Mark your calendars! You are cordially invited to the Zoom reading for my chapbook Survival Skills on July 2nd. There will be some kickass writers reading for it. Info 👇 www.sandandgravelpress.com/liz-rosen-ch...

A warm welcome to our new followers! We're Literary Namjooning and we're reading fiction and non-fiction (500 words or fewer) for our 3rd issue! More about us here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/about Wondering what #namjooning means? Here you go!

Coming soon, an interview with author Ani King @aniking.bsky.social about their forthcoming flash fiction collection Family Night. Preorder below (Oct 2026, Mason Jar Press). #writingcommunity #flashfiction #authorinterview #debut #familynight masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

Beautiful book mail: An exceptional collection by an extraordinary writer. Congratulations, @pdforan.bsky.social and to @alkratz.bsky.social for this wonderful debut title! 🌟

NEWS NEWS NEWS! beestung's Pleasure Issue is open for an extra few days for Black and Indigenous writers and writers of color! We deserve a little breathing room, and we're getting it Deadline: 6/20 Pay: $20 Guest editor: brilliant & savvy & looking forward to reading you up & down Theme: 🥵🫦🩲🍆🍑🎇

hot* butch summerrrrrr! will also add my rec of butches—some of which overlap because good taste is good taste. 😏 *yes, sometimes sad

Thank you to everyone who came to the launch of ‘Mudlarking’, our 2026 anthology! The readings were fabulous!

Delighted that I can use cats to promote my work again. Kopi says that Dragonfall is only 99p on Kindle for TODAY only. Can we get this weird, queer dragon book with a nonbinary lead to climb the charts this pride month? Also have some more kitten tax. We got our Bengal boys Kopi & Chai on Friday.

DAVID HOCKNEY We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961)

Good people, in just 20 minutes @sachajudd.com is going to kick my ass and you can all watch! Best of all—it's free! www.eventbrite.com/e/mike-monte...

Love the way this story works backwards!

✨COVER REVEAL! ✨We’re super excited our “RESIST” anthology, a collection of resistance-themed flash fiction, is coming out Monday, June 15th!! 🎉 Edited by: @wordrat.bsky.social This cover was designed for us by Andy Cotnam. All proceeds will be donated to the nonprofit Waging Nonviolence.

Just got my author copies of the new FIFTH SEASON RPG book from Green Ronin! This is the special edition, and it's gorgeous. Ozzy agrees. Official release is on June 20, available in most game and book stores. You can still preorder here: greenroninstore.com/products/fif...

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

This is just straight up fascism. Threatening to destroy elections and running roughshod over basic constitutional principles is anathema to a healthy democratic nation. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/p...

For over 30 years, Subterranean Press has created beautiful, thoughtful special edition books and published beloved stories within the SFF community. We are sad to hear the news about Subterranean's impending closure and wish the best for the team moving forward.

I am honestly disturbed by the swiftness with which "trans healthcare not available to anyone under 19" is going from being regarded, rightly, as collaboration with trans genocide and a fascist federal government to "the best we can expect" even among those who damn well know better...

Check out "The Garden of Hands" by @ezhang77.bsky.social from issue 23! variantlit.com/the-garden-o...

cis people are scared trans people will gently correct them trans people are scared cis people will legislate our rights out of existence, make it impossible to exist publicly, deny we are who we say we are, and straight up murder us so, u know, pronouns are hard i guess, sure

At @barrelhouse.bsky.social we are having a huge sale-- for a limited time, almost everything in our shop is $5 (excludes our 2 latest books & new print issue). That means only $60 could get you our entire back catalog. For $180, you could get triples. Triples is best. www.barrelhousemag.com/shop

Claudia has a book of the same name coming out later this year through the amazing Cowboy Jamboree Press (@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social). Be on the lookout and make sure to order your copy when it's out! claudiamonpere.com/the-periodic...

Before tomorrow's new edition, make time to read our returning contributor aka The Bulb Region family member Claudia Monpere's (@claudiamonpere.bsky.social) fantastic micro, "The Periodic Family," in Centaur. centaurlit.com/the-periodic...

Seriously though this is one of my favorite series, y‘all.

Pre-orders are up for my new novella, so be the change you want to see in the world and support queer books this Pride! [This story has a trans protagonist AND a trans love interest AND a cult AND a pink fairy armadillo so obvs it ticks all the best boxes] Are you parched or are you flooded?

Happy publication day, @colincalexander.bsky.social!

always better if they’re girlfriends. 😌 also, you can grab #FatesBane for $2.99 on Kindle and, more importantly, bookshop.org! Get your British Fantasy Award-nominated Sad Swamp Lesbians today! You will surely not regret picking up this tale of bog-crossed young lovers separated by a clan war!

For the morning crowd, who wants to join me for my summer workshops? July "A Snow Globe on an Iceberg: World-building in short fiction" Tues 7th (7pmBST) or Sat 11th (9amBST) August "What is Learnt in the Cradle: How our childhoods affect our adult selves" Tues 4th (7pmBST) or Sat 8th (9amBST)

What happens when Pinoccio meets toxic masculinity? New flash out with WestWord - great to be in this issue with Stephanie Percival, Richard Garcka & Bonnie Meekums. Special thanks to Amanda Saint for believing in this story @retreatwest.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/westword...

OH WOW!!!! I WAS ROOTING FOR THIS COLLECTION. Major congrats to Linda Addison and Jamal Hodge, and quick note that you can buy this collection for just $14.95 from any bookseller, and it's worth the money.

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9

It’s pub day for my (mostly) flash fiction collection Songs from the Blimp Ruins. Thank you @alkratz.bsky.social & Silverbacked Punk for bringing it to life. It's available here: qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy Signed copies also available (message me) My heart is cheered here www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf22...

I'm over the moon about this nomination, and congrats to all the contributors whose stories made 'Amplitudes' the book it is!!

Hello #BookSky! We've got to keep up the pressure against the national book bans currently alive in Congress. Here's a thread with a script for talking to your Representative in the House: Hello, my name is [your name]. I am a resident of [your city/town/county], and my address is [your address]...

Hello hello and welcome to the shortlist announcement thread for the #2026IgnyteAwards, recognizing outstanding contributions to SFFH and its community in 2025! We are grateful to be supported this year by sponsors @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, & @laworldcon.bsky.social

Here's the book! It's about gay archeologists, drama between superheroes, chainmail robots, India as a world colonizer, open relationships, how we tell histories... And it has 100+ footnotes. Some are sexy Special thanks, as always, to @neonhemlock.bsky.social www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...

Delighted to have my first haibun (prose + haiku) in the new issue of MacQueen's Quinterly. www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ32/Gallo...

The Horror Writers Association have announced the winners of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards!! Congratulations to everyone!! 🥳🦇

Morning!

New Elegant Variation is up on the site! Take a deep breath and go. www.stanchionzine.com/post/best-ne...

I'm rich in books! Excited to read / reread collections by Jared Yates Sexton, @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Leslie O'Connel, @luannecastle.bsky.social @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social & poems by @lesliearchibald.bsky.social 💙 Congratulations, all!

Ricardo Bernhard's "To Understand Light" can be found in our latest issue. Bernhard is a Brazilian writer and diplomat currently based in South Africa. His fiction has appeared in Neon Origami and is forthcoming in Litbreak Magazine. tr.ee/fkmsDTE2nk

I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?

Amatka is SO good

Newsletter day! buttondown.com/mxaniking/ar...

most of my memories are from the 90s because it was a rare period of clarity in between childhood trauma and substance abuse

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAYS are for celebrations 🎉 Flash reader Razi Shadmehry and Contributor @aniking.bsky.social were selected as Lordship House Fellows 👏 buff.ly/yjuYDcJ

Oh damn. Wow. This is unreal. Very grateful to @undertow.bsky.social and everyone who voted for this story. It was a really meaningful one. Congrats to all the winners and finalists!

Gotta admit: it IS pretty cool to see my first collection AMERICAN ANIMISM with its new accessories.