Guan Un
@thisisguan.bsky.social
Aurelias-nominated writer of speculative short stories. Words in Levar Burton Reads, Year’s Best Fantasy and many more. Australian/Chinese via Malaysia. Sentence enthusiast. Dumplingmancer. Look at you all mythicalogical.
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I was lucky enough to read an early copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's The Cellar Below the Cellar, which I absolutely loved! Link to my review here!
R.L. Summerling's review of The Cellar Below the Cellar
5/5: The Cellar Below the Cellar is about Jane and her story of self discovery. Stranded during an unprecedented weather event, she finds herself with the unappealing prospect of living with her domin...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I was lucky enough to read an early copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's The Cellar Below the Cellar, which I absolutely loved! Link to my review here!
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This is, I suppose, the one award-worthy thing I have for your consideration this year. A mystical, grief-laden, yet imminently hopeful poem in collage form
Aw thanks for asking! I've spent the past few years turning to collaging in times of overwhelming grief or fear or pain, when I couldn't form words of my own. I didn't realize they might speak to others, too -- so I was really excited when Worlds of Possibility published "After" as a collage poem ✨
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is, I suppose, the one award-worthy thing I have for your consideration this year. A mystical, grief-laden, yet imminently hopeful poem in collage form
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For AaN it would be our "Mmeory" memory manipulation anthology. A lot of first time professional rate authors in this one from around the world.
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
For AaN it would be our "Mmeory" memory manipulation anthology. A lot of first time professional rate authors in this one from around the world.
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I think "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social is most dear to me, because it's a love letter to my adopted city, and it's about the power of community in the fact of systemic oppression and violence
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
Written on the Subway Walls
For February, The Sunday Morning Transport brings you stories by Jennifer Hudak, John Chu, Carrie Vaughn, and Marie Brennan.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I think "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social is most dear to me, because it's a love letter to my adopted city, and it's about the power of community in the fact of systemic oppression and violence
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...
I'm still so proud of my story "Whalesong", published in Deadlands this year: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I'm still so proud of my story "Whalesong", published in Deadlands this year: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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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.)
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
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.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
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starting an initiative on ig where i post pics of my dog for engagement. i will mirror here. my dog's name is puddles and she's 9.
i'm moderating a panel called "in defense of romance" at b&n perimeter 11/22 @ 2pm w/ @runwithskizzers.bsky.social and others AND Y'ALL BETTER SHOW UP BC IT'LL BE FUN
i'm moderating a panel called "in defense of romance" at b&n perimeter 11/22 @ 2pm w/ @runwithskizzers.bsky.social and others AND Y'ALL BETTER SHOW UP BC IT'LL BE FUN
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
starting an initiative on ig where i post pics of my dog for engagement. i will mirror here. my dog's name is puddles and she's 9.
i'm moderating a panel called "in defense of romance" at b&n perimeter 11/22 @ 2pm w/ @runwithskizzers.bsky.social and others AND Y'ALL BETTER SHOW UP BC IT'LL BE FUN
i'm moderating a panel called "in defense of romance" at b&n perimeter 11/22 @ 2pm w/ @runwithskizzers.bsky.social and others AND Y'ALL BETTER SHOW UP BC IT'LL BE FUN
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Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
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It’s official! I have a short story collection coming out Nov 3! Pre-orders open now! And look at the gorgeous cover designed in-house by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg
A sea-witch calls to souls from the deep. In modern suburbia, a middle-aged woman fights to keep her daughter from the clutches of a Faerie Queen. . . and finds herself confronting her own past and de...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It’s official! I have a short story collection coming out Nov 3! Pre-orders open now! And look at the gorgeous cover designed in-house by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
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It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...
midnight & indigo: Sixteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers
From underwater cities to outlawed magic, lunar missions to haunted houses, sixteen emerging and established Black women writers conjure strange wonders, eerie encounters, and futures beyond our reach...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...
My name's O.Z. and I'm here to say,
You can despair at my works from far away
You can despair at my works from far away
Ozyman, Ozyman-
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My name's O.Z. and I'm here to say,
You can despair at my works from far away
You can despair at my works from far away
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did you know that right now, we're only a partial skeleton? we're not fully funded, and so we're missing some critical bones.
this is truth
and sadly not sustainable
help us be a full skeleton?
patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...
our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
this is truth
and sadly not sustainable
help us be a full skeleton?
patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...
our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
October 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
did you know that right now, we're only a partial skeleton? we're not fully funded, and so we're missing some critical bones.
this is truth
and sadly not sustainable
help us be a full skeleton?
patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...
our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
this is truth
and sadly not sustainable
help us be a full skeleton?
patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...
our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
taps the *dropbox is not a backup* sign
Anyway: if you have a @dropbox.com account, get all your files downloaded and close your account. They could do this to you too at ANY MOMENT. And in the US, you can't even file a class action about it.
Just google 'Dropbox disabled account'. You'll find 1000s of stories just like this one.
Just google 'Dropbox disabled account'. You'll find 1000s of stories just like this one.
October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
taps the *dropbox is not a backup* sign
Honoured to be a Pushcart nominee for "A Parable of Slow Songs"! Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for all that he does. You can read the micro here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Honoured to be a Pushcart nominee for "A Parable of Slow Songs"! Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for all that he does. You can read the micro here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
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On a mission to get subscribers to my free newsletter up to an arbitrary number. If you're interested in the workings of a historical fantasy novelist's career, you can read the archives here. Stuff like what my editing process looks like, what I'm reading, craft/career things I'm working through.
Kate Heartfield's Newsletter
I'm Kate Heartfield, a writer of historical fantasy novels and other things. My newsletter is a way to let you know what I'm up to, and to talk about books and ideas. It comes out every second Friday.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
On a mission to get subscribers to my free newsletter up to an arbitrary number. If you're interested in the workings of a historical fantasy novelist's career, you can read the archives here. Stuff like what my editing process looks like, what I'm reading, craft/career things I'm working through.
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A wonderful review of ECO24! "The diversity of stories reflects the diversity of the authors and also showcases the indefinable quality of eco-fiction." Ben highlights stories by K-Ming Chang, Guillermo G. Mendoza, @hironennes.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @kayv.bsky.social & Mathew Freeman 💚
Our latest Eco-Update is out! In this issue: Ecological displacement in British Columbia, salamander extinction possibility, and an eco-fiction review of the ECO24 anthology from @apexmag.bsky.social
🌎🌐🧪🏡
www.briefecology.com/p/the-eco-up...
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www.briefecology.com/p/the-eco-up...
The Eco-Update #20
Dispatches from the planet.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A wonderful review of ECO24! "The diversity of stories reflects the diversity of the authors and also showcases the indefinable quality of eco-fiction." Ben highlights stories by K-Ming Chang, Guillermo G. Mendoza, @hironennes.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @kayv.bsky.social & Mathew Freeman 💚
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Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! 🖤🎃🌿
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
October 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! 🖤🎃🌿
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF.
Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions
Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...
Today's newsletter, discussing a sentence courtesy of Rebecca Solnit:
"For mothers, some mothers, my mother, daughters are division and sons are multiplication; the former reduce them, fracture them, take from them, the latter augment and enhance."
"For mothers, some mothers, my mother, daughters are division and sons are multiplication; the former reduce them, fracture them, take from them, the latter augment and enhance."
Fault lines and parables
Dear reader, Here’s a sentence: For mothers, some mothers, my mother, daughters are division and sons are multiplication; the former reduce them, fracture...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Today's newsletter, discussing a sentence courtesy of Rebecca Solnit:
"For mothers, some mothers, my mother, daughters are division and sons are multiplication; the former reduce them, fracture them, take from them, the latter augment and enhance."
"For mothers, some mothers, my mother, daughters are division and sons are multiplication; the former reduce them, fracture them, take from them, the latter augment and enhance."
I've been enjoying writing my newsletter again, and I think other people have enjoyed it too? If you'd like some short thoughts about sentences and writing, you can sign up at my website to be in time for the next one: guanun.com
Guan
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October 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I've been enjoying writing my newsletter again, and I think other people have enjoyed it too? If you'd like some short thoughts about sentences and writing, you can sign up at my website to be in time for the next one: guanun.com
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YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...
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Aurealis Awards entries close on November 30, 2025 - this is by necessity a couple of weeks earlier than in past years to facilitate our exciting Awards Ceremony at GenreCon on the weekend of 20-22nd February!
#AurealisAwards
#AurealisAwards
a minion from the movie despicable me is standing on a wooden floor with a red light on its head .
ALT: a minion from the movie despicable me is standing on a wooden floor with a red light on its head .
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October 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Aurealis Awards entries close on November 30, 2025 - this is by necessity a couple of weeks earlier than in past years to facilitate our exciting Awards Ceremony at GenreCon on the weekend of 20-22nd February!
#AurealisAwards
#AurealisAwards
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PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
October 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
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I'll have some prints and this original, pencil piece at SLICE Vancouver's collective art show this week! Along with awesome art, prints, and other goodies from 20+ local artists.
Trust me, it'll look a lot better in real life. ;)
#shoplocal #artgallery #artshow #traditionalart #womenartists
Trust me, it'll look a lot better in real life. ;)
#shoplocal #artgallery #artshow #traditionalart #womenartists
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I'll have some prints and this original, pencil piece at SLICE Vancouver's collective art show this week! Along with awesome art, prints, and other goodies from 20+ local artists.
Trust me, it'll look a lot better in real life. ;)
#shoplocal #artgallery #artshow #traditionalart #womenartists
Trust me, it'll look a lot better in real life. ;)
#shoplocal #artgallery #artshow #traditionalart #womenartists
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Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
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Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
October 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry
by Bree Wernicke
"Unless
you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail
to maintain proper quantities of teeth,
you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition
Association, permanently. Yay!"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry