Received the Apex proofs today and I can't believe my name is listed there alongside so many talented and award-winning writers. 😭😭 Watch out for issue 152 launching this February!!

I'm looking for Sudanese + Syrian beta readers for a new novelette I'm writing that heavily discusses refugees in Greece and the way the government constantly threatens their existence. Two of my characters are of Syrian and Sudanese origin so please spread the word! I'll beta read in exchange.

I'm excited to announce that my essay "Intellectual Colonialism and the Erasure of South and Eastern European Writing Voices: Another Tikka-Masala" has been picked up by @apexmag.bsky.social 🥰🥹 a dream coming true! Wait for all the 🇬🇷 Greek rage 🇬🇷 on the February issue.

It's almost 2026 which means time to send my writing and editing wrap-up! If you want to get to know me more, read some more personal thoughts etc join!!! sophiamarianicolopoulos.wordpress.com/join-my-news...

It does get better! 🥳 If I told my younger self that you'd make it to 31, she would have laughed at my face. I was too lost my whole teenage and early adulthood years and at 31, I finally start to feel like I might know a thing or two about how to do this 'life' thing.

This book is everything!!! Can't wait to put it on my shelves!

Heartbroken to read the news about Psychopomp and Fantasy Magazine. 💔 Hoping to read work from them again.

I'm probably delusional, thinking I can work on 3 projects at once, but it's gonna be a while before I teach myself not to bite off more than I can chew.

We've got a cover! And it's intimate, sexy and lethal!!! 🔥🗡️ So happy for you Danai!!!

It's that time again! Free critiques for short stories, novellas, novelettes, novels, poetry and flash or micro-fiction! Also, query letters! Up to 5K, I read all genres! The people that have worked with me have been published and with many, we're still friends! Please RT!

PUBLICATION DAY! 'Tucking my Feathers in Your Brittle Heart' is available to read in the new Aurealis issue! It's about dinosaurs, childhood dreams, coping with the terminal disease of a loved one + the bitter taste of coffee! 🦖☕ www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

i didn't let anyone know here BUT ON NOV 3RD I FINISHED DRAFT 1.5 OF MY BOOK

This COVER is so pretty I could just look at it for years! Give me all the lady knights, please 🥹🥹

Excited to announce that I'm part of @jelenawrites.bsky.social 's street team for her upcoming novel LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE which releases on April 7th, 2026 by Dark Matter Ink! Can't wait to read this one! 🗡️🪄🤍 #lovelethaldeathdivine #thediviners #2026releases #darkfantasy #slavicfolklore

Two more femicides in Greece this week. How many more?! We suffer and we bleed in this country because we happened to be born outside the dominant class. Please remember that Greece is not a monolith and that writing about my culture isn't only about Zeus or Pandora or Odysseus.

Looking for web design services aka having my own blog re-designed! Since I come from a low-income background, any discounts are appreciated ♥️ in exchange, I could also offer some free editing (if you're a writer too!)

Worst OCD episode I've had post-COVID yesterday. My parents met my future in-laws and insulted me the first 5 minutes. Relationship fights before that point. Job crisis three days ago. I completely retreated into my mind, had an anxiety attack almost twice and cried the whole day. 💔

Congrats to nominees and winners 🤍🩵💕🌌

I have decided to spend more time here, sharing and promoting works of other writers and my own reading/writing progress! Do drop links to what short stories you've read recently or published below 👇🏻🌻

"What had happened, she wasn’t sure. A big explosion. Or was it an implosion? Her father surely would have known. She wished she could ask him." 🏵️📻 New fiction today by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social: "A Final Song for the Ages" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Loved the stories included, read them in a sitting! Congrats to all ☁️🌌

I'm going on tour in a few weeks! My new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster is about a young witch who teaches her mother how to do magic. It's about loss and healing, queer family and unconditional love. Tues: Green Apple, SF Weds: Powell's, Portland Thurs: Women & Children First, Chicago

There's something inspiring and sentimental when you read your friend's work! Don't miss out on THE CASTAWAY AND THE WITCH, a harrowing mythic fantasy inspired by Greek myth and dealing with memory, grief, love and the fights women have to give against invisible systems. ✨ @ioannapauthor.bsky.social

The Castaway and the Witch is the new novella from Ioanna Papadopoulou, author of Winter Harvest. Coming September 2025. Preorder now from our store: bit.ly/4mTp7mJ Or your preferred retailer: buff.ly/NfmdIfK

I don't know what to tell ya, fam! Our open submission period closes in two days. Two whole days!! (Aug 11th) So if you got something good, get that good gotten to us while the getting is good. (This sentence somehow makes sense because English is the true horror.) pseudopod.org/submissions/

SPOTTING PIPPIN THE COSMONAUT IN MY HOMEPAGE IS WILD!! 💗 Good luck, Lyndsey! have fun with your next project!

Pulled my back during deadlifts because I didn't listen to my body 🫠 Have to abstain from all sorts of lifting for 10 days+then slowly re-introduce functional movements with no weights and/or bands. Second strain I get within a year of my powerlifting journey. Bummed but happy it wasn't sth worse.

I've got a poetry collection about grief and death. If any of you have heard of any press calls I could send this to, let me know 👀

Pretty hard to put down words these days since work has been too demanding and the current heatwave doesn't make it fun enough to sit and type. But I did complete 2 poems and 1 story so far in July, and I am trying to show up for my book. Hoping the rest of you are having a better writing month! 🦭

After so many years, lingering and thinking about this reading nook, IT'S FINALLY DONE!! And with a shelf filled with my printed publications 🥰 this corner is everything I ever wanted growing up as a reader and so much more ♥️

😱Submissions are OPEN for the Disability in Dystopia anthology! If you're disabled and/or chronically ill, we want to hear your stories and pay you for them! Submissions Guide: shorturl.at/jges6 Deadline: June 20th 2025.

If you missed my latest work, dive right in! This is a fictionalized account of the last days of a relative and it features a Grim Reaper society, writing to your apprentice and falling in love with mortality. ✨

hey, we're always looking for new artists and illustrators to work with. please, if you are/know someone who is a great HUMAN artist, drop a link to your/their portolio. no promises, but we'd love to browse some portfolios today!! also pls share for visibility!!! 💀🖤💀

🚀 December issue submissions are OPEN! We want your sci-fi & fantasy stories. Women-identified authors welcome - new writers especially encouraged! Deadline: Aug 15th duotrope.com/duosuma... #ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines

My very Greek, very bleak, very hopeful story "When the Reaper Arrives, Do not Mourn for Her" that was inspired by the passing of a close relative. You can read it here: www.penumbric.com/currentissue... ToC buddies with Ray Daley, this feels so bittersweet. @penumbricmag.bsky.social

Found this amazing collection at @argonautbooks.bsky.social at Leith, Edinburgh that was edited by the talented @soniasulaiman.bsky.social (they have a space dedicated to Palestinian voices, please make sure you visit if you're around!) and I can't wait to dive in! 🇵🇸

Can't wait to read this! 👀👀👀

Can't wait for my first @cymerafestival.co.uk 💛 Halfway there 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 If anyone's up for a chat or a writing session and they happen to be in Edinburgh, let me know!

The world is not a safe place anymore but books will always be my refuge. After wrapping up the fantastic 'Foul Days' by @gen-dimova.bsky.social I snuggled with my preorder of 'They Bloom at Night' by @nvtran.bsky.social and, as expected, I'm falling hard. Please read and support #ownvoices 🙏🏻❤️

Boyfriend's team worked on this one!!!! 🫶🏽Dual system supplement for D&D 2024 + Legend in the Mist RPG with Slavic + Balkan folklore from actual Slavic + Balkan people!! Funded in less than 20 minutes, reached 100K + in less than a day!!! 🤍🤍🤍 Thank you!!!!!

Hexagon Magazine Issue 20 / Spring 2025 is now available to all for free on our website. 🐸🧡 Our final issue has original short fiction from Kit Calvert, Silvia Heike, Jordan Hirsch, Uchechukwu Nwaka, and Carol Scheina, with amazing cover art from Elaine Will. Edited by JW Stebner.

For the purposes of my book research, I'm looking to connect with another writer or reader of Albanian heritage. One of my characters is going to be a Cham Albanian + this has been a pretty heated topic between Greece-Albania so far. I'm looking to critically educate myself! Thank you so much 💖

This cat was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive grooming after hair loss in her entire belly area and one hind leg because we decided to put her on a diet. Every day she sleeps, eats, goes out in the sun, walks all over us and she still finds a way to overstress herself. This is her payback.

"there comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else: and if you choose the dream, if you keep on going, then you can never quit, because it's all you are" I will think of those Laini Taylor words whenever I feel my writing cannot get me anywhere

Veggie soup! Cats! Plotting my new book! More cats! I want my week off to extend to eternity 🥹🥹

happy lunar new year!!

Easy morning away from social media + planning out the details of my book. Odette is spending loads of time on my mat, stretching and biting into it. 😬

Day trip at Lake Prespa has been fantastic! Picture 1: on the left side, the dark point is where the Greek-Albanian border is. Picture 2: Albanian land is where the snowy peaks are. The lower mountains in the foreground is where North Macedonia is. One lake, three different countries.

Omg, another @lyndseycroal.bsky.social book!! Cant wait to read it 🫶🏽❤️

Will spend the next few days in a mountainous resort in Florina, Greece. I've never seen so much snow in my life! Born and raised in the south, the white scenery looks like true heaven to me! 😍