Swooping back this very fine MLK Day with our first unthemed issue of 2026! Behold! Get yours! Tell a friend! fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

Happy Friday! Let's love on our creators today. Who is a Black SFF author you wish more people were screaming about? Bonus if they have new work coming out this year 🔥🔥🔥

Just over three weeks left to submit your SFF short story or poem to our second unthemed issue of 2026! Don't overthink it, smash that send button 👇🏿 fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

First Monday of 2026! Here's to a productive week of *whatever* you need to hit those goals. Words, research, marketing, rest...writers, what's cooking for the week ahead? Let's get it 🔥

OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Announcing our new TOC + cover art! Stories from Karama Neal, Timothy Ngome, Irene W Collins, Jordan Alexander, & Ella N'Diaye—poetry by Donnie Moreland, upfromsumdirt, & Aishatu Ado. Kymani Gayle with the 🔥🔥🔥 art! Behold our latest coming your way in mid January: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/12/15/f...

Does anyone read these? lol. Always grateful for another year I get to share my work thanks to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and Inkyard Press (RIP ❤️) Beyond thrilled to close out another year with @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social , and so privileged to work with these amazing authors.

Hi, all. If you missed my Blue Stoop workshop on Characterization on Sunday, you can purchase it here! www.bluestoop.org/recordings/v...

Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please donate otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign: otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...

Happy Monday kinfolk! What are we working on this week? Let's get it 😤

NEW PODCAST ALERT! Episode 18 of the Critical Friends podcast is here! This week, Dan Hartland, Cameron Miguel, and Nick Hubble discuss fantasy and its connection to history. "What can fantasy teach us about history writing and how can it change it?" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Very proud of everything I put out this year. Here’s hoping next year will be even more spooky and queer!

I Wish You Died Laughing  by Lio Abendan @lioabendan.bsky.social "A handful of months after he died, we held a funeral for him. His body bucked inside the coffin; I remember the deadened thump of his shins striking hard against the wood." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!) BCS @strangehorizons.bsky.social @reckoningmag.bsky.social @escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org

Small business Saturday, you say? Consider supporting FIYAH as we approach year ten of publishing Black SFF stories and poetry! Back issues, art, gift subscriptions, merch, and more! Tell a friend, you never know who is missing out 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/

We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online. 🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines 🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

“Bloody Muddy Water” by @jduckwriter.bsky.social from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, “To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter” by @spacevalkyries.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥

"Gaze into it instead." 🪞🎭 New drabble fiction today by @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social: "Don't Hide From the Mirror" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

in case you missed it! our latest is up and free to read 🖤

It's feasting month here in the US so here is my comic Soul Food Wars. Black kids at a culinary school in Charleston learning about Soul food. Only available in my shop! ko-fi.com/sarahamackli...

“Finger by finger, my father’s hand sprouts like fungus from the cold hard ground.” it’s Fantasy Friday! 🍄 and today’s fantastic short is They Return by @ecastroianni.bsky.social read it here ✨ psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

quick reminder for my writers out there - (yes... YOU! 😻) rejection *does NOT mean* you are a bad writer!!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

This issue absolutely rips. Fantastic stuff through and through.

"All That Touches the Air" An Owomoyela, from LIGHTSPEED (2011) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/all-... LIGHTSPEED also just published "Thaw" by An in the October 2025 issue www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thaw/

Massive news! We’ve just announced our second (of three) novellas for 2026 with the brilliant @clclark.bsky.social

Help me pool resources via the GFM or Donate directly to supportjamaica.gov's emergency relief efforts.

Ghostly BCS for Halloween! "Where They Sleep" @lectio.bsky.social BCS #419: "the shades would wander out from the empty hills. People we knew. But more we didn't, moving slowly along in search of something, somebody. Then they would mill aimlessly" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/wher...

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

Behold, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Table of Contents and Paul Lewin cover! buff.ly/D7a2nXG

Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window!! We will open in November and close in April. See our announcement on the website for details. All our usual Submissions Guidelines still apply. podcastle.org/2025/10/17/a...

Pssst. One week left until our unthemed issue window closes. Send us your lovely words...! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Do give our friends @roguestarmag.bsky.social a follow today! Emerging markets flourish with your support, let's do the thing and show them some love ❤️

BCS #444 ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store & subscribers, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) & @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to @theignyteawards.bsky.social Winner): weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

#PC914: The Magnolia Returns by Eden Royce, read by Laurice White. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG. podcastle.org/2025/10/21/p...

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever. I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today! This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic. In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook Available wherever books are sold. #booksky #Blackbooksky

WE'VE REACHED 60%!! You've just unlocked EARLY ACCESS to "Island of Sea Turtle and Blood" by Angela Liu! 🐢🩸 Keep up the good work and help us unlock ALL the exciting exclusive events we have planned for this fundraiser! The next milestone is a real...scream 👀⬇️⏰ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Not all monsters of childhood live under the bed. Some of them live in your closet, quietly eating your dolls and clothes and much, much, more, as Stacie Turner's story "Like Sunlight, Like Poison" teaches us.

Flash on the Borderlands is here with one of my all time favorite @alexebenstein.bsky.social stories! Keep your eyes on the Michigan skies. (And keep your ears on @pseudopod.org.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

we're gearing up for another great Fantasy Friday tomorrow 🦄 but you can catch up on what we've released so far right now! psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu... and hey, if you love what you read, consider subscribing! you'll get issues in their entirety as they drop ✨: psychopomp.com/fantasy/

Congratulations to all of this year's Ignyte Award winners!!! 🔥

Scoop up these OG designs before our winter merch refresh! Every t-shirt, mug and print sold helps us continue to support Black creators Click shop on our site to see the selection 🔥 Got yours already? Tag us wearing your fave and LET EM KNOW 💅🏿 #Blackownedbusiness #BlackSpeculativeFictionMonth

Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be “Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.” The Wind Beneath, byAlex Ebenstein They Still Haven’t Found Stevie, by Scott Weisser Precious Darlings, by Annie Diao Various CWs: please follow the link

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀 buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon! please like + RT this to help spread the word psychopomp.com/the-deadland... behold!

Good morning! We're only ONE PERCENT(1%!!) away from Apex Magazine opening to nonfiction submissions for the FIRST TIME! our nonfiction is full of new voices, fresh perspectives, and is scientifically*-proven to regrow brain cells ⚡🧠🌱 *probably. just trust us 👽👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...