Shana Ross
@shanaross.bsky.social
Writer of poetry and more; facilitator/coach of leadership learning; recent transplant to Edmonton/Treaty Six lands. Yale Theater Studies and <checks notes> MBA?
<groans appreciatively> This story is SO GOOD. What a love story to home(s)...
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Brooklyn Beijing" by Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
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Try the short story "Brooklyn Beijing" by Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/Qd6R3Me
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
<groans appreciatively> This story is SO GOOD. What a love story to home(s)...
This one made me feel all the things...
My poem about time never seeming to pass because we don't want it to pass but it passes anyway is live on Packingtown Review. The first line is also perfect for the season!
"It was always almost Christmas."
"It was always almost Christmas."
"Time as Endless as Time" by Andrew Kozma | Packingtown Review - A journal of literature and the arts
Poetry:
www.packingtownreview.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This one made me feel all the things...
@jaclynf.bsky.social - you must see this! (I suspect it's gonna be exciting to other people too. Who doesn't love a little unexpected Austen?)
Three of my Austen-adjacent cartoons are featured in the The Jane Austen Society of North America’s latest instalment of ‘Unexpectedly Austen’:
www.jasna.org/austen/unexpectedlyausten/
www.jasna.org/austen/unexpectedlyausten/
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
@jaclynf.bsky.social - you must see this! (I suspect it's gonna be exciting to other people too. Who doesn't love a little unexpected Austen?)
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love what he said in French.
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
love what he said in French.
This is a great list - my library holds are now sagging with new weight...
#Hopepit How many of these THIRTY #ecofiction books have you read? #clifi #solarpunk @hopepit.bsky.social ninamunteanu.me/2025/06/15/t...
Thirty Impactful Eco-Fiction Books
Here is my current list of 30 favourite eco-fiction novels and short story collections that have impacted me, and incited me to think, to feel and to act. Flight Behavior is a multi-layered me…
ninamunteanu.me
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is a great list - my library holds are now sagging with new weight...
For your consideration:
My latest Patreon post is live. It's got some life updates, and for paid supporters, it has a snippet from my upcoming book, Ex Partum (coming soon from @atthisarts.com).
www.patreon.com/posts/140919...
#scifi #specfic #booksky
www.patreon.com/posts/140919...
#scifi #specfic #booksky
November, novella, new beginnings | Emma Burnett
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November 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
For your consideration:
In case you missed my middle of the night posting a couple of days ago...I'm so grateful to have these pieces out in LIT: www.litmagazine.org/love-in-the-...
Love in the time of distance; Someone to Carry On With; I am most myself when someone is holding my hand – LIT
www.litmagazine.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In case you missed my middle of the night posting a couple of days ago...I'm so grateful to have these pieces out in LIT: www.litmagazine.org/love-in-the-...
writers take note - new outlet sprouting/unfurling...
October 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
writers take note - new outlet sprouting/unfurling...
*stares pointedly* This is a political poem. (I'm so grateful to @thedeadlands.com for the platform)
"This could be a good day.
If? If.
If a whole generation stops dying."
TODAY'S POETRY!
I had a dream and in the dream I knew I was dreaming so I believed I could change things by @shanaross.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
If? If.
If a whole generation stops dying."
TODAY'S POETRY!
I had a dream and in the dream I knew I was dreaming so I believed I could change things by @shanaross.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
I had a dream and in the dream I knew I was dreaming so I believed I could change things - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This could be a good day.
psychopomp.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
*stares pointedly* This is a political poem. (I'm so grateful to @thedeadlands.com for the platform)
Three hybrid pieces - an urgency of love and connection: www.litmagazine.org/love-in-the-...
Love in the time of distance; Someone to Carry On With; I am most myself when someone is holding my hand – LIT
www.litmagazine.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Three hybrid pieces - an urgency of love and connection: www.litmagazine.org/love-in-the-...
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Game 3 of the World Series will continue until morale improves.
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Game 3 of the World Series will continue until morale improves.
Am facilitating a full day retreat for 50 people tomorrow - have done all the prep, am now just in that zone of nerves-but-somehow-need-to-sleep...and whether I'm celebrating or have flopped spectacularly, it'll be behind me by dinnertime tomorrow.
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Am facilitating a full day retreat for 50 people tomorrow - have done all the prep, am now just in that zone of nerves-but-somehow-need-to-sleep...and whether I'm celebrating or have flopped spectacularly, it'll be behind me by dinnertime tomorrow.
art speaking to art is one of my favorite modes of conversation...
A really cool essay by @benlockwood.bsky.social in conversation with my postcard project.
FINDING THE NARRATOR
Reading Andrew Kozma’s Strange Postcards in the Northern Appalachians It’s winter in the northern Appalachians and it’s cold and the wind is blowing and I’m holding a thin stack o…
apocalypse-confidential.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
art speaking to art is one of my favorite modes of conversation...
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My story "The Mountain" now lives again on the Bulb Culture Collective. Read about the end of the world! Climb a mountain! Say goodbye to time!
The light is on for Andrew Kozma! @andrewkozma.net💡
“The Mountain” blew us away from the very first paragraph. This is a haunting and beautifully composed story about a pilgrimage that gets more and more surreal as the story goes on.
Check out Andrew’s stunning writing over at the site!
“The Mountain” blew us away from the very first paragraph. This is a haunting and beautifully composed story about a pilgrimage that gets more and more surreal as the story goes on.
Check out Andrew’s stunning writing over at the site!
The Mountain - Andrew Kozma — Bulb Culture Collective
They came to the mountain because that’s where their prophets had told them to go.
www.bulbculturecollective.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My story "The Mountain" now lives again on the Bulb Culture Collective. Read about the end of the world! Climb a mountain! Say goodbye to time!
I still think it's rude to have the high stakes part of the baseball season overlap with hockey time...but I'll allow it. GO BLUE JAYS!!!
a toronto blue jays pitcher throws a ball in front of a crowd
Alt: a toronto blue jays pitcher throws a ball in front of a crowd, caption reading "let's go blue jays"
media.tenor.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I still think it's rude to have the high stakes part of the baseball season overlap with hockey time...but I'll allow it. GO BLUE JAYS!!!
OK, I'm excited. LMK when it's time to pre-order. :)
👀 👀 👀
It’s official! Book news appropriate for the season
October 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
OK, I'm excited. LMK when it's time to pre-order. :)
This cover gives me chills (See you Oct. 30...)
And the issue is officially out! Stories will start to go online from tomorrow onwards, but this is a good moment for you to subscribe to a truly excellent magazine and read the whole thing right now psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
October 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
This cover gives me chills (See you Oct. 30...)
It's out! it's out! This one is deeply personal: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... (in ways that make me feel half awkward calling it speculative) @strangehorizons.bsky.social
Ogress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)
We are not all built to be beautiful, we are not all built to rampage.
strangehorizons.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's out! it's out! This one is deeply personal: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... (in ways that make me feel half awkward calling it speculative) @strangehorizons.bsky.social
I have a number of real/sensible/intense anxieties. <gestures vaguely at entire world> But what did my brain decide was worth 8 hours of nightmares last night? Not being able to log on to a zoom call. 😑
October 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I have a number of real/sensible/intense anxieties. <gestures vaguely at entire world> But what did my brain decide was worth 8 hours of nightmares last night? Not being able to log on to a zoom call. 😑
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October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TOC is out for the next issue of The Deadlands....Drumroll please!
POETRY
Amanita Season, Belle Biscotti
I had a dream and in the dream I knew I was dreaming so I believed I could change things, @shanaross.bsky.social
Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal, by @rblemberg.bsky.social
Not a Bird, Ellen Romano
Amanita Season, Belle Biscotti
I had a dream and in the dream I knew I was dreaming so I believed I could change things, @shanaross.bsky.social
Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal, by @rblemberg.bsky.social
Not a Bird, Ellen Romano
October 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
TOC is out for the next issue of The Deadlands....Drumroll please!
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"I have been to the market
where they sell futures packed in mason jars"
Love this new poem by Shana Ross in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
@shanaross.bsky.social
where they sell futures packed in mason jars"
Love this new poem by Shana Ross in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
@shanaross.bsky.social
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
kaleidotrope.net
October 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"I have been to the market
where they sell futures packed in mason jars"
Love this new poem by Shana Ross in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
@shanaross.bsky.social
where they sell futures packed in mason jars"
Love this new poem by Shana Ross in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
@shanaross.bsky.social
How cool is this??? Beautiful words, beautiful way to experience literature as a community...
My words are projected onto the side of Freo Ports building as part of a series with other amazing local writers for a literary festival! 🥹 Catch @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social and @belindarowe.bsky.social too!
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
October 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
How cool is this??? Beautiful words, beautiful way to experience literature as a community...
I feel very ridiculous to show up to this party with my wee little tiptoes into writing/publishing, and also...I'm giddy about this:
October 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I feel very ridiculous to show up to this party with my wee little tiptoes into writing/publishing, and also...I'm giddy about this:
I think of Chelsea Market when I picture this poem...but it's an ode to a Canadian skill I'm learning: when to refuse an individual desire for the sake of others kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
kaleidotrope.net
October 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I think of Chelsea Market when I picture this poem...but it's an ode to a Canadian skill I'm learning: when to refuse an individual desire for the sake of others kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...