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Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · 3h

:) No worries.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 16h

you really want the Apex kickstarter to succeed, because they published @cypayseur.bsky.social 's "All I Want for Christmas"

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Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · 11h

? I live in BC. Isn't Cancon in Ottawa?

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 20h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 18h

I'm back and the highschool kids were fabulous. They brainstormed ideas with pencil and paper and talked abt story ideas, had insightful questions, asked me abt writers block, asked me how to write the middle of books asked what exactly do publishers do? Lol 💀
Girl writing/reading is not dead yet.

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 23h

Every day I see articles here about gen Z and Alpha using chatgpt to write and now today I'm off to talk to a grade 12 creative writing class. I think they might let some younger grades watch.
This will probably be my most discerning audience and one of my most important.
Never write off the kids🖤

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Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing book.

P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 17h

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.

“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”

RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25

Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror

“Adam in the garden…”

Book cover: blood red background with black arms raised and hands outstretched from the bottom in front of white klansman hood with screaming mouths for eyes above words in black, RING SHOUT.

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Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · 16h

Not this time, no.

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Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · 1d

Jubilation!

Suyi @suyidavies.com · 1d

Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured.

suyidavies.com/updates/lost... #2025IgnyteAwards

Lost Ark Dreaming wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella (full acceptance speech) — Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella. Full acceptance speech follows.

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Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · 1d

Big congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/

2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!

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E. L. Chen @elainechen.com · 1d

Kermit flail! Giddy I can finally announce that @orbitbooks.bsky.social's horror imprint, Run For It, has acquired my mid-life crisis found footage horror movie novel ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD. 🪰 1/

A graphic from Run For It with a photo of me, a middle-aged Asian woman with long black hair and glasses wearing an olive green bomber jacket. Above is a red banner that reads, "Acquisition Announcement", and below is "One of Us Is Already Dead, E. L. Chen."

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 1d

My Soul to Keep is on this list. (And he also recommended The Reformatory!) :)

screenrant.com/horror-books...

8 Horror Books Stephen King Has Recommended For Your Spooky Season Halloween Reading List

The King has spoken.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!

A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

The Apple-Tree Throne

Buy The Apple-Tree Throne: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 1d

A woman in my book-signing line at the Heartland Book Festival gave me these miniature versions of my books. So delightful! 📚I'm going to keep this tiny library on my desk. Nearly every book I've written.

Nnedi's fingers holding a box of miniature Nnedi books.

All the miniature books spread on Nnedi's hand.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 26d

Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) introduces and reads from his debut novel The West Passage, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Jared Pechacek reads from The West Passage

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 12d

Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me) introduces his second novel, Rakesfall, which is is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Vajra Chandrasekera reads from Rakesfall

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 5d

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.

A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage.

“Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jul 10

Ursula Whitcher introduces and reads from North Continent Ribbon, her collection of linked stories, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

Ursula Whitcher reading

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jul 17

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟

Revolutionary-minded and dizzyingly intricate, Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall defies narrative expectations as it considers history, power, perspective, resistance, and the “dread scale” of myth and nightmare.

A copy of Rakesfall—the hot pink cover of which depicts a skull surrounded by flowers and vines—sits on a black surface against a white wall. A small pot next to it contains a vine-like plant, which is draped across the top of the book. The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlist medal is in the upper right corner of the photo.

"We put on a play for ourselves, we ghosts, we people, we devils, with our superstitions like solidity, objects, time, or justice. We live in confusion, we swim in it. But the world is not a river to swim in; it is a glacial ocean, always whole, already complete." —Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jul 25

Margaret Killjoy (@margaret.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from The Sapling Cage, her coming-of-age fantasy, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jul 31

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟

As it follows two young people through a surreal and vividly imagined landscape, Jared Pechaček’s debut considers power, tradition, and the possibility of rejecting expectations in search of a better future.

A copy of The West Passage rests on a black shelf against a white wall, next to a small bouquet of brightly colored flowers.

A quote from The West Passage reads, "A songbird flitted overhead, and the vast silence of the Passage swallowed it up. This place was too somber for song. There were bones in the walls and blood in the floor. Kew swallowed. No ink, no tempera, no gesso or gold leaf had prepared him for this."

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Aug 8

Nghi Vo (@nghivo.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from her novel The City in Glass, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Nghi Vo reads from City in Glass.

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Aug 14

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟

Layered with history, culture, and folklore, Nalo Hopkinson’s novel about griot-in-training Veycosi is a lush, adventurous feast of possibility and wit.

A copy of Blackheart Man, by Nalo Hopkinson, sits on a black shelf against a white wall next to a vase holding a spray of greenery and berries.

“Books get stolen. Get lost. Get burned. When Ymisen came to the lands of Ilife forebears to wage war ’pon them and take them into slavery, they first burned the books. So much knowledge lost! But the song of this book going to live down the generations of the chantwell line that have it memorized. Each person in the line have a different piece of it; melody, harmony, diagrams. Each will pass it down to their generations. It will last forever.” from Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

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