Rio Lombana
@riolombana.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ they/all
📚 Fiction in Escape Pod, Adventitious, Small Wonders, elsewhere
👀 First reader at Apex
🪼 VP '25
🥋 Jiujitsu brown belt
bio.site/riolombana
Rep: Valentina Sainato @ JABberwocky
📚 Fiction in Escape Pod, Adventitious, Small Wonders, elsewhere
👀 First reader at Apex
🪼 VP '25
🥋 Jiujitsu brown belt
bio.site/riolombana
Rep: Valentina Sainato @ JABberwocky
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Rio Lombana
@riolombana.bsky.social
· Jul 13
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It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.
October 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.
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It is the start of Banned Books Week and as such it's an EXCELLLLENT moment to donate to @authorsabb.bsky.social.
We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.
We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.
October 4, 2026 at 5:39 PM
It is the start of Banned Books Week and as such it's an EXCELLLLENT moment to donate to @authorsabb.bsky.social.
We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.
We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.
Have you heard of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus? You know, the Great One who moves beneath the earth?
No?
Well, if you want to hear the Word of Our Tentacled Lord and Savior, my short story "Other Gods" is published today in the inaugural issue of the Pacific Northwest Gothic magazine.
No?
Well, if you want to hear the Word of Our Tentacled Lord and Savior, my short story "Other Gods" is published today in the inaugural issue of the Pacific Northwest Gothic magazine.
volume one - PACIFIC NORTHWEST GOTHIC
Samples from Volume I Lapis Corvos Allie MariniPoetry Allie Marini is a former Florida woman now living in the PNW. She is a cross-genre writer, visual artist, maker, and tarot reader. She runs Creepy...
pnwgothic.com
October 4, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Have you heard of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus? You know, the Great One who moves beneath the earth?
No?
Well, if you want to hear the Word of Our Tentacled Lord and Savior, my short story "Other Gods" is published today in the inaugural issue of the Pacific Northwest Gothic magazine.
No?
Well, if you want to hear the Word of Our Tentacled Lord and Savior, my short story "Other Gods" is published today in the inaugural issue of the Pacific Northwest Gothic magazine.
Just bought my ticket!
Our registration rates increase October 1st. Be sure to lock in your lower-price soon if you intend to go and haven't registered yet!
montreal2027.ca/en/registrat...
montreal2027.ca/en/registrat...
Montréal 2027 Worldcon Registration Rates | Montréal 2027 Worldcon
Montréal 2027 Worldcon Registration RatesRates valid until September 30, 2026All prices are in Canadian dollars.
montreal2027.ca
October 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Just bought my ticket!
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I'd love to see a policy like this for SFFH cons like WorldCon.
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
www.geeknative.com
September 24, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I'd love to see a policy like this for SFFH cons like WorldCon.
I’ll be teaching on The Art of Brevity: Writing and publishing short speculative fiction, with my co-teacher @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social
Our classes include a generative workshop portion, which I’m especially excited about in the context of micro fiction. You can walk away with a complete story!
Our classes include a generative workshop portion, which I’m especially excited about in the context of micro fiction. You can walk away with a complete story!
September 21, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I’ll be teaching on The Art of Brevity: Writing and publishing short speculative fiction, with my co-teacher @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social
Our classes include a generative workshop portion, which I’m especially excited about in the context of micro fiction. You can walk away with a complete story!
Our classes include a generative workshop portion, which I’m especially excited about in the context of micro fiction. You can walk away with a complete story!
I'm delighted to announce that I'm now represented by @valentinasainato.bsky.social at JABberwocky Literary Agency! awfulagent.com/new-client-a...
New Client Announcement: Rio Lombana – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
awfulagent.com
September 18, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I'm delighted to announce that I'm now represented by @valentinasainato.bsky.social at JABberwocky Literary Agency! awfulagent.com/new-client-a...
I'm unreasonably excited for this con 🌈
I should have updated this--the schedule for Rainbow Space Magic Con *is* out now, and you can find it here: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/rsm-2026-sch...
Rainbow Space Magic 2026 Schedule – Rainbow Space Magic
www.rainbowspacemagic.org
September 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I'm unreasonably excited for this con 🌈
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September 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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"Seneschal of Shattered Tor" is a postcolonial high fantasy about a society trying to Be Better* and the leaders dragging them into the future. I hope you enjoy it!
* T&C apply
* T&C apply
New Issue: BCS #465 out today, featuring stories of leadership under threat by returning BCS authors @denzelscott.bsky.social and Abhijeet Sathe @bingingout.bsky.social, 90-min podcast of Scott read by @smaliamorris.bsky.social, cover art Sam Jumisko: beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #465 by Scott Andrews
The Eldest Bird of Paradise by Denzel Xavier Scott. Seneschal of Shattered Tor by Abhijeet Sathe. BCS 365: The Eldest Bird of Paradise by Denzel Xavier Scott.
beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
September 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
"Seneschal of Shattered Tor" is a postcolonial high fantasy about a society trying to Be Better* and the leaders dragging them into the future. I hope you enjoy it!
* T&C apply
* T&C apply
Another banger from Wen Wen. Tears at the end for me.
Cast of Wonders 696: The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent by Wen Wen Yang narrated by Pine Gonzalez hosted by Alicia Caporaso produced by Jeremy Carter
First published in Tales & Feathers, February 2025
www.castofwonders.org/2026/08/cast...
First published in Tales & Feathers, February 2025
www.castofwonders.org/2026/08/cast...
September 4, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Another banger from Wen Wen. Tears at the end for me.
The fOOfs anthology is here -- The Best of Strange Fiction in 2025!
Buy it to support a small press, and for its excellent weird cover, and if you wanna read my feminist dystopian satire: "His Goose Is Cooked"
Buy it to support a small press, and for its excellent weird cover, and if you wanna read my feminist dystopian satire: "His Goose Is Cooked"
The Foofs (2025)
Best of Strange Fiction anthology
foofaraw.press
September 2, 2026 at 4:44 AM
The fOOfs anthology is here -- The Best of Strange Fiction in 2025!
Buy it to support a small press, and for its excellent weird cover, and if you wanna read my feminist dystopian satire: "His Goose Is Cooked"
Buy it to support a small press, and for its excellent weird cover, and if you wanna read my feminist dystopian satire: "His Goose Is Cooked"
Still glowing from #WorldCon. Heart full, body exhausted, brain buzzing, chomping at the bit to write write write
Can't wait to see you all next year à Montréal!
Can't wait to see you all next year à Montréal!
September 2, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Still glowing from #WorldCon. Heart full, body exhausted, brain buzzing, chomping at the bit to write write write
Can't wait to see you all next year à Montréal!
Can't wait to see you all next year à Montréal!
The #Worldcon emails have included increasingly dire warnings about the bone-chilling power and intensity of the hotel's air conditioning.
Also, there's this.
So.... I'm packing layers??
Also, there's this.
So.... I'm packing layers??
For folks headed to SoCal for #Worldcon, be prepared for high heat. It's going to be triple digits for much of the southland through the weekend. And it's a dry heat. You'll feel like your skin is turning into a husk. In direct sun will feel even hotter.
www.weather.gov/lox/
www.weather.gov/lox/
August 26, 2026 at 11:30 PM
The #Worldcon emails have included increasingly dire warnings about the bone-chilling power and intensity of the hotel's air conditioning.
Also, there's this.
So.... I'm packing layers??
Also, there's this.
So.... I'm packing layers??
Reposted by Rio Lombana
🏳️⚧️
Huh. This feels like something y'all should be preordering, reposting, & generally losing your minds over🖤☠️
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, companion to our beloved YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY
40~ 🏳️⚧️+GNC creators deliver the best Weird Cosmic Horror of the year.
Out Oct 6.
Get: store.tenebrouspress.com
Huh. This feels like something y'all should be preordering, reposting, & generally losing your minds over🖤☠️
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, companion to our beloved YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY
40~ 🏳️⚧️+GNC creators deliver the best Weird Cosmic Horror of the year.
Out Oct 6.
Get: store.tenebrouspress.com
August 24, 2026 at 5:18 PM
🏳️⚧️
Huh. This feels like something y'all should be preordering, reposting, & generally losing your minds over🖤☠️
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, companion to our beloved YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY
40~ 🏳️⚧️+GNC creators deliver the best Weird Cosmic Horror of the year.
Out Oct 6.
Get: store.tenebrouspress.com
Huh. This feels like something y'all should be preordering, reposting, & generally losing your minds over🖤☠️
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, companion to our beloved YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY
40~ 🏳️⚧️+GNC creators deliver the best Weird Cosmic Horror of the year.
Out Oct 6.
Get: store.tenebrouspress.com
I’ve been dreaming on a time loop story for a while now, can’t wait to have an excuse to write it
Hey pals, come follow my next BackerKit campaign and help me bring a TIME LOOP ANTHOLOGY to life next month!! (It will have an open submission period for writers in October.)
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
August 25, 2026 at 9:05 AM
I’ve been dreaming on a time loop story for a while now, can’t wait to have an excuse to write it
ime nonviolent communication can solve a lot of relationship problems. but, um. not all of them.
at least, not problems that ride in with the storm and settle into the whites of your girlfriend's eyes
...anyway, please enjoy Kaitlin's and my cowritten sapphic horror story, it's free to read!
at least, not problems that ride in with the storm and settle into the whites of your girlfriend's eyes
...anyway, please enjoy Kaitlin's and my cowritten sapphic horror story, it's free to read!
“Is that meat?” The question falls out of my mouth in a desperate tumble.
“Everything’s meat.”
🥘❤️🦝👩🎨
For your unsettling Sunday night:
Life Imitates by @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social and @riolombana.bsky.social
(Scope the CWs please.)
www.adventitious.net/stories/life...
“Everything’s meat.”
🥘❤️🦝👩🎨
For your unsettling Sunday night:
Life Imitates by @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social and @riolombana.bsky.social
(Scope the CWs please.)
www.adventitious.net/stories/life...
Life Imitates by Rio Lombana & Kaitlin Schmidt
A slow-burn horror story about the terrifying human capacity to accommodate the nightmare cuddling us as we fall asleep. By Rio Lombana and Kaitlin Schmidt.
www.adventitious.net
August 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM
ime nonviolent communication can solve a lot of relationship problems. but, um. not all of them.
at least, not problems that ride in with the storm and settle into the whites of your girlfriend's eyes
...anyway, please enjoy Kaitlin's and my cowritten sapphic horror story, it's free to read!
at least, not problems that ride in with the storm and settle into the whites of your girlfriend's eyes
...anyway, please enjoy Kaitlin's and my cowritten sapphic horror story, it's free to read!
You can read my story "The Mortification and Ecstasy of Sally Colt, Deserter and Outlaw" on Small Wonders today!
...unless you're tired of stories about toxic lesbians in mech suits. Then I suppose I'd advise you stay far away from this one.
...unless you're tired of stories about toxic lesbians in mech suits. Then I suppose I'd advise you stay far away from this one.
The Mortification and Ecstasy of Sally Colt, Deserter and Outlaw - Small Wonders
My mech suit is my Lady, my love, my metallic goddess of war. I thought Her eternal, fused forever to my body and soul, but now nothing speaks in my mind but the screaming terror of imagining a lifeti...
smallwondersmag.com
August 15, 2026 at 7:38 AM
You can read my story "The Mortification and Ecstasy of Sally Colt, Deserter and Outlaw" on Small Wonders today!
...unless you're tired of stories about toxic lesbians in mech suits. Then I suppose I'd advise you stay far away from this one.
...unless you're tired of stories about toxic lesbians in mech suits. Then I suppose I'd advise you stay far away from this one.
Reposted by Rio Lombana
my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭
referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer
podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer
podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
August 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭
referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer
podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer
podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
"I’ll weep an ocean, one drop at a time. No iron can resist the tide."
Aimee Ogden is an inspiration, truly. Incredible new flash story about how one must absolutely not run away with a demon lover (under no circumstances!!)
Aimee Ogden is an inspiration, truly. Incredible new flash story about how one must absolutely not run away with a demon lover (under no circumstances!!)
For the night crowd.
Brand new work from @aimeeogdenwrites.com.
"The easiest advice I can give: don’t run off in a demon’s company."
www.adventitious.net/stories/no-i...
Brand new work from @aimeeogdenwrites.com.
"The easiest advice I can give: don’t run off in a demon’s company."
www.adventitious.net/stories/no-i...
No Iron Can Resist by Aimee Ogden
You may want to run off in a demon-lover's company, but heed this advice from a woman who's been there. By Aimee Ogden.
www.adventitious.net
August 10, 2026 at 4:30 AM
"I’ll weep an ocean, one drop at a time. No iron can resist the tide."
Aimee Ogden is an inspiration, truly. Incredible new flash story about how one must absolutely not run away with a demon lover (under no circumstances!!)
Aimee Ogden is an inspiration, truly. Incredible new flash story about how one must absolutely not run away with a demon lover (under no circumstances!!)
Reposted by Rio Lombana
short fiction is so good and yet beloved by so few. everyone should read a short story a day. i set a goal to read a hundred this year because I like measurables and i've been slacking, and now i'm up to #317, which still doesn't feel like enough.
August 8, 2026 at 1:54 AM
short fiction is so good and yet beloved by so few. everyone should read a short story a day. i set a goal to read a hundred this year because I like measurables and i've been slacking, and now i'm up to #317, which still doesn't feel like enough.
Issue 4 of Adventitious is out! In it is "Life Imitates," Kaitlin's and my coauthored sapphic horror story in which therapy speak is how they get ya, and self-gaslighting invites in more than mere self-doubt...
Subscribe to read it now, or be patient and read it later—if they don't get ya first.
Subscribe to read it now, or be patient and read it later—if they don't get ya first.
Adventitious | A Speculative Short Fiction Magazine - Adventitious.
Adventitious is a speculative short fiction magazine publishing boundary-defying stories, novellas, and unclassifiable work.
www.adventitious.net
August 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Issue 4 of Adventitious is out! In it is "Life Imitates," Kaitlin's and my coauthored sapphic horror story in which therapy speak is how they get ya, and self-gaslighting invites in more than mere self-doubt...
Subscribe to read it now, or be patient and read it later—if they don't get ya first.
Subscribe to read it now, or be patient and read it later—if they don't get ya first.
Beautiful and haunting covers. Look for my words behind two of them!
August issues of @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, Dirty Magick, The Dark, @adventitiouswords.bsky.social, @locusmag.bsky.social, and @smallwondersmag.com are here! weightlessbooks.com/2026/08/
August 1, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Beautiful and haunting covers. Look for my words behind two of them!
WorldCon schedules are up! Come listen to me talk about being queer and fighting (in fiction) (but also IRL)
August 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
WorldCon schedules are up! Come listen to me talk about being queer and fighting (in fiction) (but also IRL)