I went up to Scotland earlier in the year and took loads of photographs, and haven't processed any of them since July. Here's two of the five I've actually got to so far. Day one, a walk around Pitlochry.

ICYMI, new story this week! Last of the year (probably). Features a hot shot pilot, a retired but persistent ambulance, and snacks.

ICYMI, new story this week! Last of the year (probably). Features a hot shot pilot, a retired but persistent ambulance, and snacks.

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨ Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love! www.kickstarter.com/.../apexpu.....

Out today, in the autumn issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, my story of a space pilot dealing with her first clone resurrection, with a little help from the rescue ship's AI and several kinds of cheese. The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn www.kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Out today, in the autumn issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, my story of a space pilot dealing with her first clone resurrection, with a little help from the rescue ship's AI and several kinds of cheese. The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn www.kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

Could you spare a few bob to help a weird little litmag keep going? Here's 3 ways you can support us: 1) Become a subscriber! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne... 2) Make a one-off donation! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne... 3) Buy past issues as EPUB & PDF! innerworlds.gumroad.com

In memoriam...

Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉 (general submission window 15-31 October) 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

Big news from BFS members (and leaders) @shonak.bsky.social and @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social: A new independent non-profit organisation designed to help creatives thrive in publishing. Here's @divergent-paths.bsky.social britishfantasysociety.org/divergent-pa...

What a beauty!!!!!

A landmark day in railway history… on 27 September 1825 George Stephenson’s ‘Locomotion No.1’ took a 26-mile journey along the Stockton and Darlington Railway: the world’s first public steam-powered passenger service...

A great weekend of support, and only 70 hours left to reach our goal! Let’s visit together the stories of garden planets, sorrow caverns, carnivorous malls, jungle cathedrals, endless basements, whispering tundras, fungus skyscrapers. kck.st/4mIkEm1

We need your support in the next 3 days, before the fall of eternal night. Help us breathe new stories that keep us alive, each word and phrase building the monster’s body, the one who rends and tears and protects us from darkness. kck.st/4mIkEm1

And that submission link is... smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

I’ve made an update to this situation. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

What MRM has put P.A. through is absurd. There are terrific editorial teams working at the three big print SFF mags, but as long as the publisher finds it reasonable to treat authors this way, I won't be submitting to any of the publications they own.

#GeneralStrike100 Next year marks 100 years since the General Strike of 1926. We are proud to be a part of a national partnership of 15 museums, libraries and groups working together to commemorate the event. Find out how you can support the partnership. bit.ly/GeneralStrik...

It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year. Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it. gofund.me/ca0c2b7d

Annie is a taxi driver taking people to a place of forgetting in "The Only Way Out" by Louise Hughes. Find this memorable story in our Issue 2:

2025 Hugo Award stats have been released. seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

I have a favour to ask if you're going to Seattle Worldcon! I sent a small box of sample Speculative Insight books, for the Freebies Library, and I'd love to know that they're on the shelf. If you happen to go past the Freebies and happen to see my books, could you let me know?? They look like this:

I have a sci-fi flash fiction out with @metastellar.bsky.social today! If you have 4 minutes and fancy a fun take on what the future of advertising may hold, please have a read. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

Working out the table of contents for our next issue! Cannot wait to share these stories with you all. Get ready for: - wandering bodies and creeping hair - mycelial grief - lonely doppelgängers - corporate cyberhell - a rare appearance by my favourite mythical creature - several ghosts!

My new fantasy fiction magazine now has a website. We're still very fledgling, much baby. So please consider supporting us! www.nightmarketmag.com

Coming soon, a quarterly fantasy fiction magazine by Hugo and Ignyte Award nominated editor Sonia Sulaiman. Join the Patreon to stay tuned in! www.patreon.com/c/NightMarke...

Publishing is not an industry, I’d say, that has any sort of aftercare. If your debut flops or soars, if you go from frontlist to mid-list, if you are on prize lists or not. It’s a crapshoot. And part of the issue is supply and demand. There are 80+ books to choose from below. No one can keep up.

Gmail keeps telling me about parcels I'm going to get in the post, because it's misreading the receipt emails. It is promising me all these parcels that never ever arrive.

Yeah so I've been feeling a sort of way. Look this is long but I've put pictures in it and it is full-velocity me throwing my toys out the pram territory so you should at least find that amusing, okay? emfaulds.com/a-writers-jo...

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.

We've been reciting "Please, Mrs Butler" here this evening.

Haven Spec Magazine is changing its submissions schedule! Now our year will be split into four reading periods, each divided into limited demographic and general windows and capped with a closed month to clear the queues and decide on holds. We're always running late, but this should really help!

We’ll be opening for submissions August 25! If you know someone who has a sci-fi or fantasy novella in the works, please let them know! Details on our submissions page: hornedlarkpress.com/submissions

It is having a bit of a rain.

Our anthology call-out for writers in the North of England is open. We're delighted to have received a few submissions already! There's plenty of time to submit until the deadline at the end of September, so get scribbling - we'd love to read your words.

In positive news, I managed to disassemble and put back together my laptop for the first time since I got it (my old one was regularly in bits). In less positive news, I've loosened the hinges too much and the screen is now propped up until I can be bothered to do it all again.

My new Genre Grapevine features a deep dive into the contract concerns surrounding Must Read Magazines, the new owner of Asimov's, Analog, and F&SF. I include specific contract details and negotiating info. Plus as usual, a ton of other genre news and info. www.patreon.com/posts/133579...

@diabolicalplots.com is open for submissions! (And the hiccups of earlier are resolved!) Send us your stories! submissions.diabolicalplots.com

New stories by Rachel Meresman, @mimulus.bsky.social, @juliaaugust07.bsky.social, @melikhovo.bsky.social, Matt Thompson, @jamesjmarino.bsky.social, @devanbarlow.bsky.social, @maggiedotwrites.bsky.social, @theelleboyd.bsky.social, @aardwyrm.bsky.social, Wren Douglas, and @arreffbee.bsky.social!

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

Psst... Our submissions form has opened slightly early (because I'm starting a new job next week and my attention will be elsewhere!)

This week's free spec rec is the powerful story "Born of the Mountain's Chill" by Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social in @thefuturefire.bsky.social futurefire.net/2025.73/fict... "I ate my meal sitting on a rock, letting the wind talk to my bones." #writingcommunity #specfic ✍️ 🔱

Today I found out how well my tea flask floats, as it came one convenient rock outcrop away from plummeting off a 60m waterfall. I also nearly fell in, which would've been marginally less catastrophic. The tea was fine.

Got a speculative story about thoughts, feelings, or other strange experiences involved in being a person? We're open for submissions again in 2 weeks: July 1 - 14 members of marginalised groups only July 15 - 31 general submissions inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

New special call for July!! 🎉 The theme is REGRET. Stories selected will be featured in our Jan 2026 issue, guest edited by Ai Jiang ( @aijiang.bsky.social ) You can find all the details on our Submittable page: ffo.submittable.com/submit #writingcommunity #flashfiction

I am on my holidays. If anyone needs me, I'll be asleep. Or reading. Maybe eating.

Course, another one of Newcastle's highly esteemed establishments is Balmbra's, not least because of its connection with Tyneside music folklore.

"Rena came outside... to find the tree’s lowest branch lying among the daffodils, torn from the trunk like a chunk of stale bread. The shock was new and sharp. It broke through the fog inside her." Read "What We Cannot See" by @trailofleaves.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/what-we-cann... #SFF