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Nara Monteiro

@notesfromnara.bsky.social

🇧🇷🇨🇦 • 🏳️‍🌈 they/them • writer, editor, cultural hybrid, hobbit • managing editor at Augur Magazine, editor at Tales & Feathers, crunching numbers for House of Anansi Press + Groundwood Books • linktr.ee/notesfromnara

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Jana Bianchi | Fantástico Guia@janapbianchi.bsky.social · last wk.

Falta praticamente um mês pro meu livro vir ao mundo e estou em puro estado de aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! 🥹

Jana Bianchi | Fantástico Guia@janapbianchi.bsky.social · 3w ago

BOM DIA COM CAPA E PRÉ-VENDA! Ontem a dona @editoraaleph.bsky.social liberou as pré-vendas dos 4 lançamentos nacionais da editora. Tô ABSURDADA com minha capa com ilustra do Lambuja! Se você quiser comprar "Uma longa órbita" em ebook ou físico, só vem: link.amazon/B088f6EVd

A capa tem um fundo rosa/arroxeado num degradê com padrões que sugerem microorganismos similares a dinoflagelados. Em primeiro plano, há duas mãos se segurando na vertical: a mão estendida de cima para baixo é uma mão humana e forte; a mão estendida de baixo para cima é uma mão robótica, com uma pele normal mas com sistemas sob a pele.
Stelliform Press@stelliform.press · 2w ago

I spoke to an Ingram rep about this and it is, unfortunately, a real thing that they are forcing us all to do. Shit like this shouldn't be "opt out" and if you just happen to miss the notice the machines eat your art 🤬

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Like all Canadian government surveys on AI, this is hilariously pro-AI. But it only takes like 5 minutes to fill out, and at the end you can make it clear that the only focus of the government when it comes to AI and culture is that Canadian artists need copyright protections from AI scraping.

Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

Sam Beck@sambeckdraws.bsky.social · 2w ago

everyone should reflect on the fact that they can open up their little electronic boxes each morning and see the most beautiful art made by your contemporaries. how lucky we are

Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social · 3w ago

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

A photo of the wildfires in canada. Fire rages through forest area with vright orange flame and dark gray smoke.
Lisa Brideau@lisabrideau.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm so angry this is our every summer now -watching Canada burn, watching ecosystems die and homes burn, & we just keep digging oil out of the ground. Our politicians keep spending public dollars on the oil industry; subsidies, more pipelines, sending our clean energy to run LNG plants. Insanity.

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

Photo via Wayne Wastaken Fire clouds over Collins, Ontario as community members flee their homes by boat
Hailey Kaas - Cancer fund ($520/$750)@transqueerfem.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hi! We lack only $150 to achieve this goal. Can you help? You can check my thread about LGBTQIA+ rights in Brazil! Every $5 and $10 helps a lot ❤️ #trans #EN #mutualaid #helpsky

Hailey Kaas - Cancer fund ($520/$750)@transqueerfem.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hi! I made this thread about being queer in Brazil to help crowdfund my mom’s radio. She has stage III breast cancer and is still in treatment, and I set this goal to cover the costs. If you can boost or contribute, it would mean a lot. Thank you so much! ♥️ #transcrowdfund #mutualaid #helpsky

André Geleynse@andregeleynse.com · 3w ago

khōréō is one of the most important voices in the short fiction world right now, and has been consistently publishing absolutely stellar work since they started. They're ALMOST at their funding goal, and there's only a few days left to back; let's make sure they continue.

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...

Four khoreo magazine covers over an orange background.
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think

Maria Haskins@mariahaskins.com · 4w ago

As someone who reads slush on a regular basis, I have many many thoughts on the AI-subs stories being shared right now, but one thing is for sure: I hate what AI generated stories are doing to zines and publishers and writers. It makes things harder for everyone who is doing legit work.

B. Pladek@bpladek.bsky.social · 4w ago

clear distillation of a damning colonial angle to the current cross-genre zeal for purple nonsense metaphors lauded as "poetic" (in re: Granta & AI): "The real question... is why a particular form of trained, statistical incoherence was so readily legible to its judges as postcolonial seriousness."

How to read postcolonial writing

The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive...

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André Geleynse@andregeleynse.com · 4w ago

Hugely appreciative of Bona Books doing their due diligence in verifying suspected AI use by one of their contributors, and bringing this issue to light. A depressing read well worth your time.

Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼@bonabooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

Nara Monteiro@notesfromnara.bsky.social · 4w ago

Last year I read submissions curled up under a blanket while it snowed. This time I’ll be on the balcony with my garden for company. We‘ve long tried to pull our production earlier into the year but I don’t think I realized how successful we were until just now :) Anyway send us your stuff!!!

Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · last mo.

📌 SUBS ARE OPEN this July!! Submit your fiction and poetry to @augursociety.bsky.social Issue 10 📚️ Scroll for more info! 👇️ buff.ly/AKmSaxU 🧵

A purple background with a leaf silhouette border. Within the border, the following text appears: "Augur Magazine, 2026, July 1 - July 15, submissions now open. $100 cad per poem. $0.14 cad per word (Fiction, 800+ words). $112 cad per flash fic (<800 words). augursociety.org/submissions. SCIFI. Fantasy. slipstream." Within a peach-coloured box, there is an icon of a paper plane with the text "Pass it on."