Pssst: we’re open to submissions of horror fiction, interior art, and full color cover art AND WE’RE PAYING MORE NOW. Guidelines here: fraidycatpress.com/submission-g... #horrorlit #cosmic #horror #indie #shortstory #novelette #magazine #art #illustration

OTHERSIDE is looking for 1-2 first readers! We got SO many amazing submissions that it's time to expand our team! Interested? This is a great opportunity to learn about the editorial process 👀 We offer an honorarium and first readers can still submit to us! 📝Apply here: forms.gle/QcYLzXFn6AEn...

It's Aro Awareness Week! Shout out to my fellow Aros! If you like fiction about aromantic characters -with partners and or friends- 23 of us (mostly aro ourselves) have put a book in this bundle. The aro(aces) in my book, Manipulator's War, are building friendships. ♠️🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...

It's #aromanticawarenessweek!! To all our aro-spec friends out there, we see you and we love you! Keep sharing your stories, they deserve to be out in the world 💚

PSA! Today (Feb 15) is the last day to submit through our general submissions queue. Then, we'll be reading ONLY for The Smokey ($4700 prize pot) until May 10. Free general submissions reopen May 15! Exceptions: paid multiple submissions and senior editor feedback (reading for September issue).

Today (Feb. 15) is the final day to send us your beautiful 100-word stories (until we open again in April)! 100footcrow.com/submission-g...

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS Mother Nature's dying. Cheerful summer prince Ray (16yo) battles brooding Jack Frost (17yo) to inherit her powers. With Jack's frozen 🩵 melting in a world of climate change, Ray may have to lose the contest to save the boy he loves #CuPit #YA #RoFa #LGBT #CliFi

Name a videogame you've put 500 hours into. - Baldur's Gate 3 - Terraria - Stardew Valley

Roses are red, Violets are blue; if you fuck with gen ai, I don’t fuck with you.

#LucyKnits2026 Third project of the year complete. Cryptid Doodle (Infinity) by Jamie Lomax. Yarn: Emma’s Yarn Simply Spectacular DK Yards in this project: 659 yards Yards knitted so far this year: 1,110 yards

To celebrate, Name Her Holy will be FREE for the next ✨24 hours✨ on itch! So if you’ve been eyeing it, now’s your chance 👁️✨👁️✨👁️✨ aubreyennis.itch.io/name-her-holy

Strong lineup this week 👌

I should have taken pictures before wrapping is so the book was visible but a friend is having surgery next week and I figured he'd need something to do while he recovered so I got him a copy of White Trash Warlock by @drslayton.bsky.social

Free to submit, Pays a penny a word. #submissioncall #submissioncalls #opencall #opencalls #weirdfic #ratbag #mundanecryptid #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writing

Just finished this guy. idk felt like going at it with the watercolors and my 2 remaining watercolor pages #Art #Azra #OC #Angel #DarkArt

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

NEW STORY! "Ghost Machine" by Jennifer Monsen. 👻 100footcrow.com/ghost-machine/

cw: gross I think I have shared this bit before but I do love it. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Reading at my favorite spot in the library:) 🌈📚💙

For those following the Red Ogre Review saga, he has made good on his promise to change his licensing terms...by doubling down. On left: the original (awful) license. On right: the new license, mostly the same as the old license, but with some additions that I've circled in red.

If I counted all the times I reread my own books in editing, my yearly reading total would triple

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/... discord.com/press-releas...

Today's story is "Pizza of the Day" by Katie Dee. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros #PizzaPoetry ratbaglit.substack.com/p/pizza-of-t...

🛫 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The pronouns labeler shut down but there's a new one over here

Seeing your own post on the timeline: 💅 Noticing the typo: 🪦

loot does not drop upon defeating me. the developers didn't expect anyone to attack me, i am so vulnerable, and only trying to help. why did you raise your sword? for material gain? i would give you anything i have if you had only asked. i did not ask to be in this game, i did not ask to have 6hp.

Hope everyone had a good Caturday

Dressed to kill 💀🔪👗 New month, new flash fiction contest! The Apex Magazine flash fiction theme for February is DRESS CODES. You have until the last day of the month to submit! Submission guidelines and portal linked below ⬇️ www.patreon.com/posts/februa...

Open to submissions of short stories for What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style until April 15th, 2026. 8¢/word. <6,000 words. Simsub ok, no multiple submissions, original stories only. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Beenjamin is excited for another writing session! Are you? Join us bright and early for TEA WRITES, a Saturday morning stream featuring word sprints, chill chats, and lofi beats! Link will be posted at 8:30 AM ET, SATURDAY, 2/7. Sprints to start at 9. #writingcommunity #writesky #writingsky

Loot that drops after defeating me: ✨ A set of dice ✨ Octopus key chain ✨ Dragon enamel pin ✨ More books than should reasonably fit in my bag/pockets ✨ Small tube of sunscreen ✨ Miscellaneous trinkets I picked up out of the dirt

Received the second book I won from Goodreads giveaways a couple weeks ago! Really, really excited for this one but it comes out later so it's banished to my to-read box for now. 🌈📚💙

The Audacity series follows speed-junkie rocket racer May and her life partner Xan, good-natured alien with a horrific secret, across the universe (and outside it) as they try to avoid that indefatigable force of nature, Chaos itself. Get all 4 novels (with audiobooks!) at CarmenLoup.com

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

#Writing calls & contests for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, including fellowships paying #writers up to $27,000. 🔗 authorspublish.com/40-themed-su...

I made a plot generator (no GenAI!!!) and now it lives on the Free Resources page of my website!! Have fun~ maybarros.com.br/en/free-reso...

Hideous licensing agreement from Red Ogre Review, but what really jumps out at me is the moral rights waiver

Don't enter this. You'll lose all rights to your story. Period. Competitions like this need to be called out, so they learn their good reputation shouldn't be used to steal the bread from writers' mouths. And that we're not all clueless rubes waiting to be taken advantage of.

😴 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

Today's story is "The Aro Shield" by Sage Collins. @sagecollins.bsky.social #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #CupidsMisfire ratbaglit.substack.com/p/the-aro-sh...

🐈‍⬛ #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)

Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it.

First new story of the year is finished! Technically I started it last year and didn't finish it but shhhh let me pretend it's shiny and new.

Today is the day, friends! Submissions for fifth issue of The Icarus Writing Collective are now open. We're looking for fiction prose and art all about fae and flowers. 💜

OKD is open again for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

Our general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/