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Author. Artist.
Rep @antoinight.bsky.social & @natalielakosil.bsky.social at @lookingglasslit.bsky.social
These Bodies Ain't Broken (Page Street 2025), Being Aro (Page Street, 2026)
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It's been difficult to ask for help, but I'm a foreign student in🇰🇷 who's in such a crisis financially and health-wise that it's about survival--for me & my parents in India. Full story below. If anyone can help, even a little, even just by sharing, it would mean the world. ⬇️
No one touches me because I am about to devour Molka by Monika Kim! If you need me, please find me in my cave and do bring a lot of snacks
February 4, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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🎉 Launch day event for I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD! 🎉 Join me in conversation with @loulawrites.bsky.social at 6:00 PM, Tuesday, 3/3 at the Easthampton Public Library! Books available from @highfivebooks.bsky.social!🧑‍💻 Registration encouraged! More info & RSVP here ewmlibrary.libcal.com/event/159127...
February 3, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.

We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.

Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Statement on ICE Operations in the USA
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US facing these conditions.
strangehorizons.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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My ecological horror poem "Stillborn" has been nominated for the Rhysling Award. It's my first time making it to that list. www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcast/stil...
Stillborn - Nightmare Magazine
This poem was written in response to the LandBack movement and as part of the brainstorming process for my unpublished cli-fi novel The Everwhen.
www.nightmare-magazine.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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🎉 I’m thrilled to announce this EXCLUSIVE PREORDER OFFER with Book Moon Books! Preorder I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD from @bookmoon.bsky.social, & receive a designer license plate sticker & art print of the cover illustration with your personalized, signed book! 👻 www.bookmoonbooks.com/item/CG57SFS...
February 3, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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East India Company, remote desk
Rural India powers global AI models.

Tending crops by day and then logging on for a night shift of data labelling, 27-year-old Chandmani Kerketta is part of a rising rural Indian workforce helping power an artificial intelligence revolution

u.afp.com/S2YU
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Clearing my schedule for these fire reads 🔥🤭📚

Happy #BookBirthday to #TheDarknessGreetedHer by @christinaferko.bsky.social and #AllWeOnceHad by @katyupperman.bsky.social!
February 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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Since I just did all the work to find these #publishing #writingcommunity links, figured I’d share. They’re fairly recent statistics, except the NYT one:

Author Diversity Statistics:

wordsrated.com/author-demog...

wordsrated.com/author-stati...

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Author Diversity in Kidlit (always more diverse than adult fiction):

uwmadison.app.box.com/s/rn4ccrdx8f...

Publishing Diversity Statistics (includes disability and LGBTQ+ stats):

publishingperspectives.com/2024/02/dive....
February 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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I’ve been unable to post almost anything because of mental health nadir so I’m very proud I whipped this up, and if a romcom with MCs who are offended by the state of the world and do fucking something about it might help you weather your own dark nights, well:

bookshop.org/p/books/my-k...
February 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Over the moon to share that I’m a finalist for the @aurealisawards.bsky.social!! This is a dream come true, and I’m so honoured to be shortlisted alongside my fellow nominees!

My little debut book’s thriving out there 🥹
February 2, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind.

#QuestPit #AG #YA
January 31, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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SAILOR MOON x HANNAH MONTANA x TRON

By day, Mia & her friends are a hot pop group. By night they're vigilantes who fight virus monsters in a metaverse.

⚡️Mixed race & Chinese rep
🐶TALKING CORGI
🔥Magical Cyber Girls
🗺️Diaspora themes
💞Rivals to lovers

#questpit #ya #f #sf #poc #q
January 31, 2026 at 5:04 AM
I had almost given up on art but then I read Heavenly Tyrant by @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social and I knew I had to pick my iPad for my favorite toxic pair Wu Zetian & Qin Zheng. Took me months to finish because I am like super out of practice, but I am extremely happy the way it turned out.
January 28, 2026 at 2:36 AM
I have already locked down my Twitter (I have stopped posting like an year ago) and threads feel like Twitter on crack. Bluesky is relatively stable, but not many book people here. If you are from bookish community, I would love to connect
January 27, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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The indie Filipino short film "The Lovers" (Studio Heartbreak) is now complete, and will be released this summer on Youtube.
In the meantime, here's a nice official poster illustrated by Ami Thompson.
www.studioheartbreak.com
www.catsuka.com/news/2023-05...
January 15, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Hi, I am grateful to all those have helped. You guys gave me a 2nd life. However, donations has stopped for months and I do not enough to survive. I will be grateful if you can kindly help me a little more though my tough time and help me survive
As the end of the year approaches, I'm grateful to those who donated to help me through my difficult situation. Thank you so much. However, donations have stopped entirely & I'm still struggling to survive. I'll be grateful if you could help me reach at least 50% of my goal.
I sincerely thank @keiralekseii.bsky.social for setting up the GFM and @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social for their guidance throughout the process. Please help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-soumi
January 3, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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Please help Soumi survive and rebuild her life after she lost her life savings to a scam. She's a valuable member of our SFF community and needs all the help she can get! 👇
As the end of the year approaches, I'm grateful to those who donated to help me through my difficult situation. Thank you so much. However, donations have stopped entirely & I'm still struggling to survive. I'll be grateful if you could help me reach at least 50% of my goal.
I sincerely thank @keiralekseii.bsky.social for setting up the GFM and @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social for their guidance throughout the process. Please help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-soumi
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Updated the post with a verified Venmo link! It's in the blog post, or you can go directly to it here: linktr.ee/sinijay8#230...
Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.
vajra.me
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
As the end of the year approaches, I'm grateful to those who donated to help me through my difficult situation. Thank you so much. However, donations have stopped entirely & I'm still struggling to survive. I'll be grateful if you could help me reach at least 50% of my goal.
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🌱 WE BUILD A HOME: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan.

More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We Build a Home - call for submissions
We Build a Home - call for submissions Call for submissions for illustrations and short comics of max. 3 pages* about stories of what a home might mean to someone in the context of being queer. > SU...
docs.google.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Super proud of be a part of this lineup
BEING ARO lineup announcement! This YA cross genre aromantic anthology is coming your way May 2026 from Page Street!

@clh2oars.bsky.social @kashinggiwa.bsky.social @kalynjosephson.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @soumiroy1.bsky.social @annzhao.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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BEING ARO lineup announcement! This YA cross genre aromantic anthology is coming your way May 2026 from Page Street!

@clh2oars.bsky.social @kashinggiwa.bsky.social @kalynjosephson.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @soumiroy1.bsky.social @annzhao.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
OMG screaminggggg
I can finally say this publicly now.

Yay!!!
October 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Please help Archita. Share the post and help her asap
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in urgent need of help right now--she lost her father recently, suffered damages to her home from the recent rains, & her mother's now in hospital. They have no insurance. She's a freelancer, & really needs help. Please share & donate.
October 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM