Hi. Do you want to cry today? Do you want a reason to get up again and keep getting up? READ THIS.

I'd just like people to read and share (and maybe nominate for things, if they like it enough) my short story "To Be Merciful; or, Light After Darkness" free on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/to-be-...

Thank you, @authortrsteele.bsky.social (and thank you @prioryruins.bsky.social for flagging this post for me ahh)! Read "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" here: plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-...

Friends! I bring good news of the world to come!! My novel is coming out May 19, 2026. And it is available for pre-order now! Either at your local bookstore or at the link below!

This is a scheduled post for anyone awake at midnight ET (very likely not our co-founders) to check our submissions guidelines. Perhaps a certain Moksha link at the bottom is now active, and perhaps certain Moksha forms are now open to submissions 👀 othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Who'd like a promo code for a free audio copy of Assemble Artifact's latest issue, which includes my novelette That Slow Nightfall? You can't read this story about a blind MC (and the hot guy who becomes her 'eyes' but is hiding a terrible secret) anywhere else!

🔥 SUBS OPEN 🔥 I enjoyed the first trans horror anthology YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY, and this follow-up looks STUNNING! 🦢🩵🤍🩷

LP is working hard to complete their BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago, but financial hurdles are making it tough. Every donation helps cover tuition. Please consider contributing or sharing this campaign to support their journey. Every bit counts! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...

It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics. And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

It's absolutely wild to me that a book I wrote for the love of my life (@pegasusunder.bsky.social, if you didn't already know) woven through the language of flowers and two Jane Austen characters who frankly NEEDED their sapphic freedom, already has over 800 ratings on Goodreads. My heart 😭

Acceptance announcement! My first cowritten short story, with @srinivassimo.bsky.social You are sweet damp roadkill. You are also a mountain lion. You are also the ravenous car.

oh yes, it’s Fantasy Friday! 🗡️✨ and today we have FLASH “Knife had not always been Knife. Once it had been Tree. Once it had been Rock.” Knife Plus by @teemcbee.bsky.social psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

Props to Benjamin for sharing the details of his contract. Unfortunately no props to MRM because there's a lot of extremely outre stuff in here that I'd refuse to sign. Let's run it down. (Context: If you're negotiating a contract with Strange Horizons, I'm the person you're negotiating with.)

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

it's here!!✨ ISSUE 98 out NOW in full for subscribers and check out the free roll-out here (and hit that subscribe button if you'd like to read the full issue now): psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

This was fantastic. We say “touch grass” like a curse on someone, when really the digital realm has become a place to separate us from the sensual (and I’d argue the emotional) connection we have with the world around us and those closest to us

Our extended call for work from trans, disabled, and/or BIPOC creators closes TODAY!! Don't wait! Get those stories in now!

Omg, and Rafael Sabatini, Jean Giono, and Simenon, how could I forget?!

Hilary Mantel, John Le Carré, Annie Proulx, Dashiell Hammett, Anthony Price.

“AMPLITUDES: STORIES OF QUEER AND TRANS FUTURITY is an exceptional speculative anthology.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social (@QueenOfRats) reviews a new anthology edited by @leemandelo (@leemandelo.bsky.social)

we made a thing for you it's the @fantasymagazine.bsky.social back issues--those that we have online, anyway. acquiring an older property like Fantasy reveals... quirks. starts with issue 48... 🤷🤷🏼‍♀️🤷‍♂️ we're working on 1 - getting the older issues online, and 2 - making all the URLs prettier njoy

Surprise double-header! "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" from Issue 1 of Plott Hound Magazine is now free to read online! plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-... @thaisibir.bsky.social, your illustration is stunning and perfect, omg.

Today! "The Hilltop Eel" joins 12 other lush and unsettling tales in SILK AND FOXGLOVE: A BIPOC EROTIC-ECO HORROR ANTHOLOGY from @hedonebooks.bsky.social, curated & edited by @pegasusunder.bsky.social! Get your copy here: books2read.com/u/mvwAv6

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JULY 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up nearly 30 stories by @elijah.mea.rs @karinlow.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @johnchu.bsky.social @emnorth.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social & more!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

For #SapphicSeptember I offer up my upcoming story, All Her Darling Little Ones in SILK AND FOXGLOVE: A BIPOC EROTIC ECO-HORROR ANTHOLOGY, especially if you like: - star-crossed lovers who refuse to be crossed😈 - alternative childbirth🐣 - white rich guys, but dead💀 - gourds, gourds so many gourds🎃

There’s a special poetry award in the Hugo Awards this year, and three of the finalist poets also have work in Worlds of Possibility —Poetry! Behold: a thread of poem excerpts! 1/8

If you read my poem "Shears" smallwondersmag.com/piece/shears/ and think "hey, that's a fun twist on a familiar tale" then you'll LOVE my collection of retellings!

no joke one of the best experiences of my life 😭💖 thank you @nisishawl.bsky.social and @lambdaliterary.org!

The Lambda Literary speculative fiction cohort just wrapped up 5 days of magical workshop with Nisi Shawl. Help them fund their next book, The Five Petals of Thought!

"AI...is perhaps the most evil thing the corporate world has done since the invention of leaded gasoline and PFAS chemicals, and if hell exists, I hope to see every Patagonia-wearing dickhead that’s served as an apologist for generative AI there."

Hey friends! Tomorrow I launch my first newsletter focused on the joy of short stories :) Hopefully it will bring you a little joy too. That’s the goal anyway. If you’d like to sign up, that would be wonderful. If not, that’s cool too. coreyfarrenkopf.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words. If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

I’ve been so busy that all I’ve managed to do re: this news is hit repost a few times, but I’m emerging to say THE OTHERSIDE KICKSTARTER IS ALMOST HEREEE! And we just hit our third Patreon goal, which means 8 cents/word and $50/poem for queer authors. 😭 I don’t know about you, but… I am excited.

👀 We know we said we'd be open in the Fall... But Augur Magazine and @talesfeathers.bsky.social subs are opening on AUGUST 1!!! Peep the subs guidelines ✨ now ✨ 🔗 Link for more info: augursociety.org/submissions/

I have a short story in this erotic eco-horror anthology, "Silk and Foxglove", along with 12 other BIPOC authors, all curated and edited by the awesome @pegasusunder.bsky.social! You can pre-order it from @hedonebooks.bsky.social now, for its release on September 9th: hedonebooks.com/b/DYkvx

I'm so excited for this! Includes my story "The Hilltop Eel," about a strange woman's stay at Areca Place, a hotel on the site of an old colonial eel hatchery...

hey it's FANTASY FRIDAY ✨🦄 our own @arleysorg.bsky.social interviews World Fantasy Finalists @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, and @marthawells.com! read it here ✨ psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

Omg that cover! So excited for this!

New Story Day!!!! I’ve been submitting to Milk Candy Review since 2019, and today my new flash piece, Maybe Someday I’ll Stop Writing About A House On The Border Of A Swamp, comes out!!!! Proud of the weird little meta flash piece :) milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/07/10/m...

📣 Submissions are OPEN July 1 - 31 📣 We invite immigrant and diaspora authors to submit their stories & share their unique perspective through speculative fiction✨ www.khoreomag.com/submissions-... #SubmissionCall #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction

Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉 (general submission window 15-31 July) Seeking speculative stories about our inner lives: 💙 500 - 2,500 words 💚 £0.02 per word, min £20 💛 Sim subs welcome! 🧡 Reprints welcome! inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g... #SubmissionCall

Strange Horizons is delighted to present our special issue on AfroSurreal SF, edited by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and Shingai Njeri Kagunda. Read the entire issue - with stories, poetry, essays, and reviews - here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...

And lo, a new issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social has fallen from the heavens, shiny with gristle & afterbirth. Monstrosities from Joe Koch, Divya Kernan, Morgan Wilson, Nigel Faustino, Avra Margariti, Megan Baffoe, Caro Jansen & Gillian Knox. Cover by @cdsart.bsky.social! www.bafflingmag.com

I love reading serious stories about guys who believe AGI is real, it feels like a bunch of millionaires plotting to find and capture Santa Claus

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Strange Horizons’ annual fund-drive is now live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str... We are entirely community-funded, and this is our main source of income. Help us enter our 26th year?

issue 97 of Fantasy Magazine is LIVE! featuring works by: @edenroyce.bsky.social @sydneyficant137.bsky.social Mu’izz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí Vanessa Kyn Aishat Yahkub Seoung Kim you can read this entire issue RIGHT NOW by subscribing below (please like and RT and celebrate with us!) - sean

Latest story out today, "The Cephalophore." A surprise drop in The Dark! I've collected many lightning-quick rejections here over the years (incl. record for fastest, 15 minutes!). But one finally got through. Never know what will do it. Always keep trying. www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-cephalop...

it's here! it's here!! I'm thrilled to have a story in this issue of Baubles From Bones: "The Sealskin" is a story about love, memory and the choices we make, set in historical Montreal 🦭🩷 please check out the issue and give it a try!