Phoenix Alexander
@dracopoullos.bsky.social
Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, The Dark, & more! Rep: Angeline Rodriguez, WME Books. 🏳️🌈🇨🇾
www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com
www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com
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“If you don’t bind things together well they will fly away”
New on hex today, a gorgeous story of flight and transcendence from Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social ! Read “Dispersal” here! 👇🪶✨
New on hex today, a gorgeous story of flight and transcendence from Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social ! Read “Dispersal” here! 👇🪶✨
Dispersal by Phoenix Alexander
After the last one (eight years, no children) you say: enough. There are too many rules to human love and every new partner changes them, anyway. Time for something else. Apartment like a perch: glass...
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Story day! I’m delighted to share ‘Dispersal,’ a flash piece about the end of a marriage… and the beginning of something stranger.
Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social
Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social
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🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - DECEMBER 2025🏳️🌈
I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!!
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I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!!
www.patreon.com/posts/149417...
Some Queer Short SFF - December 2025 | Charles Payseur
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January 29, 2026 at 1:56 PM
🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - DECEMBER 2025🏳️🌈
I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!!
www.patreon.com/posts/149417...
I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!!
www.patreon.com/posts/149417...
Story day! I’m delighted to share ‘Dispersal,’ a flash piece about the end of a marriage… and the beginning of something stranger.
Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social
Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social
“If you don’t bind things together well they will fly away”
New on hex today, a gorgeous story of flight and transcendence from Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social ! Read “Dispersal” here! 👇🪶✨
New on hex today, a gorgeous story of flight and transcendence from Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social ! Read “Dispersal” here! 👇🪶✨
Dispersal by Phoenix Alexander
After the last one (eight years, no children) you say: enough. There are too many rules to human love and every new partner changes them, anyway. Time for something else. Apartment like a perch: glass...
hexliterary.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Story day! I’m delighted to share ‘Dispersal,’ a flash piece about the end of a marriage… and the beginning of something stranger.
Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social
Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social
Reposted by Phoenix Alexander
“If you don’t bind things together well they will fly away”
New on hex today, a gorgeous story of flight and transcendence from Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social ! Read “Dispersal” here! 👇🪶✨
New on hex today, a gorgeous story of flight and transcendence from Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social ! Read “Dispersal” here! 👇🪶✨
Dispersal by Phoenix Alexander
After the last one (eight years, no children) you say: enough. There are too many rules to human love and every new partner changes them, anyway. Time for something else. Apartment like a perch: glass...
hexliterary.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:04 PM
“If you don’t bind things together well they will fly away”
New on hex today, a gorgeous story of flight and transcendence from Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social ! Read “Dispersal” here! 👇🪶✨
New on hex today, a gorgeous story of flight and transcendence from Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social ! Read “Dispersal” here! 👇🪶✨
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Catching up on some short SFF fiction.
January 25, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Catching up on some short SFF fiction.
Very grateful to be on this list with ‘Doppel Doppel Gang Gang’, my story in the current issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social! 🙏
Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3
AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF GLORIOUS SHORT FICTION THAT I ENJOYED IN 2025 (BY PUBLICATION MONTH).
his love’s ashes on his tongue, by Monte Lin, in The Deadlands (January) I love how this story explores grief and death. It’s a journey in a strange city. A journey inside our minds and the v…
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January 16, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Very grateful to be on this list with ‘Doppel Doppel Gang Gang’, my story in the current issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social! 🙏
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Go @dracopoullos.bsky.social! (And this is how I found out I can watch PBS in Sweden!)
www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi...
www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi...
Lost LA | Sci-Fi Origins: Saving Star Trek, Fan Zines, Cosplay and Counterculture | Season 8 | Episode 2
Uncover the origins of the sci-fi genre and its unique connection to historic Los Angeles.
www.pbs.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Go @dracopoullos.bsky.social! (And this is how I found out I can watch PBS in Sweden!)
www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi...
www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi...
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Watch this! This episode of Lost L.A. on @pbs.org with Nathan Masters showcases the history of science fiction (featuring my esteemed colleagues @dracopoullos.bsky.social + Ayana Jamieson + comrades from the ONE Archives at USC! #SFF
www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi...
www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi...
Lost LA | Sci-Fi Origins: Saving Star Trek, Fan Zines, Cosplay and Counterculture | Season 8 | Episode 2
Uncover the origins of the sci-fi genre and its unique connection to historic Los Angeles.
www.pbs.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Watch this! This episode of Lost L.A. on @pbs.org with Nathan Masters showcases the history of science fiction (featuring my esteemed colleagues @dracopoullos.bsky.social + Ayana Jamieson + comrades from the ONE Archives at USC! #SFF
www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi...
www.pbs.org/video/sci-fi...
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Tfw you search for reviews of one of your recent stories, and you find it in.... a betting market! 😯
(It was this one btw: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... Finding the betting market is an exercise left to the reader)
(It was this one btw: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... Finding the betting market is an exercise left to the reader)
On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting - Lightspeed Magazine
Dear Dr. Erzsébet Krajcsik-Nagy, I am contacting you as a member of the general public, and not as a fellow scholar, though I must say my chosen field of art history does have certain similarities to...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Tfw you search for reviews of one of your recent stories, and you find it in.... a betting market! 😯
(It was this one btw: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... Finding the betting market is an exercise left to the reader)
(It was this one btw: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... Finding the betting market is an exercise left to the reader)
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When this program is available on the UCR Libraries YouTube channel, it will be a tremendous resource for researchers. I am so grateful for librarians, especially my colleague @dracopoullos.bsky.social
Got to my office after class just in time to tune in for the panel with SF Archives in Southern California at the Virtual Eaton Symposium! Panelists from the Huntington Library, the Lucas Museum, and Cal State Fullerton!
(btw the event is being recorded)
www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
(btw the event is being recorded)
www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
2026 Virtual Eaton Symposium
This virtual symposium brings together sci-fi community members to discuss the state of the field of speculative publishing genres.
www.eventbrite.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:44 PM
When this program is available on the UCR Libraries YouTube channel, it will be a tremendous resource for researchers. I am so grateful for librarians, especially my colleague @dracopoullos.bsky.social
It’s not too late to register for the virtual Eaton Symposium taking place tomorrow, Jan 8th, 10am-4pm PST! Check out our amazing line-up of guests, and register at the link below.
www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
January 7, 2026 at 11:34 PM
It’s not too late to register for the virtual Eaton Symposium taking place tomorrow, Jan 8th, 10am-4pm PST! Check out our amazing line-up of guests, and register at the link below.
www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
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"The children saw their chance."
This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!"
Go check it out!
This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!"
Go check it out!
Enthrall! by Stephanie Feldman
The children saw their chance.
The cheese course lay in ruins on the endless table. The parents were too tipsy or sleepy, too busy arguing or laughing or singing, too distracted loosening belts and...
hexliterary.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM
"The children saw their chance."
This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!"
Go check it out!
This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!"
Go check it out!
Absolutely pristine horror. I adored this
Aaaa so excited "ENTHRALL!" is live! When I finished this draft, I danced over to my family and announced, "I just finished the scariest story I've ever written." 😍 Thank you @hexliterary.bsky.social !
"The children saw their chance."
This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!"
Go check it out!
This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!"
Go check it out!
January 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Absolutely pristine horror. I adored this
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Coming up on Thursday
The Eaton Symposium returns!
Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others!
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others!
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
January 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Coming up on Thursday
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This week!
The Eaton Symposium returns!
Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others!
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others!
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
January 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM
This week!
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While I haven't read everything on this list Praise Song was amazing and I highly suggest people go read it! The story is fantastic.
Awards Eligibility Post!
I’m very proud of these three delinquents:
Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine).
Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine).
Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark).
Links can be found on my website.
Here’s to more art-making in 2026!
I’m very proud of these three delinquents:
Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine).
Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine).
Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark).
Links can be found on my website.
Here’s to more art-making in 2026!
January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
While I haven't read everything on this list Praise Song was amazing and I highly suggest people go read it! The story is fantastic.
Awards Eligibility Post!
I’m very proud of these three delinquents:
Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine).
Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine).
Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark).
Links can be found on my website.
Here’s to more art-making in 2026!
I’m very proud of these three delinquents:
Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine).
Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine).
Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark).
Links can be found on my website.
Here’s to more art-making in 2026!
January 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Awards Eligibility Post!
I’m very proud of these three delinquents:
Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine).
Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine).
Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark).
Links can be found on my website.
Here’s to more art-making in 2026!
I’m very proud of these three delinquents:
Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine).
Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine).
Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark).
Links can be found on my website.
Here’s to more art-making in 2026!
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I admire those who can write a story in script format/purely in dialogue and this is one of those. It hits the mark so well because the body horror parts are given space for us to imagine them. Grotesquely fun! *suctioning noises*
by @dracopoullos.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social
by @dracopoullos.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social
Doppel Doppel Gang Gang — Baffling Magazine
by Phoenix Alexander “Okay, we’re filming. Ready everyone? From the top…”
www.bafflingmag.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:06 AM
I admire those who can write a story in script format/purely in dialogue and this is one of those. It hits the mark so well because the body horror parts are given space for us to imagine them. Grotesquely fun! *suctioning noises*
by @dracopoullos.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social
by @dracopoullos.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social
It’s here!! I get to squeak in with a final story for 2025 in the latest double issue of Baffling, which includes ‘Doppel Doppel Gang Gang’: a weird tale about something Very Horrid infiltrating a dance class 😈
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.
Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social
Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social
Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It’s here!! I get to squeak in with a final story for 2025 in the latest double issue of Baffling, which includes ‘Doppel Doppel Gang Gang’: a weird tale about something Very Horrid infiltrating a dance class 😈
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My local radio station did a piece about the new LLM laws in California and gave me a chance to speak out against so-called AI
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z1077fm.com/new-ai-trans...
New AI Transparency and Companion Chatbot Laws going into effect statewide January 1
Among the new laws going into effect as of January 1st, 2026, AB853 will update the California AI Transparency Act (CAITA) by extending the compliance
z1077fm.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My local radio station did a piece about the new LLM laws in California and gave me a chance to speak out against so-called AI
z1077fm.com/new-ai-trans...
z1077fm.com/new-ai-trans...
Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona, my last read of 2025, has become one of my faves of the year. It’s a monstrous, profound classic. I feel like I’ve read something ancient.
December 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona, my last read of 2025, has become one of my faves of the year. It’s a monstrous, profound classic. I feel like I’ve read something ancient.
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Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I feel like Sturgeon’s Law needs an update in the age of AI. ONLY 95% of ‘art’ (and I use that term generously) is crap? Those are rookie numbers, bbs.
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
file770.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I feel like Sturgeon’s Law needs an update in the age of AI. ONLY 95% of ‘art’ (and I use that term generously) is crap? Those are rookie numbers, bbs.
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I don't think you could come up with a list more designed to inflame sentiments than "here is a list of things that publishers MUST use AI to do and remain competitive, but don't worry, this isn't pushing out creative labor"
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
file770.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I don't think you could come up with a list more designed to inflame sentiments than "here is a list of things that publishers MUST use AI to do and remain competitive, but don't worry, this isn't pushing out creative labor"
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction just published their first issue in over a year. Sheree Renée Thomas continues at the helm, so we are in for some good stories.
Follow along as I post short reviews of my favorites.
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #FandSF
Follow along as I post short reviews of my favorites.
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #FandSF
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction just published their first issue in over a year. Sheree Renée Thomas continues at the helm, so we are in for some good stories.
Follow along as I post short reviews of my favorites.
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #FandSF
Follow along as I post short reviews of my favorites.
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #FandSF