For February, @jdridges.bsky.social & @lyszflo.bsky.social will be doing something different and dropping In Verse's prompts on Patreon. 8 am EST/1 pm UTC Feb 16 for #1 🌋🦴〰️✊🪸 & Feb 27 for #2 🎇🪙🤝🌾🌆. Subscribe, spread the word, get excite. ❤️🤎Support Black-led creative projects how/whenever you can💚🖤

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...

Our February free newsletter is full of NEAT STUFF: a FULL COVER REVEAL, our winter theme UNVEILED, reprints opening March 1, community updates, and our adorable pet intern of the month. ALSO we're looking for 1-2 first readers! Applications are open—please help us read for Issue 2 in April 🪐🗡️

I started this magazine in a different body, gender and name and with zero editorial experience. Will yourself into existence

⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️ Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story... The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues! Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Give yourself a sweet-weird treat this weekend with a fantastic @humblebundle.com deal that includes most of the fiction that @charliejane.bsky.social and I have written. Sales benefit the Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center! www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...

Our Kickstarter pre-launch page is officially up!! Want a gorgeous collaborative artbook celebrating queer joy throughout history? Click "notify me" ⬇️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap... Early bird discounts are limited, and this is the best way to get them first! 🎉 #QueerArt #Zine #ZineSky

Organically inclusive reader? Fan of speculative fiction? Want to judge the 2026 Ignyte Awards? Judges compose our longlist before we open up to public voting. Applications are currently open thru 2/14. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/

Cover reveal time! Announcing ALOCASIA: 99 Queer Writers on Plants and Nature, coming in early 2026 🌱💚 Cover design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, illustrations by @lichenritual.bsky.social

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

As with all things: please don’t self-reject! If you are a person who does any reviewing of short fiction or poetry, any kind, anywhere, we want to get you a copy of this issue! Feel free to DM us your email, write to us at [email protected], or let us know in the replies how to reach you 😄

By the way: we’ll be sending out review copies of Issue 1 later this month! So if you’re a reviewer looking at this incredible TOC thinking “um, I absolutely want to read this” … please let us know, and we’ll add you to our list! 👀

OMGYES - I had the privilege of hearing @robotleblanc.bsky.social perform "Ignore All Previous Instructions" out loud and it's such a banger (Looking forward to the whole issue!)

By the way: we’ll be sending out review copies of Issue 1 later this month! So if you’re a reviewer looking at this incredible TOC thinking “um, I absolutely want to read this” … please let us know, and we’ll add you to our list! 👀

HEY trans and nonbinary creatives! do you have a project you'd like to promote? would you like to be on the Tilly's Trans Tuesdays podcast to do just that? and get to talk with me (i have it on good authority i'm super fun and cool)? then this form is for you! 🌟

2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.

It's black history month, and so our writer S. Baum decided to cover black trans people you may not hear about in your history classes. Go read their latest piece, and don't forget to subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/black-tran...

We’re only $5 away from $300/month in Patreon support, or just 2-3 patrons! Your support helps us pay queer authors fairly AND comes with early access to Issue 1. Help us hit this goal before release day? 👀 🪐 www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

If you're reading this and thinking, "I haven't read any," now's the perfect moment to start! If you're looking for an incomplete list of authors, I wrote an article in 2024 on the subject: thetransfemininereview.com/2024/10/09/b...

Beyond excited and proud to be in @othersidespec.bsky.social’s inaugural issue! Counting down the days until March. 🪦🌈💕

So excited that "The Vetala" gets to be part of @othersidespec.bsky.social's inaugural issue!!

We’re only $5 away from $300/month in Patreon support, or just 2-3 patrons! Your support helps us pay queer authors fairly AND comes with early access to Issue 1. Help us hit this goal before release day? 👀 🪐 www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

Happy Black History Month 2026! It's Black History Month, and we're celebrating as we do with books by Black authors (almost entirely) starring Black characters! For even more titles, check out past years' posts. Picture Books Dancing with Water by Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel An…

rly excited to put mother mansrot, crotchety fairy tale-escaper, in front of more people. lest that descriptor accidentally imply a comedy: she is murderously serious about getting out of this fairy tale

SO beyond excited to be in this incredible issue! <3 <3 <3

I can't believe I can finally share this story! 🥹🖤 In "The Homeowner's Bride," the protagonist is a haunted house that's DTF. Both horror and a love story, it's one of the strangest, riskiest, most heartfelt things I've ever written, and I'm so thankful that Otherside took a chance on this piece.

so excited and honored to be in this issue with a story i often doubted would ever sell and it couldn't have found a better home here!!

IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing 🪐🗡️ More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/6)

IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing 🪐🗡️ More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/6)

WE are honored to get to publish the story our whole team kept gleefully describing as “fucked up (complimentary),” we can’t wait for everyone to read it!

Hi, hello, we have not been able to stop talking about this story (mostly in all caps) since we read it. We are so excited to share it with more readers SOON!

✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨ satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

It may be a day late but that’s because we’ve packed so much into this behind-the-scenes newsletter! Our full table of contents will be announced SOON. This BTS newsletter is a free post AND includes our Issue 1 COVER REVEAL 🪐🗡️

We love this story SO MUCH and all of you are going to love it too!

Have we mentioned we're SO excited for our first issue? Keep an eye out for the full table of contents soon 👀

y'all are not ready for how good and amazingly queer and fucked up (complimentary) this table of contents is going to be!!! I'VE HAD SO MANY EMOTIONS ABOUT IT TODAYYYYYY 😭💜

So we said we'd have our newsletter up today, but we in fact got distracted by making final decisions on Issue 1 stories! If you haven't heard from us by now, please query. Newsletter will be up tomorrow—and we can't wait to announce our full Issue 1 table of contents soon 👀

The amazing @hvmator.bsky.social has done it again! Please enjoy this teaser of our Issue 1 cover 💙💜 The full cover will be in tomorrow’s bonus newsletter! Normally a paid patron perk, we're sending this one to ALL patrons, so sign up for free + be the first to see! 👀 www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

The amazing @hvmator.bsky.social has done it again! Please enjoy this teaser of our Issue 1 cover 💙💜 The full cover will be in tomorrow’s bonus newsletter! Normally a paid patron perk, we're sending this one to ALL patrons, so sign up for free + be the first to see! 👀 www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

‼️ ONE MORE WEEK to send in your submissions for @heartlines-spec.com, closing on Jan. 31st ‼️ We're looking for your stories and poems focused on a long-term relationship (any) WITH fantasy or sci-fi. Guidelines and more info here: www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g... Write and submit now!! ✍️

Thanks to all your amazing Kickstarter support, we've commissioned an artist to do interior art for our year 1 issues! @demonography.bsky.social did an amazing job 🪐🗡️ Please enjoy this teaser of their incredible art. We love these lil guys! We can’t wait to share our first issue in March!

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - DECEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/149417...

Thanks to all your amazing Kickstarter support, we've commissioned an artist to do interior art for our year 1 issues! @demonography.bsky.social did an amazing job 🪐🗡️ Please enjoy this teaser of their incredible art. We love these lil guys! We can’t wait to share our first issue in March!

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN DECEMBER 2025!!! 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 November's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

Submissions update: our amazing poetry editors are done reading the remaining poetry in our queue, and all fiction and poetry has received a response! Final decisions for Issue 1 will be made very soon—so if you received a hold from us, expect a response in the next week! We’re SO excited 🪐 🗡️

Submissions update: our amazing poetry editors are done reading the remaining poetry in our queue, and all fiction and poetry has received a response! Final decisions for Issue 1 will be made very soon—so if you received a hold from us, expect a response in the next week! We’re SO excited 🪐 🗡️

New collaboration between The Submission Grinder and @dreamfoundry.bsky.social : The Dream Foundry Market Report, a monthly report of speculative fiction/poetry publication updates dreamfoundry.org/2026/01/26/j...

This is a season of grief and struggle. Today we're going to share a long list of stories and poems - of hope, of not just surviving but thriving, of resistance, of unexpected kindness and connection in the midst of darkness. Save these up for when you need them. 1/16

Oh hey, it's the cover art for issue 9! Modelwork by Plastiboo. ✍️ Sign up to be alerted when NESS 2026 launches, 👨🏫 Learn about our crowdfund exclusives, and 👁️ See teases, with reveal dates, for all kinds of surprises all at... ⚔️THIS LINK⚔️: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Reckoning X is here! It's our collectively-edited 10th anniversary issue, themed on communication in environmental justice. See @monarobot.bsky.social's cover art and read editorials from @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social, @cgaubrey.bsky.social, and an exquisite corpse (!): reckoning.press/reckoning-x/