There are several great magazines fundraising right now, or about to start fundraising, and we encourage y'all to support them!

Submissions for our next unthemed issue are now OPEN 📣 Tell a friend! Everything you need to know is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

A new month approaches! FIYAH will open to submissions on October 1, for our first *unthemed* issue of 2026! Polish up those pieces, we can't wait to see your work 🔥🔥🔥 Share with a hungry Black SFF author or poet who the world needs to know about ✊🏿🖤

only TWO DAYS LEFT to submit to our FLORA - FAUNA - FUNGI microfiction contest to celebrate the release of ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction!🌺🐛🍄 Don't forget to email your microfiction (max. 300 words) to [email protected] before midnight on Sep. 25th! 📧

Yeah, we quiet over here, but we love y'all. These publishing streets are rough these days. October marks Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we're thrilled to drop TWO issues on you in the coming weeks. Updates soon come. Anyway support some Black creators: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p Follow, share, BUY 🔥

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed! "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

Attention, sophonts! We've finished changing the locks and Escape Pod is now OPEN to all your amazing, amazing submissions! Consult our submissions page if you want to refresh your minds on what we're looking for - ignore that "CLOSED" bit at the top - and we hope to see rad work from you all!

Something has gone awry at the faire this year, and Princess Lilaclaire is not having a great time. Check out "Princess Lilaclaire and the Witch's Frog Faire" by @indigorue.bsky.social today and see what happens when the frogs just aren't cooperating:

hey hey guess what? starting TOMORROW we are OPEN to NONFICTION subs for a month!! get ready to send nonfiction editor David Gilmore your critical, academic, and personal essays on all things death. read more about what we're looking for here: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Danny Cherry Jr. (@deecherrywriter.bsky.social) spoke to Trans Income Project executive director Natalie Rupp about TIP's work to get Medicaid-enrolled trans adults the care they need through a partnership with CrescentCare. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/find...

The window to sign up for OTHERSIDE’s Chill-n-Chat closes September 14! It’s a lottery system with limited seats available, so make sure you sign up now! We can’t wait to hang out, answer questions, and/or flail together about our favorite queer speculative work! flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

Calling all Black visual artists! Submissions are OPEN for our 2026 covers! Artists should submit portfolios or work samples which illustrate an understanding of composition, and feature fantastical elements and/or can be categorized as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, & their related subgenres./+

We are only 2 away from 200 followers on our Kickstarter pre-launch campaign?!? Help us hit this epic milestone? 👀

Announcements on announcements this week! Calling all ARTISTS: We're searching for next year's cover art contributors! Check out the sub page for details and how to submit your portfolio: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/ Share with a Black creator who the world needs to know about 🔥🔥🔥

SUBS are OPEN for our special reprint issue, SINNERS, SAINTS, & HAINTS! Send us your lovelies! Spread the word! Details here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

I don't know what to tell ya, fam! Our open submission period closes in two days. Two whole days!! (Aug 11th) So if you got something good, get that good gotten to us while the getting is good. (This sentence somehow makes sense because English is the true horror.) pseudopod.org/submissions/

CHESIRAH by @ldlewiswrites.com (originally pubbed in FIYAH) I want Colleen Wheeler (voice actor for Mystique in X-Men Evolution) to voice Chesirah. I just know this thing animated would be LUSH! podcastle.org/2018/07/03/p...

SURPRISE! We couldn't wait until next week—our Kickstarter pre-launch page is live right now!!! Sign up to be the first to know when it launches in October, and please spread the word and tell a friend! Every sign-up makes a huge difference. We are officially one step closer to OTHERSIDE!

Last day to get those subs in! Gods and Monsters closes tonight 🕛

Congrats to @edenroyce.bsky.social for her Shirley Jackson award win! Now you can scoop up HOLLOW TONGUE and get a bonus novella?? win/win 🤝🏿

I've yelled about them before, but Otherside is a new magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, & art by queer authors & artists. They are currently $10.20/month away from being able to offer 8 cents/word for stories & $50/poem. That's, like, 2-3 more patrons. Could you be the one to tip them over?

“How does one create a god?” Answers await in Rachel Meresman’s new story, “How to Create a God.” kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

Well LOOK who is up for a World Fantasy Award, this guy 🥳 Congrats to all the finalists! And extra love to the @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social authors who eye rolled their way through my edit notes 🤣 this one doesn't happen without y'all! ♥️♥️♥️ locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...

We love seeing these submissions coming in for our latest issue, but one thing is missing.... Yours! Polish it up, get it in! Don't self reject!

Amazing to see our khōréō fam @clairejiawen.bsky.social story “The Last Flesh Figure Skaters” in WE'RE HERE: THE BEST QUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION 2024 by @neonhemlock.bsky.social 🧡 Thank you, @cypayseur.bsky.social and @rykaaoki.bsky.social for featuring this incredible story!

“The grey flannel suit might have looked masculine on the rack, or on another woman,” Grave-Worms, by Molly Tanzer Narrators: The Word Whore and Preston Buttons Host: Kat Day Audio: Chelsea Davis pseudopod.org/2025/07/04/p...

FIYAH #35: Black Isekai is now out and available for download! Some amazing stories came from this fun theme. Get yours here: fiyahlitmag.com/issues/issue...

This is our fifth year doing these awards. I won't make a long thread but I hope they give you hope. They are for the community. Thank you to everyone holding the line against people who would like to see BIPOC writers and other underrepresented people removed from spec fic and the world at large+

Behold! The TOC and cover reveal for FIYAH #35: Black Isekai is officially LIVE: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/06/03/f...

issue 97 of Fantasy Magazine is LIVE! featuring works by: @edenroyce.bsky.social @sydneyficant137.bsky.social Mu’izz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí Vanessa Kyn Aishat Yahkub Seoung Kim you can read this entire issue RIGHT NOW by subscribing below (please like and RT and celebrate with us!) - sean

BA alum L. Nabang is hosting a monthly one-hour space for BIPOC creative writers at Black Garnet Books! Write and connect--snacks and hot bevs provided. First one: June 7 11-12 pm. No need to register--just drop by!

Please read our Submissions Guidelines before you submit: pseudopod.org/submissions And then you can submit your PUBLISHED/TO BE PUBLISHED IN A 2025 ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION* story here: escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/... [*No matter how many times we say it...]

Thanks to everyone who came to Thursday's Quick Reads! Time to get ready for the next one. It will be here before you know it! Sign up at the link to register for this FREE, fun online smorgasbord of women & nonbinary SFF authors! www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

Finally saw "Sinners." GotDAMN that was good. It's so beautiful to see a Black creative, in the fullness of his power, ignore all the "shoulds" and conventions and just COOK. That movie was so good it made me come home and write.

Happy Monday y'all! Submissions to the anthology close THIS FRIDAY!!!! docs.google.com/forms/d/1YgW...

6 authors, 8 minutes each - come find your next favorite #SpecFic #Books by #womenauthors & #nonbinaryauthors #SciFi, #Fantasy, #Horror @kganderson.bsky.social @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social @tonjakjohnson.bsky.social @sarahday.org @ravenbelas.co **Free** Tickets www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

Had the pleasure to create the official illustration for "Beneath A Midnight Tide" by Tonja K. Johnson 🩷 #indiewriter #indiebooks #indieartist #indieauthor #bookillustrator #bookartist #characterartist #indiepublishing #romancebooks #fantasy #romance #clipstudio #romanceart

Support Black creatives. Buy their works. If you can’t afford to buy then like, share, subscribe. Share via word of mouth. Leave reviews. Post on your socials. Signed a person tired of seeing racism funded and Black creativity silenced.

OK, now we have FIVE HOURS and $4,190 to go! By pledge, by signal boost, by carrier pigeon, please help us get there! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

@tco-anthology.bsky.social The dopest themed anthology I’ve ever seen is about to drop their submission call info. Best believe I’m cooking something up.

In the mix once again!!! Your fave SFF mag is back in the running for the Hugo Awards 🔥🔥🔥 Pardon us while we cartwheel around the station 🤸🏿 Congrats to all the finalists! @thedeadlands.com @escapepod.org @khoreo.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

Sometimes the editor *loved* your story. But space constraints. Or it was too similar to another piece for *waves hand* reasons. Or something that had *nothing* to do with your work. I can't stress how many stories I've reluctantly passed on knowing full well they'll land in other SFF markets. +/

Subs for our next THEMED issue are now open! Read more about "Black Isekai" on our submission page: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

So AI wrote a story about grief and people are calling it a work of genius. I’m not buying. I read the story. It was pretentious. Empty. #authorsky

Can't believe it's just two months until release for Keynan Masters and the Remixed Monster! The follow up to my debut fantasy MG promises to deal with that cliffhanger that made folks so mad 🤣 Preorders are everything, please like and share! 🙏🏾🙏🏾 www.harpercollins.com/products/key...

It’s Release Day! My gotic romantic fantasy short “To Shape the Night” is alongside 13 other incredible stories in Magic in the Melanin. This story has a cozy place in my heart. And right now, with how the world is shaping itself, I think it’s important. #blacksky

Creating in the face of so much turmoil feels like an affront to those suffering the most. But then I remember that art has always been activism. So let my words be rebellion.

Presenting FIYAH Issue No. 33, now available! What better way to celebrate Black History Month?! Download yours today 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

I’m proud to be unambiguously Black. Beada beads on my nape, Black. Grandma used to sell ice cups off the front stoop, Black. Rhythm in the way that I speak, Black. Can always catch a beat, Black. Kid running down Chicago’s concrete streets, Black. Don’t want to be anything other than Black, Black.