Helena Ramsaroop

An image of thick books with an overlay of purple. At the top of the image is a white rectangle bar that reads: “New Book Club” in purple text, and in the left corner, there is a bell graphic in orange. In the middle of the image reads: “Join the Augur Society Book Shelf” in white text, and underneath it reads: “For voracious readers of SFF.” At the bottom of the image is a purple bar, and inside of it a link: augursociety.org/augur-society-launches-a-new-book-club-the-augur-bookshelf

JOIN OUR NEW BOOK CLUB: The Augur Bookshelf! 📚✨

A sci-fi, fantasy, & specfic book club that meets on the 4th Monday of each month to explore the unknown & the fantastical! 🧚🐉

Sign up on eventbrite, you'll get reminders for every session & 10% off reads thanks to @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social!

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

Dear readers,

TALES & FEATHERS VOLUME 4 IS NOW LIVE! 🎊

Fantasy is full of world ending dangers. Of wars & high stakes & lives on the line. But what comes after?👀

Subscribers can find the issue in their inbox within 24 hours, & we have 2 FREE pieces on our site RIGHT NOW!

Click the link below!⬇️

Only THREE DAYS LEFT on the Little Ghosts’ Workshop Crowdfund!

Help us build out the back garage for our marketplaces, readings, author workshops, and more! This is not an all-or-nothing thing, every little bit helps us build an even better community space.

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An illustration of a Black little girl walking through a field of yellow-purple grass, towards a yellow light. At the top of the image reads: “augur + tales & feathers” in white text. Below it reads: “Black Words & Worlds.” in white text. In the middle of the image is a spread of the covers of Augur Issue 8.1, Augur Issue 8.2, Augur Issue 8.3, Tales & Feathers Volume 3, and a cellphone with an illustration of murmurstations podcast. Underneath reads: “Celebrating voices, art, and stories during Black History Month and every month” in white text. There is a yellow arrow pointing right below. At the bottom of the image is a white border with the Augur logo.

For Black History Month, we’re showcasing Black creators’ stories, voices, & illustrations! 🌟📚

From the light-hearted to the heart-wrenching to the deeply mysterious, these creators' imaginations captured our team's hearts.

Scroll down to see their work! ⬇️

Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses

Everyone's struggling & the world's on fire so I'm sorry to ask, but I need your help again.

If you could donate and/or share my Go Fund Me campaign, it would go a long way to helping me pay for increased costs for my breast cancer treatment. Details in my update.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

I'm re upping this because I want to again mention to writers in and around Brampton that we will be having a Meet and Chat on March 3 from 7-8:30.

Further, you can book to have me crit up to 10 pages of adult fiction throughout the residency.

I will also teach 2 craft classes.

It's ALL FREE.

We are all drowning in a pool of systemic propaganda so I understand why the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel esp shocking and I think it is important to do the internal work of asking yourself, if this applies to you, why the deaths of immigrants/Black folks don't shock in the same way

The disparities in these numbers are fucking terrible. A quantification of how much more valuable a white and then American life is than an immigrant POC.

Links to fundraisers in thread.

bsky.app/profile/last...

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.

I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Art by lunacwriting depicting three women of three different generations in front of a haunted house and a stormy sea, with a snippet of text from the book that says: None have remembered the horrors nor absorbed the blood from those murdered quite so well as the house in Haifa.

What makes a house haunted in Palestine? Is it the ghosts that linger - or is it something far more sinister?

Our Cut of Salt is about a haunted house in Palestine and the 3 generations of women who must discover the answer to this question for themselves. Preorder now: linktr.ee/deenahelm

An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below. Text reads: ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA CREST by A.D. Sui After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together. But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home. CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock). Coming Fall 2027 Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images

✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨

Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.

This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.

Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!

A decade into Augur, sometimes pieces show up in subs & you can just sense the story will breathe your tone.

@thesuiway.bsky.social is one of those writers for Augur—and at the top of my list when soliciting for our press' first novellas.

I'm delighted to announce CREST, forthcoming in 2027 📖

Thanks Dan! Hoping to send you a new review soon!

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera Rakesfall recognizes a world shaped by violence, greed, war, and exploitation, and seeks to break the cycles that make such a violent world possible.

And we do three reviews every single week, how ridicu ... er, brilliant ... is that?! For this and other reasons, we are always in search of new reviewers and happily 2025 saw several turn up. For example, here's @hramsaroop.bsky.social on @vajra.me's Rakesfall:

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities

if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

One Message Remains Check out One Message Remains - <p>Pageantry, pomp, pretense, and peril-"The General's Turn," originally published in The Deadlands, drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself ...

Anyway! This seems like a good time to re-up my book that came out in February -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is a mini-collection with a brand-new novella and two new novelettes, plus one reprint, set in the same world!

bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

It's week 34 of the giving circle, and these six families still rely entirely on this link for survival needs. But you've helped them get that help for this long! They are blessedly still here with us!

Keep going + click “weekly” to sustain this support: chuffed.org/project/hope...

ARB Awards Eligibility 2025 The Ancillary Review of Books turned five this year! We’ve had an excellent year, and are very pleased to continue publishing criticism with an emphasis on the speculative and the utopian, thanks t…

For everyone nominating for next year's SFFH awards: ARB's 2025 Awards Eligibility

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Ok yall, seriousness needed. Nya's vulnerable family of eight, are stranded in a tent in this cold and rain, which we saw endanger the lives of children and the elderly the last two winters.

Help with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...

a photo of ATANA AND THE FIREBIRD, a middle grade graphic novel

a photo of ATANA AND THE JADE MERMAID, a middle grade graphic novel

if you're looking for gifts this holiday season, may I suggest the Atana graphic novels for your consideration?

perfect for lovers of:
✨fantasy
✨magic, witches, mermaids...
✨adventures with friends
✨finding yourself stories

available anywhere books are sold, including your local bookstores!

My friend is halfway through now, please boost so they can reach the goal before the 20th Dec 🙏❤️
gofund.me/3950280e6

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...

A simple ask on this first Saturday of December: click “weekly” or “monthly” on a coffee.

The math adds up. Almost two hundred people have pledged around this, and it has meant sustained, dependable support for six families & a camp—to survive.

Donate to Help Ramzi's family to survive in gaza, organized by Bouchra El idrissi My name is Ramzi from Gaza, I am 20 years old. My house was destroyed and we… Bouchra El idrissi needs your support for Help Ramzi's family to survive in gaza

Some Gaza fundraisers as the winter weather gets worse, a thread: Ramzi is needing money for food and tent rent if you have anything to donate, no matter how small. www.gofundme.com/f/help-ramzi...

The Hungering Years by Summer Farah Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...

Looking for the latest Palestinian poetry? I got you. Pre order The Hungering Years by Summer Farah: hostpublications.com/collections/...

I loved being a reviewer for the 100 notable small press books project. My reviews of One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com (published by @psychopomp.com) and Redundancies and Potentials by @domsdickey.bsky.social (published by @neonhemlock.bsky.social) are included in this list!

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OTHERSIDE is published by Hybris Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the publication and promotion of queer speculative fiction. Every donation on #GivingTuesday - and every day - helps us support 2SLGBTQIA+ creators. Thank you so much for all your support this year!

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

did you know that we published a NOTABLE SMALL PRESS BOOK this year??? 👀

it's ONE MESSAGE REMAINS by the AMAZING @premeemohamed.com 🎉🎉🎉

read the list, and get your own copy here ✨ psychopomp.com/one-message-...

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