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M Frost
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Poet, Writer, Photographer. SFPA for life. mfrostwords.com
Cover is detail from Walter Crane, "The Fate of Persephone" (1877)
Cover art used for The Women of Myth, Island of Wak-Wak (2025)
For #ColorADay #BWFri, a fence in #Calanais #Scotland near Calanais 1, the most famous of the #IsleofLewis standing stones #photography #photographersofbluesky
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“isn’t our silence, too, a kind of shelter?” - Craig Santos Perez
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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The November edition of the SFWA monthly Market Report is here!

Get the latest updates on markets and opportunities at www.sfwa.org/2025/11/12/s...
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This is tonight at 8PM EST! Come and enjoy some fantastic spec poetry 🐑

I'll be reading "there are no taxis for the dead" and a few more.

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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ANMLY is now open for new work!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap41
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye for #WaterfallWed #waterfall #momentofzen #video #landscape
(For best #zen, keep the sound off because it was windy!)
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Coffee Table Chapbook Collection

"I sang my mother's name with winged power..." - from The Witch's Daughter, in The Women of Myth (originally published in Mythic Delirium)
Coffee Table Chapbook Collection
"I sang my mother's name with winged power..." - from The Witch's Daughter, in The Women of Myth (originally published in Mythic Delirium)
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November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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"Tecolote" by Jose Hernandez Diaz is the first in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals.

https://www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/jose-hernandez-diaz/

#poet #poem #poetry #animals #owls #heritage #mexico #myth #memory
One Poem by Jose Hernandez Diaz - Terrain.org
“Tecolote” by Jose Hernandez Diaz is the first in our four-part series of excerpts from The Gift of Animals.
www.terrain.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
First freeze warning is tonight, so of course I’m missing my daylilies. Enjoy one of my seedlings from last summer. #ColorADay #PinkMon #daylily #BloomScrolling #mygarden #photography #flower
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A favorite from @angelvleal.bsky.social for Speculative Sundays (poetry readings)

"All the peaches     I ate falling in love.
The animal knows me better

than a policeman."

strangehorizons.com/poetry/wildl...
Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father
an animal is     growing // a rainforest between my ribs.
strangehorizons.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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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.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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We continue our series of readings with tales of Strange and Eldritch Love in the Darkest Season! December 7 - noon to 3 PM - El Cerrito.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
FREE - Nature of Our Times hybrid poetry reading on November 13 at 7pm ET - register now (RSVP)

poetshouse.org/event/the-na...
"The Nature of Our Times" Hybrid Poetry Reading & Exhibit Launch
Join us for a hybrid poetry reading and exhibit launch featuring contributors to the new anthology "The Nature of Our Times."
poetshouse.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My latest poetry chapbook, The Women of Myth, is out now on some platforms from Island of Wak-Wak. #TheWomenofMyth #MFrost #Wak-Wak

Please enjoy a last preview—"Interstellar Spaces" was published by Abyss & Apex earlier this year #specpo #scifi

www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/01/inte...
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Happy #Caturday #gotcha day #CatsofBlueSky to this gorgeous feline
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The Women of Myth TOC

“The nymph Daphne turns, falling to a tree. / Expect it. This is how her story begins / and ends, each aching limb stuck aloft, / each woody joint fastened to colorless sky.”
The Women of Myth TOC
“The nymph Daphne turns, falling to a tree. / Expect it. This is how her story begins / and ends, each aching limb stuck aloft, / each woody joint fastened to colorless sky.”
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November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My latest poetry chapbook, The Women of Myth, comes out this fall from Island of Wak-Wak. #TheWomenofMyth #MFrost #Wak-Wak

Here's another preview—"Id, or the Relic," from the #Model8Polysomnograph published first in View from Atlantis #Necronomicon

viewfromatlantis.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/i...
Issue 115 – The Necronomicon
Old tome strangely boundCovering of human skinNow brittle and dry By DJ Tyrer Originally published in Scifaikuest Forbidden BooksBy Simon MacCulloch The Necronomicon, if known to ancient Egypt’s sa…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“that pale face like / beautiful teeth”

Haunting and evocative
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM