Hey, if you're a horror or Weird fiction writer interested in food systems and completely disinterested in sending AI slop, please consider writing something for our September call. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

General submissions for Issue 3 are now OPEN!!! Queer authors, send us your speculative fiction and poetry! We can’t wait to read your work! 🪐 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/ 🗡️ Pay: 8 cents/word, $50 poem 🌈 Deadline: July 21st, 11:59 pm Eastern

Hi I'm Mot and I write sff and horror. I got a new story idea while untangling yarn yesterday so my inspiration really can come from anywhere. I started writing (well, actually finishing things I started writing) during COVID because I needed a cheap solo hobby and I've kept with it! #BluePitHype

It's World Chocolate Day! No pressure, but you COULD celebrate by making one of 2 chocolate cake recipes in our Short(b)Reads anthology. The darkness & depth of Honey's Coffee Cake by Doll House Baked Goods, or the homey sweetness of the Chocolate Sponge with Raspberries and Cream by Ashley Moore 😋

Tricky one for today's #ArtRepostJuly had to have a good think on what would be fitting for the 'Dry' prompt so here I present you with a Secretary bird in some dry grassland..... #SciArt #BirdArt #Illustration #Procreate #ArtSky

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Queer books for South Asian Heritage Month! Dulhaniyaa by Talia Bhatt Here to Slay by Radhika Sanghani The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar Twice Lived by Joma West A Tide of Treason by A.B. Daniels-Annachi The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈

If you like fantasy stories but prefer low-to-no romance, check out the books on offer in this promotion - handily called (ahem) "All Slaying, No Laying". books.bookfunnel.com/slaynotlay/1... Don't forget to keep an eye out for my free novella, Ruin In The Shadows!

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I have not heard a single firework this month

Have you been eyeing this bundle but unable to afford it? A generous soul is offering to gift FIVE lucky people copies of this bundle! If you want one, all you've got to do is DM me your email address (but please only do so if you truly can't afford it - our goal is to get books to people in need)

I've had writing rejections saying my work wasn't a direction they wanted to go in, so I feel seen by the InfoWars Elf. This is also not a sentence I ever expected to type.

Haunt us! flash-frog.com/submit/

OKD is open 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.

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After Riordan Payne accidentally resurrects an amnesiac corpse, he'd do anything to get rid of it. He didn’t think ‘anything’ meant making friends with it, rescuing a kid wizard together, taking a road trip across the desert, or reawakening his humanity. #QueerPit #YA #F #UF #SN #H

CEMETERY BOYS x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH A goth trans sorcerer tries to weasel out of his contract with Hell and accidentally resurrects a corpse, rescues a child, and reconnects with his humanity along the way. #QueerPit #YA #F #UF #SN #H

The Merge x Rules For Ghosting When Melody's sister is abducted from their shared body, she'll do anything to get her back. Including subjecting herself to an uncomfortable road trip with an angel inhabiting a corpse and her sister's very confused girlfriend. #QueerPit #F #A #CON #SN

#QueerPit #SPF #SF #NA #YA #amquerying WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN Hell Followed With Us X Leviticus (96k Words) When a trans healer flees his mother's cult after a miracle goes wrong, he joins a UFO-hunter who just caught a meteorite. They road-trip to a UFO festival... with the cult in pursuit.

Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

Sorta had a crush on this boy forever, but I'm worried. Red flags? ⛳️ He maybe likes girls? ⛳️ He only smiles when I'm ridiculous ⛳️ We're competing for the same job ⛳️ His touch leaves frost on my skin ⛳️ He only kissed me to cheat on a test ⛳️ His dad would happily murder me #QueerPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

A dying mage and his partner research a way to wield magic without killing its mage, but their love turns to tragedy, leaving them separated, soulless, and immortal. Centuries later, their reincarnated souls must help the immortals die before their pain consumes the world. #Queerpit #A #F #ND

⚔️ Girl kills a guard and awakens an ancient monster. ⚔️ The monster is now trapped inside her. ⚔️ She's sentenced to the kingdom's deadliest prison. ⚔️ The only way to survive... is to trust the monster trying to take control. #Queerpit #DF #A #querying

Rules For Ghosting x Alice Isn't Dead My Sister's Stolen Soul features: 💚 An aro/ace MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend 🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer 🪽 A guardian angel willing to commit crimes 👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more 🚗 An epic road trip #QueerPit #A #F #SN #CON

#QueerPit #A #SF #DF #R #SHRT Humans have been living with dragons for years, unbeknownst to them that dragons have been here since the Hadean Eon. Now their prince wages war to help his people. Told through many short stories, Empire of Dragons is a world where the aliens are dragons.

🏳️‍⚧️GAY/TRANS FRANKENSTEIN RETELLING🏳️‍🌈 ‣ 1890s Germany ‣ Trans rage ‣ Queer religious shame ‣ Gothic body horror "Then make me whole. Take away my anger, and I’ll weather the shame with you. I am not your bride, not your monster. I ought to be thy Adam. 𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓶𝓮 𝓫𝓮." #QueerPit #A #H #HF #MYTH #SPF #LF

YA Toby Daye Halloween traditions become a matter of life and death when a teenage lesbian medium must use them to protect an aroace Faerie warrior princess from assassins. Failure means death, or worse, moving back in with her mother. #QueerPit #YA #F

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 #QueerPit #YA #F #FR #LGBT #CLI

A thieving mermaid must kiss a prince and evade the suspicions of his sea-folk-hunting cousin to avoid death as she unravels a long-lost connection between her ancestors and the lands. - Ace MC - Queernormative world - 'The Little Mermaid' Fractured Telling - Predator x Prey? #QueerPit #YA #F

SPELL BOUND x THE SUNBEARER TRIALS 🏟️ Competition between Summer & Winter princes 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Grumpy x sunshine pair 👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 Friends➡️rivals➡️lovers 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 A touch might kill them 🌳 Who will be the next Mother Nature? 🪩 Winter ball shenanigans 🥵 Climate change (& 💘) melts Jack Frost’s heart #QueerPit #YA #F #R #LGBT #CLI

WREN MARTIN RUINS IT ALL x THE SOUND OF STARS 🏳️‍🌈 pan MC, trans LI, ace BFF 🎭 teens stream their own show 🎶 music connects us all ✨ space opera, but MC's terrified of stars 🧑🏾‍🔧 competent MC (usually) 😍 Romeo's got no game 🕵🏾 search for saboteur 👨🏿‍🤝‍👨🏻 crush-to-friends/found family #QueerPit #YA #SF #LGBT

CEMETERY BOYS x THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH If Riordan Payne’s infernal patron finds out that he’s been dabbling in necromancy again, he can kiss his freedom—and his soul—goodbye. So the corpse he just accidentally resurrected has got to go, and fast. #QueerPit #YA #F #UF #SN #H

The Merge x Rules For Ghosting When Melody's sister is abducted from their shared body, she'll do anything to get her back. Including subjecting herself to an uncomfortable road trip with an angel inhabiting a corpse and her sister's very confused girlfriend. #QueerPit #A #F #SN #CON

It’s almost time to start assembling Issue 3! We open early tomorrow, July 1st, for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors; our general window runs July 8th-21st. We can’t wait to read your work! 🌈 2SLGBTQIA+ authors only 🪐 8 cents/word (fiction), $50/poem 🗡️ Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

📣 Mark your calendars!!!📣 #QueerPit returns for its 4th pitch event on JULY 1ST, 2026 We are extending Pride Month 🌈 by one more day 🙌 to platform 2SLGBTQIA+ authors Check out our website to learn more ⬇️ Follow us for additional updates soon ✨️ share.google/XLm7u0jgjeyy...

Submissions cap update: lots of slots left! Fiction is 47% full (70/150), poetry is 21% full (21/100). If you haven’t sent Jess and Angel a story and/or poem yet… you still have time to write something dark + weird + messy + risky + deeply, deeply fucked up (complimentary) just for them 👀

show me a picture (of yourself) that captures your essence (if you want)(I'm not your mom) CW spiders! My Ren Fair costume! All hail the spider queen 👑

I added an Aliens in New Florida signed paperback pre-order on Etsy for those of us who (quite rightly) don't use the rainforest website 🧡 I think it'll be available at BN+ on Google/Apple books closer to the release! www.carmenloup.com/aliens-in-ne...

I received this book in exchange for an honest review. Aliens in New Florida comes out August 4th and you can preorder your copy here: www.amazon.com/Aliens-New-F... 🌈 📚️ 💙

how Wish I Might edits are going (for Frank):

🎙️Recently @radicaledward.bsky.social had a very entertaining chat with @mollytanzer.bsky.social about all things BLUE FIRE.🔥 👉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

a true knight fights for everyone ⚔️🏳️‍⚧️ (chivalry is gay!! happy pride!!)

Every time I say I have enough books I accidentally buy another book. I walked by FIVE book stores and/or booths today and only bought ONE this was good actually. Plus some other photos from today. 📚💙

Ajani would love for you to check out the NEED anthology, which contains my story Sunflower 🌻 mybook.to/wiDsfH 🌻

It's too fucking hot to move, have a free book to pass the time with. shop.ravenswordpress.com/collections/...

Introducing my cat to the arts.

Road trip not your thing? How about space ships, dragons, and magic doors? 🌈 📚️ 💙

Mark your calendars: our limited demographic window opens in ONE WEEK! We'll be open July 1-7 only for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors! (Our general window begins July 8th.) We can't wait! 🌈 2SLGBTQIA+ authors only 🗡️ Speculative stories up to 4000 words 🪐8 cents/word (fiction), $50/poem

We’re officially a month out from 2026’s summer #questpit!! Here’s a refresh on some rules! We hope to see you there :)