugo.com

Happy Birthday to Lynda Carter! Thank you for being a fantastic inspiration!❤️✨