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Terese Mason Pierre
@teresempierre.bsky.social
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Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.

Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)

www.teresemasonpierre.com
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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · Jul 13
This October, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my first edited anthology, "As The Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories."

Haunting. Reflective. Charged. And everything in between. 💜🩵🖤

Preorders and contributor list at the link below!
houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
As the Earth Dreams
A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy. This bold and innovative anthology of speculative short ficti...
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🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Inside you'll find...
🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest
🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens
🫐 a berry world of grief and awe
& so much more!

🔗 Link in bio!

More details below 👀⬇️
An illustration with a purple overlay of decaying purple and yellow tree branches that lead down to an opening. There are white birds flying around and on one of the yellow-purple branches are three people walking. In the top and bottom corners are purple branches and yellow leaves. At the top of the image reads: "contents." There is a black rectangle and inside lists the table of contents: "Observer Effect by Morgan Cross. Leave Your Skins by the Shore by Natasha King. Flame Weeding by Colleen Coco Collins. Rocky Mountain Gothic by Ev Datsyk. Bonds of the Forest by Ally R Colthoff . Blueberry by Jade Riordan. On Fields of Purple Grass by Ian Li. Tapetum Lucidum by U.M. Agoawike. The Great Divide by Meryem Yildiz. Chlorophilia by Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer.” At the bottom of the image is the augur logo and a link to the website: www.augursociety.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year fundraiser 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.
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I realize now I could have gotten some writing done 🤡
teresempierre.bsky.social Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 4d
I'm up again at 4am and I know the spiders are pissed at me
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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houseofanansi.bsky.social
This Friday and Saturday only, our Prose and Poems hats, puzzles, and tote bags are 50% OFF at the Anansi Bookshop! 🧢 These make perfect gifts for the stylish book lovers in your life.

📍 Our bookshop is located at 128 Sterling Road, Toronto. Friday hours: 1pm - 6pm. Saturday hours: 11am - 5pm.
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I'm up again at 4am and I know the spiders are pissed at me
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
teresempierre.bsky.social
Every so often I think about the #PublishingPaidMe discourse back on Twitter, how enlightening that was. If we don't talk about these things (read: money), people will continue to be taken advantage of, or misled.
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I work for the public library but I am not a librarian. Occasionally, I'll do class visits, panels, readings, and workshops. Occasionally, I will win a grant. I do not and have never made a livable wage from writing.
peterbcounter.com Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 6d
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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LOVE IS FOR THE ONES WHO LOVE THE WORK
pookleblinky.bsky.social Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6d
Every single actual creative person has experienced the experience of finding effortless what was once effortful.

A generative AI user is completely alienated from this experience, it's alien and unfamiliar to feel pride in the outcome. Or, even to actually give a fuck about it at all.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The open secret that Thomas King is not Indigenous at all is finally verified, and honestly it's a relief. Having him just confess this instead of going out kicking and screaming like so many before him causes a LOT less harm to Indigenous communities.

It still sucks though.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Augur's back! Back again! As an OAC Recommender! Tell your friends!
Now till January 15, 2026.
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 9d
We’re so honoured to be BACK as an Ontario Arts Council Recommender for grants this year! 🎊

We’re interested in receiving applications for various lengths of SFF & dreamy realism projects, including:
⭐️ fiction
⭐️ poetry
⭐️ short fiction
The background has an image of flowers with a purple overlay. At the top of the image is the Ontario Arts Council logo and the Augur logo. In between these two logos are a white plus sign. Below it reads: Open Now” in white text. Underneath that reads: “recommender grants 2025. SSF fiction | Poetry | Short Fiction” in white text. There a red pin graphic in the middle and underneath it reads: Apply to the August Recommender Grants via the OAC. Grant Amounts: $1,500-$5,000. Deadline: January 15th, 2026 at 1 p.m. ET. Below it is a yellow banner and inside it reads: “Apply Now” in white text with a paper airplane beside it. At the bottom of the graphic is a dark purple banner with the link to apply: https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/recommender-grants-for-writers
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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My favorite movies of the year are monster movies. Love that for me
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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At this point, if Guillermo del Toro wanted to do Cats, I'd watch it
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Help LP! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all, I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
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November 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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augursociety.bsky.social
Looking for something to curl up with this fall? Check out our newly released Augur Issue 8.2! ✨

Also, you can find 2 FREE samples on our site! 📚💫

🔗 Link in bio!
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Oct 30
Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!

Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!

🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

🧵
An illustration of a field on a sunny day and here’s a clothing line with yellow and red sheets flowing in the wind, and behind them are two people, one with purple wings touching hands. with a blue overlay. At the top of the image reads: “Read it Now” in a yellow banner and underneath reads: “Augur Issue 8.2.” Bellow is the link to the website: http://www.augursociety.org. In the middle of the image is a book with the cover art of Issue 8.1. There are 6 arrows around the book pointing to blurbs from some of the pieces that read: elemental aftermath of an affair, toxic love festers through shed skin & wet sheets, young love, rusted metal, & shattered sunlight, monstrous hymn of awe & destruction, old age drama between two languages, and devastation dripped in honey and rain .
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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WELLWATER by Karen Solie is now the third WINNER of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry by House of Anansi in a row! 🎉

🔗 Learn more about WELLWATER and House of Anansi's poetry collections on our website here: https://houseofanansi.com/collections/poetry/products/wellwater
A graphic reads, "WINNER of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, Three Years in a Row," showing the book covers of WELLWATER by Karen Solie in 2025, SCIENTIFIC MARVEL by Chimwemwe Undi in 2024, and XANAX COWBOY by Hannah Green in 2023.
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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houseofanansi.bsky.social
Can you believe these books have been out for a month?!

✨ I MAKE MY OWN FUN, written by Hannah Beer

🪲 AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@teresempierre.bsky.social)

🔗 Available now where books are sold! Purchase your copies here: https://houseofanansi.com/collections/new-releases
A hand holds up the books I MAKE MY OWN FUN and AS THE EARTH DREAMS in front of a bookcase. The cover of I MAKE MY OWN FUN is bright pink with iridescent golden text, and features a plastic doll arm sticking out of martini glass full of blood, waving. The cover of AS THE EARTH DREAMS features bold blue text with a spiral texture and a vibrant illustrated bug on a black background.
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?

Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
Alice Wong, a woman in a wheelchair with dark hair, poses in a pink and orange outfit and berry lipstick. A headline reads: "Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51." Photo via John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
teresempierre.bsky.social
No, I did it again! Went to bed at 6pm, woke up at 2am!
teresempierre.bsky.social Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 19d
I did the thing you're not supposed to do. I went to bed at 8pm and woke up at 3am, fully rested. Trying to get back to sleep now 🫠
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Someone give me a Frankenstein/Beauty and The Beast mashup/retelling right now!!
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Just remembered that poetry used to be in the Olympics. We should bring that back
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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While watching Frankenstein, I found the instances of physical touch and affection so interesting. How vital it can be in affirming humanity and relationships.
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Watching the new Frankenstein, having studied the history of medicine (within the broader history and philosophy of science), is so fascinating
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM