Lisa M. Bradley
@cafenowhere.bsky.social
Queer, disabled Latina spec-fic poet/author/editor. Work in LeVar Burton Reads, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Uncanny, & F&SF. Poetry Editor for Strange Horizons. www.lisambradley.com
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Exile a book by Lisa M Bradley
Twenty years ago, a toxic spill in the small, southwest Texas town of Exile poisoned residents with permanent rage. The feds' response? Quarantine. Only residents who pass the feds' 4-S test can escap...
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For the new folks, links to my books:
Exile, a dystopian novel: bitl.to/3JmB
The Haunted Girl, a collection of short fiction and poetry: www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-...
Climbing Lightly Through Forests, A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. LeGuin, ed with R.B. Lemberg: bitl.to/3Jm7
Exile, a dystopian novel: bitl.to/3JmB
The Haunted Girl, a collection of short fiction and poetry: www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-...
Climbing Lightly Through Forests, A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. LeGuin, ed with R.B. Lemberg: bitl.to/3Jm7
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Haven’t mentioned it in a minute but SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is still available for pre-orders. Canadians, it doesn’t say so at this link but Amazon finally has a paperback. Not sure what’s taking Indigo so long. Anyway, here are the links so far:
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl – Stars and Sabers
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl by award-winning author P.A. Cornell is a sci-fi romance novelette set in a retrofuturistic Toronto, publishing February 3, 2026 via Stars and Sabers Publishing.
www.starsandsabers.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Haven’t mentioned it in a minute but SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is still available for pre-orders. Canadians, it doesn’t say so at this link but Amazon finally has a paperback. Not sure what’s taking Indigo so long. Anyway, here are the links so far:
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
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While everyone's talking about turkey, we're talking about Plott Hound Magazine!
The Plott Hound Pack is howling, because we're opened to submissions on December 1st!
Short stories, flash fiction, essay pitches, and poetry welcome.
Check out our guidelines: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
The Plott Hound Pack is howling, because we're opened to submissions on December 1st!
Short stories, flash fiction, essay pitches, and poetry welcome.
Check out our guidelines: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
Submission Guidelines – Plott Hound Magazine
plotthoundmag.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
While everyone's talking about turkey, we're talking about Plott Hound Magazine!
The Plott Hound Pack is howling, because we're opened to submissions on December 1st!
Short stories, flash fiction, essay pitches, and poetry welcome.
Check out our guidelines: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
The Plott Hound Pack is howling, because we're opened to submissions on December 1st!
Short stories, flash fiction, essay pitches, and poetry welcome.
Check out our guidelines: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
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Stuff I'd love to see more of in the Plott Hound slush:
-science fiction
-less popular and more obscure species
-subversive, refreshing takes on familiar mythical creatures and cryptids
-xenospecies/critters entirely made up by you!
-non-Western cultures and settings
-science fiction
-less popular and more obscure species
-subversive, refreshing takes on familiar mythical creatures and cryptids
-xenospecies/critters entirely made up by you!
-non-Western cultures and settings
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Stuff I'd love to see more of in the Plott Hound slush:
-science fiction
-less popular and more obscure species
-subversive, refreshing takes on familiar mythical creatures and cryptids
-xenospecies/critters entirely made up by you!
-non-Western cultures and settings
-science fiction
-less popular and more obscure species
-subversive, refreshing takes on familiar mythical creatures and cryptids
-xenospecies/critters entirely made up by you!
-non-Western cultures and settings
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Girlyman
Murder by Death
Devil Makes Three
The Dead South (before I knew that one member is trash)
Trampled by Turtles
Girlyman
Murder by Death
Devil Makes Three
The Dead South (before I knew that one member is trash)
Trampled by Turtles
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Man…or Astro-Man?
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Mission of Burma
Insect Warfare
Lisa Loeb
Man…or Astro-Man?
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Mission of Burma
Insect Warfare
Lisa Loeb
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Bob Dylan
The Garden
Blood Orange/Kindness
Mac DeMarco
How To Dress Well
Bob Dylan
The Garden
Blood Orange/Kindness
Mac DeMarco
How To Dress Well
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Girlyman
Murder by Death
Devil Makes Three
The Dead South (before I knew that one member is trash)
Trampled by Turtles
Girlyman
Murder by Death
Devil Makes Three
The Dead South (before I knew that one member is trash)
Trampled by Turtles
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A world where everyone is safe, fed, housed, and free is not impossible. It’s just inconvenient to the privileged in positions of power.
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A world where everyone is safe, fed, housed, and free is not impossible. It’s just inconvenient to the privileged in positions of power.
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Honor the first Americans and support Indigenous writers. This is just a small list for so many important voices.
@sonorataylor.bsky.social and I have another list for you over on Fright Girl Summer!
20 books across genres to keep you reading ALL year round!
Read and support Indigenous writers!
frightgirlsummer.com/2025/11/06/r...
20 books across genres to keep you reading ALL year round!
Read and support Indigenous writers!
frightgirlsummer.com/2025/11/06/r...
Recommended Indigenous Reads for National Native American Heritage Month
Happy November! In the United States, November is National Native American Heritage Month. As we always say, you should be reading Indigenous authors all year long! But to kick off November, we put…
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November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Honor the first Americans and support Indigenous writers. This is just a small list for so many important voices.
It is extremely windy and bright, which means light is pulsing through the leaves and has given me a migraine. Right before the six-hour drive.
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It is extremely windy and bright, which means light is pulsing through the leaves and has given me a migraine. Right before the six-hour drive.
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Most of us are engaged in the Mass Blackout, avoiding ordering things online to show billionaires our collective power. But you can still back the woman who mercilessly eats the rich: THE MATRON.
Let's make Black Friday RED!
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Let's make Black Friday RED!
1/
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Most of us are engaged in the Mass Blackout, avoiding ordering things online to show billionaires our collective power. But you can still back the woman who mercilessly eats the rich: THE MATRON.
Let's make Black Friday RED!
1/
Let's make Black Friday RED!
1/
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I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
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I had a book come out this year that you can vote for! The Island of Dreams is a dark YA fantasy inspired by Peter Pan that focuses on disability and ageism and our assumptions about whose dreams are eligible for paradise and a chosen path to the good place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I had a book come out this year that you can vote for! The Island of Dreams is a dark YA fantasy inspired by Peter Pan that focuses on disability and ageism and our assumptions about whose dreams are eligible for paradise and a chosen path to the good place.
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A new poem from me as part of The Vertigo Project, Greetings from Innerspace: with love and exasperation to the people of Earth: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A new poem from me as part of The Vertigo Project, Greetings from Innerspace: with love and exasperation to the people of Earth: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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THIS ⬇️
Have a cup of coffee. Read a book of poems. Your day will be better for it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
THIS ⬇️
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I’m so excited about pub day that I’m giving away a copy!! If you’re a fan of vampires, you might want to cuddle up with High Stake and Bloody Business this holiday season 🩸
Give this a repost if you’d like to be added! And for an extra entry, reply with your favorite creature feature monster!
Give this a repost if you’d like to be added! And for an extra entry, reply with your favorite creature feature monster!
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m so excited about pub day that I’m giving away a copy!! If you’re a fan of vampires, you might want to cuddle up with High Stake and Bloody Business this holiday season 🩸
Give this a repost if you’d like to be added! And for an extra entry, reply with your favorite creature feature monster!
Give this a repost if you’d like to be added! And for an extra entry, reply with your favorite creature feature monster!
A deer came into our front lawn to sample the skinned pumpkin we left under the bird feeder. I wish I hadn’t scared it away.
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A deer came into our front lawn to sample the skinned pumpkin we left under the bird feeder. I wish I hadn’t scared it away.
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Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing
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For the Sunday crowd: my novel, Muñeca, out June 2026, is Gothic historical fiction about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
You can pre-order it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
You can pre-order it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: 9798217047574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Nat...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
For the Sunday crowd: my novel, Muñeca, out June 2026, is Gothic historical fiction about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
You can pre-order it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
You can pre-order it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
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!!!!! I really recommend this one! I love the whole series, the character work especially is absolutely stellar.
The first volume of one of the best Hungarian SF series, Csodaidők (A Time to Heal) by Raana Raas (Suhajda Etelka) (translated by Székács Judit) is now available in English.
The Hungarian original was a fresh voice in the scene, a family saga inspired by abrahamic religions.
The Hungarian original was a fresh voice in the scene, a family saga inspired by abrahamic religions.
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
!!!!! I really recommend this one! I love the whole series, the character work especially is absolutely stellar.
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if you have a moody holiday ruiner in your crew, please offer them a to go plate for their uber ride to therapy
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
if you have a moody holiday ruiner in your crew, please offer them a to go plate for their uber ride to therapy
Did I miss something? What happened to Norman Reedus? #HorrorWatch
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Did I miss something? What happened to Norman Reedus? #HorrorWatch
I’ve seen Pandorum before but it’s been so long, I probably won’t remember any of it. #HorrorWatch
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I’ve seen Pandorum before but it’s been so long, I probably won’t remember any of it. #HorrorWatch
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Delighted to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Goblin Shark', published in @thebraag.bsky.social 🦈
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Delighted to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Goblin Shark', published in @thebraag.bsky.social 🦈
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
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I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.
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I didn’t realized this had gone live but it seems that you can now read my flash, “What Happened That Night,” at Short Edition.
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
What Happened That Night
Josh is gone, but I see him everywhere. Even now, it's his reflection I see in the puddle as the storm brings me back to reality. I shiver. Seems I'm always cold these days. I need to get my shit
short-edition.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I didn’t realized this had gone live but it seems that you can now read my flash, “What Happened That Night,” at Short Edition.
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
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eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵