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Emily Hockaday
@emilyhockaday.bsky.social
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Author of NAMING THE GHOST (Cornerstone Press 2022) & IN A BODY (Harbor Editions). Sr. Managing Editor at ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION & ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT.
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Fantastic event @astoriabookshop.bsky.social for the launch of Lindsay Stuart Hill’s world of dew with readings from @emilyhockaday.bsky.social.

Two of my favorites so far when going through the books… it’s January still by LSH and River Clay by EH.
Covers of world of dew by Lindsay Stuart hill and in a body by Emily Hockaday. The former depicts a forest or a swamp, surreal and dreamlike with evening light. The latter depicts a the head of a woman with perhaps carrot flowers growing out of her face. It's January. Still. But on the plus side, as I walked down my block after the blizzard, I saw a woman with wine-dark dreadlocks, and from her pocket there was singing, and she was singing along, don't worry, baby to her car, of all things, as she swept armfuls of snow from it, a VW bug with headlight eyes, windshield wiper antennae sticking straight up, and I walked on overcome into the cloudless blue morning. Don't worry, baby. I had walked out my door, phone in hand, with a head full of news: 1,300 people dying a day, vaccine mandates in stalemate, new laws contrived to erase our history. But now, this sky meadow. My thoughts stunned, cowed and sheepish in pure air. Oh literal glitter, sparkling specks of snow dust upswept like bird murmurations, apart, together, dispersed, space-entered, oh God. On the plus side, there she was: music overflowing from her pockets, her throat, as if we were buried in nothing but sunlight and snowfall and she could just brush it all off with her mittens. River Clay Being back here, I'm reminded what I'm made of. The wet shore of Hockanum River is red and thick. I know the slimy feel of clay between my fingers and under my nails. A muskrat glides through the water; I think about my own clay limbs—the stiffness each morning, how you call and call my name with your little voice, but I still can't get them to move.
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. November 8, 2025 Featuring: Todd Dillard Brian Spears Matthew E. Henry James McConachie David J. Bauman Jonathan Everitt https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Poets, start your wild, precious engines.
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Oct 27
'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
emilyhockaday.bsky.social
Our leader is starving his people and blaming it on everyone else. I really can’t fathom this dystopia we live in where corporations worth billions don’t pay fair taxes or their employees livable wages but food insecure residents aren’t worth spending $$ on. TLDR please donate to local food banks.
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Just a few days away!
emilyhockaday.bsky.social Emily Hockaday @emilyhockaday.bsky.social · Sep 21
Free (after garden admission) poetry workshop on 10/4 at 1 pm sponsored by @flushingtownhall.bsky.social and Queens Art Fund and Queens Botanical garden! Reading & Open Mic at 3! www.eventbrite.com/e/1625151314...
Flyer advertising a poetry workshop from 1-3 and reading/open mic from 3-4 on October 4th at the Queens Botanical Garden. Images of a red haired poet and a seated reading.
October 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
emilyhockaday.bsky.social
Free (after garden admission) poetry workshop on 10/4 at 1 pm sponsored by @flushingtownhall.bsky.social and Queens Art Fund and Queens Botanical garden! Reading & Open Mic at 3! www.eventbrite.com/e/1625151314...
Flyer advertising a poetry workshop from 1-3 and reading/open mic from 3-4 on October 4th at the Queens Botanical Garden. Images of a red haired poet and a seated reading.
September 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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September 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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christafairbrother.bsky.social
This is exciting to have another journal in this space.

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nervetowrite.bsky.social Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · Sep 1
Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!
A tan image includes the black Nerve to Write logo featuring a raspberry-colored neuron in the top left corner and the dark purple words “A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers” along with the raspberry words “Now open for submissions” and the purple text “nervetowrite.com.” In the top right and bottom left corner of the black neurons stretch off the image.
September 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
emilyhockaday.bsky.social
My Worldcon schedule! Come say hi!
August 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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As always at #Worldcon you can pitch me for @interstellarflight.bsky.social but pls be aware we are not taking a lot of books right now. Catching up from COVID brain fog and focusing on our pending books I’m behind on.

It’s important to learn to pitch tho so I’m always willing to hear one!
August 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
emilyhockaday.bsky.social
Upcoming events with many incredible writers! More info as each date nears.
July 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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readinstead.bsky.social
My best impression of a disappointed father looking at his children (poems). Was a great time reading eith @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social and @emilyhockaday.bsky.social at NYC Poetry Festival.
Standing looking over my glasses at the poem, mouth turned downward as if to say, Words, what have you done? Standing with Emily Hockaday and Jason B Crawford.
July 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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readinstead.bsky.social
Who is going to the NYC Poetry Festival?? Poets of Queens is hosting a reading on Sunday, July 13th at 11:30am with @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @emilyhockaday.bsky.social and yours truly.
Poets of Queens New York Poetry Festival Reading Brinkley Stage, Sunday July 13th @ 11:30AM with Jared Beloff, Jason B. Crawford and Emily Hockaday. Hosted by Olena Jennings.
June 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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versedaily.bsky.social
Today's poem is "Aubade"
by Emily Hockaday
from Blood Music
All Subscribers got to hear this poet from their inbox!
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April 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Next week I’ll be at Black Rock Books promoting my newest @smallharborpub.bsky.social book! 🩸
April 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ardyce.bsky.social
The magazine launched the careers of many well-known authors, and is the oldest science fiction magazine still in operation today. Trevor deserves recognition for continuing the tradition of publishing groundbreaking SF. Analog has 75 awards under its belt. Let’s give its editor long overdue credit.
March 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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ardyce.bsky.social
Please nominate Trevor Quachri for a Hugo for best editor, short form for his work at Analog. He has worked 25 years at the magazine, serving 13 years as editor, publishing over 1000 stories. He changed the Campbell Award to the Astounding Award & founded the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices.
March 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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smallharborpub.bsky.social
Join us in celebrating our February and early March book releases with a fabulous reading!
Featuring:
Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade's "The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020"
Emily Hockaday's "Blood Music"
Andrea L. Hackbarth's "waveforms"
Register on Zoom:
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March 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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jwmason.bsky.social
I'm grateful for the beautiful trans people in my life. But solidarity is never just about "them." It's about all of us. Recognition of trans people is liberating for everyone. It opens space for all of us to think about our identities and relationships outside the sex we were assigned at birth.
March 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Banner day for mail!
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February 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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degrootfoundation.bsky.social
Happy publication day, Emily! Writer of Note @emilyhockaday.bsky.social's poetry book, BLOOD MUSIC, was published by @smallharborpub.bsky.social

Learn more at degrootfoundation.org/emily-hockad...
Headshot of writer Emily Hockaday smiling at the camera in a white top in front of a blurred outdoor background. The cover of her new book, Blood Music, is in the bottom left corner. The book cover is a black and white graphic of a mother patting her daughter's hair as she sits in her lap. The daughter is looking out the window at a red moon with blood coming from her mouth.
February 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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smallharborpub.bsky.social
🚨 New Release! Blood Music by Emily Hockaday is out now!
This powerful poetry collection explores the body, chronic illness, and nature with raw honesty. A must-have for poetry lovers!
Get your copy: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/blood-...

#BloodMusic #PoetryLovers #IndiePublishing #NewPoetry
February 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
emilyhockaday.bsky.social
1 day until this book babe is born. This one has everything: birth, death, illness, and lots of fruit—blueberries, strawberries, cherries. Thanks to those who’ve preordered signed copies. DM for info on that if you’d like one!
February 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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smallharborpub.bsky.social
🚨 New release alert! 🚨 Blood Music by Emily Hockaday is coming February 20!

📖 Learn more: smallharborpublishing.com/books/blood-music-by-emily-hockaday

#BloodMusic #EmilyHockaday #SmallHarborPublishing #Poetry #NewRelease #indiepublishing
February 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM