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Maria Haskins
@mariahaskins.com
Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Editor at Ruadán Books. Part of Many Worlds. She/her. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Deadlands & more. 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
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I write speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror & points in-between), and I also write reviews & essays.

My short fiction is available in two short story collections:

🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a...

🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...
Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories
Available now! Buy Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories: Paperback & ebook from JournalStone Paperback & ebook from Amazon  Paperback & ebook from Indiebound / B&N…
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I'm speechless. Literary icon @tananarivedue.bsky.social has graced THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS with the most incredible blurb. To have someone I admire so deeply say such wonderful things about my debut novel is a dream come true.
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
Link below.
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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These are the folks I adopted Horrible Babby Kitten from! Like all rescues they do a LOT of unpaid and invisible work for local animals, so if you have even $5 it would be awesome if you could kick in!
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Just your occasional reminder that I have a new book out next April, now available for pre-order:
bookshop.org/p/books/ode-...
Ode to the Half-Broken
Check out Ode to the Half-Broken - <b>In the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, forty years after the world nearly ended, a worn-out robot is attacked, and realizes old evils are stirring<br> <br>W...
bookshop.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Love! this

“Everybody has an origin story. All these people in power have been rejected by polite society. There are two ways to handle that: reform, be a better person and look inward, or become a full fascist authoritarian. Most chose the second.”
Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist
english.elpais.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Alan Cumming: ‘After my rant about trans rights, I was worried I would be deported’
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
"It’s happening, it’s here, it’s now. There is authoritarianism in America and I’m terrified"
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This is a 100% true story.

I never saw a roadrunner in person until I moved to the Texas Hill Country in 2011.

Because of Looney Tunes I legit thought road runners were tall, like ostriches.

I was 30.

youtube.com/shorts/tEgNt...
Coyote vs Road Runner… nature imitating Looney Tunes 😂🌵
YouTube video by Animalia Show
youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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There are a few time-sensitive things HWA members should know about the Bram Stoker Award Recommended Reading List. PLEASE forgive my shouty caps and read this entire short thread before reposting/quote-posting. (1/3) horror.org/awards/curre...
HWA Bram Stoker Award Recommendations
horror.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I love the escapism and wish-fulfillment of video games. My character can sleep and wake up refreshed and energized? Wow. Oh, to live in this fiction.
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thank you, soil bacterium.
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Uh

this is

enormous
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The Great Oak at Fredville: Jacob Strutt 1820

Majesty, the Fredville Oak - the Kingdom of Kent, was already famous 200 years ago

Both have humans for scale. My son Oliver is 6’ 6’’
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social

Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Good morning
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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December 4, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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free WORLDWIDE shipping ends today in my US print/poster shop!

And to all the folks spamming up my inbox lately asking me about N F flipping Ts, (go funge yourself) I'm going to pretend you mean

Nice
Friendly
Tortoises

like this fellow, available as a print! [hashtag seamless promotion ;-D ]
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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a soft bed of stars ✨ #art
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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"Curly" fries are actually straight, they only appear bent due to the curvature of the Earth
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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BREAKING: There’s a new Netflix show starring Claire Danes as a sad lesbian writer and Matthew Rhys as her shady neighbor. #TheBeastInMe
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM