attn all queer people in my phone!! fifth wheel press is now open for ekphrasis-themed lit mag subs AND unthemed blog subs! i’m super excited to work on the blog this year and read your fantastic work 💫 duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Despite the title, this is another VERY appropriate poem to round out the year, with its images of dancing and wishing on stars.

Jumping in to @swantower.bsky.social's #12DaysofPoetry! Especially because I am SO bad at sharing my OWN WORK on here. First up, "It was always like this" in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social, a wintry poem about old relationships dying hard. jakethemag.com/it-was-alway...

Thrilled to share that my review of Larks by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social won the 2025 Door is a Jar Award for book reviews! You can read the full review for free here: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/diaj-awards

Looking for some fantastic poetry?🦄 Come thru... for poems by: Mu’izz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí Aishat Yahkub (Issue 97) Eleanor Ball Mateo Perez Lara (Issue 98) Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan Alex Jennings (Issue 99) psychopomp.com/fantasy/

I have two gothic, fantastical poems eligible for the “Best Short Poem” Rhysling this year: “All of Our Mothers Are Dead” (Fantasy Magazine) and “Holy Days” (Strange Horizons). I would deeply appreciate anyone who reads them and nominates! ❤️ Links below.

I have two gothic, fantastical poems eligible for the “Best Short Poem” Rhysling this year: “All of Our Mothers Are Dead” (Fantasy Magazine) and “Holy Days” (Strange Horizons). I would deeply appreciate anyone who reads them and nominates! ❤️ Links below.

Such a beautiful, unexpected story. Give it a read! ❤️

FOUR DAYS LEFT!

If (like me) you’ve applied for jobs within the last year, you’ve probably spent hours tearing your hair out about AI. Let’s talk about it. acrlog.org/2025/12/09/a...

Reading for FPSF is some of the most fun I’ve ever had in the SFF community. It’s an amazing publication run by amazing people. Let’s keep this community going!

Love flash fiction? Want to support a venue that gives it their all for the SFF genre? Look no further! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

update . . . where do i submit a poem that's about gnomes and also climate change and also the inevitability of death and also includes me saying "o!" unironically at least 3 times

I could not be more excited and honored to begin working with fifth wheel press in a permanent capacity 💗

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

if you've enjoyed reading beestung for free, please keep doing that, but also please consider giving us maybe $5-$640. 🐝

We need to be really aware of the danger of this. GenAI is a tool of oppression & conformity. When all art looks & sounds the same, it has no impact to change the world.

Now - Issue 98...!🧟 Poetry: Eleanor Ball & Mateo Perez Lara Flash: Christian Emecheta & Tracie McBride Fiction: Sunwoo Jeong & Eleanna Castroianni Cover art: Zi Xu psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

guys help where do i submit a super goofy poem about gnomes

tl;dr i am offering up to 9 people a very cut-rate manuscript consult to pay for vital prescription drugs

Did you know... Our yearly Kickstarter is the only way to get one of these gorgeous anthologies in hardcover? Glam up your bookshelf thru the link below! ⬇️

BOOK MAIL 😍 @apexmag.bsky.social So excited to dig in over the holidays.

Nominations close on November 30 — that's one week away! 🦋 Check our our guidelines and FAQ: monarch.gay/nominate

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue. Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.

This week on ACRLog, I share what I wish I knew when I first started attending library conferences as a student 📚

It's that time of the year again! FPSF is launching its annual Kickstarter on Sunday the 16th. Please help us keep a good thing going for another year. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

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! 🕊️💕