Nara Monteiro

This issue is full of writing that made me gasp and cry and laugh and rage. I’m still stunned and grateful that my first issue of Augur got to be this intense, this sharp. It was a true pleasure to work on ❤️‍🔥

Helena is a fantastic editor!

Great Blue Heron, #OnOneLeg taken yesterday at the #NisquallyNWR. #BirdOfTheDay #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #PNW

The RELIEF flooding my body 😭🇧🇷

YES!!!!! F*CK FASCISM!!!! ONE MORE VICTORY TODAY! 🇧🇷

In my latest for Reactor, I explore the history of nonbinary pronouns in science fiction, and why all my books have nonbinary characters.

Anyway @canconsffh.bsky.social was a blast. @suntorya.bsky.social, @teresempierre.bsky.social, Sonia, thank you for bookending a great weekend with such good company. Lunch is over, going back to work now. Feeling nourished.

Thank you @andregeleynse.com and @kemendraugh.bsky.social for the magic 🧡🧡🧡 visiting your home makes me feel like I’m in a T&F story. It’s a joy to spend time with the three of you

Happiest of birthdays to you, my friend @suntorya.bsky.social 💓💓💓 I’m so grateful you’ve welcomed me into your full and beautiful life. You’re brilliant and spirited and caring and an all-around delight to be around, and I hope you have a magical (and restful lol) day!

Always a pleasure to catch up with everyone on the @augursociety.bsky.social team 💜 and @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social it was wonderful to meet IRL after years of running into each other online!

Thanks @craigshackleton.com for a 10/10 start to CanCon on Friday night, and to @loukoren.bsky.social and @melisfluous.bsky.social for being as excited as I was to hold swords 🗡️🗡️🗡️

Congrats to @niallspain.bsky.social, whose story, "The Last Chance Locksmith," from T&F volume 3 and is reappearing in this anthology! ✨ Further congrats to previous T&F contributors @premeemohamed.com, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and Kelsey Hutton. Plus our own Managing Director @andregeleynse.com! 😍

Just did my civic duty by standing in line for two (2) hours at the one (1) voting location in Toronto lmao. We do need all the good vibes y’all can spare today

Congrats! An incredible lineup of stories & people

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

My review of Cadwell Turnbull's A Ruin, Great and Free is out now in Strange Horizons!

Thank you so much 💚 it was a pleasure to see a fantastic editor at work—Helena worked on Horse Trailer, Ash, Pumpjack with EC Dorgan. You can it here: augursociety.org/horse-traile...

Folks going to Can*Con, and folks looking for cool mostly-Canadian SFFH writers to follow, I made a starter pack with the folks I could find from the program: go.bsky.app/SE8c2SQ #BookSky @canconsffh.bsky.social

Canadians! Sign the official parliament petition for regulating Data Centers in Canada www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

As we're getting into the back half of 2026 do think about whether there's any works you'd recommend for the Otherwise Award for SFF "that expands or explores our understanding of gender". The jury can't consider works they aren't aware of so do give them a heads up of stuff they shouldn't miss.

Spotted :) @ianli.bsky.social

Queuing up some questions for Suyi :) see you there

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

I am very mature, part 2

Falta praticamente um mês pro meu livro vir ao mundo e estou em puro estado de aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! 🥹

Reading submissions isn't difficult because so many submissions are bad. Reading submissions is difficult because so many submissions are good.

It’s gensus time :) I always enjoy reading the report after

I spoke to an Ingram rep about this and it is, unfortunately, a real thing that they are forcing us all to do. Shit like this shouldn't be "opt out" and if you just happen to miss the notice the machines eat your art 🤬

Like all Canadian government surveys on AI, this is hilariously pro-AI. But it only takes like 5 minutes to fill out, and at the end you can make it clear that the only focus of the government when it comes to AI and culture is that Canadian artists need copyright protections from AI scraping.

📚 Our seventh novella series crowdfund is now live 📚 Boosts appreciated!

everyone should reflect on the fact that they can open up their little electronic boxes each morning and see the most beautiful art made by your contemporaries. how lucky we are

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

Please donate to the community if you can.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

A native fish species is eating some of the most damaging invasive species in the Great Lakes…AND making a significant impact! Freshwater Drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of Zebra & Quagga Mussels in Lake Erie www.canr.msu.edu/news/freshwa...

I'm so angry this is our every summer now -watching Canada burn, watching ecosystems die and homes burn, & we just keep digging oil out of the ground. Our politicians keep spending public dollars on the oil industry; subsidies, more pipelines, sending our clean energy to run LNG plants. Insanity.