👀June 2026 Poetry👀 "What to Watch For" is a poem by @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social about hope in a world that refuses to forget, and you can read it now! havenspec.com/poetry/what-...

Short story acceptance! 🚀👰🍲

Feeling literary today? Check out our interview with Jordan Hirsch and her fanstinating story "Writing on the Wall" rss.com/podcasts/bio... #podcast #writingCommunity #fiction #scifi #fantasy #story #creative #art @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social

Friendly reminder, authors: please do not submit AI-written, AI-translated, or AI-"improved" writing. It genuinely doesn't read well. You're much better off developing your own skill #writingCommunity #literature #art #fiction #podcast

Started my morning with this lovely poem. Well done, @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social ! 💙📚

Excited to see what’s next for Jordan! Support her work with ko-fi!

If you're looking for a break from the world cup drama, here are some poems! One fresh-and-new and three reprints are showcased in this essay. Published under Marge Simon's column BLOOD & SPADES.

Day 1 of #JulyWritingJar is done! I pulled out the first slip of paper this morning (before feeding the cats, even), and it said to update my Ko-Fi page - the one I was least excited for 😅 But! I added a new goal since we no longer have student loans 🎉🎉🎉 Check it: ko-fi.com/jordanhirsch

May and June Submission Stats! (You get two months for the price of one because I've been focusong on other things!) - 12 subs sent (all still pending) - 16 rejections - 0 acceptances - 6 publications We're out here trying our best!

Today on SFPA Reviews, @lisatimpf.bsky.social brings us: anOther Nemesis by @aijiang.bsky.social, @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social, @genni.bsky.social, and @cybergodwrites.bsky.social sfpoetry.org/wp/2026/06/2...

Did you know the SFPA has a blog? Check out our newest post: A Poem Means What You Feel It Means: Reflections from a Nepali Poet sfpoetry.org/wp/2026/06/2...

New on the blog! SFPA Reviews: Through the Looking Glass: Poems by Anna Cates. sfpoetry.org/wp/2026/06/2...

For inspiration and momentum, I've created a fun little game for myself: July Writing Jar. I've written down 31 tasks (some are duplicates), and each day, I'll pull one out and do it! Follow along if you want! #julywritingjar

👀June 2026 Poetry👀 "A Science Center Education" is a poem by @lynnesargent.bsky.social about life and chance and how lucky we are that we exist and can build all our hopeful fragile lives together. Find it in our June 2026 Issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

Finally sent out some poems today. Hoping these are the homes for them.

I've always had very big dreams and ambitions, and some days (today), the weight of not achieving them feels crushing. Had a long talk with my 18-year-old self, and now I'm cocooning in a blanket while watching basketball.

👀June 2026 Poetry👀 "What to Watch For" is a poem by @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social about hope in a world that refuses to forget. Find it in our June 2026 Issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

My hopeful cli-fi poem is within these pages!

Our ✨June 2026 issue✨ is ready! Subscribers will get it tomorrow, and everyone else can read it July 2nd! In this issue, you'll find five new stories and six new poems, many of which are vaguely environmental and all of which are amazing!

Fiction by EC Dorgan, @spencerwriting.bsky.social, @madihaab.com, @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, and Emily O'Malley Liu! Poetry by @aijiang.bsky.social, Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe, @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social, @lynnesargent.bsky.social, Oladosu Michael Emerald, and @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social!

I'll be in San Francisco for two days in mid-August! Other than Starfleet Academy, where should I go? What should I do? Any restaurant recommendations?

It’s been over a year since Hexagon shut down, but our Year Five Anthology will be coming soon. Featuring fantastically weird, wondrous, and whimsical art from the incredible @gustaffovargas.bsky.social! 🐍

I'll be in San Francisco for two days in mid-August! Other than Starfleet Academy, where should I go? What should I do? Any restaurant recommendations?

The vibes I bring to the function.

What if I just use my weekly work from home day to write a new book? (To my one coworker who follows me here: you didn't see this, Mike.)

I didn't submit a single piece of writing in May, but I did read a lot! Here's a thread of the 8 books I finished and how I felt about them! SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon Devastatingly and beautiful. Chock full of generational trauma and love and how both affect our bodies. Loved it.

Hi #LGBTQWriteAThon! I hope everyone is persevering and finding some spark of joy and rebellion in this time. 💖 I’m Rick, a genderqueer / intersex / pan author. I write SFFH and poetry. My goal is to finish the first draft of my kids-on-bikes-meet-dinosaurs queer adult sci-fi novel this month.

I didn't submit a single piece of writing in May, but I did read a lot! Here's a thread of the 8 books I finished and how I felt about them! SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon Devastatingly and beautiful. Chock full of generational trauma and love and how both affect our bodies. Loved it.

My cozy poem "My[celial] Eulogy" is out today!

Our new issue is best enjoyed curled up by the glowing ember of a neutron star. Cozy contributors include @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social, @swpisciotta.bsky.social, @travisbaldree.bsky.social, and many other comforting voices in the SFF. #sciencefiction www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...

New short story! If tornado alley was a channel of psychic storms & your only shelter was the good, safe places we've made for ourselves along the way. Aka "the story I'd pull if the fate of the world depended on me making myself tear up by the last line" Read now at Stanchion: Elegant Variations

Eleanor Ball's (@eleanorball.bsky.social) "The Sunset" is a sinister slice of ecofiction 〰️ read the rest in issue 34 at surelymag.com 〰️

These novel revisions feel like they are going to do me in.

My debut full-length poetry collection, TIME TRAVEL IS EASY, has been nominated for the 2026 Elgin Awards!

authors getting paid a living wage

Submissions open for new volume of poetry and micro-prose on themes of "modern midwest monsters"! Deadline is Jun. 2, 2026! www.middlewestpress.com/2026/03/send...

After a very robust April, I'm displeased to report that I've submitted zero times in May so far. A little bit of burnout, a little bit of sickness, a whole lot of reading and gardening and rest. I'll get back to it soon!

I can't get over this cover 🤩🤩🤩

Unveiling the 2026 Rhysling Anthology cover! "Death on a Pale Horse" by @juliedillon.bsky.social Find more of her incredible work here: www.juliedillonart.com

Check out my poem!

Talons, sharp and keratinous, stretch toward me, inescapable in their descent. -from "Carrion" by Jordan Hirsch ( @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social ), in April's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poem #poetry #horror #HorrorCommunity

Pub day! My poem "My Bot Boyfriend Has Read Wuthering Heights Too Many Times" is out today in Eye to the Telescope's "Paying Tribute" issue! @sfpoetry.bsky.social eyetothetelescope.com/index.html

Submission fees PISS. ME. OFF.

Pub day! My poem "My Bot Boyfriend Has Read Wuthering Heights Too Many Times" is out today in Eye to the Telescope's "Paying Tribute" issue! @sfpoetry.bsky.social eyetothetelescope.com/index.html

every trans woman is a miracle

Amusement Park Arcana, my little horror novella coming July 15, 2026 , is available to preorder in ebook and in paperback! books2read.com/AmusementPar... 🎢🎡🎠 please enjoy this blurb by @sarahday.org 🎢🎡🎠

Revisions have been feeling lifeless, so I took a break and wrote a page of my next project (eco-punk novella/novel?), and it was GLORIOUS.

IT IS WEDNESDAY MY DUDES RUN WITH THE HUNTED Run With the Hunted is my ongoing, female-led, cyberpunk heist NOVELLA series! we got: Bristol, the self-made socialite Bits, the hacker Dolly, the violence book 9 out Oct-31! itch.io/c/5506291/ru... authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h...

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...

Mother's Day sucks for so many people, including me. If this weekend is hard for you, here - have some of my light. 💚💚💚