When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

PANEL 1: A demented robot holds laser gun at a guy (me): TURN OVER ALL YOUR CREATIVE OUTPUT FROM THE LAST 15 YEARS OR I VAPORIZE YOU!! DJO: Whoa! Ok! PANEL 2: The robot to a doufy guy: FOR $7.99 A MONTH YOU CAN USE THIS NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR’S WORK TO CREATE YOUR OWN WATERED DOWN VERSIONS! Doufy Guy: got yourself a deal, buddy! PANEL 3: DJO: That robot guy just stole my shit and you’re paying him for it! Doufy Guy: Sorry, pal! $7.99 is a great deal, and like it or not, that robot guy… PANEL 4: doufy guy continued: …is the future! The Robot holding a laser gun at a little girl: TURN OVER ALL YOUR CREATIVE OUTPUT FROM THE LAST 15 YEARS OR I VAPORIZE YOU!! Girl: Dude, I’m seven

GenAI is plunder, pass it on (a comic)

Reading: Kate Ristau and Armin Tolentino

Getting ready for a busy week ahead, but particularly excited about May with Armin!

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Event announcement: HWA Oregon Presents a Horror Reading at Memento Mori Cafe, 1533 NW 24th Ave., Portland, Saturday, April 25th from 2-2:30 P.M. Join us to hear local horror authors read some spooky stories. There is a round HWA Oregon Chapter logo in the top right with graphic of a slug on a typewriter with "Horroregonian" typed on paper. In the middle left is the round Memento Mori Cafe logo with an ornamented skull with long hair and flowers as a crown over the name of the cafe, with coffee beans sprinkled around. In the background is a desaturated and dark closeup image of flowers standing in a field.

Graphic updates with correct address.

Here's more information about the scheduled readers:

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Come hear @niyyahwrites.bsky.social @jacymorris.bsky.social @tommyspoon.bsky.social @haspectorwrites.bsky.social Nathan Carson and Will Boechler reading horror stories at Memento Mori Cafe in Portland.

I'm attending to listen and be scared, but some of us will also have books for sale.

Twenty years too late for my father, but I am glad that it looks like before too long others won't have to suffer how he did.

Willamette Writers helps writers connect with their communities, develop their craft, and expand their careers. Our non-profit hosts an annual conference, monthly meetings across Oregon, Southwest Washington, and online, and online coffees, check-ins, and critique groups, to list a few events.

As a volunteer at Willamette Writers (@wilwrite.bsky.social), I'm happy to share that our membership drive is on! We're reaching out to members who haven't renewed recently, but we're also inviting new members to join: willamettewriters.org/membership

Spaceballs The Poem Pew pew, pew pew pew pew, pew, pew pew, pew pew pew. Keep Firing!

Submission Calls Food systems anthology submission callopen September 1st through 14th OverviewAn anthology of food systems horror and Weird fiction. Food systems include all infrastructure involved in the growth, …

Whoops! Just accidentally posted a call for our food systems horror and Weird fiction anthology, open to submissions this September. 👀
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The Skull & Laurel logo, black on white, with the above text .

Tax Day sucks.

Save 10% on everything in our webstore.

Today and tomorrow.

CODE: 10ebrous

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Bartlett's Chapbook Covers Collating the covers from Matthew M Bartlett's chapbooks from 2024 to 2025 into one book

Russell Smeaton - the fellow who kicked off Weird Fiction Quarterly in the first place - has a new Kickstarter for a book of the covers he's created for Matthew Bartlett - a WFQ contributor.

Russ does great work, so don't let this unique book slip past you!

#Kickstarter #Covers

I love your poetry updates. Congratulation on another acceptance!

Update from the poetry front: I'm delighted to report an acceptance from 4LPH4NUM3R1C :-)

For the curious:
- poem written 8/2025
- accepted in 20 days
- previously rejected 3 times
- they pay $15
- this is a podcast market (they read out poems and stories)
- part of a long dragon sequence

✏️🐉

Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

When we asked poetry editors Jess Cho and Angel Leal what they wanted to see in Issue 2, they immediately said things like "VISCERAL VERSE" and "weird queer monsters" and "joy and euphoria" and "MORE POEMS, PLEASE." Poets, you know what to do! Send us your work + spread the word! We pay $50/poem!

Member news for April 2026 includes Little Key Press publisher and editor Elizabeth Mitchell releasing an Animal Noir anthology, recordings of poems by Kate Boyes and Katherine Quevedo for the 2026 @sfpoetry.bsky.social Valentine’s Day Reading, and more:

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Member news for March 2026, includes @niyyahwrites.bsky.social being awarded a grant to organize the Muslim Storyteller’s Collective and @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social publishing Tiffany Meuret’s latest horror novel Disco Mama, plus more:

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Fun fact: many of the prettiest photos taken by robotic spacecraft were similarly framed ahead of time by humans using simulators of view geometry to pick when the spacecraft should shoot the photo. Case in point: this photo of Europa over Jupiter from New Horizons science.nasa.gov/image-detail...

Three years ago, we were juuust starting to cook with blurbs and stuff for FEVER HOUSE, which came out in summer of '23. It's easy to forget amid all the day to day stuff, by gottDAMN if my life isn't super rad. Best job in the world, hands down. (And thanks again, CJ!)

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

I have to start paying attention to Bluesky. I'm like a month late sharing this!

My latest Writing in the Dark blog post reveals How Horror Writers Can Win the War Against AI Fiction! writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-...

‘Thank You For Generating With Us!’ Hollywood's AI Acolytes Stay on the Hype Train Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy was one of the few skeptics at the Runway AI Summit, where AI was compared to fire and the printing press just a week after Sora’s death.

Star Wars producer Kathleen Kennedy was one of the few skeptics at the Runway AI Summit, where AI was compared to fire and the printing press just a week after Sora’s death.

Instead, on the far side,
an array of radio antennae:

Shielded from Earth's babble,
our ears on the universe.

On the near side, minimalist,
the six Apollo landing sites.

Faded flags and footprints
beneath a canopy of stars.

🚀🌕

Artemis II launch day! Here's a science fiction poem from six years ago about the Moon....

How to Decorate the Moon
(first published in Eye to the Telescope)

No banners, no balloons,
no gaudy gilded gazebos.

No neon lights, no temples,
no towering triumphal arches.

- continued...

I have a new #shortstory out today with Abyss & Apex called "Time Has No Memory." It's a little Jurassic Park, a little "A Sound of Thunder", and A LOT of submissions and rejections (26) before I sold it. Thrilled to see it published.

#writingcommunity

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2026 Solstice Award - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association Tananarive Due selected as Toastmaster for the 61st Annual Nebula Awards Conference happening in Chicago, IL from June 3-7.

Announcing - and celebrating - SFWA's latest Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award recipient, David Langford. If you're just entering SFF today, you have dedicated creators and curators like Langford to thank for the maintenance of genre history and cultivation of fan discourse to this point. Learn more! 👇️ 👀

A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now." The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Thomas Ha, a man of mixed Korean/Irish ancestry who has fair skin, brown eyes, a five-o’clock shadow, and thick black hair worn short and swept back from his forehead. He wears a heathered charcoal tee and gold-tone wire-rimmed glasses. He stands in front of a tree and a building sided with unfinished wood; the building appears to be in near-darkness, although the light on him is bright and casts only soft shadows. He looks directly into the camera, smiling faintly.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Karlo Yeager Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican man with tanned skin, brown eyes, brown hair cut short, a short beard that’s mostly gray, and a well-trimmed mustache that’s about half brown and half gray. He wears glasses with black plastic frames, a V-neck white tee, and a tan aloha shirt with a pattern of toucans. He sits in a leather-backed chair with a decorative shelf and a computer monitor behind him. With his face in three-quarters view and his chin tilted down, he looks into the camera with a faint, soft smile.

Story Hour does not believe in April Fooling. Story Hour is no tricks, all treats. For instance, our April 1 guests are the seriously awesome Thomas Ha and Karlo Yeager Rodríguez. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT—and that’s no joke! @thomasha.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com