Sarah Ramdawar
@sararam.bsky.social
Writer. SFF. Stories and poems in Strange Horizons, Augur Magazine, Heartlines Spec, and others. (she/her) 🇨🇦🇹🇹
my god, what a speech
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
my god, what a speech
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Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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I know there's a lot in the world right now but if you like, you can go to Mars for a bit with my guy Winston in my latest short story "On the Crossing of Mars"
read for free or PWYC: fusionfragment.com/issue-26
read for free or PWYC: fusionfragment.com/issue-26
October 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I know there's a lot in the world right now but if you like, you can go to Mars for a bit with my guy Winston in my latest short story "On the Crossing of Mars"
read for free or PWYC: fusionfragment.com/issue-26
read for free or PWYC: fusionfragment.com/issue-26
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Just heard about this wonderful documentary that filmmaker Orion Gordon has been working very hard to get off the ground about Jeanine De Bique, a Black opera singer from Trinidad and Tobago. Every bit counts to helping this project happen: www.gofundme.com/f/i-making-m...
Donate to I making my first feature doc and I need a "likkle" help, organized by Orion Gordon
Hey there,
If you're reading this, you probably already know… Orion Gordon needs your support for I making my first feature doc and I need a "likkle" help
www.gofundme.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Just heard about this wonderful documentary that filmmaker Orion Gordon has been working very hard to get off the ground about Jeanine De Bique, a Black opera singer from Trinidad and Tobago. Every bit counts to helping this project happen: www.gofundme.com/f/i-making-m...
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@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social is fundraising for their Year 3! They publish awesome, weird shit. Please consider supporting them!
gofund.me/a242648f
gofund.me/a242648f
Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher
For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices
gofund.me
August 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social is fundraising for their Year 3! They publish awesome, weird shit. Please consider supporting them!
gofund.me/a242648f
gofund.me/a242648f
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SUBS are OPEN for our special reprint issue, SINNERS, SAINTS, & HAINTS! Send us your lovelies! Spread the word! Details here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
🚨SPECIAL ISSUE alert!🚨
SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!
SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
SUBS are OPEN for our special reprint issue, SINNERS, SAINTS, & HAINTS! Send us your lovelies! Spread the word! Details here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
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Louder for the people in the back!!
Issue 8 released yesterday and is a labyrinth of delicious words: 8 short stories, 5 poems, 1 Horizon Zero Dawn essay, 1 review on spec-fic books
Not to mention the delightful @angelvleal.bsky.social acting as Guest Poetry Editor
✨✨✨
Issue 8 released yesterday and is a labyrinth of delicious words: 8 short stories, 5 poems, 1 Horizon Zero Dawn essay, 1 review on spec-fic books
Not to mention the delightful @angelvleal.bsky.social acting as Guest Poetry Editor
✨✨✨
Issue 8 has stepped through the portals! Our summer issue is always special because it's powered by a birthday wish, BUT this issue is EXTRA POWERFUL because it's powered by TWO BIRTHDAYS.
You should subscribe (or buy online!) -- can't let a birthday wish down 🎂
www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-8/
You should subscribe (or buy online!) -- can't let a birthday wish down 🎂
www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-8/
Issue 8
Issue 8 features portals, aliens, and metamorphoses. These stories and poems are about growing up, growing apart, and growing together. As much as our characters wish they could stay locked in their f...
www.heartlines-spec.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Louder for the people in the back!!
Issue 8 released yesterday and is a labyrinth of delicious words: 8 short stories, 5 poems, 1 Horizon Zero Dawn essay, 1 review on spec-fic books
Not to mention the delightful @angelvleal.bsky.social acting as Guest Poetry Editor
✨✨✨
Issue 8 released yesterday and is a labyrinth of delicious words: 8 short stories, 5 poems, 1 Horizon Zero Dawn essay, 1 review on spec-fic books
Not to mention the delightful @angelvleal.bsky.social acting as Guest Poetry Editor
✨✨✨
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AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre, is a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers.
AS THE EARTH DREAMS is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-... #booksky #blackbooksky
AS THE EARTH DREAMS is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-... #booksky #blackbooksky
July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre, is a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers.
AS THE EARTH DREAMS is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-... #booksky #blackbooksky
AS THE EARTH DREAMS is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-... #booksky #blackbooksky
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HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
July 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
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If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
www.kickstarter.com
June 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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“I think the world need a lot more young angry women,” Thunberg said Tuesday in response. 🔥
Speaking upon arrival at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport, activist Greta Thunberg called for the release of the other activists who were detained aboard the Gaza-bound aid flotilla. She described a “quite chaotic and uncertain” situation during the detention.
Israel says Greta Thunberg is being deported after Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized
Activist Greta Thunberg is being deported from Israel, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, after the Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized by the Israeli military.
bit.ly
June 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“I think the world need a lot more young angry women,” Thunberg said Tuesday in response. 🔥
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It's my periodic hi I have queer Caribbean anticolonial books that deal with themes of immigration, identity, even a biased legal system, folk lore and shapeshifting.
If you've read either I'd appreciate a review. Thank you to everyone who has read and boosted them. You've been the best 🖤
If you've read either I'd appreciate a review. Thank you to everyone who has read and boosted them. You've been the best 🖤
It is Pride and it is ALSO Caribbean Heritage Month! Guess whose books are in the middle of that Venn diagram? You can celebrate both Caribbean folklore and history AND Lesbians at the same time!
This is like some BOGO or something!
ecwpress.com/products/cou...
www.neonhemlock.com/books/skin-t...
This is like some BOGO or something!
ecwpress.com/products/cou...
www.neonhemlock.com/books/skin-t...
June 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It's my periodic hi I have queer Caribbean anticolonial books that deal with themes of immigration, identity, even a biased legal system, folk lore and shapeshifting.
If you've read either I'd appreciate a review. Thank you to everyone who has read and boosted them. You've been the best 🖤
If you've read either I'd appreciate a review. Thank you to everyone who has read and boosted them. You've been the best 🖤
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Strange Horizons’ annual fund-drive is now live:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
We are entirely community-funded, and this is our main source of income. Help us enter our 26th year?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
We are entirely community-funded, and this is our main source of income. Help us enter our 26th year?
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
www.kickstarter.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Strange Horizons’ annual fund-drive is now live:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
We are entirely community-funded, and this is our main source of income. Help us enter our 26th year?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
We are entirely community-funded, and this is our main source of income. Help us enter our 26th year?
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🎊 And the Nebula for Best Novella goes to... THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT by @thesuiway.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social). Congratulations!!! #Nebulas2025 🥳🥳🥳
June 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
🎊 And the Nebula for Best Novella goes to... THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT by @thesuiway.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social). Congratulations!!! #Nebulas2025 🥳🥳🥳
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Hot Girl Summer? This is too much. Women deserve air conditioning.
May 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hot Girl Summer? This is too much. Women deserve air conditioning.
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It’s us!!
We’re open til the end of the month for short fiction and poetry:
❣️ it must be SFFH
❣️ there must be a long-term relationship as part of the focus
❣️ bonus points if Canadian
We’re open til the end of the month for short fiction and poetry:
❣️ it must be SFFH
❣️ there must be a long-term relationship as part of the focus
❣️ bonus points if Canadian
Today's listing of the day is: Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com #WritingCommunity
Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com #WritingCommunity
duotrope.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It’s us!!
We’re open til the end of the month for short fiction and poetry:
❣️ it must be SFFH
❣️ there must be a long-term relationship as part of the focus
❣️ bonus points if Canadian
We’re open til the end of the month for short fiction and poetry:
❣️ it must be SFFH
❣️ there must be a long-term relationship as part of the focus
❣️ bonus points if Canadian
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Hello hello my fellow Canadians! Some local folks are putting together a little online showcase/party to support Canadian WorldCon bids (like @edmontonin2030.bsky.social !) -- since some people are not attending WorldCon in the US this year. Aug 15/16, spread the word? :)
Montreal and Edmonton: online bid party
Hello everyone: we are planning to run an online party during the Seattle 2025 Worldcon. We have not yet decided on which day this event will run, but it will be either Friday 15th or Saturday 16th A...
forms.gle
May 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hello hello my fellow Canadians! Some local folks are putting together a little online showcase/party to support Canadian WorldCon bids (like @edmontonin2030.bsky.social !) -- since some people are not attending WorldCon in the US this year. Aug 15/16, spread the word? :)
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I am, once again, asking you to share this call for stories widely: The Apocryphal will be an anthology of Palestinian horror and dark fantasy/sci fi published by Roseway.
Details below! soniasulaiman.com/the-apocryph...
Details below! soniasulaiman.com/the-apocryph...
The Apocryphal -Call for Submissions
Palestinian Dark Fantasy and Horror Fiction Anthology -Call for submissions – a·poc·ry·phal /əˈpäkrəf(ə)l/ adjective adjective: apocryphal (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, althou…
soniasulaiman.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I am, once again, asking you to share this call for stories widely: The Apocryphal will be an anthology of Palestinian horror and dark fantasy/sci fi published by Roseway.
Details below! soniasulaiman.com/the-apocryph...
Details below! soniasulaiman.com/the-apocryph...
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Before I forget to mention it: ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon is your father’ has been reprinted in the latest issue of Candela Review, accompanied by a Spanish translation by Loretta Collins Klobah & Maria Grau Perejoan.
www.candelareview.com/moriviv%C3%AD
www.candelareview.com/moriviv%C3%AD
moriviví | Candela Review
www.candelareview.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Before I forget to mention it: ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon is your father’ has been reprinted in the latest issue of Candela Review, accompanied by a Spanish translation by Loretta Collins Klobah & Maria Grau Perejoan.
www.candelareview.com/moriviv%C3%AD
www.candelareview.com/moriviv%C3%AD
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Toronto! Join @amalelmohtar.com and me at the Lillian H Smith library on Saturday, May 10, 2PM, to celebrate The River Has Roots!
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?E...
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?E...
Amal El-Mohtar: The River Has Roots
Join us for a talk with award-winning author Amal El-Mohtar about her hugely anticipated solo debut. In The River Has Roots, follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faer...
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca
May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Toronto! Join @amalelmohtar.com and me at the Lillian H Smith library on Saturday, May 10, 2PM, to celebrate The River Has Roots!
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?E...
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?E...
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Seconded. Possibly my favorite story from 2024. Easily in my top three. The first time I ever got to chat with @nadiaradovich.bsky.social after reading it, I felt like I was meeting a celebrity. If you haven’t read this one, what are you even doing??
Love the embrace of Another Old Country by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social -- published in one of the last issues of Apparition Lit and is a banger of a story everyone should read
apparitionlit.com/another-old-...
(it's not all about awards but holy hell is recognition nice)
apparitionlit.com/another-old-...
(it's not all about awards but holy hell is recognition nice)
April 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Seconded. Possibly my favorite story from 2024. Easily in my top three. The first time I ever got to chat with @nadiaradovich.bsky.social after reading it, I felt like I was meeting a celebrity. If you haven’t read this one, what are you even doing??
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WOOT! “And When She Shatters“ by @kercoby.bsky.social is a finalist for Best Story Story in the Aurora Awards!
Read it and weeeeeep (in best way)
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
Read it and weeeeeep (in best way)
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
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April 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
WOOT! “And When She Shatters“ by @kercoby.bsky.social is a finalist for Best Story Story in the Aurora Awards!
Read it and weeeeeep (in best way)
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
Read it and weeeeeep (in best way)
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...