Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors! Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

“I hope that if I bang my head against the wall, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

hey, all, with Halloween on Friday, avoid giving any more of your money to Hershey Trust Co.. JK Rowling—trans-exclusive “feminist“, racist, antisemite, and much, much more—gets a share of the cash from the limited HP candies.

If you are an author and you're offering a free eBook in exchange for a donation to a foodbank, please reach out to me to have yourself added. Link to form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Pretty great mail day @radonjournal.bsky.social

Not my home, but I know my way around.

A whole bunch of horror-y folks recommend the scariest stories they’ve ever read. I wrote about @lairdbarron.bsky.social ‘s “Tiptoe.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

sexy 99 nights deer my kids have the last laugh yet again

It's publication day! You can find my flash piece "Eye of Newt" in @emberjournal.org! Huge thanks to the Ember team and to @hanmarin.bsky.social for helping me out with some much-needed edits! You can read the story here: read.emberjournal.org/andrew-maust...

October’s drawing to its beautiful, red-golden close. Just one week left to send me your stories! Fill in the “contact” section at www.hmarinliterary.com

contract signed, stay tuned 👀

upgraded my pledge for #stickers and #books by @jasonsanford.bsky.social 👹

sci-fi folk horror is my jam #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #folk #horror

Heads up for any writers considering this market: the fairly new publication Neon and Smoke openly uses & attempts to justify using AI art.

Did you know that you can now opt for an annual subscription to @radonjournal.bsky.social via any of their Patron tiers? Annual subs come with a 10% monthly discount and the warm fuzzies of backing literally anything other than a major corporation right now ❤️✊🏻 www.patreon.com/radonjournal...

the princess bride, obviously!

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who submitted 🎉 stay tuned - winners to be announced next week 👀 Check out #AugurMicros2025 to read the AWESOME subs!

Follow us to hear all the news, and - if you know any queer writers - please share this FAR and WIDE. We're ravenously seeking: QUEER FICTION, up to 6,000 words, in science fiction, fantasy or speculative horror ($0.08 /word) QUEER SPECULATIVE POETRY ($50 /poem) No reprints. #writersky 🌈📚💙

“As I watch and hear and smell your burial, stone faced while your mother screams, some part of me hopes you’re as comfortable in your hole as I was.” thoughts you probably shouldn’t have at your spouse’s funeral. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

help to fund this awesome publication y'all

Hi, it’s me, the big baby who had to hide in the movie theatre bathroom for twenty minutes during the last Alien movie, I guarantee this will be the funniest day of your life and arguably one of the worst days of mine. Tell a friend about OTHERSIDE! Tell two friends, if you really hate me.

oh snap, today’s international #lesbian day? compulsory snap of me & my first ever critique partner, the missus @scrimjim.bsky.social

today’s #indie #bookstore #haul feat. @wiswell.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @mattdinniman.bsky.social & I can’t wait to read @sgj.bsky.social , @tananarivedue.bsky.social , & @paultremblay.bsky.social ‘s essays in particular!

true love is when you both inadvertently write about vomit while drafting #writing #WIP #barfatorium

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Yup lol 😆 🤣 😂

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Merriam-Webster dunkin’ on ‘em

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

Got a story at an awkward length creeping you out? For October I'll be focusing on tackling tales that sit between 6k and 10k for a flat rate of $50USD. Editor with a short fiction portfolio, contract protected. www.hmarinliterary.com *To be entered into the raffle, please like AND repost. 👻

Drumroll for our Best of the Net nominees @virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social @andrewkozma.net @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social @fictionaljosh.bsky.social @thomasbehan.bsky.social @haywall.bsky.social

*slaps roof of car* this bad boy can fit so much fucking gay words in it. Have you backed @othersidespec.bsky.social on kickstarter yet? They have 1.5 years of queer spec fic funded with each issue at a 15k words. Let's fill that bad boy UP. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

since it’s fresh lit mag subscription season, become a patron for @radonjournal.bsky.social essential reading if you’re not interested in taking the blue pill www.patreon.com/c/radonjourn...

@othersidespec.bsky.social Kickstarter is live! Go get you yours and back some #queer #art ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

I humbly offer the #AugurMicros2025 contest forbidden foraging and blissful reawakening. @augursociety.bsky.social

same

I humbly offer the #AugurMicros2025 contest forbidden foraging and blissful reawakening. @augursociety.bsky.social

Announcing this year's Dwarf Stars Award Winners ✨ (thread!) 1st Place Perish and Live Forever @pedroiniguez.bsky.social 2nd Place old junkyard Ngô Bình Anh Khoa 3rd Place warp drive folds spacetime Jean-Paul L. Garnier @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social /

this meme is literally my reaction to the first chapter of #spreadme @sarahgailey.bsky.social

i hope he laughed in their face

aren’t i hilarious @sarahgailey.bsky.social #spreadme

Open Call: Radon Journal February 2026 Issue ( @radonjournal.bsky.social‬ ) horrortree.com/taking-submi... Due: Dec 31 Pay: Fiction: 2¢/word, Poetry: $20. Art: $110/cover, $50/back cover, & $20 for website art Theme: Stories & poetry containing elements of scifi/anarchism/transhumanism/dystopia

I’ve made an update to this situation. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

100 pages into @buehlmeister.bsky.social ‘s “Between Two Fires” and I am *hooked*

The reading period for @radonjournal.bsky.social ‘s Issue 11 is almost closed! You have until Sunday, 8/31 at 11:59pm EST. Don’t self-reject—we want your #sciencefiction, #dystopia, #transhumanism, and, of course, #anarchy! sub here: www.radonjournal.com/submit

August Spec Flash Roundup! With @smallwondersmag.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social @factorfourmagazine.com @naturefutures.bsky.social @hexliterary.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @escapepod.org @molotovlitzine.bsky.social @yourimpossiblevoice.com 1/3

love it when literary organizations dead-letter you by sending you an email w/the scholarship recipients (i don’t. i don’t love it.)

I hopped over here because Into the Blue from @radonjournal.bsky.social blew me away! www.radonjournal.com/issue-10/int... A friend works in palliative care, and this story does a fantastic job of showing how heroic these nurses are. The ending lines: perfect! Thank you @prof-bogs.bsky.social