Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), June 11, 2026:
What lessons have you learned about managing your spoons (mental and/or physical energy) while developing a written work?
(Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)
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The Cookout Anthology was thrilled to join the Just Keep Writing Podcast crew and tell them about our charmed journey so far as writers and co-editors, as well as some hints about some possible future plans...
Come hear about what we at @tco-anthology.bsky.social have in store for you! 🍲
khōréō publishes what's not just evocative and genre expanding but showcases the rich breadth of diasporic spec fic--stories we're all better for being out in the world. And 🫶🏾 to the crew who commits and cares about how it gets done.
this resonates with our why for including audio recordings of poems (read by author or us, so long as they are on board)--also, ya know, providing another path for erybodymind to experience 🫶🏾
It's surreal seeing my poem "Light of My Life" (originally published in @astrolabe.ooo) featured on the Toronto subway, truly a dream come true!
Thank you to Poems in Passage for bringing poetry to the TTC, and thank you to Astrolabe for believing in my work.
As I'm in the middle of surviving yet another month, your support via Patreon or Ko-Fi would be a great boon at the moment! And while it's much slower, I also appreciate when you buy (and hopefully play and enjoy) my RPGs!
This week, the crew chats with Erin Brown, Tonya R. Moore, and Emmalia Harrington about editing a Black Anthology called: The Cook Out.
Links mentioned during the show:
Tonya R. Moore
Emmalia Harringt...
Thanks to Trish Hopkinson for this wonderful interview about our open reading period for poetry manuscripts! https://trishhopkinson.com/2026/06/03/no-fee-full-length-poetry-book-call-editor-interview-sundress-no-fee-deadline-june-14-2026/
Big news 🎊 My chapbook BLACK BOX FLIGHT RECORDER is now available for pre-order after winning the 2025 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest out of 1,000+ submissions. 🏆
Interested in experimental poetry, Afrofuturism?
Pre-order here and share the link with your network: buttonpoetry.com/product/blac...
The #2026IgnyteAwards finalist in Speculative Poetry are:
After the Storm – Ishita Basu Mallik
In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love – Karan Kapoor
Set It Off (1996) – Fans’ Cut – Nova Cypress Black
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Erin Brown
Thank you @smallwondersmag.com for being the perfect home for this! "Your Cause and Your Effect" is a tribute to the teachers who had an impact on my life.
Actually I think I'll dig up contact info for one of my elementary school teachers and send him a thank-you today.
Jeané D. Ridges
Ian Li
Spec Colorways In Verse
Brandon O’Brien
Sundress Publications
Ian Li
The Ignyte Awards
Aishatu Ado
A reminder that you can support me & my work & read some cool stuff I'm working on by joining my Patreon (patreon.com/therisingtit...), or you can buy THE GOD OF SPITE AND VIOLENCE over on Itch (therisingtithes.itch.io), or (more quickly) on Ko-Fi!
I’m excited to share this interview with Erin Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of Sundress Publications—a press I’ve long admired for its commitment to bold, thoughtful, and necessary work, run …
Ever have a teacher who made SUCH a positive difference in your life? If you can, drop them a line with today's poem by Ian Li, "Your Cause and Your Effect"
Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡
With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more!
Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
First day of class was perched / on a black hole’s periphery, / late summer’s siren call / pulling us in
