Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! 🖤🎃🌿 We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF. Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...

Are we still writing up our fall curriculum? Put me on your syllabus! metrowestwriters.myshopify.com/products/aut...

On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT. The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

me, to big kid: Watcha working on? Your comic? big kid: City Kitties (said as if I should def know what City Kitties is) me: Sooo...not your comic? big kid: No, it's my *book* (said as if I should def know she started writing a book twelve minutes ago) ... big kid: it's mostly about squirrels

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!! 📢📢📢 We're hosting an AMA here with Apex Magazine Editor and EIC of Crepuscular @retreasure.bsky.social TOMORROW!! 📚✨ Got any writing, editing, or publishing questions burning a hole in your pocket? Reply to this post with your question, and Becky may select yours to answer!

It’s midnight! That means Witch You Would is OUT NOW AHHH! Sorry I’m going to be insufferable for a minute. Also, please come to the party!

A solarpunk heist thriller, free creative writing workshop and more in our new update #solarpunk #protopia solarpunkstories.substack.com/p/solarpunk-...

ICYMI! I have a new story out! 'Til Earth and Heaven Ring' draws on the real self-emancipation orchestrated by Robert Smalls in 1862, swirled with a budding romance, a dash of the uncanny, and interspersed with museum artifacts and interpretation. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

moderately time-war coded

After a devastating battle, a reluctant rebel is forced to work with a dangerous enemy to save their world. In the mood for a book about found family, fighting technofascism, and second chances? There are 100 free copies of The King Must Die available on GR: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

We’re so excited to announce the official table of contents for SILK & FOXGLOVE🪻🔪🪷🔪We’re so grateful to all the authors who sent work in and we can’t for you all to read this collection @pegasusunder.bsky.social has curated 😍 #queer #indiehorror #queerpublishing #hedonebooks

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 👀

Hello new followers! So happy you're here! You'll find I mostly use bsky for updates (my own writing and others'!) I'm also active on IG. But the best place to remain up to date on my work remains my newsletter: www.kswalker.net#contact

My novel, The Canopy Keepers, was nominated for a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award!!! 🥳 🙏 www.killernashville.com/2025-silver-...

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⚡New Story!⚡ 'Til Earth and Heaven Ring' is a historical piece in @strangehorizons.bsky.social Afrosurrealism special issue! Inspired by Robert Smalls' self-emancipation, this is a story about strangeness, risk, art, and of course, about freedom. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

"....Otto could not see through the hole, but he could see into it. And inside were multitudes. Far more there than could or should be contained in any single person. There was a vastness, yet as far as Otto could tell, it was full .… a bowl full of possibility."

Here's some more AfroSurrealism for everyone! SET IT OFF (1996) – FANS’ CUT  by NOVA CYPRESS BLACK Till Earth and Heaven Ring  by K. S. Walker @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social Read these pieces at the link to the latest issue in our bio!

We're open to submissions this month by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 2 is now available on our Patreon! Featuring arthropod stories from @eclosionk2.bsky.social, @mmschreier.bsky.social, @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @akatherineblack.bsky.social, @jennifleck.bsky.social, and Pauline Jérémie! 🪲🐛🐞🦀

Hi all; I'm going to undergo a significant procedure later this year (sorry, would rather not disclose) and my husband's health insurance doesn't cover it. We're going to need funds for the care during and after. Any help would be much appreciated: gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...

FEED US (It has to be human and it has to be yours!) Our submission period closes May 31st so get those short stories and poems watered, fertilized, and...cut? We want spec that is focused on a long-term relationships. Bonus points if Canadian 🍁 www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

I’m incredibly excited to announce the authors for Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 2! 🦋🐞🐜🪲🦗🪰🕷️🦀 @akatherineblack.bsky.social @dianadima.com Joshua Green Pauline Jérémie @eclosionk2.bsky.social @jennifleck.bsky.social @mmschreier.bsky.social @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social #invertefest

March 1st! It's my birthday month and in true Aries fashion I like to celebrate ALL MONTH LONG 🎊 Celebrate with me in this thread by sharing something you made that you're proud of 🥰🥰🥰

STOP EVERYTHING. ✋🏾 One of my *favorite* short fiction writers has a novella coming out? THIS MONTH? @neonhemlock.bsky.social @domsdickey.bsky.social where have I been?????

Happy Valentine's Day!✨💘 Doing award season reading? Looking for something with a hint of romance? Can I offer you ' Hands like Gold and Starlight'? www.uncannymagazine.com/article/hand... Please note I did not promise you an HEA 🫣 do not come for me 😆

Thrilled that we have a Spanish language version of this guide to protecting yourself and your community from ICE, in the hopes it can reach as many people who need it as possible. 51st.news/es/los-opera...

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Our workshop livestream series continues on Thursday with award-winning author @clclark.bsky.social! Join us Feb. 13 @ 3pm ET to learn how to spice up your character relationships before Valentine's Day rolls around! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Yp...

This story was inspired by both Black and Deaf history. I hope you'll give it a try

BIG NEWS: Violet Lichen and Apex Book Company are launching a new annual anthology! 🥂📚🍄 ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Eco-fiction, will showcase a collection of standout ecofiction published within the previous year. Story nominations open January 27th! Check the attached post for details!

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

Book pre-orders are an indication of reader interest in a title. They demonstrate to publishers and booksellers that working with the author and stocking their books is a wise choice. So, if you love an author's work, consider pre-ordering and/or asking your local library to shelve the book.

Dearest writers, Updated submissions info! We plan to open Jan 22-29 22-25 to works by BIPOC authors 26-29 open to all Short fic! Flash fic! Poetry! Please check guidelines; apologies for any confusion. We are eager to see your words! psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga... - A

hey can someone chinese/chinese-american write up a listicle of chinese sff in translation for reactor mag dot com please thank you my email is in the submissions page on the website thanks

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast is open to fiction submissions during January. Lesbian/sapphic historical short stories. PAYING MARKET. (I'm at the point where I'm terrified that I won't have enough submissions to justify continuing next year.) alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...

ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo and Nebula Awards? Try the short story "Hands Like Gold and Starlight" by K.S. Walker! (@kswalkerwrites.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/hands-like-gold-and-starlight/

Yes! Come!👏🏾On!👏🏾

And I have a story reprint in issue 11 👀👀👀

We are now open to submissions with a raise in author pay, with so many thanks to our supporters. Cannot wait to read your terrifying unruly anomalous awesome fictions!

Yaswss! @archistratego.bsky.social !!! This is what I want to read more of in 2025 Old gods become new gods ritual sacrifice and ritual ahem-hem-hem 😈 www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/wait...

Hi. 2024 Eligibility Post. Some stories are still coming, so will update as things change. If you only have time for one, Brotherhood or the Sort might be a fit. If you like horror: Alabama or Grottmata might be your jam. Links in post. Ty for your time 👋 www.thomashawrites.com/blog-3/2024-...

But if you wrote anything at all this year, in a world that is fairly hostile to anyone who tries to pursue art for its own sake, then you did something! If this year, you rested because you needed to recover, then you did something. If you survived, despite the world, you did something.

Revising my sci-fantasy novella about a sentient bio-ship who is absolutely *pining* over their himbo, plant-boi pilot ✨🌱😊 ✔️check on me, fam cuz I be getting distracted 😩😂

Reading for the Hugo and Nebula Awards? Try the short story "Hands Like Gold and Starlight" by K.S. Walker! You can read it here! @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/hand...

Hey, my latest newsletter just went out today! In it, I show some love to books and stories by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @seanbirnie.bsky.social, @marissalingen.bsky.social, @noirbettie.bsky.social, and @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social buttondown.com/LyndsieWrite...

1/I had one original short story published this year! 😊 It's a historical fantasy that takes place on Martha's Vineyard and, of course, is full of longing and bodily transformation. I'd love it if you gave it a read this winter. And Also please do check out the work of @carolscheina.bsky.social

Watermelon Grant applications are open through December 6 for Palestinian writers of speculative fiction and poetry www.ldlewiswrites.com/watermelon-g...

lmao logs in to bsky for the first time in a millennia, is promptly overwhelmed. I'll figure this out eventually y'all but today is not that day