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@awritingwren.bsky.social
they/them. SFF author who might be a bird or a cat or a secret third thing. wrendouglas.carrd.co
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🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼

ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤

Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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And in fact, by continuing to give power to these men, you are losing exponentially more knowledge than they could ever contribute

Not only are they more fungible in their own position than they think

but they operate like scarecrows, warning away countless flocks of decent people
The biggest myth in academics and science generally is that there are men who are too smart or important to be punished. DNA structure absolutely would have been discovered around the same time without Watson. There are always teams behind every famous individual. No one is uniquely indispensable.
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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We're a new literary magazine for eco-fiction. We're going to start publishing in January of 2026, with subs opening in December.

- Published by @briefecology.bsky.social
- Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website
- $ 0.06/word
- 1,500 words or less
- More details at the link 👇
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My toxic trait is that I pronounce bsky as "bisky", like the HxH character
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026!

It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Editing is not about rewriting, but about helping a story be the best version of itself. That can mean making things clearer for the reader, but it can also mean making them less clear.
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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We have 5 days left and are $800 away from our goal!!!
Help us make this book a reality!
Knight In The Woods - 18+ Fantasy WLW Comic!
A beautiful knight, a fallen angel, and a blossoming love.
www.kickstarter.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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For many folks, money is tight and about to get tighter with the manufactured SNAP benefits crisis. As such, between now and the end of the month, I'm donating all Cursed Morsels store proceeds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. Buy a book and support unhoused folks:
www.cursedmorselspress.com
Home | Cursed Morsels Press
www.cursedmorselspress.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
So, so glad my little moth fairy could bring whimsy into the world
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"Plastic Alternatives for Humble Seamstresses" by @awritingwren.bsky.social (Summer '25) "is vibrant and full of mischievous energy," writes @cypayseur.bsky.social, "....fun with a light touch of romance thrown in, and I absolutely adore it!" 😀
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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New essay! "Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures" by Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne! buff.ly/G7E5VM4
August 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Watch this space...
October 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My strange fleshy piece about Catholics in space is in this! So excited!! 🩸🎶
It's Friday, I'm in love with the table of contents for Saros SF #5! We have such a wonderful variety of strange, lovely, and thought-provoking stories to share with readers of our Sound/Silence issue, and I couldn't be more proud to work with these fantastic writers on my first foray into editing 🖤
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.

We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25
AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears
ebx.sh
October 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The Hero's Journey is a scam by big structure to sell more stages
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A lighter magically appeared in one of my drawers at work, but alas it almost certainly belongs to someone in the cleaning crew, not a butch wizard ready to sweep me in a mysterious adventure
October 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Oh, hello
October 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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📈 Dream Foundry is seeking fundraising volunteers! Help us connect with donors and find the money to keep our awesome programs running.
Give us a shout in ⁠our Discord under #volunteering or send an email to [email protected]
October 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM