mimi mondal (they/she/🐈⬛)
@mimimondal.bsky.social
nebula & hugo awards-nominated indian sff writer. #RadiantCitadel #manivarsha. rep: @luciennediver.
technicolor cat enjoys the best afternoon ever (aka basically every afternoon) 🌈
September 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
technicolor cat enjoys the best afternoon ever (aka basically every afternoon) 🌈
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BBB's Aug. reading was a blast! Thnx to authors
@aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@mimimondal.bsky.social & @svpthinks.bsky.social! 📚🎙️🧉
Next: 9/17 (Weds.!) w/authors @davidmack.bsky.social #LizGotauco @kaileepedersen.bsky.social & @randeedawn.com!
More pics: shorturl.at/eiz9p
@aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@mimimondal.bsky.social & @svpthinks.bsky.social! 📚🎙️🧉
Next: 9/17 (Weds.!) w/authors @davidmack.bsky.social #LizGotauco @kaileepedersen.bsky.social & @randeedawn.com!
More pics: shorturl.at/eiz9p
August 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
BBB's Aug. reading was a blast! Thnx to authors
@aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@mimimondal.bsky.social & @svpthinks.bsky.social! 📚🎙️🧉
Next: 9/17 (Weds.!) w/authors @davidmack.bsky.social #LizGotauco @kaileepedersen.bsky.social & @randeedawn.com!
More pics: shorturl.at/eiz9p
@aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@mimimondal.bsky.social & @svpthinks.bsky.social! 📚🎙️🧉
Next: 9/17 (Weds.!) w/authors @davidmack.bsky.social #LizGotauco @kaileepedersen.bsky.social & @randeedawn.com!
More pics: shorturl.at/eiz9p
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BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts August into tiny pieces on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ a stellar lineup of reading authors:
@aahabershaw.bsky.social
@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee
@randeedawn.com!
📚🎙️🧉
Join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
@aahabershaw.bsky.social
@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee
@randeedawn.com!
📚🎙️🧉
Join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts August into tiny pieces on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ a stellar lineup of reading authors:
@aahabershaw.bsky.social
@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee
@randeedawn.com!
📚🎙️🧉
Join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
@aahabershaw.bsky.social
@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee
@randeedawn.com!
📚🎙️🧉
Join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
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Please let your homies in NYC & Chicago know — tickets for THE INVISIBLE PARADE Tour are dwindling fast. 👀 All other dates = *sold out*. Hate it when people say, “Ahhhhhh! Why didn’t you tell me?!?” after tickets are gone.
I’m trying, people. I’m trying. :) Get tickets: linktr.ee/theInvisible...
I’m trying, people. I’m trying. :) Get tickets: linktr.ee/theInvisible...
August 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Please let your homies in NYC & Chicago know — tickets for THE INVISIBLE PARADE Tour are dwindling fast. 👀 All other dates = *sold out*. Hate it when people say, “Ahhhhhh! Why didn’t you tell me?!?” after tickets are gone.
I’m trying, people. I’m trying. :) Get tickets: linktr.ee/theInvisible...
I’m trying, people. I’m trying. :) Get tickets: linktr.ee/theInvisible...
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The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee.
This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges.
I want to see an awards panel that represents the field.
forms.gle/WWsFSAZLPvqb...
1/
This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges.
I want to see an awards panel that represents the field.
forms.gle/WWsFSAZLPvqb...
1/
Sidewise Award Judge Application
The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee. Established in 1995, the Sidewise Award honors excellence in fiction that explores “what if” scenarios t...
forms.gle
August 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee.
This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges.
I want to see an awards panel that represents the field.
forms.gle/WWsFSAZLPvqb...
1/
This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges.
I want to see an awards panel that represents the field.
forms.gle/WWsFSAZLPvqb...
1/
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BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts August into tiny pieces on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ another stellar lineup of reading authors:
@aahabershaw.bsky.social
@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee
@randeedawn.com!
📚🎙️🧉
Join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
@aahabershaw.bsky.social
@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee
@randeedawn.com!
📚🎙️🧉
Join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts August into tiny pieces on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ another stellar lineup of reading authors:
@aahabershaw.bsky.social
@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee
@randeedawn.com!
📚🎙️🧉
Join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
@aahabershaw.bsky.social
@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social
@svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee
@randeedawn.com!
📚🎙️🧉
Join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
My first in-person reading in NYC since the pandemic (aka in more than half a decade 😱)
is
NEXT MONTH!!!
Come over if you're in town! Bring friends, lovers, dance partners. Let's make this a beautiful, fun midsummer evening by the East River💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
is
NEXT MONTH!!!
Come over if you're in town! Bring friends, lovers, dance partners. Let's make this a beautiful, fun midsummer evening by the East River💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts into August on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ another stellar lineup of reading authors: @aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social & emcee @randeedawn.com + DRINKS! 📚🎙️🧉
Do join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
Do join us!
More: brooklynbooksbooze.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My first in-person reading in NYC since the pandemic (aka in more than half a decade 😱)
is
NEXT MONTH!!!
Come over if you're in town! Bring friends, lovers, dance partners. Let's make this a beautiful, fun midsummer evening by the East River💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
is
NEXT MONTH!!!
Come over if you're in town! Bring friends, lovers, dance partners. Let's make this a beautiful, fun midsummer evening by the East River💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
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Bookmarking @mimimondal.bsky.social's page at the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine, to read all their work there thus far: a series of 6 short stories, with a 7th on the way!
rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-...
While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon!
www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...
rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-...
While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon!
www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...
Mimi Mondal | Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
Mimi Mondal was born and raised in Kolkata, India. Her fiction has twice been nominated for the Nebula Award. As the coeditor of the nonfiction anthology Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E....
rubinmuseum.org
June 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Bookmarking @mimimondal.bsky.social's page at the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine, to read all their work there thus far: a series of 6 short stories, with a 7th on the way!
rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-...
While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon!
www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...
rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-...
While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon!
www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...
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SFF writers take note! SFWA's Board of Directors has updates on the Must Read Publishing situation: what Must Read has now promised to change, and what steps SFWA is taking next, to ensure future contracts require less negotiation from writers in genre. READ MORE BELOW ⬇️ www.sfwa.org/2025/07/14/p...
Press Release July 14 2025 - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Must Read Publishing Removes Moral Rights Clause; SFWA Will Flag Analog in Market Listings Pending Further Contract Improvements Recently, SFWA […]
www.sfwa.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
SFF writers take note! SFWA's Board of Directors has updates on the Must Read Publishing situation: what Must Read has now promised to change, and what steps SFWA is taking next, to ensure future contracts require less negotiation from writers in genre. READ MORE BELOW ⬇️ www.sfwa.org/2025/07/14/p...
not getting any younger but with ice cream cake 🎂 (and all these blessings, which are good stuff 🥹)
July 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
not getting any younger but with ice cream cake 🎂 (and all these blessings, which are good stuff 🥹)
Every day of the year is Pride 🏳️🌈 but I've never been so excited to close out the month with a fresh new story! Paco, the sixth and final story for my "Blood Ties" series from the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine is out now for you to read.
(CW: fangs.🧛🏼♂️)
rubinmuseum.org/paco/
(CW: fangs.🧛🏼♂️)
rubinmuseum.org/paco/
Paco: Vampire Fiction | Spiral Magazine
A story from Blood Ties series by Mimi Mondal. Read Paco and more in the Interdependence issue of Spiral magazine from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art.
rubinmuseum.org
June 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Every day of the year is Pride 🏳️🌈 but I've never been so excited to close out the month with a fresh new story! Paco, the sixth and final story for my "Blood Ties" series from the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine is out now for you to read.
(CW: fangs.🧛🏼♂️)
rubinmuseum.org/paco/
(CW: fangs.🧛🏼♂️)
rubinmuseum.org/paco/
😍😍😍
Bookmarking @mimimondal.bsky.social's page at the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine, to read all their work there thus far: a series of 6 short stories, with a 7th on the way!
rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-...
While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon!
www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...
rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-...
While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon!
www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...
Mimi Mondal | Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
Mimi Mondal was born and raised in Kolkata, India. Her fiction has twice been nominated for the Nebula Award. As the coeditor of the nonfiction anthology Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E....
rubinmuseum.org
June 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
😍😍😍
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Calling poets, prose writers, & essayists to submit to the
AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic.
Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.
AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic.
Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.
Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call
The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
strangehorizons.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Calling poets, prose writers, & essayists to submit to the
AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic.
Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.
AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic.
Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.
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From 2013 (long before the hardcover edition was released, when India's first graphic novel was still circulating as a grainy pdf): @mimimondal.bsky.social on RIVER OF STORIES mimimondal.com/2013/11/06/o...
Get your copy here:
www.blaft.com/products/riv...
Get your copy here:
www.blaft.com/products/riv...
Orijit Sen – River of Stories (Article in the Kindle magazine)
Backlisting, my new column to write about books and publishing, started this month in the Kindle magazine from Calcutta. The plan for the column is to take an interesting non-canon book from Indian…
mimimondal.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
From 2013 (long before the hardcover edition was released, when India's first graphic novel was still circulating as a grainy pdf): @mimimondal.bsky.social on RIVER OF STORIES mimimondal.com/2013/11/06/o...
Get your copy here:
www.blaft.com/products/riv...
Get your copy here:
www.blaft.com/products/riv...
recommend to me some short stories based in florida?
doesn't have to be only from famous authors.
if you have a florida-based short story, i'd love to read it as well!
doesn't have to be only from famous authors.
if you have a florida-based short story, i'd love to read it as well!
May 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
recommend to me some short stories based in florida?
doesn't have to be only from famous authors.
if you have a florida-based short story, i'd love to read it as well!
doesn't have to be only from famous authors.
if you have a florida-based short story, i'd love to read it as well!
One more translation to celebrate! As a sweet beginning to 2025 my two-part essay "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction" was published in Chinese (Mandarin) by the Hugo Award-winning writer and editor @riverflowsf.bsky.social in Zero Gravity Science Fiction.
May 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
One more translation to celebrate! As a sweet beginning to 2025 my two-part essay "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction" was published in Chinese (Mandarin) by the Hugo Award-winning writer and editor @riverflowsf.bsky.social in Zero Gravity Science Fiction.
May 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Drumroll, please! Our 2025 IndieGoGo fundraiser is now live!! You can check out the bounty of donation perks available at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 (link in bio)
We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!
We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!
May 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Drumroll, please! Our 2025 IndieGoGo fundraiser is now live!! You can check out the bounty of donation perks available at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 (link in bio)
We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!
We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!
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Horizons 3 is NOW AVAILABLE, featuring these amazing articles!
💬 Villains, Accomplices, & Bystanders: an interview w/ Brennan Lee Mulligan
🪭 Deals & Appeals: The Crowd Patron | Leon Barillaro
🎰 The Gilded Quill | Sam Mannell
⚔️ The Avenging Heart | Brandes Stoddard
🏝️💀 Deathmatch Atlantis | Tim Denee
💬 Villains, Accomplices, & Bystanders: an interview w/ Brennan Lee Mulligan
🪭 Deals & Appeals: The Crowd Patron | Leon Barillaro
🎰 The Gilded Quill | Sam Mannell
⚔️ The Avenging Heart | Brandes Stoddard
🏝️💀 Deathmatch Atlantis | Tim Denee
May 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Horizons 3 is NOW AVAILABLE, featuring these amazing articles!
💬 Villains, Accomplices, & Bystanders: an interview w/ Brennan Lee Mulligan
🪭 Deals & Appeals: The Crowd Patron | Leon Barillaro
🎰 The Gilded Quill | Sam Mannell
⚔️ The Avenging Heart | Brandes Stoddard
🏝️💀 Deathmatch Atlantis | Tim Denee
💬 Villains, Accomplices, & Bystanders: an interview w/ Brennan Lee Mulligan
🪭 Deals & Appeals: The Crowd Patron | Leon Barillaro
🎰 The Gilded Quill | Sam Mannell
⚔️ The Avenging Heart | Brandes Stoddard
🏝️💀 Deathmatch Atlantis | Tim Denee
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NEW YORK (AP) - ProPublica wins 2025 Pulitzer for Public Service for reports on deaths of pregnant women in abortion-restricted states.
May 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - ProPublica wins 2025 Pulitzer for Public Service for reports on deaths of pregnant women in abortion-restricted states.
April 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
i've been counting my age in selfies with autumn leaves and spring flowers, routinely every year 🌸
April 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
i've been counting my age in selfies with autumn leaves and spring flowers, routinely every year 🌸
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Instead of buying our books on Amazon India (where they're often marked up over MRP, because it's impossible to communicate with anyone at Amazon and their logistics are a mess), try buying from our website! Or from your local indie bookstore! No shipping w/in India!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
April 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Instead of buying our books on Amazon India (where they're often marked up over MRP, because it's impossible to communicate with anyone at Amazon and their logistics are a mess), try buying from our website! Or from your local indie bookstore! No shipping w/in India!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Wish I could be present for this myself but if you're in Kolkata next weekend, go attend the launch of this beautiful and beloved book that contains my story "So It Was Foretold". 💙
#DalitHistoryMonth
#DalitHistoryMonth
Kolkata! Come to our launch event for The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF with @architamittra.bsky.social and Prachi Singh at Storyteller Bookstore, next week Saturday April 19!
April 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Wish I could be present for this myself but if you're in Kolkata next weekend, go attend the launch of this beautiful and beloved book that contains my story "So It Was Foretold". 💙
#DalitHistoryMonth
#DalitHistoryMonth
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Featuring science fiction, horror, and supernatural short stories by Bama, Gogu Shyamala, @mimimondal.bsky.social, @architamittra.bsky.social, and 30+ other writers!
There's a Kolkata launch planned for April 19 at Storyteller bookstore. Save the date! More deets soon
www.blaft.com/collections/...
There's a Kolkata launch planned for April 19 at Storyteller bookstore. Save the date! More deets soon
www.blaft.com/collections/...
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
New! Click here for the eBook To order in the USA: Powell's Books An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the dias...
www.blaft.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Featuring science fiction, horror, and supernatural short stories by Bama, Gogu Shyamala, @mimimondal.bsky.social, @architamittra.bsky.social, and 30+ other writers!
There's a Kolkata launch planned for April 19 at Storyteller bookstore. Save the date! More deets soon
www.blaft.com/collections/...
There's a Kolkata launch planned for April 19 at Storyteller bookstore. Save the date! More deets soon
www.blaft.com/collections/...