Baraa & her little son Ibrahim are about to be evicted, & need €500 urgently to keep them sheltered. Baraa has already lost 2 baby daughters to Israel's genocide. You can help her keep Ibrahim & her surviving family safe & alive right now by sharing & donating:

COVID is when I noticed just how much flight is a precarious industry for any kind of crisis.

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I encourage *everyone* on my skyline to read this excerpt. 🥚

This issue includes my story, with its double-meaning title:
"Degrees Removed: In Validation of the Intellectual."

A non-linear, multi-medium collation of analyses that attempt to dissect—literally, figuratively—an ancient practice of exchanging body parts.

www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Nigeria Will Have 400 Million People by 2050. Who Will Publish for Them? - The New Publishing Standard Nigeria imports 90% of its printing paper, losing its own mills to policy failure. With 400 million people by 2050, the cost of inaction is existential.

The writer in me loves keeping up with the literary side of African publishing. The economist in me loves deep dives into the nitty-gritty of African publishing - existence of paper mills, cost of paper imports, etc. l1nq.com/dsj23nl
#Africanlit #Africasky #booksky #nigeria

Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

Friends, could you help me share this Kickstarter? It’s doing well but I need to extend its reach: www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them sick, starving & homeless. They've been displaced without a tent again, & desperately need help. His disabled brother Abood has a broken leg & urgently needs surgery:

Closing in on TEN DAYS LEFT for this submission period! Polish em up and send them in! Visit our submissions page for details 🖤

'I'm exhausted and lost. I didn't want this life.

My family is trapped, starving, with no one checking on them, and suffering from malnutrition.

I haven't had any income or work in two years.

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🌠New story day!🌠 I have a short, "Restoration", about a decaying property tycoon, a disillusioned historian, and the temptation to re-create what we cannot have again; in the new Galaxy mag! Along with @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social's interviews of @renanbernardo.com and @pedroiniguez.bsky.social

Please help Abood's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving, sick, & homeless in winter. Abood is disabled with special needs, & has a broken leg and urgently needs medical attention his family can't afford:

'I appeal to everyone with compassion to stand with Gaza My children urgently need food and clean water.I was injured in my leg during the war.I lost my home and my job and I cannot work.Please share my voice and donate if you can.Your support means hope for my family'

Wealth-in-People and Wealth-in-Land in Pre-colonial Africa: Reassessing the Evidence. The ways in which Africans accumulated and expressed wealth have occupied a central place in Africanist scholarship for more than half a century, with particular attention given to the relationship be...

“Wealth-in-People” and “Wealth-in-Land” in Pre-colonial Africa: Reassessing the Evidence.

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A screencap of the Publishers Marketplace deal report for Molly Tanzer’s novella FERRY-LOUPERS, to be published with Ruadán Books in summer 2027, along with a photo of the author.

We’re delighted to announce we will be publishing @mollytanzer.bsky.social’s speculative historical mystery FERRY-LOUPERS!

Read more about this novella inspired by the real-life destruction of the Odin Stone on 19th-century Orkney in our press release:
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Black-and-white photo of a Tacoma News Tribune exhibit at the Western Washington Fair, 1964. A large overhead sign reads “Tacoma News Tribune,” with an “Information” counter beneath it. At left, two men—one in glasses and a cardigan, the other in a hat and overcoat—stand beside an Associated Press machine displaying photos and news pages. At right, three women and a young boy gather at the counter, speaking with a staff member. A rack of newspapers and display boards with photos and diagrams are visible in the background. (Courtesy Tacoma News Tribune, Image TNT0122N, Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room)

🧵 Saving local news also means saving archives 🗞️

Not just physical photos, clips & recordings, but digital reporting too 💻

When archives disappear, communities lose memory, identity, and their only reliable record of change.

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Cover for The Deadlands Issue 42, Spring 2026. The image shows a pale figure with curled arms and hands laying upon a graying forest floor. A yellow lichen creeps across their hands and face, obscuring their eyes.

COVER

Do Forests Dream of Plasmodial Creep

art by @dorywhynot.bsky.social

Words are inadequate.

Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to Israel's genocidal famine, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again.

So very delighted to feature Cherae's work in the "Forged in FIYAH" anthology, celebrating ten years of FIYAH's contributions to SFF! Preorder today, you won't be disappointed 🔥🔥🔥

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Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

It's Monday here in the lounge; submissions stay open until the end of Wednesday. You know what to do. (Read the submission guidelines!) translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

This week, on LIGHTSPEED: "Hell Is Empty" by J.R. Dawson www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hell...

This week, on LIGHTSPEED: "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" by V.M. Ayala www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sain...

Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

Submissions remain open for speculative fiction 5000 words and under. They close on Wednesday 15 April. Please read the guidelines before submitting. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

God is a Woman A story on ‎God is a woman with calloused palms who labored the world into being — by Adwoah Nyarko

God is a Woman
A story on ‎God is a woman with calloused palms who labored the world into being — by Adwoah Nyarko
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If You Live in a Roadside House Two poems portraying the noisy grip of communal spaces and the aftermath of outgrowing care — from Imole Olusanya

If You Live in a Roadside House
Two poems portraying the noisy grip of communal spaces and the aftermath of outgrowing care — from Imole Olusanya
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