Our March 2026 issue features stories by David D. Levine, R.L. Meza, Carolyn Zhao, Thomas Ha, Wanxiang Fengnian, Thoraiya Dyer, and Marissa Lingen. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_234 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

I cannot get over the language in Cypress Teeth by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social - www.khoreomag.com/fiction/cypr... . Rhythmic, evocative, and it hits perfectly through the whole story. The narrator's voice is chef's kiss; the building, building, building up to that very end, that sweet challenge?

NEW PODCAST ALERT! In case you missed it: The Aquarium for Lost Souls by Natasha King @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social read by Jenna Hanchey @jennahanchey.bsky.social Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Ah! Appreciate the rec for "In My Country" (short story) and shoutout for "Uncertain Sons" (novelette). See a lot of great stories by @aardwyrm.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @mimulus.bsky.social, @tiatashiro.bsky.social and a ton more I can't tag. Thanks very much.

Happy to see my short story “Barbershops of the Floating City” (@uncannymagazine.bsky.social) on Jay’s annual recommendation list alongside some of my favorites from this year! Always a joy finding new favorites I might have missed otherwise too.

Oh wow, so delighted to see Cypress Teeth (@khoreo.bsky.social) on this list! 💚 so many good recs on here 🎉

So excited + honored to have a piece in this issue! ❤️ Check out 🐊 LEAVE YOUR SKINS BY THE SHORE 🐊 for crocodiles, mourning, and local teens who like long walks in the beach

Purchase a copy today to read the full issue! Issue 8.3 features... ✒️ "Observer Effect" by Morgan Cross ✒️ "Leave your Skins by the Shore" by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social ✒️ "Flame Weeding, Equisetum Arvense" by @colleencococollins.bsky.social augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

ICYMI i talked about stories by Carolyn Zhao @strangehorizons.bsky.social @suplexicon.bsky.social y.social @bruisermag.com @johnchrostek.com @hexliterary.bsky.social and Samanta Schweblin, plus songs by Stereolab, but not Goodnight Moon which I had nothing to say about buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

Cypress Teeth by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social has a bit of revenge and a bit of body horror—both things I usually don’t like—but won me over with beautiful, immersive storytelling that pulled me in from the word go www.khoreomag.com/fiction/cypr...

😍 always happy when my Sentient Aquarium In Space story reaches a new reader 🌊🐠🐟🐡

It’s been a while since I could say this but…I have a new story out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com! “Brainstem Disco, 2191” explores the association of music with memories (and I’d love if you listened to the quasi-soundtrack while reading!) clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/

This story has 🦴 bones 🪶 crows 🦴 bones 💧 a river 🛣️ a highway 🦴 bones 🦴🦴🦴 bones bones bones 🦴🦴🦴

Featuring fabulous short stories by @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social, @hhpak.bsky.social, @mygeekblasphemy.bsky.social, @mariadongwrites.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @nadiaradovich.bsky.social, Eleanor Arnason, @isabel.kim, and @thomasha.bsky.social - thank you for your incredible work!

It was so cool to find out SFBC was a thing and to see my work featured! And so meaningful to see people enjoying "The Aquarium for Lost Souls" (published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social) in particular. Thank you for the kind words, I'm honored! 🌊💙

We are so very grateful for @premeemohamed.com's kind words for @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS. If eBooks are your thing, you can pre-order from your favorite online vendor.

Congrats! So immediately sold from this quote. Can’t wait to read this one!

My story "Cypress Teeth" is out in khōréō magazine today! 🌲 The khōréō team was so kind and thoughtful throughout the publication process and I'm so so excited for this piece to be live!

Last minute note that also eligible this year is @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social, whose novelette "The Aquarium for Lost Souls" and 2023 short story "Sharp Undoing" both have a unique voice and make some really excellent stylistic choices!

But Chị Tấm is Tired of Being Dead is a family story in a (feminist) fairy tale style that’s way more fun than it ought to be for all the over-the-top ways the main characters die www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Wait y’all I’m so sorry, she was in two different categories and I didn’t notice I had a *third* new multiple favorites list author (who is *also* Astounding eligible! My goodness!). Anyways, hi @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social

OH SHOOT IT'S DEADLINE TIME!! If you're looking to fill your Hugo ballot, may I recommend this Hugo primer: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... Also reminder: Strange Horizons at 25 is eligible in Best Fancast! Not actually Best Related Work as I thought - so edit your ballots accordingly 😘🙏

Hugo nominations close in a few days! My piece "The Aquarium for Lost Souls", in Strange Horizons, is eligible in the novelette category -- I am honored by any and all consideration 🐠 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Hugo nominations close in days, Locus closes on April 15th, and I am still a dancing ghost haunting you with promo. If you missed my previous posts about the historical inspirations behind my novelette "Another Girl Under the Iron Bell," I've gathered them all here: liu-angela.com/2025/03/08/a...

Thank you for the shoutout! I second your enthusiasm for @angelaliu.bsky.social, the range and quality of her work is incredible! Aquarium of Lost Souls is also a favorite of mine! @pelagicnatasha.bsky.social always hits it out of the park with her dark and clever style.

Thank you for the kind words!! So many good stories linked in this whole thread! ❤️

@pelagicnatasha.bsky.social Natasha King's short story 'on the engineering of river harmonics and associated tributaries of grief' is a fantastic piece of writing. On both craft and substance levels it gives the same feels as some of my favourite spec writers (Le Guin, Asimov, Lem)

Ah so happy whenever anyone enjoys my Local Woman Won't Stop Reincarnating story!! Check it out for a fun & vicious time 🍊

Reading 2024 poetry? Try the poem "the city that hunted us" by Natasha King! (@pelagicnatasha.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-city-that-hunted-us/

“The Aquarium of Lost Souls” by @pelagic_natasha (@pelagicnatasha.bsky.social) from @strangehorizons.bsky.social (@strangehorizons), “Water Baby” by @SpaceAgeMermaid (@tonyarmoore.com) from @fandsf, and more short fic recs from @ClowderofTwo here - locusmag.com/2025/01...

my October @strangehorizons.bsky.social piece "The Aquarium for Lost Souls" was mentioned in this review ! 😱😍

"Chị Tấm is Tired of Being Dead" by Natasha King in @apexmag.bsky.social 'I crawl out of the persimmon, and it isn’t pretty. A grown woman unfolding from a fruit that could fit into your hand: sinew restringing itself, organs inflating [...]' www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

me every year when it's time for new year's resolutions

Blogged a little about "TV prose" and how to avoid it when writing fiction

this is exactly right who would win Career Bureaucrat or Nearsighted Guy Who Really Loves His Wife

✨2024 Eligibility Post 🌊 In 2024 I had 4 prose pieces published, and a few poems! I would be honored if you would consider my work! Links in thread.

Thanks to @meganflchee.bsky.social, you can know the secrets of the cosmos. This is the whimsical story I needed this week: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/an-o...

Desperate Ark Wives is a radiant scream, hungry for fun, straight out of the void. A fresh testament of chaos and love. @somtoihezue.bsky.social and his elastic pen hold nothing back. www.havenspec.com/desperate-ar...

Everyone here at Clarkesworld would like to extend a sincere thank you to all our subscribers. Without you, the magazine wouldn't exist. That's never been more true that this year with all the damage Amazon did to us by canceling thousands of subscriptions and hiding their identities from us.

"the embodiment of the Pacific Ocean as a sometimes ally and sometimes enemy" really sums it up 🌊 I'm so delighted by this review!!

Check out my story inspired by the legend of Kiyohime (and my obsession with cursed jars). I wanted to write a story from the perspective of a demon and explore what love means to those who are told they don’t deserve it.

Looking for our authors and artists? Here's our starter pack collection: Clarkesworld Authors #1 bsky.app/starter-pack... Clarkesworld Authors #2 bsky.app/starter-pack... Clarkesworld Artists bsky.app/starter-pack... Happy to add anyone we've missed.

This poem is very dear to me and I was thrilled for it to find a home with Augur Magazine! I'm so excited to see it live!

So excited to see my novelette “Desperate Ark Wives” in this @havenspec.bsky.social issue. I had fun writing this rollercoaster that follows Gloria and her chaotic daughters-in-law aboard the Ark, and how they band together in a bid to stop the great biblical flood🌊 Subscribers get to read it today!

Hi. 2024 Eligibility Post. Some stories are still coming, so will update as things change. If you only have time for one, Brotherhood or the Sort might be a fit. If you like horror: Alabama or Grottmata might be your jam. Links in post. Ty for your time 👋 www.thomashawrites.com/blog-3/2024-...

“the city that hunted us” by Natasha King made me want to hide. That is praise. High(rise) praise. #sff #poetry #uncannyee https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-city-that-hunted-us/

Uncanny Magazine Issue 59 Part 1 also features essays by Marissa Lingen & Del Sandeen; poetry by Terese Mason Pierre & Natasha King; Caroline M. Yoachim interviewing Greg van Eekhout; and Broci’s Lunacy Act 1 as the cover! www.uncannymagazine.com

"Take Up Thy Mother’s Song" by Natasha King goes live on June 27! This story was edited by Isabella Kestermann. The audio edition was narrated by Danielle Baylor and produced by @melisfluous.bsky.social. Read a snippet before it goes live tomorrow on our website: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/take...

"...strange as it is intimate, disturbing as it is beautiful; intense and energizing as an ocean wave crashing against the shore" omg this review of The Aquarium for Lost Souls 😍