✨ issue 2 is here to blow ur socks off >:3 ✨

very hype to have my story about a former tiger princess who, like, really needs to get off of tinder featured alongside so many gorgeous pieces!!!! 🌀 youuuuu want to grab an issue 🌀

HAPPY PRIDE, ISSUE 2 IS OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS!!! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🌈 Issue 2 will be free online on June 15th—but if you'd like to support a queer magazine AND read Issue 2 without waiting, you can snag a copy now! Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/s/3e872a158d Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/others... (1/2)

Tomorrow is RELEASE DAY! If you aren’t a subscriber yet but you’d like to get Issue 2 delivered straight to your inbox tomorrow, now is the time! 💜 We can’t wait for you to read this issue.

Sneaking this announcement out before the weekend: We are pleased to announce the ToC and share the cover for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...

24 hours left! 🥹 THANK YOU to everyone who helped us reach our goal! ✨ With the finish line behind us, we still have time to reach our stretch goals—and you can get some merch while you’re at it! Again, from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU! 💜

LAST DAY LAST DAY LAST DAY www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

This is it, friends. The final week of our campaign. 😲 We have only 6 days to reach our stretch goals. If you've been waiting to back us, now is the time! At $13k, we'll be able to run year 6 of T&F ✨ At $15.5k, we'll be able to put a PRINT EDITION in your hands! 🤩 Back and share to help! 💚

Between Granta's face plant and me finding likely AI-"written" stories/poems in online SFF magazines, let's talk about what you, Editor of a Magazine What Doesn't Want AI Prose, can do! There's no One Weird Trick, alas. It comes down to recognizing signs and developing your editorial sense. (1/8)

Have you read? Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur by Abigail Eliza at Otherside "And he asked." What is it Arthur asks? othersidespec.com/pieces/your-...

Issue 2 drops in just THREE DAYS for subscribers! Support a queer magazine this Pride AND read this amazing issue two weeks before everyone else: Digital and print options (+ extra perks!): www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec Digital via @weightlessbooks.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/otherside-ma...

Congratulations to all the amazing authors in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2026 TOC—including OTHERSIDE Issue 1 author @nadiaradovich.bsky.social! What an awesome lineup of stories!!

the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe ending + peter pan and wendy ending + a smidge of frieren + a whole ton of mother-daughter angst = my story in this upcoming issue of OTHERSIDE ⚔️ everything sounds like a banger honestly 🙌

Issue 2 comes out SO SOON! This issue is dreamy, lush, surreal, and we can't wait for you to read it—here's a hint at what you can expect from the stories 👀 The issue releases June 1st to subscribers and June 15th for everyone else. Join us to be the first to read: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

If you're an emerging artist or writer, this contest is for you! No submission fees No rights encumbered 1st Place: $1500 (the art contest’s prize money as part of the Monu Bose Memorial Prize) 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Submit by June 8, 2026 1/2

Issue 2 of OTHERSIDE arrives for subscribers in one week! 🚨 If you aren't subscribed yet, now is the time! This issue has EVERYTHING. Join us to get digital issues delivered directly to your inbox two weeks early, plus tons of other fun perks: www.patreon.com/c/OthersideS...

Our authors are the absolute best. Want to keep up with these amazing queer writers and see all the wonderful things they do next? Consider following our handy new OTHERSIDE Authors starter pack! 💜

Gimme some new short speculative fiction! reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

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Here are some of the albums our team had on repeat while assembling Issue 2! (This post is inspired by @fusionfragment.bsky.social, who always has the best music recs.) Issue 2 comes out on June 1st for subscribers and June 15th for everyone else! We can't wait! 🪐🗡️ Titles/artists threaded below 🧵

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beestung is now accepting new work for The Pleasure Issue, interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic through all genres (and art!). We can't wait to read what you've got for us! 👄🐝✨ More information: beestungmag.com/special-call...

Submissions to @bafflingmag.bsky.social will open up again on June 1st. We'll be reading for unthemed stories as well as on the theme of "gossip" for the upcoming issue edited by @bendibarrett.bsky.social. 🪶 queer speculative stories 🪶 <1200 words 🪶 8¢/word

Issue 2 drops SOON—June 1st for subscribers, June 15th for everyone! We are so excited 🪐 So... let's play a game? Reply to this post with a number between 5-112 and we'll give you a spoiler-free line from that page! 👀 And please consider subscribing if you want to be the first to read this issue!

Did you know that every issue of OTHERSIDE features interior art, too? Take a peek at some of the creatures you'll find in our print/ebook editions! @demonography.bsky.social is the best, and we love these little guys so much. We can't wait for you to see more of them in Issue 2, arriving June 1st!

Final day to get your submissions in for Saros #6!

How many more Trans+ lives and love stories have faded away, never to be understood for what they truly were? www.wearequeeraf.com/to-burn-out-...

TIL that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now enrolls one of every six children in the US to receive a new book in the mail every month from birth to age five (60 books each) @arl.org

Our May newsletter is here! This month, we're sharing our Issue 2 TOC in order for the first time, plus musing on this issue's themes, plus... hinting a mysterious Secret Project coming soon?? 👀 WHATEVER COULD THAT BE? Enjoy! This one is for all patrons, free or paid! 🪐🗡️🌈

Our May newsletter is here! This month, we're sharing our Issue 2 TOC in order for the first time, plus musing on this issue's themes, plus... hinting a mysterious Secret Project coming soon?? 👀 WHATEVER COULD THAT BE? Enjoy! This one is for all patrons, free or paid! 🪐🗡️🌈

Don't miss out on the second installation of the ALOCASIA Summer Creative Writing Workshop Series, led in June by the brilliant EJ Haley! RSVP on Eventbrite to reserve your free ticket! eventbrite.com/e/1987718667...

ISSUE 2 COVER REVEAL! Subscribers got the first look, but now it's your turn! As always, art is by the incredible @hvmator.bsky.social, who has once again knocked it out of the park. Those colors! These authors! We can't wait for you to read this issue 🧡 We know you're going to love it.

ISSUE 2 COVER REVEAL! Subscribers got the first look, but now it's your turn! As always, art is by the incredible @hvmator.bsky.social, who has once again knocked it out of the park. Those colors! These authors! We can't wait for you to read this issue 🧡 We know you're going to love it.

Applications are now OPEN for "Moments of Euphoria", our new trans joy art book! 🌟 Infodoc: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🌟 Page artist application: forms.gle/oGF4VFC8PLar... 🌟 Merch artist application: forms.gle/bmt2N7oJwiHF... #ZineApps #Zines #ArtistsWanted #OpenZines #TransJoy

Would you like a sneak peek at our Issue 2 cover illustration by @hvmator.bsky.social? Of course you would! It's dreamy, lush, and surreal, just like so many of the stories and the poems in this issue. We adore this cover and we know you will too 🪐 Full reveal coming Wednesday!

it's tiiiime: the Grey Aces bundle has gone live! Want some sus aces in your life? Then this is the bundle for you 😎 🔗 riyati.ink/greyaces 📚️ 💙 #QueerSFF #QueerAdultSFF

🎊Know it's been said before, but here with our first-gathering official announcement (📅May 16 7 pm EST), including community agreements for your perusal. Come chat with us, satisfy your burning questions, and maybe get a little writing in🎊: www.patreon.com/posts/our-ve...

Reminder: this is happening in just over an hour! See you there, patrons!

We're hard at work finalizing Issue 2 + preparing to send out review copies later this month! So if you're a reviewer intrigued by this fantastic TOC ... let us know, and we'll send you an early digital copy of the issue! Slide into our DMs or drop a line to [email protected] 👀

We're hard at work finalizing Issue 2 + preparing to send out review copies later this month! So if you're a reviewer intrigued by this fantastic TOC ... let us know, and we'll send you an early digital copy of the issue! Slide into our DMs or drop a line to [email protected] 👀

Hello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚

Congratulations to OTHERSIDE authors @mimulus.bsky.social, @tobymacnutt.bsky.social, @breewernicke.bsky.social, and Gospel Chinedu—and all the finalists! Look at all these incredible poems 🤩💜

On Friday at 8pm Eastern we're holding a live hangout/Q&A for patrons! Join us! We'll also be streaming Golf With Your Friends, probably being not at allllll competitive ✨ Patrons can find a private link and details at the link! Can't make it? Feel free to drop any questions here in the replies!

We're 75% of the way to our first stretch goal! Big thanks to everyone who's already contributed, and we'd love your help spreading the word to push ARB to the next level!

They’re getting closer! Please help Anathema cross the finish line!

Our Issue 2 TOC is officially here! 🪐🗡️ We are so excited to reveal this stellar lineup of nine stories, six poems, and one essay by sixteen incredible authors—and we absolutely cannot WAIT for you to read this dreamy, gorgeous, magical issue in June. More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/7)

ALOCASIA is now seeking new unpublished queer creative writing for our upcoming EcoFutures issue, to be published December 2026. Deadline: 11/11. Pays $50. Absolutely no AI. www.ALOCASIA.org

Rumours are true! We are now open for short fiction and poetry submissions from equity-deserving groups. Give us your words, your anxiety dreams of electric sheep, your last gasp of a dying star. As always: make it SFF, make it long-term www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

It's here! Our May bonus newsletter, which includes alllll the submissions stats you could want PLUS the reveal of our gorgeous Issue 2 cover illustration by @hvmator.bsky.social PLUS an exclusive look at early drafts, too! Patreon is the best way to support us. Our patrons make OTHERSIDE possible 🧡

Emerging from the surface of the cranberry bog for a second here to say that I have a poem forthcoming in the new issue of @othersidespec.bsky.social!! It's such a summertime poem, I'm so glad it found a home in the summer issue 🌤️🏞️💜