Renan Bernardo
@renanbernardo.com
Nebula and Ignyte Finalist • Reactor, Clarkesworld, Apex • DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE - NOW OUT! • DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE also OUT! • Codex • He/him • Brazilian author
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Renan Bernardo
@renanbernardo.com
· Dec 2
Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members! ☄️ This year, I'd be very humbled and delighted if members considered my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, in their ballots.
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
Honored to appear in Sarena's list of favorites with my novella Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! 🖤 And in such great company!
I read 47 books in 2025. Here are a few of my favorites, including books by @danielolivas.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @theferrett.bsky.social @olivasthewriter.bsky.social @kathleenmrodgers.bsky.social and more!
What were your favorite reads for the year? 💙📚
What were your favorite reads for the year? 💙📚
January 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Honored to appear in Sarena's list of favorites with my novella Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! 🖤 And in such great company!
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Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only!
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
www.havenspec.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only!
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard!
www.havenspec.com/submit/
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Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings'
inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
Submission guidelines
Our next issue will be our last one, so we are looking for stories on the theme of endings. We'd like to read about loss, change, grief, relief, hope, and possibility.
What to submit
* Sci...
inner-worlds.ghost.io
January 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings'
inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
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Plus I've got some free BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES stories, from the anthology based on guests from my podcast about stories to build a better world...
from @renanbernardo.com and @daniellearostegui.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/susa...
PODCAST: brightgreenfutures.substack.com
from @renanbernardo.com and @daniellearostegui.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/susa...
PODCAST: brightgreenfutures.substack.com
Two free stories from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES solarpunk collection: these stories are the warm light a lot of us need right now.
Download the two stories FREE and if you like what you've read, get the full collection!
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#booksky #hopepunk #climatechange
Download the two stories FREE and if you like what you've read, get the full collection!
newsletter.susankayequinn.com/v5y8e9o6w3
#booksky #hopepunk #climatechange
December 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Plus I've got some free BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES stories, from the anthology based on guests from my podcast about stories to build a better world...
from @renanbernardo.com and @daniellearostegui.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/susa...
PODCAST: brightgreenfutures.substack.com
from @renanbernardo.com and @daniellearostegui.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/susa...
PODCAST: brightgreenfutures.substack.com
Happy New Year, folks! This year was a punch in the face of the creative industry for many reasons, but there were plenty of good stuff happening too. I wish you all a great 2026! 🚀
December 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Happy New Year, folks! This year was a punch in the face of the creative industry for many reasons, but there were plenty of good stuff happening too. I wish you all a great 2026! 🚀
My most recent @escapepod.org piece, Baron Quits the Payloaders, is featured in Charles's great list!
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My most recent @escapepod.org piece, Baron Quits the Payloaders, is featured in Charles's great list!
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
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TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN NOVEMBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's October's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
Some Queer Short SFF - October 2025 | Charles Payseur
Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon
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December 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN NOVEMBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's October's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
If you're filling out ballots in the holidays, I'd love to remind you of my dark SF novella about greed and corruption! I have a few audiobook codes for US and UK if you're listening for the awards.
Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members! ☄️ This year, I'd be very humbled and delighted if members considered my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, in their ballots.
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
December 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If you're filling out ballots in the holidays, I'd love to remind you of my dark SF novella about greed and corruption! I have a few audiobook codes for US and UK if you're listening for the awards.
December 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Absolutely loved the frenetic pace of this and how it captured the inherent bleakness of grind culture. A really well done short!
Is it too late for February releases, right? 🥲 I had this piece in February.
We Are Burnout, Renan Bernardo
www.phano.co/articles/we-...
We Are Burnout, Renan Bernardo
www.phano.co/articles/we-...
We Are Burnout
What happens when we give more than we can for productivity’s sake?
www.phano.co
December 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Absolutely loved the frenetic pace of this and how it captured the inherent bleakness of grind culture. A really well done short!
Happy to say that my novelette "The Winter of the Icebergirl" was sold to @giganotosaurus.bsky.social, out in February!
The Icebergirl was the greatest. Now she spends her final years in a nursing home for the empowered. Her peace is broken when she realizes that supervillains grow old too…
The Icebergirl was the greatest. Now she spends her final years in a nursing home for the empowered. Her peace is broken when she realizes that supervillains grow old too…
December 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Happy to say that my novelette "The Winter of the Icebergirl" was sold to @giganotosaurus.bsky.social, out in February!
The Icebergirl was the greatest. Now she spends her final years in a nursing home for the empowered. Her peace is broken when she realizes that supervillains grow old too…
The Icebergirl was the greatest. Now she spends her final years in a nursing home for the empowered. Her peace is broken when she realizes that supervillains grow old too…
So honored to be part of this discussion happening next month! 🔆
Thrilled to take part in a #solarpunk panel during this event. Alongside @renanbernardo.com, Wren James, Yen Ooi, & Francesco Verso.
You don't have to be a BFS member to register. Sat, January 10. britishfantasysociety.org/the-creative...
#justice #SpecLit #WritingCommunity
You don't have to be a BFS member to register. Sat, January 10. britishfantasysociety.org/the-creative...
#justice #SpecLit #WritingCommunity
December 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
So honored to be part of this discussion happening next month! 🔆
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#Novellavember! The novella is my favorite length, so here’s a thread of some of the bangers I’ve read recently.
Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon.
A trans woman space scavenger gets more than she bargained for in her latest find. Heartfelt space adventure!
Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon.
A trans woman space scavenger gets more than she bargained for in her latest find. Heartfelt space adventure!
Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon
This is How You Lose the Time War meets Ex Machina: Seth Haddon's science fiction debut, Volatile...
app.thestorygraph.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#Novellavember! The novella is my favorite length, so here’s a thread of some of the bangers I’ve read recently.
Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon.
A trans woman space scavenger gets more than she bargained for in her latest find. Heartfelt space adventure!
Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon.
A trans woman space scavenger gets more than she bargained for in her latest find. Heartfelt space adventure!
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This story came from a place of profound anger and was the first thing I wrote emerging from burnout. It’s queer, it’s mad, it’s cathartic. ALL THE BILLIONAIRES DIE! Let’s fuckin go! #NessPromo
Escape Pod 1003: Billionaire’s Tears
I wake up to the sound of screaming, and know I’m going to die. I shoot out of bed, calling for my mother. First thing I’ve spoken clearly in two days. “Maria!” My mother bursts into my room. “Baby…
escapepod.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This story came from a place of profound anger and was the first thing I wrote emerging from burnout. It’s queer, it’s mad, it’s cathartic. ALL THE BILLIONAIRES DIE! Let’s fuckin go! #NessPromo
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SFWA has corrected their grievous error. It is incredibly important that all literary organizations make a stand against LLM. Big tech will fail to ram this crap down our throats if enough of us stand against it.
December 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
SFWA has corrected their grievous error. It is incredibly important that all literary organizations make a stand against LLM. Big tech will fail to ram this crap down our throats if enough of us stand against it.
About the new SFWA decision…
For me this is just a subtle way of saying that they welcome stories written by LLMs. What is "partially"? How do you draw the line anyway? If I invented the character names and let the AI do everything else, is it "partial"?
How frustrating 😞
How frustrating 😞
December 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
About the new SFWA decision…
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I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
December 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
THIS 👇
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
THIS 👇
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I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
This is profoundly disappointing 🤦
Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2.
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
December 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is profoundly disappointing 🤦
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Tried to keep my Top 2025 reads to 25, but a few extra snuck in...! Here's a wee thread of all of my favourite genre books that I read this year - horror & gothic, sci fi, eco fiction, fantasy, and blends of them all! 🧵👇✨📚
December 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Tried to keep my Top 2025 reads to 25, but a few extra snuck in...! Here's a wee thread of all of my favourite genre books that I read this year - horror & gothic, sci fi, eco fiction, fantasy, and blends of them all! 🧵👇✨📚
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And finally, genre-defying reads: dark dystopias, portals between worlds, time travel, weird mythologies, all of them with fantastic stories and worlds to get lost in! 📚Ft @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @oliverklangmead.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social, & @starkholborn.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
And finally, genre-defying reads: dark dystopias, portals between worlds, time travel, weird mythologies, all of them with fantastic stories and worlds to get lost in! 📚Ft @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @oliverklangmead.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social, & @starkholborn.bsky.social
A reminder that Nebula nominations are open and I had this short novella published in 2025 that is eligible! I'm deeply thankful of any and all consideration for this dark little thing 🖤
In the linked thread I also have some recommendation of stuff I liked published in 2025.
In the linked thread I also have some recommendation of stuff I liked published in 2025.
Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members! ☄️ This year, I'd be very humbled and delighted if members considered my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, in their ballots.
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!
December 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A reminder that Nebula nominations are open and I had this short novella published in 2025 that is eligible! I'm deeply thankful of any and all consideration for this dark little thing 🖤
In the linked thread I also have some recommendation of stuff I liked published in 2025.
In the linked thread I also have some recommendation of stuff I liked published in 2025.
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Our magical anthology, OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE, is the perfect gift, with fantasy tales by authors from around the world. Whether light or dark, each one enchants. Order from your favorite bookseller. Learn more: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-enc...
#fantasy #books #fantasybooks
#fantasy #books #fantasybooks
December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our magical anthology, OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE, is the perfect gift, with fantasy tales by authors from around the world. Whether light or dark, each one enchants. Order from your favorite bookseller. Learn more: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-enc...
#fantasy #books #fantasybooks
#fantasy #books #fantasybooks
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More holiday gift ideas from Stars and Sabers, including my novelette, SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL. Get it in time for Valentine’s Day for that special person in your life. (If that special person is you, that’s also cool. 🙂)
Happy December! We've got wonderful gift ideas for your loved ones, or for you! See our 2025 books and preorder a 2026 title at starsandsabers.com/books #books #fantasy #scifi #horror #giftideas
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
More holiday gift ideas from Stars and Sabers, including my novelette, SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL. Get it in time for Valentine’s Day for that special person in your life. (If that special person is you, that’s also cool. 🙂)