Claudia Wair
Writer of literary and speculative stories (and occasional CNF). Words in Pithead Chapel, MetaStellar, Astrolabe, Tangled Locks, JMWW, Writers Resist, Decolonial Passage, and elsewhere.
Quaker. Tea drinker. Star Trek lover.
claudiawair.com
- Reposted by Claudia WairFun new interview today with amazing author David Quantick! Read about his radio, TV, & movie work, as well as exciting new novella, IMAGINE A FRIEND! Coming soon from @starsandsabers.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social
- Instead of writing, I made chocolate fudge. Instead of writing, I ate chocolate fudge. Instead of writing, I'm posting about making and eating chocolate fudge.
- Good morning from mom's snowy garden.
- New submission call for women: "Sexism, discrimination, harassment, misogyny... rape culture, glass ceilings, toxic masculinity, patriarchy. Blood boiling yet? We are seeking creative non-fiction by women that confront, interrogate, or give voice to their rage." dismantlingpress.com/Submissions/
- Reposted by Claudia WairSo excited for this story to be in Escape Pod! Huge thanks to the editors & narrator Amanda Ching! @escapepod.org
- Reposted by Claudia WairI hope you can take a minute to read my time-tripping romance! Huge thanks to @intrepidusink.bsky.social! Publishing with Intrepidus is always a special treat! ❤️
- Reposted by Claudia WairVery cool new interview with Joel Hans about his upcoming collection, THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD! Coming in Feb from Moon City Press! @joelhans.com @mooncitypress.bsky.social
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- And it begins! The link below will bring you to the first installment of "The Catalyst," my SF biotech thriller. You can follow along weekly, read, and/or listen to the story unfold. Trond E Hildahl and I are narrating the book. @metastellar.bsky.social #Thriller #SF #Biotech #Mystery
- Reposted by Claudia WairGift link! FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most high-profile and sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration. wapo.st/4pFh6lw [just copy-paste URL!]
- Reposted by Claudia WairHey everyone. Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been posted! We congratulate all the winners. Thank you so much to our brilliant Guest Editor for 2026, @dseuss.bsky.social ! www.bestmicrofiction.com? #FlashFiction #Microfiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork
- Reposted by Claudia WairDr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died from complications related to childbirth. She leaves a husband and newborn that need the support of her village. If you are able, please consider joing me in donating. www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...
- Check out the latest from Myna Chang!
- Happy for my first publication of the year to be in Ghost Parachute! Huge thanks to @brettpribble.bsky.social! And thanks to Brett J Barr for the illustration! (It's always a treat to find an editor who doesn't want to "edit" my use of dialect! 💜) Hope you enjoy my tiny devil story!
- Reposted by Claudia WairExpectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely. By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
- Reposted by Claudia WairDear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
- Reposted by Claudia WairToday's #VelshiBannedBookClub feature is "The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze" by Derrick Barnes. It follows a gifted Black athlete navigating racism, identity, and ambition. Barnes says framing sports as uniquely unifying lets white Americans “escape harsh realities Black Americans face." #Velshi
- Forgot to send a huge Thank You to Linda D. Addison (@nytebird45.bsky.social) for joining the @electricsheepsf.bsky.social on Saturday. We had so much fun discussing her poetry and her process. Hope you'll join us again!
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- Reposted by Claudia WairHuge thanks to Michael and MCR! Happy to be included with this fantastic group of writers! & if you don't have a copy of Moon City Review 2025, you should fix that right now! The whole issue is phenomenal! @mooncityreview.bsky.social
- The characters have come to life, the world is built, the outline is finished. Time to write this baby. #amwriting #amwritingfantasy
- Reposted by Claudia WairLet's fund both translations, get these writers and translators paid, and close up the project! Still needed: $2295 (USD) Last donation/purchase: 10:36p EST / 05:36 SAST ($50) Grateful shout out to Jacqueline Nyathi and Malka Older for the reposts. #SmallBusinessSaturday
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- Reposted by Claudia WairThe event is free to all but space is limited!
- Reposted by Claudia WairGo to the poetry reading! You know you want to!
- Reposted by Claudia WairHi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
- Reposted by Claudia WairExcited about this reading! Hope you can join us!
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- Reposted by Claudia WairI have a little ghost story in SFPJ today - "Jimmy. Fucking. Bang." Thanks to Francine!
- Reposted by Claudia WairAmazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
- Reposted by Claudia WairOstentiferous [os-ten-TIF-er-us] (adj.) - That which brings omens, monsters, or strange manifestations. Used in a sentence: “The book’s ostentiferous properties had rendered it too perilous for scholarship and too sacred for destruction.”
- Reposted by Claudia WairMy short story “The Last and First Loves of Hayrum Bellmaker” is now up at Crow & Cross Keys! 🖤
- Reposted by Claudia WairThis is going to be a great meeting! @clclark.bsky.social @electricsheepsf.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claudia WairThis story is so well done. A master class in character development. So much is accomplished through the body & movement. 💔❤️ @clclark.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
- Love The Oatmeal's take on AI art: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
- Reposted by Claudia WairLooking forward to @electricsheepsf.bsky.social with @joshrountree.bsky.social this weekend so I'm reposting this interview in MicroVerse!
- Reposted by Claudia WairMy husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and… I was purged from the voting roll. PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.
- Looking for: 1. Fantasy novels featuring Black protagonists. 2. Contemporary fantasy novels by Black authors Any suggestions?
- Excited to find that someone wrote a craft essay on my use of dialogue in a recent story. ICYMI: flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...
- And here's the essay: flashfictionmagazine.com/what-makes-t...
- Reposted by Claudia WairInterview with @vanessafogg.bsky.social about her upcoming collection, THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS! @interstellarflight.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claudia WairHANNA X SPIDERHEAD Locked away in a clandestine lab, a daring hacker twin, a clone anomaly carrying secrets, and a desperate robotics expert must face malicious oppressors, their origins, their own inner demons & maybe even each other in an explosive bid for truth and freedom. #DVPit #Dis #A #H #SF
- Reposted by Claudia WairCan’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
- Reposted by Claudia WairJane Barton Griffith was codirector of an AFSC humanitarian project during the Vietnam War. Nguyen thi Mai was a double amputee who came to the center for medical assistance and was later offered a job and invited to live in the AFSC house. Two Women, One War is Jane's account of their friendship.
- "A plague of gods have given us a bad name us half-betweeners, shadowfill and moonlighters..."
- My poem “Shapeshifters Local” has been published in the Autumn 2025 issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, alongside what looks to be an amazing TOC. Read my poem here: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
- Reposted by Claudia WairIf you're a BIPOC writer trying to find the time to finish your book or want personalised advice for tackling your writing projects, be sure to join us for the How To Finish Your Novel workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Nov 29 & 30 or get the video after! events.humanitix.com/how-to-finis...
- Reposted by Claudia WairTrey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.
- Went to see Trae Crowder perform last night. I haven't laughed so hard in ages. We need comedians and satirists soooo much right now.
- Reposted by Claudia WairNew interview with Marie Brennan today - hear about her Hugo-winning poem, novels, short stories, and some gorgeous art! @swantower.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claudia WairYes! #amwriting #amediting
- Reposted by Claudia WairMy short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and-- itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/09/shor...
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- Reposted by Claudia WairALERT! THOSE! DEMONS!
- Went to brunch with friends at Busboys and Poets yesterday. Browsed the bookshop and discussed the merits of "trashy" books, TV, and movies. Was a good day.
- Reposted by Claudia WairSpear Maidens* Unite! Have just over a month to bring in $3575. Want to see this go fast? - Rally, Visibility - Big $ donations - Art Shop micro-donations from bigger name creators We can! @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @vriccithode.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claudia WairSeptember MicroVerse roundup is out!
- Reposted by Claudia WairGreat new issue of Writers Resist up today. Read, be inspired, resist. ✊
- My dystopian flash appears in Writers Resist today. It was written after the election around the question plaguing me: What will it mean to be Black in Tr*ump's America? I hope you'll check it out. www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...
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- Reposted by Claudia WairDo you know a high school writer? Have them submit to this wonderful literary journal! Www.theweightjournal.com
- Reposted by Claudia Wair"I made mistakes once, too, when I was the first historian, nobody else to teach me what to look out for, how to be gentle with the world so it would be gentle with me in turn." @avramargariti.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social 💜
- Reposted by Claudia WairBTW, editors: I've got several more Cherryh essays cooking up that are even more ambitious than this one, so hmu if you're interested.
- Please consider supporting this incredibly worthy literary project. They are raising money to translate books from non-colonial African languages into English.
- Reposted by Claudia WairMyna Chang's "Let us Dream" is a scifi horror poem that will take your breath away. Read it here in our third issue:
- Today's tea: Tea Runners English Breakfast. Today's mug: The one that makes me feel like royalty 👑
- Reposted by Claudia WairHey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.
- Reposted by Claudia WairEurope is warming faster than any continent. That's speeding up glacial melt, which is already threatening Europe's largest rivers.
- Reposted by Claudia WairHad a wonderful time at the @wwph.bsky.social 50th celebration/book launch for "America's Future"! Met contributor Congressman Jamie Raskin, too. Grab a copy. My solarpunk, "Fireflies and Dandelion Wine," appears in the anthology. A huge Thank You to prose editor @cabockwrites.bsky.social!
