Trae Hawkins

Introducing the table of contents for Issue 18, Anathema’s comeback issue! Inside, you’ll find post-apocalyptic resistance, deadly card games in deep space, unlikely love in fantastical worlds, & more 💜 The issue goes LIVE this month! Full cover art coming soon 👀 Stay tuned for more details!

The hero of hope-punk returns with another banger. Life is hard, you deserve to read this story.

Hail, sophonts! The pigeon is a proud, majestic dinosaur, but what's it doing with a robot on another planet? Experience today's story, "Pigeons and Robots and Pensive Worlds" by @traewrites.bsky.social, to find out!

IT’S UP!! 🪶✨ My story about pigeons and robots and hope is out now!! And in ESCAPE POD, a dream publication of mine 🥹 I love this story so much! Please give it a read/listen! 🫶🏾

Submissions update! ✨ During our first submission window since relaunch, we’ve received over 200 submissions! The work has been breathtaking—our issue 1 ToC will blow you away! 💜 We’re in our final round of deliberation, so if you submitted & haven’t heard back from us, keep an eye on your inbox! 👀

My story, The Lure, is this month's featured free story in The Sunday Morning Transport. www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-lure Discover what secrets wait beneath the surface at the island of Saint Helena: "For hunger, like justice, only waits so long."

We’re extending our deadline!! Send us your very best—you’ve got ‘til the 31st! 🤩👀

READERCON FUNSIES 🤩 If you’re going to be at Readercon (or the general area) on Friday, July 10th @ 3pm, stop by to hang out with Anathema and @othersidespec.bsky.social members!! 💜 It’ll be a chill time to be in community with other queer folks and eat good food! We hope to see you soon!! ✨

We’re finally open to submissions!! Send us your best! 🎉💜

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

IT’S ALMOST TIME!! Anathema officially opens to submissions on June 20th! ✨ We cannot wait to begin this journey after a four-year hiatus. Thank you for all of the support!! 🥹 Check our website (link in bio) for submission guidelines. We’re excited to begin reading!! 💜

24 HOURS LEFT TO BACK US!! 🗣️✨ Being a part of Anathema’s relaunch has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done—and we’ve still got such a long future ahead of us!! 🥹💜

I’M OVER THE MOON 🥹 Thanks to everyone who’s donated & shared!! I can’t wait to see what we do in the future 🎉💜

I met DaVaun for the first time last year, & though it was brief, he impressed upon me the urgency of supporting our fellow marginalized writers. This is so hard to hear 😞 FIYAH has been inspirational to me & has done so much for Black SFF writers. Whatever comes next, I will support loud & proud 💜

Part Two of our Author Bracket! ✨ In the spirit of celebrating queer/BIPOC authors, we’ve created a bracket of vanguard & contemporary writers! This round, you can vote on which of these contemporary authors you’d pick as your next read. Go to our Instagram to vote or comment your choices below! 💜

We’re officially in the final stretch! 🤩

Meet fiction editor Trae Hawkins (he/him). Trae loves all things fantasy and sci-fi-the cozy and the dark, the action-packed and the ruminating! He's been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Augur Magazine, and he wants to read your most hopeful, optimistic works! #Anathema #SFF #kickstarter

Oh, look, it’s me!! 🤩

Come see me if you’re nearby!! ✨💜 So excited to be there!

Come out this Saturday evening as Trae Hawkins takes the stage at Charm City Spec! He'll be promoting ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, in which his work appears. Signs and Wonders! You really won't want to miss this!

Y’all! After our first 24 hours, we’re at $980! Just $20 away from 20% of our goal to pay qtpoc writers a professional rate for their work over the next year. THANK YOU! Can we hit $1000? Back us today to help us support timeless spec 🐉

I’m so so happy to be a part of relaunching this magazine, which is so important for queer writers of color 💜 Please support if you can, whether by backing the campaign or sharing!!

I just backed Anathema: Spec from the Margins on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

There's has been a lot of discourse lately about reviews, especially for older and indie titles. NEW YEAR, NEW YOU, released in 2024, got lovely coverage from indie & mainstream reviewers alike. I wanted to highlight them again w/ a big THANK YOU 🧵 (and we're still happy to give out review copies!)

Amina Kayani (Managing & Fiction Editor) Liza Wemakor (Managing & Nonfiction Editor) Chloe Colbert (Fiction Editor) Trae Hawkins (Fiction Editor) And last but not least: Christian Ivey (Art Editor) Learn more about us on our updated Editors page: www.anathemamag.com/our-team

Fundraiser Announcement! Next Wednesday April 1st, Anathema will launch a Kickstarter Campaign to raise funds for one or more years of operation. We plan to offer a few incentives (merch, services, subscriptions) to people who support the campaign. Stay tuned! Our Editors are [drumroll]... (1/2)

Two updates about Anathema Mag: 1.) We have a new IG page! Please give us a follow for more visually-inclined updates: tinyurl.com/4jyrr8ty 2.) We have a fundraiser announcement coming soon 👀 — check back with us this Sunday (March 22nd) for more details!

THE COOKOUT KICKSTARTER IS FUNDED!!! Thanks to all our backers for their support! But the party’s not over yet! We’ve got some fantastic stretch goals we’d love to hit, so let’s keep the momentum going! kickstarter.com/projects/androidpress/the-cookout-a-speculative-fiction-anthology

The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall. Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber. High drama and high CAMP! Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! BACK THE BOOK TODAY! #booksky bit.ly/3OIVfNs

I haven't posted on here much, but I would really love some help boosting this video! I forgot to say it in the video, but please don't forget to add A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES On Goodreads! linktr.ee/kaitlynabdou

Everyone stop what you're doing and go read this good for her, unhinged feminist rage story by @apottern.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social It is 🔥 havenspec.com/fiction/boot...

Story day! I’m delighted to share ‘Dispersal,’ a flash piece about the end of a marriage… and the beginning of something stranger. Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social

So happy my story stood out!! 🥹💜

Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!

Go read this ASAP! It’s so so so beautiful and heartfelt and ambitious 💫 It’s one of those stories you’ll keep thinking about for days after finishing!

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

It’s been two weeks and I’m still floating 🌱🩷 Tin House was everything I wanted it to be and more! It’s rare to be in the company of such talented, thoughtful, and wonderfully nerdy people 🥹 Thanks to everyone who read/listened to my stories with such care!! 🫶🏽

🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼 ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤 Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉 Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...

If you’re in the NYC area, go show some love!! Honored to have a story in the anthology with such talented people 💚💚💚

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

this was such a lovely story--the structure, pacing, and prose are so tight. it doesn't shy away from the reality of war and rebellion but it has such a tender core of compassion to it

THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design

HOW BEAUTIFUL is this cover?! So excited to be in this anthology!!🌷

Forgot to post on here about Worldcon 2025!! Had a phenomenal time catching up with friends and making lots of new ones 💫 I left Seattle with a full heart and memories I’ll keep close forever 🥹💜💜

I’m glad you enjoyed it! 💜💜