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lowry (they/them)
@ferretly.bsky.social
black author, artist, veterinarian, and aspiring renaissance man 🌿 clarion west '23 🌿 words in strange horizons, baffling, fantasy, and lightspeed

https://lowrypoletti.wordpress.com/
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looks like its time to make an awards eligibility post :) two of my stories were published this year:

my novelette "BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE" in Strange Horizons, and my flash piece "The Blooming Pond" in Baffling. i'll post the links below this
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Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...
September 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢

Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!

Donate at the link ⬇️
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
www.kickstarter.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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The @apexmag.bsky.social drabble contest is looking for 300 word stories based on the concept of a blood-maw. These are pocket hells used to punish evil people and are featured heavily in my upcoming novella We Who Hunt Alexanders.

Deadline for submissions is June 20. Details in the thread.
June 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My story "See Now the Misfortune of the Thinking Tenax" is in this issue of @lightspeedmagazine.com!
June 2025 (Issue 181) - Lightspeed Magazine
We have original science fiction by Peter Watts (“The Twenty-One Second God”) and Marissa Lingen (“All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: (“Dimensional Living Comp...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
June 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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THIS IS OUR LAST PUSH!
We have 2 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a ways to go!!

Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!

Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky
May 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The fact that BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE is on the 2025 Notable Stories list for Best American is almost unbelievable to me 🥰🥰 I'm so touched that anyone likes this weird little story.

www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...
May 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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the florist of a witching garden

#art #oc #ocsky #dnd
May 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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“Fox and Troll Bake a Cake” by Jeff Reynolds from @giganotosaurus.bsky.social, “It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand” by Lowry Poletti from @LightspeedMag (@lightspeedmagazine.com), and more short fic recs from @ClowderofTwo locusmag.com/2025/05...
Small Wonders, GigaNotoSaurus, and Lightspeed: Reviews by Charles Payseur
Small Wonders 2/25 GigaNotoSaurus 2/25 Lightspeed 2/25 The February Small Wonders features “Echo Syndrome”, a new story by Jennifer Hudak. In it, a mother notices that her daughter has split into s…
locusmag.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Pleased as punch to contribute even just a little bit to Dragon Age! Many thanks to AD Matt Rhodes for bringing me on; really great to experience your approach!

Here are a few scene sketches; full project on my website!
Freelance schedule is now OPEN!
April 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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With alt-text
April 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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If you'd like to get in on our newest novella series as well as a short story collection from Christopher Caldwell, we'd love for you to check out our latest crowdfund at Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Six
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
www.kickstarter.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Cover reveal for the inaugural issue of Plott Hound Magazine! Cover art by the amazing @wolfskulljack.bsky.social. The issue is slated to be published this May. I hope you look forward to it!
April 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Hold on, there's a new @strangehorizons.bsky.social fiction podast episode out? and it's BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE by @ferretly.bsky.social read by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social.
Get your headphones on right now for this brilliant story from 2024.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Podcast: BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE
In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Lowry Poletti's BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE read by Emmie Christie Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
strangehorizons.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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#NationalUnicornDay

can centaurs count? 🥺
April 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic @strangehorizons.bsky.social

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
April 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
WYRM art WYRM art WYRM art
March 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Bugbirds are getting traction on Tumblr again so I thought it would be nice to show them here as well :D
One day I want to make a refsheet for them and make an open species officially, so people could have fun and make their own weevil-gryphon-thing
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Another flash idea: Bleeding heart pigeon.
How lot of my flashes start out. Pencil sketch with notes to myself on what references to look up and which details to finesse.
It will be mainly blackwork design, but wish to colour in the heart with red.

#tattoosky #europetattoo #hungarytattoo
February 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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evening hunt 🌙
February 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Today is @hachepueyo.bsky.social's BUT NOT TOO BOLD book birthday, so I made another silhouette animation in Lotte Reiniger's style, this time of Dália and Lady Anatema 🕷️
February 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Just announced by @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social, my cover for the a "Sword and Planet" issue, featuring adventures in outer planets!
February 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ
2024
November 26, 2024 at 6:06 PM