Jenna Hanchey
@jennahanchey.bsky.social
"Badass fairy." BSFA nominated fiction. Ignyte & BF nominated narration. Collage artist. Podcast host. Poetry ed. Prof of Rhetoric & Critical/Cultural Studies. Writing on decolonial dreamwork & African SF & land & kinship. she/her. https://jennahanchey.com
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Aw thanks for asking! I've spent the past few years turning to collaging in times of overwhelming grief or fear or pain, when I couldn't form words of my own. I didn't realize they might speak to others, too -- so I was really excited when Worlds of Possibility published "After" as a collage poem ✨
This is, I suppose, the one award-worthy thing I have for your consideration this year. A mystical, grief-laden, yet imminently hopeful poem in collage form
@sameemwrites.com's beautiful and slowly heart-rending "Driver" is in here, as well!!
Really pleased to get my contributor copies for the new THINK WEIRDER anthology, put together by Joe Stech. My story ‘Best Practices for Safe Asteroid Handling’, first published in Analog magazine, appears alongside stories from a host of industry legends and fellow new writers. thinkweirder.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@sameemwrites.com's beautiful and slowly heart-rending "Driver" is in here, as well!!
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"What I like most about the speculative is the joy... The exuberance, the joie de lire, the fucking about. It’s such a fun form to work in. You can free yourselves to any degree that you please from constraints that otherwise tend to be invisibly ubiquitous, such as physics, location, and selfhood."
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
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November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"What I like most about the speculative is the joy... The exuberance, the joie de lire, the fucking about. It’s such a fun form to work in. You can free yourselves to any degree that you please from constraints that otherwise tend to be invisibly ubiquitous, such as physics, location, and selfhood."
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Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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Just the one thing published this year. So far.
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People are doing year wrap-ups already (give December a chance, people!) buuuut I'm curious -- What's the thing that's most dear to you that you've published this year and why?
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just the one thing published this year. So far.
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Definitely "Drosera regina," about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant.
It was published in Lightspeed and then in Gizmodo for Halloween: gizmodo.com/a-woman-hide...
It was published in Lightspeed and then in Gizmodo for Halloween: gizmodo.com/a-woman-hide...
A Monstrously Alluring Secret Comes to Light in This Eerie Short Story
October's Lightspeed short story is 'Drosera regina' by A.L. Goldfuss, and it's perfect Halloween reading.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Definitely "Drosera regina," about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant.
It was published in Lightspeed and then in Gizmodo for Halloween: gizmodo.com/a-woman-hide...
It was published in Lightspeed and then in Gizmodo for Halloween: gizmodo.com/a-woman-hide...
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New to all this and I got my first four acceptances in the last two months but I believe only one will be published in 2025 on Dec 26 so it’ll have to be my favorite of the year 😂 (I do really like it though, it’s about heritage speakers and a rip in spacetime and moral injury)
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
New to all this and I got my first four acceptances in the last two months but I believe only one will be published in 2025 on Dec 26 so it’ll have to be my favorite of the year 😂 (I do really like it though, it’s about heritage speakers and a rip in spacetime and moral injury)
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A series of 4 stories (2 out, 2 soon; 3 short, 1 novelette; 2 in BCS, 2 in Lightspeed) about Ander Carmora, a disillusioned tithe collector raised in church schools and cut off from his family history, grappling with complicity, sexuality, the hollowness of absolution, the weight and use of memory.
Ninnagan Says Remember - Lightspeed Magazine
A decade since the Fivefold Church conquered the mile-high godpines and hanged their priests, settlements picked at the trunks like termites. Each godpine’s felling had shivered faraway cities to thei...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A series of 4 stories (2 out, 2 soon; 3 short, 1 novelette; 2 in BCS, 2 in Lightspeed) about Ander Carmora, a disillusioned tithe collector raised in church schools and cut off from his family history, grappling with complicity, sexuality, the hollowness of absolution, the weight and use of memory.
Heartbreaking reports out of Tanzania
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent
Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed.
Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC
Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent
Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed.
Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Heartbreaking reports out of Tanzania
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Different pen name, but this was absolutely a favorite vanity project that also felt like it meant something:
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Different pen name, but this was absolutely a favorite vanity project that also felt like it meant something:
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For me, it's “Barbershops of the Floating City” in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social because I write a lot of dark fiction, but this was the first time I completely rewrote an ending because I wanted so badly for the characters to have a better chance at living.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
Barbershops of the Floating City - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: child abuse You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks u...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
For me, it's “Barbershops of the Floating City” in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social because I write a lot of dark fiction, but this was the first time I completely rewrote an ending because I wanted so badly for the characters to have a better chance at living.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
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Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.
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This is like choosing a favourite child but I have to go with “The Seeds of Monstrous and Beautiful Things,” my science-fantasy story about a crashed space witch, a garden of carnivorous plants, and a young girl who thinks she might be something monstrous.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is like choosing a favourite child but I have to go with “The Seeds of Monstrous and Beautiful Things,” my science-fantasy story about a crashed space witch, a garden of carnivorous plants, and a young girl who thinks she might be something monstrous.
www.adastrasf.com/the-seeds-of...
www.adastrasf.com/the-seeds-of...
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For me, it's "Arachnomorphosis" in Strange Horizons, a story about turning into a spider that is really all about mental health and love and getting through hard times. It's also a love letter to San Francisco.
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Arachnomorphosis
The city is no place for a spider.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
For me, it's "Arachnomorphosis" in Strange Horizons, a story about turning into a spider that is really all about mental health and love and getting through hard times. It's also a love letter to San Francisco.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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My story collection Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, which contains some stories, imo, that do things I haven't seen other SF&F stories do: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My story collection Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, which contains some stories, imo, that do things I haven't seen other SF&F stories do: wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
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Also, this one, because my anger needed a vent and found the art of poetry to help it along.
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Art for the Times We’re In
It’s January 2025, and the year has already started off rough. Bitterly cold, more snow than we probably need, and a certain person is now president of the United States. Again. Also, one of …
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November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Also, this one, because my anger needed a vent and found the art of poetry to help it along.
acooksbooks.com/2025/01/22/a...
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Nobody bought any of my stories or poems this year (probably because I stopped submitting a lot of them a while ago). Anyway, here's a poem I published on my blog that will win no awards, but that still resonates with me all these months later.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Nobody bought any of my stories or poems this year (probably because I stopped submitting a lot of them a while ago). Anyway, here's a poem I published on my blog that will win no awards, but that still resonates with me all these months later.
acooksbooks.com/2025/02/11/a...
acooksbooks.com/2025/02/11/a...
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supongo que compartir algo que has autopublicado es hacer trampas, pero el artículo que escribí a la muerte de David Lynch me salió del alma y admito que estoy bastante orgulloso de él.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
supongo que compartir algo que has autopublicado es hacer trampas, pero el artículo que escribí a la muerte de David Lynch me salió del alma y admito que estoy bastante orgulloso de él.
open.substack.com/pub/pnakotic...
open.substack.com/pub/pnakotic...
This is, I suppose, the one award-worthy thing I have for your consideration this year. A mystical, grief-laden, yet imminently hopeful poem in collage form
Aw thanks for asking! I've spent the past few years turning to collaging in times of overwhelming grief or fear or pain, when I couldn't form words of my own. I didn't realize they might speak to others, too -- so I was really excited when Worlds of Possibility published "After" as a collage poem ✨
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is, I suppose, the one award-worthy thing I have for your consideration this year. A mystical, grief-laden, yet imminently hopeful poem in collage form
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Always a tough call but I think Powerhouse bc it was written this year, first thing I’ve written to pitch/contract. Like pulling teeth TBH! Capturing teen voice was /hard/ & I ended up like a month past deadline due to a death in the family. Extremely cursed story/anthology: bsky.app/profile/kaie...
All the 🖤 to @factorfourmagazine.com Ansible Press @blackcatbooks.bsky.social @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social PULPHOUSE(x2) @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for giving 🇨🇦weird SFF/H a home in 2025 (it's been a whirlwind few months~)
Read/links: kaie.space/standalones
Details in 🧵
Read/links: kaie.space/standalones
Details in 🧵
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Always a tough call but I think Powerhouse bc it was written this year, first thing I’ve written to pitch/contract. Like pulling teeth TBH! Capturing teen voice was /hard/ & I ended up like a month past deadline due to a death in the family. Extremely cursed story/anthology: bsky.app/profile/kaie...
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Cheating and picking two:
1) the foreword to Thomas Ha’s UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, because I love the stories and it was great to work with Thomas and Michael at Undertow.
2) “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”, because it’s kind of a précis of everything I’ve been doing.
1) the foreword to Thomas Ha’s UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, because I love the stories and it was great to work with Thomas and Michael at Undertow.
2) “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”, because it’s kind of a précis of everything I’ve been doing.
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Cheating and picking two:
1) the foreword to Thomas Ha’s UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, because I love the stories and it was great to work with Thomas and Michael at Undertow.
2) “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”, because it’s kind of a précis of everything I’ve been doing.
1) the foreword to Thomas Ha’s UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, because I love the stories and it was great to work with Thomas and Michael at Undertow.
2) “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”, because it’s kind of a précis of everything I’ve been doing.
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We published POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) by Melissa Scott! Thrilled to release a new novel in this beloved gay fantasy series by terrific authors! It also makes the Astreiant Series eligible for the Hugo’s Best Series category queenofswordspress.com/product/poin...
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We published POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) by Melissa Scott! Thrilled to release a new novel in this beloved gay fantasy series by terrific authors! It also makes the Astreiant Series eligible for the Hugo’s Best Series category queenofswordspress.com/product/poin...
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Definitely ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! Editing this project was such a powerful joy, especially right now, and I’m honored by all the amazing writers & translators who contributed and entrusted me with their stories.
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bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Definitely ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! Editing this project was such a powerful joy, especially right now, and I’m honored by all the amazing writers & translators who contributed and entrusted me with their stories.
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
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Without a doubt, it's As A Kang Should Be from @obversebooks.co.uk: I've had a busy year this year, but this one felt like lots of things came together to make this a fun book to write that was perfectly in my wheelhouse but also needed to exist in this moment. obversebooks.co.uk/product/para...
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Without a doubt, it's As A Kang Should Be from @obversebooks.co.uk: I've had a busy year this year, but this one felt like lots of things came together to make this a fun book to write that was perfectly in my wheelhouse but also needed to exist in this moment. obversebooks.co.uk/product/para...
So excited for this!!
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
So excited for this!!