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C.H. Pearce
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Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · Nov 18
It’s nearing the end of the year somehow, time for my annual blog post (this is why I can’t have a newsletter) + small awards eligibility post! Drop me a line and I’ll happily send you an e-copy! ❤️ Might have 1 more story out by the end of the year…

www.chpearce.net/post/awards-...
C.H. Pearce awards eligibility 2025 short story "A Shortcut via the New Tunnel, M-ate" in Never Say Die (CSFG Publishing, November 2025) art cover art for Rebels & Rainbows (Deadset Press, June 2025) fan art of How Fish Is Made, Yellowjackets, The Book of Bill, The Subway, Archive 8I, "Kookaburra Cruel" by Aaron Dries Watercolour and mixed media artworks of a bird and planets for REBELS & RAINBOWS anthology (Deadset Press), and fan art of How Fish Is Made by Wrong Organ, Chappell Roan’s The Subway, Aaron Dries’ “Kookaburra Cruel,” Natalie from Yellowjackets, the witches and Vinegar Pete from The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch, and Dan and Ratty from Archive 81 by Dead Signals. Artist’s watermark reads www.chpearce.net
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alexwoodroe.com
Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
The author holding her book like it's the lion king A hardcover in oranges and reds, truck on the cover, title is The Night Ship, Alex Woodroe The same book open to chapter three, called "the land of lonesomeness"
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Book mail! My 2nd cover art but 1st time getting my mitts on a hardcopy! Thank you @deadsetpress.bsky.social REBELS & RAINBOWS eds. Austin P. Sheehan & Leanbh Pearson for the commission + including my Aurealis reprint “Integrated Learning” and all the authors for your wonderful stories. 🌈🦜✨
Book cover for Rebels & Rainbows: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology (Deadset Press) shows mixed media art of a bird in a colourful starscape Book cover for Rebels & Rainbows: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology (Deadset Press) shows mixed media art of a bird in a colourful starscape Back cover for Rebels & Rainbows: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology (Deadset Press) shows mixed media art of a bird in a colourful starscape TOC for Rebels and Rainbows
January 6, 2026 at 6:57 AM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Happy New Year all! Wishing you a safe and happy 2026 🥳 Blogged about my writing/art 2025 (also rejigged my website, what do you think?) but TLDR it was good, thank you for your support and I am lucky to know you 🥳 🎉 🥂 ❤️ 📚 🎨

www.chpearce.net/post/awards-...

#topnine #topnine2025
Top nine Instagram grid showing mixed media art of a daffodil and hands weaving magic thread, a woman wearing glasses, books, seagulls, and a Twin Peaks coffee mug www.chpearce.net www.chpearce.net/portfolio/
December 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Put another small visitor outside but they’re stacking up 🦎 🦎 Also various photos lately 🐀 🦜 🌺 ☀️
Skinks King parrot in gum tree 3 pet rats Bottlebrush
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
👀 🍄 🎧 sounds fab, going to listen to this later!
December 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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heartlines-spec.com
We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry.

Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)
our wishlist for the submission period. MORE: unabashedly fantasy or scifi settings; queerplatonic relationships, rural/pastoral settings; symbiotic relationships (toxic or beneficial). LESS: dead spouses; retellings; stories that don't show the monster; meet cutes (we're here for established relationships)
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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psliterary.bsky.social
"I would love to see stories grounded on our world that have a subtle speculative twist."
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qglhfpy2bj5tkgpnsq6blpex" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@clgslr.bsky.social‬ #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
December 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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pietersender.bsky.social
🎶 He knows if you are sleeping / he knows your welcome mat / he knows if you’ve been bad or good / he’s lobster-riding rat 🎶
December 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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vajra.me
The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
sfwa.org Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.org · 16d
SFWA members and general SFF community:

In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.

Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.

SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
An apology and next steps from the SFWA Board of Directors
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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chmmagazine.bsky.social
COVER REVEAL!

2026 is getting off to a great start with issue #67 (don't tell your kids). Featuring stories from R.L. Meza, Louis Inglis Hall, Ryan Marie Ketterer, Olivia Sowers, Eugen Bacon, Ellison Hyde, Chris Kuriata, and Kaya Skovdatter.

Art by Asya Yordanova
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
👀 📚
meerkatpress.bsky.social Meerkat Press @meerkatpress.bsky.social · 16d
We are thrilled to pull back the curtain on the cover of Kaaron Warren’s GOING TO SUMMERTIME. Coming October 2026.

https://smpl.is/afqd9

@Kaaron Warren
December 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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commanderrika.blacksky.app
I want to do more cover art in 2026, so I'm going to be insufferable about mentioning that from now on. Commissions OPEN.
A Black woman with pale white curly hair is wearing a blue dress. She is framed by purple and green stained glass of lotus flowers behind her.
December 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
chpearcewrites.bsky.social
Some locals from the last few days 🦘 🦘 🦘 🌧️

#kangaroos #canberrawalks
Two kangaroos Two kangaroos
December 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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jonnysims.bsky.social
Be there, or be haunted by the knowledge that you missed it; hounded by the spectre of spooks unlistened.
Or, like, catch the VOD later. You do you.
An old illustration of a gormless looking dude, labelled as "You, watching my stream, startled and unnerved". He is staring at a weird skull spider thing lablled "The M.R. James ghost story I'm telling". In the corner is a cat labelled "One of my cats".
December 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
It appears as though SFWA has had a very quick change of heart and is now back on the right side of this. Shouldn't have happened in the first place. New Nebula Awards eligibility rules for generated text are now:
Previous Text: “Works that are wholly written using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.” New Text: “Works that are written, either wholly or partially, by generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible.” -and- Previous Text: “Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and the nature of the technology’s use will be made clear to voters on the final ballot” New Text: “Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and those works will be disqualified.”
December 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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matthewdowsmith.bsky.social
An (almost) end of year thought --
As we stumble to the end of another incredibly difficult year for creative people in any medium, I just want to share one piece of advice that I genuinely think we should all be following no Matter what stage you're at professionally: Figure out what you love doing and do More of that. Just go all in on the things you're obsessed with. If you're going to struggle, do it for something you love.
December 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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psliterary.bsky.social
"I would love to find a super cozy and quirky mystery."
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qglhfpy2bj5tkgpnsq6blpex" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@clgslr.bsky.social‬ #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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stinaleicht.bsky.social
hard same
moniqueac.bsky.social Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social · 19d
I agree with this 👇

Any LLM use should be disqualifying. It tarnishes the awards as a whole to allow for 'some' disclosed use.
spacecowboybooks.bsky.social Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 19d
I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
December 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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alasdairstuart.bsky.social
I'd forgotten how charming the trailer for this is. Beck! Such a great choice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBfF...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Trailer
YouTube video by Christopher Haley
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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megapolisomancy.bsky.social
I’m always saying this (and even when I’m not, that’s a space of productive ambiguity for you to fill in with the memory of me saying this)
What attracts you to writing short stories? I love the intensity of short stories - their ability to hold a whole world in one moment that has fingers extending forward and backward. Kipling talked about being able to behold the past, present and future as one awful whole. Omission - what is left out of the text - is a powerful tool for any writer, but in a short story it becomes more acute, piling meaning and emotion into the spaces between the words. This asks more of the reader, and I like that collaboration - both as a reader and a writer.
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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danielomalley.bsky.social
For the month of December, USA readers can pick up The Rook on their kindle for just $2.99!
December 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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brandtandstein.com
Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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freyamarske.bsky.social
Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙

BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 28d
We are THRILLED to announce @freyamarske.bsky.social's Bodies of Magic, a new medical dark academia featuring mages and murder coming September 16, 2026 from Tor Books!
Announcing Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske - Reactor
A dark academia fantasy arriving September 2026
reactormag.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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andrewcull.bsky.social
Pre-order offer! If you pre-order our new antho, ENCOUNTERS, you'll be in with a chance of winning one of five paperback copies on release day. Either post your order confirmation or email it to encounterswithcryptids@gmail.com.

Fifteen monstrous stories. Out 02/14/26 www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4BLN1GR.
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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mxrxdx.bsky.social
A reminder that my new horror collection SONGS OF SHADOW, WORDS OF WOE - featuring Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and Australasian Shadows Award-winning stories - is out and desperate for your attention now!
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM