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Best Poem “Care for Lightning” by Mari Ness (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62) “Hex Supply Customer Support Log” by Elis Montgomery (Strange Horizons, Issue 25 August 2025) “How to Become a Sea Witch” by Theodora Goss (The Orange & Bee, Issue 5) “Landing: Seattle” by Brandon O'Brien (Seattle Worldcon 2025 Opening Ceremony) “The Mourning Robot” by Angela Liu (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 66) “The World to Come” by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons, Issue 22 December 2025) 202 ballots cast for 229 nominees. Finalists range 12-35.

Best Poem (cont.)
“Landing: Seattle” by Brandon O'Brien (Seattle Worldcon 2025 Opening Ceremony)
“The Mourning Robot” by Angela Liu (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 66)
“The World to Come” by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons, Issue 22 December 2025)
202 ballots cast for 229 nominees. Finalists range 12-35.

what an excellent day!

Is anyone else going to the Sydney Muslim Writers Festival this weekend?

Sydney Speculative Scribes upcoming events. Let me know if you want more info.

Membership rate increase May 1

Planning on attending LAcon V this August? Register now for the best rate. www.lacon.org/2026/04/14/r...

The most hilarious part of the whole Artemis 2 mission is Mission Control asking Reid if he’s remembering to push the PTT button. And his reply that he’a going to turn it off and on again.

did anyone ever answer the phone????

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

image of a laptop, someone is writing on it, and a notebook with a pair of glasses resting on it.

Are you a writer of sci fi, fantasy, horror, alternate history, magical realism or pretty much anything with a premise that doesn’t exist in our world? Why don’t you come write with us at our focused writing session next week in Parramatta? Contact me for details. Check us out at scribes.com.au

omg cute

Meridian Australis launches CRUX 2026 We are delighted to host the launch of Melbourne writing collective Meridian Australisto 'CRUX 2026', their third anthology of Australian...

Attention Melbourne-based spec fic writers, the launch of Meridian Australis is coming soon! www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

the weather was WHACK this week, is it always like this??

Melbourne is so nice!

yep.

Are you a spec fic writer in Sydney? Do you feel, sometimes, like you are writing all alone in a deep dark silo? Check out scribes.com.au and find your tribe!

this is not my food posting account but I have to give a shoutout to legit homefood Turkish restaurant Anatolia Gozleme in Melbourne. Get the mixed plate. You’re welcome.

Tomorrow (Sunday) at Westwords, Parramatta! Come along to listen to emerging speculative fiction writers and maybe meet your writing tribe! Special Reader: Yxavel Magno Diño will read from her work. Let me know if you can make it!

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 63, "Blessed Universe" by Galen Dara: An ethereal figure stands front and center of the frame, behind here there is a shower of stars on a violet space-landscape. She is dressed in robes that blend into her, and she holds her palms open. On each hand and the center of her chest there are three sources of light, as if she has the moon for a heart, and stars on the palm of her hands, a mist rises from her open palms. The quote reads: "At an open bar in Sarkin Pawa the night was flourishing to Burna Boy’s las las. Our bodies were getting drowned in our beers; the bandits have invaded and conquered Sharp-Kona."

ICYMI! Congratulations to Abdulrazaq Salihu!

Abdulrazaq Salihu's poem "Time loop for the day I die." is on the Rhysling longlist!

You can read it here!

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Promotional image for Bury My Heart Under the Martian Sky by Juan Manuel Perez text “Weaving futurist horizons with mythical histories, while marrying the grim with the wonderous, Bury My Heart Under the Martian Sky is a collection that will stand the test of time.” —Pedro Iniguez, Bram Stoker and Elgin Award-winning author of Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future Image of book cover

Now on NetGalley, our latest chapbook from Juan Manuel Pérez pushes the boundaries of haiku with a series of crowns that celebrate the Mexican-American-Indigenous-Texan experience. www.netgalley.com/ca...

Thank you!

Hilarious response by the way. While I know what you are saying intellectually, it’s difficult to put into practice. Got any quick hacks that help?

Talk to me about your techniques for “submerging the I”

Lol, you blew my cover

(Stumbles across post) wait, did someone say poetry? (Falls down rabbit hole)

Doing ok, thanks! How’s the writing and family life?

Kyla Lee Ward recites poetry

Imogen Cassidy reads a story

Brent McGregor reads a story

What a great night at Twisted Fictions, a new reading series bringing spec fic community together in Sydney!

Super random, but if you can make it to the Shakespeare Hotel by 6pm there will be a dark fiction reading upstairs and a bunch of us Scribes will be there, just come meet us?

March goes out like a lamb and comes in with a ton of sub opportunities, so take advantage of a few that just opened:

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