OTHERWISE AWARD WINNER, 2025 Each year, the Otherwise Award (formerly Tiptree) celebrates speculative fiction that expands and explores our notions of gender. The winner of the 2025 Award: Luminous by Silvia Park [published by Simon & Schuster (UK) & Magpie (UK)] [book cover: mosaic tiger above a green plinth] The jury unanimously agreed: this gripping science fiction novel is a diverse and immersive read that is exceptionally well-crafted. With deep and complex worldbuilding, this work intelligently and realistically explores a range of identities and themes across gender expression, AI, robotics, trans identity, embodiment, dysphoria, disability, and relationships among humans, as well as humanity’s relationship with ‘the other’. The novel casts a crucial gaze at layered societal expectations around masculinity and femininity, and beautifully examines the quest for community and connection. 2025 HONOR LIST What a Fish Looks Like, by Syr Hayati Beker (Stelliform Press) A Song for You and I, by K. O’Neill (Random House Graphic) The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science, by Jessy Randall, illustrated by Kristin DiVona (Gold SF) Notes from a Regicide, by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books) Algarabía, by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Graywolf Press) Learn more about the 2025 winner, Honor List, and Long List, and plans to celebrate them at WisCon (online) in late May 2026: otherwiseaward.org/news Please also recommend works for the 2026 Award, donate to help fund the Award, and read more about past honorees: otherwiseaward.org [Otherwise Award logo; QR code]

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I think #genrefiction has abilities to move readers, to catch readers by surprise & make impacts, that traditional fiction can't. If used with the right care & touch. #HGWells did it masterfully, #Bradbury, #Ellison, #Butler, #PKD, my spiritual family, all did it deftly.

Edge-Lit is back at QUAD - Derby for a twelfth year in 2026, with an exciting array of interviews, panels and workshops for writers and readers of horror, fantasy and science-fiction! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #Derby #Derbyshire #writing #writers #authors #books #fiction #genrefiction

2 of 2) I also try to blog about my #writing journey, discoveries, queries, issues and everything related to writing, being a #novelist who loves #sciencefiction, #fantasy, #horror, #SFF and #genrefiction and #speculativefiction at boldly.blue. So you might dig some of what I'm laying down there🖋️📖💰

Eligible for nomination: 2025 books, stories, & more by past Otherwise winners and fellows « Otherwise Award Books, short stories, essays, poems, and other works published in 2025 by creators whose works have previously won the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) Award or Fellowships, eligible for awards nomination...

In 2025, past Otherwise Award winners & fellows released many books, comics, short stories, poems, & more:

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Consider them as you read, and nominate & vote for awards.

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Edge-Lit 12 | Derby QUAD View our latest event: Edge-Lit 12. See what the available times are for this event.

Edge-Lit is back again for 2026, and we'll be rounding off the dozen with our 12th edition at QUAD, Derby! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #derby #derbyshire #horror #fantasy #scifi #fiction #writing #writers #authors #convention #event #genrefiction

Romance and genre fiction authors, take note! Self-publishing is booming. More authors than ever are choosing to go indie for creative control and better royalties. Are you writing a genre novel? #romancebooks #genrefiction #selfpublishing

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This is my genre: Fantasy Here's my contribution to the Great Genre Debate™

Fresh on my #blog — "This is my genre: Fantasy" which is my contribution to a series of articles on book genres by @alexandra and @joel
#wwwWednesday #books #bookstodon #BookCommunity #fantasy #sff #GenreFiction #BloggingChallenge
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If you're writing romance or genre fiction, self-publishing is a great option. You keep control of your work and your royalties. We've published 10,000+ books. What's been your biggest self-publishing win this year? #genreFiction #selfpublishing #indieauthor

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Interview with Author H.C. Turk  Screenshot 1) Tell us a little bit about yourself. How did you get into writing? I began writing because I enjoyed it and found I was good at it. The fact that major publishers agreed is scarcely pertinent. In the end, I do this better than anything else, and it’s easy. It’s easy to give utter effort to writing day after day, year after year, because that is how magic is made, not by casting spells or incanting charms.

Check out my #interview with #author H.C. Turk about the #novel #VersionsofNirvana! #literaryfiction #genrefiction #interviews #authorinterview #bookblog #authorblog

digital book covers in a grid incl: The Spear Cuts Through Water, Shadow Ticket, The Mistborn, The Killing Moon, There Is No Anti Memetics Division, The Incandescent, Cleopatra, An Academy for Liars, The Red Winter

silver lining to finishing good #book w no idea when its sequel will be released… these are next on the #TBR and i’m v jazzed abt all of them. #booksky #genrefiction #reading

Image of cover of book Orpheus Nine by Chris Flynn, reviewed by Robert Goodman in the Newtown Review of Books.

Congratulations to Chris Flynn, winner 2026 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel for Orpheus Nine.
Read Robert Goodman’s review here: newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/chris-flynn-...
More about the Aurealis Awards: aurealisawards.org
@aurealisawards.bsky.social
#BookAwards
#GenreFiction
#BookSky 💙 📚

Besides looking to be intensely interesting for itself, this article by Antonio Melechi is a great resource for writers of fiction (literary & genre).

#WritingCommunity #SF #SpeculativeFiction #GenreFiction #LiteraryFiction 📚💙

Which Scifi Subgenre is Your Personality? Which scifi genre are you? Space opera? Dystopian? Scifi noir? Solarpunk? Only one way to find out: an internet quiz from a complete stranger! Check out my own novel here: https://www.royalroad.com...

This new year, I’m looking to the future. You know what genre looks to the future? Science fiction
I made a scifi subgenre personality uquiz.
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#scifi #sciencefiction #genrefiction #personalityquiz #happynewyear #nerdy #geeky #scifiwriter #scifireader #uquiz #subgenre #scifisubgenres

#filmstudies #cinemastudies #televisionstudies #streaming #genrefiction #horrorfiction #crimecinema #noir #gangsterfilm

Black Cat Weekly #226 Cover Art: Stephen HickmanNOVELSMurder of a Plaster Saint, by Robert Wallace [Phantom Detective series]   The Phantom Detective—masked pulp hero—makes his Black Cat Weekly debut.Velda, by Ron Miller [...

Check out my latest story, published with #BlackCatWeekly issue No 226 today.
I'm so excited this has found a place with a loyal readership.

#shortstory #mystery #genrefiction #shortfiction #amwriting

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The thread revealed diverse genre preferences: sci-fi, fantasy, historical fiction, and non-fiction. Readers often discovered new authors or series within these, sparking further recommendations and helping others broaden their literary horizons. 📚 #GenreFiction 3/6

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Check out this #pressrelease for #author Holly B. Gutwillinger's #NorthofBrokenandFureverHome! #dogs #pets #genrefiction #booknews #bookpressrelease

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History is Not Your Safe Space One Size Does Not Fit All: Reader Spaces, Author Spaces, and Leaving Your Illusions at the Door #frenchrevolution #notyoursafespace #history #fandom #antishippers #genrefiction This isn't the satire as you're looking for. Every so often, I wander out of my little literary niche to explore the overgrown jungles of BookTube and affiliated echo chambers. Basically, I'm like a tourist in those spots: I might write a few journal entries on my observations of the locals, snap a few pictures, sample the local food and wares, and then head back to my silo.

History is Not Your Safe Space

One Size Does Not Fit All: Reader Spaces, Author Spaces, and Leaving Your Illusions at the Door #frenchrevolution #notyoursafespace #history #fandom #antishippers #genrefiction This isn't the satire as you're looking for. Every so often, I wander out of my little…

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Is there a term in #fiction (specifically #genrefiction like #scifi and #fantasy) when a work acknowledges its own genre /genre contemporaries?

For instance how Zombieland's characters recognize their situation as zombie apocalypse? Or when The Magicians references the existence of the Harry […]

#GenreFiction Dystopian + Thriller + Tech Horror = A GARDEN OF RAGE

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December 2025 Writing Contest Submissions | Underground Bookshelf I'm extending the deadline because I didn't get the announcement posted to the website as early as I usually do. Rather than closing contest submissions on December 14th, submissions will remain open ...

The December #writingcontest is still open, and the theme is #writerschoice!

#poetry, #shortstories, #memoirs, #flashfiction, #microfiction, #excerpts, and #firstchapters are all welcome! #generalfiction, #genrefiction, #fantasy, #romance, #scifi, #speculativefiction, send me your work!

Who wouldn’t wish for a 1920s con artist caper across New York City’s pansy scene?

#visualnovel #interactivefiction #handdrawn #narrativegame #indiegame #queerfiction #1920s #periodfiction #genrefiction #crimefiction #lgbtq #lgbtqhistory

This week's tease is the precursor for the book I currently have #inthestudio, because it's slated to release this month! December 16th, save the date.

Coming Apart by Karen Heenan!

#Narratrix #NarratrixNotes #audiobookseries #audiobook #historicalfictionbooks #comingsoon #genrefiction #TeaseDay

The screenshot of a list of 23 names titled The 2025 Raven Short Story Contest Longlist. Below the list, in bold black letters the sentence: Congratulations to these authors! On the right side of the list a pencil drawing of a raven in flight.

Last week, @pulpliterature.bsky.social dropped the #RavenShortStory #longlist
Look who's lumped in with such an amazing group of writers! This is so exciting.

The shortlist will drop later this month. I'll see how that goes, but this is encouraging on its own.

#writing #genrefiction #competition

The strange "No Frills" series of totally generic genre fiction books from the 1980s The "No Frills" series was a collection of genre fiction paperbacks published by Jove Publishing in 1981 with plain covers, no author names, and maximally pulp plots. From Weird Universe:…

there were also generic #GenreFiction books
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Worked out the story, plot, flow and… it needs work.

May try to merge the old and new?

I’m pushing myself to write a better story and I hope it pays off!

#writinglife #booksky #firstdraft #fiction #genrefiction #plotter #plot #story

Let's KILL my will to write today!

AMA about my latest "book":
Triune Augury - First Revelation: Hexarcane Truth

#SFF #writing #Sci-fi #genrefiction

I'm all set for Supanova in Adelaide. See you there!
@supanovaexpo.bsky.social
#supanova #sciencefiction #fantasy #adelaide #indieauthor #author #genrefiction #fandom #artistalley

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Thanks to @emnorth.bsky.social , Rebecca J. Holden, Eleyna Haroun, & @bogiperson.bsky.social for this set of recommendations for gender-expanding-and-exploring genre work published 2022-2023. This concludes our informal recommendation series; enjoy!

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