New story up at GNS: When Naxa discovers a cup that pours seemingly endless water, she thinks it could be the thing to save thirsty Apicuya forever. Read “How The Waters Returned To Apicuya” by Nicholas Schorn @schorn.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2026/06/01/how-the-waters-returned-to-apicuya

Announcement Post Up on GNS: Submissions Re-Opening June 15th! giganotosaurus.org/2026/05/19/s...

New story up at GNS: Kai loves puzzles and wordplay and codes. He hates, more than anything, the color yellow. So he hates the broken yellow tangram worst of all. Read “Year of the Tangram” by Ichabod Cassius Kilroy @mx-sickilroy.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2026/05/01/year-of-the-tangram

New story up at GNS: Amelia is haunted, but she bears it somehow, minding her cockatrice and phoenixes and bees. But then her cousin calls, and she’s coming to stay awhile. Read “House of Honeyed Soil” by Natalie Wollenweber giganotosaurus.org/2026/04/01/house-of-honeyed-soil

New story up at GNS: “The asshole knew I loved him,” said Gerry. “At least I hope so.” “Nothing wrong with telling him again,” I said. “I talk to dead folks all the time.” Read “About Face” by Teresa Milbrodt giganotosaurus.org/2026/03/01/about-face

New story up at GNS: Amélia visits her Vovó in the Nursing Home for the Empowered Elderly, hoping to end her feud with another resident before things get ugly. Read “The Winter of the Icebergirl” by Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com giganotosaurus.org/2026/02/01/the-winter-of-the-icebergirl/

New story up at GNS: A thousand years ago, a man became a god. Now, the king sends his daughter to die three times in hopes to wake as something new & dreadful. Read “The Last God of Talam Dor” by M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2026/01/01/the-last-god-of-talam-dor/

New story up at GNS: A sly fox proposes marriage to the King, promising to keep his deepest secret in return. Surprising everyone, even himself, the King accepts. Read “A Good King” by Sarah McGill giganotosaurus.org/2025/10/01/a-good-king/

For those of you who read GigaNotoSaurus magazine, we will be putting a pause on publishing for the months of August and September. We will reopen in October. giganotosaurus.org/2025/07/14/g...

New story up at GNS: Amenau survives a space-wreck, but wakes on a strange planet, tended to by a frond-covered gold and blue creature. Surely this is a concussion. Surely. Read “Water to a Goose” by Sonia Focke @soniafocke.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2025/07/01/water-to-a-goose/

New story up at GNS: Everyone knows that Starter Wives and Starter Babies are just for practice until it’s time to Reclaim them, but Charles Young has never felt right about it. Read “The Starter Family” by Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2025/06/01/the-starter-family/

New story up at GNS The starling jacks clean the sacrifice altars of hungry gods, until it’s their turn on the block. But Shadow Jack may have his own god whispering to him. Read “Shadow Jack” by CL Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/shadow-jack/

New story up at GNS: No joke, the devil you made a deal with at thirteen is back to make you drink the Lethe, save Hell, and your son with it. But you must remember not to look back. Read “Horror Vacui” by A.V. Greene @avgreenewrites.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2025/04/01/horror-vacui/

Seeking Slush Readers! GigaNotoSaurus Magazine, a two-time Hugo finalist in the Best Semiprozine category, is looking for readers to join our amazing slush team. We are particularly interested in queer and BIPOC readers. Interested? Please email [email protected] for a questionnaire.

New story up at GNS: “Your choice is either a bad death out there—” she angled her head at the window— “or going to the sea. That’s the only choice you’ve ever had.” Read “Something Rich and Strange” by L.S. Johnson @lsjohnson.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2025/03/01/something-rich-and-strange/

New story up at GNS: Fox and Troll are back, tasked with rescuing the famous chef Master Barozki from a witch—and facing one of their greatest challenges yet. Read “Fox and Troll Bake a Cake” by Jeffery Reynolds @trollbreath.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2025/02/01/fox-and-troll-bake-a-cake/

GNS submissions are now closed. In fifteen days, we got 413 submissions. Whew!

Happy New Year! A reminder that submissions are OPEN today and will be open until January 15 11:59pm CST. So get your stories in!

New story up at GNS: A framed picture of a fairy, the size of a child’s palm, shimmers with ethereal life. A watercolor, with real butterfly wings. How has it changed the lives it’s passed through? Read “Behind Glass” by Christi Krug giganotosaurus.org/2025/01/01/behind-glass

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GigaNotoSaurus will be reopening to submissions from January 1st - January 15th, 2025, so if you have SFF from 5,000-25,000 words, please send them our way! For more information on how to submit to GNS and what we’re looking for, please visit our website: giganotosaurus.org/submission-g...

Check out our 2024 Wrap-up for a look back at the last year, information about our next submission window, a look forward to 2025, and more! giganotosaurus.org/2024/12/13/2...

New story up at GNS: When María Luisa was eighteen and living in Saltabarranca, Veracruz, she danced with the Devil. Now, her daughter aims to do the same — only better. Read “Dead Reckoning in 6/8 time” by Sabrina Vourvoulias giganotosaurus.org/2024/12/01/dead-reckoning-in-6/8-time

Join @ClowderofTwo reviewing short fiction from @GigaNotoSaurus_ (@giganotosaurus.bsky.social), @diabolicalplots (@diabolicalplots.com), and @SmallwondersSFF (@smallwondersmag.com) - locusmag.com/2024/11...

New story up at GNS: Garrett and his alternate selves once faced the world-eating Priscae Tenebrae in battle. Now he takes coffee orders from a flirtatious stranger. How did he get here? Read “Remnants” by Lauren Triola @3followsso.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2024/11/01/remnants

New story up at GNS: Four patients. Four surgeries. Four chances for Regan to sabotage the Elders’ loyalty implants as she installs them, and save everyone. Read “To Sacrifice Others” by R. Z. Held @rhiannonheld.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2024/10/01/to-sacrifice-others

New story up at GNS: Thanks to a change in contract, Làngrén Kavita has to act fact or risk losing half her crew. The clock is ticking. Read “Here in the Glittering Black, There is Hope” by Monte Lin @montelin.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2024/09/01/here-in-the-glittering-black-there-is-hope

New story up at GNS: In Clearwater Illinois the greenest farms are tended by elven hands. Linnet Halston can’t help her fascination with them. Read “Elves in Illinois” by Sarah J. Wu giganotosaurus.org/2024/08/01/elves-in-illinois

New story up at GNS: When Leticia volunteers for a daring space mission to defend the clean energy producing constellation her crew monitors, she doesn’t do it for the glory. She does it for her family. Read “Samba do Espaço” by Gustavo Bondoni giganotosaurus.org/2024/07/01/s...

"The Rainbow Bank" from Uchechukwu Nwaka won a Locus Award for Best Novelette! We are very happy and proud! locusmag.com/2024/06/2024...

New story up at GNS: When Gabrielle vacations in the glittering city of Jvir, she goes looking for the sights that inspired Kavran, the famous dragon painter. Instead, she finds herself transformed. Read “Underdragon” by Diana Dima @dimafic.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2024/06/01/underdragon

We are thrilled beyond belief that "The Rainbow Bank" published in our 8/2023 issue, is a finalist in the Locus Awards. Congratulations, Uchechukwu Nwaka! locusmag.com/2024/05/2024...

New story up at GNS: How did the three sisters bring Annie Sheridan back from the other side of the veil? A magicienne should never reveal her secrets 🤫 Read “Lacquer Cabinet Trick” by Eris Young giganotosaurus.org/2024/05/01/lacquer-cabinet-trick

Guess who got to be on radio this morning? Check out my interview with WORT FM: www.wortfm.org/madison-base...

Behold, an interview at Madison 365 where @tbonejenkins.bsky.social and I are asked about @giganotosaurus.bsky.social notching a Hugo finalist position! (This remains surreal.) madison365.com/sci-fi-zine-...

Our 2023 Award Eligibility post is now up; also an announcement that submissions will be closed while we catch up on slush.

New story up at GNS: A Dance for the Dead by R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social Teiz has a trial before him: Dance with the dead, appease the lake, and protect his war-torn homeland. If he fails, he must sacrifice his life instead. giganotosaurus.org/2024/02/01/a-dance-for-the-dead

New story up at GNS: The Nine Lives of the Door Spirit by E.A. Petricone @eapetricone.bsky.social A threshold, a friend, a nuisance, a protector to the end, A door is a door is a door is a door, except when it’s so much more. giganotosaurus.org/2024/01/01/t...

New story up at GNS: Reconciliation Dumplings and Other Recipes by Sara Norja @saranorja.bsky.social How to Make A Potful of Lakeside Tales: -12 Recipes, both Sweet and Savory -12 Strange Tales Fold together until delicious giganotosaurus.org/2023/12/01/reconciliation-dumplings-and-other-recipes

I’ve got a new story up at @giganotosaurus.bsky.social today! “Ghosting” is about the Southern California desert, outsiders, and forgetting. Find it here! giganotosaurus.org/2023/11/01/g...

New story up at GNS: Ghosting by Kelly Lagor @klagor.bsky.social "You’re an elaborate shell game of a person. Lydia. A flesh-bound lie." Haunted by cryptic emails, Lydia stumbles out of the desert and discovers the trunk that holds her entire life is gone giganotosaurus.org/2023/11/01/ghosting

And if you want to read the original story, read it here at @giganotosaurus.bsky.social

When I first read "The Air in my House Tastes Like Sugar", I found myself tumbling into a world of softness and strength, joy and sorrow, and overall, quiet resistance. The fact that there is now a whole entire novel of this makes me super giddy!

New story up at GNS: On the English Approach to the Study of History, by E. Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social Two academics unknowingly disturb an ancient pecking order with the academic equivalent of a roast that challenges the traditional Cambridge approach to history. tinyurl.com/3sdh6x6r

The donate link in the editorial now points to our main page. Go to the bottom of the About section and click the "Donate" button there if you want to do a one-time donation. Thanks!

New Editorial up at GNS: We need your help! Yes, it's time for 'that' post. The one where we talk about the future of GNS and invite you to our dreams of continuing to publish awesome authors. giganotosaurus.org/2023/09/05/s...

New story up at GNS: The Rainbow Bank, by Uchechukwu Nwaka @uche_cjn After the Spillage, life became one of dreams and nightmares, where powerful Relics rule. Mezie’s after one of these Relics: a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. https://giganotosaurus.org/2023/08/01/the-rainbow-bank/