Kel Coleman
@kcolemanwrites.bsky.social
Writer with stories in FIYAH, BCS, Best American, & more | CW '22 | Ignyte Award Finalist 🔥 | they/them
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Last Meal Aboard the Awassa - Lightspeed Magazine
Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and t...
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ICYMI, I have a new story out in Lightspeed Magazine about lovers aboard a doomed science vessel!!
It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food.
Check it out:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...
It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food.
Check it out:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...
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My story "In the Zone", about a young woman with a special power that allows her to rescue immigrants, is now available to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com. Check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...
In the Zone - Lightspeed Magazine
As her head hit the pillow, Yadira felt exhausted and relieved. Exhausted, because she’d worked on a very large collage almost the whole day straight. Her shoulder blades ached from hunching over her ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My story "In the Zone", about a young woman with a special power that allows her to rescue immigrants, is now available to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com. Check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...
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I loved this book. Such quiet, devastating, beautiful science fiction.
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I loved this book. Such quiet, devastating, beautiful science fiction.
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My essay “Papershells” for @sarahgailey.bsky.social's year-long essay series Love Letters: Reasons to be Alive is live!
This series celebrates “the objects and experiences that keep us going, even through the hardest of times” and is always free to read.
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letters...
This series celebrates “the objects and experiences that keep us going, even through the hardest of times” and is always free to read.
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letters...
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My essay “Papershells” for @sarahgailey.bsky.social's year-long essay series Love Letters: Reasons to be Alive is live!
This series celebrates “the objects and experiences that keep us going, even through the hardest of times” and is always free to read.
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letters...
This series celebrates “the objects and experiences that keep us going, even through the hardest of times” and is always free to read.
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letters...
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
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As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Novellas - Reactor
It's time to add something short and sweet to your TBR stack...
reactormag.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
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at long last! fresh bats flying out from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @nicanstett.bsky.social, @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, & Sanni Omodolapo🦇
don't subscribe to my weirdo letter? to each their own but you should still check out these stories! so here's the link
don't subscribe to my weirdo letter? to each their own but you should still check out these stories! so here's the link
a heart, a tendril, an anchor, a clock
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
at long last! fresh bats flying out from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @nicanstett.bsky.social, @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, & Sanni Omodolapo🦇
don't subscribe to my weirdo letter? to each their own but you should still check out these stories! so here's the link
don't subscribe to my weirdo letter? to each their own but you should still check out these stories! so here's the link
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For the day crowd, the first batches of cards have gone out but there are plenty left. We can't make it on my disability alone so I'm selling greeting cards to make up for our SNAP benefits. Be the reason someone smiles when they open the envelope. Pls share & much thankiness.
We lost our SNAP benefits and are struggling to get by on just my disability, let alone with food costs. I'm selling handmade cards to help make ends meet, $4.00 each, take your pick, first come first serve. All designs in the comments. Msg me and we can make it happen. Pls share & thnx!
North Pole
North Pole
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
For the day crowd, the first batches of cards have gone out but there are plenty left. We can't make it on my disability alone so I'm selling greeting cards to make up for our SNAP benefits. Be the reason someone smiles when they open the envelope. Pls share & much thankiness.
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Psst! Illumicrate currently have a sale on! If you wanted to grab a copy of the special edition of A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST, it’s currently available at 25% off!
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A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde book only (Illumicrate 'Ancient
A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde book only (Illumicrate 'Ancient Artefacts' Exclusive) is an adult fantasy and the first in a duology. The Illumicrate Exclusive edition features: an exclusive re...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Psst! Illumicrate currently have a sale on! If you wanted to grab a copy of the special edition of A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST, it’s currently available at 25% off!
illumicrate.com/products/may...
illumicrate.com/products/may...
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It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...
midnight & indigo: Sixteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers
From underwater cities to outlawed magic, lunar missions to haunted houses, sixteen emerging and established Black women writers conjure strange wonders, eerie encounters, and futures beyond our reach...
midnight-indigo.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...
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🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️🌈
I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!!
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I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!!
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Some Queer Short SFF - September 2025 | Charles Payseur
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October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️🌈
I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!!
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I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!!
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And i was able to deal with this but the internet is now turned off
Any help please
Any help please
Ugh got a rough money situation that involves making sure my sister can get to and from a postopp dr appt this week
So any help is appreciated
ko-fi.com/weredawgz
So any help is appreciated
ko-fi.com/weredawgz
Support Danny Lore
Support Danny Lore
ko-fi.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
And i was able to deal with this but the internet is now turned off
Any help please
Any help please
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Day 10 & 11! A double posting of Black SpecFic month recs because I was too tired yesterday to do it.
Classics:
1. DARK MATTER edited by Sheree R. Thomas
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-matte...
2. WHISPERS FROM THE COTTON TREE ROOT edited by Nalo Hopkinson
www.goodreads.com/book/show/84... 1/2
Classics:
1. DARK MATTER edited by Sheree R. Thomas
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-matte...
2. WHISPERS FROM THE COTTON TREE ROOT edited by Nalo Hopkinson
www.goodreads.com/book/show/84... 1/2
October 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Day 10 & 11! A double posting of Black SpecFic month recs because I was too tired yesterday to do it.
Classics:
1. DARK MATTER edited by Sheree R. Thomas
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-matte...
2. WHISPERS FROM THE COTTON TREE ROOT edited by Nalo Hopkinson
www.goodreads.com/book/show/84... 1/2
Classics:
1. DARK MATTER edited by Sheree R. Thomas
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-matte...
2. WHISPERS FROM THE COTTON TREE ROOT edited by Nalo Hopkinson
www.goodreads.com/book/show/84... 1/2
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It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
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This year we should be supporting our fellow artists and writers as much as possible. Help us continue to give independent creativity a space to be celebrated by reading Locus Magazine! linktr.ee/locusmagazine
October 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This year we should be supporting our fellow artists and writers as much as possible. Help us continue to give independent creativity a space to be celebrated by reading Locus Magazine! linktr.ee/locusmagazine
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Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...
O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine
The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...
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A lovely flash piece about what people value and how they honor what matters most when time is running out - Last Meal Aboard the Awassa by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=34817
www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=34817
Last Meal Aboard the Awassa - Lightspeed Magazine
Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and t...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A lovely flash piece about what people value and how they honor what matters most when time is running out - Last Meal Aboard the Awassa by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=34817
www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=34817
Very excited to have a story in this issue!!
It's Friday, I'm in love with the table of contents for Saros SF #5! We have such a wonderful variety of strange, lovely, and thought-provoking stories to share with readers of our Sound/Silence issue, and I couldn't be more proud to work with these fantastic writers on my first foray into editing 🖤
October 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Very excited to have a story in this issue!!
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Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25
AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears
ebx.sh
October 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
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It's Friday, I'm in love with the table of contents for Saros SF #5! We have such a wonderful variety of strange, lovely, and thought-provoking stories to share with readers of our Sound/Silence issue, and I couldn't be more proud to work with these fantastic writers on my first foray into editing 🖤
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's Friday, I'm in love with the table of contents for Saros SF #5! We have such a wonderful variety of strange, lovely, and thought-provoking stories to share with readers of our Sound/Silence issue, and I couldn't be more proud to work with these fantastic writers on my first foray into editing 🖤
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Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured.
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Lost Ark Dreaming wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella (full acceptance speech) — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella. Full acceptance speech follows.
suyidavies.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured.
suyidavies.com/updates/lost... #2025IgnyteAwards
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In like eleven minutes!
Spookymonth continues apace! This week, two favorites return: M.L. Krishnan and Gemma Files. Yes, really. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! @emelkrishnan.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
In like eleven minutes!
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Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3
@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...
October 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3
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“No Mirrors Here” by @akatherineblack.bsky.social from The Dark, “The Name Ziya” by @wenyilee.bsky.social from @reactorsff.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here -
The Dark, Reactor, and Weird Horror: Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran
The Dark 6/25, 7/25 Reactor 5/21/25 -7/26/25 Weird Horror Fall ’25 All of the original stories in issues 121 and 122 of The Dark are worthy of note. “The World Under” by Steve Rasnic Tem is the fir…
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October 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“No Mirrors Here” by @akatherineblack.bsky.social from The Dark, “The Name Ziya” by @wenyilee.bsky.social from @reactorsff.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here -
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That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
#2025IgnyteAwards
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2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards
OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
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Oh my gosh??!!
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Oh my gosh??!!