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Unsettling stories that are fiercely alive (even when the characters are dead). Often found wandering the mountains near Calgary, Canada, or at alderling.com.

Kaiden Alderling

Excerpt from Hedgie Choi's "Holiday." Salvage, Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2025: Resilience is a virtue in the worst world

My household also buys a lot of books each month, AND then I borrow more from the library. I support my local library and get to take chances on unfamiliar authors and genres. You want more regular readers; you don't want more friction against borrowing books.

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on. - Terry Pratchett

The 2026 Commonwealth Prize is going to be such a fucking case study.

What bothers me the most about the Emboss function is the implicit suggestion that an author should invite a person who's trying to harass them into a reader link that shows a ton of irrelevant data that a bad actor will use as additional "evidence" to justify continued harassment.

It's short-sighted as well as repugnant for the Author's Guild to go against libraries. What institutions are nurturing readers and making reading accessible for large numbers of people? Libraries are not the enemy of authors who want to make a living at their work.

Read "salvage poems" by Hedgie Choi in a way I've never read a poetry collection before Tearing through them All at once, like leaves in a forest that I'm running through trying to get away from the monster Which is also me Is that an odd way to respond to a poetry collection?

I hate genAI. I do not use it. I've already dropped *so many* tools from my workflow because they added AI features. But my writing process is private. It's influenced by my disabilities. And I don't like sharing that information.

Kaiden Alderling

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author

This is also reminiscent of artists being compelled to first show in-progress layers, and then when people started using diffusion models to fake those, being compelled to work on camera. The genai companies gobbled up our work and is still making us suffer to prove we're authentic.