Helena Ramsaroop
@hramsaroop.bsky.social
ha-lay-na 🍉🇬🇾🇨🇦 • She/her • Freelance editor, reviewer & bioarchaeologist •Words in Strange Horizons, ARB, Canthius & The Fiddlehead • Online Editor @augursociety.bsky.social • Reader @khoreo.bsky.social
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Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
Augur Issue 9.1 is out now! 🎉 @notesfromnara.bsky.social did such a fantastic job as Lead Editor. I loved editing for this issue and I hope you check it out!
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Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now!
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
October 1, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now!
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
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PRE-ORDER link is live!
THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella
A cosmic horror that explores identity, ceramics, and murder cults!
THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella
A cosmic horror that explores identity, ceramics, and murder cults!
October 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
PRE-ORDER link is live!
THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella
A cosmic horror that explores identity, ceramics, and murder cults!
THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella
A cosmic horror that explores identity, ceramics, and murder cults!
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My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
September 30, 2026 at 3:29 PM
My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
My review of Cadwell Turnbull's A Ruin, Great and Free is out now in Strange Horizons!
September 26, 2026 at 3:29 PM
My review of Cadwell Turnbull's A Ruin, Great and Free is out now in Strange Horizons!
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Here’s @hramsaroop.bsky.social on the concluding volume of Cadwell Turnbull’s Convergence Saga:
“Over the course of the series, Turnbull paints a vast picture of an interconnected multiverse and the humans, monsters, and gods that live within it, highlighting the power of people coming together.”
“Over the course of the series, Turnbull paints a vast picture of an interconnected multiverse and the humans, monsters, and gods that live within it, highlighting the power of people coming together.”
A Ruin, Great and Free by Cadwell Turnbull
The Convergence Saga as a whole grapples with existential questions for which even the gods don’t have answers.
strangehorizons.com
September 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Here’s @hramsaroop.bsky.social on the concluding volume of Cadwell Turnbull’s Convergence Saga:
“Over the course of the series, Turnbull paints a vast picture of an interconnected multiverse and the humans, monsters, and gods that live within it, highlighting the power of people coming together.”
“Over the course of the series, Turnbull paints a vast picture of an interconnected multiverse and the humans, monsters, and gods that live within it, highlighting the power of people coming together.”
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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 ❤️🔥
Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
September 24, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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 ❤️🔥
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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...
September 24, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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...
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Augur Issue 9.1 is out now! 🎉 @notesfromnara.bsky.social did such a fantastic job as Lead Editor. I loved editing for this issue and I hope you check it out!
Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
September 23, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Augur Issue 9.1 is out now! 🎉 @notesfromnara.bsky.social did such a fantastic job as Lead Editor. I loved editing for this issue and I hope you check it out!
Augur Issue 9.1 is out now! 🎉 @notesfromnara.bsky.social did such a fantastic job as Lead Editor. I loved editing for this issue and I hope you check it out!
Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
September 23, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Augur Issue 9.1 is out now! 🎉 @notesfromnara.bsky.social did such a fantastic job as Lead Editor. I loved editing for this issue and I hope you check it out!
Reposted by Helena Ramsaroop
Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
September 23, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
Put on your reading socks and join us for…
💃 catharsis & courage through dance
🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis
💗 love represented in intergenerational stories
& so much more!
+ You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s
🧵
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Sorry to reshare this again but my mother underwent another surgery last week and then we learned that chemo had decimated her red blood cells so she's in hospital again. I'm extremely sick myself, so if you can chip in anything or share, it will help us both to stay alive. 😭🧿🫶
#mutualaid
#mutualaid
Neither my physical nor mental health is great, but I'm NOT giving up. I urgently need funds for our healthcare, so please circulate/donate if you can, and if you're able to help out in any other way, pls DM.
You can donate via Gpay/UPI QR code (if you're in India) or ko-fi:
Ko-fi.com/architamittra
You can donate via Gpay/UPI QR code (if you're in India) or ko-fi:
Ko-fi.com/architamittra
September 15, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Sorry to reshare this again but my mother underwent another surgery last week and then we learned that chemo had decimated her red blood cells so she's in hospital again. I'm extremely sick myself, so if you can chip in anything or share, it will help us both to stay alive. 😭🧿🫶
#mutualaid
#mutualaid
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Today we're highlighting the artists working on Heavy Are The Years!
The campaign is live and we want you to get a taste of how gorgeous the art in this book will be!🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
The campaign is live and we want you to get a taste of how gorgeous the art in this book will be!🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
Heavy Are The Years Story Collection
Three illustrated SFF novellas in one collection exploring the theme of time and how it affects us.
www.kickstarter.com
September 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Today we're highlighting the artists working on Heavy Are The Years!
The campaign is live and we want you to get a taste of how gorgeous the art in this book will be!🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
The campaign is live and we want you to get a taste of how gorgeous the art in this book will be!🌟
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
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🌟 HEAVY ARE THE YEARS is now live on Kickstarter!! 🌟
This book is a Stardust Collaboration with @wildstarpress.bsky.social with a special collaboration from @gegallas.bsky.social of Open Book Chocolates!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
This book is a Stardust Collaboration with @wildstarpress.bsky.social with a special collaboration from @gegallas.bsky.social of Open Book Chocolates!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
Heavy Are The Years Story Collection
Three illustrated SFF novellas in one collection exploring the theme of time and how it effects us.
www.kickstarter.com
September 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
🌟 HEAVY ARE THE YEARS is now live on Kickstarter!! 🌟
This book is a Stardust Collaboration with @wildstarpress.bsky.social with a special collaboration from @gegallas.bsky.social of Open Book Chocolates!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
This book is a Stardust Collaboration with @wildstarpress.bsky.social with a special collaboration from @gegallas.bsky.social of Open Book Chocolates!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...
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FULLY ANIMATED EPISODE 1 IS OUT NOWWWW 🌟
youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...
youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...
Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl (EP.01 ANIMATED)
YouTube video by Kiana Khansmith
youtu.be
September 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
FULLY ANIMATED EPISODE 1 IS OUT NOWWWW 🌟
youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...
youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...
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It's been quite a couple weeks.
My levels are elevated again. I've been back & forth to clinic & my doctors getting treated & tested, & conferring with them.
This is not cheap, & I have more to do.
If you could help out with anything, I'd be grateful. Thanks.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
My levels are elevated again. I've been back & forth to clinic & my doctors getting treated & tested, & conferring with them.
This is not cheap, & I have more to do.
If you could help out with anything, I'd be grateful. Thanks.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
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
www.gofundme.com
September 11, 2026 at 9:18 PM
It's been quite a couple weeks.
My levels are elevated again. I've been back & forth to clinic & my doctors getting treated & tested, & conferring with them.
This is not cheap, & I have more to do.
If you could help out with anything, I'd be grateful. Thanks.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
My levels are elevated again. I've been back & forth to clinic & my doctors getting treated & tested, & conferring with them.
This is not cheap, & I have more to do.
If you could help out with anything, I'd be grateful. Thanks.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
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AND ALSO I had a book come out THIS VERY TUESDAY! How can that be?! Would love to see folks picking up WICKHILLS -- a ? magical Cold War fantaspionage in a magical city ? I don't know -- but, you know, without blowing your cover.
Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩
Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩
Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...
us.macmillan.com
September 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
AND ALSO I had a book come out THIS VERY TUESDAY! How can that be?! Would love to see folks picking up WICKHILLS -- a ? magical Cold War fantaspionage in a magical city ? I don't know -- but, you know, without blowing your cover.
Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩
Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩
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Our friends at Room Magazine are currently fundraising in order to keep the magazine going. The fund will support the production of the journal and pay contributors and staff.
You can donate, or purchase or bid on fantastic auction items here: app.galabid.com/save-room-ma...
You can donate, or purchase or bid on fantastic auction items here: app.galabid.com/save-room-ma...
September 10, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Our friends at Room Magazine are currently fundraising in order to keep the magazine going. The fund will support the production of the journal and pay contributors and staff.
You can donate, or purchase or bid on fantastic auction items here: app.galabid.com/save-room-ma...
You can donate, or purchase or bid on fantastic auction items here: app.galabid.com/save-room-ma...
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Psst! The @3lobedmag.com Kickstarter is going on right now. Help a fabulous publication continue publishing dark, weird, wonderful work!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027
Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!
www.kickstarter.com
September 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Psst! The @3lobedmag.com Kickstarter is going on right now. Help a fabulous publication continue publishing dark, weird, wonderful work!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
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Support a queer Palestinian writer this month! Muneera and the Moon is a short story based on Palestinian folklore and features djinn and saint lore, sapphics, and more. Quite a lot for such a short piece if I do say so myself. It’s available from my website: soniasulaiman.com/product/mune...
Muneera and the Moon
A daughter of darkness, a djinneh, pours out her soul to the moon. And the moon is listening. A Queer tale inspired by Palestinian folklore. Originally published in FIYAH: Literary Magazine of Blac…
soniasulaiman.com
September 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Support a queer Palestinian writer this month! Muneera and the Moon is a short story based on Palestinian folklore and features djinn and saint lore, sapphics, and more. Quite a lot for such a short piece if I do say so myself. It’s available from my website: soniasulaiman.com/product/mune...
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Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing!
soundandcolormag.com
soundandcolormag.com
Sound & Color
A digital interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction
soundandcolormag.com
September 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing!
soundandcolormag.com
soundandcolormag.com
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Sometimes I wish the general SFFH industry at large would admit, and when I say at large I include everyone writers, publishers, and other entities, that there has been a big turn against Black and brown writers and then also within that group queer, women, disabled people
September 5, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Sometimes I wish the general SFFH industry at large would admit, and when I say at large I include everyone writers, publishers, and other entities, that there has been a big turn against Black and brown writers and then also within that group queer, women, disabled people
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A HUGE thank you to everyone who purchased a book from us this last month, we were able to make our largest donation yet! $92 for the Sameer Project's Food & Water Campaign!!💜
We'll be focused on the Kickstarter throughout September, so we'll stick with Sameer Project donations this month as well!
We'll be focused on the Kickstarter throughout September, so we'll stick with Sameer Project donations this month as well!
September 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
A HUGE thank you to everyone who purchased a book from us this last month, we were able to make our largest donation yet! $92 for the Sameer Project's Food & Water Campaign!!💜
We'll be focused on the Kickstarter throughout September, so we'll stick with Sameer Project donations this month as well!
We'll be focused on the Kickstarter throughout September, so we'll stick with Sameer Project donations this month as well!
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It’s time for LITTLE GHOSTS FESTIVAL again!
Free to attend! Catch 20+ vendors, 6 panels, and a Sunday night showing of indie short films all curated by the ghostly team. Grab great local art, indie horror books, VHS tapes and more! Sept 26 & 27 , 1-6pm
🖤👻
www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...
Free to attend! Catch 20+ vendors, 6 panels, and a Sunday night showing of indie short films all curated by the ghostly team. Grab great local art, indie horror books, VHS tapes and more! Sept 26 & 27 , 1-6pm
🖤👻
www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...
August 11, 2026 at 9:29 PM
It’s time for LITTLE GHOSTS FESTIVAL again!
Free to attend! Catch 20+ vendors, 6 panels, and a Sunday night showing of indie short films all curated by the ghostly team. Grab great local art, indie horror books, VHS tapes and more! Sept 26 & 27 , 1-6pm
🖤👻
www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...
Free to attend! Catch 20+ vendors, 6 panels, and a Sunday night showing of indie short films all curated by the ghostly team. Grab great local art, indie horror books, VHS tapes and more! Sept 26 & 27 , 1-6pm
🖤👻
www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...
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I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.
Food & Water x The Sameer Project
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...
chuffed.org
August 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.
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today’s the last day of this raffle! you still have some time to enter before i draw winners later tonight :)
tally.so/r/LZOPB1
tally.so/r/LZOPB1
August 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
today’s the last day of this raffle! you still have some time to enter before i draw winners later tonight :)
tally.so/r/LZOPB1
tally.so/r/LZOPB1