And they've ALWAYS offered pro-rates, even from the very beginning. Now they need to reach at least $30,000 to keep their above-pro-rate of 10c a word. Consider supporting @strangehorizons.bsky.social so we can keep seeing all the great spec fiction, poetry, and articles they publish. (3/3)

At the Nebulas, @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social, the founder of Strange Horizons, spoke about the origins of the magazine and how it started at a time where there were few opportunities for short story writers, particularly new writers, to have their work published. (1/3)

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I'm absolutely thrilled to share that my novelette Wolf Moon, Antler Moon is a finalist for this year's Eugie Awards! Huge congratulations to my fellow finalists! It's a fabulous list! eugiefoster.com/eugieaward

If you would like a taste of Lowry's singular prose, check out BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE from @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Actually vibrating with excitement over this book ☺️

I can't describe what it means to see such in-depth analysis of my writing—including extensive, thoughtful research into the various folklore traditions, historical references, & sociocultural themes in my story (from the Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social!) 🖤✨️

An incredible discussion and analysis of @ayidashonibar.bsky.social's layered and fabulous story, "An Unholy Terroir" found in Silk & Sinew. I am awestruck. Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social, thank you @r-emrys.bsky.social and Anne M. Pillsworth for all the careful research and excellent deep dive!

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IT’S ALMOST TIME!! Anathema officially opens to submissions on June 20th! ✨ We cannot wait to begin this journey after a four-year hiatus. Thank you for all of the support!! 🥹 Check our website (link in bio) for submission guidelines. We’re excited to begin reading!! 💜

Hell YES!! This is the BEST news!!! CONGRATULATIONS @audreyzhou.bsky.social "Mother's Mother's Daughter" is an incredible story and I am overjoyed to see it selected!! I'm so proud to have it part of Silk & Sinew. Audrey, you truly deserve all the praise and celebration!

Please take a minute to support your favorite free-to-read, Hugo Award-winning speculative fiction magazine! 😈 Strange Horizons is entirely volunteer-run, so we depend on this annual drive to publish stories; your donation directly supports writers on the cutting edge of SFF around the world! 💜🚀🌑

Really honored and happy my story "In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful" has been included in "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Seeing my name among so many excellent writers I admire is surreal and awesome. Pre-orders are available now!

Really surreal to get to say that my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story (??) “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” will be in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol 2! Huge thanks to Michael, @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, and @badhandbooks.bsky.social ❤️pre-orders are available now!

Excited to see stories by FFers @audreyzhou.bsky.social @louisinglishall.bsky.social and @spencerwriting.bsky.social on the TOC for the next edition of Best Weird Fiction from the always-excellent Undertow Publications. Go get your pre-orders in!

Delighted at the submissions for [RECORDED] so far; I read about 30 yesterday and wow, y'all are going to make decisions SO DIFFICULT. 👀 With 10 days left of the campaign, our first stretch goal could be in reach—and will let me buy MORE STORIES! Everyone wins! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

KILL ALL WIZARDS is OUT and reportedly GADDING ABOUT TOWN, sword in hand. If you encounter this knave, consider yourself FOREWARNED: 🫖 Highly caffeinated 💀 The cut direct 📖 Opinionated narrator ⚔️ Fits of barbaric rage Wizards especially should approach with caution. thirdarchive.net#killallwizards

It’s pub day for the WOMEN OF THE WEIRD WEST Anthology, an imaginative, multicultural collection of weird wild west stories! My story “How To Kill A Yaoguai” is in here, inspired by Chinese immigrants in the 1800s and the women who were often trafficked to the so-called “new world."

I'm thrilled to have "The God of the Leftmost Door" reprinted at Adventitious! I love this story and I'm so excited for it to reach more readers. You might also like this one if you love: two queer love stories for the price of one, small gods, cozy pubs, being sad, being sad in a good way.

Today we are so excited to release RESIST, an FFO anthology, guest edited by Jeanna Cammarano (@wordrat.bsky.social ), whose powerful editorial really sets the tone for this collection. Check out her words and grab a copy today! #writingcommunity #flashfiction flashfictiononline.com/issues/resis...

Friends, in a couple days I'll announce the table of contents for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Meanwhile, here are the very notable stories that garnered much consideration and will be listed in the book. As always, great stuff.

I'm really happy with how the watercolor version of this sketch turned out 😊 It feels good to be learning new things with every painting!

Can’t wait🫶🫶this will be my first sci-fi publication!

I had the honour of illustrating the cover for @aijiang.bsky.social’s poetry collection, ‘We In/Exhale Odyssesys’ 💙

LAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!

ISSUE 2 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Tiger princesses! Cyborgs! Spacefaring scientists and sword-wielding students! Our second issue is warm, tender, hopeful, and sometimes horrifying in the best way. It was a joy to assemble, and we hope you enjoy it too🪐🗡️🌈 othersidespec.com/issues/issue-2/

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

OH HEY WANT TO READ A STORY? I wrote this weird soup for you, friends. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/nomo...

khōréō was my first ever sale, and I'm forever grateful to the team! it's so important to have a magazine that focuses on uplifting diaspora stories--on publishing them, but also on editing them with a sensitivity & thoughtfulness that honors those perspectives some of my fav khōréō stories below:

🥹🎉 I'm so grateful to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social for including me in SILK & SINEW. In addition to the enormous work she's done bringing this anthology and a community together, she does SO MUCH to support early-stage writers like me by opening doors that have changed the direction of my journey.

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive is moving to BackerKit! Same great rewards to fund the same great content! Sign up to show your interest in the launch at the link ⬇️

@garnetonwinter.bsky.social had a beautiful speech that made me sob❤️I’m so glad she’s getting her flowers! Congrats!!

My new short story is out in Uncanny! I wrote a newsletter about how this piece started - it's been an unusually long process from first draft to publication 👀 letters-from-hannah-yang.beehiiv.com/p/my-new-sho...

Read this story!! It’s so good! (and check out the author spotlight too! It’s so lovely to hear MR talk about craft)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum  by Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social "Hey limbhackers i need help jailbreaking my new enduro bracchio lux. Just got it a few days ago and cant access all systems. The fingers lag..." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

HEAR YE! HEAR YE! Its "Ghost in the Tank" by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social day! Its such a fantastic story that I gasped when I first read it. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ghos...

I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! “Magical Girl Eater” is one of my oldest shorts (I wrote the first draft back in 2021!) and it's about what it means to become "anything the fans want," even if that's... www.uncannymagazine.com/article/magi...

if you need people to say its good Many People Have Said Its Good look at the quotes below yes i get to brag MY FIRST BOOK IS OUT !!!

My first published story is out! The cats, of course, are unimpressed. Get your own copy of Unidentified Funny Objects, edited by @alexshvartsman.bsky.social and full of many hilarious SFF writers, here: www.kingsgames.com/online-store...

Happy Pride Month, in just a couple of days you can read a story inspired by my absolutely incandescent rage at the concept of "too many lesbian stories" and I CAN'T WAIT!

It's here! Feels especially nice to shout about this issue and these incredible authors today, on the first day of Pride Month. It feels like there's been lots of bad news lately: book bans, censorship, publishing turning against queer stories. But... queer art isn't going away, not now, not ever 🧡

I love all of Claire’s work (of course) but there is something uniquely devastating in this encapsulation of what it means to be a teenage girl

The Strange Horizons Kickstarter to fund 2027 will begin on Sunday, 7 June, 2026! This is a critical time for SFF publications when the existence of venues publishing short speculative fiction, poetry and non-fiction is sometimes uncertain. We hope that you will keep us publishing for another year!

😳 SOUR CHERRY won the Locus Award for First Novel!! 😳 Thank you so much @locusmag.bsky.social and congratulations to all finalists and winners! I wish I could have been there with you all. 🚀💫🌗🍒

Halloooo! Congratulations to all of the Locus Award winners and finalists last night! And look! The Submission Grinder got a special award. I was happy to be able to attend in person for it!

I'm pretty much breathless with the absolute CRAFT of this story by @audreyzhou.bsky.social. Astonishing!

Congrats to FFers @thomasha.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @megelison.bsky.social @russellnichols.bsky.social on having stories selected to the Best American SF&F list! www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...

when i wrote The Death of Mountains, i just wanted to write a book with a talking mountain and a talking death (many). and ask this: "what is the point of living when death is standing on your shoulder?" a finalist for: the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the L.A. Times Book Prize

So thrilled that my story “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award!! huge congrats to the other finalists, and an extra shoutout to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and the other SILK & SINEW authors💗💗

whoohoo silk and sinew !! @audreyzhou.bsky.social @garnetonwinter.bsky.social