Lest We Forget. "In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below." -In Flanders Field, John McCrae

My story "Mother's Little Poppet" is free to read at Gavagai, a new horror writing and reading community. You may need to sign up to view it, but it doesn't cost anything to join. 🙂 www.gavagai.com/posts/467

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

Today is publication day for the anthology Bizarro Circus of Madness edited by Riley Odell! My story, Gothic Heroine Pixelated, is included. 🙂 www.amazon.ca/Bizarro-Circ...

👻 👻 👻 My story “Charlatan” is in this new anthology. “Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: An anthology of haunting tales from Canada”. 👻 👻 👻https://books2read.com/u/3GkdOL

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Two lovely reviews for Storyteller just showed up! I'll be on the Tanith Lee panel at the World Fantasy Convention later this month. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you can find it at all the usual places, including tanithleestoryteller.com

We're pleased to announce that you can now download each month's stories in a handy .pdf digest, available on our website at the beginning of the following month. September's is out now, featuring stories by @rachiea.bsky.social @crboltz.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com and @ktwagner.bsky.social

I have another short story out today!

@hellitself.bsky.social posted another fantastic story today: "On the Rainy Sid of the Mountain..." by @ktwagner.bsky.social. I really really loved the story. (And the person I most want to recommend it to is not on bsky so I'll have to send an email.) hellitself.com/on-the-rainy...

It's release day for Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror from Renaissance Press. My story is "With Child" www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... #choicesanthology #sciencefiction

35 days to Halloween…

My story "With Child" is in Choices: An anthology of reproductive horror! I'm taking part in the October 5th virtual launch.

Check out Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026 by Andrew S. Fuller on @kickstarter.com I've backed it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Are you up for a scary writing challenge? @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story Challenge on October 31st! nycmidnight.com/scary

Wonderful review of Fractured Reveries: "A powerful and timely anthology told with razor-sharp, devastating prose. Perfect for fans of dark fantasy, fairy tales, and stories of resistance." ~ Gwendolyn Kiste, 4-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Haunting of Velkwood & Reluctant Immortals

Never thought about it before, but I think this is true for me too. 🙃

Yesterday @citymystic.bsky.social sent this to me and I’m just so grateful to have been able to live the kind of life where people immediately think of me when they come across headlines like “Yeti Blood Oath Divides Denver Seminary”

I'm looking forward to teaching a writing workshop at the virtual Off Topic Publishing conference in August about one of my favourite topics: The Power of Writing Prompts and Constraints. @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social offtopicpublishing.com/conference

My story "The Drowning Pool" is upcoming in the anthology "Back Into The Ground: Horror Inspired by the Pacific Northwest" from Caretaker Press. Release date: July 24th. The anthology is currently available for Kindle pre-order. It will be available in print (details forthcoming).

On a dark and stormy night, a kid watches their grandmother take matters into her own hands and avenge her husband—by murdering Death itself 💀🖤🌩️ My latest short story, "The Fishwife Who Killed Death", is out now in On Spec: ko-fi.com/s/ad25118618

My contributor copy of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology from Essential Dreams Press, edited by @thisjulieday.bsky.social, @carinabissett.bsky.social , and Craig L. Gidney, has arrived!!! All original stories, including mine. The main character of "Zugunruhe" is a Canada goose. 😀

10 days! Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology ships JULY 1st! I'm thrilled with how it turned out. These authors are fire! tanithleestoryteller.com @marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and more

I'm teaching a workshop - The Power of Writing Prompts & Constraints - as part of Off Topic Publishing's 2025 online Conference, the weekend of August 9th and 10th. Check out the entire schedule at the link and join me! @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social offtopicpublishing.com/conference/

My first GenAI Grapevine column is out and examines if generative AI will change how people think and experience the world, a look at the manipulative language used to promote AI, if James Frey's the new posterboy for writers using AI, plus other news and info. www.patreon.com/posts/131375...

I just posted a review of the forthcoming Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology edited by @thisjulieday.bsky.social, @carinabissett.bsky.social, and Craig Laurance Gidney. It's a lovely anthology and it'll be out in July! acwise.net/review-story...

A.C. Wise reviewed Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute anthology, and mentioned my story “Zugunruhe” as a favourite, among others! I'm thrilled to be part of this Essential Dreams Press anthology coming out in July. acwise.net/review-story...

Writer friends! Who's attending the Surrey International Writers' Conference (SiWC) this October? I just registered for the full conference. It's the first time back for me since 2019. Love that it's in Canada and nearby. www.siwc.ca #thisdaywewrite

big thanks to everyone that showed up and subscribed to @fantasymagazine.bsky.social with your support we can keep beautiful magazine going for years to come... if curious: we need 666 quarterly subscribers to break even 666.66667 to be exact we're at 186, an amazing start! but a ways to go 🗡️

I don't know if anyone else has this problem but every time I open social media on my phone in the last week, a thousand shrieking banshee wails echo from the speakers & warn me to turn back or risk seeing man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

A lot of people need to read, and absorb, this entire thread. Thanks for sharing @mariadahvana.bsky.social

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

I'm taking part in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge on May 30th. Learn more at nycmidnight.com/ffc

My flash story, Hobo 🕸️ Queen, is out today in the Briar and Thorns issue of Fairy Tale Magazine. Spring/Summer 2025 is Sleeping Beauty themed. Free to read online - download link at www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/briar-t...

My story "Zugunruhe" is in the upcoming Tanith Lee tribute anthology "Storyteller" from Essential Dreams Press. The link will take you to an excerpt. Preorders available. Thanks to editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett and Craig Laurance Gidney. essentialdreamspress.substack.com/p/spotlight-...

My poem "The Princess and the Sack of Peas" is out today in Polar Starlight #18. This Canadian speculative fiction magazine is free to read online. Thanks to editor Rhea Rose and publisher Richard Graeme Cameron. polarborealis.ca/wp-content/u...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day(ish) for 20 days (or more ... lol), in no particular order. I've been doing this slowly :) No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books #writers #writing Day 16/20

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

Only 19 hours left. Help Utopia Science Fiction Magazine reach their goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/uto...

Concerning but not surprising. :(

This week's #storynotes start here (I'll hashtag the first reference to each story, too) Here’s the background on the project and the three-mood story structures I'm looking at/for: tanaudel.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/s... And here's last week's thread: bsky.app/profile/tana...

Two of my published flash stories are mentioned and they are in excellent company. This made my day! ♥️♥️♥️

Sat., Feb. 22nd at 10am Pacific, I'm teaching an online workshop on submitting your short fiction for publication. With close to 60 short story & poetry publications, I have lots of info and strategies to share. @carinabissett.bsky.social storiedimaginarium.substack.com/p/submitting...

Canadian liquor stores today.

❤❤❤ I was really touched by the notes in today's FBCW (Federation of B.C. Writers) newsletter. ❤❤❤ preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

This is the best articulation I've ever seen of this concept, and the reason that my archiving and writing have always been in a close tete-a-tete: you use very similar skills to read or write a book, although there's an extra sharp shine on archival materials, an undeniable power for good and ill

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day(ish) for 20 days (or more ... lol), in no particular order. I've been doing this slowly :) No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books #writers #writing Day 15/20

Excited to see this review of the Winter Folklore issue @flashfictiononline.bsky.social from C.D. Lewis at Tangent Online. Congratulations @allisonpang.bsky.social, Catherine George, Jason P. Burnham, Daniel Roop, M. R. Robinson, @ktwagner.bsky.social & Nadia Born! tangentonline.com/e-market-mon...

My flash story, Moist Breath of a Cold Stranger, can now be read online at Flash Fiction Online. It's part of the Winter Folklore issue. #jackfrost #frostgiants www.flashfictiononline.com/article/mois...

Ann VanderMeer included Tanith in every project Ann was a part of until Tanith passed & one of our authors, Mike Allen, is also a small press publisher who promoted Tanith’s work after others had turned away. I did an interview with Ann last year that was really interesting youtu.be/VTbUZ2Nl3ts?...