ICYMI 🖤

Psst, hey you... ...the Drabble Contest is open. 💯

A little belated, but in honor of spooky season, I want to share this oldie-but-goodie about ornery skeletons in a spooky skeleton cafe: www.orions-belt.net/archives/the...

NEW FICTION: "Final Log Fragment Retrieved from the Derelict Hauler MV Ironside" by D. Thomas Minton #SFF #flashfiction flashpointsf.com/2025/10/31/f...

One month left to nominate work for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards! Nominations close November 30. 🦋 Editors, visit monarch.gay/nominate to learn more about the anthology, what we're looking for, and how to nominate works from your publications.

Re: the title, I cannot stress enough that no it can’t. What it can do, and is already doing, is change the way people understand creativity so that they believe they have conquered challenges rather than the reverse.

THRILLED (and chilled!) to share my spooky poem, Holy Days, out now with Strange Horizons! It’s about Halloween, kind of, but it’s also about gender and ancestry and living in a small town and what we choose to have faith in and why 🖤🍂 Read here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Oh hey it’s me! I’m going to be a First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger at ACRLog this year, and my first post is about finding my way through teaching an AI elective as an anti-AI librarian. Read more here: acrlog.org/2025/10/20/t...

My contributor copy of the latest @doorisajarmag.bsky.social went on quite a road trip across Iowa, but it’s finally in my hands! ❤️ Pick it up to read my review of Larks by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social, plus so much wonderful poetry, fiction, drama, and more ✨

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Calling all magazine and anthology editors! Nominations are open for @monarch.gay's Queer Literary Awards until Nov 30. 🦋 Publications can nominate any work by a queer author you've published (like me!), whether or not that work specifically is about queer characters. Learn more and nominate ⬇️

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀 buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon! please like + RT this to help spread the word psychopomp.com/the-deadland... behold!

Reading for FPSF is always unbelievably fun, and it's because of the fantastic work that YOU send in. Don't miss our last unthemed submission window of the year!

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

reading that poem again 💖 All of Our Mothers are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social find it here ⬇️ psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

So honored to have a poem about grief, motherhood, and necromancy in this issue 🖤

Beautiful and heart-wrenching poem by @eleanorball.bsky.social

it's Fantasy Friday! ✨🦄⚔️ and our first poem of issue 98 is here!! "All of our mothers are dead. All of our mothers reach for me, bones dancing, skulls bouncing down the hill." All of Our Mothers Are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social read it here: psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

LOVE this one

I forgot to share in the whirlwind of starting a new job, but I have a hybrid flash thing(?) (what even is genre anyway) up on the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog this week about migraines, tarot, and the way illness disiorients us from our bodies 🖤 fifthwheelpress.com/blogarchive/...

"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom." "All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

The Monarch Queer Literary Awards are now open for nominations until November 30, 2025! Visit our website (monarch.gay) to learn more about us and how editors can nominate work. 🦋

I’m so thrilled to have a book review of Larks by Han VanderHart in this issue! 🕊️💕

Our September newsletter is out now! This month, OKD Fiction Reader @eleanorball.bsky.social offers some encouragement and tips on getting back into a writing routine when it feels like your 2025 goals are long past attainable:

Nominations open TOMORROW!

COMING SOON 🤩 My poem “All of Our Mothers Are Dead,” a Gothic story of necromancy, grief, and mothers & daughters, will be out soon with Fantasy Magazine! I could not be more excited!

BOOK MAIL 😍 @the-ethelzine.bsky.social

Really quite disheartening and disappointing to see the Tolkien Society hosting a discussion on “AI in fantasy filmmaking” this year at Oxonmoot. It feels about as morally and philosophically opposed to Tolkien’s work as a talk on the benefits of deforestation.

What are you up to this coming Tuesday at 7:30 PM CST? Is it writing? Writing with me??? Ask me for an invite to my Discord server and join us at No Write Time! It's free, come as you are, come when you can, write what you want with a small group of supportive peers.

looking ahead to september and getting excited for what we have to share with you! issue 98 is on the horizon (can you believe we've almost made it to 100!!!). thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting ✨ because we truly can't do this without you subscribe here 🦄 psychopomp.com/fantasy/

I forgot to share in the whirlwind of starting a new job, but I have a hybrid flash thing(?) (what even is genre anyway) up on the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog this week about migraines, tarot, and the way illness disiorients us from our bodies 🖤 fifthwheelpress.com/blogarchive/...

The first Flash Point SF (@flashpointsf.bsky.social) audiobook is out! Edited and read by me, Tipping Point features 12 original ecofiction stories. Check out the audiobook and other formats here: t.co/gQa22lIvvu

LAST DAY to submit to my guest editor call with @thebraag.bsky.social! If you have any weird, speculative tiny stories and poems looking for a home, don’t miss this window!

It's true. We still need to make headway into reaching our first fundraising goal of $500 by the end of August. All donations will go towards supporting increasing business operations, programming, and supporting authors and our staff. Donate here: donorbox.org/abode-press-... 🧵

As a reminder, my guest call with @thebraag.bsky.social is closing THIS FRIDAY! Sub guidelines here: carmenerror.com?page_id=19 and some more info on what I’m interested in seeing here: carmenerror.com?page_id=26

Support small press Saturday, you say? For only $5/quarter you can pick up a copy of the recently-revived Fantasy Magazine! If you sign up *right now* you'll be automatically sent our latest issue, issue 97 🗡️🩶 Subscribe here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-subs...

Due to your incredible response, Kym and I made the decision to close subs for my guest call with Carmen et Error early, on August 15th, so our small team is able to give every single submission the attention it deserves. See all sub guidelines here: carmenerror.com?page_id=19

ICYMI in the recent flood of announcements ❤️

This August, I’m going to be doing a “mini” @sealeychallenge.bsky.social, where I read (and share!) a poem from a different lit mag every day. Read on for poems ⬇️

I’m so excited to be part of this project uplifting the best in new queer writing and art. Editors, please consider nominating work!

Thrilled to share that my review of Larks by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social will be published in the 10-year anniversary issue of Door is a Jar 💕 Larks is one of the most breathtaking poetry collections I’ve read in a long time, and I cherished my time reading and writing about it.

I’m so thrilled to share that I’ll be guest editing for Carmen et Error this August! I want to read your offbeat and speculative tiny poems and stories. Sub guidelines here: carmenerror.com?page_id=19 and more on what I’m looking for in this thread ⬇️

My poem “Two by Two” in Headlight Anthology, about a toxic sapphic relationship, is now free to read (and listen to) online! headlightanthology.ca/two-by-two/

very pleased to announce that my tribute to the dolls, "mushroom girls in love: redux", was nominated for @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ! <333

Ten authors by whom I’ve read more than five books: J.R.R. Tolkien Terry Pratchett Jonathan Stroud Kevin Sands Nghi Vo Anne Rice Agatha Christie Maggie Stiefvater William Shakespeare Robert Jordan

Thrilled to share that my hopeful dystopian poem “If I must exist here” will appear in an upcoming issue of @havenspec.bsky.social! ✨ This poem was sparked at last year’s @abodepress.bsky.social Summer Retreat, and I’m so excited that it will finally be out in the world.

My contributor copy of the 26th Headlight Anthology came in the mail 💥 sneak a peak at the contents here: headlightanthology.ca/archive/no-26/

ICYMI!

I have deeply enjoyed not being on social media, so I neglected to share that I have two poems out in the new Headlight Anthology from Concordia University; one of them, "Every morning is a morning," is free to read (and listen to) online right now: headlightanthology.ca/archive/no-2...

We're still trying to hit our funding goals, and we can't do it without you (we're about halfway there!). *spreads glittery wings* We have so much amazing work to share with you! Help us out here 💖 fantasy.kit.com/products/fan...