Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

I have not written/published much this year, but if you're looking for a horror flash tale about being a mom and dealing w trauma with a wintry twist, give "My Heart in a Snow Globe" a read!👇

Lotta folks talking resolutions, so a quick reminder to focus on goals you can control. Instead of making it about agents or deals, focus on things like reading more to improve your craft, finding ways to support your peers, drafting something new… You don’t need anyone else, to chase those goals.

My creative process includes writing, deleting, staring into space, and convincing myself I’m not bad at this. 🙃

Give us your reprints featuring resistance of all kinds, from the hugely impactful to the tiny sparks. Give us your hope and rebellion and courage. Show us we all got this, even when it's brutal.

Also proud of The Beekeeper's Daughter, my riff off folk lore and fairy tales and maybe a little Jack Vance in there. I only had the one short story published this year, but it's one I'm satisfied with and I'm happy it found a home in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Ever wondered what could be worse than online dating? Online dating an eldritch horror! Read the flash fic story here: "The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club" – Flash Fiction Online share.google/3CvQPwaB2V1z...

New drabble for the week. This one's got a cauldron and an unhappy witch of sorts. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/145784... I'm gifting 1-month memberships to any who want them. Come get yours here: www.patreon.com/kaidelmas/re...

I sort of feel my life is on the Weyward train, thanks to @brokenswanquill.bsky.social for capturing the passenger vibes.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Stars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.

The holidays can be a contemplative time — so give my book Our Human Shores a chance? Filled with meditations on life and living through disaster, this book is perfect for the holiday blues or a great gift for someone who is searching for deeper meaning. #bookgiving #poetry #holidaygift #books

Tenebrous is rad and they have books full of creepy fun weird, which seems perfect right about now!

No update from me, but can I tempt you with great stories? The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club by @faithallington.bsky.social All These Inscriptions Are for Me by @carolscheina.bsky.social The Earth Will Not Consume Your Bones by @abigailkemske.bsky.social Links below

Who needs therapy when you can just project all your unresolved trauma onto fictional characters? /s

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

Okay your poetry prompt is to write a poem whose title starts with Q (or X) for the next Kaleidotrope submission period

Surreal meets tearful in Kate Horsley’s story “The Tao of Thorstein” about saying goodbye. #flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

Obviously you should buy Necropolis from @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social but while you're there have you considered getting Duel edited by @thisisguan.bsky.social with stories from @faithallington.bsky.social @carlc75.bsky.social Huijia Li, @livstrom.bsky.social and also me.

The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club, by Faith Allington in Flash Fiction Online. Does a great job in a short space of providing enough details for the story to feel real and lived in, while still being remarkably economical in its wordcount. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

MetaStellar Year Four anthology is available, full of singing forests, cybernetic parents, diamond chokers full of shadows, visits by Death and demons a plenty, and more! Available at your favorite retailers like www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o... #metastellar #speculativefiction

Really enjoyed this playful, teethy, fay-siren-seamstress story “Plastic Alternatives for Humble Seamstresses” by Wren Douglas 🌊✨ kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

Thrilled to have my gentle hopepunk story “The Luminous Deep” in @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social - there are such breathtaking stories and poems in this issue! 😍

My flash "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero" is free to read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social today! What happens after a hero grows old ... and has to babysit his granddaughter? (My first reprint!)

👀Fiction Highlight👀 ICYMI, the short story "Visions of Althea" by @alexwoodroe.com is now free to read! Bone ships ply the inky waters where ghosts and monsters wait. Hope and grief and the end of days invite you to embark! Story: buff.ly/pGQxU4p Full Issue: buff.ly/sTRxEtv

New story out today with Ghost Parachute’s August 2025 issue. Check out my slipstream clump of mischief—“Dermoid.” #flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

What’s that in the woods? A book luring you into dark, unfamiliar terrain? Excited for #bookmail, I can’t wait to dig into @wnwagner.bsky.social’s Girl in the Creek 🖤

My #poetry book is now available for preorder from @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social! Check out my book Our Human Shores, which explores living in these trying times, existentialism, and the #ecopoetics of our world through a lyric exploration.

"We could choose a life rural or urban and it wouldn’t matter because fairytales linger in your blood like flecks of microplastic" Love the way this piece from @faithallington.bsky.social builds in rich description and close cohesion to theme

Oh I love the luscious details and longing in this @faithallington.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social “How the sweetest lips taste of small deaths, how to spot a wolf and what wedding dress is also a burial gown.”

Excited to have my strange little fairy tale flash in the flood!

“veined marble, unknowable beauty” — this piece packs so very much into so few lines @pleomorphic2.bsky.social! 👌

A delicate starlit fairy tale, “At eighteen, she’d been porous and molten–“, about the ways we look for ourselves. ✨

My #review of all @flashfictiononline.bsky.social stories coming out this month. They've got some great #sff and #horror pieces, including one perfect for Valentine's Day #flashfiction #shortfiction tangentonline.com/e-market-mon...

I stumbled onto this review for my eldritch story—thank you @saraluckelman.bsky.social !!! 🥹😍—and I must say, I’m enjoying all the short snackable reviews for SFF works on the site.

one day maybe I, too, can be grotesque and legion in a beautiful sea.

Kai’s critique and editorial discussions are a delight, highly recommended!

Of course, you can also buy my drabble collection, "Darkness Rises, Hope Remains." 90 drabbles of dark fantasy just waiting to be devoured. www.amazon.com/Darkness-Ris...

The average Kaleidotrope reader has eldritch friends.

New story out today in Deadlands! One of my most personal stories to date: it’s about working through a difficult moment, with a little help from the 🐋 🎶. I hope you like it.

Yayy I am SOOOO excited for this! I loved Whisperwood and this is different but sounds equally rad!!!!

Seen in the wild and excitedly purchased on indie bookstore day, I can’t wait to read Sour Cherry by @nassos.bsky.social! 🍒

Very happy to be included in the flood with my fairytale inspired piece ‘How Red Your Heart’🫀There’s still time to submit!

I have a story out today with The Bookends Review!! It started as a love story, but got deeper and more political the more I read about antebellum politics on the American frontier. #writingcommunity #historicfiction #writing #shortstory #americanhistory thebookendsreview.com/2025/04/24/w...

THANK YOU EVERYONE!! #TheNightward is a No. 1 bestseller in Canada's Amazon store 6 months after publication! The sale is still on across retailers in the US and Canada, so pick up your ecopy for ONLY $1.99, or a paperback as low as $10.99 today! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

OUT TODAY - THE GHOSTS OF BLAUBART MANSION! Thanks to @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and cover artist @lukespoonerartist.bsky.social!

Stunned and delighted to say I'm an Aurealis Awards finalist for Best Horror Short Story for "Object of Vision" from Fission #4. Congrats to all, and thanks to everyone who made it possible, especially @genni.bsky.social.

Absolutely THRILLED that my poem "Your Visiting Dragon" is nominated for a Hugo!!!!

If you enjoy rednecks, 80s sitcoms, monks, warped fairy tales, dithering over whether to overturn the status quo, custom cocktails for St. Al's Day, and Lego-based alchemy... reserve your copy of The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion today! cemeterygatesmedia.com/2025/02/16/t...

Wow I am so awed and excited to have my weird lil story from @brokenantlermag.bsky.social on this rad shortlist!!! 🥹🥰

Recently finished The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion by the inimitable @ivygrimes.bsky.social and I loved the blend of weird, fantastical and creepy vibes. Also, it has amazing sisters and possums and ghosts. Such a wild and fun ride!