My favorite exchange on Twitter in the history of the site

Did you have a Drabble published in 2025? For one week only, you can submit it to our Best of Strange Fiction (2025) awards and anthology. https://foofaraw.submittable.com/submit/348961/best-strange-drabble-of-2025

"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work

This is excellent science communication and a great example of making research tangible and available. "A platform that brings together the best available research on how different treatments proposed for ADHD work and how safe they are." #science #scicomm #writing #ADHD #health

Gangsters, booze, love, dads, and stealing time - it’s Free Fiction Friday. From Alex Atkins magazine.trollbreath.com/tempus/

Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3

Applications are open for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2026! The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you! Choose your pace: 6wk, 12wk, or 18 wk App deadline Apr. 10 www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

Day 2 of the KS campaign for the “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology, a Hard SF theme where tea or coffee, stars, & gravity all play a prominent narrative role. We’re 75% base funded. Help us bring this book to life at www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last. www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je... bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...

And we are live on KS - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... - The “Tear or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology is launched with a Hard SF theme where tea or coffee, stars, and gravity are all playing a prominent narrative role. Help us bring this book to life. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

Ember's First Contest is CLOSED! We got a whopping 103 stories to read—can't wait to see what y'all pulled together!

Three days to launch - Feb. 3rd. Hoping you will join us as a backer. I know times are tough . You will be supporting worthy, talented authors and a small indie press fighting the good fight with kindness, respect, and decency towards all in our community.

We are elated to announce the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners, Class of 2025! This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird. BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July. Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/47f6tt48

reading austen is important for a number of impractical life skills but mostly in how to call someone a wanker to their face in the 18th century — "I send no compliments to your mother" — the recipient would carry that around for 20 years and then kill themselves

February plans:

Janeway and Paris's salamander children are THIRTY today.

The Acceptance Of Self - 18x24” acrylic on wood. Available.

To whomever anonymously sent me the ibuprofen: thank you! I am putting it to good use.

🚨 Prize increase alert! 🚨 We have enough sign-ups to bump up what you can win in Ember's First Contest! 1st: US$225 (from $200) 2nd: US$200 (from $175) 3rd: US$175 (from $150) 3 honorable mentions: US $65 each (from $50) If we get more before registration closes on Thursday, we'll do it again!

This year we're giving our authors the opportunity to voice their stories! We're paying an additional $0.01/word to authors who participate. Recordings will be free to Patrons and available for purchase.

drunk history darmok and jalad at tanagra

Submissions update: our amazing poetry editors are done reading the remaining poetry in our queue, and all fiction and poetry has received a response! Final decisions for Issue 1 will be made very soon—so if you received a hold from us, expect a response in the next week! We’re SO excited 🪐 🗡️

Pleased to have gotten my story for @notquitewrite.com in with less than three minutes to spare! Nothing to do now but wait for vague posts from the judges that I can read my story into.

There’s also the Minnesota Star Tribune Local News Fund https://www.startribunecompany.com/donate/

Make a $15 donation to an MSP organization helping feed people or protecting people’s rights and email it to me hello [at] foofaraw [dot] press, I’ll give you a free year of Foofaraw’s premium tier. Make it $25 and I’ll send you copies of our two novelettes.

Me: Ugh, bottom feeders. Friend: They’re just called “tops.”

I never get the ADHD thing where I am thinking about 35 things at once, for me it's more like my brain is an etch-a-sketch and every few hours I drop it

Our submission window is closed! We had: 🪐 622 fiction submissions (all have received a rejection or a hold) 🗡️ 254 poetry packets (57 are still waiting for a response) Thank you for trusting us with your work—we're honored. Final decisions will be made within 2 weeks. Next window opens April 1st!

I'm pleased that "Our Last Road Trip" found a home in here alongside so many other great stories!

Oh, Great Lesbian of the Lake, grant us your wisdom.

I was asked to illustrate a short story titled Life's Awful Short for @sundialmagazine.bsky.social, and was delighted to do so Have a read, it's a lovely little tale, and I hope my painting (of the same title) did it justice Life's Awful Short - by Chris Doty-Dunn: sites.google.com/view/sundial...

A VERY generous benefactor has donated entries to the upcoming Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction to support writers on low income! If you've always wanted to enter but struggled to find the means to do so, please email us at [email protected] 1/2

We're now closed to general submissions, but we're still open until the 21st to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors! This is an extension rather than a separate window, so if you've already submitted, please wait until our next opening in April to send us something new. 🪐🗡️

Oh hey, that's me! And an awesome piece of artwork to go with it!

Funky prompts, you say? Learn more about how we're thinking about prompt design for Ember's First Contest, starting January 30!

IT'S THE FINAL HOURS TO SUBMIT TO OUR GENERAL WINDOW!! Get your submissions in 🪐 🗡️ Our extended window for BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled authors runs from Jan 15-21. We open again in April—and our submission schedule for the year is on our guidelines page! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines… blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Also, if you'd like to nominate a story you've written or read published in 2025 to our annual The Foofs Best of award/anthology, you have five days left! https://foofaraw.press/the-foofs-2025/

Going to try something a little different this time for the "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" anthology KS campaign - a pre-launch page - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #sciencefiction. Launching officially February 3rd, 2026. Please join us as a backer!

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

My fb memories gave me a funny and unfortunately still true post from @runwithskizzers.bsky.social

For your Hard SF anthology stories - do you prefer TEA or COFFEE with your stars and gravity? Let us know below and what your preferred blend/flavor/type is.

That's it folks!!!! Entries are now closed for another year! An INCREDIBLE 1277 (!!!) entries have been received. A record. I have some tough choices ahead. The longlist should hopefully be coming your way on the 8th January. That's next Thursday! Good luck!

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

Are you a writer resolving to build craft and community in 2026? Applications to the Viable Paradise workshop are now open! We’re looking for 24 writers to join us in October. Learn more and apply: viableparadise.com

Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings' inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...