I recently got my contributor’s copy from @thedeadlands.com🇺🇸. It’s amazing to equally share that this particular poem is currently standing as a finalist for this year’s Rhysling Award, and I hope it wins it🤲🙌.

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

From the other side of hope, I’m excited to share that my poem has once again been listed as a finalist for this year’s Rhysling Award. For the 5th time in 3 consecutive years, my works have been nominated for both Rhysling and Ignyte Awards🤭🥰

so excited to see the talented @alwayscoffee.bsky.social, @nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social, and Ayòdéjì Israel with poems from our own pages on the Rhysling finalist lists!!

I recently got my contributor’s copies from @arcpoetry.bsky.social and Prism International. I hope you find these poems worthy of your engagement. Thank you so much 🥰🥰🤗.

I am so happy to share that my work has just been nominated for this year's Rhysling Award🤗😊🎉. For three years now, my works have consistently finished either as a finalist for the Rhysling Award or the Ignyte Award, both of which are very prestigious awards that celebrate Sci-Fi writers worldwide.

Rhysling noms are out! Congrats to all, including @feliciafm.bsky.social, @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @bethcato.bsky.social @pedroiniguez.bsky.social @alwayscoffee.bsky.social, @marisca.bsky.social, @nytebird45.bsky.social, @nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social, and many whose handles I don't know!

well, beloveds, it's TOC'o Tuesday! and this skeleton has all the bones 💀 🖤 issue 36 brings new stories and poetry, wisdom from our resident necromancer and other non-fic, and of course that glorious new cover! read on! thread/

ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll? Try "The Golden Tooth: A Solo Show by Orion Cabrera" by William Alexander! (@willalex.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://buff.ly/40WT1fQ

Because today is Valentine

—Maggie Smith

We're now accepting submissions for our next Open Issue There's no theme, so please send us your best stories, essays, and poems. We're excited to read what you've been working on! Submit by March 15 at ironhorse.submittable.com

ICYMI, Great news, Space Unicorns! "Six Uncanny Magazine Stories Are on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List and Locus Award Poll"! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/six-uncanny-magazine-stories-are-on-the-2024-locus-recommended-reading-list-and-locus-award-poll/

ICYMI, Congratulations to Nghi Vo! Nghi Vo's short story “Stitched to Skin like Family Is” is on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List! You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/stitched-to-skin-like-family-is/

ICYMI, Congrats to Uncanny Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki & Interviewer Caroline M. Yoachim! Betsy’s “And to Their Shining Palaces Go” and Caroline’s “Our Chatbots Said I Love You, Shall We Meet?” & “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” are also on the Locus List!

The 2024 Locus Poll which determines the Locus Awards is FREE TO ALL! Uncanny Magazine is eligible for a Locus Award in the Best Magazine category, and Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas are eligible in the Best Editor category! GO DO THE THING!! https://poll.voting.locusmag.com/

Issue 3 is out Feb 14th, featuring @lenaozge.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @julieirigaray.bsky.social @juliesheridanpoet.bsky.social @courtludwick.bsky.social @jermcurtin.bsky.social @enochjones.bsky.social @hitenchojer.bsky.social and many more. Image shows detail of art by Elena Gual #poetry

#DailyHaikuPrompt #ocean #senryu let us overcome a tsunami of hate with an ocean of love

There really aren’t enough beetle poems. Here’s a great one by @eugenialeigh.bsky.social which I discovered through Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast: #poetry

ICYMI! Reading 2024 poetry? Try the poem "My Vengeance of Light Bears Witness from a Mountain View" by Chidiebere Sullivan Nwuguru! (@nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/my-vengeance-of-light-bears-witness-from-a-mountain-view/

Reading 2024 poetry? Try the poem "My Vengeance of Light Bears Witness from a Mountain View" by Chidiebere Sullivan Nwuguru! (@nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/my-vengeance-of-light-bears-witness-from-a-mountain-view/

“recently, I have not felt desired or even uniquely beautiful. my best is lake water choked down.” An excerpt from Connor Beeman’s “american sonnet for the lake and my body,” forthcoming in the Winter 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen below: https://buff.ly/4iTLiHD #writingcommunity

I know a poem is a good one when I come out of it with a new experience each time I read it. Poems too are like rivers, we can not step into a poem the same way more than once. #writers #poetry #writingcommunity

West Trade Review's fiction contest opens January 15th. Grand prize is $1000 and publication in the spring 2026 print edition. The contest will be judged by Lucy Ives, author of Life Is Everywhere: A Novel, published by Graywolf Press. Details: https://buff.ly/49L54AL ⠀ ⠀ #writingcommunity

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -- Maya Angelou

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. -- Confucius

beautiful day out there

Here's a gem by D. H. Lawrence for #smallpoemsunday 🪽 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

It’s easy to look down on someone’s work until you try your hand at their craft. I started trying to plot a novel last year. Now I am in awe of anyone who ever finished writing a novel. Like so much respect. I don’t need to know what’s in it. It’s already a miracle.

"I listen for the sound of your voice." Excerpt from this week’s #flashbackfriday is Hannah Mae Miller’s “Morning love poem,” which appeared in our Summer 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. Read the full piece at the link below: https://buff.ly/4gcZ06L #writingcommunity

It's official! I have a chap book of short stories coming out in 2025 with Stanchion! A tiny collection, under 100 pages, all weird and itchy and me. Excited to work with an amazing editor on my first book!

And this morning the Shed is a winding path through frost-fretted woods, alive with birds, with deer cropping grass in the clearing.

“Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.” —Mary Oliver

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." —W.B. Yeats

the other is wrapped in christmas paper Janet Sutherland

Michael Burkard gave me my love for anaphora poems. I can’t believe I’ll never talk to him again.

Never been so anxious for Christmas to come and go. Just want 2025 to arrive already with a door wide enough to have me walk out of my sufferings. I so much want next year to offer me a door at the end of my despair; a door that I would walk through to live my dreams.🤲

l imagine my work in so many places right now; places where I can only dream of being. I can imagine my poems speaking for me, asking for wings that would grant me the grace of levitation beyond this place. I only hope they return me favours. I only pray they arrive with wings. #writing #poetry

they should invent a mode of storing your body that isn't sitting, standing, kneeling, laying down, or leaning

i see my reflection in the sparkles up high... so i'll pause here... take a breath between two heartbeats... actually feel the tranquility of life for a while... ©dww - Memoir WIP #tranquility #vss365 #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writesky

It's a pleasure to finally share with you all, my Rhonda Gail Williford Award-winning poem🥰🥰🤭😊☺️. #writingcommunity #writing #poetry