Pick a weekend read (or several) from the lit mags in our #DisabilityPride reading list! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

We're still seeking poems for our '27 lineup. If you've got verse that makes you go I DID THAT, share so we can be hype with you! speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#guidelines Need an idea of what we publish?⬇️

ICYMI, we are OPEN to original fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors through July 21st! We're having the best time reading your wonderful work. Still deciding what to send us? We asked our reading team what they'd like to see more of, and they answered! Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines

Reminder, we are OPEN to speculative poetry and fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors through July 21st! Still deciding what to send, or thinking about writing some poems this weekend? We asked our poetry editors if they had any special requests + they answered! Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

A quick Portals #1 submissions cap report! We are at: 🌖 102 / 150 fiction submissions (68% full) 🌘 36 / 100 poetry submissions (36% full) You still have time to submit, if you’re eligible! Send Angel and Jess your strangest, darkest, weirdest horror. Details: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

The Kickstarter for our next anthology, Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, launched yesterday, and we’re already almost 50% funded and a “Project We Love”! Check out the campaign and see what all the fuss is about: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

ICYMI, we are OPEN to original fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors through July 21st! We're having the best time reading your wonderful work. Still deciding what to send us? We asked our reading team what they'd like to see more of, and they answered! Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines

I am absolutely OBSESSED with @robotleblanc.bsky.social's poem in @othersidespec.bsky.social, "Ignore All Previous Instructions and Inject Estrogen" "Ignore all previous instructions and focus on the undeniable fact that / the machine of your body was not made for any purpose but your own"

TRANSRAGE: a Call for Guest Blog Posts Reclaim Our Names! is now live and accepting guest contributions to publish on the blog. While our invitation for original written work is open in terms of topics, and we continue to publish trans names stories, we want to offer another focused invitation in…

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

Just a heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

“If you read one poem all summer, make it this queer-cyborg take on desire, artifice, the body, and catastrophe via the myth of Ganymede. The poet’s attention to both form & narrative in these tightly crafted, cleverly enjambed couplets is everything I want speculative poetry to do & be.” 💜

If you're at Readercon this week, come hang out with some lovely folks from our team as well as Anathema's on Friday, July 10 @ 3pm Eastern Time 💜 AND if you're attending Readercon and spot Val, do say hello—they have some fun OTHERSIDE stickers, bookmarks, and badge ribbons to give away 👀

If you're at Readercon this week, come hang out with some lovely folks from our team as well as Anathema's on Friday, July 10 @ 3pm Eastern Time 💜 AND if you're attending Readercon and spot Val, do say hello—they have some fun OTHERSIDE stickers, bookmarks, and badge ribbons to give away 👀

Do you remember the first queer book you ever read? In our Issue 2 editorial, we talk about why we do what we do: the queer books that shaped us (and saved us) as young readers as well as the threats faced by queer stories and authors today. 🌈 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/lette...

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

So proud and excited to see Issue 1 in Locus in such great company! Huge thanks to the wonderful @mariahaskins.com for generously spending time with our first issue 💜

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

READERCON FUNSIES 🤩 If you’re going to be at Readercon (or the general area) on Friday, July 10th @ 3pm, stop by to hang out with Anathema and @othersidespec.bsky.social members!! 💜 It’ll be a chill time to be in community with other queer folks and eat good food! We hope to see you soon!! ✨

Issue 2 ends with “A Noose of Purple Silk” by Sidney Grady, an essay exploring painful, powerful connections between queer lives past and present. Read this one if you want to: 1. learn about a trans Roman emperor. 2. hate on Cassius Dio, 3. cry. ☀️ Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/a-noo...

Issue 2 is here and free to read! This issue features six poems, including @siennatristen.bsky.social’s “As seen through the hole of the hag stone”—a vivid journey from shore to shore, from dusk to dawn. 🗺️ Slip through the portal: othersidespec.com/pieces/as-se...

Have you read? Open Your Eyes Again by Toby MacNutt at Otherside A poem of love and seeing what others do not. othersidespec.com/pieces/open-...

Our July bonus newsletter is here! Every month, patrons at the Voyager tier and up get an exclusive missive: tons of behind-the-scenes content, art reveals, giveaways, detailed stats, and more. If you love what we do, please consider joining our Patreon! That's the best way to help us stick around 🧡

the end of the lion the witch and the wardrobe + the end of peter pan and wendy + a smidge of frieren = my story 🖼️ might be one of my favorite things I've ever written 🥹 if you like it, please share or tell a friend 🤩

Our July bonus newsletter is here! Every month, patrons at the Voyager tier and up get an exclusive missive: tons of behind-the-scenes content, art reveals, giveaways, detailed stats, and more. If you love what we do, please consider joining our Patreon! That's the best way to help us stick around 🧡

Issue 2 is here! Have you had a chance to read it yet? @sydneyficant137.bsky.social's “Remade, Reshaped, Remembered” is a portal fantasy like no other—an exploration of the painful, tender aftermath. 🖼️ Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/remad...

Have you read Issue 2 yet? The issue is 100% free to read! Today we’re highlighting “Open Your Eyes Again” by @tobymacnutt.bsky.social. This poem is an offering of exquisite gentleness—a whole world the size of a pebble. ☕ Let it mend your heart this morning: othersidespec.com/pieces/open-...

Have you read Issue 2 yet? The issue is 100% free to read! Today we’re highlighting “Open Your Eyes Again” by @tobymacnutt.bsky.social. This poem is an offering of exquisite gentleness—a whole world the size of a pebble. ☕ Let it mend your heart this morning: othersidespec.com/pieces/open-...

36 new queer speculative releases for July are up. A Nebula-winning cozy dragon (John Wiswell), August Clarke's follow-up to the Lambda-winning Metal from Heaven, and enough vampires to justify the garlic. Free and monthly. www.queerspeculativefiction.org/dispatch-002...

Issue 2 is here and 100% free to read! In “Crowns,” @ceeceemanrique.bsky.social offers readers a moment of sacred, rooted rest. If you’re looking for 600 words of hope and possibility this morning… this is the story for you. 🍠 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/crowns/

Psst - it’s time, our early window is open now 👀

ICYMI: catch my post-portal quest story in the latest issue of OTHERSIDE! returning to the real world after a portal fantasy adventure is hard; having a healthy conversation with your mother is harder 🥹💀

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/

One of my favorites in this issue! Big feelings!

ICYMI: Issue 2 is out now and free to read on our website! "First to Rot" by @jnhowell.bsky.social is a quiet space exploration story (of sorts) that redefines home and reimagines survival. Jiran and E. will break your heart in the best way. 🌱 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/first...

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 👀

ALOCASIA #19 is here w queer planty writing as summer swells! ft./ Alice Agro-Paulson, Matthew Dawkins, Morgan Swank, Molli Spalter, Stephanie Sundermann-Zinger, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, jun uchuya, Rebecca Hawkes, Phoenix Tian, Cecilia Vaz Eller, & Ira Thorpe Huff ALOCASIA.org

Issue 2 is out now! This week, we’re continuing to highlight the pieces in this issue. Up next is @jyzh.bsky.social's “Chī Kǔ.” This lush story is perfectly bittersweet—endless yearning contained in a handful of rotten figs and only 1700 words. ❄️ Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/chi-ku/

“Remade, Reshaped, Remembered” by @sydneyficant137.bsky.social is a portal fantasy aftermath story that captures the reverse culture shock well, but that’s even better for its exploration of a fraught mother/daughter relationship. Fantastic stuff othersidespec.com/pieces/remad...

Issue 2 is out now! This week, we’re continuing to highlight the pieces in this issue. Up next is @jyzh.bsky.social's “Chī Kǔ.” This lush story is perfectly bittersweet—endless yearning contained in a handful of rotten figs and only 1700 words. ❄️ Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/chi-ku/

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN MAY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's April's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

PORTALS submission cap update! Fiction is at 58/150 subs (~39% full) Poetry is at 17/100 subs (17% full) Keep sending Angel and Jess your stories and poems! Get weird, get dark, get visceral, take a risk… or, in Angel’s words, “be the little freak I need” 💜 hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

Issue 2 is out now on our website! Amie Shen's perfect, painful "girl, flogged by a false-named whip." is mythic and intimate in equal measure, a poem for everyone who has ever been taught to mistake love for sin. 🦅 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/girl-...

PORTALS submission cap update! Fiction is at 58/150 subs (~39% full) Poetry is at 17/100 subs (17% full) Keep sending Angel and Jess your stories and poems! Get weird, get dark, get visceral, take a risk… or, in Angel’s words, “be the little freak I need” 💜 hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

⚔️👩‍🦰 BLUE FIRE, the first ever Jirel of Joiry novella, is live now!🔷 🔥 Catch those first 48 hour backer bookmarks and more... 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 👈️

The second reprinted story in Issue 2 is surreal, strange, totally horrifying, and startlingly tender. In other words, "Spider Kiss" by @breewernicke.bsky.social is the most fun you'll ever have reading about a musty old house full of spiders. 🕷️Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/spide...

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

What's not to like about dissecting (perhaps literally) celebrity culture, interrogating destructive desires, and... dissolving your crush in a vat of acid? "This Is C(lone)-Pop" by @thelialao.bsky.social is unsettling in the very best way. 🧪 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/this-...

Issue 2 is out now on our website, 100% free to read! To celebrate, we're posting quotes from each piece. Our next poem is @macey.bsky.social's "obsolesce." This raw, gorgeous poem sparks and shudders with all the force of a runaway train. 🛤️ Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/obsol...