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We are open to submissions from today until end-of-day May 15th, and look forward to reading your weird unsettling tumultuous seductive stories.

One week left until our night of mischief and mayhem! Come for the awesome performances, stay for the mesmerising vibes

Giant spider.

Hey, our friends @tenebrouspress.bsky.social have made vol. 4 of their Brave New Weird series available for pre-order. There are some killer stories here. Check it out f you want what's really new and vibrant in weird horror. Not your same-old antho. store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra...

Hey folks, @joanneanderton.bsky.social is one of my best friends AND she's also one of the best writers I know. Her new novella, Pixerina, is out today. I got to read it early. Believe the blurb! From @badhandbooks.bsky.social wherever books are sold.

New signed prints up for my queens

Australian Shadows Awards 2025 Finalists file770.com/australian-s...

this is perhaps the coolest thing ever!! and if you want to support it but can’t make it to Baltimore, there IS a video on demand reward tier… 😈

A video game you’ve completed more than six times. (Because the inherent timey wimey repetition was not enough, more repetition of individual endings required 🙈 💛 Brilliant game!)

Our limited demographic window ends soon! Of course, you can still submit in the general window next month, but it's our goal to publish more authors of historically marginalized backgrounds, so send us your stories and poems! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/

Incredibly honoured to be a finalist for the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent! Thank you to everyone who nominated me for this 🙇🏻‍♀️ Eligible voters can cast their ballots here: form.jotform.com/261022117635...

It's time to highlight the stunning internal art in Aurealis #189, our latest issue. Get it or subscribe at www.aurealis.com.au This is @chpearcewrites.bsky.social 's inspired illustration for ‘Epimetheus’ by Luke Weavell.

It's happening again... #booksky

I think the event at OMSI went well. I included a lot of actual science facts I made up so, that helped. Thanks all! I was stunned at the audience size, and the support for the OMSI after dark series.

Fascinating on my levels including and perhaps especially that there is a naked mole rat Queen out there named Arwen.

Come and see our performances and some amazing art at our upcoming event!

New witchy art prints and more (stickers, canvas prints, posters etc) in my shop! I’ll be bringing along a few hand-signed prints of this one to sell at Spellbound at Gang Gang cafe 7 May if you are in Canberra 🖤 Spellbound event info and tix: lostsouls.net.au/blog-spellbo... s

Is it Bartleby

Villain is coming out in *less than a month*, so please prepare for me to be completely insufferable in the short and medium term. This book was more difficult to write than I could ever have imagined, and this Kirkus starred review was such a relief and a joy: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

swancon50.sf.org.au is soon!. One of committee members is Cat Sparks. From New South Wales, Cat was manager & editor of Agog! Press, publisher of Australian sf anthologies, and later editor of Cosmos Magazine. Cat is a writer & artist, awarded the Ditmar and the Aurealis for her work. catsparks.net

I'm still very fond of "The Sad Snail," my epistolary story about a social simulation game haunted by a digital snail 🐌 Partially inspired by Patricia Highsmith's classic tale of gastropod terror, "The Quest for Blank Claveringi" 🐌 Published in Tales from Between 3 🐌

Congratulations to all listed by Violet Lichen Books on the shortlist for ECO25: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction!  It includes New Zealanders Octavia Cade and E. M. Linden. @octavia-cade.bsky.social @emlinden.bsky.social 
Enjoy the Cover Reveal! violetlichen.com/2026/04/10/e... #Brisbane2028

This is awful. My heart goes out to the victims, their families and all the Supanova family. 💙 www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Are you ready for Space Squid Summer?? Not if you don't have keychains designed by @stillroomart you aren't! ONLY available if you pre-order my novella, Multitude!

Book launch!! I'm so excited to announce that I will be celebrating the launch of my debut novel, I'M THE UNDERTOW, at my favorite San Francisco bookstore!! 🍏 AND in conversation with the wonderful Kim Magowan! @booksonthepark.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social

Feels completely unreal to be posting this, but I’ve been nominated for a Ditmar for Best New Talent! The start of this year has truly been a whirlwind, and I feel so excited and humbled that people have been so supportive of me and my weird little stories. Thank you everyone who nominated me!

My stoked-ness has exceeded safe levels - I'm up for a Ditmar Award! I'm in the best new talent category, sharing a list with some wonderful writers. Thankyou for your nominations - being shortlisted is a huge honour. Voting is at the link :) #ditmars #awards #writing #scifi shorturl.at/vNTsg

And HONEYEATER is on the Ditmar Award ballot! Both for the novel and for the internal illustrations.

Over the moon to be included on the Ditmar noms list alongside these excellent names! I’m up for cover art for Rebels & Rainbows for Best Artwork and “A Shortcut via the New Tunnel, M-ate” in Never Say Die for Best Short Story. Congratulations all, stellar list! 🤩 📚 🎨

Congrats to Jonathan Gensler and Samir Sirk Morató for being recognized on the ECO25 shortlist for THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION! Both stories originally appeared in CHM! https://bit.ly/41sxlsM

It's #PortfolioDay! Here's some of my book covers. I'm available from August onwards. www.cotronis.com is my website. 🖤

Hey #PortfolioDay! My name is Eduardo and I use photoshop make the kind of picture that your mom would see on facebook and think "is this real?" I'm open for commercial work! Hit me up for your covers, illustration, thumbnails... 🔗 valdevia.art ✉️[email protected]

It's been a busy couple of days but but BUUUUT, the full five episodes of Welcome to Fosters' are now out on the Neon Inkwell feed with Rusty Quill. Jill has existed in my head for the last ten years (if not more) and it's so great to HEAR her out in the world. shows.acast.com/neon-inkwell...

Aurealis #189, our April issue, is out now! Get it or subscribe at www.aurealis.com.au!

Excited to get to illustrate Luke Weavell’s story “Epimetheus” in @aurealisfsf.bsky.social #189 ed. @shiggins.bsky.social , thank you for the commission! Fantastic grounded sci-fi set on a generation ship, both humorous & heartbreaking 🕷️🌌 Fab issue, lots of great stories, art and nonfiction 📚

Preordered Dirtbags by Madison Lee and @captainamerico.bsky.social the other day and got these goodies when I bumped into Americo on the weekend too! Excited to read. 👀 📚 Here’s the crowdfunding campaign/preorder site:  www.comix.one/projects/dir...

Fever House ebook is $1.99 eeeeverywhere today! It’s my birthday, so hey, help me help you or something.

Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st! If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈

🎉 🎉 Lucky to get my mitts on an e-ARC of this, can’t wait to read! Stunning cover too 👀 📚

Romantic Fantasy lovers! ‘A Breath of Time’ by Flame Tree Pub is a collection which pits love and lovers against the greatest adversary of all: time.  Honored that my art is included in this gorgeous anthology. It's a piece i truly enjoyed making 💕 Publication dates UK: April 21st US: May 12th

Congrats to the shortlisted authors!!

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Something wicked this way comes… Lost Souls is excited to announce our next event this coming May! Spellbound will explore the ties that bind us, and the dark magic in our covens and communities. Get your tickets here! events.humanitix.com/spellbound-r...

So much fun doing the poster art for Spellbound, thank you Lost Souls for the commission! Here’s the art w/o text + prints etc are in my shop 🙏🏻 🎨 inprnt.com/profile/chpearce/ Hope you will join us 7 May if you are in Canberra! 🧙‍♀️ ✨ 📚 Event info+tix:

Special submissions call for Escape Pod! Got a story about the future of democracy? Read the guidelines! escapepod.org/2026/04/06/s...