Happy to announce upcoming guest appearances and workshops.
Speculative story publishing workshop at Ithacon (April 25)
and
Building Fantastical Worlds at Spring Writes Literary Festival (May 10).
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Posts by D.A. Xiaolin Spires
Happy to aounnce that my story, “Strawberries” was sent to mailboxes subscribed to Sunday Morning Transport on April 5… Easter Day, for those who celebrate!
Space travel, luscious fruits & historical memory intertwine.
-with thanks to Editors Fran Wilde and Julian Yap and the team!
OTHERSIDE is getting flooded by AI poetry submissions this morning, one every few minutes. (Not the subtle kind, the “prompt got left in the cover letter” kind.) Are you a queer writer and also an actual real human? Our poetry editors would love to read your work.
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
@thephantompulse.bsky.social @mike-cant-reed.bsky.social @jexewizabee.bsky.social @goingkamping.bsky.social
Thank you!!
Happy to announce that “Mamaborg’s Milk and the Brilliance of Gems” will appear in Phantom Pulse Magazine. Yay!
The story first appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine.
Looking forward to the publication!
-with thanks to Editors Michael A Reed, Jess Elizabeth Reed Kat Reed & the team!
Lovely authors and reading! Had a great time.
Thanks for a lovely time at the reading! Great authors and stories.
Yes, agreed about libraries being liminal spaces...
and wonderful sanctuaries.
I received my contributor's copy of The Drabbun Anthology 3.0 edited by Francis W Alexander and Teri Santitoro.
My drabbun, "Exoplanet’s Moon: A Strange Culture" is in here, alongside some fun and cool drabbuns.
--with thanks to the editors & the editorial team!
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Oooh this is beautiful.
Lovely! Congrats!!
Such cool poetry! The dinosaur concrete poem is cool. :)
Happy to announce that "Bookdrop" is forthcoming in British Fantasy Society's Horizons.
@britfantasysoc.bsky.social
—with thanks to Editor Robin C.M. Duncan and the editorial team
You know you spend way too much time at libraries when you're writing weird, creepy stories about them—in a good way!
Thank you for the kind words--and about the heft!
Congrats!
Now I'm intrigued about who these mothers are and why I won't ever meet them!
The Sunday Morning Transport moves in new ways today with a story from P H Lee (p-h-lee.bsky.social) that examines the gaps in a contented life. Read a sample or subscribe so you don't miss the ending!
Happy to announce that my short story, "Strawberries," is forthcoming in Sunday Morning Transport!
@morningtransport.bsky.social
I was inspired by accounts of Japanese internment & strawberry fields left behind.
I also visited a historical interment camp in Hawai'i—it was sobering & edifying.
Happy to announce that my scifaiku, "sutures pop," is forthcoming in Star*Line!
-with thanks to editor John Reinhart and the team!
@sfpoetry.bsky.social
Happy Lunar New Year... of the Horse!
(gallops away, leaving prints of snow...)
^^ an allusion to:
「山迴路轉不見君,雪上空留馬行處。」
岑參, c. 715–770
(Tang dynasty poem)
Eligibility post:
I’m Hugo-eligible for Best Fan Writer for my blogging at Tar Vol On and work facilitating discussion for the Hugo Readalong and Short Fiction Book Club
🧵
Thank you for the read and kind words!
“Chip” by @spires.bsky.social is a friendly AI story with enough conflict to lend a bit more heft than such stories often have clarkesworldmagazine.com/spires_02_26
Dasher and Prancer and...? (j/k)
🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - DECEMBER 2025🏳️🌈
I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!!
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Happy to announce that my novelette, "Piece de Resistance," is forthcoming in Clarkesworld! Yay!
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
Got my contributor copy for the Winter 2026 issue of Star*Line magazine!
My poem, "digging for time," is in here alongside other wonderful nuggets of poetry!
...and look at that robot go, typing away!! (about the cover)
-with thanks to John Reinhart and the staff!
@sfpoetry.bsky.social
Aw, thank you so much for your kind words!
New story "Chip" out in Clarkesworld... exploring a car AI and approaches to food and tourism.
And lovely to share a TOC with some wonderful authors.
-with thanks to Neil Clarke and the editorial team
Lovely to share a TOC!