Lynne Sargent
@lynnesargent.bsky.social
Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codexian. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction
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Awards Eligibility 2025
I can’t believe it’s already basically over and writing “2025” as the year when I date things still feels foreign. It’s always strange to me how this annual accounting…
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It's awards eligibilty season! Here's a highlight of some of my favourite works I had published this year, with a bonus photo of Kerby failing to be a unicorn for Halloween as a sacrifice to the algorithm gods.
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Suica has a penguin, ICOCA has a platypus, and Presto has nothing for a mascot. it's a ridiculous oversight that must be resolved posthaste. i recommend a raccoon, possibly one wearing a wizard's hat
December 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Suica has a penguin, ICOCA has a platypus, and Presto has nothing for a mascot. it's a ridiculous oversight that must be resolved posthaste. i recommend a raccoon, possibly one wearing a wizard's hat
Knives Out is a perfect movie. This rewatch is just affirming to me that it's even more brilliant than I remembered it being.
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Knives Out is a perfect movie. This rewatch is just affirming to me that it's even more brilliant than I remembered it being.
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I actually think it’s the perfect choice. It’s a bone bleached by sun, the 500 year old styrofoam still intact on polluted soil, a noxious fume billowing into sky, corporate minimalist interior, a splotch on an x-ray, the afterlives of the present.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I actually think it’s the perfect choice. It’s a bone bleached by sun, the 500 year old styrofoam still intact on polluted soil, a noxious fume billowing into sky, corporate minimalist interior, a splotch on an x-ray, the afterlives of the present.
As my partner often reminds me, it's not just "sufficiently advanced science" that is magic. All science is fucking magic!
This reminder is brought to you by installing a new astronomical light switch, and the earth magic of grounding cancelling out the fire magic of electrons.
This reminder is brought to you by installing a new astronomical light switch, and the earth magic of grounding cancelling out the fire magic of electrons.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
As my partner often reminds me, it's not just "sufficiently advanced science" that is magic. All science is fucking magic!
This reminder is brought to you by installing a new astronomical light switch, and the earth magic of grounding cancelling out the fire magic of electrons.
This reminder is brought to you by installing a new astronomical light switch, and the earth magic of grounding cancelling out the fire magic of electrons.
My sister (who is 15): So is the term neurodivergent from the film Divergent?
Me: 🤯 nooooooooooo. Like a) they were books first! and b) nooooooooo
Me: 🤯 nooooooooooo. Like a) they were books first! and b) nooooooooo
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
My sister (who is 15): So is the term neurodivergent from the film Divergent?
Me: 🤯 nooooooooooo. Like a) they were books first! and b) nooooooooo
Me: 🤯 nooooooooooo. Like a) they were books first! and b) nooooooooo
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Guess who's back?
I took November off from the newsletter, but here we are again. I've got stories from @rukman.bsky.social and Ann LaBlanc as well as a throwback story all the way from January by @lynnesargent.bsky.social
howsweetthewords.com/two-fic-tues...
I took November off from the newsletter, but here we are again. I've got stories from @rukman.bsky.social and Ann LaBlanc as well as a throwback story all the way from January by @lynnesargent.bsky.social
howsweetthewords.com/two-fic-tues...
Two FIc Tuesday Has Returned!
Welcome!
So, as you might have noticed, I vanished for the month of November. October was rough, and November wound up being nothing but recovery time for me. I'm in much better shape though, so we'r...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Guess who's back?
I took November off from the newsletter, but here we are again. I've got stories from @rukman.bsky.social and Ann LaBlanc as well as a throwback story all the way from January by @lynnesargent.bsky.social
howsweetthewords.com/two-fic-tues...
I took November off from the newsletter, but here we are again. I've got stories from @rukman.bsky.social and Ann LaBlanc as well as a throwback story all the way from January by @lynnesargent.bsky.social
howsweetthewords.com/two-fic-tues...
That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.
Sense8
*know that I wanted to find the dildo gif and it didn't exist in the searcher
Sense8
*know that I wanted to find the dildo gif and it didn't exist in the searcher
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.
Sense8
*know that I wanted to find the dildo gif and it didn't exist in the searcher
Sense8
*know that I wanted to find the dildo gif and it didn't exist in the searcher
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We're very excited to share our latest issue, featuring a range of fantastic art, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction - available digitally and in print. Huge thanks to all contributors, including Alyssa Winans @alawinans.bsky.social whose art appears on the cover! #art
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
HOME | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
Science Fiction Magazine dedicated to publishing quality short stories, poems, scientific articles which reflect optimism in the future.
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We're very excited to share our latest issue, featuring a range of fantastic art, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction - available digitally and in print. Huge thanks to all contributors, including Alyssa Winans @alawinans.bsky.social whose art appears on the cover! #art
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
www.utopiasciencefiction.com
These are the meetings to attend to make the Hugo for poetry a permanent awards! Please try to hold room in your calendars. It means the world to us poets 💚
Hang on let me rummage around for the press release.
Ah! here:
www.lacon.org/2025/11/02/w...
#Worldcon #HugoAward #BusinessMeeting
Ah! here:
www.lacon.org/2025/11/02/w...
#Worldcon #HugoAward #BusinessMeeting
WSFS Business Meeting Goes Virtual for LAcon V – LAcon V
www.lacon.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
These are the meetings to attend to make the Hugo for poetry a permanent awards! Please try to hold room in your calendars. It means the world to us poets 💚
Reposted by Lynne Sargent
Hang on let me rummage around for the press release.
Ah! here:
www.lacon.org/2025/11/02/w...
#Worldcon #HugoAward #BusinessMeeting
Ah! here:
www.lacon.org/2025/11/02/w...
#Worldcon #HugoAward #BusinessMeeting
WSFS Business Meeting Goes Virtual for LAcon V – LAcon V
www.lacon.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hang on let me rummage around for the press release.
Ah! here:
www.lacon.org/2025/11/02/w...
#Worldcon #HugoAward #BusinessMeeting
Ah! here:
www.lacon.org/2025/11/02/w...
#Worldcon #HugoAward #BusinessMeeting
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I will note that the Business Meeting next year will be held virtually before the convention and anyone with an attending or virtual membership can join the meeting online and vote. If they do it like last year, it would be one meeting a week spread out before the convention.
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I will note that the Business Meeting next year will be held virtually before the convention and anyone with an attending or virtual membership can join the meeting online and vote. If they do it like last year, it would be one meeting a week spread out before the convention.
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Now that LA has announced their special category, the Hugo rec sheet has been updated (poem is after short story). If you've been vibrating with excitement to rec some poetry, your moment has arrived! #HugoAwards
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now that LA has announced their special category, the Hugo rec sheet has been updated (poem is after short story). If you've been vibrating with excitement to rec some poetry, your moment has arrived! #HugoAwards
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LAcon V is pleased to announce @teresempierre.bsky.social as a Special Guest.
She is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, & Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Ignite, the Elgin, & the Aurora.
She is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, & Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Ignite, the Elgin, & the Aurora.
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
LAcon V is pleased to announce @teresempierre.bsky.social as a Special Guest.
She is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, & Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Ignite, the Elgin, & the Aurora.
She is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, & Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Ignite, the Elgin, & the Aurora.
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Hugo Award for Poetry Will Be Presented by LAcon V
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Hugo Award for Poetry Will Be Presented by LAcon V
LAcon V organizers today announced “Best Poem” will be the optional additional category for the 2026 Hugo Awards being presented at the 84th World Science Fiction Convention. The Hugo Awards, creat…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hugo Award for Poetry Will Be Presented by LAcon V
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This is such amazing news! Now I'm the annoying gremlin coming in to remind folks that if they are attending WorldCon 2026 to PLEASE PLEASE vote for making this Hugo a permanent one (it'll be the last vote if it's successful!)
In Anaheim did Worldcon
a special Hugo Award decree
where sci-fi verse
with rhymes diverse
were celebrated as best poetry
(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Yes, there will be a Hugo for Best Poem in 2026. The press release is out. The LAcon V will be updated later today.
a special Hugo Award decree
where sci-fi verse
with rhymes diverse
were celebrated as best poetry
(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Yes, there will be a Hugo for Best Poem in 2026. The press release is out. The LAcon V will be updated later today.
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is such amazing news! Now I'm the annoying gremlin coming in to remind folks that if they are attending WorldCon 2026 to PLEASE PLEASE vote for making this Hugo a permanent one (it'll be the last vote if it's successful!)
Accidentally in a state of:
"Whoops my entire reading list is fairytale retellings 😅
"Whoops my entire reading list is fairytale retellings 😅
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Accidentally in a state of:
"Whoops my entire reading list is fairytale retellings 😅
"Whoops my entire reading list is fairytale retellings 😅
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We are not sure how feral Avi will get if this hits 100 backers bu it would probably be fun to find out?
Also this audiobook is going to be SO GOOD, friends - jump aboard!!
Also this audiobook is going to be SO GOOD, friends - jump aboard!!
i'm gonna shut up for a minute and eat something but i will continue screaming later between hades 2 runs bc hitting 100 backers would also be neat. i stg i am satisfied, i just like going as feral as humanly possible from time 2 time
feral-making machine: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
feral-making machine: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming: An Orchestrated Audiobook
Help fund the long-awaited audiobook of this cult-classic fantasy novel, complete with musical accompaniment.
www.kickstarter.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
We are not sure how feral Avi will get if this hits 100 backers bu it would probably be fun to find out?
Also this audiobook is going to be SO GOOD, friends - jump aboard!!
Also this audiobook is going to be SO GOOD, friends - jump aboard!!
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Last year we received 87 applications & choosing was incredibly difficult! Thank you so much to everyone who applied! 💜
P.S we’re still OPEN to 2026 grant applications! 👀 Visit www.arts.on.ca/grants/recom... on eligibility and how to apply by January 15, 2026 @ 1 p.m. ET.
P.S we’re still OPEN to 2026 grant applications! 👀 Visit www.arts.on.ca/grants/recom... on eligibility and how to apply by January 15, 2026 @ 1 p.m. ET.
Ontario Arts Council - Recommender Grants for Writers
www.arts.on.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Last year we received 87 applications & choosing was incredibly difficult! Thank you so much to everyone who applied! 💜
P.S we’re still OPEN to 2026 grant applications! 👀 Visit www.arts.on.ca/grants/recom... on eligibility and how to apply by January 15, 2026 @ 1 p.m. ET.
P.S we’re still OPEN to 2026 grant applications! 👀 Visit www.arts.on.ca/grants/recom... on eligibility and how to apply by January 15, 2026 @ 1 p.m. ET.
It's said that I read a lot, but assuming I live to be 80 and keep up my current pace of ~110 books a year that's *only* 5,500 more books I get to read in my lifetime and that is... not enough books. Clearly people who think immortality would get boring are not readers.
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It's said that I read a lot, but assuming I live to be 80 and keep up my current pace of ~110 books a year that's *only* 5,500 more books I get to read in my lifetime and that is... not enough books. Clearly people who think immortality would get boring are not readers.
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I’m glad to see a Liberal MP taking a principled stand against the government’s decision to abandon environmental targets and fighting climate change and instead invest in fossil fuels and pipelines
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’m glad to see a Liberal MP taking a principled stand against the government’s decision to abandon environmental targets and fighting climate change and instead invest in fossil fuels and pipelines
Re: Awards Eligibility. If you prefer a thread, this is for you!
As a recap, here's the whole blog post: scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...
Below you'll find each piece I'm recommending! Starting with Short Fiction
As a recap, here's the whole blog post: scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...
Below you'll find each piece I'm recommending! Starting with Short Fiction
Awards Eligibility 2025
I can’t believe it’s already basically over and writing “2025” as the year when I date things still feels foreign. It’s always strange to me how this annual accounting…
scribbledshadows.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Re: Awards Eligibility. If you prefer a thread, this is for you!
As a recap, here's the whole blog post: scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...
Below you'll find each piece I'm recommending! Starting with Short Fiction
As a recap, here's the whole blog post: scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...
Below you'll find each piece I'm recommending! Starting with Short Fiction
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Today is many things but I do give thanks today and every day that Stanislav Petrov saved the world when I was a child. so I wrote him a poem and @utopiascifi.bsky.social published it.
utopiasciencefiction.medium.com/thanks-to-st...
utopiasciencefiction.medium.com/thanks-to-st...
Thanks to Stanislav Petrov for Fairy Tales about Birds by Elizabeth R. McClellan
February 2021 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
utopiasciencefiction.medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today is many things but I do give thanks today and every day that Stanislav Petrov saved the world when I was a child. so I wrote him a poem and @utopiascifi.bsky.social published it.
utopiasciencefiction.medium.com/thanks-to-st...
utopiasciencefiction.medium.com/thanks-to-st...
It's awards eligibilty season! Here's a highlight of some of my favourite works I had published this year, with a bonus photo of Kerby failing to be a unicorn for Halloween as a sacrifice to the algorithm gods.
scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...
scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...
Awards Eligibility 2025
I can’t believe it’s already basically over and writing “2025” as the year when I date things still feels foreign. It’s always strange to me how this annual accounting…
scribbledshadows.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It's awards eligibilty season! Here's a highlight of some of my favourite works I had published this year, with a bonus photo of Kerby failing to be a unicorn for Halloween as a sacrifice to the algorithm gods.
scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...
scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/a...