Eleanor Ball
@eleanorball.bsky.social
librarian by day, writer by night | literary/speculative poetry, fiction, & CNF @ https://eleanor-ball.com/
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THRILLED (and chilled!) to share my spooky poem, Holy Days, out now with Strange Horizons!
It’s about Halloween, kind of, but it’s also about gender and ancestry and living in a small town and what we choose to have faith in and why 🖤🍂
Read here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
It’s about Halloween, kind of, but it’s also about gender and ancestry and living in a small town and what we choose to have faith in and why 🖤🍂
Read here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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It's that time of the year again!
FPSF is launching its annual Kickstarter on Sunday the 16th. Please help us keep a good thing going for another year.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
FPSF is launching its annual Kickstarter on Sunday the 16th. Please help us keep a good thing going for another year.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
Coming soon: Flash Point SF 2025
An online literary publication for science fiction & fantasy short stories under 1000 words.
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It's that time of the year again!
FPSF is launching its annual Kickstarter on Sunday the 16th. Please help us keep a good thing going for another year.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
FPSF is launching its annual Kickstarter on Sunday the 16th. Please help us keep a good thing going for another year.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...
ICYMI 🖤
Holy Days
by Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social
"On the awnings,
leaves and girls fall, pile, and rot. All this, the natural order."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
by Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social
"On the awnings,
leaves and girls fall, pile, and rot. All this, the natural order."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
ICYMI 🖤
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Psst, hey you...
...the Drabble Contest is open. 💯
...the Drabble Contest is open. 💯
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Psst, hey you...
...the Drabble Contest is open. 💯
...the Drabble Contest is open. 💯
A little belated, but in honor of spooky season, I want to share this oldie-but-goodie about ornery skeletons in a spooky skeleton cafe: www.orions-belt.net/archives/the...
The Skeleton Cafe — Orion's Belt
Clicking teeth keep time in the skeleton cafe.
www.orions-belt.net
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A little belated, but in honor of spooky season, I want to share this oldie-but-goodie about ornery skeletons in a spooky skeleton cafe: www.orions-belt.net/archives/the...
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NEW FICTION:
"Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside" by D. Thomas Minton
#SFF #flashfiction
flashpointsf.com/2025/10/31/f...
"Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside" by D. Thomas Minton
#SFF #flashfiction
flashpointsf.com/2025/10/31/f...
Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside
During scheduled transit from Caliban Mining Operations to Mars Orbital Station, ore hauler MV Ironside investigated a transponder anomaly.
flashpointsf.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NEW FICTION:
"Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside" by D. Thomas Minton
#SFF #flashfiction
flashpointsf.com/2025/10/31/f...
"Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside" by D. Thomas Minton
#SFF #flashfiction
flashpointsf.com/2025/10/31/f...
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One month left to nominate work for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards! Nominations close November 30. 🦋
Editors, visit monarch.gay/nominate to learn more about the anthology, what we're looking for, and how to nominate works from your publications.
Editors, visit monarch.gay/nominate to learn more about the anthology, what we're looking for, and how to nominate works from your publications.
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
One month left to nominate work for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards! Nominations close November 30. 🦋
Editors, visit monarch.gay/nominate to learn more about the anthology, what we're looking for, and how to nominate works from your publications.
Editors, visit monarch.gay/nominate to learn more about the anthology, what we're looking for, and how to nominate works from your publications.
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Re: the title, I cannot stress enough that no it can’t. What it can do, and is already doing, is change the way people understand creativity so that they believe they have conquered challenges rather than the reverse.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Re: the title, I cannot stress enough that no it can’t. What it can do, and is already doing, is change the way people understand creativity so that they believe they have conquered challenges rather than the reverse.
THRILLED (and chilled!) to share my spooky poem, Holy Days, out now with Strange Horizons!
It’s about Halloween, kind of, but it’s also about gender and ancestry and living in a small town and what we choose to have faith in and why 🖤🍂
Read here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
It’s about Halloween, kind of, but it’s also about gender and ancestry and living in a small town and what we choose to have faith in and why 🖤🍂
Read here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
October 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
THRILLED (and chilled!) to share my spooky poem, Holy Days, out now with Strange Horizons!
It’s about Halloween, kind of, but it’s also about gender and ancestry and living in a small town and what we choose to have faith in and why 🖤🍂
Read here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
It’s about Halloween, kind of, but it’s also about gender and ancestry and living in a small town and what we choose to have faith in and why 🖤🍂
Read here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Oh hey it’s me! I’m going to be a First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger at ACRLog this year, and my first post is about finding my way through teaching an AI elective as an anti-AI librarian. Read more here: acrlog.org/2025/10/20/t...
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Oh hey it’s me! I’m going to be a First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger at ACRLog this year, and my first post is about finding my way through teaching an AI elective as an anti-AI librarian. Read more here: acrlog.org/2025/10/20/t...
My contributor copy of the latest @doorisajarmag.bsky.social went on quite a road trip across Iowa, but it’s finally in my hands! ❤️
Pick it up to read my review of Larks by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, plus so much wonderful poetry, fiction, drama, and more ✨
Pick it up to read my review of Larks by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, plus so much wonderful poetry, fiction, drama, and more ✨
October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My contributor copy of the latest @doorisajarmag.bsky.social went on quite a road trip across Iowa, but it’s finally in my hands! ❤️
Pick it up to read my review of Larks by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, plus so much wonderful poetry, fiction, drama, and more ✨
Pick it up to read my review of Larks by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, plus so much wonderful poetry, fiction, drama, and more ✨
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Calling all magazine and anthology editors! Nominations are open for @monarch.gay's Queer Literary Awards until Nov 30.
🦋 Publications can nominate any work by a queer author you've published (like me!), whether or not that work specifically is about queer characters.
Learn more and nominate ⬇️
🦋 Publications can nominate any work by a queer author you've published (like me!), whether or not that work specifically is about queer characters.
Learn more and nominate ⬇️
Nomination Guidelines - Monarch Queer Literary Awards
When to nominate We will accept nominations from September 1, 2025 through November 30, 2025. All decisions will be sent within a month after the reading period closes. We aim to publish an anthology ...
monarch.gay
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Calling all magazine and anthology editors! Nominations are open for @monarch.gay's Queer Literary Awards until Nov 30.
🦋 Publications can nominate any work by a queer author you've published (like me!), whether or not that work specifically is about queer characters.
Learn more and nominate ⬇️
🦋 Publications can nominate any work by a queer author you've published (like me!), whether or not that work specifically is about queer characters.
Learn more and nominate ⬇️
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it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀
buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us
we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!
please like + RT this to help spread the word
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
behold!
buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us
we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!
please like + RT this to help spread the word
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
behold!
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀
buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us
we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!
please like + RT this to help spread the word
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
behold!
buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us
we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!
please like + RT this to help spread the word
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
behold!
Reading for FPSF is always unbelievably fun, and it's because of the fantastic work that YOU send in. Don't miss our last unthemed submission window of the year!
October 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Reading for FPSF is always unbelievably fun, and it's because of the fantastic work that YOU send in. Don't miss our last unthemed submission window of the year!
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IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?
October 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?
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reading that poem again 💖
All of Our Mothers are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
find it here ⬇️
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
All of Our Mothers are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
find it here ⬇️
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni
psychopomp.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
reading that poem again 💖
All of Our Mothers are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
find it here ⬇️
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
All of Our Mothers are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
find it here ⬇️
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
So honored to have a poem about grief, motherhood, and necromancy in this issue 🖤
Now: Issue 98!
Work by Eleanna Castroianni, Tracie McBride, Mateo Perez Lara, Sunwoo Jeong, Christian Emecheta, Eleanor Ball❤️🔥
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Soon: Issue 100! Celebrate with us💖
Transition, Migration, & Borders: Movement in, and of the Body
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Work by Eleanna Castroianni, Tracie McBride, Mateo Perez Lara, Sunwoo Jeong, Christian Emecheta, Eleanor Ball❤️🔥
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Soon: Issue 100! Celebrate with us💖
Transition, Migration, & Borders: Movement in, and of the Body
fantasy.kit.com/products/fan...
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September 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
So honored to have a poem about grief, motherhood, and necromancy in this issue 🖤
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Beautiful and heart-wrenching poem by @eleanorball.bsky.social
it's Fantasy Friday! ✨🦄⚔️
and our first poem of issue 98 is here!!
"All of our mothers are dead. All of our mothers
reach for me, bones dancing,
skulls bouncing down the hill."
All of Our Mothers Are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
and our first poem of issue 98 is here!!
"All of our mothers are dead. All of our mothers
reach for me, bones dancing,
skulls bouncing down the hill."
All of Our Mothers Are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
All of Our Mothers Are Dead - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Bones ring the garden like a wedding band.
psychopomp.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Beautiful and heart-wrenching poem by @eleanorball.bsky.social
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it's Fantasy Friday! ✨🦄⚔️
and our first poem of issue 98 is here!!
"All of our mothers are dead. All of our mothers
reach for me, bones dancing,
skulls bouncing down the hill."
All of Our Mothers Are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
and our first poem of issue 98 is here!!
"All of our mothers are dead. All of our mothers
reach for me, bones dancing,
skulls bouncing down the hill."
All of Our Mothers Are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
All of Our Mothers Are Dead - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Bones ring the garden like a wedding band.
psychopomp.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
it's Fantasy Friday! ✨🦄⚔️
and our first poem of issue 98 is here!!
"All of our mothers are dead. All of our mothers
reach for me, bones dancing,
skulls bouncing down the hill."
All of Our Mothers Are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
and our first poem of issue 98 is here!!
"All of our mothers are dead. All of our mothers
reach for me, bones dancing,
skulls bouncing down the hill."
All of Our Mothers Are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social
read it here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
LOVE this one
September 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
LOVE this one
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I forgot to share in the whirlwind of starting a new job, but I have a hybrid flash thing(?) (what even is genre anyway) up on the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog this week about migraines, tarot, and the way illness disiorients us from our bodies 🖤 fifthwheelpress.com/blogarchive/...
Feature: hybrid flash by Eleanor Ball — fifth wheel press
Eleanor Ball is a new librarian, a bad cook, an occasional writer, and a haver and causer of many headaches. Come say hi @eleanorball.bsky.social.
fifthwheelpress.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I forgot to share in the whirlwind of starting a new job, but I have a hybrid flash thing(?) (what even is genre anyway) up on the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog this week about migraines, tarot, and the way illness disiorients us from our bodies 🖤 fifthwheelpress.com/blogarchive/...
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"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee
Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…
okaydonkeymag.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
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The Monarch Queer Literary Awards are now open for nominations until November 30, 2025!
Visit our website (monarch.gay) to learn more about us and how editors can nominate work. 🦋
Visit our website (monarch.gay) to learn more about us and how editors can nominate work. 🦋
September 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Monarch Queer Literary Awards are now open for nominations until November 30, 2025!
Visit our website (monarch.gay) to learn more about us and how editors can nominate work. 🦋
Visit our website (monarch.gay) to learn more about us and how editors can nominate work. 🦋
I’m so thrilled to have a book review of Larks by Han VanderHart in this issue! 🕊️💕
Happy official release day for Issue 36 Fall 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine!
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-...
It's our 10-year anniversary issue. Thank you to everyone who has helped us grow and thrive over this past decade!
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-...
It's our 10-year anniversary issue. Thank you to everyone who has helped us grow and thrive over this past decade!
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews
September 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I’m so thrilled to have a book review of Larks by Han VanderHart in this issue! 🕊️💕
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Our September newsletter is out now!
This month, OKD Fiction Reader @eleanorball.bsky.social offers some encouragement and tips on getting back into a writing routine when it feels like your 2025 goals are long past attainable:
This month, OKD Fiction Reader @eleanorball.bsky.social offers some encouragement and tips on getting back into a writing routine when it feels like your 2025 goals are long past attainable:
Get back into a writing routine 🍂
Don't abandon your 2025 writing goals — change them! Plus, news and updates from around the OKD-verse.
okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Our September newsletter is out now!
This month, OKD Fiction Reader @eleanorball.bsky.social offers some encouragement and tips on getting back into a writing routine when it feels like your 2025 goals are long past attainable:
This month, OKD Fiction Reader @eleanorball.bsky.social offers some encouragement and tips on getting back into a writing routine when it feels like your 2025 goals are long past attainable: