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literary agent @kiagency.bsky.social **closed to unsolicited queries** ex Grimdark Magazine, ex medievalist. queer. she/they (header is a Rovina Cai illustration from Spear)
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Fab @knifewitch.bsky.social · 17d
I’ll be reopening to queries in January - please see my freshly updated MSWL and submission guidelines at the link. I can’t wait to read all your fantastic projects. ✨✨✨
Fabienne Schwizer – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
www.manuscriptwishlist.com
knifewitch.bsky.social
Never thought I’d miss Swiss noise regulation laws
January 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
knifewitch.bsky.social
And I’m officially open to queries again ✨ looking forward to diving into some great stories. QueryTracker.net/query/fabien...
Query Fabienne Schwizer at Ki Agency
QueryTracker.net
January 1, 2026 at 11:13 AM
knifewitch.bsky.social
Meant to edit today, got dragged into the gay hockey show instead
December 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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jamiemctrusty.bsky.social
Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
📷 IWM A 10646
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Rather magnificent black floof sitting on a ship’s capstan under a bell with a very inviting dangling rope.
December 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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neonhemlock.bsky.social
We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.

Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.

<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
The text WHAT ELEGANT STARS on a background of swirling void and glittering stars, amidst two neon-lit inlaid columns. Spaceships with fiery tails behind them in the distance. (An excerpt from the cover illustrated by Lyss Menold). Plus the Neon Hemlock logo.
December 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
knifewitch.bsky.social
But in more positive things, send your queer spec short fic to these awesome people.
neonhemlock.bsky.social Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 16d
Also there are 11 more days to submit your queer speculative stories already published in 2025!

The editors love reading far and wide, so please especially consider submitting work from journals and anthologies they might not be aware of.

www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
we're here — neon hemlock
www.neonhemlock.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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jasonsanford.bsky.social
Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/
Thoughts on the Nebula Awards, LLM usage, and where we draw the line | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
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December 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Honestly, though, begs the question... why did this even occur? Everyone involved should be fired or quit or whatever the process is. I'm not actually thankful they rescinded it so much as wanting accountability for why it even happened in the first place.
megelison.bsky.social Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 16d
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association AMENDED RULES for the Nebula Awards Dear Meghan, Earlier today, you received an email titled, “Note from the Board on This Year’s Nebula Rules.” To be clear, SFWA does not support the use of LLM generative models in the production of creative work. The Nebula Award Rules did not reflect our current policy and deeply held beliefs and values, and they were amended to reflect that. With further input, today, we made an important change to the Nebula Awards Rules in two board votes that we would like to share with you: Previous Text: "Works that are wholly written using generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible." New Text: "Works that are written, either wholly or partially, by generative large language model (LLM) tools are not eligible." -and- Previous Text: "Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and the nature of the technology’s use will be made clear to voters on the final ballot" New Text: "Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and those works will be disqualified." We will update our posted rules in the coming days to reflect this change.
December 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
knifewitch.bsky.social
Actually, there is no good reason to use genAI in your writing. Just don’t.
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
knifewitch.bsky.social
BLOODY FINALLY.
December 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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carnyxpress.co.uk
If you're a writer in the North of England, there's two days left to send your work to us for consideration!

We're looking for new novellas and short story collections of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror - with a preference for strange and literary writing.
carnyxpress.co.uk Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 26d
Our current reading period is open until midnight on the 20th December. We're looking for novellas and short story collections to publish in 2026-27, from writers living in the North of England, in speculative genres.

Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...
We’re open to submissions of novellas and collected short stories. Seeking literary, weird, speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.
December 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
knifewitch.bsky.social
I’ll be reopening to queries in January - please see my freshly updated MSWL and submission guidelines at the link. I can’t wait to read all your fantastic projects. ✨✨✨
Fabienne Schwizer – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
www.manuscriptwishlist.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
knifewitch.bsky.social
Hey universe, I’d really appreciate a Christmas present in the form of good news, pretty please
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
knifewitch.bsky.social
I love the cold, foggy mornings. Really make my cemetery commute shine.
A foggy winter landscape of a cemetery
December 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.

There will be no cap.

See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:

strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21
December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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jamesbennett.bsky.social
I have a (longish) story in this. Publishers Weekly gave a nod to "The Road of Mirrors", which is kind of a deconstruction of the classic novel as well as being horrifically queer.

You can grab a copy here: www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...

🎭🏳️‍🌈📚💙 #NewStory
steveberman.bsky.social Steve Berman @steveberman.bsky.social · Dec 4
Sometimes ... the music is really not the threat.
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
“Transgender and nonbinary youth (ages 13 to 24) whose pronouns are respected were 31 percent less likely to attempt suicide in the past year than those whose pronouns are not respected, according to a new report from The Trevor Project”

www.advocate.com/exclusives/p...
Transgender and nonbinary youth whose pronouns are respected attempt suicide less: report
"It's about effort, and just attempting to be respectful and kind to people," lead author Steven Hobaica tells The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Slow Gods, by Claire North (pub by @orbitbooks.bsky.social) is a superb space opera, a novel with a different narrative approach that stays with you long after finishing Maw's story.

Full thoughts:
jamreads.com/reviews/slow...

💙📚
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December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
knifewitch.bsky.social
Mental state: tried to get on the wrong train
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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kiagency.bsky.social
We’re immensely proud of our very own @hagenilda.bsky.social who is now a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!
royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26d
The Society is very pleased to welcome 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members who join @royalhistsoc.org after the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/48Nd30f

Our new Fellows and Members practice history across many professions and as independent researchers 1/2
Society elects 234 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS
At its latest meeting on 21 November 2025, the RHS Council elected 58 Fellows, 30 Associate Fellows, 51 Members and 95 Postgraduate Members, a total of 234 people newly associated with the Society, fr...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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tasavvurnama.bsky.social
If you like reading South-Asian Speculative Fiction, we have an opportunity for you.

Tasavvur is currently looking for enthusiastic slush readers, preferably with prior literary experience.

Email us at hello.tasavvur@gmail.com with your pitch!

🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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aliettedebodard.com
MARCH 10 2026

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

Covers are by @fringe-element.net who did an awesome job
Editions will include introductions plus bonus short stories

There will also be a preorder campaign--more details on that later.
eliaseells.bsky.social Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Dec 3
The new editions of the FULL TRILOGY by @aliettedebodard.com are available for preorder now in ebook and paperback, wherever books are sold.

Check out book 1 here:

awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
knifewitch.bsky.social
The usual Wednesday end of day thing of “why ever did I think going to D&D was a good idea I’m far too dead”
December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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esqueer.net
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
ulycia.bsky.social pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · Dec 2
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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ulycia.bsky.social
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM