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P.C. Verrone

@pcverrone.com

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Writer of page & stage. Author of RABBIT, FOX, TAR (Catapult, 2026). Playwright of BAD MEDICINE & CROCODILE DAY (Playscripts, 2023) Lit rep: Alyssa Jennette. pcverrone.com

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · Dec 9

My novel is being published by @catapultbooks.bsky.social! I can’t wait to share this story with you all. 🎉 #BookSky

Publishers Marketplace deal report with this text: Rutgers-Newark MFA graduate and Tin House Resident P.C. Verrone's TAR-BABY, about Baby, a young Black woman who mysteriously arrives in an insular neighborhood, the romance she strikes up with the charismatic politician challenging her white uncle for the open city council seat, and the strange pull she starts to exert over their neighbors, to Alicia Kroell at Catapult, by Alyssa Jennette at Stonesong (NA).

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 10h

Rest in Power, Miss Major ❤️

ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Tonya R. Moore @tonyarmoore.com · 13h

#ICYMI @tco-anthology.bsky.social edited by me, @babblewocky.bsky.social, @emmaliawrites.bsky.social, and @pcverrone.com; to be published by @press-android.bsky.social Kickstarter pre-launch page is up and running: www.kickstarter.com/projects/and... #spreadtheword

Coming soon: The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.

www.kickstarter.com

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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 17h

We did it!!!

Android Press has picked up our upcoming anthology!

Click on link for details about the project, sub calls, who all gone be there, everything!

Coming soon: The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.

www.kickstarter.com

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 17h

We’ve been working around the clock and I’m so glad to share we’ll be launching the Kickstarter for our anthology from @press-android.bsky.social soon, so sign up to make sure you don’t miss it!

The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 17h

THE COOKOUT IS COMING! 👽🧚🏾‍♂️🥘
Our Kickstarter will be launching very soon! In the meantime, please sign up & be the first to know when we go live. It won’t happen without your help, so please share & keep watching this space! @press-android.bsky.social #Blacksky #SFF
www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...

Coming soon: The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.

www.kickstarter.com

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Laura Shamas @laurashamas.bsky.social · 4d

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Trump Declares Columbus Day, Omits Indigenous Peoples’ Day Recognition

The White House on Thursday released a presidential proclamation designating Monday, October 13, 2025, as Columbus Day. In the statement, President Donald J. Trump praised the 15th-century explorer as...

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 11d

📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025.

www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...

Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions

ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: [email protected] THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 9d

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home

Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 9d

My thoughts anytime I see another ad about how I’ll never have to write another heartfelt letter to my mom. Thank goodness, how inconvenient that has been!

An excerpt from a Guardian article about AI and creatives, linked in the first comment.

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Jeanne Brennan @jeanneenabottle.bsky.social · 13d

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 12d

She advocated for creating a better relationship with our world until the day she died! RIP 💚

NPR @npr.org · 13d

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 13d

Submissions for our next unthemed issue are now OPEN 📣
Tell a friend! Everything you need to know is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 13d

I am ecstatic to share that Bad Medicine will be premiering in Santa Fe Playhouse’s and Native Voices’s 2026 Seasons! I’m looking forward to collaborating with some incredible artists that both these theaters to bring this daring, spooky, and Native AF story to the stage. #Theatersky #SpookySeason

Text over orange backdrop: BAD MEDICINE by P.C. Verrone. Santa Fe Playhouse World Premiere with Native Voices

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 14d

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
This day honours and remembers the children who were forced into Canada's Residential School system.
It was first observed as Orange Shirt Day in 2013 and was elevated to a statutory holidy for federal workers in 2021.

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 14d

Orange shirt on for Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Man in an embroidered orange button up shirt sitting in the grass beside a black dog.

P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 18d

Rest in Power, Assata Shakur ✊🏽

Tanisha @tanishaevonne.bsky.social · 18d

Assata Shakur joins the ancestors a free woman. She did not die bound by the carceral system and she did not pass away living in a land that never respected or accepted her.

Assata taught us that liberation can not be bargained for, it must be taken.

Rest Free, Assata.

P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 18d

Who else sees it?

Transphobe Nancy Mace holds us page with anti trans legislation while beating her teeth.

Film still of Chatterer, the toothy cenobite from Hellraiser.

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 19d

This is the one! This is always the one!!’

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 19d

EVERY!! TIME!! along with peek and peak!!!

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 20d

Every time another university wins a case against the Trump administration, I am reminded yet again of the folly of Columbia's effort to strike a "deal."

Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 20d

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 20d

Hi new people 👋🏽
I’m an author, playwright, and educator who writes speculative fiction that celebrates queerness, Blackness & Indigeneity. My debut novel RABBIT, FOX, TAR is coming out next year! You can find my latest stories here ⬇️ and in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social’s upcoming Gods & Monsters issue…

PodCastle 874: The Husband - PodCastle

The Husband By P.C. Verrone He has never taken a man for a wife before. This becomes clear as he introduces me to his other wives. The youngest wife bristles and the wife with the long, dark hair av...

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 20d

The individuals who were shot were detainees, not ICE agents. Let’s get those facts straight as they try to spin this into violence against ICE…

NPR @npr.org · 20d

JUST IN: Authorities are on the scene of a fatal shooting at an ICE detention facility in Dallas.

Fatalities reported during shooting at ICE detention facility in Dallas

Authorities are investigating a shooting Wednesday morning at an immigration detention facility in Dallas. The Department of Homeland Security says there are fatalities and a suspect has died.

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 21d

I’ll take one of each, please!

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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 21d

Who’s ready to write some delicious flash fiction? Choose your path and write something magical, suspenseful, or hilarious. And don’t forget the buttermilk! ⏲️
#WritingPrompt #SFF #Blacksky

Image of biscuits that reads: The Cookout Writing Prompt #1. Your character burnt the biscuits and the guests will be here any minute. Options: 1. Go back in time and fix it? 2. Make magic biscuits? 3. Move the whole house so it take a longer to get there, buying you some time? 4. Other. Special difficulty: tattletale ghost saw the whole thing. 100 words max.

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 22d

Wishing everyone a great Fall.

Cartoon strip that says: “Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.” Pictures show Humpty taking a nice fall walk with leaves falling around him, Humpty carving a jack-o-lantern, Humpty reading by a fireplace with a cat sleeping next to him, and Humpty picking apples.

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 23d

Congrats!!

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