finally catching up on posting after being offline/ill/travelling

this story is a mix of many different vulnerablities and inspirations, i wasn't sure if it would ever get published - im so grateful to @innerworlds.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home. (also this is my year of scifi and i love it!) inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

my story that's the pitt meets annihilation is in here!! 🌌🏥

Elena's story was one of three chosen from the open submission call I ran, and it gave me chills. Within seconds I knew I wanted it in my anthology!! Hopefully we'll get to work together again in the future!

General submission open on Monday 22 September. We are looking for speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Our remit is very broadly fun, but don't self-reject - a truly superb story offers an enjoyment of it's own.

Our story submission portal for writers of color is open. Please read the guidelines, as that makes things easier for everyone! Looking forward to seeing your stories. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

cannot BELIEVE my story is in here thank you @manylittlewords.bsky.social for making my dream come true!!

Deliverance by @esichr.bsky.social a story about the end times, of heaven coming down from it's hiding place in the moon, and how terrible and sordid that is. translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/d...

@augursociety.bsky.social if an author submits 2 stories to augur during an open call but has to withdraw one, can said author submit another story or is the cap 2 submissions total regardless of withdrawal?

⭐️ One week to go and it's Issue Eight TOC time! ⭐️ Featuring 14 fantastic stories by @cindyphanauthor.com @busayo.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social @katharinetyndall.bsky.social @esichr.bsky.social @chloehsmith.bsky.social @lost-squonk.bsky.social & more!

biggest cinema letdown of the year

The new issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge is live, issue number lucky 13 for August 2025 with 14 brand new stories

sooo excited to have a new scifi story out with @translunartl.bsky.social! this one is inspired by the lore of the cult i was raised in (yes they believed in a triangular heaven literally lodged inside the moon🌚) translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/d...

#sealeychallenge2025 @ghostcitypress.bsky.social @esichr.bsky.social 31 Days of August = 31 Books of Poetry #sealychallenge #poetry #poets #poems #poetrychallenge #readingchallenge #poetrybooks #poetrychapbooks #readmorepoetry #poetryisnotdead #poetryisforeveryone #tinamariethinkstoomuch

raum pushes back against the sanitized polite, pliable, and otherwise "perfect" trans ideal deemed acceptable by society—if, and when, they are accepted at all—with poems that highlight the righteous, the cruel, and the ugly; these are the real truths we’re dying to say. @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

struggling not to dnf this book because the cool concept is absolutely destroyed by the truly terrible and sloppy writing quality and i haven't read a worse main character since tender is the flesh

"möbius loop" - my retrofuturist scifi short story about trauma, time traveling, and healing while being viciously unwell - is now free to read & listen to. big thanks to @khoreo.bsky.social (and to @danaiwrites.bsky.social in particular) for fine-tuning this story & giving it a home.

season finale just confirmed that murderbot is the best show of the year so far

ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2025.

We still have some amazing stretch goals to reach, so if you want to see some fungi poetry or read the works of working class writers, consider donating! (also huge thanks to those of you who signed up for my speculative poetry workshop) www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

june writing stats: 15 rejections, 1 acceptance, wrote 2 flash pieces

it's end of quarter over here so if you want to help pride month go out on a high note for a queer or trans author, pick up a book kithbooks.com/shop

In space neon neon space, luna rey hall holds our eyes open—in public, in private, when we’d rather close them—and compels us to witness; the chafe of society on identity, the sharp provocation of sand into pearl. @lunareyhall.com

WOOHOO! Gorgeous cover!!! I'm so excited for you all to read my Cronenbergian corporate sci fi horror story "Other Duties As Required" 🫀

SUCH a great poem, we had to have it! 💜

my contributor copy arrived!! so thrilled to be in this gorgeous sexy collection by @eff-able.bsky.social - get your copy here: www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/eff-abl...

One last spot left in my poetry workshop but many more cool rewards still to get, like sponsoring a poem or signed books!

"let me feel every sun ray pierce me every feather melting all at once apollo I want the cacophony of living" - dre levant, ode to apollo @drethepiper.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/levant eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/levant

this book is the inspiration for my latest poem out with @strangehorizons.bsky.social ! why don't you have a copy yet?

having this poem out during pride month is so special to me - thank you @strangehorizons.bsky.social and especially @vanessajae.bsky.social for championing queer spec poetry (and @drethepiper.bsky.social for inspiring this piece!) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

We've hit $9000, so here's another poem from the Fund Drive Issue! A Mermaid Falls in Love with Icarus by Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social "IF THE SUN WAS YOUR SCALPEL THE MOON IS MINE" Read it at the link to this year's Fund Drive issue in our bio! Check out the link to donate as well!

absolutely stunning and so much better than tender is the flesh

It's Day 7 of our Fund Drive to keep publishing for 2026! If you haven't donated yet, consider directly supporting a poem, review, short story, or a work of art! A poem by Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social is waiting at $9000! Can't wait to unlock this one!

MY HURT SHALL DEVOUR YOU by Sadee Bee is available for pre-order! In @sadeebee.bsky.social's own words, My Hurt Shall Devour You is a collection exploring the thin line between love, lust, anger, and hate. It is a queer, genderless expression of what it means to want to love and to want to be free.

it's time for Weird, Wet, and Nasty: 1800s Whaling Ship edition 🐋🩸 come prepared for copious amounts of blood, blubber, omens, bad decisions, and spermaceti

AZE is trying to reach 100 Patrons by the end of June and is currently at 58! You can help support the publication of asexual, aromantic, and agender authors here: www.patreon.com/c/azejournal

"HERE I AM, PRY ME OPEN cuts deep in its unflinching & unique approach to storytelling. Atlas transposes trauma into his own brutally beautiful mythology. His work is absolutely necessary." - Joshua Wiss, author of Microdose: 88 PoemsE @drdissociation.bsky.social

may writing stats: 14 rejections, 1 acceptance, wrote a 2k story

Quick UPDATE for #TheDeerIsMessedUP — we're so close to 40%!! Can you help us get to the finish line??? www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

my copy of garland 3 from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social arrived! pictured here with some of my ace pin collection - grab your copy today fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/garla…

started writing a story thats like the pitt meets annihilation

3...2...1... SPACE NEON! It's release day for the second edition of luna rey hall's compelling and clever space neon neon space by @lunareyhall.com

Only 19 days left of the Messed Up Deer Kickstarter and still hanging out at $3,649/13,000. If you, like me, love it when you're reading a horror story and the deer is FUCKED UP then I highly recommend checking this out! Don't let this STAGnate! Back us here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Reopening to submissions. We pay up to $150 for stories published from the general submissions queue, and $300 for the special Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller call, from which we will also be nominating for the Shirley Jackson Award www.smokelong.com/reopening-ge...

two movies i watched recently that both did something unique in the satanic presence genre (and better than longlegs)

AZE is accepting writing and artwork by asexual, aromantic, and agender authors exploring stories of resilience against oppression, silencing, discrimination, disbelief, and other social pressures. Deadline: July 15th, 2025 azejournal.com/article/2025...

"EGREGORE," my club ballad from @ergot.bsky.social, is officially brave, new, & weird 💅 congratulations to everyone on the shortlist and the toc!

I haven't yelled about this yet today. Do you, like me, enjoy when you're reading a horror story and The Deer Is Messed Up? Do you want a whole book of such tales? Well, I'm editing one and you can help! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Good morning hi would you like to know the BRAVE NEW WEIRD TABLE OF CONTENTS? tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/5/...