Here's my 2025 Awards Eligibility post. 🦄✨ Thank you so much to everyone who read, published, or supported my writing journey this year! Feel free to nominate anything you liked. Thank you for your consideration.

"I am the oldest daughter. To look after my family, I will have to bring a leopard home. Or be married off to a man with a string of leopard teeth laced around his neck. But I am not interested in men." Read 'Ghost Leopard' by @crystalkoo.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-ghos... #SFF

"I am the oldest daughter. To look after my family, I will have to bring a leopard home. Or be married off to a man with a string of leopard teeth laced around his neck. But I am not interested in men." Read 'Ghost Leopard' by @crystalkoo.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-ghos... #SFF

"What do you do when you’re expected to honor the memory of someone who didn’t care for you the way you deserved?" You can read my Reactor-recommended (!!!!) story, "If You Can’t Make Your Own Regret, Store-Bought Is Fine" in @innerworlds.bsky.social issue 9! inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-if-y...

So sad to hear about @innerworlds.bsky.social closing. It's a beautiful zine that's showcased all aspects of mental health in its stories. They published my OCD story, "Flash/Flash/Flash". inner-worlds.ghost.io/flash-flash-... I'll forever be grateful. Check it out. 💙📚

Fabulous picks, including 'If You Can’t Make Your Own Regret, Store-Bought Is Fine' by @rjaurand.bsky.social from our latest issue!

I have some sad news to share, folks 😔 inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-10-wil...

More sad news. It's tough to balance our need for paying jobs with the desire to share beautiful words from incredible authors. But until publishers can make a living, magazines will continue to struggle. Bills gotta get paid somehow. You can help: go subscribe to a short fiction mag TODAY!!!

We're reopening to submissions on January 1st. Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.

Inner Worlds was full of truly thought provoking and *profoundly* moving stories that we were lucky to read, stories that expanded the limits of genre fiction. I'm grateful to have been a part of it and wish you all the best, Sarah. ❤️

I have some sad news to share, folks 😔 inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-10-wil...

"We do not know if Lepidoptera have episodic memories, or if it, too, would endure. Ma has always believed that it would—that the caterpillar remembered itself. She had to, if she found metamorphosis beautiful at all." Read 'Puparium' by @jyzh.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-pupa...

"We do not know if Lepidoptera have episodic memories, or if it, too, would endure. Ma has always believed that it would—that the caterpillar remembered itself. She had to, if she found metamorphosis beautiful at all." Read 'Puparium' by @jyzh.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-pupa...

"To nine-year-old Mumbi, this chaos was normal, a soundtrack she’d grown up inside. But deep in her chest, she knew that Jesus would come like a thief." Read 'Mumbi and the Second Coming' by Celestine Ndanu K. inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-mumb...

🌌 Heads up: @innerworlds.bsky.social is open Jan 1–14 for marginalised authors and Jan 15–31 for writers 🌌 Send 500–2,500 word SFF or supernatural horror with a strong emotional or psychological focus. Pays £0.02/word. Guidelines: horrortree.com/taking-submi...` #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

"To nine-year-old Mumbi, this chaos was normal, a soundtrack she’d grown up inside. But deep in her chest, she knew that Jesus would come like a thief." Read 'Mumbi and the Second Coming' by Celestine Ndanu K. inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-mumb...

Thank you to everyone who has responded to this so far, it has been wonderful reading your answers. Please keep them coming! :-)

"The rumble, I’m used to. It’s going almost all the time but with her it increases to growls, with no break. The timbre enough to warm the base of my spine. The sound like ongoing building work in an unending city..." Read The Monster by @nomonbooks.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-the-...

Thank you to everyone who has responded to this so far, it has been wonderful reading your answers. Please keep them coming! :-)

"The rumble, I’m used to. It’s going almost all the time but with her it increases to growls, with no break. The timbre enough to warm the base of my spine. The sound like ongoing building work in an unending city..." Read The Monster by @nomonbooks.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-the-...

New story day! My sci-fi (?) short story “Sore Winner” is live now in The /tƐmz/ Review #33. Come stew in the weird, dark games we play when we’re bored. Maybe you’ll feel better about winning this time.

On December 12th I read Moult by Anita Harris Satkunananthan, published in @innerworlds.bsky.social! "This is a city of people who continuously shed their skin." Gorgeous writing and the imagery of shedding skin is used in many impactful ways throughout. Really enjoyed this one.

"The world outside...I was supposed to pick apart its symbolisms, ad-lib style. I was supposed to throw syllables together at random and pray for coherence. And no one ever told you if you were doing it wrong." Read 'The Boy With The Headphones' by Taija Sensei inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-the-...

"When the doorbell rings, Penny doesn’t want to open the door. She doesn’t want anyone to see how they live. She peers through the spyhole, a sea of junk mail slipping under her tennis shoes." Read 'Mama's Labyrinth' by @sylviaheike.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-mama...

"When the doorbell rings, Penny doesn’t want to open the door. She doesn’t want anyone to see how they live. She peers through the spyhole, a sea of junk mail slipping under her tennis shoes." Read 'Mama's Labyrinth' by @sylviaheike.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-mama...

🛸🛸 new story today from @iridescentwords.bsky.social 🛸🛸 this eel story will cheer you right up www.nightshadesmag.com/hurling-pell...

"Cloud-soft, our animal floated through the room like slow music. You were still crying, phone in hand, when its pink mist spread and put us to sleep again. And we saw our underwater heaven." Read 'To Sleep In Seagrass Beds' by @angelvleal.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-to-s...

"Cloud-soft, our animal floated through the room like slow music. You were still crying, phone in hand, when its pink mist spread and put us to sleep again. And we saw our underwater heaven." Read 'To Sleep In Seagrass Beds' by @angelvleal.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-to-s...

Do you like terrible women? What about toxic friendships? What if they're trans though? Okay, but what if there are birds? My latest short story, A Crow for Brunch, is out in @unlikely-stories.bsky.social today. Read here: www.unlikelystories.org/content/a-cr...

Happy December! The latest issue of #Penumbric is online! You can find it at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and www.penumbric.com/currentissue.... This issue is pseudo-themed around Memory and the reality it creates. #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

My story "The Creeping" is now out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social along with stories by @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social and others! A depressed woman lies in bed...and something starts happening to her ceiling. CW: suicidal ideation, self-harm #writing 💙📚 #horror www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

"This is a city of people who continuously shed their skin. I can see piles of it everywhere these days. In pungent lorong-lorong damp from the monsoon." Read 'Moult' by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul... #SFF #Fantasy #Horror #ShortStory

Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please donate otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign: otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...

"This is a city of people who continuously shed their skin. I can see piles of it everywhere these days. In pungent lorong-lorong damp from the monsoon." Read 'Moult' by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul... #SFF #Fantasy #Horror #ShortStory

It was a wonderful first year of publishing! I'm proud of everything that was released this year, but I would be especially grateful if you considered my poetry and my recent story in Inner Worlds as you nominate this awards season. Links to every piece in the thread below! 🧵

"Mother says I’m made of mud, eyes, and a little bit of the past. When she says this, she glances away as though she’s ashamed of what she did, as though she doesn’t like what she made." Read 'What I'm Made Of' by @camdenscorner.bsky.social in our new issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-what...

Every time I think about this I just end up recreating Batman: Ego by Darwyn Cooke 🙄 So I'm going to say either Zatanna with Joelle Jones or Martian Manhunter with Javier Pulido.

I AM IN THIS BOOK! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social says, "I spent a year of my life writing collaborative fiction with eleven incredible writers; each story is followed by a collaborative deep-dive into the craft of our stories/work and the techniques we used, as well as what worked and what didn't."

As of today, December 9th, my haunted YA Twin Tides is officially out in the world 😭🎉 Thank you to every hand that’s touched this book or reached out to me in support, I couldn’t have done it without you 🖤 #yabooks

Lovely.

December 7th's read was the short, delicate, beautifully worded and moving flash fiction piece, Forest by Joyce Chng, published in @innerworlds.bsky.social. "She was a forager and in turn, I became one. She told me that even if she went, I would be provided for."

Ooooh, I love a good insight survey...

"Chantilly, bobbin, guipure, knotted, knitted, on and on. Where is the floor? The door? The wiry buttermilk cat that led me into this maze? And how might I leave?" Read "Wonderful" by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social in our new issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-wond... #SFF #Fantasy #Fabulism

"Confused by how you got here? Don’t fret, my dear. You found my cottage because you needed to. It looks like you’ve found me just in time. The light of your eyes has gone dull and your heart’s been worn threadbare." Read Hoofbeats by @jamielnathan.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-hoof...

thinking abt this story 🥲

This is such a beautiful tender story about grief and loss and connection. #amreading

Exquisite.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 209: Not all writing needs to “lead somewhere.” Joy is a valid end in itself. So is practice: everything you write makes you better writer.

Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole." billmoyers.com/story/poetry...

"I love you. I’m glad I exist." From 'The Orange' by Wendy Cope gladdestthing.com/poems/the-or...