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As the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary prizes took the stage in New York to speak about the Israel-Hamas war, with others at the ceremony also choosing to address banned books.

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    8 months ago

    Nice to see short fiction making a bit of a comeback. Shame all this MAGA stuff didn’t bring back the best thing about the 50s: short format and serial fiction periodicals.

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      8 months ago

      Some of the short fiction magazines that still exist have had to stop accepting submissions from unknown authors. The month chat gpt was released they saw a 10x increase in submissions.

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      8 months ago

      I use SCP writings to replace the short form horror texts

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          8 months ago

          Yeah there’s some really great and really terrible one lol. I like to listen to The Exploring Series on YouTube, he covers them really well.