Lauren Raye Snow

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World Fantasy & Chesley Award Finalist. SFFH Illustrator & Weird Portraitist. Maker of graven images. She/Her. 💖💜💙 http://rayedraws.com | http://instagram.com/laurenrayesnow

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Amazing work and a delightful person.

Hi #PortfolioDay! I paint uncanny, transcendent visions, both dreadful and cathartic. ❤️‍🔥 Find my work in @havenspec.bsky.social, @locusmag.bsky.social, @apexmag.bsky.social, Infected By Art, & on @maryrobinette.bsky.social's SILENT SPACES! 🌍 rayedraws.com 📧 [email protected]

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Today's the day! THE SKY ON FIRE is live. Thank you to everyone. You've all been so supportive and I appreciate you!

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Reupping this so you can admire Max again.

Witch King is coming out in paperback from Tordotcom on July 9! Cover art by Cynthia Sheppard.

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3 days left to enter to win an ARC! I hope you win if you enter 😃 www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Book giveaway for Countess by Suzan Palumbo Jun 06-Jul 06, 2024www.goodreads.com Enter to win one of 20 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jun 06-Jul 06, 2024. Enter for a chance to win one of 20 advance copies of Countess by ...

I’m so pleased to finally reveal the cover for Mary Robinette Kowal's SILENT SPACES, a collection of short stories in the Lady Astronaut Universe! You can back it now on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar... @maryrobinette.bsky.social

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I wrote a comic about a San Antonio teenager that learns he can talk to plants! Meet Florescent this July! Coming from Chispa Comics & Scout Comics! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLpqK4Lm/

TikTok - Make Your Daywww.tiktok.com

The Locus Poll is open until April 15th. Vote for your favorite SFF works and creators! It’s my first time on the ballot, and I’m honored to be there among so many of my personal favorites and friends.

Feeling the love for speculative fiction? ❤️ Join in the Locus Awards and vote for the stories that capture your heart and imagination. Let's make our voices heard in this celebration of creativity! 🎉 #SFF #books poll.voting.locusmag...#SFF #books poll.voting.locusmag...

Howdy #PortfolioDay 🤠 I'm Lauren. I create paintings that explore uncanny, transcendent visions, both dreadful and cathartic. ❤️‍🔥 My work has been published in Apex Magazine, Locus Magazine, Mermaids Monthly, and Infected By Art. Work with me: [email protected]

speaking of Armadillos... Silver armadillo incense burner, early 19th century Peru

Wow, I just found out "Home" was accepted into Infected By Art Volume 12! This painting is very personal and special to me, so it always makes me happy when people resonate with this weird, sad girl with the armadillo before the thunderstorm on a scorched earth.

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ICYMI:

I have an Anti-Valentine's chapbook-in-verse for everyone 🖤🔪💋 The Night is a careless lover; her wives will destroy themselves if it means catching her attention. Thirteen snippets of degeneration: avramargariti.itch.io/the-thirteen... ko-fi.com/s/0b8398bb1d

The Thirteen Scorned Wives of La Nuit (verse chapbook PDF) - Avra Margariti's Ko-fi Shopko-fi.com A poetic dive into decline and degeneration as La Nuit, aloof and lunar, lets her consorts sink into loveless despair. Dark, surrealist, and queer, t...

Nue endormie (Sleeping Nude), Dorothea Tanning, 1954

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When a trans man moves into a duplex with a mysterious past, are his unusual encounters a classic haunting…or is he grappling with a different sort of ghost? Next week! "Evan: A Remainder," by @kurellian.bsky.social. Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social. Illustration by Jess Vosseteig.

(1/2) Just a little over 13 hours remain for voting in the Chesley Awards. If a piece of speculative art has touched you in the last year, it's worth voting just to gaze upon the gorgeous ballot of works! cc: @asfa-art.bsky.social (link to vote in the next one)

"The Ecstasy of St. Joan" is nominated for a Chesley Award. This piece is about queer liberation. It sprung from my readings of the actual historical transcripts of the trial of Joan of Arc, imagining a beautiful possible world of freedom and joy for Jeanne. @asfa-art.bsky.social

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Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Dianita, a traditional artist from Mexico working from TX. After creating 79 paintings for a Tarot deck, I'd love to find more opportunities illustrating for publishing, hopefully fantasy related. I love creating art that acknowledges hidden experiences, dreams and hopes.

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New story day! "To the Waters and the Wild" is free to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com! Flash fiction! Sirens! Trans feels! Rejections of hierarchies! Plenty of /slashes/ (literally!). I'd be honored if you gave it a read. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-t...

Delighted to discover that my painting "The Ecstasy of St. Joan" has been nominated for a Chesley Award! Honored to be nominated alongside my friends @johnpicacio.bsky.social, Gary Villarreal, and Tehani Farr, as well as all other incredible nominees. Congrats to all! cc: @asfa-art.bsky.social

dreaming up an unhinged chamber ensemble consisting of piano, cello, hurdy-gurdy, and theremin

Today I finally had office hours so I could officially back @havenspec.bsky.social on Kickstarter - $24 gets you all 6 issues next year & helps them pay pro rates to authors! I'm on deck to do a cover for them next year. They could use a boost!

Our Kickstarter is at 60% with less than 4 days to go, so we wanted to show you how we calculated our goal of $10,400. 73% of it goes to our lovely authors and artists, 4% is for swag and admin, and 23% is for tax. Help us pay folks what they deserve! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...

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The fine folks at @havenspec.bsky.social are in the last days of their Kickstarter. They're trying to raise funds to pay pro rates to their writers. A noble goal that could use some help! //www.kickstarter.com/projects/haven-spec-magazine/haven-spec-magazine-2024

Haven Spec Magazine, 2024www.kickstarter.com A digital science fiction and fantasy magazine publishing six issues a year and featuring fiction and poetry for the 21st century!

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Have you read the work in the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Caribbean Special Issue? Our purpose in putting out this issue was to highlight the mind-blowing writing being produced by Caribbean writers. My job as an editor I feel is to center the writers NOT MYSELF. They are incredible.

Storytelling is Part of the Heart of the Caribbean Soulstrangehorizons.com an introduction to the Caribbean SFF Special Issue

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Broadsword®️: The Sword for Women

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Anything is possible but I'm not interested in whether they can or not. I'm happy with my process even though a lot of the time it's agony - I need the struggle, the tears and the upset even the moments of writers block. I need it because that's how I make better art...pushing myself.

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No. 1. The environmental cost is not worth the gains. 2. The effort of making a thing, the repetition, the creative culs-de-sac, all serve to improve me, and I do definitely want to be better. It's a false economy to get AI to do all that for me. Your brain and your soul need the reps.

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Good news about A NECESSARY CHAOS everyone! You all have supported the book so much that we're now in our second printing 😍

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Just a reminder that @apexmag.bsky.social will close to submissions on Dec 1st. If you have a story we must see this year, submit it before the end of Nov. Guidelines can be found here: apex-magazine.com/submissions/

Submissions - Apex Magazineapex-magazine.com SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Apex Magazine Submission Guidelines We are open to short fiction submissions. We are open to themed flash fiction submissions. Please read the guidelines below then submit you...

The opening of Strange Agonies at Rojo Gallery was very meaningful. I wish I had gotten more pictures but I was mostly being in the moment. Connecting with people about art's ability to hold life's contradictions is why I wake up in the morning