Catherine Tavares
@cjtavares.bsky.social
Sci-fi & Fantasy Author | SFWA & Codex Member | Bibliophilic ghost haunting libraries | she/her
Work forth/in Apex, Heartlines, Nature Futures, Flash Point SF, Haven Spec +more
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/catherinetavares
Work forth/in Apex, Heartlines, Nature Futures, Flash Point SF, Haven Spec +more
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/catherinetavares
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Tis the season! Awards season!
As ballots open, may I humbly offer my own award eligible stories for your consideration. I have 7 stories eligible in the Short Story category this year. You can find links to read/access all of them on my website: catherinetavares.com/awards-eligi...
As ballots open, may I humbly offer my own award eligible stories for your consideration. I have 7 stories eligible in the Short Story category this year. You can find links to read/access all of them on my website: catherinetavares.com/awards-eligi...
Exciting new news about my news(letter)!
New Free Story Coming Soon!
Subscriber Exclusive Flash Fiction for 2026
catherinetavares.beehiiv.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Exciting new news about my news(letter)!
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Gentle reminder that it is okay to get off the internet for the night. It's already been an onslaught. Please take care of yourselves.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Gentle reminder that it is okay to get off the internet for the night. It's already been an onslaught. Please take care of yourselves.
Gifts from a friend! My bookshelf is 1000x cooler now with THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST by @premeemohamed.com and AMERICAN HIPPO by @sarahgailey.bsky.social on it.
December 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Gifts from a friend! My bookshelf is 1000x cooler now with THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST by @premeemohamed.com and AMERICAN HIPPO by @sarahgailey.bsky.social on it.
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Look at us!
Today's listing of the day is: Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
duotrope.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Look at us!
Friends, friends, the end is in sight. The goal is right there! We are so close to securing another year of great flash fiction. Please, if you can, back the @flashpointsf.bsky.social Kickstarter and gift the world and yourself a Good Thing for 2026.
Flash Point SF 2025
An online literary publication for science fiction & fantasy short stories under 1000 words.
www.kickstarter.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Friends, friends, the end is in sight. The goal is right there! We are so close to securing another year of great flash fiction. Please, if you can, back the @flashpointsf.bsky.social Kickstarter and gift the world and yourself a Good Thing for 2026.
Every time I think I have run out of rage this year, something like this comes along and reignites it anew. What's beyond rage because that's me. I'm that now.
December 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Every time I think I have run out of rage this year, something like this comes along and reignites it anew. What's beyond rage because that's me. I'm that now.
This poem goes so hard, I love it! Free to read now, so go check it out:
grotto by Leah Duarte is now free-to-read! Let's all find out what's secret at the bottom of the pond 👀
i spit algae and mosquito
larvae and tell you there’s
something on the other side
www.heartlines-spec.com/grotto-by-le...
i spit algae and mosquito
larvae and tell you there’s
something on the other side
www.heartlines-spec.com/grotto-by-le...
grotto
grotto by Leah Duarte
www.heartlines-spec.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
This poem goes so hard, I love it! Free to read now, so go check it out:
Aaaaaahhhh! I need a PS5 so much right now! 😭
Don't brave the horrors alone.
FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft and legendary agent Leon S. Kennedy's terrifying and pulse-pounding journeys intertwine in Resident Evil Requiem, arriving February 27, 2026.
🌿 youtu.be/T54OWinnymM
FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft and legendary agent Leon S. Kennedy's terrifying and pulse-pounding journeys intertwine in Resident Evil Requiem, arriving February 27, 2026.
🌿 youtu.be/T54OWinnymM
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Aaaaaahhhh! I need a PS5 so much right now! 😭
Just backed Flash Point SF 2025's Kickstarter. They are SO CLOSE to their goal and have only 4 days left. If you are able, please pitch in and give the world amazing flash stories next year!
Flash Point SF 2025
An online literary publication for science fiction & fantasy short stories under 1000 words.
www.kickstarter.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just backed Flash Point SF 2025's Kickstarter. They are SO CLOSE to their goal and have only 4 days left. If you are able, please pitch in and give the world amazing flash stories next year!
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Just a reminder that when Nightmare Magazine opens to subs again in January, we are VERY EAGER to read your dark creative nonfiction! We're the place to send that creepy list or micro research project about something awful.
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
adamant.moksha.io
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Just a reminder that when Nightmare Magazine opens to subs again in January, we are VERY EAGER to read your dark creative nonfiction! We're the place to send that creepy list or micro research project about something awful.
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
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Ink still fresh on the contract, I’m pleased to announce that my novelette, “The Soundtrack of My Afterlife,” will appear in the inaugural issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social! This is a fantasy story about the bond between a girl and her car.
December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ink still fresh on the contract, I’m pleased to announce that my novelette, “The Soundtrack of My Afterlife,” will appear in the inaugural issue of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social! This is a fantasy story about the bond between a girl and her car.
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i am begging publishers to bring back mass paperbacks. i am not in the income bracket to buy sprayed edges. i am not in the income bracket to buy.... regular edges. i can afford 0 edges. a circle book.
95% of the books on my shelves are either borrowed from the library or ARCs.
95% of the books on my shelves are either borrowed from the library or ARCs.
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
i am begging publishers to bring back mass paperbacks. i am not in the income bracket to buy sprayed edges. i am not in the income bracket to buy.... regular edges. i can afford 0 edges. a circle book.
95% of the books on my shelves are either borrowed from the library or ARCs.
95% of the books on my shelves are either borrowed from the library or ARCs.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Was having major printer issues this morning, played the Warhammer 40k Omnissiah track while attempting one last fix, and suddenly the printer was working again. I know nothing about printers or Omnissiahs, but...coincidence? 👀
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Was having major printer issues this morning, played the Warhammer 40k Omnissiah track while attempting one last fix, and suddenly the printer was working again. I know nothing about printers or Omnissiahs, but...coincidence? 👀
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Nominations are open! I would be honored if you considered my stories but especially my novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great" published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social written as a series of Goodreads reviews! 🙏
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Nominations are open! I would be honored if you considered my stories but especially my novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great" published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social written as a series of Goodreads reviews! 🙏
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Here it is! My 2025 award eligibility post!
"10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care For the End of Days" is a love letter about life under a doomsday cult, and a quick read! I'd be delighted for anyone to consider it for their short story ballots. ;D
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v...
"10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care For the End of Days" is a love letter about life under a doomsday cult, and a quick read! I'd be delighted for anyone to consider it for their short story ballots. ;D
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v...
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Here it is! My 2025 award eligibility post!
"10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care For the End of Days" is a love letter about life under a doomsday cult, and a quick read! I'd be delighted for anyone to consider it for their short story ballots. ;D
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v...
"10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care For the End of Days" is a love letter about life under a doomsday cult, and a quick read! I'd be delighted for anyone to consider it for their short story ballots. ;D
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v...
There are two crows perched on the cable outside at a fair distance apart and they keep glancing at each other but timing it so that one is looking away when the other is looking and anyway I think they're in love.
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There are two crows perched on the cable outside at a fair distance apart and they keep glancing at each other but timing it so that one is looking away when the other is looking and anyway I think they're in love.
It's a double feature announcement day because I am also thrilled to share that my short story "Meet Cute at the Inter-Dimensional Cafe" will be featured in @translunartl.bsky.social!!! Come for the pastries, stay for the love that transcends space/time.💗
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It's a double feature announcement day because I am also thrilled to share that my short story "Meet Cute at the Inter-Dimensional Cafe" will be featured in @translunartl.bsky.social!!! Come for the pastries, stay for the love that transcends space/time.💗
I'm so sorry, I forgot to post this earlier and y'all have been missing out on this pun this whole time:
I'll see you in Hell...Itself Magazine!
My story "The Goblin on My Shoulder" is forthcoming in @hellitself.bsky.social and I am so excited both for everyone to read it, and for the hell puns! 😈
I'll see you in Hell...Itself Magazine!
My story "The Goblin on My Shoulder" is forthcoming in @hellitself.bsky.social and I am so excited both for everyone to read it, and for the hell puns! 😈
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm so sorry, I forgot to post this earlier and y'all have been missing out on this pun this whole time:
I'll see you in Hell...Itself Magazine!
My story "The Goblin on My Shoulder" is forthcoming in @hellitself.bsky.social and I am so excited both for everyone to read it, and for the hell puns! 😈
I'll see you in Hell...Itself Magazine!
My story "The Goblin on My Shoulder" is forthcoming in @hellitself.bsky.social and I am so excited both for everyone to read it, and for the hell puns! 😈
Honestly would love if all my friends and family "gifted" me a full boycott of AI, please and thank you.
A somewhat shorter -- though not sweeter -- GIFTS FOR WRITERS this year, over at the blog.
Gifts For Writers, 2026
Every year I (try to) do a GIFTS FOR WRITERS post, which is to say, a post speaking not to the writers per se but to those fortunate (or unfortunate) souls that have writers in their lives. Writers…
terribleminds.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Honestly would love if all my friends and family "gifted" me a full boycott of AI, please and thank you.
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SALE - My story "'We Require an Engine,' Said the Testicle Collective" is coming soon in Translunar Travelers Lounge.
When a collective of testicles kidnaps his cow and demands a ship to flee Earth. a grizzled ex-rocket engineer must build their ride—and finally confront his own emotional baggage.
When a collective of testicles kidnaps his cow and demands a ship to flee Earth. a grizzled ex-rocket engineer must build their ride—and finally confront his own emotional baggage.
December 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
SALE - My story "'We Require an Engine,' Said the Testicle Collective" is coming soon in Translunar Travelers Lounge.
When a collective of testicles kidnaps his cow and demands a ship to flee Earth. a grizzled ex-rocket engineer must build their ride—and finally confront his own emotional baggage.
When a collective of testicles kidnaps his cow and demands a ship to flee Earth. a grizzled ex-rocket engineer must build their ride—and finally confront his own emotional baggage.
Banana chocolate cake!!! 🍌🎂 Big thanks to @effies.bsky.social for sharing the recipe.
It's a simple chocolate frosting, just on the top and in between layers; and I decorated with banana chips on top, on the side seam, and then between the layers for a bit of a crunch with every bite. Delicious!
It's a simple chocolate frosting, just on the top and in between layers; and I decorated with banana chips on top, on the side seam, and then between the layers for a bit of a crunch with every bite. Delicious!
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Banana chocolate cake!!! 🍌🎂 Big thanks to @effies.bsky.social for sharing the recipe.
It's a simple chocolate frosting, just on the top and in between layers; and I decorated with banana chips on top, on the side seam, and then between the layers for a bit of a crunch with every bite. Delicious!
It's a simple chocolate frosting, just on the top and in between layers; and I decorated with banana chips on top, on the side seam, and then between the layers for a bit of a crunch with every bite. Delicious!
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This year I've been reflecting upon and writing about my life as a neurodiverse author. Here's one of the most personal essays I've ever written about being on the spectrum. In addition, an updated version of my free booklet "Tips and Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers" is available.
The Mask Comes Off When I Write | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
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December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This year I've been reflecting upon and writing about my life as a neurodiverse author. Here's one of the most personal essays I've ever written about being on the spectrum. In addition, an updated version of my free booklet "Tips and Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers" is available.
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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.
December 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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