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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 1d

2025 SFPA Poetry Contest Winners

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association has announced the winners of its annual prize for poetry. Poems were judged in three categories, listed below. Dwarf Form (10 or fewer lines): W…

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D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social · 3d

If you'd like review copies of STRANGELOVE COUNTRY (pub. Stalking Horse Press in March) or USURPER (coming from @guidedogbooks.bsky.social and @rdspress.bsky.social in 2026), I have a few left. USURPER is also available for preorder and accessible on @netgalley.bsky.social.

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D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Cliff!

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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 3d

3 best reads 2025. @meerkatpress.bsky.social @rdspress.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @dharlanwilson.bsky.social
shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/...

Want to know Eugen Bacon's Top 3 Books of 2025?

Eugen's top 3 reads of 2025 include Black Apocalypse and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted to publish a marvelous quartet of poems by Paul Stubbs in BIG OTHER today!

bigother.com/2025/10/08/f...

Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Four Poems for High Windows, by Paul Stubbs

The Religious Mood “Where does religious feeling come from? From the fact there is a world.” —Simone Weil —Beginning on the day when, upon a furious terrain, God trialed the first of his swi…

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 7d

In "Bêtes Noires," Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions among the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shape-shifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Read the introduction now for free: buff.ly/FMxVGtA

Cover of Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Lauren Derby. A photograph of a crouching individual holding rope and wearing a covering with horns that hides their face in an empty room. Below the photograph the cover is black with a grey texture. The title appears on top of the photo and texture in a bold white sans-serif type. The subtitle is directly below aligned right in red. The author's name is above to the left of the title in a serif white type.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 7d

New Writers On Film episode a classic #Hitchcock dissected by Jennifer O’Callaghan REAR WINDOW THE MAKING OF A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC IN HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN AGE

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 8d

New @dharlanwilson.bsky.social in the mail today.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 11d

This is gonna be fun! Come hang out with us.

Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 11d

Today! Being Bold: A @sincworldwide.bsky.social Roundtable with me, @gabino.bsky.social & @beaujohnson44.bsky.social
Exploring public personas, social media, strong opinions, owning your unique voice, and writing Noir. Saturday, October 4, 2025
1:00pm ET/12:00pm CT/11:00am MT/10:00am PT

Being Bold
A Roundtable with Christa Faust, Gabino Iglesisas & Beau Johnson.
Exploring public personas, social media, strong opinions, owning your unique voice, and writing Noir. Saturday, October 4, 2025
1:00pm ET/12:00pm CT/11:00am MT/10:00am PT

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Raw Dog Screaming Press @rdspress.bsky.social · 13d

We're heading into October with some great book deals! The Deliciously Twisted Halloween Book Sale kicked off today with some great horror books at steep discounts. twistedtalesbooks.com/halloween/
#TWISTEDBOOKSALE25

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 13d

Via @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "Creature feature buffs will be thrilled." 🦋
www.publishersweekly.com/9781517920012

The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta, Shin'ichiro Nakamura

In the afterword to the first English-language edition of this wonderfully weird 1961 novella that inspired the classic kaiju fi...

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D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social · 14d

So nice to see STRANGELOVE COUNTRY in the @criterion.bsky.social recommended-reading roundup for September.

www.criterion.com/current/post...

Stalking Horse Press (2025)

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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 14d

Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 14d

There’s No Going Back : the Life and Work of Jonathan Demme
Author David M. Stewart is on Writers on Film today
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D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social · 16d

Next year, @guidedogbooks.bsky.social, an imprint of @rdspress.bsky.social, will publish my novel USURPER. In 2009, GDB also published my first scholarly monograph, TECHNOLOGIZED DESIRE, based on my Ph.D. dissertation.

dharlanwilson.com/books/techno...

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 16d

Time to start burning the midnight oil! 🔥🌃💡

There's just TWO DAYS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for September is CANDLELIGHT. You have until the 30th at midnight to submit!

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a black and white photo of a light fixture with a light on

Alt: black and white Victorian gas lamp slowly lighting up

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Raw Dog Screaming Press @rdspress.bsky.social · 16d

Locus Magazine had some great things to say about Sarah Langan's PAM KOWOLSKI IS A MONSTER! It's great to have such an in-depth review that really captured the highlights of the book.
books2read.com/u/mv85Yz

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 16d

Let's focus on supporting each other this year. Indie authors, publishers, magazines & editors need to stay connected! Keep yourself integrated into the SFFH world by reading Locus! Support our nonprofit and help us create the network we all deserve... https://locusmag.com/

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 16d

HERMESLANG by Spyridon St. Kogkas
erratumpress.com/hermeslang

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 16d

preview of an interview for a forthcoming exhibition at the Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library
ansgarallen.substack.com/p/global-ber... #UniversityofVienna #Bernhard

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Guide Dog Books @guidedogbooks.bsky.social · 18d

“TECHNOLOGIZED DESIRE is an ambitious undertaking, analyzing the currents of all these information flows and examining them for patterns and meaning with a keen, postmodern eye." @nyrsf.bsky.social

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@guidedogbooks.bsky.social @rdspress.bsky.social (2009)

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 20d

I'm a professor who writes about Blackness and speculative fiction, also 🌈

My first book is SPECULATIVE BLACKNESS, from @uminnpress.bsky.social

The book I edited is THE BLACK FANTASTIC, from @libraryofamerica.bsky.social

and next year, get
AUDIOFUTURISM, from @fordhampress.bsky.social!

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D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve done several interviews so far for STRANGELOVE COUNTRY. Thanks again to the podcast hosts and journalists who have chatted with me.

dharlanwilson.com/books/strang...

@beyondthezero.bsky.social @projectionbooth.bsky.social @www.johnbleasdale.com

Stalking Horse Press (2025)

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D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social · 23d

BOOK RECEIVED

Scholars interested in reviewing JESUITS IN SF, edited by Richard Feist: please email me at [email protected].

vernonpress.com/book/2044

Vernon Press (2025)

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