If you got to the end of Stranger Things and said "I wish I had more stories with a gay sorcerer from a small town fighting an eldritch power while crafting a found family," then I've got you covered. Three series, urban/rural and high fantasy available however you read. davidrslayton.com/books/

We also have Micros (300 words or less) open for free until Jan 10th. #submissioncalls #submissioncall #ratbag #ratbaglitmag

First art of 2026

Happy new year! I’m kicking off 2026 with a giveaway🎉 I’ll be giving away one physical copy of Songs of Broken Bells (US only) and one e-book (open to anyone). 🔥 To enter, like this post and comment whether you’re entering for the physical copy or the e-book 🔔

Lyra absolutely will start and finish it, and she's going to win 🔪

And first rejection of the year is already in. My 2026 submission spreadsheet is starting to feel normal instead of all blank lol

Currently open for drabbles.

OTHERSIDE is officially OPEN for fiction and poetry submissions 🪐🗡️ If you’re part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, send us your speculative fiction and poetry: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and everything in between! 📚 Open window: Jan 1-14 📑 See guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Damn right

Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings' inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

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.

Happy New Year everyone!! Also, happy we're open to submissions day!!

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/

A dragon for the last day of 2025 #sketch-a-day #dragon #art #graphite #DnD #Dungeons&Dragons #fantasy

Happy New Year 🎆 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

First submission of 2026 is already out 🫡

I know what's in my book. I love my book. I want to talk about my book. Why is the synopsis so painful 😭

My favorite reads of the year! I read a total of 135 books. What was yours? 💙📚🌈

In 2025 I started putting words I encountered and did not know on flashcards. I learned 80 new words this year! Learning is so fun when I am free to do it on my own terms. I never thought I'd be thrilled by flashcards but here we are.

Proposition! Who here would be up for doing a 12 week Artist’s Way discord club? I’m running a club IRL and figured I might as well have one online too! I’m thinking Fridays at 4:00 EST we can have a Discord video call and then chat casually throughout the week. Starting Feb 27th!

Only 5 copies away 👀

This is one of my favorite parts (something I say about 50% of the chapters) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

If I sell ONE more bundle, I’ll hit 200 paid sales for the year, and I think that would be very cool… 🥺 👉👈

#BluePit is ready to kick off 2026! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects! #BluePit will be taking place on Jan 13th, 2026! And #BluePitHype starts January 8th! #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

ha ha. On Clement st. in San Francisco this morning! Octopus tea party? I approve.

Do you sells works on itch.io? Do you have a work starring one or more characters on the aromantic spectrum? Then we want YOU! to submit your works to a bundle of works starring arospec characters to run during Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Deets: duckprintspress.com/resources/du... 🌈📚

Melody and Lyra share the same set of purple eyes but they technically belong to Melody. And they're really important to the plot! People with purple eyes can see souls (and angels) and it's overall treated as a cool trait in the world. #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts

We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry. Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)

Happy Caturday 😝

💛🐝GIVEAWAY🐝💛 I'll pick a winner on January 3rd! The winner will receive a signed physical copy of Sweet & Wild, my MM Fantasy Romance, and a few other goodies! Second place will get a digital copy! To enter: 💛Like this post! 💛Repost it! 💛Follow me! 💛For an extra entry, comment below!

Cephalopods 🦑🩵🐙 #watercolor #traditionalart #artsky #illustration

In 2025 I... - Got a couple little things published! - Wrote 6 new short stories. - Actually finished writing and editing a novel length project I feel confident in. - Wrote half of the second book to my "totally a standalone" project. Ooops. - Packed my life with little things that brought me joy.

I have a bunch of new followers so hi I'm Mot and I write spec-fic, read a chaotic blend of books, and drink tea. My page is generally an unholy amalgamation of my writing, dragons, octopuses, D&D, cat photos, and shared submission calls. I don't bite. Probably. It's nice to meet you 🤝

As there a lot of newcomers to the #WritingCommunity here, these are all accounts I enjoy interacting with here! It was hard to move away from the Bad Place, but I've become a lot more comfortable in myself and sharing my writing, and a lot of these folks are responsible for that. #WriteSky

Update: I am down to 24 sales away from 2.5k all time thanks to someone buying Opus on Christmas and @kithrup.bsky.social giving away 5 copies of Kotov Syndrome. Unlikely that gets hit by EOY...but...maybe? payhip.com/anotherindie... or anotherindiewriter.itch.io or on Kobo/Amazon/B&N/etc

night shades is OPEN! 🛸 500 words max, any speculative 🛸 sim subs ok (multiples not) 🛸 quick response and pro+ pay please read the guidelines! www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Today's second story is "The Krampusnacht Bake-Off" by Richard M. Sanders. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros #scarysanta ratbaglit.substack.com/p/the-krampu...

Wishing you a peaceful day 💜

Make the yuletide gay ❤️ [ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]

The best part of Christmas is always the books. 🌈📚💙

dragon. painted with crayola kids paint and colored pencils

Merry Christmas 🎄 My Halloween 🎃 story, “Come as You Aren’t” about a trans girl stressing over telling her BFF she’d rather dress as Elphaba than Jack Skellington was published! ❗️CW: misgendering❗️ In the “Centering Joy” issue of My Galvanized Friend www.mygalvanizedfriend.org/contribution...

Breakfast with an angel 👼 ...much less glamorous than it sounds. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

NEW STORY! "A Necessary Yard" by @craigborri.bsky.social 100footcrow.com/a-necessary-...

The first book has some stone but the second book has a whole scene where a character interacts with her own gravestone with her wife so I had to dig through that for something fun. This book is all unedited. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Describe your WIP in a single word or a single emoji. 💜

You can read my microfic “Subject: Invasion” here on Rat Bag Lit for free. If you’re behind on Christmas shopping, it might give you some ideas! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #MeleKalikimaka #FlashFictionCountdown #AmPublished ratbaglit.substack.com/p/subject-in...

I misread this as angel and I was so excited! I thought about running with that anyway for the ✨vibes✨ but I have like 150 instances of angel and only one angle so you get the easy choice. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.