Kirsten from Reach Your Apex
@mizkirsten.bsky.social
Owner at ReachYourApex.com an independent learning community for writers.
Founder TheIndieBeat.fm streaming radio showcasing indie tunes from the Fediverse.
Not making anybody a billionaire.
Founder TheIndieBeat.fm streaming radio showcasing indie tunes from the Fediverse.
Not making anybody a billionaire.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Sugar Cubes + PIL + New Order
Eurythmics
Peter Hook
Peter Murphy 2x
Conspiracy of Hope (U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Bryan Adams, Joan Baez, The Neville Brothers)
Sugar Cubes + PIL + New Order
Eurythmics
Peter Hook
Peter Murphy 2x
Conspiracy of Hope (U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Bryan Adams, Joan Baez, The Neville Brothers)
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Sugar Cubes + PIL + New Order
Eurythmics
Peter Hook
Peter Murphy 2x
Conspiracy of Hope (U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Bryan Adams, Joan Baez, The Neville Brothers)
Sugar Cubes + PIL + New Order
Eurythmics
Peter Hook
Peter Murphy 2x
Conspiracy of Hope (U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Bryan Adams, Joan Baez, The Neville Brothers)
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.
I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.
I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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THE PORTAL IS OPEN! THE PORTAL IS OPEN! You can dance into the ring and submit your story for consideration at @apexmag.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
THE PORTAL IS OPEN! THE PORTAL IS OPEN! You can dance into the ring and submit your story for consideration at @apexmag.bsky.social
I’m so excited to have these two accomplished authors as instructors at Reach Your Apex!
No matter the genre, one of the hardest things to do is to come up with ideas editors haven’t seen a thousand times, written with language galvanized by verve, novelty, and identity.
Join us Thursday! Get tools to break out of the slush pile
reachyourapex.com/playful
#writingworkshop #authors
Join us Thursday! Get tools to break out of the slush pile
reachyourapex.com/playful
#writingworkshop #authors
August 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I’m so excited to have these two accomplished authors as instructors at Reach Your Apex!
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"But despite all this, We Who Hunt Alexanders shows how community, family and friendships not only help people survive in dangerous times but also help us keep hope alive." 🌅🖤
If you're a #booksky cozy horror fan looking for your next read, you're in good hands with @jasonsanford.bsky.social 💙📚
If you're a #booksky cozy horror fan looking for your next read, you're in good hands with @jasonsanford.bsky.social 💙📚
New mini-interview with @jasonsanford.bsky.social up on the blog today about We Who Hunt Alexanders out now from @apexmag.bsky.social
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New Book Spotlight – We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford – Space Cowboy Books
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August 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"But despite all this, We Who Hunt Alexanders shows how community, family and friendships not only help people survive in dangerous times but also help us keep hope alive." 🌅🖤
If you're a #booksky cozy horror fan looking for your next read, you're in good hands with @jasonsanford.bsky.social 💙📚
If you're a #booksky cozy horror fan looking for your next read, you're in good hands with @jasonsanford.bsky.social 💙📚
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I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
Genre Grapevine Delay, Neurodiverse Writers Booklet, and Seattle Worldcon Schedule | Jason Sanford
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August 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
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We're thrilled to announce the results of our art contest:
- 3rd: Landscape by Debbie Hughes
- 2nd: Circuit Tree by Lannie Phajlic
- 1st: Untitled by Grace Crandal
We'll be posting the images here over the next week, but if you just can't wait to see them, visit our Instagram! #sciencefiction #art
- 3rd: Landscape by Debbie Hughes
- 2nd: Circuit Tree by Lannie Phajlic
- 1st: Untitled by Grace Crandal
We'll be posting the images here over the next week, but if you just can't wait to see them, visit our Instagram! #sciencefiction #art
July 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We're thrilled to announce the results of our art contest:
- 3rd: Landscape by Debbie Hughes
- 2nd: Circuit Tree by Lannie Phajlic
- 1st: Untitled by Grace Crandal
We'll be posting the images here over the next week, but if you just can't wait to see them, visit our Instagram! #sciencefiction #art
- 3rd: Landscape by Debbie Hughes
- 2nd: Circuit Tree by Lannie Phajlic
- 1st: Untitled by Grace Crandal
We'll be posting the images here over the next week, but if you just can't wait to see them, visit our Instagram! #sciencefiction #art
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I'm also on Mastodon, which still stands the best chance of surviving longer than all the various millionaire or billionaire-owned social media sites. Here I am over there: mastodon.social/@gregpak
Greg Pak (@gregpak@mastodon.social)
6.43K Posts, 702 Following, 6.02K Followers · Rhymes with "rock." Actual human comic book writer, filmmaker, photographer. 35mm Love Letter, Mech Cadet Yu, Planet Hulk, Darth Vader, Ronin Island, Prin...
mastodon.social
July 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm also on Mastodon, which still stands the best chance of surviving longer than all the various millionaire or billionaire-owned social media sites. Here I am over there: mastodon.social/@gregpak
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im getting really tired of everything being bad bc like 12 ppl can't fill the hole in their hearts despite being billionaires
July 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
im getting really tired of everything being bad bc like 12 ppl can't fill the hole in their hearts despite being billionaires
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Things are pretty bad right now and we need to take joy wherever we can, so here is a picture of Jack McBrayer and Alexander Skarsgard holding hands and being best friends.
July 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Things are pretty bad right now and we need to take joy wherever we can, so here is a picture of Jack McBrayer and Alexander Skarsgard holding hands and being best friends.
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Substack has a Nazi problem. If you're starting a newsletter in 2025, you have other options and you absolutely should take them for moral and ethical reasons, imo. I'm on @buttondown.com and it's pretty great!
I’ve tolerated the Substack app because writers I value publish there, & its daily notifications for people I don’t follow are tedious but ignorable. Today it pushed me straight hate speech. I hope settings>notifications>preferences>marketing>”suggested content” is the way to turn this off but oy
July 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Substack has a Nazi problem. If you're starting a newsletter in 2025, you have other options and you absolutely should take them for moral and ethical reasons, imo. I'm on @buttondown.com and it's pretty great!
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📢 NEW DRABBLE CONTEST ALERT!! Theme: "The Masks We Wear" 🎭👺
Spooky season's come early! We're opening submissions from July 10th-July 24th 2025 for masquerade microfiction. Winners will be published in Apex Magazine October 2025 Issue! 🎃☠️
Full details here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Spooky season's come early! We're opening submissions from July 10th-July 24th 2025 for masquerade microfiction. Winners will be published in Apex Magazine October 2025 Issue! 🎃☠️
Full details here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
a white and gold mask with a black hood on a blue background
Alt: A person standing against a plain denim-blue background, wearing a white and gold Venetian mask and a black hood, turns to face the viewer.
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July 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
📢 NEW DRABBLE CONTEST ALERT!! Theme: "The Masks We Wear" 🎭👺
Spooky season's come early! We're opening submissions from July 10th-July 24th 2025 for masquerade microfiction. Winners will be published in Apex Magazine October 2025 Issue! 🎃☠️
Full details here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Spooky season's come early! We're opening submissions from July 10th-July 24th 2025 for masquerade microfiction. Winners will be published in Apex Magazine October 2025 Issue! 🎃☠️
Full details here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
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@shackleboundbooks.bsky.social is opening submissions for a weird west flash anthology in July (2c/w) and they're open for a dark fairytale drabble anthology right now... which I happen to be editing. 👀 😮 🙌 🙌 🙌
shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/
shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/
Submissions
OPEN CALLS Please read the guidelines very carefully. Stories submitted that do not conform to the guidelines will not be read. We are a small press. We hope to increase pay rates for all of our an…
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June 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@shackleboundbooks.bsky.social is opening submissions for a weird west flash anthology in July (2c/w) and they're open for a dark fairytale drabble anthology right now... which I happen to be editing. 👀 😮 🙌 🙌 🙌
shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/
shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/
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If you have a copy of Let This Radicalize You, pls note that there is an appendix in the back that talks about what to do if the police or any agent of the state shows up at your door. A trusted movement attorney wrote this section. Nothing will keep us 100% safe, but pls be aware of best practices.
June 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you have a copy of Let This Radicalize You, pls note that there is an appendix in the back that talks about what to do if the police or any agent of the state shows up at your door. A trusted movement attorney wrote this section. Nothing will keep us 100% safe, but pls be aware of best practices.
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This is the spirit of Los Angeles.
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is the spirit of Los Angeles.
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
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Eyyy my 'the betrayal of the whatnow' sword & sorcery story THE BETRAYAL OF THE RHINOCEROS (from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social issue 3) gets a nice little shout-out in @locusmag.bsky.social -- reviewed alongside many other cool stories by Paula Guran! :D
locusmag.com/2025/06/the-...
locusmag.com/2025/06/the-...
The Dark, Remains, and New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran
The Dark 3/25 Remains #1 New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #3, #4 Louis Inglis Hall’s “Malo Malo Malo Malo” in The Dark #118 is a stunning and indescribable story about a powerful man compelled…
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June 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Eyyy my 'the betrayal of the whatnow' sword & sorcery story THE BETRAYAL OF THE RHINOCEROS (from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social issue 3) gets a nice little shout-out in @locusmag.bsky.social -- reviewed alongside many other cool stories by Paula Guran! :D
locusmag.com/2025/06/the-...
locusmag.com/2025/06/the-...
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omg just fuck already
June 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
omg just fuck already
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Gynocentric communication
June 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Gynocentric communication
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“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” - Dr. Carla Hayden
This is a Dr. Hayden appreciation post.
This is a Dr. Hayden appreciation post.
May 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” - Dr. Carla Hayden
This is a Dr. Hayden appreciation post.
This is a Dr. Hayden appreciation post.
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Romance comics anticipated all of today's problems
May 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Romance comics anticipated all of today's problems
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Your writing prompt for today is here: storyaday.org/2025-day-04/. "Two characters. One location. There’s one problem and they can’t agree on how to solve it." I am delighted to participate in Story a Day in May, where they invite you to write today, not 'some day.' @storyaday.bsky.social #StoryADay
May 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Your writing prompt for today is here: storyaday.org/2025-day-04/. "Two characters. One location. There’s one problem and they can’t agree on how to solve it." I am delighted to participate in Story a Day in May, where they invite you to write today, not 'some day.' @storyaday.bsky.social #StoryADay
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Each issue of Utopia Science Fiction contains a From the Vault section, reviving greatly underappreciated works of fiction, most recently, "The World with a Thousand Moons" by Edmond Hamilton.
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
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HOME | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
Science Fiction Magazine dedicated to publishing quality short stories, poems, scientific articles which reflect optimism in the future.
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May 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Each issue of Utopia Science Fiction contains a From the Vault section, reviving greatly underappreciated works of fiction, most recently, "The World with a Thousand Moons" by Edmond Hamilton.
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
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This Day in Labor History: May 1, 1867. Workers in Chicago went on strike for an 8-hour day, the first mass-scale labor action for that demand that directly challenged political power. Let's talk about this little known worker action on May Day!
May 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This Day in Labor History: May 1, 1867. Workers in Chicago went on strike for an 8-hour day, the first mass-scale labor action for that demand that directly challenged political power. Let's talk about this little known worker action on May Day!