A little delayed in my year round up but lots happened in 2025 ! Thank you to @jake.vanguard @jelliclejay.bsky.social , and @vesperdoom.com for kindly allowing my stories in their projects , and to everyone who bought, read, or reviewed my work over the past year 💜

my story “you visit a witch” is out now in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 🧙‍♀️🌱 one of the first stories i wrote, nearly 5 years ago, it’s much cozier (for lack of a better word) than most of my works, but it also still asks how we can bear to live in this world kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

In 2025, we published two short story collections, one unusually structured anthology, and ten zines! This year might be a little slower--gotta sustain energy and money--but you can still expect some wonderfully strange, grotesque, and unsettling fiction from us. Thanks for your ongoing support!

my story “you visit a witch” is out now in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 🧙‍♀️🌱 one of the first stories i wrote, nearly 5 years ago, it’s much cozier (for lack of a better word) than most of my works, but it also still asks how we can bear to live in this world kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

New fiction by Emily Linstrom, EC Dorgan, @rkduncan.bsky.social, @phoebebarton.bsky.social, @danpeacock.bsky.social, @clhellisen.bsky.social, @prioryruins.bsky.social, @jaydeholmes.bsky.social, @amulderwrites.bsky.social, @jelliclejay.bsky.social, @kmveohongs.bsky.social, and @ernerker.bsky.social!

Hey, it's the future now! The Winter 2026 issue of Kaleidotrope is live! kaleidotrope.net

whoa hey guys is that me starting the year with a story on the first day???

What's this?! A message tossed backward in time, from the far-flung future worlds of literally tomorrow—it's the table of contents from Kaleidotrope's upcoming Winter 2026 issue!

my baby sister raised her hands and cheered when the ball drop broadcast showed a gay couple kissing woke is so back!!

Here we go, my end-of-year roundup to join all the others: publications and links and recommendations! leemandelo.com/f/2025-a-yea...

weird year! but - i edited and published an anthology that i’m very proud of - wrote a novella (unpublished) - began my clinical rotation and am currently killing it - more stories published than ever before - bf and i started having sex with whoever we want and it’s amazing

This year has been unrelentingly miserable. But the best thing—the thing that has sustained me—has been @othersidespec.bsky.social. After almost a year and a half of work, we officially launch in 2026… and we open to submissions at midnight! Make OTHERSIDE your first sub of the new year? 🌈 🪐 🗡️

At the end of the day, you can’t control if there’s a market to sell your story to, if it will buy your story, or if its readers will like it. The only thing you can control is whether *you* like it.

that time of year again! this is the first year where i've really felt like part of the publishing ecosystem (in my own small way), and i have a feeling that the publications i've got lined up for 2026 wouldn't be happening without the work i put in this year

So if you wanna read more stories about guys in their early twenties dealing with closeted queer desire, masculinity, grief, and ultimately coming to terms with their sexuality… might I suggest Summer Sons?

that time of year again! this is the first year where i've really felt like part of the publishing ecosystem (in my own small way), and i have a feeling that the publications i've got lined up for 2026 wouldn't be happening without the work i put in this year

Monthly Disabled & Chronically Ill Creators Boost! - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for works to read and share. - Follow new creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #BookSky #WriteSky

DON’T WATCH HEATED RIVALRY I PASSED OUT EIGHTEEN TIMES

now that the contract is signed i can finally reveal some big news: my story “The One Who Carries Abinakhee Has Died” is being published by @podcastle.org !! they’ve been a dream venue of mine since i started writing and i’m unbelievably excited to hear one of my stories narrated 😭🫶

now that the contract is signed i can finally reveal some big news: my story “The One Who Carries Abinakhee Has Died” is being published by @podcastle.org !! they’ve been a dream venue of mine since i started writing and i’m unbelievably excited to hear one of my stories narrated 😭🫶

happy to publicly confirm that i never received payment or an author copy for my story “desert silver blue” which was published in their anthology KOSMOS OBSCURA (though they at least did the courtesy of letting me know that the exclusivity period is now waived)

there are more serious problems with generative ai but the one that upsets me on the most visceral level is it being used to create cute animal contentslop. destroying THEIR environment and using their innocent likenesses and they don't even KNOW it makes me nauseous

DUDES ROCK: A CELEBRATION OF QUEER MASCULINITY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION, is an anthology of short stories, edited by @jelliclejay.bsky.social, and my contribution has sexy Jews in space. What does masculinity mean to you? Available in eBook or paperback here: www.amazon.co.uk/Dudes-Rock-C...

Hello! My name is Johannes T. Evans (he/him), and I am a gay, transgender, disabled author of fantasy, romance, horror, and erotic fiction based in West Yorkshire. I write a huge array of fiction and non-fiction, and lots of it is available to read for FREE on my website: www.johannestevans.co.uk

messy eater

I am usually in the camp of 'all reading is good' but in some very rare cases an absolute dunderhead will pick up a book and be like "the hobbits are a direct endorsement of fascist racial supremacy" and I don't think it's really helping them or anyone else, like maybe reading actually isn't for you

i can't believe i got to see plane jane, mistress isabelle brooks, irene the alien, and TRIXIE MATTEL all at the same halloween show. i love boston!!

WOOO so proud to have a story in this now award-winning anthology

omggg we won AGAIN!!! so proud of our book, the artists and writers that contributed fiction and illustrations did not pull their punches, just killer work every page 😈 Art here by @jeffreykam.bsky.social, Cho-Hyun Kim, BOLZAK (Arturo Mestre), and @leslekieuart.bsky.social 🔥

Have read some of this. You WANT this book in the world. Someone pick this up, it's the good shit.

this sounds amazing as hell (complimentary)

SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world. #DVpit #A #H #LGBT

Didn't realize I was into gay trucker apocalypse cult stories until just now

they're calling me stupid on twitter they're saying my brain must leak out of my ears when i sleep

Elton is running, he just can't remember from what. When he runs into lonely trucker Beck, they learn together what it takes to rebuild a person, but dark things from his fractured past are on his trail. Remembering may destroy him, but what he's forgotten may destroy the world. #DVpit #A #H #LGBT

Jay has such a compelling narrative voice and his passion is so clear in everything he writes!! I’m still working my way through the manuscript bc I’m a slow reader </3 but already it is such a strong work of horror, cannot recommend him and Blessed Be The Flesh enough!

this novel is gloomy and hypnotic and everything anyone could want from an appalachian gothic horror (abusive dads, fucked up animals, and everything else)

Lonely trucker Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he can’t be too surprised when picking up an attractive amnesiac cult escapee off the side of the road plunges him into a battle for the world’s survival. #DVpit #OWN #POC #LGBT

The internet created space for people to put words to their queerness and find community where they feel they can't find it irl, but I worry this is a stopgap that keeps many in a kind of arrested development who would pre-internet be forced to go out and find in person community

can someone give me sixty five american dollars so i can submit my anthology to the lammys 🙏

crazy to query a magazine about a submission and get hit with the "OBVIOUSLY we've finished selecting for this issue" lol. if it was obvious then i wouldn't be querying now would i?

petty queers, sad boys, and big diaspora feelings are all things i think my followers are experts in 👀

can u believe the government is trying to distract us from the much more important news that foundation was renewed for s4???

New at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: Gretchen Felker-Martin speaks out about DC Comics cancelling Red Hood, and her comments on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "I had no regrets."

Let me get this straight: 2 elected Democratic officials in Minnesota murdered 2 months ago - hardly any coverage Charlie Kirk murdered 2 hours ago - nationwide attention and our Nazi leader advocating for flags at half mast for it School shooting moments after Kirk's death - *crickets*

lol at a leftist irl posting “remember before posting anti-gun propaganda that it was initially used to disarm the black panthers.” crazy to see such a clear representation of the political equivalent of sitting at the kiddie table

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

ppl who can become obsessed with one single person and dedicate their entire internet presence to them are so cool to me. i don’t think i’ve ever been that passionate abt anything in my life and i wonder if my experience of the world is poorer for it

so sad to announce that writing this epic fantasy series i’ve had outlined for years and kept procrastinating bc the idea of creating a fully fledged secondary world was scary is in fact just as difficult as i was afraid of. i feel like i’m chewing iron nails with every sentence

hey how the fuck do u write epic fantasy lol