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Ruth Joffre
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Author of Night Beast | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective | Instructor at Hugo House & StoryStudio | Editor at Reckoning | Contributing Editor at Copper Nickel | Codex | Queer | Bolivian American

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · Nov 11
I’m told I’m supposed to promote my writing here?? not just post pictures of my dog??? idk seems wrong but I’ll try it

my story collection Night Beast is for fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado

it has: gay sex, sleepwalking, slime molds, soulmate timers & more

bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...
The cover of Night Beast by Ruth Joffre. It has a red background and a shadowy black and white figure of a woman with abstract tentacle things coming out of her head in an art deco style (it actually is an art deco print from like the 1920s). The vibe is spooky sexy
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my writing year in review! a big year for anthologies and branching out into new genres, including my first ever piece of film criticism and my first personal essay about music. I also wrote short stories, flashes, and book reviews—too many to all fit in this one graphic! links below 🧵
Top left: the cover of Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope, an anthology featuring my time-travel novelette “Pachacuti" Top center: the cover of Latin American Shared Stories, an anthology featuring my short story “La Diablada” Top right: the cover of A Chorus Divergent, an anthology featuring my short story “Icediver” Middle left: the cover of the issue of Three-Lobed Burning Eye including my short story “First Ascent” Middle center: text reading “2025 in writing” Middle right: my story “Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush” published in audio and written forms in PodCastle Bottom left: two stacked copies of the Orion magazine issue featuring my short essay “Hear the Andes” Bottom center: my essay, “Two Strikes Against Us,” a review of the film Stand and Deliver, published in Bright Wall/Dark Room Bottom right: my flash “One of the Lies I Tell My Children (# 23)” as it appears in Necessary Fiction @mouthfeelpress.bsky.social @reckoningmag.bsky.social @3lobedmag.com @podcastle.org @orionmagazine.bsky.social @brightwalldarkroom.com @necessaryfiction.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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hey I'm teaching two online classes at Hugo House in the spring and if you register by 12/14 you can get the early bird discount

Speculative Fiction Intensive: hugohouse.org/product/spec...

Intro to Publishing Short Work: hugohouse.org/product/intr...
A flyer for Speculative Fiction Intensive with Ruth Joffre. Online / All levels / 16 sessions, Tuesday January 27 to May 26, 5 - 7 PM (Pacific) or 7 - 9 PM (Central). Underneath all the details, there is an image of a waterfall flowing off an island floating in the sky A flyer for Intro to Publishing Short Work with Ruth Joffre. Online / All levels / 2 sessions, Saturday March 14 & March 21, 1:10 - 3:10 PM (Pacific) or 3:10 - 5:10 PM (Central). Underneath all the details, there's an image of three corgis looking super short and cute.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
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December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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contract signed! so happy that my weird little cryptid story “The Jelly Heart” will appear in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social next year 💙
ruthjoffre.bsky.social Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 2d
y'all are not going to believe this but in the middle of typing up my year end writing recap I got an acceptance for a short story! talk about a coincidence!!!
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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listened to an excellent poetry reading while baking this focaccia. a wonderful way to spend a Sunday evening!
The bubbly golden brown top of a freshly baked loaf of focaccia
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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my writing year in review! a big year for anthologies and branching out into new genres, including my first ever piece of film criticism and my first personal essay about music. I also wrote short stories, flashes, and book reviews—too many to all fit in this one graphic! links below 🧵
Top left: the cover of Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope, an anthology featuring my time-travel novelette “Pachacuti" Top center: the cover of Latin American Shared Stories, an anthology featuring my short story “La Diablada” Top right: the cover of A Chorus Divergent, an anthology featuring my short story “Icediver” Middle left: the cover of the issue of Three-Lobed Burning Eye including my short story “First Ascent” Middle center: text reading “2025 in writing” Middle right: my story “Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush” published in audio and written forms in PodCastle Bottom left: two stacked copies of the Orion magazine issue featuring my short essay “Hear the Andes” Bottom center: my essay, “Two Strikes Against Us,” a review of the film Stand and Deliver, published in Bright Wall/Dark Room Bottom right: my flash “One of the Lies I Tell My Children (# 23)” as it appears in Necessary Fiction @mouthfeelpress.bsky.social @reckoningmag.bsky.social @3lobedmag.com @podcastle.org @orionmagazine.bsky.social @brightwalldarkroom.com @necessaryfiction.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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y'all are not going to believe this but in the middle of typing up my year end writing recap I got an acceptance for a short story! talk about a coincidence!!!
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I stayed up too late reading and now I'm sleepy and useless: a memoir
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Just spent this flight home finishing MEET ME AT THE CROSSROADS by @megiddings.bsky.social and sobbing openly in my seat. Incredible book, highly recommend if you want to be cut open (complimentary).
the moody green with bits of black and orangy-red cover of MEET ME AT THE CROSSROADS by Megan Giddings
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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tapping the sign
a grainy image of john waters saying "remember, pornographers have always been on our side. Brave, ready to fight for our rights. Smut is our friend."
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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This is our award eligibility post for 2025. We published 18 short stories this year, and love every one of them. We hope you gave them a read, were suitably haunted, and will give each one consideration. And maybe the magazine too.
Graphic with there cover designs that reads: Three-Lobed Burning Eye 2025 Award Eligibility, Short Fiction and lists the following: Issue 44 “Old Wells” by Thomas Ha “First Ascent” by Ruth Joffre “The Ballad of Easy Deaths” by Steve Toase “The Thing That Ate Itself” by Aliya Whiteley “Homicidal Maps” by Joe Koch “The Bathers” by Eugenia Triantafyllou Issue 45 “The Interior” by Christi Nogle “The Barrens” by Octavia Cade “Her Shadow, Nailed to the Floor” by A.C. Wise “Without Sunsets or Snow” by Mari Ness “Nacre” by E. Catherine Tobler “The Heart is Hungry Above All Things” by Avra Margariti Issue 46 “Belly Full of Eyes” by K.S. Walker “The Subject” by Brian Evenson “Untitled #5” by Nadia Bulkin “For When the Night is Behind You…” by Corey Farrenkopf “Songs Never Sung” by Premee Mohamed “The Somnambulist” by Katie McIvor
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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it's here! my year-end writing p—wait a minute *checks notes* apologies. these are just photos of my dog. I don't know how that happened *cough* (yes I do. please enjoy)
Eight of my favorite photos of Shadow from this year. He is a large black dog with spotted white paws, and I need you to understand that he is my world. He is everything. I would die for him. Also he's beautiful. Top left: Shadow holding a brightly colored rope toy in his mouth Top middle: Shadow lying on his side on a wood floor, his ears up and his nose pointed at a large tennis ball Top right: Shadow watching me cook from his vantage point under the kitchen table Center left: Shadow rolling joyously in the grass Center middle: "2025 in Shadow" Center right: Shadow lying on the grass with his tongue hanging out as he looks at something off camera Bottom left: Shadow wearing a human shirt and absolutely fucking loving it Bottom center: Big yawn!!! Bottom left: Shadow licking snowflakes off his nose
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.

It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
streetroots.bsky.social Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 18d
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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my longest title is “Observations on the Strange Occurrences at the Stables of the Macha'cuay School of Magic”
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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me, editing one of my stories: make it gayer! gayer!!! GAYER!!!!!!
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The perfect merx story premise doesn't exi- Can't wait to read this in @reckoningmag.bsky.social
ruthjoffre.bsky.social Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 8d
out now! my mermaid story about a woman who goes to repair a subsea fiber-optic cable and stumbles upon a mer society, which may or may not have some answers about her absent father, available online and in a gorgeous print anthology from @reckoningmag.bsky.social
cgaubrey.bsky.social 🍄 C.G. Aubrey🍂 @cgaubrey.bsky.social · 8d
New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "Icediver". This atmospheric short story by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social takes us beneath a cold, dark sea in one woman's emotional quest for answers and a sense of belonging.
reckoning.press/icediver/
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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my baby loves the snow ❄️
A large black dog lying in the snow and licking snowflakes off his nose
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾

Includes numerous CREATURES.

inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...

#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
Cover featuring a drawing of a person with long brown hair, wearing a yellow baseball cap that reads "ACE" and a purple t-shirt. Glowing cracks cover their forehead and eyes, and plants with small green leaves and purple flower buds are emerging from the cracks.
November 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Inner Worlds is out!! My (t4t love story) of two queers healing from loss with the help of a strange octopus/alien? creature that gives them otherworldly dreams is free to read today :') & so many other creature stories! Would be so thankful if you read some 💜 🐙 inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-to-s...
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Just in time for the holiday weekend, my 10 favorite short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from October. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: October 2025 - Reactor
This month's short fiction recommendations include ghosts and grief, recipes and multiverses...
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚

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50% off ebooks the world SALE kinda half-assed and barely visible use code UGHFINE
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Featuring stories from @ammansabet.bsky.social, @apexmag.bsky.social, @augursociety.bsky.social, @reactorsff.bsky.social, @thedeadlands.com, @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social, @onspecmag.bsky.social, @reckoningmag.bsky.social, and Fantasy Magazine
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM