Cat Girczyc

@catsff.bsky.social

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Writer- screenwriter, short story author & tech communications mgr
Member WGC, SFWA, STC, Apex Writers
Interests —> SFF, cairn terriers, gardening, knitting, tv & film not necessarily in that order

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Pulp Literature Hummingbird Prize 2024 -1 of my flash Stories made the long list! #flash #sff @pulpliterature.bsky.social thanks!

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Happy 🇨🇦 Canada Day everyone

I just got this cool laurel for #screenwriting - my script Garden Variety Aliens is a quarter finalist! #ISA #emergingscreenwriters #Animation woot!

Spent the week after #Nebulas24 at #Banff45 online. A lot of great info for tv industry types. Best so far was the #Showrunner panel!

#Writer friends - I'm on a panel at the Nebula Conference next Friday! You can still register for this wonderful conference for science fiction and fantasy writers. As a single mum with a busy corporate job and a sometimes a college teaching gig, I can talk about the busy writing life!

I'm going to be on panels at two cons this summer. It's been a while since I've done this. Con 1 is the Nebula weekend in June. The other is WWC in August. Looking forward to both!

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UNAGENTED WRITERS who want a shot at trad pub! The submission window is short: May 15 - 17 ONLY. Read those submission guidelines carefully. FOLLOW submission guidelines carefully. Good luck! All details:

Berkley Open Submission Program - Penguin Random Housesites.prh.com Open Submissions Program

#murderbugs #unboxingBook #sciencefiction - so happy to get my #author copies of this anthology.

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HEY all of us Aurora nominated nerds are on CBC! :D 🍁 www.cbc.ca/books/canada...

Canada Reads author Jessica Johns among finalists for Aurora Awards for Canadian sci-fi and fantasy writing | CBC Bookswww.cbc.ca The Aurora Awards recognize the best in Canadian science fiction and fantasy across 10 categories. Johns' novel, Bad Cree, was championed by Dallas Soonias on Canada Reads 2024.

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Today's official pub date for Murderbugs! So, along with many of my author friends' wonderful stories, you can read my funny story about #gardening #StinkBugs and #alienastronauts (cute ones) called 'The Tomato Liberation Front"--> www.amazon.com/Murderbugs-A... It's also available on Amazon.ca

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#WGCStrong for my Canadian screenwriter, tv writer, and animation writer contacts: check the WGC website for more details. Upcoming vote is important!

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Are you a SFWA member reading for the Nebula Awards? Try the finalist for Best Novelette, "The Year Without Sunshine" by Naomi Kritzer! Click on the link below! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-... #scifi #fantasy #fantasyart #scifiart #amreadingfantasy #amreadingscifi

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Are you a SFWA member reading for the Nebula Awards? Try the finalist for Best Novelette "Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge" by Eugenia Triantafyllou! Click on the link below! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-... #scifi #fantasy #fantasyart #scifiart #amreading

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So excited for the support we’ve seen. Please, come back for any amount and get a sneak peek at David Boop’s original story for our “Intergalactic Rejects” anthology!

Thanks to all who have supported our "Intergalactic Rejects" kickstarter thus far. As a thank-you to current backers (and incentive for future ones), David Boop's story "Upsized Savior" is available to all backers via an update! We hope you read, enjoy, and tell your friends! Link in the comments

Excited to share that this is the first ever week that I've signed two writing contracts! On Spec will publish my story "Shambolic Manor" in 2024 & Polar Borealis will have "Cupid's Rebellion" in its March issue. Pic is of spring flowers

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Congratulations to all the Nebula Award finalists!

SFWA Announces the Finalists for the 59th Nebula Awards - SFWAwww.sfwa.org The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 59th Annual Nebula Awards®! Our congratulations go out to each and every finalist for the recogn...

So pleased my odd little story “The FLD Robotics Corp Series: How To Guides “ made it onto the @pulpliterature.bsky.social Bumblebee 🐝 Flash contest shortlist!

All interested #sciencefiction & #fantasy #writers here's a great conference to attend. Go to events.sfwa.org for more info. You can attend remotely or attend in Pasadena

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Support Locus AND appear in one of my novels.

Help us reach $25k by the end of today! You can give $10 or $500, we've got awesome perks for every price range. Best of all, you help all of us at Locus thrive and keep reviewing, interviewing, and covering our community's news. igg.me/at/locusmag2024

#canadians time to nominate for the Auroras again! Go to www.csffa.ca make an account for $10 and have your say! Nominations close April 6. FYI my short story The Lady M is eligible!

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Vague post - just heard that I sold a story! Woot! Details to come once I get the contract. Pic is crazy happy celebration balloons!

Cafe writing. It all starts with story. Working on my spring equinox flash piece for Wordos my writing group. Do you like writing outside?

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Some jumpers for leap year.

Nebula awards nominations close today. Ahem.. I do have a short story in @pulpliterature.bsky.social magazine autumn 2023 that qualifies. The title is “The Lady M” a tale of a werskunk!

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Just when you think all the scandals of the 2023 Hugo Awards have been plumbed, @camestrosf.bsky.social and @heatherrosejones.bsky.social release a 51 page report (!!!) on the voting statistics, available here: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

ChartingTheCliff-Hugo2023docs.google.com

So pleased to announce that my poem "Duel" has been reprinted in Polar Borealis issue 28 this month. Free download at polarborealis.ca/currentback-...

Current/Back Issues | Polar Borealis & Polar Starlight polarborealis.ca

Question for my #sfwa friends- do you attend the #nebula weekend in person? Or remote? I loved remote last year but am considering a trip to Pasadena. Advice?

Happy Lunar New Year! We're starting the year of the dragon or loong!