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Will McMahon

@willmcmahon36.bsky.social

Union organizer, writer, cider-maker. https://will-mcmahon.com

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A Meal of Thorns@mealofthorns.bsky.social · 5d ago

We've got a few, and more on the way!

AMOT episodes on Translated SF

A Meal of Thorns discussions of work not originally in English, or episodes that include significant discussion of works in translation.

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Rachel Cordasco@rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 7d ago

#sff podcasts should highlight translators and translations more- interview translators, feature #SFinTranslations in your audio reads, actually see what's going on outside the Anglophone world. Inform your listeners. Believe me, they'll love it.

Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 6d ago

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

Free short science fiction, published weekly · Science Fiction Weekly

Science Fiction Weekly publishes a free short story every weekday and a curated digest every Sunday. Subscribe by email.

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Jake Casella Brookins@casella.bsky.social · 4w ago

If anyone at the Newer Venues for SF Criticism panel at Readercon wants to check out @typebarmagazine.bsky.social's non-fic pitch seminar I mentioned, it's this!

Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨EXCITING NEWS🚨 For the first time ever, Typebar Magazine will be hosting a FREE seminar on pitching shortform nonfiction. Join our editor @wolfbridge.bsky.social as he discusses the so-called rules of pitching and the reasons behind them. RSVP here and remember, it's FREE: luma.com/3srmehk6

A graphic that says "Pitching (Shortform) Nonfiction" with the Typebar magazine logo on the bottom. There's also a stick figure clip art thing where it's a stick figure guy next to a height chart. The text of the event listing reads: How to Pitch Nonfiction: The So-Called Rules and the Reasons Behind Them It will be Monday 7/20 starting at 7:00pm eastern and ending at 8:00pm eastern.
Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · last mo.

I have thoughts on this

Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism

Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…

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Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · last mo.

Something I find interesting about every debate about politics and art is how contradictory everyone's stances are. Is radical art *hopeful* or is that escapist fantasy that defuses revolutionary currents? Is it popular art that reaches many people or necessarily obscure art? etc.

Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · last mo.

We've completed the first two weeks of the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive, and - at present - are just over $5K away from meeting our base goal, to continue publishing in 2027. To help us get there, back us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵

Will McMahon@willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Américo was part of that group of writers quite capable of affirming, with tears in their eyes, their total dedication to literature - "if I don't write, I waste away," or "oh, writing for me is like breathing" - despite the fact, unfortunately, that they have nothing to say.” José Eduardo Agualusa

Photo of part of the page of a book. Visible text as follows: of seeming original. Américo was part of that group of writers quite capable of affirming, with tears in their eyes, their total dedication to literature - "if I don't write, I waste away," or "oh, writing for me is like breathing" - despite the fact, unfortunately, that they have nothing to say. Having conquered the final page, I don't think thered be many readers who could summarize the plot. I'm not sure it even had a plot. Still, Américo pretended to believe me. He clapped me on the back with the manly delight of somebody who has run into an old drinking buddy from his wild youth, and gave me a big, magnanimous smile: "What about you? Have you written much?"Cover of the short fiction collection A Practical Guide to Levitation by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn. There is a black and white etching of a forest on the cover. It is laminated because it is a discarded library book.
Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front@irrealist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

IN ONE WEEK: join us at Liquid State Brewing in Ithaca for a reading and discussion featuring @vajra.me and @debbieurbanski.bsky.social!

Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front@irrealist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front reemerges from a period underground to resume its revolutionary literary activities with a reading at Liquid State Brewing on March 20th, featuring @vajra.me and @debbieurbanski.bsky.social! Join us!

Ithaca Irrealist Readings A boozy reading series featuring authors of the fantastic, the surreal, the absurd, the speculative, and the odd. Vajra Chandrasekera Writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka, whose novels The Saint of Bright Doors and Rakesfall have won the Le Guin Prize for Fiction, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, Crawford, and Otherwise Awards, and been selected as New York Times Notable Books of 2023 and 2024. A 2025-2026 Fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Debbie Urbanski Author of the novel After World-named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, the Los Angeles Times tech, Booklist, and Strange Horizons-and the story collection Portalmania. Published in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Best American Experimental Writing, The Sun, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Granta, and Conjunctions. Liquid State Brewing Friday, March 20 - 6 PM irrealist.org
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm very jealous of all the non-American authors who get to publish little novellas and tiny essay collections that top out 100 pages. We gotta bring that publishing culture to the states.