my apocalyptic love story “road trip” will appear in issue 44 of @zoeticpress.bsky.social‘s NonBinary Review!! i’m very excited to publish more speculative fiction :)

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

next time you’re looking for new books, please consider getting them from firestorm!! they’re a pillar of the wnc literary community & a wonderful community space.

i was very pleased to see how many genre fiction magazines, presses, & panels were at awp!

i personally wouldn’t submit work to a magazine that’s pro-ai. it shows that they don’t value art, & that my writing wouldn’t be safe with them—i would never want an ai illustration, or ai ‘editing’, or anything of that nature.

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

i’ll be going to the AWP conference in Baltimore this week, on behalf of the UNC Wilmington creative writing program—i’m very excited to meet writers, attend panels, & explore the bookfair!

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Time to Fight: H.R. 7661 Call To Action

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them.

Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive.

Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list.

Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

tell me it's not true

Trans people deserve better.

Maps and Legends: The Spectacular Cartography of Ursula K. Le Guin - Library of America Mapmaking lay at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin’s worldbuilding. An able illustrator whose subjects ranged from realist watercolors to cartoon cats, the author of such SFF classics as The Left Hand of...

Not just a novelist, @ursulakleguin.com was also a cartographer. Her fictional geographies were on display this fall at London’s Architectural Association Gallery, and a companion book on Silver Press sheds new light on her peerless world-building. Read our interview with editor/curator Sarah Shin.

First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...

From Sameer Project on X: Jesus was Palestinian. Consider making Christmas a little brighter this year for those who need it most. Support our winter campaign and help us spread some warmth and hope to those in Gaza.

Food for thought this holiday season Although Bethlehem is technically a Palestinian city, it is surrounded by Israeli checkpoints that severely restrict the movement and entry of Palestinians. A 27-kilometer journey from Ramallah can take up to five hours. Gaza's churches have historically doubled as shelters for families displaced by the Occupation's relentless targeting of Palestinians for almost a century. Since 2023, Israel has bombed every church in Gaza. The Christian community of Gaza is one of the oldest in the world, with almost 2,000 years of history. Israel has killed around 5% of Gaza's Christians. Christmas is inextricably linked to Palestine, both in its history and in the many ways it has been curated to distract us from the many crimes our governments are funding. This holiday season, consider starting a conversation, even if it's uncomfortable. And if you can, consider donating to mutual aid initiatives.

Sharing the Sameer Project/Translating Falasteen's holiday campaign (text and slides from their x page)

"The holiday season is filled with family, warmth, comfort, and memories to last a lifetime. You might get together with loved ones for a meal, you might exchange gifts…please keep Gaza in mind:

i’m so happy with how this turned out!! the best book cover illustration i could have imagined :)

thank you!! 💚

so cool!!! :D

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

so lovely!! :)

a short story of mine was recently nominated for the AWP intro journals project!!

i received this news as i was feeling disheartened about this particular story’s chances of publication, given that it’s fairly niche + weird, but not strictly speculative either. now i’m feeling much more hopeful :)

Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

What if buying a book was like a magic spell, and every time you did it an awesome social movement space got its wings, or could pay its water bill or something 💫 That would be pretty incredible, right?

Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…

Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.

Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.

You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.

The working class has much more power than they think.

SFWA Names N.K. Jemisin the 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master - Reactor The Broken Earth trilogy author joins a prestigious group of past recipients.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced @nkjemisin.bsky.social as the 42nd recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Congratulations!!

yallfest 2025 was very fun! met some lovely authors & collected some exciting arcs. i haven’t been since i was a teenager myself, so i enjoyed participating in the event with a deeper understanding of the book publishing industry :) & i got to accompany my partner to her first book festival!!

A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor "I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"

Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:

i’m reading the 2019 anthology right now, the one guest-edited by carmen maria machado—it’s making me want to collect the rest of the series! exciting that submissions are open for this year :D

Start Here (2025 Edition) Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!

No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks

The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.