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I'll be on 3 panels at Philcon this weekend. Two adjacent to #climate fiction and #solarpunk, which are my jam. If you're in the Philly area, join us.

philcon.org

#WritingCommunity #SpecLit #BookSky #SFF

November 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

Excited to offer a #Tarot seminar for #SFF #writers with @leftlanesmith.bsky.social at the upcoming @sfwa.org Quasar online conference.

We've begun some juicy convos as we prepare. Hope you'll join us!

www.sfwa.org/events/ (Free for Nebula attendees or $50)

#SpecLit #WritingCommunity #writing

Two headshots amidst a teal and purple nebula cloud. Text: Tarot Need-to-Knows for SFF Writers. 11am PST, Nov 16th. events.sfwa.org

Same imagery with text: Join us at Quasar, SFWA's Fall Online Nebula Event. Virtual Panels & Seminars, Grand Master Keynote, Office Hours. sfwa.org/events. Free for Nebula attendees! $50 for new guests!

November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

I'm procrastinating from a story deadline. So here's a little chipmunk for you.

#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Writing (not) #WillIMakeThisDeadline?

@susankayequinn.bsky.social , I think you can relate!

#SpecLit #SFFH

brown chipmunk with darker brown back and white stripe on side stuffs their cheeks with chewed leaves. They sit in a flower pot filled with green leaves of many shapes--all volunteer plants.

September 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

I was tickled to find two 5-star reviews for THE WORKING in a place I didn't think to check (smashwords). Thank you!

Here's a peek at what I found.

Read my #witchy #solarpunk novel? Consider adding a review someplace 🙏!

#BookSky #WItchSky #SpecLit #SFF #hope #books #reading #WritingCommunity

screen grab of 2 reviews against burgundy background. From Eldritchsun: "Loved it! Engaging characters given great depth through the web of their interactions. The use of short chapters written from the PoV of each of the five characters created this depth as well providing suspense and developing satisfaction for the reader. Through careful and well judged expostion of what the coven all thought of each other, their actions and reactions to, their relationships became both the heart and nervous system of the text. Would definitely recommend and read a sequel!" From madikonrad: "Excellently written and tightly plotted! I enjoyed the exploration of a modern coven pitted against both supernatural and all-too-mundane obstacles. The author also flitted between character POVs quite skillfully. Very few words were wasted. Highly recommended!"

September 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

Filled me to be in W Philly (US) all day with 100s of #pagans . This year, a number of people sought me out to buy my book, The Working. 🥰

Nice to offer workshop early in the day so I could just hang!

Bought 3 interesting #tarot decks!

#PaganPride #WitchSky

My novel The Working displayed with its large poster. Red tablecloth showing off the black and green cover with its blue hues inside pentacle.

August 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

... if you want to join us, pop over! 2p concert precedes 3:30 workshop. Details and rsvp: lu.ma/6fj7b53n Looks like delightful weather to ferry over to the island!

#solarpunk #hope #climate #justice #activism #WriteSky

teal cosmic swirls and gold stars on black background. Text: How to change the world with Solarpunk. A workshop led by BrightFlame. Aug 3. Climate Imaginarium, Governors Island

August 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

One more item on my @readercon.org stash: the subversive, abolitionist, decolonial LIBERATED ARCHIVES from @worldofkir.bsky.social ! Did you grab a copy as well?

What an inventive and art-full medium for this flash literary puzzle. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #SFF #SpecLit

@bsfwriters.bsky.social

cover of innovative zines of The Liberated Archives "The Legend of Bin Lin Hai and the Founding of the Children of the Flame." On heavy ivory paper stock with slash symbol cutout on front.

July 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

🧵 of my #Readercon stash.

The hardcover special edition of @ceciliatan.com 's Magic University is ga-ga stunning! But no way would it fit in my luggage. So I settled for book 1.

Because... #tarot!

#BookSky #SFF #magic anti-Potter #SpecLit #reading #books

Bookcover: young person in red plaid flannel shirt flinging tarot cards towards viewer. Text: The Siren & the Sword.

July 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

🧵 Lovely to hang with @randeedawn.com and grab her latest #book. (How large is my TBR now???)

We both read during #BroadUniverse rapid-fire #reading.

#BookSky #SpecLit #WritingCommunity #author

On bookcover, two women on stage hold giant guitar with magical swirls around them while audience looks on. Text: The Only Song Worth Singing. Randee Dawn.

July 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

A few of my #readercon stash. 🛢

Not only grabbed @romiesays.bsky.social 's new #book, I chose her best 😅 collage button at the "Unpredictably Topical Panel" = panelists spilling latest publishing gossip! @brklyndragon.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @lyndsayely.bsky.social @readercon.org #BookSky

Book cover: pen & ink of figure diving backwards with orange sky blue water behind. Text: Nothing in the basement. A horror novel by Romie Stott. Collage button is dinosaur head with text: Firmer & Radiant.

July 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

... the #solarpunk workshop sponsored by the #Climate Imaginarium, Climate Cafe NYC, & NYC Climate Writers Collective. Hope to see you!

#WritingCommunity #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #Justice #writing #activism #eco #SpecLit

Please spread the word. (see 🧵 for link)

@bsfwriters.bsky.social

teal cosmic swirls and gold stars on black background. Moon in sun in gold. Text in gold: How to change the world with solarpunk. A workshop led by BrightFlame. August 3, Climate Imaginarium, Governors Island.

July 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

Oooh 😍 lovely graphic Lena of #ClimateImaginarium created for my upcoming #solarpunk workshop. Near NYC? Hope you'll join us on Aug 3rd!

Setting = Governors Island in NY Harbor! ⛴️

#Climate #ClimateCrisis @climatefiction.bsky.social #CliFi @bsfwriters.bsky.social #activism #Writing

lu.ma/6fj7b53n

gold stars and teal cosmos swirl on black background. Gold crescent moon within radiating sun ato the side of text: How to change the world with Solarpunk, a workshop led by BrightFlame.

July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

I'll be on the "con train" 🚂 to Readercon in a week. YAY: seeing old friends & meeting new!!! In addition to these 2 sessions and hanging around the Water Dragon & Broad Universe tables, karaoke with my awesome writing group Sat night! @bsfwriters.bsky.social

@readercon.bsky.social #SFF #SpecLit

Burgundy background with yellow lightning bolt and sun doodles. Text in white: Me at Readercon: Friday 3:30p Rapid-fire Reading with Broad Universe. Sunday 11a "We Demand Stories" with BSFW. The Working on sale at Water Dragon table--happy to sign with my magical pen

July 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

Community (of flowers)

Carpet of lighter green foliage in foreground with dark orange day lillies, white and pink echinacea, fuchsia monarda, and yellow rubeckia (sp)

July 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

This is my fave from a #NoKings protest today . (Small city in Southeast PA)

Protestor holding sign: I prefer my ICE crushed!

June 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

Me, on the other coast. Small city in PA that isn't usually active... 1000s in the streets!

Portion of a NoKings march, people lining a street holding signs and flags

June 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

Couldn't resist a photo before Amy Sherald's potent "Trans Forming Liberty" with my dear friends @starhawk-spiral.bsky.social and Ynestra King. We 3 #justice activists agree with the artist that YES! Liberty applies to all, including #trans people.

#WitchSky #activism #feminist #Witch #LadyLiberty

3 white-haired women before larger-than-life painting of Black model posed as Lady Liberty in royal blue slit-leg form-fitting dress & pink hair with left hand on her hip. Torch held high in right hand has flames composed of yellow & orange flowers

May 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

My #solarpunk story is free thru 5/20! 👀

BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology by @susankayequinn.bsky.social 😍💝☀️@singingtotigers.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com.

#climate #hope #justice #SFF susankayequinn.com/books/ancest...

brown trunk and green leaves on thick branches of massive tree in background with white book cover for "Ancestors, Descendants" in foreground. Text: FREE until May 20th"

May 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

Signs from today's protests. 100s here alongside busy highway intersection.

#HandsOff #RiseUp #justice #activism #MayDay

2 holding signs: "elect a clown, expect a circus." Picture of a tick aside tRump labeled DANGEROUS! Deer tick. Lunatic.

View from behind of 100 people holding signs along a road

Closeup of a segment of protestors holding signs standing on grass

May 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

#MayDay in small town Pennsylvania (US) that's more red than blue. So I felt it's important to show up here vs a larger city. About 100+ people arranged around a square on both sides of street. #HandsOff #resist #StandUp #justice #Occupy #Rise

Woman holding sign. "Trump Lunch Special. White bread full of bologna with Russian dressing & a small pickle"

Cluster of protesters holding signs and colorful banners

May 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM

BrightFlame (she/they)

@brightflame.bsky.social

Feel like a movie star posing in front of event backdrop! No red carpet, though. This was "We Demand Stories about #Climate with a Future" hosted by @bsfwriters.bsky.social with Jamie Liu and Miranda Nayyar joining me as panelists, @brklyndragon.bsky.social moderating. Go Brooklyn! #solarpunk #hope