From Ruth Madievsky’s interview with Aria Aber in The Creative Independent — I think this is a useful framework, being someone who edits as I go

a little shade: logic like this is part of why it can be difficult to achieve mass mobilization (including general strikes) — art should continue, but it doesn’t have to continue in the same way it always has

Readers, writers and editors nominating for writing awards in 2025: please consider ‘Loving Safoa’ (Neon Hemlock Press novella) and “Undrowned Histories: A Retrospective Reading of The Deep (2019) and Flowers for the Sea (2021)” (Interstellar Flight Mag essay).

#awardseligibility #SFF

Please consider donating to this GoFundMe or sharing. I’m distraught by the despair Majd and her family are feeling. Majd is a 19-year old trying to escape genocide in Gaza.

I’m fundraising via Loving Safoa trading cards — you can buy directly on my website (link in bio), or donate $9+ and DM me

I’m making collages from time to time, inspired by my @neonhemlock.bsky.social novella
'Loving Safoa' (published Feb. 6 2024)
Image sources are posted on my newsletter (link also on the landing page of my website):
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substack post 1: @neonhemlock.bsky.social giveaway update, and "notes on maneaters" tinyurl.com/4yt45j54