ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

It's been a bit since this was announced, but really delighted that "Missing Helen" won the Clarkesworld readers' poll this year in the short story category! First time I've had a short story recognized like that and it's an honor, especially in a stacked category :D

Listened to "The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe" by @tiatashiro.bsky.social from the Jan 2025 @clarkesworldmagazine.com An amazing story and I need to add it to my novelette nominees for the Hugo Award. @katercakes.bsky.social is wonderful and made me feel clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_01_25/

“Missing Helen” by @tiatashiro.bsky.social (Clarkesworld issue 226, short story) “Missing Helen” follows a woman whose ex-husband is marrying her clone. It’s a neat character study that does an excellent job in fleshing out the main character’s life- clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/

There's a relationship at the heart of The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe by @tiatashiro.bsky.social that's really well constructed, and that leads you to care for the central characters. Excellent story. Give it a read. Nominate it for novelette. clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_01_25/ 2/X

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

Our March 2026 issue features stories by David D. Levine, R.L. Meza, Carolyn Zhao, Thomas Ha, Wanxiang Fengnian, Thoraiya Dyer, and Marissa Lingen. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_234 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

I did this last year and I'm trying to make it an annual Thing, so here are a few short fiction writers in their first two years of publishing worth considering for Astounding Award nomination! I'm highlighting a work I loved from each of them (it's hard to keep it to just one, but c'est la vie)

Beating the buzzer before it turns into March to link my year-end wrap-up post :)) tiatashiro.com/2025/12/29/s...

I love novelettes, and @tiatashiro.bsky.social’s feel-good murder mystery “The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com is one of my favorites from last year. clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_01_25/

Stories I loved by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, @katefrancia.bsky.social, @chrisblake.bsky.social, and @tiatashiro.bsky.social. psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu... www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holl... www.tractorbeam.earth/story/in-eve... clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/ Go read them.

Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/call-f... If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!

This is delightful

Readers' poll closes tomorrow!

We have Best of American SFF, Best of Canadian SFF, Best of British SFF. I wish so badly that editors take up the task of editing an yearly Best of Latin American SFF as well. It would be great!

It's time for your periodic reminder that we count on subscriptions to keep the lights on. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ Thank you.

Been doing a mini bookclub this month with a childhood friend who hasn't read the magazine before (we're reading and discussing 2 stories per week) and it's been a delight so far :D

If you liked "For Whom the Hair Grows" or any of Uncanny's excellent 2025 stories, voting is open now!

Day 36! I read When Eve Chose Us by @tiatashiro.bsky.social published in @diabolicalplots.com. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/s...

2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.

Really psyched to see "Missing Helen" (short story) and "The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe" (novelette) recommended on the Locus list this year! First time I've had a story make the list so it was a delightful surprise to see these two there, alongside so many fantastic 2025 works :D

Oh wow. UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (Collection), "Uncertain Sons" (Novelette), and "In My Country" (Short Story), recommended by Locus. A lot of great works and authors here. Like half the collection category, colleagues/friends I recognize. My thanks to folks who enjoyed these stories.

Reading for the Uncanny Magazine Poll? Try the short story "For Whom the Hair Grows" by Tia Tashiro @tiatashiro.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/SF44Mv1

London backgrounds from 101 Dalmatians, 1961

Thank you for the mention, and seconding your rec for "Descent"--the atmosphere and worldbuilding in that one has really stuck with me, it's excellent!

Clarkesworld's reader's poll is up for the next day! If you enjoyed "Missing Helen" or "The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe" last year, they're both eligible :) www.surveymonkey.com/r/clarkeswor... clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/ clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_01_25/

Help us select the 2025 finalists for our annual Clarkesworld Readers' Poll. Nominate your favorite Clarkesworld stories and cover art at: www.surveymonkey.com/r/clarkeswor... POLL CLOSES THURSDAY, JANUARY 22th at 3PM EST

Jay's reviews are excellent--he has a rare knack for zeroing in on what makes a story stand out even when it doesn't resonate for him. Great blog with an impressive breadth of short fiction coverage. Check out his work!

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? 🌈 🪐 🗡️

• Sofia Samatar's Selkie Stories Are for Losers (strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...) • @sloanesloane.bsky.social's No Future but Infinity Itself (mitpress.mit.edu/978026254908...) • @tiatashiro.bsky.social's Missing Helen (clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/)

Such an excellent list! particularly love ‘The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe’ by @tiatashiro.bsky.social, ’Mavka’ by @thesuiway.bsky.social, ‘Highway 1, Past Hope’ by @mariahaskins.com 1/

So glad to see "The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe" getting recognized! 🎉✨ Big thanks to @tarvolon.bsky.social for highlighting such diverse SFF gems! 📚💖 #SFF #TBR #BookRecommendations

Lovely to see "The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe" get a nod, and also huge props to @tarvolon.bsky.social in general for your work as a SFF reviewer—it's great to see so many awesome stories from disparate sources on here, and I'm adding a bunch to my end-of-the-year TBR!

Delighted to see "The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe" among such good company (and some new stories I'm adding to my TBR!)

Ah! Appreciate the rec for "In My Country" (short story) and shoutout for "Uncertain Sons" (novelette). See a lot of great stories by @aardwyrm.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @mimulus.bsky.social, @tiatashiro.bsky.social and a ton more I can't tag. Thanks very much.

Delighted to find out I'm on here with the short story "Missing Helen" :D

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

In addition to her writing, Piper does do some limited narration as Lalana Dara. Don’t miss out on her narration of What Good Daughters Do by Tia Tashiro for the Cast of Wonders podcast. www.castofwonders.org/2025/08/cast...

ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "For Whom the Hair Grows" by Tia Tashiro @tiatashiro.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/kt9EaZy

New fiction! "When Eve Chose Us" by Tia Tashiro www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

New words out today! "When Eve Chose Us," about friendship in the age of the ethical hivemind, is up now at @diabolicalplots.com :)) www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Our 19th anniversary issue of Clarkesworld features original fiction by Isabel J. Kim, Fiona Moore, H.H. Pak, Greg Egan, Liu Maijia, Carrie Vaughn, and Phoebe Barton. Online now at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229 Subscriptions available at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Happy International Translation Day! A big thank you to the translators that have helped us publish well over 100 translations at Clarkesworld. Your work is valued here.

The September issue of Clarkesworld features fiction by Claire Jia-Wen, Sheri Singerling, Louis Inglis Hall, Alexander Jablokov, David McGillveray, Koji A. Dae, and Robert Falco. Online now at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_228 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Great story by @tiatashiro.bsky.social "When Mark told you he was marrying your clone you said congratulations on autopilot, because that’s what you say when your friend tells you theyre getting married & you had promised to stay friendly after the divorce." clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/

If you love literary SFF with beautiful prose, this is the short story for you. It's so very excellent!

ok ok that's enough social media i'm done for the next (checks watch) 3-5 business years

Also this is not a short story but if you haven't seen Sinners (2025) yet you gotta. It's so good for real

@thomasha.bsky.social is a master of ambiguity and atmosphere, both of which are at the forefront in "In My Country" clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/