Ramez Yoakeim

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - AUGUST 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 10 stories by @elijah.mea.rs @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @mariness.bsky.social @thelialao.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @chpearcewrites.bsky.social @tinaconnolly.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN AUGUST 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's July's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Who has two thumbs and a book that officially dropped at midnight? That's right, this girl. Get it from Cryptic Plumage Press or my Fourthwall shop or wherever you like getting ebooks and paperbacks. crypticplumage.com shop.aphowell.com books2read.com/u/mBDN8v?red...

I just posted a review of @cornellwriter.bsky.social's excellent debut collection, The Astronaut Among the Flowers. acwise.net/review-the-a...

last call. post going up tomorrow

Preorders are rolling out The ebook edition of Corners of the Deep Dark is popping up at various retailers. You can preorder from Amazon and Kobo, with more retailers to come. If you're not in the US, the book is also on your localized 'zon or Kobo store. All possible regional/national…

In an alternate, pre-industrial Egypt, following an accidental discovery, Mourad can either safeguard the dead, or enrich a few beyond their wildest dreams, but never both. "Ethereal Vibrations" is coming Summer 2028 to @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, thanks to @unrealfred.bsky.social. I can't wait!

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JUNE 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's May's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

From IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on environmental justice in war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "Life According to Tabeeb", a story about a decidedly humanist medical AI assigned to a hospital in Cairo, by @yoakeim.bsky.social: reckoning.press/life-accordi...

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter!!! buff.ly/Gab1zWu

We hit our base goal, but there's still 33 hours left to go, and your continued support means the world to us! With our first stretch goal, we can pay our ultra-talented human artists more, we can increase our average story length to 4000+ words, and expand to author interviews 🧡

I haven't seen the official announcement yet, but I was just told that I was allowed to announce it: My book Power to Yield and Other Stories has been selected as the 2025 fiction winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award for best book by a Kansas author!!! (Just linking the book page for now)

The reviews are in on our latest issue and we're thrilled to say that "Past" by @engel-cox.com and “Pomegranates for Kangaroos" @yoakeim.bsky.social have not only been recommended but received Tangent's second highest rating. tangentonline.com/e-market-qua...

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN MAY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's April's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Hi. I am launching my first short story collection, APARTMENT WARS AND OTHER STORIES, on #Kickstarter. ✨✍️✨ It’s my first ever KS campaign, and it would make my day if you checked it out. 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver... #Booksky #Books #ShortStories #IndieAuthor #ApartmentWars

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...

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works (2/5): Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity: ED. @leemandelo.bsky.social

Cover Reveal! The Bad Romance cover is complete. Art by Grace Vibbert, layout by Brian Crick. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/parsecink/1015533499?ref=2k6q6c

It's the last day of the Bad Romance Kickstarter!! Last chance to get the fancy limited edition boutique-printed volume (it will remain available via print-on-demand after) and last chance to push us up to 5 cents a word for our authors! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

One premium that's still available is a professional edit of your work by ME. I literally never agree to do these for non-workshop-mates. Six hours to go! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

Out today from Space Cowboy Books - @jamesmachell.bsky.social's Human Voices, Alien Conversations - a collection of interviews with SF authors, editors, and artists bookshop.org/a/197/978196...

I have a new story in this issue! My cosy kid-POV "Pomegranates for Kangaroos" shares a TOC with some really good stories and poems, check them out.

I am launching my short story collection on Kickstarter this September! Ten character-driven stories that span from gritty dystopia to upbeat solarpunk. If you enjoy science fiction, check it out. 🙂 @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver...

Bad Romance is just $500 away from Interior Art! Our cover artist, Grace Vibbert, has been busily drawing! We'd love to pay her and use these! Here is a sneak peak! Shakchunni from "Stories Our Parents Told Us" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/parsecink/1015533499?ref=2k6q6c

We are Live on Kickstarter! Please help us launch Bad Romance: An Anthology of Trash Couples!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/parsecink/1015533499?ref=2k6q6c

And SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is retro-futuristic sci-fi and can be purchased here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...

Looking for a novelette to read? I have two out so far this year. Both are getting great reviews. “The Soundtrack of My Afterlife” is fantasy and free-to-read here: www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...

Contract signed! My Nebula, Hugo, and Rhysling Finalist poem "The Mourning Robot" (in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social) will be translated into Chinese and published at Science Fiction World! This has been one of my top writer bucket list items for a long, long time. Can’t wait to show my parents 😭

Super psyched to have two poems selected as Rhysling Award Finalists! “The Language of Fireflies” (in @thedeadlands.com) and “The Mourning Robot” (in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social). Thanks so much to everyone who nominated and congrats to all the wonderful finalists!

FFer Read of the Day: "Swallow Test" by @angelaliu.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/swal...

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - MARCH 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 stories by @jennahanchey.bsky.social @spacevalkyries.bsky.social @awritingwren.bsky.social @historyneverwas.bsky.social @benfrancisco.bsky.social @ayidashonibar.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/156917...

In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story out in the April issue of Nightmare Magazine! The Final Girl Trap is now available to read online. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

Nebula short story #1: "Because I Held His Name Like a Key" by @aimeeogdenwrites.com. A story about Alan Turing, about brilliance & curiosity, about love that we can't (or won't) quite recognize and about the gaps that can't quite be bridged. Beautiful & heartbreaking. I really enjoyed this story.

Really excited to be joining this virtual spec poetry open mic session! Come read some of your poems or listen to me read some of mine ☕️ 📖

Here's the text from my latest horror story "Classifieds," which was just published by Nerd Horror Stories in audio format on YouTube. Much love! www.nerdhorror.com/nerdhorror-s...

And, here is my monthly check in with my favorite pieces from March!! P.A. Cornell Christopher Degni Ramez Yoakeim, & Daniel Ausema @cornellwriter.bsky.social @yoakeim.bsky.social, @danielausema.bsky.social www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...

I may be new here. But this right here is worth your time and money. Order a copy please

IT WAS PARADISE, our long-awaited special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, is out today in ebook form, and the print edition is up for preorder! Edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social and with (terrifying) war monster art by @monarobot.bsky.social! reckoning.press/it-was-parad...

This war-themed issue of Reckoning, IT WAS PARADISE, was a long time in the making, but sadly evergreen in its relevance. I'm honored have a science fiction story here that keeps the focus on the human beings, struggling to survive a war machine that seems to have no face, ideology, or objectives.

My science fiction story is about a father trying to give his young daughter her heart's desire, in a landscape of desperation and mechanized horrors. "In the Foothills" will be free to read on April 20th, and the entire IT WAS PARADISE ebook is available now! rajivmote.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/i...

A week to go on those Hugo noms. If you’re reading for this award, I’d be honored if you’d consider this short story.

Hugo nominations close on March 28th! Would love if you considered my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social short story “Barbershops of the Floating City“! It was tied for 1st in the Uncanny Reader Poll, and is a story very close to my heart. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN FEBRUARY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's January's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...