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iana a.

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Latina from Brazil. Bilingual. She/ela. 1989. Reader, editor, writer, translator. SFFH. EIC at Eita! Magazine. First reader at Augur Magazine.

eitamagazine.com

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Y'all, visual novels exist and they're pretty cool.

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Small Wonders's avatar Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com
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Looking to support short fiction and poetry?

Help fund Small Wonders Magazine for another year, and tell a friend about some of the amazing pieces we've published!

www.kickstarter.com/...

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Hailey is an amazing professional with a very urgent cause. Sign up for her class and help the Rio Grande do Sul trans community!

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Just finished binging The Fall of the House of Usher. Sad to think that the only taste of “justice” we get to feel over the filthy rich is merely fictional.

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Angela Liu's avatar Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social
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The honesty in this announcement and all that goes into a semi-pro mag that loves its writers, all the struggles to get attention, it hurt to read. The short fiction landscape definitely feels like it’s at a critical nexus and no one has yet found a sustainable new model.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺's avatar Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social
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To be honest, the sff community (scene?) cannot survive if people believe volunteer-run semi-pro venues run on good will *only*. and that the efforts of unpaid editors and staff are just hobbyist. (believe me: all editors work like pros). we cannot sustain such an eco-system!

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This desk is too small for the three of you

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Apparition Literary Magazine's avatar Apparition Literary Magazine @apparitionlit.com
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After 7 years of putting our hearts into this passion project, the founding editors have decided Apparition Lit will close at the end of 2024. 

You can read our full announcement here:
www.patreon.com/posts/all-go... 

With gratitude to all our contributors and supporters, 
The Apparition Lit Team

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iana a.'s avatar iana a. @ianatxt.bsky.social
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Cada aula custa apenas 20 reais e todo o lucro será revertido para instituições que estão na linha de frente de socorro e acolhimento aos desabrigados das cheias no RS.

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São 70 professores de idiomas de todo o Brasil numa ação solidária. Aproveite a oportunidade de assistir aulas incríveis! São 10 dias de programação onde você pode agendar quantas aulas puder ou quiser!

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Pra quem não sabe, além de metida nas traduções e escritas, também sou tutora de inglês. Me juntei com um grupo enorme e talentoso pra arrecadar doações e ajudar a mitigar os danos profundos que o RS está sofrendo com as enchentes.

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Amal El-Mohtar's avatar Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com
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if you'd told me in 2012 that I would respect the fuck out of Macklemore for saying Free Palestine in a staggeringly comprehensive diss track against the US government that also hates on Drake I would -- I mean I'd have been very confused but also very excited tbh

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BERNERI - commissions open!'s avatar BERNERI - commissions open! @berneri.horse
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🍀 Wolf Mountain

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iana a.'s avatar iana a. @ianatxt.bsky.social
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Te mandei só perfis "institucionais", mas da Mexicona e desses outros perfis vc consegue tirar de grandes escritoras e escritores que estão sempre produzindo ou envolvido em algo :)

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iana a.'s avatar iana a. @ianatxt.bsky.social
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Just remembered it's "rising from the dead" in English... See? It's a struggle, y'all

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Basically if you can't write directly in English (which already is a struggle in itself), good fucking luck, my friend. Anyway ignore the grammar errors and typos I'm going through it today

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iana a.'s avatar iana a. @ianatxt.bsky.social
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Anyways. I don't have a solution for the 'English speakers hate translations', but it's equally frustrating and infuriating that bc of that you don't get to read amazing stuff written by talented authors outside your culture.

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I've translated a sample of an amazing dystopian fantasy with fascist critique, female rage and monsterf*cking for an amazing Brazilian author to try to get a grant to translate the rest of it. It's a long shot, but we're try. We're always trying.

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Not by accident, in Brazil we have the opposite problem: Brazilians hate reading Brazilians. If it's not a translation, it's not good. Why? I have two words for you: cultural colonialism.

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Are any of these translated? Of course not. One could argue that this is because agents and publishers don't really try to sell outside of Brazil, but... this is bc it's hard as hell. Bc English speaking countries are not that interested in publishing a translated work.

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This is a person that devotes her time and energy to follow up on translated SFFH. She knows the field, she encourages it. In Brazil alone we have a bunch of presses and zines publishing sci-fi. "Olhos de Pixel" (Pixel Eyes) is an amazing one, as well as "Senciente Nível 5" (Sentient Level 5)

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Coincidentally, on the very next day I was forwarded the following tweet by Rachel Cordasco:

"A question I've had for a while now: is science fiction not being written very much around the world these days, or is it just not being translated into English?"

twitter.com/Rcordas/stat...

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This is a prize-winning best-seller by a renowned author in Japan, a first-world country. If the publisher feels the need to point that out to the reader (to not be 'put off' by a translation) can you imagine what that means for writers from Latin America writing short genre fiction?>>>

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I just picked up a copy of 'Lonely Castle in the Mirror' by Mizuki Tsujimura and this was one of praises for the book, on the very first page: "please don't be put off by the fact it's a translation".>>>

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iana a.'s avatar iana a. @ianatxt.bsky.social
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Resurrecting from the dead here bc I Have Something To Say.
I'm a part of the editorial team at @eitamagsff.bsky.social, publishing only Brazilian voices. As such, we deal with a particularly tricky sub-segment of SFFH: translated works.
And man, let me tell you: most English speakers hate that.>>>

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Christopher Bretz's avatar Christopher Bretz @saltybretzel.bsky.social
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All the Generative AI data filling up the internet and search engines needs to be called what it is, Data Pollution.

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Holy shit? Not one of my faves being adapted 🤧

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Reactor (formerly Tor.com)'s avatar Reactor (formerly Tor.com) @reactorsff.bsky.social
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Lily Gladstone will star in the adaptation of dystopian speculative novel The Memory Police. It's bound to be unforgettable no matter what!

reactormag.com/oscar-nomine...

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Dante Luiz's avatar Dante Luiz @dntlz.bsky.social
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Hey, I'm eligible for Best Fan Artist! Here's two illustrations I did for @interzone.press last year.

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Tales & Feathers Magazine's avatar Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social
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It's time for some cozy swampcore. "Of the Swamp," by Cadence Mandybura is available to read on our website! Check it out now! 💚👑🐸

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Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein's avatar Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein @design-law.bsky.social
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"Scholastic said it was necessary to segregate these titles because 'there is now enacted or pending legislation in more than 30 U.S. states prohibiting certain kinds of books from being in schools'.... What laws...? Scholastic declined to answer the question."

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The Deadlands's avatar The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com
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HELLO it appears that international shipping has been fixed! now *EVERYONE* can grab a coin for The River...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine's avatar Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
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Can anyone recommend SF/F short fiction writers or zines who need an invite code to join us here?

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Moonstruck Books's avatar Moonstruck Books @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social
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In an effort to keep Bluesky more intelligent and humane than certain other platforms, we’ve been donating invite codes to scientists and academics. If you’ve got an extra, consider giving it to someone in the field! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Tales & Feathers Magazine's avatar Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social
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Our latest story is up on our site! "Headphone Boy," by Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta is a sparkling tale of magic and connection that you won't want to miss. "Every time I tell the story of how I met Headphone Boy, I tell it differently." Read it now! 🚌🎧💖

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Seize The Press Magazine's avatar Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social
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I can't emphasise enough how important subscriptions are for magazines. The money to pay writers and artists has to come from somewhere. If you read short stories and have the means, seriously consider supporting one or two of your favourites by subscribing. It will literally keep them afloat.

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Apex Magazine's avatar Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social
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Real talk.

We need 300 new subscribers (including renewals) to keep publishing issues at our current size. If we don't get hit that number we will need to scale back the magazine size.

Help us keep our size (or increase it!) over the next two weeks!

apex-magazine.com/apex-blog/it...

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Bo Thompson's avatar Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social
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I wish we spent more time teaching accessibility as an investment rather than a charitable act. It's clear that for some folks self-interest will always trump altruism and so I feel like we have to meet them where they're at: If you don't prioritize this now, it won't be there when you need it later

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