Congratulations!!

AAHH it's official! I am a Hugo Award Finalist for Best Poem, for "The World To Come"! I can't believe my name is there with so many writers I admire 🥹😭 Thank you so much to everyone who nominated, and to everyone who reads spec poetry! 💙

Not a new release, but definitely a book worth catching whileyou can. Lynne's poetry is gorgeous and packed with feels!

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Small update: I learned a couple of weeks ago that my book will be out in paperback instead of hardcover, which hopefully makes it a bit more accessible for folks who are interested but daunted by the high prices of hardcovers (I get it). Preorder links below!

Congratulations!! I can't wait to pick up a copy!

The cover of a book, "A Refuge of Tales" by Lynne Sargent. The cover has swirly letters and displays the cosmic fragment of a woman seemingly filled with amethyst, as origami birds attack her.

The publisher of my poetry collection, A REFUGE OF TALES, will unfortunately be closing at the end of this year. So, they're clearing out stock. Get 20% off with code RENPRESS20. If you haven't gotten a copy yet, this will be your last chance for a while!

alllitup.ca/books/a-refu...

For travel tips: absolutely DO NOT NAP on the first day. Do not let yourself nap. You can go to bed early, but don't nap. And try to eat at the regular for the new place you are times, even if you aren't hungry.

Newgrange & the Giant's Causeway were huge for me. Seriously get thee out into the countryside (a lot of times you can get a day tour out of major centers without renting a car if you don't want to).

ICYMI: Whitney French was recently interviewed by Shawn Conner in The Vancouver Sun about her phenomenal novel-in-verse, Syncopation (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026). 💜

Read the full article:

vancouversun.com/entertainmen...

@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @vancouversun.bsky.social

#books

Cover art by Helen Whistberry for my book Time Travel Is Easy. An Archaeopteryx skeleton dances in a rain of feathers in front of black tree trunks and a blue background.

It’s poetry month! And I have a poetry book!

TIME TRAVEL IS EASY examines Deep Time, queerness, childhood traumas, dinosaurs, and the dread of the late Anthropocene. It includes my Rhysling-nominated poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings.” Available here:

mimulus.weebly.com/books.html

Screenshot from my water sort puzzle game. There are 6 containers, each of which is 5 segments high. The 4 containers on the left have their segments filled with colours. There are 4 distinct colours and they are all shuffled up in the segments. The goal of the game is to use the empty containers to sort the colours back into individual containers. The solved state of the puzzle will still have 2 empty containers and 4 full ones, but each of the full containers will only have a single colour.

I built another small game! This is a remake of a puzzle game I have enjoyed playing in the past. I also included an algorithm for finding the optimal number of moves. Trying to find the optimal sequence as a human is an additional challenge to the game.

birchmd.github.io/water-sort/

Welcome to Heroism - Uncanny Magazine Nobody read the Terms of Service. They were in a rush to watch the latest unbelievable must-see content from someone who probably died seconds later. It seemed like as soon as anyone knew The Dare exi...

If you just heard about The Dare and want to read its short story, you can! It's up for free on @uncannymagazine.bsky.social's site.

Text on a blurred purple background. Text reads: ISSUE 2 POETRY WISHLIST: your most visceral poems, queer joy and euphoria, ghosts monsters Goosebumps vibes, surreal and lyrical poems, the interplace of form and content, weird/unpexpected over warm/fuzzy

Our submissions for Issue 2 close in a week! Poets, here is a wishlist of poetry vibes from our poetry editors Jess Cho and Angel Leal 👀

Read our full guidelines here, then send us your poems and make all their dreams come true: othersidespec.com/guidelines?u...

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

We are bejoyed to see our friends @amalelmohtar.com, @sarahgailey.bsky.social, @ourmankoto.bsky.social, @teresempierre.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, @kellyrobson.com, and @acwise.bsky.social among the top ten Locus Award finalists!

Celebrate with your most arcane artifacts!!

a girl with long white hair and elf ears is holding something in her hands ALT: a girl with long white hair and elf ears is holding something in her hands

The Season 2 Frieren opener is the bangeriest of all anime bangers

(imagine the heart eyes emoji here, except for instead of heart eyes, its hear ears)

In case you didn't know, one of my favourite myths is Blodeuwedd! I went on a whole Welsh road trip about it and we found a fancy rock in a field. This is not my first Blodeuwedd poem and it won't be my last but it is particularly rage-filled! Find "Unabashed Appetite" in this issue of Penumbric!

Table of Contents for the April 2026 issue of Penumbric

Thank you to all the contributors in April's #Penumbric! Laura DeHaan, Jacqueline West, Charlie Winter,
Donald Patten, Sage Early, @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social, Barbara Candiotti, Dana Beehr ...

www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

"book-based lifeform who only reads for pleasure" is such a mood

We actually do need YA books that don't have (or have less) sex, romance and violence. We also need books that have those topics. We need YA to be varied - teens are diverse! - but we also must refrain from moralizing those themes. Abstinence isn't "clean", and sex isn't "dirty."

Ahh! Thank you! Yes!! I'm so lucky that editors let me hang out with the cool kids 😘

stunning photo of the moon taken from Artemis II

Artemis II obviously yet another covert project financed by Big Poetry

thank you!

My newest poem, "The Vampire Contemplates Skincare," is out now @smallwondersmag.com!

Do beauty concerns ever really die? && where is that line between undead and eternal?

smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-va...

The Vampire Contemplates Skin Care - Small Wonders Bloodsucking is drying work / the leftover saliva slimed / around my lips

Today's poem by Lynne Sargent looks unflinchingly at being a vampire. Read "The Vampire Contemplates Skin Care" and then put some lotion on, for goodness sake.

This was a really wonderful little retro-hopepunk fable. A truly enjoyable way to spend an hour or two.

I made an incremental/idle game! It's in the style of classics like Kittens Game and Universal Paperclips. The central element is a plot that visualizes how quantities in the game are changing (with respect to time and each other). You can check it out here:

birchmd.github.io/de-idle/

My brilliant partner made an adorable little math game! Go try it out!!

Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

The #kickstarter for Thyme Travellers 2 An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is now live! #projectwelove @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

how does anyone look at this and go "hell ya, let's burn more fossil fuel?"