NEW STORY DAY! “Ghost in the Tank” is out now at @lightspeedmagazine.com! It’s about giant mechs and censorship by tech companies and getting punched in the face and desperate queer shame and all the ugliest intersections of technology and culture. I think it’s my best work. I hope you love it.

The Strange Horizons Kickstarter to fund 2027 will begin on Sunday, 7 June, 2026! This is a critical time for SFF publications when the existence of venues publishing short speculative fiction, poetry and non-fiction is sometimes uncertain. We hope that you will keep us publishing for another year!

Fans of FF (FFans?), here's one mag issue in particular you'll probably want to check out. It features (FFeatures?) five (FFive!) FFers: @jyzh.bsky.social @sydneyficant137.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @thelialao.bsky.social and @pvvamsidhar.bsky.social!!!

Submissions are now open 🪶 Holler if you have questions!

The Forbidden Lamp CarmesJocelin

life's too short to spend your time working on stories that don't make you so excited you want to be the cow that jumped over the moon.

How’s your garden doing? Is it screaming…? 😱 “The Screaming Garden” by Em Starr was originally published in Flame Tree’s newsletter, and has now been reprinted in our May issue. #writingcommunity #fantasy #flashfiction flashfictiononline.com/issues/may-2...

Congratulations to OTHERSIDE authors @mimulus.bsky.social, @tobymacnutt.bsky.social, @breewernicke.bsky.social, and Gospel Chinedu—and all the finalists! Look at all these incredible poems 🤩💜

I have some stories for you on this fine Wednesday! This time I've pulled things from @breewernicke.bsky.social and @rfdwrites.bsky.social Both have excellent themes on bodies and what we choose (or not choose) to do with them, which is what had me pair these two with each other.

Last but certainly not least: two reprinted stories and one essay! 🌊 "Two People" - @benfrancisco.bsky.social 🕷️ "Spider Kiss" - @breewernicke.bsky.social ☀️ "A Noose of Purple Silk" - Sidney Grady (6/7)

Our Issue 2 TOC is officially here! 🪐🗡️ We are so excited to reveal this stellar lineup of nine stories, six poems, and one essay by sixteen incredible authors—and we absolutely cannot WAIT for you to read this dreamy, gorgeous, magical issue in June. More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/7)

absolutely surreal to say, but- I have a poem out in @nightmare-magazine.com !! consumed is cannibal trans dysphoria horror that ponders what it might be like if your girlfriend just ate the parts of you that cause distress 😁 free to read 5/27, available for purchase now!

Touch base with me, Muse, re: rage of Achilles

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

"At the bodyhouse, no one ever asks you what you want." Stop what you're doing right now and read the rest.

this one's a banger !!!

helloooo my story "The Bodyhouse" is now out in the latest issue of Baffling!! give it a read: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

The new issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social has arrived! 🪶 www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

With just under a week left in our Issue 2 submissions window, our co-founders put together a wishlist for all the last-minute submitters! Send us space opera, cyberpunk, monsters and messiness, trans joy and euphoria, and more 🪐🗡️ Full submission guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines?u...

The Anthropic book theft settlement is essentially done, but many more battles remain. I also agree with Catherynne M. Valente's recent essay calling the settlement "blood money." 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/155693...

today is the daaaay! my tragic sapphic space jousting/knights story is free to read over at Lightspeed ✨ it’s a little messy and angsty, but there is a cool mechanical pegasus so it’s fine!! I hope you enjoy “Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight” 🪐

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Get your calendars out! 🗓️ Our 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM block on Saturday, May 2nd Link in bio for full schedule ✏️

Inspired by @jyzh.bsky.social I give you FF#27 in emoji form 🌿🌿🌿💊🌿🌿🌿 🐦💬🐱💬🐶💬💧😥 👩‍🔬💊🥊 🤖➕❤️=😥 🧏‍♂️📝 🧍🏻‍♀️🤖🧍🏻‍♀️🏠🍳🏭👨🏻‍⚕️ 🥊🚕🦁🚨🚨🦁 (Sorry I'm bad at this, I'm over 40 and use full sentences when I text people.) Anyway, get FF#27 for free here: www.fusionfragment.com/issue-27/

Oil-oil-oil…have you heard enough about oil these days? Might turn you into a monster, I hear. Just ask Ellalee of Opal Gulch in Bree Wernicke’s “The Oil King.” 🖤 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #fantasy #horror @breewernicke.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?" arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

“We know how to love you,” says the moss…💚💚💚 Our Friday release this week is “Moss Senses” by Beth Goder. Check it out for free today! #writingcommunity #flashfiction #sciencefiction @bethgoder.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/moss...

Loved this story so much. Epistolary + weird cozy horror is my jam, thanks @breewernicke.bsky.social!

We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️ Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW! Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe... Patreon Shop: www.patreon.com/othersidespe...

it’s a pretty great issue!! run, don’t walk!!

I liked "Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed" by @breewernicke.bsky.social in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social.

In case you're doing some last minute reading for the Nebula awards, I'll gently place my weird spider story here. This made it on the Locus Recommended Reading List and it will be reprinted in Podcastle soon. It's a story that's close to my heart. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Reminder: we open to reprints on March 1st! We are looking for speculative stories (by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors) that cannot currently be read for free online. We will stay open to reprints until the end of March and will likely open again later this year. 📝Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

I finally gave in to peer pressure and made an award eligibility graphic (two months late 😂). Nebula nominations close in less than a week and Hugos in a month! Would love if you considered my poems or short stories.

and we're live, folks! THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now out everywhere books are sold! if you pre-ordered a copy, you should be receiving it soon (or already have) and if not, it's not too late to purchase the yellowest book in all of history!

Lastly… “A Recipe for the Day Alban Kills the King,” which is a story about what comes after the end of the story. Also, crucially, it is about soup. www.orions-belt.net/archives/a-r...

It’s that time of year! I’m in my second year of Astounding eligibility, and I also published nine eligible short stories in 2025. If you only have time to read one, I hope you’ll consider “Handsomest Gentlest,” a love letter to my very good dog. You can find all nine here: m-r-robinson.com/fiction/

hiiii bsky here's everything I had published in 2025! fiction & poetry! i'm also in my 2nd year of eligibility for the Astounding Award

FFer Read of the Day: "Five Different Realities to Explore, and One to Avoid" by @breewernicke.bsky.social in @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social www.orions-belt.net/archives/fiv...

It would be very cool (and also completely shocking) if someone were to nominate my 2025 climate-fiction short story "The Electric Ant In Its Natural Habitat" for a Hugo. Free to read (*with* annotations) in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social issue 2. www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-el...

Since awards voting is opening up, reminder you can see FF's eligible works at www.fusionfragment.com/2025-awards-... and Saros SF's eligible works at sarossf.com/2025-awards-... There's also my under-construction "Best Of", in case you want a reading list: www.fusionfragment.com/2025-best-of/

We’re only $5 away from $300/month in Patreon support, or just 2-3 patrons! Your support helps us pay queer authors fairly AND comes with early access to Issue 1. Help us hit this goal before release day? 👀 🪐 www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

👀January 2026 Fiction👀 ICYMI, "A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" is a short story by @czwrites.bsky.social about growing up a target but finding ways to fight back. Also, summoning demons. Read it as a ritual of transformation. havenspec.com/fiction/a-be...

Our ✨January 2026 Issue✨ is now free to read online! Find it here: havenspec.com/issues/issue... Or get the PDF and EPUB: ko-fi.com/s/c906166bff The January Issyou features seven stories and four poems all written in second-person POV!

A lot happened this week that is way more important, and this feels like a million years ago, but icymi: (1) Uncertain Sons was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award! (2) If you missed getting a copy, Undertow's running a big sale on some 2025 ebooks, incl. this collection for $3! Just 3 man

Creature With the Ticking Heart  by Nico Martinez Nocito @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social "When you falter, recall that age is not your master" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Everyone has some shit to say about how they're going to write a book, and they never will because only you are emotionally naked enough to give yourself over to the years of pointlessness, spiraling, and incredibly difficult work that will almost certainly lead to absolutely nothing! Live más.

We published three issues in 2025, with stunning (all original) flash fiction, short fiction, and poetry!🧚🏽 PLUS several interviews and a book review! THANK YOU everyone for reading, and a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make Fantasy Magazine happen!❤️‍🔥 psychopomp.com/fantasy/

Artists, quote with something silly!

Calling all 2SLGBTQIA+ poets! We have a message for you from our poetry editor Jess Cho: “Dear queer poets, PLEASE FUCK ME UP.” If you have something strange, dark, and unrepentantly queer… send it our way! We’re open to submissions right now and we pay $50/poem!