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Parlei Rivière
@priviere.bsky.social
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Parlei Rivière is interested in language, anti-colonialism, and space. Member of SWFA and Codex. My work can be found in Uncanny Magazine.
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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · Aug 29
Working on my Fiction page this morning on my clunky website. Check it out: anticolonialpedagogy.wixsite.com/jbrooks/proj...
Preview page: Uncanny Magazine cover of 3 witches in purple garb, one of the witches is in a gilded wheelchair and has a fox on her lap.
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thomasha.bsky.social
the good thing about short stories is that each one is a clean slate. you write one that sucks, write another. write one you love that gets ignored, write another. write one you think is perfect down to the last period, write another. write an ok one phoned in, write another. wait did i say good
December 7, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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tiffscribes.bsky.social
Finally received my copies of Afrofuturism Tales. My first short story sale! 🥰 Shoutout to #FlameTreePress, @isisasare.bsky.social (editor), @nisishawl.bsky.social (foreword), @sandramgray1.bsky.social (intro). #SFF #SpecFic #BlackSFF #BlackSpecFic
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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thisjulieday.bsky.social
You can also find copies of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology at the book table near the art show (part of the main convention space)!
book cover “Sixteen authors, including big names like Martha Wells, Andy Duncan, and Nisi Shawl, celebrate the late World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Tanith Lee in this passionate and playful anthology of stories inspired by her work…The result is both a fitting tribute to a master and an enchanting compendium in its own right.” --Publishers Weekly
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
priviere.bsky.social
I'm participating in #NoNotWriMo this month but something that has always eluded me is how to stay organized. I have hundreds of little snippets of ideas all over the place because that's how I meet my writing goal. How do you all stay organized? #amwriting #writingcommunity #freewrite
An electronic typewriter and cortado coffee sit in the sunlight by a street-facing window.
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
priviere.bsky.social
Excited to share I'll be joining @futurescapesww.bsky.social Long Manuscript Workshop with Miriam Cortinovis! This is a huge step as I've struggled with writing beginnings, so I'm excited to sharpen up my early worldbuilding and get this novel done! #amwriting #speculativefiction #amwritingscifi
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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ludoclast.bsky.social
My first short story in 7+ years is in this issue of Augur. Give it a read! 🍯
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 14d
Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!

🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

🧵
An illustration of a field on a sunny day and here’s a clothing line with yellow and red sheets flowing in the wind, and behind them are two people, one with purple wings touching hands. with a blue overlay. At the top of the image reads: “Read it Now” in a yellow banner and underneath reads: “Augur Issue 8.2.” Bellow is the link to the website: http://www.augursociety.org. In the middle of the image is a book with the cover art of Issue 8.1. There are 6 arrows around the book pointing to blurbs from some of the pieces that read: elemental aftermath of an affair, toxic love festers through shed skin & wet sheets, young love, rusted metal, & shattered sunlight, monstrous hymn of awe & destruction, old age drama between two languages, and devastation dripped in honey and rain .
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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wiswell.bsky.social
This thread rules.
rsagarcia.bsky.social R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · Oct 1
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
October 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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jcsnow.bsky.social
The Seaglass Blade queer epic fantasy kickstarter launched this morning and hit its initial funding goal in 10 minutes! 🥰

We have unlocked the first stretch goal and I hope we'll reach stretch goal 2 soon!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...
Book Cover for The Seaglass Blade, by JC Snow
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
priviere.bsky.social
After a year of my laptop not being backed up, and a month after I found the backup drive, can I now say I backed it up and can finally stop panicking anytime I take my laptop somewhere. Ok meteor, you can now crash into my car and destroy my laptop, my novel is secure (pls don't actlly do that)
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
priviere.bsky.social
Book 1: *My spoiled character doesn't get to enroll in military school and gets grounded on Earth* --> Poor lil dude *pat, pat*
Book 2: *my character experiences horrors upon horrors* --> Please, stop! He's already nearly dead! Think of the children 🥺😭

Sorry/not sorry the plot told me to.
futurescapesww.bsky.social futurescapesww.bsky.social @futurescapesww.bsky.social · Jul 28
💡Writing Tip: Your plot should test your character—not just physically, but emotionally & morally.
Readers remember stories where characters are changed by their choices.

What’s one moment in your WIP where your protagonist has to make a difficult decision?

#WritingTips #SpecFicWriters
October 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
priviere.bsky.social
I still remember the looks I got when I shopped at Walmart in college for basic goods but we were all supposed to be so socially "aware". Sorry, but I literally couldn't afford underwear at the boutique shop.
shinery.bsky.social IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 18d
Before I go to bed, unfriendly reminder that boycotting Amazon and other services is just *not feasible* for some people. Income, disability, access to other services, lack of transportation, delivery fees, etc.

It doesn't mean they're "complicit". It means they're a victim of capitalism too.
October 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
priviere.bsky.social
Trying to push through the disappointment, but at this point 13 rejections / 14 submissions this year (goal was 1 sub / month which I was so happy to exceed) is really weighing on me. I just needed ONE win. Ugh #amwriting #writingrejections
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
priviere.bsky.social
Awesome masterclass coming up with NK Jemisin through BlueStoop. Can't wait!
Poster featuring a photo of the author NK Jemisin and language describing her upcoming masterclass entitled, "It Builds Character: Finding the Heart of Your Story" on Sunday 12/7 at 1-3p, virtually. Details can be found at bluestoop.org/classes
October 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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4nikkolas.bsky.social
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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rsagarcia.bsky.social
Day 9, Black SpecFic month recs

1. MY SOUL TO KEEP by Tananarive Due
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-soul-to...

2. A NECESSARY CHAOS by Brent Lambert
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-necessar...

3. My free bonus story, 3rd in a series: BISHOP'S OPENING
clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_01_22/

Share & enjoy!
October 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
priviere.bsky.social
Short stories to add to the reading list
October 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
priviere.bsky.social
As someone from the West Coast now living on the East, I apologize for pretending we don't live up to every stereotype imaginable out here.
October 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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theefantomas.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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blackwallmancer.bsky.social
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
priviere.bsky.social
The point about talent vs. skill is so on point. I have no talent as a writer, but it's the one thing I've wanted more than anything. That means refining my skill, studying great writers, and working really hard. My writing is not a product of talent, but obsession. #amwriting #writingcommunity
October 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
priviere.bsky.social
You, maybe: Why in the world are you up at 2am when you know you're too old for that sh*t and you have to get up early tomorrow?
Me: But it's about da mooooooon 😭🌔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY7Z...
Common Moon Mistakes
YouTube video by minutephysics
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
priviere.bsky.social
*sigh* I need healthy ways to deal with getting a story rejected.
October 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
priviere.bsky.social
PROOF. #meetfightcute #amwriting #writingcommunity
Picture of a unnumbered chapter of poster's Work In Progress, in which she refers to an earlier post discussing the romance genre meet cute with a new concept, meet fight cute, in which the enemies to lovers trope meets the meet cute trope.
September 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

reactormag.com/reading-rain...
Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor
The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.
reactormag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
priviere.bsky.social
The last one "The Princess can save herself!" goes hard.
faithschaffer.bsky.social Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · Sep 23
This is Guinevere! And this is Guinevere! And yes, this is Guinevere as well. 💙I drew so many different versions of the princess for the opening montage 🌠
Knights of Guinevere background- Guinevere in 'Space Princess Guinevere And the Wishing Star' Knights of Guinevere background- Guinevere in 'Space Princess Guinevere 2- The Last Star Pup' Knights of Guinevere background- various Guinevere kid costumes for sale Knights of Guinevere background- computer setup showing Guinevere live action remake is happening
September 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM