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!

Reposting for those of you nominating poetry for the Nebula, etc. bsky.app/profile/gwyn...

With Rhysling nominations open today from @sfpoetry.bsky.social, it's time for a awards-eligible poetry thread! 🧵 These poems are all eligible for the Rhysling (short form), Nebula, and Hugo, among others. 1/

Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

Please do one thing for me in 2026: use that nice thing you've been saving for a special occasion. We will not be dying with hoards of untouched notebooks, scented candles, fancy perfumes, nice whiskeys, cute craft supplies, etc etc etc. Use it today. You deserve a little luxury.

I'm happy to welcome back @breewernicke.bsky.social, whose story "May It Please the Profit" has been acquired for FF#29! In addition to FF and Saros, Bree's work has also appeared in Bourbon Penn, Haven Spec, and Baffling, just to name a few.

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

For your general consideration....we published eight novellas this year. Three issues of Baffling. And a short story collection by Christopher Caldwell. (Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)

this weekend i lost my phone because it fell off a rollercoaster, which is the most baffling thing that's happened to me all year i didn't even notice until i stood up, and turned back thinking it must've fallen in my seat, but then several people went "we saw a phone fall! :D ...was it yours"

The first story I wrote in 2025 is also my final story of 2025! "Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings" is the tale of a priestess and the woman she wants desperately not to love, told by a bitter goddess. It's about faith, all-consuming love, and also birds 🐦‍⬛ Out now at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!

Duel Point of View, a swordsman4swordsman romcom where they simply cannot stop challenging each other to meet on the duelling ground

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILF! It’s one of the best days of the year: the day we celebrate the miracle that is this guy somehow living long enough to find us. I’m so glad he did. “Handsomest Gentlest” is a love letter to my boy. Today might be a good day to read it: www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...

Issue 30 (ISSUE 30!!!), with cover art by Amanda Yskamp, comes out tomorrow! It's not too late to subscribe and get all of our stories and poems as an ebook and in your inbox as they show up on our website. smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...

This short story by @breewernicke.bsky.social is so bizarrely wonderful, especially if you think *stepping* on Legos is painful ... 👀 www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...

Just read @breewernicke.bsky.social's outrageously fantastic "Doctors HATE Her!! Local Woman Is NOT Cursed" and I can't stop thinking about it! If you're in the mood for a strange and twisted tale of cursed Legos relayed through a series of online forum posts...⬇️ www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...

Today's read is a fun story of Legos gone awry, a nice bit of epistolary weird fiction written by @breewernicke.bsky.social, and published by my fave mag @bourbonpenn.bsky.social Read at the link below. Go. You won't regret it. #weirdfiction #indiepublishing www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/37/doc...

New poem by me out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social to help get all of us through the season (I hope). Whole issue is worth a look, but I trust that by now you don't need me to tell you that about an issue of Uncanny. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pray...

Story #3 in FF#26: "A White Day Comes" by @thesuiway.bsky.social If you need a story with: -finding love at the last minute -existential angst (but also acceptance) -greeting the day Download it for free at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏 #horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading @parkeriswriting.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/this...

I don't have any scary stories to share for Halloween, but I do have a ghost story! "Handsomest Gentlest" is about the flaming-eyed fiend who stalks the forest of the dead. It's also a story about a boy and his dog. I have been told that it might make you sad. 🖤 www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...

available in e-versions so you can read comfortably like a curled up shrimp cat this very evening books2read.com/uncertain

writing tip: put a creature in it

ok. i am about to get sentimental on main. The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.

24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026! It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

The narrator of Addison Smith's "I GROW," from Issue 22, is coming to grips with their transformation and what it means for them and the world around them.

HELLO i am doing Hamlet!! if you're looking for something spooky and halloweeny to do in LA next weekend, look no further:

"What's your book about?" Okay, hold on. Give me a second. I know this. I wrote it. It has a plot and things to say. I just need to think about how to explain it in under four hours of rambling tangents so I don't scare you away

One of the things I enjoyed most about studying Victorian lit in college was how these people would read each other for filth in the most roundabout ways. And "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" by @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social puts me exactly in that mindset. I LAUGHED so many times here. Read it!