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Caroline M. Yoachim
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SFF writer. Ignyte Award winner!!! Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Eugie, Sturgeon & Nebula finalist. Stories in BCS, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld & F&SF. Interviewer at Uncanny Magazine. Biracial. She/her.
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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 4d
Eligibility post time! Catching up on your 2025 reading? I had a couple things out that I'd love for you to read:

My short story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War - Uncanny Magazine
Kestrel House  There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement pa...
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Brownie o’clock!
Glass dish with brownie, ice cream, and chocolate sauce.
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Reposted by Caroline M. Yoachim
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Unlikely to make it out with my camera today, so here's a favorite of mine from the archives: FEED ME

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #BeakOpen #PNW #nature #wildlife #BirdSky #BirdPhotography #birds
A trio of young barn swallows on a dock with wings spread wide and beaks open. An adult barn swallow is feeding the baby bird in the front of the trio, such that the adult bird's head is half way inside the baby bird's beak (in order to stuff an insect in there).
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by Caroline M. Yoachim
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A podcast of my story "Disassembling Light", originally published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is up on It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton!!!

This isn't even a career milestone I knew to want, but my nerd's heart is so full!!
Screenshot of podcast page for It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton. The most recent story is displayed: "Disassembling Light" by Kel Coleman, posted 1 day ago
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Come join me and some very cool people at The Twisted Spine this Wednesday in Brooklyn!
November 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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ICYMI (for the weekend crowd...)

Science fiction with magic-wielding Fae...
or fantasy with futuristic tech?

(yes)

If you haven't yet, I'd love for you to read my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story from earlier this year!
uncannymagazine.bsky.social Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 2d
Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" by Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

buff.ly/qpwUkej
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, “Barbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement park thirty-five miles northeast of Antiphony."
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
carolinemyoachim.bsky.social
ICYMI (for the weekend crowd...)

Science fiction with magic-wielding Fae...
or fantasy with futuristic tech?

(yes)

If you haven't yet, I'd love for you to read my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story from earlier this year!
uncannymagazine.bsky.social Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 2d
Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" by Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

buff.ly/qpwUkej
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, “Barbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement park thirty-five miles northeast of Antiphony."
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Bird break! A shot from the archives, because today has been *a day*

Swans, taking off.

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #swans #FlyDay #BirdSky #PNW #nature #wildlife #birds
Three swans running across the surface of a lake with wings spread wide and necks stretched forward. There are splashes of white spray kicked up where the swans feet hit the surface of the water.
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
carolinemyoachim.bsky.social
Science fiction with magic-wielding Fae...
or fantasy with futuristic tech?

(yes)

If you haven't yet, I'd love for you to read my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story from earlier this year!
uncannymagazine.bsky.social Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 2d
Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" by Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social!

You can read it here!

buff.ly/qpwUkej
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, “Barbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement park thirty-five miles northeast of Antiphony."
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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A burst of color for your feed: lingering autumn leaf

#photography #FallColors #ColorADay #YellowThu #PNW #autumn
Closeup of a golden-yellow maple leaf with a few holes in it, glowing in the sun. In the background, dark blue sky and mostly-bare branches, blurry.
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Today in nice author moments, I went to the local bookstore, and not only did they have copies of the latest Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, but they asked me to sign them on my story page :)
Photo of a table completely covered with many stacks of paperback books, with a sign on top that says "New Paperback Fiction"
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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A burst of color for your feed: late blooming anemone flowers #BloomScrolling

#photography #nature #wildlife #PNW #FlowerReport #garden #flowers
In the foreground, a crisply focused flower in full bloom, with delicate pink petals and a pale green center that is ringed with yellow pollen-tipped stamens. Farther back, a second flower of the same type, not quite fully open, somewhat blurry. Blurry greenery in the background. Shot on an overcast day, which gives a somewhat moody lighting to the photo.
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
carolinemyoachim.bsky.social
Eligibility post time! Catching up on your 2025 reading? I had a couple things out that I'd love for you to read:

My short story "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War - Uncanny Magazine
Kestrel House  There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement pa...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Caroline M. Yoachim
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Behold, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine 2025 Award Eligibility post! buff.ly/2OBnGgP
Cover image The Duet by Nilah Magruder. Two brown women sit at a piano smiling at each other as they play. The younger woman with long white hair, a pendant, and a lavenger dress sits further away. The older woman with her black hair in a bun, her hovering, disembodied head has a propellor and metal collar on her throat, sits closer to us. Her body underneath is dressed in a burgandy dress with poofy sleeves. Her right hand, also with a metal collar, is detatched and on the keyboard between the other woman's hands. Behind them is a blue curtain in front of a gray wall. The Uncanny banner, July/August 2025, Issue Sixty-Five, list of author, essayists, and poets credits, and the editor credits, are on top of the image. Cover image Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong. An Asian woman with long black hair, wearing a blue qipao-like dress with blue floral designs, holds a pair of black scissors and faces us. A shadowy figure, a woman in profile, stands behind her. At the women’s feet are gray-brown skyscrapers. Behind her is a pale-green-blue sky and a pale yellow sun-like circle surrounded by yellow rays and black angled points shaped like scissors. The Uncanny banner, May/June 2025, Issue Sixty-Four, list of author, essayists, and poets credits, and the editor credits, are on top of the image.
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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As often happens, last month I went to the Japanese garden a bit early for the fall colors, and today... was a bit late. But the lingering leaves are beautiful.

#photography #FallColors #autumn #PNW #nature
A maple leaf riddled with holes, fallen from the tree but caught in a lower branch. The leaf is a fiery orange-brown, and is catching the late morning sunlight. Blurry mostly-bare branches in the background, with a couiple blurs of orange lingering leaves.
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Seattle friends: the race for mayor is extremely close. Ballots can be cured until Nov. 24 at 4:30 p.m.

Please go check your #vote:
voter.votewa.gov/portal2023/l...
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A quick phone photo from today's walk: the garden at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture.
A path of paving stones leads to a round courtyard with a fountain in the center. On one side of the path, a small tree with fiery autumn leaves, on the other isde, some kind of ornamental plant that is golden-yellow and very round. Mostly cloudy sky.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Wrote a few hundred words, acquired a savory crêpe and some chai.

#writing #PhonePhotography #FoodPhotography #yum
In front, a crepe that even folded up takes up an entire plate. At the top of the crepe some of the fillings are visible: spinach, roasted red pepper, olive tapenade, and mozzarella cheese. Behind the crepe a cup of chai with cinnamon sprinkled on top, sitting on a saucer.
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Spent much of my morning on and off hold with customer service trying to get something resolved and in they end they... couldn't. I eventually found my own workaround, but I want my morning back, sigh.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A photo from today's walk: snake!

I don't see a lot of snakes in Seattle, but I'm reasonably confident this was some variety of garter snake.

#photography #nature #wildlife #snake #PNW
Head and small section of the body of a snake slithering through sparse grass and clover. The snake is small and mostly black with yellow-orange stripes running along either side of its body.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Reposted by Caroline M. Yoachim
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!

Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy stylized as cover text.
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
carolinemyoachim.bsky.social
Unlikely to make it out with my camera today, so here's a favorite of mine from the archives: Gull, clam, crow.

#photography #BirdOfTheDay #takeoffs #BirdSky #gull #crow #PNW #nature #wildlife #beach #birds
On the left side of the image, a gull holding a large clam in its beak, with wings raised as it takes off. Somewhat hidden against a backdrop of dark beach pebbles, a crow watches intently. Blurry in the background, a tiny wave is washing up on the rocky shore.
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Wrote 700 words, acquired a pastry. #writing #victory
Danish with lemon pastry cream and blueberries. On a cheerful orange plate. Cafe window in the background shows sidewalk strewn with fallen autumn leaves.
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Caroline M. Yoachim
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Small Beer is having a sale!
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[Spelled coupon wrong 4 times writing this (How?!?)]

25% off a bunch of our books from now until year end using code

SBP25

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Screenshot of covers: Taboo, Telling the Map, Tender, & Terra Nullius Screenshot of covers: The Silverberg Business, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, Spirits Abroad, A Stranger in Olondria, & Stranger Things Happen Screenshot of covers: Never Have I Ever, OKPsyche, Privilege of the Happy Ending, Prophecies, Libels, & Dreams, & Reconstruction Screenshot of covers: Never Have I Ever, OKPsyche, Privilege of the Happy Ending, Prophecies, Libels, & Dreams, & Reconstruction
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Going to the pool today, posting here for accountability.

#exercise
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM