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Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
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It’s that time of year! Here are my award eligible poems and short stories published in 2025. Thank you! I’m grateful for any and all consideration. ❤️
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December 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It’s that time of year! Here are my award eligible poems and short stories published in 2025. Thank you! I’m grateful for any and all consideration. ❤️
@strangehorizons.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social
@crayfishmag.bsky.social
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Maybe your day could use something pretty?
"The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician" appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social last year, and it's a poem I'm incredibly proud of.
If you haven't read it, you're in luck:
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"The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician" appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social last year, and it's a poem I'm incredibly proud of.
If you haven't read it, you're in luck:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician - Uncanny Magazine
Your magick is this: kindness and shadow, fireflies of hope burning like embers— everything you touch signs a raven song, a fairytale, a reminde...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Maybe your day could use something pretty?
"The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician" appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social last year, and it's a poem I'm incredibly proud of.
If you haven't read it, you're in luck:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
"The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician" appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social last year, and it's a poem I'm incredibly proud of.
If you haven't read it, you're in luck:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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ICYMI
my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social debut will go live on their site December 2 or it’s available right the fuck now if you buy the current issue (67) or subscribe! I wrote an essay about xmas horror movies and a percieved shift from societal horror to the aesthetic of the fantastic.
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my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social debut will go live on their site December 2 or it’s available right the fuck now if you buy the current issue (67) or subscribe! I wrote an essay about xmas horror movies and a percieved shift from societal horror to the aesthetic of the fantastic.
Pass it on
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
ICYMI
my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social debut will go live on their site December 2 or it’s available right the fuck now if you buy the current issue (67) or subscribe! I wrote an essay about xmas horror movies and a percieved shift from societal horror to the aesthetic of the fantastic.
Pass it on
my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social debut will go live on their site December 2 or it’s available right the fuck now if you buy the current issue (67) or subscribe! I wrote an essay about xmas horror movies and a percieved shift from societal horror to the aesthetic of the fantastic.
Pass it on
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Also while I'm here giving reading recs, this month's @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is absolute fire. Anémona by Ana Hurtado, And on Their Graves a Fall of Angels by Natalia Theodoridou, and Thicker by Eleanna Castroianni are some of the absolute best of 2025
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Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Seven - Uncanny Magazine
Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Seven! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on November 4, 2025. The free online content will be released in two stag...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Also while I'm here giving reading recs, this month's @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is absolute fire. Anémona by Ana Hurtado, And on Their Graves a Fall of Angels by Natalia Theodoridou, and Thicker by Eleanna Castroianni are some of the absolute best of 2025
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The archive of past @uncannymagazine.bsky.social interviews is here:
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November 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The archive of past @uncannymagazine.bsky.social interviews is here:
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Reading stories for print interviews in the Jan/Feb issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social...which kicks off my 9th (!!!) year as Uncanny Magazine's interviewer!
Grateful to have had the opportunity to chat with so many fabulous authors about ideas, influences, & writing process over the years! :)
Grateful to have had the opportunity to chat with so many fabulous authors about ideas, influences, & writing process over the years! :)
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reading stories for print interviews in the Jan/Feb issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social...which kicks off my 9th (!!!) year as Uncanny Magazine's interviewer!
Grateful to have had the opportunity to chat with so many fabulous authors about ideas, influences, & writing process over the years! :)
Grateful to have had the opportunity to chat with so many fabulous authors about ideas, influences, & writing process over the years! :)
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November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Small business Saturday, you say? Consider supporting FIYAH as we approach year ten of publishing Black SFF stories and poetry! Back issues, art, gift subscriptions, merch, and more! Tell a friend, you never know who is missing out 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/
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2!
“Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan” marked the first time I was shortlisted for an award. Also reprinted in BASFF and Best British Fantasy.
Fun fact: Manumitted slaves often chose surnames based on their trades. John Wood was a carpenter.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvZ...
“Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan” marked the first time I was shortlisted for an award. Also reprinted in BASFF and Best British Fantasy.
Fun fact: Manumitted slaves often chose surnames based on their trades. John Wood was a carpenter.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvZ...
Pay Me My Money Down - Georgia Sea Island Singers
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November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
2!
“Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan” marked the first time I was shortlisted for an award. Also reprinted in BASFF and Best British Fantasy.
Fun fact: Manumitted slaves often chose surnames based on their trades. John Wood was a carpenter.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvZ...
“Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan” marked the first time I was shortlisted for an award. Also reprinted in BASFF and Best British Fantasy.
Fun fact: Manumitted slaves often chose surnames based on their trades. John Wood was a carpenter.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvZ...
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5!
“The Calcified Heart of Saint Ignace Battiste:” inspired by an 11 day stint in Glasgow Royal Infirmary for hypercalcaemia. GRI looks out onto the cathedral and necropolis.
Fun fact: i didn’t know about Percy Shelley’s heart when I wrote this.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZ1...
“The Calcified Heart of Saint Ignace Battiste:” inspired by an 11 day stint in Glasgow Royal Infirmary for hypercalcaemia. GRI looks out onto the cathedral and necropolis.
Fun fact: i didn’t know about Percy Shelley’s heart when I wrote this.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZ1...
ALA.NI - Darkness at Noon (Official Video)
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November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
5!
“The Calcified Heart of Saint Ignace Battiste:” inspired by an 11 day stint in Glasgow Royal Infirmary for hypercalcaemia. GRI looks out onto the cathedral and necropolis.
Fun fact: i didn’t know about Percy Shelley’s heart when I wrote this.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZ1...
“The Calcified Heart of Saint Ignace Battiste:” inspired by an 11 day stint in Glasgow Royal Infirmary for hypercalcaemia. GRI looks out onto the cathedral and necropolis.
Fun fact: i didn’t know about Percy Shelley’s heart when I wrote this.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZ1...
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6!
“If Salt Lose its Savor” is about the cost of doing the right thing.
Fun fact: the reason that there was only one client for the salt is because the empire the Beaucourt served had crushed or subsumed any competing clients
Song Pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHOg...
“If Salt Lose its Savor” is about the cost of doing the right thing.
Fun fact: the reason that there was only one client for the salt is because the empire the Beaucourt served had crushed or subsumed any competing clients
Song Pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHOg...
Mahalia Jackson - Trouble of the World (Audio)
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November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
6!
“If Salt Lose its Savor” is about the cost of doing the right thing.
Fun fact: the reason that there was only one client for the salt is because the empire the Beaucourt served had crushed or subsumed any competing clients
Song Pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHOg...
“If Salt Lose its Savor” is about the cost of doing the right thing.
Fun fact: the reason that there was only one client for the salt is because the empire the Beaucourt served had crushed or subsumed any competing clients
Song Pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHOg...
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Call and Response Fun Fact Countdown! 10!
We open with “Femme and Sundance,” queer hustlers turned bank robbers with magical complications.
Fun Fact: the diner in the opening, mean patrons, nasty bathroom, and all resembles a real one in Nebraska.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=q3es...
We open with “Femme and Sundance,” queer hustlers turned bank robbers with magical complications.
Fun Fact: the diner in the opening, mean patrons, nasty bathroom, and all resembles a real one in Nebraska.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=q3es...
Orville Peck - Dead of Night [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Call and Response Fun Fact Countdown! 10!
We open with “Femme and Sundance,” queer hustlers turned bank robbers with magical complications.
Fun Fact: the diner in the opening, mean patrons, nasty bathroom, and all resembles a real one in Nebraska.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=q3es...
We open with “Femme and Sundance,” queer hustlers turned bank robbers with magical complications.
Fun Fact: the diner in the opening, mean patrons, nasty bathroom, and all resembles a real one in Nebraska.
Song pairing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=q3es...
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I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤
#art #painting #portrait #illustration
#art #painting #portrait #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤
#art #painting #portrait #illustration
#art #painting #portrait #illustration
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THE YEAR WITHOUT SUNSHINE by @naomikritzer.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
THE YEAR WITHOUT SUNSHINE by @naomikritzer.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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"The Millay Illusion," by @sarahpinsker.bsky.social.
This was a magical story, and I would have happily spent way more time with Lottie and Susanna.
#labyrinthratreads2025
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This was a magical story, and I would have happily spent way more time with Lottie and Susanna.
#labyrinthratreads2025
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The Millay Illusion - Uncanny Magazine
For the whole of the year that I now look back on as the best of my life, Susanna Miller’s act began twenty-three minutes after mine ended. I went first, to warm up the crowd, followed by the dog trai...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"The Millay Illusion," by @sarahpinsker.bsky.social.
This was a magical story, and I would have happily spent way more time with Lottie and Susanna.
#labyrinthratreads2025
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This was a magical story, and I would have happily spent way more time with Lottie and Susanna.
#labyrinthratreads2025
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"Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War," by @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social is a neat blend of fantasy and science fiction and found fiction--time bubbles and stasis fields and generation ships, Oh my!
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#labyrinthratreads2025
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#labyrinthratreads2025
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War," by @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social is a neat blend of fantasy and science fiction and found fiction--time bubbles and stasis fields and generation ships, Oh my!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
#labyrinthratreads2025
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#labyrinthratreads2025
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This is also the 1st year for a Nebula Award for Poetry! I had 5 poems out this year, but here are my favorites:
1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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The Mourning Robot - Uncanny Magazine
They came with machetes asked if we knew the way to Wonderland. We were built to love the dead, to open our mouths and sing praise to broken bones, hands over our eyes, aluminum sheets over our he...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is also the 1st year for a Nebula Award for Poetry! I had 5 poems out this year, but here are my favorites:
1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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Since today marks 37 years of #MST3K, here's the essay that @eilatan.bsky.social wrote about it for Uncanny Magazine: Monitoring My Mind: MST3K and Me - Uncanny Magazine share.google/nvQNg25EOrTk...
Monitoring My Mind: MST3K and Me - Uncanny Magazine
(Content note: This essay contains descriptions of child abuse.) Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) was, for those who don’t know, a show that aired in the 80s and 90s. It aired on a lot of differen...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Since today marks 37 years of #MST3K, here's the essay that @eilatan.bsky.social wrote about it for Uncanny Magazine: Monitoring My Mind: MST3K and Me - Uncanny Magazine share.google/nvQNg25EOrTk...
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I know Frankenstein's all the rage right now, so maaaaybe you'd like this poem of mine, published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social -- A Lovesong From Frankenstein's Monster:
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November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I know Frankenstein's all the rage right now, so maaaaybe you'd like this poem of mine, published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social -- A Lovesong From Frankenstein's Monster:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/love...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/love...
Congratulations to Zara Alfonso! Zara's 2024 Uncanny Magazine cover "Stasis" won the 2025 Frank R. Paul Best Magazine Cover Art Award! buff.ly/MRSHKuq
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Congratulations to Zara Alfonso! Zara's 2024 Uncanny Magazine cover "Stasis" won the 2025 Frank R. Paul Best Magazine Cover Art Award! buff.ly/MRSHKuq
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2025 Frank R. Paul Awards Winners locusmag.com/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Breakout, Ripoff, Genre is an essay I wanted to write for years. It's how reductive ideas of originality hold many writers back, and about where inspiration really comes from. The great works are all in conversation with something.
You can read it for free at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
You can read it for free at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
Breakout, Ripoff, Genre: How Fiction Outgrows Originality - Uncanny Magazine
Doom is a lot like Lord of the Rings, which is a lot like Superman. You don’t have to admit you loved Doom. In fact, you can pretend you never even heard of this videogame about a floating gun that sh...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Breakout, Ripoff, Genre is an essay I wanted to write for years. It's how reductive ideas of originality hold many writers back, and about where inspiration really comes from. The great works are all in conversation with something.
You can read it for free at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
You can read it for free at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
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Can I slip mine in before the deadlines?
I'm gonna do an eligibility post because I don't expect any other publications this year.
Writing in 2025:
1. The Flaming Embusen (short story) available in text and audio:
1/4
Writing in 2025:
1. The Flaming Embusen (short story) available in text and audio:
1/4
The Flaming Embusen - Uncanny Magazine
Jero cleared his throat before he continued speaking into the phone. “Up to this moment it could not positively have been asserted that the man, in spite of his tantalizing declaration, was really in ...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can I slip mine in before the deadlines?
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Absolutely charmed by this @timpratt.org story at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social.
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Wend-Way-Go - Uncanny Magazine
My no-account cousin Keif (short for Keifer) rolled up to the house that afternoon in a battered old mustard-colored car of no discernible make or model. Keif was in his forties, about a dozen years y...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Absolutely charmed by this @timpratt.org story at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/wend...
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