Me: *gets glasses with progressive lenses* Me: *holds reading material half an inch from my face* Me: These don't work.

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

deadlands fiction submission OPEN for SPECIAL ISSUE 💀💀💀 edited by @vajra.me NO JOKE, VERY REAL submit your greatest death stories here: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

I wrote a weird little story. Weird Lit Magazine was like, "okay, we'll take it." Read my horror story, "The Lake Holds No Light" out now in this lovely little issue.

Me, at home alone—for absolutely no fucking reason: What if a hand just reached out from under the bed and grabbed my ankle? Me, at home, jumping into bed like a 7 year old.

Help litmags transition away from Twitter, follow them on BlueSky. go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

I'm a digital magpie saving little jewels to share with my writing students. Years ago I took a screenshot of this tweet. @katedollarhyde.bsky.social, was this you? I'd love to get a high resolution credited version, if you still have it. I tried using words to make the point; the chart is better!

Calling poets,prose writers & essayists to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue!Send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic. Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are co-editing strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

A year ago today, I lost my cat Blue. She was my soul pet, and I miss her, still.

Post a gif of a fictional death that devastated you

Announcing the 2024 Rejection Competition Winners! 🥳Congrats to Jake Dennis, with 710 rejections taking top spot. Shout out to Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Caitlin E. Myers, and @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social for winning their respective divisions.

My dreams are either I’m at work voting with my team about where to eat lunch, or I’m crawling through caves to leap-stab a pitchfork through chest of the dark witch to pierce her heart and save us all.

Heya, #writers, it's that special time of year. No, not Happy Honda Days, but Rejection Competition sign up! Get in the submitting game with some friendly rivalry. Open to all writers, all levels. More at my site reneebibby.com/rejectioncompetition

I want to give off this vibe

Pretzel stays in bed with me all night and soon as I get out of bed she goes back to bed to sleep hard with a lort-I’m-tired energy that I find kind of rude.

A periodic reminder that if you can't afford a book the library does buy books, and sometimes we even buy hundreds of copies of one book. Checking out books from your local library supports authors, which means they get paid and can write more great books!

Are you looking for speculative fiction publications on Bluesky? These two starter packs will help! #1 bsky.app/starter-pack... #2: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Issue 26 of miniskirt magazine is now out. I'm in Issue 26. For a romance story. That's how we know we're in the dark timeline.

#writers #writingcommunity 🗣️it’s time to sign up for the annual Rejection Competition. All writers, all levels welcome. Check it out at reneebibby.com/rejectioncompetition

My ghost story finally found a home!! 😭

💥 August Rejection Competition numbers! 💥

For real, @tbq.bsky.social saw this story and said, "we got you, fam!" And not only published it, but championed it. Viva el TBQ!

Have we made any headway in answering the greatest multiverse question of our lifetime: Is it possible for a version of our universe to exist where the _only_ difference is that we have hot dog fingers? Wouldn't their existence mandate a different way of building all conveniences of modern life?

July was our slowest rejection month, but in good news many of our participating writers are definitely representing in nomination and award season!

Sometimes, I don’t go to bed on time because the read-before-sleep book I’m reading is too intense and so I avoid it AND sleep.

Show me a picture in your phone that has your energy—not a selfie.

One of my first posts has to be about the amazing numbers coming out of the 2023 Rejection Competition. Huzzah to BEE LB and Jake Dennis who have held their leads for six months.

Okay! I’m here! 🤓