Let yourself linger with Angel Leal's "Music of the Seraphim" today. This is a poem worth relishing:

being a writer is just knowing how to write then forgetting then remembering over & over until you die

i can’t believe my dear, self-indulgent poem about my favorite video game series has made it to the rhysling shortlist 🩷 absolutely over the moon (not the scary one looming over termina though)

His New Antlers, Rick Christiansen, Sheila-Na-Gig Irrevocable, Adele Gardner, Star*Line Looking Back, Arthur H. Manners, Analog One Hundred Thousand Legends and the Longing Underneath, Gwendolyn Maia Hicks, Dangerous to Go Alone! 2 Patient 10642, Elizabeth R. McClellan, Salon Sinister /

Announcing the 2026 Rhysling Award Finalists! The Rhysling juries have made their decisions, and the 2026 Rhysling Award finalists have been chosen. Find the 50 Short Poem and 25 Long Poem finalists threaded below! /

Breaking news! Here’s a gift link to read a dozen stories for free: kaleidotrope.net

Are you passionate about SF, fantasy, and pop culture? Our Managing Editor is looking for original essay pitches: author appreciations, scholarly analysis of all aspects of pop culture, critical and personal essays, think pieces, literary analysis and deep dives into film, television, and fiction

pssst crowdsourcing mode i'm putting together a syllabus for an undergraduate-level class on relationships and would LOVE recommendations for short fiction about enemies!

I spent fifteen years as a community organizer. I know how movements die: not from external threats (though those are real), but from exhaustion. From the grant that doesn’t get renewed; from the grandma carrying way more than her share of the work who has to take a step back because of her health.

ALOCASIA is now seeking new unpublished queer creative writing for our upcoming EcoFutures issue, to be published December 2026. Deadline: 11/11. Pays $50. Absolutely no AI. www.ALOCASIA.org

pssst crowdsourcing mode i'm putting together a syllabus for an undergraduate-level class on relationships and would LOVE recommendations for short fiction about enemies!

Tag yourself! #HorrorWatch

I've been waiting to share these pieces from @reckoningmag.bsky.social with you since I read the issue, and now they're public! First up is such vivid imagery in this poem from Sonya Taaffe: reckoning.press/reap-the-rul...

My story, "Istanai" is now free-to-read at Trollbreath! It's a fabulist story about friends and comrades who pass away and how we hold on to their dreams for a better world. Plus, eating mountain lion glands, ghosts in televisions, and strange waterfall worlds. magazine.trollbreath.com/istani/

Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Issue 70 Table of Contents and Julie Dillon Cover!!!! buff.ly/iJQUHCf

Possessions

Have you read Issue 1? One of our favorite places to buy ebooks is @weightlessbooks.bsky.social—and you can find OTHERSIDE there too! Every purchase helps us bring you more great queer SFF! Issue 1: weightlessbooks.com/otherside-ma... 12-month subscription: weightlessbooks.com/otherside-ma...

a doodle from my jane austen class that i’m particularly pleased with. these two!!!

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/

One of the things I frequently have to tell editors is how a particular construction is a Nigerian use of English. It probably feels/reads wrong to British or American ears. It's not wrong. It's how we remixed it.

GET READY TO SUBMIT ‼️ Augur Magazine is opening for a priority call! We're accepting submissions from anyone living within Canada who is also... - BIPOC - 2SLGBTQIA - Disabled on MAY 5TH!!! Open call for international + Canadian subs will take place this summer! Check out our subs guidelines👇

My ten favorite short speculative fiction stories from March were full of vengeance and fighting against unstoppable disasters. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

It’s pretty fucked up that they overdubbed Frakes playing trombone on Star Trek because if you imagine Riker as a character doing it really shitty it makes all those scenes much funnier

Note from my notebook (2017).

Happy Earth Day.

i have not been on bsky in a good while due to 1) School and 2) School but GUESS WHAT! my sapphic novelette "A Word, and Its Keeping" has found a home in @thefuturefire.bsky.social 🌧️ it contains a forgotten god-language, a spell for rain, and two girls holed up in a lighthouse, trying to touch

oh, need to lie down after reading this one by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social gorgeously contained… tribute & elegy & broken human cry across time, all at once highly recommend www.heartlines-spec.com/the-three-mo...

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

New T&F story is now FREE to read on our site! “The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social is a tender tale of love, poetry, and misfired magic.🔥📖 Read it now! 🔗 Link in bio.

i have not been on bsky in a good while due to 1) School and 2) School but GUESS WHAT! my sapphic novelette "A Word, and Its Keeping" has found a home in @thefuturefire.bsky.social 🌧️ it contains a forgotten god-language, a spell for rain, and two girls holed up in a lighthouse, trying to touch

Kingsley Dzade (Ghanaian, 1989), Can’t Wait, 2024. Oil on canvas, 152 x 152 cm.

In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story out in the April issue of Nightmare Magazine! The Final Girl Trap is now available to read online. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

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 🗡️🪐🌈

Hey, look at me getting this post up not on a Thursday! This week I focused on a single author, @ayidashonibar.bsky.social , and got the chance to yell about both fiction and nonfiction! I couldn't help it though, I love some good, good fungus talk.

We didn't deserve this day.

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

today’s the paperback release day of 🍃🎐🌬️A PALACE NEAR THE WIND🌬️🎐🍃 . A powerfully imaginative story of a young woman seeking to save her family and her home a devastating meditation on the destruction of the natural world for an industrial future. . @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫 Natasha MacKenzie 🎨

Congress has an obligation to stop the unhinged madness in the Oval Office imperiling American & Iranian lives alike. This war is unprovoked & unauthorized & Trump is unchecked. Article II Sec 4 is not suggested reading. It’s for moments like these. Come back from recess and act. politi.co/3PU8Xh0

Hey, everyone. I’m opening to queries on a very limited basis using the link below. I’ve narrowed my genres during this time to Adult Crime/Mystery, Adult Fantasy & Sci-fi, and YA Fantasy & Sci-fi from BIPOC, Asian/AAPI, Latinx, SWANA, and LGBTQIA+ writers only. QueryTracker.net/query/ErnieC...

Looking for a great story to read? There's a dozen fantastic ones in the new Spring issue of Kaleidotrope! www.kaleidotrope.net

post your favorite Marxist or socialist feminist

Wow! Anonymous cool person has offered to match all donations to my GoFundMe through April 5--up to a total of $1500! I can pay rent! I can write this weird new book! www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisi-...

If there's more to life than baseball open.substack.com/pub/prioryru...

Reminder: if anybody starts spewing crap about how disabled writers need AI/LLMs, at least one of the following applies: 1. They fucking hate disabled people. 2. They are clueless about writing prior to 2022, often done by disabled people. 3. They are shills. 4. They are 3 GPTs in a trenchcoat.

Journey with @kmveohongs.bsky.social in a bittersweet tale of duty and sacrifice in "The Savior of the Three Lands." kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

[Editors, chanting softly] "subscribe, subscribe, subscribe" [Readers chiming in] "Subscribe! SUBSCRIBE!" [The entire internet] "SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE!" store.smallwondersma...

If there's more to life than baseball open.substack.com/pub/prioryru...

Just an update that we are slowly but surely inching our way to 50% funded! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

The suggestions list for this year’s British Fantasy Awards is now open! Anyone can add their favourite SFF titles first published in 2025! forms.gle/YcGUjcbU99R5...

"It's just a bad period." A personal piece about Endometriosis.