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Shreya Ila Anasuya (she/they)
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Writer. THE POISON PALACE is out in 2027. PhDing @KingsCollegeLon: history of music/gender, magic, storytelling & emotions. Fiction: @strangehorizons, @fandsf, Hachette, Harper, Aleph, and more. www.shreyailaanasuya.com

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Shreya Ila Anasuya (she/they) @thresholdrose.bsky.social · Jun 1
Delighted to share that Sphere will publish my debut next summer!
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · May 30
Sphere has acquired The Poison Palace, the debut novel by Shreya Ila Anasuya. Sphere will publish the novel, which "fuses the Indian myth of the Vishkanya (poison girls) with the legend of Alexander the Great", in May 2026 👇 #BookSky
Sphere signs ‘exquisite’ feminist retelling of the story of Alexander the Great
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Please help Lubna keep her son alive if you can:
'💔 Tonight my children sleep in a torn tent, freezing, and I can’t provide warmth or medicine. Naser needs his daily medicine to survive. We urgently need $300 for his medicine and essentials. Please help us stay alive. ❤️‍🩹🙏🏼'
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Psst!

If you'd like a gift idea for an SFF fan -- or if you'd like to read a scifantasy that's basically THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian folklore & Caribbean mythology -- there's a $1.99 Ebook sale now for my book, THE NIGHTWARD!

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The Nightward: An Epic Fantasy Adventure of Magic and Darkness Inspired by Caribbean Mythology (Waters of Lethe Book 1)
Amazon.com: The Nightward: An Epic Fantasy Adventure of Magic and Darkness Inspired by Caribbean Mythology (Waters of Lethe Book 1) eBook : Garcia, R.S.A.: Kindle Store
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December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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My latest newsletter post! You have to read it to see why the chicken picture makes sense.

Why Bother? The "Is Anyone Listening" Edition.
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Why Bother? The "Is Anyone Listening" Edition. Essay on writing for a small audience.
When art is created in a forest, and no one tells you they like it, does it matter? What happened when I ran into someone who directed a play I saw years ago. Also a weird chicken story.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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What's one way you lose spare change per week? Can you turn that into a pledge for the survival of six families & a camp in Gaza?

About 200 folks have made this pledge and it means a little bit of reliable, weekly support. But it isn't enough. So join in: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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December 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
Please support my friend Abdul's fundraiser; he and his kids are in Gaza where basic provisions are still very expensive and their shelter is being lashed by rain. Anything you can give is not too small:

gofund.me/46ca7924f
Donate to Help Abdul's family in Gaza to buy food, a tent, and meds!, organized by Erin S
My name is Erin, I am raising money for Abdulrahman Hamad and his fa… Erin S needs your support for Help Abdul's family in Gaza to buy food, a tent, and meds!
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December 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
Saleem Kidwai was a renowned historian and translator, an editor, and a queer elder. He was also a close friend of legendary singer Begum Akhtar. This Sunday I will have the great pleasure of talking about them for the curtain-raiser of this year's Sanatkada Festival in Kolkata:
A graphic with a green and red background and ornate black and white border, and the Lucknow Bioscope and Sanatkada Festival logos. Text above image reads: 'A Noteless Raga': Saleem Kidwai and Begum Akhtar by Shreya Ila Anasuya, and text below image reads 14th Dec 2025, Sunday 6.30 pm, Studio Bari, Kolkata. Image shows a black and white picture of Shreya wearing a saree and her long dark hair swept to her right shoulder. Black text against a yellow background reads: Shreya Ila Anasuya is an award-winning writer and researcher from Kolkata whose body of work examines history, gender, music, mythology and the supernatural, which she has explored through fiction, research, editing, journalism, teaching, and performance. She is currently a PhD candidate in cultural history at King's College London. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country's Finest New Writers. Her first novel, The Poison Palace, will be published in early 2027. The yellow background is superimposed onto a green design with an ornate black and white border, and has the logo of the Sanatkada festival on top.
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
Kolkata on a Sunday.
A river, light blue and grey, with a pale sun and hazy bridge in the distance. In the foreground to the left are clustered some small boats, one more is in the centre, and one further to the right. There are buildings visible to the right, beyond the furthest boat.
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
All ChatGPT writing is awful, but my god, the similes and metaphors are especially grim.
December 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
I read THE POISON PALACE while travelling in Italy, finding rare moments to commune with deep time amid the hills and castles, and the book unfolded settings and eras I've rarely seen in fiction with a graceful, fiery verisimilitude both intimate and mythic. It resounds in time.
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
Thank you so much for your generosity Indra ♥️ this means so much to me coming from you
indrapramitdas.bsky.social Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 24d
Always lovely to have a friend appreciate one's book 💙 Incidentally, Shreya has a gorgeous, transportive, haunting historical novel coming out about a courtesan-assassin from the Indian subcontinent sent to try and infiltrate Alexander the Great's invading army and kill him. Don't miss it:
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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vajra.me Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 25d
Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
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Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Thread: 1. This is not a robot. It's a mannequin.
2. Mouthing facts (Who was the first prime minister of India? What is 100+92?) is not teaching.
3. Mouthing LLM-generated results of queries is not teaching.

economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/i...

#AI #robot #teacher
'I am Sophie': 17-year-old from a small UP city’s Hindi-medium school builds AI robot teacher that can teach any subject
A 17-year-old student has developed an AI-powered robot teacher named Sophie, capable of answering questions across subjects using an LLM chipset. This innovation, demonstrated answering queries on g...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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older.bsky.social
do you or someone you buy gifts for love speculative fiction? activism? HAVE I GOT THE BOOK FOR YOU! Getting fantastic reviews already! Out THIS TUESDAY!
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR is so many things packed into 136 pages; a being like its protagonist, one who must remember the immensity of the 'serpent impossible', but who also must suffer the pains and live the delights of Earth.
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
No donations for 2 days. Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her baby safe & lost her husband to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please help her keep her daughter, who's very sick & malnourished, alive. They urgently need food, medicine, shelter from the cold:
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Can't wait for the post-show Q and A with some amazing people after today's edition of I Dream of Theresa May!

Play spoiler: Step 1 of being British is Gratitude and I'm grateful for everyone who's made it to the show!

And to those who go on the few remaining days:
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I Dream of Theresa May – Tara Theatre
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November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Please share & give to help 19 yo Hosam's family survive Israel's genocide in Gaza, which has left Palestinians starving & homeless as winter rains flood the camps & damages tents. They urgently need warm shelter. Donations have dropped steeply since the 'ceasefire':
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
The situation is still dire for Palestinians; donations are needed more than ever. Please donate to individual families and 'adopt' a fundraiser on Gaza Funds, the Sameer Project and similar:
indrapramitdas.bsky.social Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 28d
Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, donations are very slow since the 'ceasefire', & winter rains are flooding the camps & making life hell for Palestinians. Supplies & shelter urgently needed:
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Please share & donate to help Ahmad & Samar evacuate & start new lives in safety outside Gaza. Crossing the border and starting from a scratch in a new country is arduous and expensive, & they need help:
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
I loved THE COMEBACK by Annie Zaidi; set in-between the worlds of small town theatre and big city film, following not only its self-absorbed actor protagonist but a whole cast of characters who all grow in the course of this taut novel. I devoured it and would highly recommend it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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You won’t be able to put down this imaginative supernatural thriller with twists you won’t see coming, complex relationships, and a world where gods live among us.

Preorder the paperback version of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon today!

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October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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@niadavenport.bsky.social has been an incredible part of the SSF community. She's someone who has helped many others, including myself.

Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Donate to Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss, organized by Lindsey Hart
Our hearts are with Nia, a beloved friend, author and advocate who has pou… Lindsey Hart needs your support for Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to @katherineschof8.bsky.social!
katherineschof8.bsky.social Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Nov 9
I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
Image: A painting by a late Mughal master of a seated singer playing a dholak drum and dressed in an exquisite kurta and Kashmir shawl, illustrating the entry for "qawwal" (Sufi shrine singer) in the copy of James Skinner's Persian-language Tashrih al-Aqwam (Delhi, 1825) now in the British Library (Add. 27,255). Text: Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858. Katherine Butler Schofield. Cambridge University Press, 2024. Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive of Indian writings alongside visual sources, this book presents the first history of music and musicians in late Mughal India c.1748–1858 and takes the lives of nine musicians as entry points into six prominent types of writing on music in Persian, Brajbhasha, Urdu and English, moving from Delhi to Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur and among the British. It shows how a key Mughal cultural field responded to the political, economic and social upheaval of the transition to British rule, while addressing a central philosophical question: can we ever recapture the ephemeral experience of music once the performance is over? These rich, diverse sources shine new light on the wider historical processes of this pivotal transitional period, and provide a new history of music, musicians and their audiences during the precise period in which North Indian classical music coalesced in its modern form.
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
thresholdrose.bsky.social
All eyes on the captured activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla, but also please continue to give directly to families in Gaza, via gazafunds.com.
Gaza Funds
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October 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM