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Karen Lord
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Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
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December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I'm mostly a journalist but my not-so-secret dream is to be a real fiction writer. So when @annaleen.bsky.social asked me to write something for a collection full of some of my all time heroes I was shocked and so, SO honored. You can now get that book (ideally from your local indie bookstore)!!!
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
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December 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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So this anthology is out in the world now and I have a short story in it — "Perséfoni in the City." Put this on your holiday shopping list because many of these stories and essays are truly amazing. (I'm currently obsessed with Laia Asieo Odo's devastatingly moving "Where Memory Meets the Sea.")
WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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'..a window into that transformative Peepal Tree treatment.' 🧡

Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian

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Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
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December 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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San Francisco, this is tonight!
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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This is a really important anthology, and also includes a story by @kellyrobson.com about abolition (and burlesque) which I consulted on!
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Honored to have a wee part in this big, wonderful anthology -- out today from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This #GivingTuesday we are thrilled that 2025 has been Clarion West's most impactful ever, from the growth of our classes and workshops, to the audiences for our virtual and in-person events, and even our team itself! Help us keep up in a WILD time for nonprofits: www.clarionwest.org/get-involved...
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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It's Giving Tuesday! Please help us continue the work we do, celebrating SFF books and creators!

Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.

Please give today! Thank you so much for your support!
December 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Heute erschienen und sofort gekauft. Darauf habe ich mich schon gefreut 🤗.
Danke @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @older.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year Giving Campaign on the 2nd, Giving Tuesday!

Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.

The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Order We Will Rise Again now for yourself or for holiday gifting!

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We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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more about WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action, and order links: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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great to see WE WILL RISE AGAIN (which, if you haven't seen me shouting about it all week, is out TODAY) on this list! lithub.com/memory-rehab...
Memory Rehab and Future History: December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
The mornings are brisker, the evenings are darker—the year is winding down. You may, like me, be reevaluating your TBR from the past year and recalling books you had meant to read when you got them…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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This #GivingTuesday don't forget about global, multilingual, community journalism. Global Voices brings you the stories that our community members know need telling. We're under threat from authoritarianism, budget cuts, attacks on journalists. You can help.

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December 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Today! I am so happy and proud that this is out in the world, and so grateful to my friends and co-editors @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social and all the amazing contributors to We Will Rise Again.
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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December reads, brought with love! Purchase through @Bookshop_Org & support The Word! bookshop.org/lists/decemb... This month features @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @older.bsky.social María Álvarez Micheliny Verunschk Valerie Wesley @rominagarber.bsky.social @authorhien.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The Leaning Pile of Books for 11/30/2025, featuring WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older.

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #SciFi #SpecFic #Fantasy 📚🪐

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The Leaning Pile of Books for 11/30/2025 | Fantasy Cafe
The Leaning Pile of Books for 11/30/2025, featuring WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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There are still a few tickets to this incredible event tomorrow!
Bay Area friends! Where do we find the hope that fuels our resistance and protests? In stories! On Dec. 2, come out to @booksmith.bsky.social for an unforgettable evening with speculative fiction authors and activists, celebrating our new anthology "We Will Rise Again"! booksmith.com/event/WWRA1125
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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This should be an amazing conversation - join us!
and order our new book here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is going to be amazing. Join us!
Join us on Thursday, December 4, at 10 AM for a virtual conversation exploring how fiction can help shape our vision of better social policies. Moderator @edfinn.bsky.social will join @drkarenlord.bsky.social , @annaleen.bsky.social , Malka Older, and Craig Calhoun.

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December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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So proud of this book, so happy it will be out in the world tomorrow, so much love to my co-editors @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, and so much gratitude to all the amazing writers and activists who contributed www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM