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Lynne Sargent
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Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codexian. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · May 26
Exciting news! I've been given the go-ahead to announce my FORTHCOMING BOOK. And... it's non-fiction! I'm nearly done a first draft of NOT JUST PLAYING MAKE-BELIEVE and I am so overjoyed to have sold it to @ecwpress.bsky.social. I can't wait for you all to read it in 2027.
lynnesargent.bsky.social
"Swamp Witch Season" is a poem that's near and dear to my heart, and Solarpunk is a market I've been trying valiantly to crack for years. I'm extra chuffed that this work of mine is the one to grace their pages. 💚🐸☘️
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Published! #SolarpunkMagazine Issue 24 features cover art by Anselmo J. Alliegro, Short Stories by Great Opara & Dana Wall, Poems @thepinkhydra.com & @lynnesargent.bsky.social Essay by Yuliia Vereta.
#solarpunk #readingcommunity
Get a copy at solarpunkmagazine.com/shop/solarpunk-magazine-issue-24
Solarpunk Magazine Issue #24
Solarpunk Magazine Issue #24 is now available!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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My poem 'The Olive Tree of Vouves' is in the latest issue of
@poetrybrum.bsky.social 🌳 You can read Issue 11.5, exploring the fragility and endurance of nature, here: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue
Mammoth contemporary, she has been fruiting for four thousand years. Branches twist into minotaur horns, rising from a hollow labyrinth of roots. The vast trunk is bulbous, beautiful; rippled bark tenses like a muscle in the calf of a crouching titan. She is a monument, outlasting empires and human heartache, a weathered ark resisting drought and fire and flood. Every year, twigs plump like knuckles with olives, green currency, ready to anoint kings and restaurant crockery. Her crown is cornucopia, world basket, reaching upwards like Daphne’s arms, dwindling to wreaths. Her heartwood has worn away but, pulseless, she persists.
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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canonically the best lake
lakesuperior.bsky.social Lake Superior @lakesuperior.bsky.social · 8d
On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.

My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.

I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.

My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction

open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...
Weird Science Fiction Submission Call
Submit before 01/01/2026
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November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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thescreambean.bsky.social
100% FUNDED!!!! IT HAS OFFICIALLY HAPPENED!

thank you to EVERYBODY who has made it so this audiobook is officially going to happen!

come party with @siennatristen.bsky.social and I for the next 18 days of victory laps and chaos!!!

WAHOOOOOOOOOOO

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
Brendan May, Avi Silver, and Sienna Tristen smile over a table of books from the Shale Project. On top of the image is a green badge that says "Just Funded Kickstarter". A musical bar swirls over their heads. The bottom of the image has a blue shimmery background with the words "Kickstarter 100% funded in six days!" and an image of The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming with headphones on.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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...and if you attended our underground-concert-style secret hotel party and listened to me & Brendan do a LIVE PIANO VERSION of the reading, you know we also take requests. 😂 @lynnesargent.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social @anoteinpink.bsky.social @faye-gabriel.bsky.social
A photo shot from the far corner of a hotel room, featuring approximately 18 smiling faces seated on the bed, on couches and chairs, and on the floor. In one corner of this party, an electronic piano is set up; behind it, a musician; beside him, his co-conspirator, author Sienna Tristen.
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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My main contract gig is being cut, and my family responsibilities are less demanding than a few years ago. So please get in touch if you know of writing/editing/research/workshop positions, any hours, ideally remote or Ottawa. Extra points for good causes. I know it's rough out there for everyone.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Missed murmurstations EP 7 with @lynnesargent.bsky.social?🎙️💫

Listen back as Sonia & Lynne explore what it means to be "blameworthy." They also discuss how transgressions play out in Lynne’s poems, "The Wolf Of Your Passions" & "Beauty Sleeping.”🐺📖

Check it out NOW on Spotify & Apple 🔗 Link in bio!
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · May 22
MURMURSTATIONS EP 7 with @lynnesargent.bsky.social is NOW LIVE! 🚨

Join Sonia Urlando & @lynnesargent.bsky.social as they discuss societal norms, individual transgressions, fairytale retellings, & Lynne's two Augur poems, "Beauty, Sleeping" (Issue 2.2) & "The Wolf of Your Passions" (Issue 5.2)! 🐺💤
The background is the murmustations graphic of a woman with blue eyes and fair skin. Surrounding her are shades of pink and purple feathers. The background has an overlay of purple. At the top of the image is a pink bar that has a blue microphone and reads: "New! Podcast Episode Release" in white text and next to it is the augur logo in white. Below it reads: "Episode 07: Lynne Sargent” in white text. Underneath that reads: "murmurstations" in white text. On the left side is purple text box and inside of it reads: "This episode explores In this episode, we explore reimagined fairytales and their rules that, once broken, drive the story forward. Lynne also discusses how her role as an ethicist shapes her perspective about fairytales and how agency and blame are depicted in her poems, The Wolf Of Your Passions and Beauty, Sleeping." in white text. To the right side of the image is a iPhone graphic with the murmurstations graphic with the play, pause, and forward buttons. At the bottom of the image is a white rectangular bar with the graphics of a green Spotify logo and a red Apple logo inside that reads: "Listen now" in black text.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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TIFFANY MORRIS LESBIAN CANNIBAL NOVELLA
tiffmorris.bsky.social Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 13d
Cover reveal for Carnalis, my lesbian cannibal novella, which is out in MARCH from @nictitatingbooks.bsky.social!!
Abstract photo of a woman’s face, distorted through smears of water. Shades of pink, brown, and white. At the top Carnalis is written in a serif font. At the bottom is my name.
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Breaking the social media avoidance to signal boost Sienna Tristen's Kickstarter for an *orchestrated audiobook* of the first Heretic's Guide to Homecoming novel!

I've heard a sample (you can too, below) and trust me, if you like audiobooks, you need this.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming: An Orchestrated Audiobook
Help fund the long-awaited audiobook of this cult-classic fantasy novel, complete with musical accompaniment.
www.kickstarter.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Hey! Apparently it's #IReadCanadian day! If only there was somewhere readers looking for new #Canadian SFF authors to read could find a bunch of them all in one place... 🤔

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Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three eBook : Kotowych, Stephen: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three eBook : Kotowych, Stephen: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
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November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
Yay! Paperbacks of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL have started to become available for pre-order. Barnes & Noble for now, but we’ll get there. Here’s all the pre-order links so far but more are coming!
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl – Stars and Sabers
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl by award-winning author P.A. Cornell is a sci-fi romance novelette set in a retrofuturistic Toronto, publishing February 3, 2026 via Stars and Sabers Publishing.
www.starsandsabers.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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It only costs $10 to join the CSFFA and it lets you nominate and vote for the Aurora Awards! We’ll be nominating eligible pieces from our Canadian contributors, including our amazing cover artist Alice M.

I say this every year, but it would mean everything to see our artists recognized with a win 🫀
csffa.bsky.social Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social · 13d
Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025.

If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) – Home of the Prix Aurora Awards and CSFFA Hall of Fame
www.csffa.ca
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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starsandsabers.bsky.social
COVER REVEAL! 🚀💝🌜 We are delighted to unveil SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL, a #scifi #romance novelette by award-winning author @cornellwriter.bsky.social! Cover art by @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social! Launching February 3, 2026! Read all about this delightful book and see the fabulous artwork:
Cover Reveal for Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl by P.A. Cornell – Stars and Sabers
Stars and Sabers Publishing gives the cover reveal for the book Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl by P.A. Cornell, with cover art by Kim Herbst.
www.starsandsabers.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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kercoby.bsky.social
Finding, understanding, and communicating the strengths of a work can show a greater understanding of what an artist is trying to—successfully—accomplish.

And agreeing on those strengths is critical to being able to diagnose craft issues that impede the desired experience of that art.
October 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
lynnesargent.bsky.social
Excuse me, Hozier and Mumford and Sons put out a collab songs and NO ONE TOLD ME?! Also, something's been in the water because I cannot believe all the artists that have been putting out new shit this October. It's rad.
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH 2025: We present the 12th in our series of mini interviews with Read For Pixels poets: Lynne Sargent who contributed their original poem Horror, Identified to our 1st charity poetry collection, UNDER HER EYE.

Read their interview here:
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October 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Sharing this interview I did for the Pixel Project to raise awareness for violence against women. It also features a reading of my poem, "Horror, Identified," which was featured in their UNDER HER EYE anthology.

www.thepixelproject.net/2025/10/27/r...
Read for Pixels 2025 Interview: Lynne Sargent – The Pixel Project
www.thepixelproject.net
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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If you live in Ontario, we're privileged to still have free access to flu vaccines & Covid boosters.

Get them! I just did!

Immunocompromised/high risk can go now & everyone else can book now for appointments after Oct 28!

Get them ASAP & you'll help make the holiday season safer for everyone 💪🏻
October 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Holy Days
by Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social

"On the awnings,
leaves and girls fall, pile, and rot. All this, the natural order."

Link ⬇️
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POETRY by Eleanor Ball Holy Days  Quote "On the awnings, leaves and girls fall, pile, and rot. All this, the natural order." 20 October 2025 Strange Horizons
October 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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kercoby.bsky.social
If magazine teams were paid fairly and writer rates increased, mag budgets would be $200k+. Minimum.

If you can, subscribe. That’s regular, renewable revenue mags can use to plan for the future.

This industry is sustained on free labour and free content.

Passion is high, but so is burnout.
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Gender is like mayonnaise.

It's fine in small quantities for people who like it, but some folks just will not stop smearing it all over everything.
October 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Friends in the art, poetry, and author community, come support others in your field by buying the Best of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, vol viii

www.amazon.com/Best-Penumbr...

A lot of hard work has been put into print by Jeff at Penumbric and all the amazing creatives who have contributed
Best of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, vol viii: June 2k24 to April 2k25
Best of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, vol viii: June 2k24 to April 2k25 [Neomythos Press] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Best of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, vol viii: June 2k24 to April 2k25
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October 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Sharing today because I appreciate that it tricked me by inviting me to deny the antecedent.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 21st 2025) in 04:02
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
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October 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM