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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 5d

would be great to see more countries doing something similar

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Three Years After Trial Launch, Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent

Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026.

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 5d

Millie has never looked so pleased with herself.

A black and white tuxedo cat lounges smugly and decadently on a pillow in a sunspot.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 8d

Props to Benjamin for sharing the details of his contract. Unfortunately no props to MRM because there's a lot of extremely outre stuff in here that I'd refuse to sign. Let's run it down. (Context: If you're negotiating a contract with Strange Horizons, I'm the person you're negotiating with.)

Benjamin C. Kinney @benjaminckinney.com · 8d

New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher.

Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.

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Analog Negotiations & Short Story Sale: Recognition, Memory » Benjamin C. Kinney - still pruning...

Successful negotiations with Must Read Magazines & Analog SF, who will publish my science fiction short story "Recognition, Memory."

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 7d

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who submitted 🎉 stay tuned - winners to be announced next week 👀

Check out #AugurMicros2025 to read the AWESOME subs!

Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Augur Microfiction Contest is BACK for 2025 🏆 until Sep 30!

THE THEME: We want microfiction that bursts open the futures we need to see 🌌 show us the who/what/where of your tomorrows!

More info below ⬇️ and in our bio!

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11d

hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
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Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 12d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social · 13d

🪲 “As the Earth Dreams offers a distinctly Canadian vision of Black life that is as lush and expansive as it is tender and rooted.” —The Walrus

🌀 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

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Vanessa Jae @vanessajae.bsky.social · 12d

Hey guys, @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social only needs a little bit more to reach their fundraising goal. They pay pro rates for fiction and $100 (!!!) for poetry and authors get an amazing piece of art for their published work
www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher

For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 13d

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 19d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 22d

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 22d

Sunsets, I love you 💕

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 24d

"One of us always lies and the other always tells the truth. You must solve our riddle to pass" 😆💙

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 26d

I really do recommend writing poetry, because if you write it (even if you aren't satisfied with your own poems as: whom amongst us) you will start to _read_ other people's poetry with more excitement and focus and appreciation, and that is a joy.

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Erin Wraithburn 👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 25d

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail."

Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 26d

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.

www.newyorker.com

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 26d

Seems like a good time to remind people that Canada Post will deliver any piece of mail to federal elected officials for FREE.

No stamp necessary!

Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 26d

I understand the desire to run solicitation-based magazines. Submissions are exhausting, a core burnout driver.

But without subs-based mags, there’d be no one new to solicit 👀✨

The work doesn’t go away—it is redirected to other editors in the ecosystem, who are critical to finding new writers.

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · Sep 14

I WANT TO READ YOUR POEMS!! Give me all your spec poetry with established relationships. My (extremely flexible) wish list:
💜Aro/Ace QPRs
🌌Cosmic Phenomena
🫀Cannibalism (IYKYK)

Subs are open until Sept 30!

Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · Sep 14

The search is ooooooooooover!

We're delighted to announce that @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social is our new Poetry Editor! She'll be working with Jess to finish out the issue.

Look how judgey that bonus editor is! You definitely want to impress them by sending your weirdest, best poetry.

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Nicole Munro (is writing; on hiatus) @nmunrowrites.bsky.social · 26d

✨ 1 more week to go for submissions at @heartlines-spec.com ✨

Send us your SPEC fiction WITH a long-term relationship (familial or platonic or romantic)!

Be sure to read the full guidelines here: www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Happy writing! ✍️
#sff #spec #fantasy #scifi

Submission Guidelines

Learn all about our submissions guidelines, what we're looking for, and our payment details

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 27d

Everything becoming privately owned and for profit is one of the things 80s/90s dystopian SF seems to have gotten right.

How fucking bleak.

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NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations

The International Space Station has hosted astronauts and spacefarers continually for 25 years.

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House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social · 28d

AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social), is a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers.

🔗 AS THE EARTH DREAMS is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 29d

If you want in-person editing feedback, sign up for the Blue Pencil Cafe with @rebecca-b.bsky.social.

Plus she'll be at the 'How to Start a Magazine and Keep Your Mind Intact' panel (where she'll be laughing through the tears) and moderating 'Best Friends on a Long Arc'

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 29d

Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social's schedule is officially out!

Heartlines will be stationed in the vendor room for the weekend! Come say hi and talk about short fiction!

www.can-con.org/events/live-...

Live Can*Con — Can*Con

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · Sep 21

Working on edits for a short story and slowly realizing that I'm probably going to have to change the POV character to make it work how I want......😩

Top 10 writing betrayals.