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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️
@angelvleal.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️| Mexican | They/She | ✍️ in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, The Deadlands, Heartlines Spec, & others| Clarion West '25 | Poetry editor @Otherside | http://angel-leal.com
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · Apr 10
I never thought it would be possible but I will be a part of @clarionwest.bsky.social😭AND not only that, but with friends @rukman.bsky.social & @mruthrobinson.bsky.social 🫂💖It's unbelievable. I want with all my heart to learn with all of y'all & write queer SFFH for weeks❤️‍🔥Huge congrats to everyone!!
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Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · Apr 9
Please join us in congratulating our 2025 Six-Week Workshop students! They will be attending virtually from far and wide, across eight different time zones. Read more about where they're from and the summer format on our blog: www.clarionwest.org/2025/04/09/i...
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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 1d
I didn’t know what to say before, with Thyme Travellers winning just now. All I have to say is please continue to support Palestinians loudly and without apology.

So much love to you all!
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d
The Ember Award for Unsung Contributions to Genre goes to @soniasulaiman.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards
2025 Winner The Ember Award: Sonia Sulaiman
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d
Im so overjoyed about this

@soniasulaiman.bsky.social cares so much and does so much
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d
The Ember Award for Unsung Contributions to Genre goes to @soniasulaiman.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards
2025 Winner The Ember Award: Sonia Sulaiman
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION
2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d
@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
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2025 Winner Outstanding Novelette: WE WHO WILL NOT DIE by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 1d
y'all need to read this story!!!! this is one of my faves of the year without a doubt. Powerful, grimly funny, devastating, and above all, for the girls. I'm losing it for this crazy potent sci-fi girl descent I'll never forget
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Juliet Kahn @handle.invalid · 6d
My short story, SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN WITH THE ELECTRIC SERAPHIM, is live on the @uncannymagazine.bsky.social website! Read about how the true pioneers of bodiless cyberlife won’t be the Musks and Thiels of the world, but the anime club girls who wear the same hoodie to school every day! 💫
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Juliet Kahn @handle.invalid · 6d
My short story, SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN WITH THE ELECTRIC SERAPHIM, is live on the @uncannymagazine.bsky.social website! Read about how the true pioneers of bodiless cyberlife won’t be the Musks and Thiels of the world, but the anime club girls who wear the same hoodie to school every day! 💫
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 3d
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Tuesday’s dead and Wednesday’s dead
Thursday, I don’t care it’s dead
it’s Friday, BUY A COIN

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1 41 Write your reply ‪The Deadlands‬ ‪@thedeadlands.com‬ · 1d that is all BREAKING NEWS announced for the 1st time. doing cool shit isn't cheap! GOOD ARTISTS NEEDTA GET PAID can you dig it? (6ft down if you know what we mean) help us pay good artists that wanna get paid to do cool shit: in return for your support you get A COIN FOR THE FERRYMAN 👇 link Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground psychopomp.com 7 The Deadlands ‪@thedeadlands.com‬ Home Explore Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Saved Profile Settings New Post Search Following Discover Popular With Friends More feeds Trending Cam Skattebo Gaza Ceasefire Letitia James NYCC 2023 Feedback • Privacy • Terms • Help Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.” Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”
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Theo @theokane.bsky.social · 3d
Read my essay in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social for free — Solace in Fantasy Monster Romances and My Trans Body www.uncannymagazine.com/article/sola...

Thanks to Michael and the team for making this happen, and my friend James for their early feedback. 🏳️‍⚧️💕 #Romancelandia
Solace in Fantasy Monster Romances and My Trans Body - Uncanny Magazine
In July 2022, I lay in bed recovering from gender-affirming bottom surgery.1 Outside of two modest earlobe piercings, I’d never permanently changed my body before; to finally feel in control of my own...
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 4d
aww thank you soo much for reading Bailey!!! 💜
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Bailey Thomas @buyjupiter.bsky.social · 4d
Absolutely incredible poem, wow
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 12d
My new poem "GPS Girl" about a navigation system slowly warping into sentience and...eventually depression..is out today💜 @radonjournal.bsky.social and look at that cover!!! This whole issue is filled with dark & strange & powerful words 🖤 www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/gps...
GPS Girl | Issue 11
Radon Journal Issue 11 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 4d
you will be missed! thank you for publishing me and for the wonder and imagination filling all your issues 💜
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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 4d
With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.
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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 10d
📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025.

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Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions
ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: [email protected] THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 7d
There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.
“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places” Fiction “Singularities” by Cressida Roe “The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes “The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox “Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos “What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman “The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris “Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti “My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity “What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen “The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen “Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed Poetry “Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens “Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon “Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce “I have been to the market” by Shana Ross “Atomic” by Jennifer Crow “Bedazzled” by Robert Borski “Bestla” by James Joseph Brown Artwork by Carly A-F
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 7d
it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 8d
I'm not gonna lie, this might be my favorite story I've read this year so far...like, wow, this is soo sooo dreamy and beautiful and strange!!! I love it..you've got a fan 💜
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Divya Kernan @divyakernan.bsky.social · Jul 1
My story "Carmilla, or, the Making of a Girl" is out in Baffling Magazine and I am both thrilled and humbled! This is my very first story making its way into the world. You can read it here:
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 9d
it's sunday october 5th

have you read the novelette

GARDEN OF THE BLOODPOTTER

yet?

👀

by @babblewocky.bsky.social ??

you absolutely should

and you CAN

right here:
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The latest novelette by Erin Brown: Garden of the Bloodpotter, published by Psychopomp, read it for FREE.
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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 12d
Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 9d
Thank you Emily!!! 💖🫂
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 10d
Ahhh thank you so much!! 💜😊
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 10d
Thank you so much Angela!!! 💖
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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 11d
Latinx spec poetry 💜💜💜 represents!! Two amazing poets and two stunning pieces. Congratulations to all, and especially @pedroiniguez.bsky.social and @angelvleal.bsky.social 💖💖
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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 11d
Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 11d
Yay!! Thank you Myna!!! 💜
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 11d
Thank you Nico!!! 💖 (Also, I love your poems!) 😊
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