still time to pre-order this anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about activism!

Sorry not to see some of you at World Fantasycon this weekend. I took a freelance opportunity that meant I couldn't go in the end. BUT once I have been paid for the work I'll have a much better financial cushion for Inner Worlds (and you know, my bills and things)

Working my way through all the submissions for issue 9. A shade under 450, this time! I hope the new submission manager is working out OK for everyone. Massive thanks to everybody who used the 'tip jar' feature, that has really helped to balance out the higher costs 😊

I read Deliver by Safiya Cherfi in @innerworlds.bsky.social in which a reporter goes to a remote Scottish island to learn about the sea-child. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-re...

Really enjoying seeing everyone's halloween costume pics! 🎃🖤 I'm not dressing up until next weekend, but I will take the opportunity to share last year's Kirk costume again 😁🖖🏻

Oh damn, this is great 🔥🔥🔥

Hello scary, silly friends! We are proud to present the FIFTH issue of Die Laughing Mag, complete with four shorts, 2 flashes, and more laughs and scares than you can shake a stick at. Available now for a perfect Halloween treat! Buy DL Issue 5 here for $5: ko-fi.com/s/3936f3817e

* literary-y psychological horror (aka the monster is society): therazormag.com/articles/i-s... * literary-y psychological horror (aka the monster is ur abusive relationship with ur mom): thevoice.dog?episode=moth... (and i love how this narration came out!)

since it is SPOOKY DAY here are my spooky stories: * a ghost story (in SPACE!!!!): www.abilitymaine.org/bs2025summer... * literary-y psychological horror (aka the monster is ur mental trauma): inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds...

Wishing everyone a safe and happy and wicked Halloween!! But just in case: do you know what to do if a demon is talking shit at you? @innerworlds.bsky.social's got you covered 👿

Up:Rising, a collection of rebellious imaginings from authors with lived experience of mental health & addictions is now available for preorder. My poems "To Live a Life More Full" and "Half Blood Line" are featured. rattiincantati.com/products/up-...

🛸 i’m going to stay open a bit longer! how long? who can say … so if you want to send something send it sooner 🛸 but you have until the 7th at the very least

Short Fiction Book Club is having our monthly discussion! Stop by to share your recent favorites, swap story samples, suggest future sessions, and discuss your favorites of the year so far. www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

⚔️Enjoy this pic-heavy update featuring our advance copies of the new issues: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... Pre-Order them here: new-edge-sword-sorcery-2025.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... 📚

Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that. Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too. clarkesworldmagazine.com

Happy Black Speculative Fiction Month, everyone! We’ve gathered up 16 of our favorite queer speculative fiction books by black authors. blog post with text list: duckprintspress.com/2025/10/22/b... 🌈📚 📚💙

This Sunday! Tickets are free, donations are encouraged and needed. We are in touch with all the people we raising funds for, these are private campaigns and you can offer tangible help. (You also get to listen to beautiful poetry, so win-win for your heart) buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...

"Her hair—slithers. Like black-skinned, satiny veteran reptiles. Crawl over Ranna’s body. Circle her thighs. Then, hips. Tightly." Read 'They Fear Our Open Hair' by Sabahat Ali Wani in our latest issue: CW violence from the start inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-fear-ou...

"Alan did not believe in rumors. He had bills, not theories. The call centre compensated enough to keep the lights on and instant noodles in bulk. Yet, he began to notice strange things the longer he worked." Read 'The Shift Room' by Mary Wanjiru inner-worlds.ghost.io/the-shift-ro... #Uncanny #SFF

"Only those who assisted life, whether as canal caretakers, or growers, or healers, could fully understand the land as it grew around them. Bramblyn knew the tales. Did she know the deeper meanings?" Read 'River Kin' by Gail Brown: inner-worlds.ghost.io/river-kin-by... #SFF #Fantasy #Solarpunk

"If a family was like an animal to be drawn and quartered, which side gets the heart? Does the blood ever ache for what could have been? The paths it used to know." Read 'Lungs' by @busayo.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus... #SpeculativeFiction #SpecFic

When you feel a story with your whole dang heart, and realize now's as good a time as any for a cathartic cry and fist shake at the universe ... inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise... @esichr.bsky.social @innerworlds.bsky.social

Get a glimpse of what’s coming next! Read "War and War", my Azhar Prize-winning short story & part of the prequel to my #wip CLINGING TO THE STONES. #ShortStory #Fantasy #amqyerying #ClingingToTheStones bit.ly/war-and-war

🎊🎊🎊🎊YOOOOOO IT'S HERE🎊🎊🎊🎊 🪐🪐🪐FUSION FRAGMENT #26 AND SAROS #4 🪐🪐🪐 My latest story is in FF#26 BUT so are incredible stories from lots of other wonderful people, please check them out! If you read mine you get to read 5k words of an ultrarunner hallucinating his way across Mars It's a "fun" time

It's release day for Saros #4, edited by me! It contains five beautiful, character-driven post-apocalyptic stories by fantastic authors. I really enjoyed putting this issue together, and I hope you'll enjoy reading it just as much! sarossf.com/issue-4/

I read On The Sixth Night At The Crystal Castle by Cheyanne Brabo in @innerworlds.bsky.social , a story of a mysterious castle, the people who study it and how it grows. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-re...

flashback Friday! Have you read my story "Brine and Possibility" at at @innerworlds.bsky.social ? It's perfect for anyone who's ever wanted to turn into a jellyfish inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds...

📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions! We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme! ⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 999: It’s not just the story that matters, it’s the person telling it. Your stories are filtered through your experience, your culture, your upbringing, your identity. Don’t be afraid to let it show. Those things matter. You matter.

Sigh. Another story about a person who hears voices who is also a murderer 🙄 *stamps square on our "no thanks" bingo card*

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Nightmare has published my poem "Stillborn." www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcast/stil...

<totters out onto porch> <settles into rocker> <thumps cane a few times> Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

I'm elated! Personal Best won the Strangie Award in the weird horror category! How fucking cool?! Thank you to everyone who voted for this goofy story, and to @drabblecast.bsky.social for including me! 💀💚🏈

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Issue 9 General Submissions. #CallforSubmissions

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity

Out today, in the autumn issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, my story of a space pilot dealing with her first clone resurrection, with a little help from the rescue ship's AI and several kinds of cheese. The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn www.kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉 (general submission window 15-31 October) Seeking speculative stories about our inner lives: 💙 500 - 2,500 words 💚 £0.02 per word, min £20 💛 Sim subs welcome! 🧡 Reprints welcome! inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g... #SubmissionCall

This week I'm on Tales to Terrify: talestoterrify.com/episodes/714... Plott Hound: plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf... and Kaleidotrope: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/... Pick your poison 🖤

It's here! It's here! The TOC for Issue 5 of Die Laughing is HERE! We could not be more excited to bring you these 6 hilarifying tales, available as a PDF download 10/31/25, with stories posting for free every week after! Join us for stories so funny they'll kill you! #horrorsky 1/3

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people? Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help! A thread!

Why "play" is so important for #writing -- and updates! Newsletter time! cjsubko.beehiiv.com/p/the-import...

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

We're just $36 away from our goal for the year!! Thank you so much!!!

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I don't share my own stuff on this account very often because that's not what it's for, but I was sadly reminded of my shitty ex today so here is my poem about him, in honour of everyone who got away from their own version *laser eye blast* 👁👁💥💥 moondaymag.com/dr-x-by-sara...

The B'K Volume 16, Issue 4 is here! Check out "Lilac Bruise" by Aicha Benali! This gorgeous digitized sketch is the cover art for The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4. Be sure to read the full issue here: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch

This year's RSM is October 4 & 5, and is about writing with resistance, Imagining a better future. Don't forget to register on rainbowspacemagic.org. #LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

We're up to 70 submissions so far!! Keep em comin 💖

As ever: THANK YOU from my deep heart's core to everyone who has supported us in ANY way over the last two years. You are superstars 🌟 When I started Inner Worlds I gambled that we would find people who liked what we are trying to do and WE DID! Now I just want to find the rest 😄