P.A. Cornell (She/Her)
@cornellwriter.bsky.social
Nebula, Aurora, and World Fantasy-nominated Chilean-Canadian writer. Winner Short Works Prize. SFWA, CSFFA, ALCiFF Chile. Odyssey ’02. Codex. Stories in Apex, Fantasy, Lightspeed, and others. Linktree: http://linktr.ee/pacornell
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Through the Machine - Lightspeed Magazine
“Steve, over here! Turn to your right. Can we get a smile?” He falls back on his training easily enough, turns to the cameras, gives them his famous crooked smile, tilts his head just so as the flashe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
Now live, both the print and audio versions of my story, “Through the Machine” (As featured by Gizmodo—link threaded). Again, If you only read one of my stories this year, let it be this one. And if you like it, please share. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
If you’re reading non-fiction for awards consideration (or just want to read a really great book on Eastern storytelling) I highly recommend @henrylienauthor.bsky.social’s SPRING, SUMMER, ASTEROID, BIRD. Should be required reading for both writers and editors. 📚
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
If you’re reading non-fiction for awards consideration (or just want to read a really great book on Eastern storytelling) I highly recommend @henrylienauthor.bsky.social’s SPRING, SUMMER, ASTEROID, BIRD. Should be required reading for both writers and editors. 📚
You’ll take my circular slices from my cold dead hands. 🙂
(Tbh, I’ll, take cranberry sauce be it homemade or canned in any form. But the circular slices remind me of my childhood)
(Tbh, I’ll, take cranberry sauce be it homemade or canned in any form. But the circular slices remind me of my childhood)
Idk who needs to hear this, but you're supposed to take a spoon and break up the can shape. Then, it has a texture closer to homemade cranberry sauce.
Homemade or canned, cranberry sauce is better than dry-ass Turkey and boiled to death veggies.
Homemade or canned, cranberry sauce is better than dry-ass Turkey and boiled to death veggies.
Cranberry sauce straight outta the can is trash—either make a cranberry salad or save that 89 cents, love. We don’t need your ridged cranberry gelatin on the dinner table.
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You’ll take my circular slices from my cold dead hands. 🙂
(Tbh, I’ll, take cranberry sauce be it homemade or canned in any form. But the circular slices remind me of my childhood)
(Tbh, I’ll, take cranberry sauce be it homemade or canned in any form. But the circular slices remind me of my childhood)
I second this because I’ve been catching up too. 😊
I'm currently catching up on my 2025 reading and I just wanted to say well done y'all. I've read so many awesome stories so far and I keep reading more. Banger after banger.
a man in a black vest is pointing at something .
Alt: Han solo in a black vest salutes
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I second this because I’ve been catching up too. 😊
Help Stephen silence his children. If you order now, he’ll even throw in one of my stories for free! (Okay, fine. My story’s already in there, but think of it as a freebie. Who doesn’t like a freebie?)
Because my children are Gen Alpha monsters, they want to know if I've sold 67 copies of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 this month--get it? 6-7 * makes flailing juggling motion and despairs * I'm about 20 copies shy. For Black Friday, want to help an indie publisher pull one over on his kids?
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three: Kotowych, Stephen: 9781738187539: Books - Amazon.ca
a.co
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Help Stephen silence his children. If you order now, he’ll even throw in one of my stories for free! (Okay, fine. My story’s already in there, but think of it as a freebie. Who doesn’t like a freebie?)
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Thanksgiving is almost here, but not quite. Let me help tide you over to the feast with some of my foodie fiction!
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Thanksgiving is almost here, but not quite. Let me help tide you over to the feast with some of my foodie fiction!
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We get the print Onion and honestly the "ads" alone are enough reason to buy a subscription. It's hilarious and very sharp satire all the way through.
Extremely good news: A print subscription for The Onion is very on sale today. You'll get your first copy by Christmas.
It's $75 for a year's worth of newspapers shipped to your real-life mailbox each month.
Get one for yourself, your friends, your family, or your enemies.
membership.theonion.com
It's $75 for a year's worth of newspapers shipped to your real-life mailbox each month.
Get one for yourself, your friends, your family, or your enemies.
membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We get the print Onion and honestly the "ads" alone are enough reason to buy a subscription. It's hilarious and very sharp satire all the way through.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Great news!
It's Black Friday at Dark Matter and it's a good chance to get your copy of Kap's Needle with 15% OFF!
darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...
darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...
Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle
In 2144 AD, the generation ship Kap's Needle left Earth to settle a new world. It all went wrong. Now, two years into a desperate return trip, the ship's biospheres are collapsing and oxygen is nearly...
darkmattermagazine.shop
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Great news!
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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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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
Thanks Renan! That story is especially meaningful to me. If you can only read one thing of mine this year, I hope it’s that one.
Read Patty's work!
(Patty is a must as an author, but Through the Machine is a must in general to understand what AI can do to art!)
(Patty is a must as an author, but Through the Machine is a must in general to understand what AI can do to art!)
I've updated my 2025 awards eligibility post. Also threaded, a little bit about some of my favorite stories I've published this year. One more to come on Dec. 1. As always, you can find links to everything I published this year here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Thanks Renan! That story is especially meaningful to me. If you can only read one thing of mine this year, I hope it’s that one.
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I've updated my 2025 awards eligibility post. Also threaded, a little bit about some of my favorite stories I've published this year. One more to come on Dec. 1. As always, you can find links to everything I published this year here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I've updated my 2025 awards eligibility post. Also threaded, a little bit about some of my favorite stories I've published this year. One more to come on Dec. 1. As always, you can find links to everything I published this year here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...
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A reminder that @henrylienauthor.bsky.social released this book in 2025 and it's a much needed read about exploring other structures for fiction. It's eligible as Best Related Work for the Hugos and Best Non-Fiction for the Locus.
Highly recommend @henrylienauthor.bsky.social's book about Kishōtenketsu (the Japanese name for the classic 4 Act Eastern story structure).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5...
Henry's slim book is concise & entertaining.
Should be in every writer's toolkit!
#writing
bookshop.org/a/102876/978...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5...
Henry's slim book is concise & entertaining.
Should be in every writer's toolkit!
#writing
bookshop.org/a/102876/978...
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A reminder that @henrylienauthor.bsky.social released this book in 2025 and it's a much needed read about exploring other structures for fiction. It's eligible as Best Related Work for the Hugos and Best Non-Fiction for the Locus.
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How Australia’s creative industries defeated the tech giants on AI copyright mumbrella.com.au?p=907958
How Australia's creative industries defeated the tech giants on AI copyright
In August, something remarkable happened on Melbourne talkback radio. Caller after caller phoned in—not about the housing crisis or cost of living, but about copyright law. Specifically, about whether...
mumbrella.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
How Australia’s creative industries defeated the tech giants on AI copyright mumbrella.com.au?p=907958
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Here's my award eligibility post(s) for 2025:
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
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May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
PseudoPod 995: Data Ghost
When the station stats popped up on the screen, the Interface said, Anomalous. Deni batted at their ear and muttered, “No, no, quit it.” In the second cockpit seat, Winnie threw them a look. “What?”…
pseudopod.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Here's my award eligibility post(s) for 2025:
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
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I have a couple of days off of day job later this week. I'll probably get my newsletter out then. Subscribe now to get all the latest info on my debut, fellow debuts, short story recs, and a cute puppy photo!
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Newsletter and Discord - Adria Bailton
Newsletter subscription page
adriabailton.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I have a couple of days off of day job later this week. I'll probably get my newsletter out then. Subscribe now to get all the latest info on my debut, fellow debuts, short story recs, and a cute puppy photo!
adriabailton.com/adria-bailto...
adriabailton.com/adria-bailto...
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I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
I've updated my 2025 awards eligibility post. Also threaded, a little bit about some of my favorite stories I've published this year. One more to come on Dec. 1. As always, you can find links to everything I published this year here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I've updated my 2025 awards eligibility post. Also threaded, a little bit about some of my favorite stories I've published this year. One more to come on Dec. 1. As always, you can find links to everything I published this year here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...
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The old year is dying and the new year struggles to add to your TBR 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️is cosy delicious organising against rapacious space landlords @starsandsabers.bsky.social (Until then get CLUB CONTANGO for the hols!)
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The old year is dying and the new year struggles to add to your TBR 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️is cosy delicious organising against rapacious space landlords @starsandsabers.bsky.social (Until then get CLUB CONTANGO for the hols!)
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
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When FB released its first iPhone app (pre-Android), if you let it have access to your contacts, and then deleted the app, IT WOULD LOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR CONTACTS. Just take the info with it.
This company has always been particularly awful, even amongst tech awfulness.
This company has always been particularly awful, even amongst tech awfulness.
Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
When FB released its first iPhone app (pre-Android), if you let it have access to your contacts, and then deleted the app, IT WOULD LOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR CONTACTS. Just take the info with it.
This company has always been particularly awful, even amongst tech awfulness.
This company has always been particularly awful, even amongst tech awfulness.
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I love that this story is resonating with so many people (and that it’s in such good company here). If you missed it, you can find it here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
I want to take this time to highlight the best #sff and #horror short stories I've read so far this year:
"Echo Syndrome" and "Written on the Subway Walls" by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social
"Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social
(1/2)
#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #specfic #amreading
"Echo Syndrome" and "Written on the Subway Walls" by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social
"Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social
(1/2)
#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #specfic #amreading
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I love that this story is resonating with so many people (and that it’s in such good company here). If you missed it, you can find it here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
I agree with Catherine. These stories make a great double feature. Happy to share a TOC with her.
Come read my TOC-mate's story also out now with Short Édition!!! Coupled with "Lago das Estrelas", you'll get the full range of vibes for your reading today. 😁
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...
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I agree with Catherine. These stories make a great double feature. Happy to share a TOC with her.
I love that this story is resonating with so many people (and that it’s in such good company here). If you missed it, you can find it here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
I want to take this time to highlight the best #sff and #horror short stories I've read so far this year:
"Echo Syndrome" and "Written on the Subway Walls" by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social
"Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social
(1/2)
#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #specfic #amreading
"Echo Syndrome" and "Written on the Subway Walls" by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social
"Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social
(1/2)
#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #specfic #amreading
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I love that this story is resonating with so many people (and that it’s in such good company here). If you missed it, you can find it here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
Reposted by P.A. Cornell (She/Her)
I want to take this time to highlight the best #sff and #horror short stories I've read so far this year:
"Echo Syndrome" and "Written on the Subway Walls" by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social
"Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social
(1/2)
#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #specfic #amreading
"Echo Syndrome" and "Written on the Subway Walls" by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social
"Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social
(1/2)
#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #specfic #amreading
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I want to take this time to highlight the best #sff and #horror short stories I've read so far this year:
"Echo Syndrome" and "Written on the Subway Walls" by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social
"Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social
(1/2)
#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #specfic #amreading
"Echo Syndrome" and "Written on the Subway Walls" by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social
"Through the Machine" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social
(1/2)
#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #specfic #amreading
So sad we won’t be able to read this.
just sent ~270 form rejections for Fantasy Magazine - the mag is closing and issue 100 will not be published
Shingai & I felt this issue would be extremely important, particularly given the state of things in the US and the world
sending warmth & love to folks: keep going, keep shining!❤️🔥
Shingai & I felt this issue would be extremely important, particularly given the state of things in the US and the world
sending warmth & love to folks: keep going, keep shining!❤️🔥
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
So sad we won’t be able to read this.