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Maria Haskins
@mariahaskins.com
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Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Editor at Ruadán Books. Part of Many Worlds. She/her. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Deadlands & more. 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · Oct 11
I write speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror & points in-between), and I also write reviews & essays.

My short fiction is available in two short story collections:

🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a...

🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...
Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories
Available now! Buy Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories: Paperback & ebook from JournalStone Paperback & ebook from Amazon  Paperback & ebook from Indiebound / B&N…
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 5h
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h
I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25
"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor." "This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 8h
The Ember Award for Unsung Contributions to Genre goes to @soniasulaiman.bsky.social
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2025 Winner The Ember Award: Sonia Sulaiman
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 8h
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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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 8h
The #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Fiction Podcast goes to @podcastle.org
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2025 Winner Outstanding Fiction Podcast: Podcastle (featuring PodCastle.org's logo of a castle and dragon)
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 8h
@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story
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2025 Winner Outstanding Short Story: WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ by Caroline M. Yoachim
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 8h
@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
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2025 Winner Outstanding Novelette: WE WHO WILL NOT DIE by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 8h
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com
2025 Winner Outstanding Novella: LOST ARK DREAMING by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel - Young Adult is HEIR by Sabaa Tahir
2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Young Adult: HEIR by Sabaa Tahir
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h
We'll give you a bit to get settled in by highlighting this year's trophy artwork by @nilahmagruder.com
Artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile in a round, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 9h
Oh, hello
"2025 Winners Announcement" with Ignyte Awards logo overlayed on artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.
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Lady of Impatience @ladyoi.bsky.social · 20h
The black swan
Eingerollte schwarze galga im Bett
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Nathan Hamelberg @nathanhamelberg.bsky.social · 13h
Säkert rätt stökiga efterfester här:
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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 11h
THIS. find your best time to create and protect that time. for me, it’s very early while everyone is asleep and my mind is a clean slate. yes, I can write in the afternoon, but I have to sort through noisy brain and it’s harder to block out distractions. everyone is different. experiment!
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12h
I think one of the big things I've learned in my writerly life (which always has to fight for space and time with the rest of my life) is to protect the hours when I do my best writing (right after breakfast) from all other demands.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 11h
I can write reviews and other non-fic stuff and do editing and all that any time of day, really, even with distractions. But for the story writing? The best time is the morning when the dog has had his walk, my care-giving isn't usually needed, and the birds have already been fed and entertained.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12h
It's freaking hard and not always possible to protect those hours, but knowing that 2 hours of work at that time are better than 8 hours later in the day has helped me immensely.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12h
I think one of the big things I've learned in my writerly life (which always has to fight for space and time with the rest of my life) is to protect the hours when I do my best writing (right after breakfast) from all other demands.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 12h
😈 Happy Sinday! 😈
life got you down? life hold no meaning anymore? have you tried SINNING? [illustration of a man in a robe smoking a pipe. the man has horns and black eyes and is smiling.] THE ORIGINAL * GOOD FOR THE BODY * GOOD FOR THE SOUL
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 15h
When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift
reviewed by Paul March-Russell

The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
reviewed by Electra Pritchett

It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey
reviewed by Hana Carolina

Link to the latest issue in our bio!

#fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #horror #sff #bookreviews
Left cover of When There are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift featuring a wolf with young sparse trees growing in front of it. Right REVIEWS Quote "In the current context of ultra-right-wing politics masquerading as patriotism and social media-fuelled conspiracy theories parading as truth, Swift’s liberal, democratic, multicultural, and inclusive politics strike this reader as radical." reviewer: Paul March-Russell 6 October 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott featuring two small figures walking down a road lined with large humanoid animal stature on each side leading to a large fortress with three huge spires. Right REVIEWS Quote "Dense but never overwhelming, compact but never too brief, richly detailed and imaginatively constructed, queer-inclusive and sensitive to the ways in which society masks and justifies injustices along other lines, this novel makes a thrilling read..." reviewer: Electra Pritchett 6 October 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey featuring a red double keyboard piano on fire with solid yellow smoke rising from it with strange symbols and markings at the edges. Right REVIEWS Quote "Readers expecting a traditional genre experience may be thrown off—but for those attuned to its wavelength, it’s a striking, generous, and at times exhilarating act of cultural resistance." reviewer: Hana Carolina 6 October 2025 Strange Horizons
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 12h
Luffy. Crown of Thorns
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 15h
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d
Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn.

The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time.

"People can be fun loving people and still protest."

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 16h
“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”
No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.
A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
We will need Nuremberg-like trials
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d
ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

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Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 1d
A protester in an inflatable frog costume with a blue cape standing in front of a line of armed police officers with shields. The caption says "I have frogs everywhere"
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