Renan Bernardo

Renan Bernardo

@renanbernardo.bsky.social

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Nebula Finalist SFF writer | He/him | Stories in or coming at Reactor Magazine, Apex, Escape Pod, Samovar, others | DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE coming in 2024 | SFWA | Codex | Posts in 🇧🇷/🇬🇧

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The solarpunk graphic novel based on my novelette Anticipation of Hollowness launches as part of Comictopia 2024 in 2 days! 🔆 Janet lives in Sundyal, a paradise for those who can afford it. And she knows her only friend Lyria will shut down soon…

Only two days until the solarpunk graphic novel, Anticipation of Hollowness (original story by @renanbernardo.bsky.social ) launches on BackerKit as part of Comictopia 2024. Check out the teaser to learn more. #solarpunk #comictopia24 #comicbooks #crowdfunding www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Get Ready for Anticipation of Hollowness - A Solarpunk Graphic Novelwww.backerkit.com From Android Press - Get Ready for Anticipation of Hollowness - A Solarpunk Graphic Novel

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors!!!!

We're delighted to announce — with help from Electric Literature — the shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to the authors! The recipient of this year's prize will be announced on Ursula's birthday, October 21st. electricliterature.com/announcing-t...

There are still 2 spots left to get Different Kinds of Defiance and a subscription to @apexmag.bsky.social! Plus a bunch of other great tiers where you can back one of the most important SFF magazines out there and fill your reading list with amazing fiction. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Even if Apex had never published me in any way, I'd still want their Kickstarter to fund. Apex has published so much great work over the years and we need that to continue www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Additionally, my short story "Solar Sonata for Four Hands" was in the Robotic Ambitions anthology! www.apexbookcompany.com/collections/...

Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentiencewww.apexbookcompany.com Whether striving to protect the family they’ve chosen, searching for meaning amid the chaos of the world, or questioning what it is that makes one alive, robotic ambition can mean many different thing...

Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

It's out! How I assembled my collection DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE: how I came up with the title, decided which stories would appear in it (and which wouldn't), and more. open.substack.com/pub/renanber...

How I assembled a collection of 10 short storiesopen.substack.com In early 2024, I published my debut collection Different Kinds of Defiance. This is what I felt was relevant to decide what would go in it.

I'll have a new post out soon (probably tomorrow) in my newsletter! Links on my bio.

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Apex has reached $11,307 out of their initial $15k goal!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Let get them there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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If anyone's interested in reviewing DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE, @reckoningmag.bsky.social accepts pitches for books that deal with environmental justice. (And they pay reviewers!) reckoning.press/submit/revie...

Review – Fiction | Reckoningreckoning.press [Leer en Español] Reckoning is pleased to announce we are open to reviews of novels, anthologies, and story collections that center themes of environmental justice. The majority of our fiction reviews...

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Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: GigaNotoSaurus, Fiyah, and Baffling locusmag.com/2024/07...

Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: GigaNotoSaurus, Fiyah, and Bafflinglocusmag.com GigaNotoSaurus 3/24 Fiyah Spring ’24 Baffling 4/24 GigaNotoSaurus’s April story, “The Grandmother Hypothesis” by J.S. Richardson, finds the narrator jumping from reality to reality using a machine…

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dragonfly.eco/spotlight-re... July's world ecofiction spotlight heads to Rio to explore Renan Bernardo's #solarpunk collection of short stories, Different Kinds of Defiance. Amazing read!

Spotlight - Renan Bernardo - Dragonfly: An exploration of eco-fictiondragonfly.eco About the Book Renan Bernardo’s Different Kinds of Defiance (Android Press, March 2024) is a collection for the rebels at heart—for those who find courage where hope seems lost and for whom every act ...

If anyone's interested in reviewing DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE, @reckoningmag.bsky.social accepts pitches for books that deal with environmental justice. (And they pay reviewers!) reckoning.press/submit/revie...

Review – Fiction | Reckoningreckoning.press [Leer en Español] Reckoning is pleased to announce we are open to reviews of novels, anthologies, and story collections that center themes of environmental justice. The majority of our fiction reviews...

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New Story Day: “I’ll Miss Myself” is out at @reactorsff.bsky.social! "I'll Miss Myself" is about an app that shows you every parallel universe version of yourself--or so it says. But the app might be hiding something from all of you. reactormag.com/ill-miss-mys...

I'll Miss Myself - Reactorreactormag.com A man using a social media app that reaches across dimensions to talk to himself in different timelines, discovers some of his problems are universal...and some are not...

I have a spotlight in Dragonfly Eco with Mary Woodbury, where we talked about DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE, my characters, solarpunk, climate narratives, and how do I fit my home town in my stories. dragonfly.eco/spotlight-re...

Spotlight - Renan Bernarndo - Dragonfly: An exploration of eco-fictiondragonfly.eco About the Book Renan Bernardo’s Different Kinds of Defiance (Android Press, March 2024) is a collection for the rebels at heart—for those who find courage where hope seems lost and for whom every act ...

I'm slow these days for personal reasons, but I had to come here and give a shout-out for Apex Kickstarter. I had 3 stories published there (and 1 non-fic piece coming up) and it was always wonderful to work with this team. And always the place to find the best of short fiction.

AND WE'RE LIVE! Our 2025 Kickstarter has SO MUCH included! Here are some of our rewards: ☀️ Affirmation Critiques 🎨 Graphic Design Bundles and a Website mock-up 🖐️ Personal Snap Judgments ✍️ Critiques 📚 Book Bundles 👽 12 month subscriptions 🍸 Strange Anthology Bundle

Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Thank you so much, @renanbernardo.bsky.social for this amazing review of CLUB CONTANGO on GR! 😭😭✨

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My publisher should be putting ARCs up on Book Sirens sometime, but if you'd like to read an early copy of CLUB CONTANGO, dm me!

CLUB CONTANGO cover reveal is live, thanks to @romanwriting.bsky.social at WiC. Art by @almosthomefree.bsky.social. 🎲So you want to run a microcasino 🗡With that toxic best friend 🎩space gangs want you 🤖an AI training contract owns you 🦸🏻‍♀️but you've got maternal rage 🎼And all that jazz

My short rec today is "Ms Anaria’s classroom rules for well-behaved kindergartners when alien ambassadors dock with the wrong ship" by @cjtavares.bsky.social, published at Nature! Great tale about communication and mediation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ms Anaria’s classroom rules for well-behaved kindergartners when alien ambassadors dock with the wrong shipwww.nature.com Every day is a school day. Every day is a school day.

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Remember, Kaleidotrope is open to fiction and poetry submissions until the end of July! kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

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SFWA members can now find my story, “Bright Horizons,” (about an AI running a high school) on the Nebula reading list. Read it here: www.sfwa.org/forum/readin...

International shipping threw my author copies in a wormhole, but I finally got Different Kinds of Defiance in my hands! And it's so beautiful! ☀️ Thank you for all who have read, shared, blurbed, and reviewed it! (Don't stop! 😁💚) If you want yours, there are links on my bio!

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Imprint update! We're 43% funded, all funds going straight to our authors for their stories. We debut the imprint, its website, and the cover for our first cross-genre anthology in two weeks!! And today we brought on board our copyeditor. We'll announce who later this year. ko-fi.com/post/Publish...

Publishing Imprint News and Opportunityko-fi.com Jendia Gammon published a post on Ko-fi

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Story now out! www.grimdarkmagazine.com/grimdark-mag... If you give it a read, I’d love to know what you think.

Just signed contract: I’ll have a short story out in @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social’s July issue. It’s called “Waiting for the Witnesses”, an SF rendition of Konstantin Cavafy’s famous poem, “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Looking forward to sharing it very soon!

Grimdark Magazine Issue #39 out now!www.grimdarkmagazine.com Welcome to issue #39 of Grimdark Magazine! Grimdark is a state of mind; it is a style of storytelling that finds a home in just about every genre.

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New story day! "This Mentor Lives" is about a wizard working himself to death raising chosen ones--but his kids are worried for him. It's time for an intervention. You can read it free at @havenspec.bsky.social right here: www.havenspec.com/this-mentor-...

This Mentor Lives by J.R. Dawson & John Wiswell, Haven Spec Magazinewww.havenspec.com a magazine of science fiction and fantasy

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Apex Magazine will be closed for submissions for the month of July while we run our Kickstarter. Sign up to be notified when we kick it off! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Still can’t stop thinking about this story!

Thanks @danaiwrites.bsky.social for reviewing my @reactorsff.bsky.social story "The Plasticity of Being" at @havenspec.bsky.social! ❤️ "It's also about joy, family and community—and how, even in dire times, food remains the glue that bonds us all together." www.havenspec.com/short-fictio...

Short Fiction Review — July 2024 by Danai Christopoulou, Haven Spec Magazinewww.havenspec.com a magazine of science fiction and fantasy

Thanks @danaiwrites.bsky.social for reviewing my @reactorsff.bsky.social story "The Plasticity of Being" at @havenspec.bsky.social! ❤️ "It's also about joy, family and community—and how, even in dire times, food remains the glue that bonds us all together." www.havenspec.com/short-fictio...

Short Fiction Review — July 2024 by Danai Christopoulou, Haven Spec Magazinewww.havenspec.com a magazine of science fiction and fantasy

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I enjoyed @renanbernardo.bsky.social 's first substack article about writing a novel on a cell phone--something I can't...even... open.substack.com/pub/renanber... Looking forward to more words!

How I wrote a 65,000-word novel on my iPhone in two monthsopen.substack.com In 2023, I wrote a 65,000-word novel about a Dyson Sphere which was a finalist for a science fiction contest. I did it all on my smartphone. Then, the contest crumbled to pieces.

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we usually do our cover reveals in the morning but why? we're Psychopomp--we are creatures of the NIGHT so here it is: the cover reveal for Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories 2023 curated by @vajra.me also available for PREORDER (do it. preorder it) +click through for the full cover+

Afterlives 2023 by Vajra Chandrasekera - PSYCHOPOMP.COMpsychopomp.com Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories 2023, curated by Vajra Chandrasekera, series editor E. Catherine Tobler: the best death fiction from 2023 collected.

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I wept at this one. Vast, heartbreaking, a wonderful story.

If you're looking for: 🚀Space opera 🫂Spiritual conjuction between ship and captain ☄️Galactic struggles 👧Coming of age narrative 🏳️‍🌈Queer human 🏳️‍🌈Queer spaceship Then you're in for a ride in The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds at @diabolicalplots.com www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

DP FICTION #109B: “The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds” by Renan Bernardo – Diabolical Plotswww.diabolicalplots.com

If you're looking for: 🚀Space opera 🫂Spiritual conjuction between ship and captain ☄️Galactic struggles 👧Coming of age narrative 🏳️‍🌈Queer human 🏳️‍🌈Queer spaceship Then you're in for a ride in The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds at @diabolicalplots.com www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

DP FICTION #109B: “The Offer of Peace Between Two Worlds” by Renan Bernardo – Diabolical Plotswww.diabolicalplots.com