Thanks so much to all who played along with our guessing game! The results are in: we received exactly 180 submissions in 24 hours! 🎉 That means our winner is @wonderandawe83.bsky.social, with a guess of 189. Send us a DM if you’d like to redeem your prize: some OTHERSIDE stickers and bookmarks!

Want a low-stakes challenge to motivate you to read queer? Welcome to our 2026 Queer Book Challenge on @thestorygraph.com ! We’ve got a mix of prompts that we hope will motivate you to read a diverse range of books featuring queer characters. Join us! app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal... 🌈📚 📚💙

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/

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/

OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

we're currently $341 short of our year end goal over at beestung 💛🖤 www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷

This year has been unrelentingly miserable. But the best thing—the thing that has sustained me—has been @othersidespec.bsky.social. After almost a year and a half of work, we officially launch in 2026… and we open to submissions at midnight! Make OTHERSIDE your first sub of the new year? 🌈 🪐 🗡️

Reminder, original fiction/poetry submissions open TOMORROW NIGHT, at 12:01am Eastern Time on January 1st 👀 Reprint submissions will temporarily close at the same time. Nonfiction will remain open! We can't wait to read your work. We're so excited for 2026 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Over on our patron Discord, we're running a little contest... and we thought we'd bring that contest to Bluesky, too! So, here goes: we open to fiction/poetry submissions on January 1st. How many subs do you think we'll get in the first 24 hours? We have OTHERSIDE swag for the closest guess! 💫

Reminder, original fiction/poetry submissions open TOMORROW NIGHT, at 12:01am Eastern Time on January 1st 👀 Reprint submissions will temporarily close at the same time. Nonfiction will remain open! We can't wait to read your work. We're so excited for 2026 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/guidelines/

For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...

I’d be grateful if folks followed this project on Kickstarter 🖤 Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready. We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.

Starting January 1st, we'll be busy reading your submissions of original fiction and poetry... but this week, the OTHERSIDE team is recharging! Here are a few of the books, shows, games, and more keeping us busy lately. What about you? Any recs for us?

Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season! There’s only one week left in the year—which means we are ONE WEEK away from opening to fiction and poetry submissions on January 1st! Get your original fiction and poetry ready ✨ othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Also there are 11 more days to submit your queer speculative stories already published in 2025! The editors love reading far and wide, so please especially consider submitting work from journals and anthologies they might not be aware of. www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Queue update: we're reading a little slower over the holidays. You likely won’t get a response from us until the final days of the year as our team takes a break this week! Reprints close Jan 1, BUT original fiction/poetry open that same day! Nonfiction will stay open for the foreseeable future!

Issue 5.4 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A wintry, gothic issue underpinned by disasters and dark transformations. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com This incredible cover is by Mary Ainza 🧡

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: January-June 2026 Trying something different this year and breaking up by genre, so if you're looking for SFF/H, Crime Fiction, or Graphic Novels, just keep scrolling! (Yes, some of those distinctions are a little fuzzy. I did my best.) Romance will still be…

Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2. www.sfwa.org/complete-neb... This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI

We have fulfilled most backer rewards from our Kickstarter! However, there are 10 surveys still to be filled out—and Ash is politely asking you to fill it out so we can send you stickers!! And trust me, they are VERY cool stickers!

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

Putting this out here so you can say, "I submitted to them before they were rich and famous." Which is obviously a super realistic goal for a lit mag. Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-... #writingcommunity

We are juuuust over two weeks away from opening to fiction and poetry submissions on January 1—which means SOMEHOW the year is almost over!! We can’t wait to read your stories and poems ✨

Big update: STRETCH GOAL! You all blew us away by funding this campaign in the first 10 days! Thank you! We're increasing the goal to $7,500 to buy you even more to read this holiday season and in 2026!

Our free monthly newsletter is out! Somehow it’s the last newsletter of the year?! Please enjoy some reprint submission statistics, Patreon subscription giveaway information, community news, and of course our adorable pet intern of the month—Sophia! 🪐🗡️ www.patreon.com/posts/newsle...

There's still plenty o' time to drop your information in here! Each year's eligibility post ends up with a really high clickthrough rate -- it's worth your time to make sure people know where to find your work!

FFO’s submission schedule for the first half of 2026 is posted to our Patreon page. I just want to get this out there so you can work us into your new year’s writing schedule. More details to come on all of these. Happy writing! ✍️ #writingcommunity #flashfiction www.patreon.com/posts/2026-s...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Queue update: We’ve received over 170 submissions, most of which are reprints! Of those, we’ve held 18 so far for issue 1 consideration—15 reprints, 3 nonfiction. We can only publish 2 reprints and 1 nonfiction piece per issue, so we’re grateful to everyone sending us their work!

Baffling will open for submissions on December 1st! More info here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions

Somehow January is less than a month away! Reminder that we open to original fiction and poetry submissions on January 1st! If that’s too soon to get a story together, don't worry: we open quarterly! We have our full submissions schedule for 2026 on our website. othersidespec.com/guidelines/

TF Publishing is now open for all general submissions. For the first time, art books & comics are also now being considered! Novels/novellas outside of the preferred 30k-120k range can also be queried. Check out our submission guidelines and criteria here: www.tfpublishing.com.au/submission-g...

Although we had planned to stay open to reprints year-round, we’ve received so many fantastic stories that we've decided to temporarily close on January 1st in order to focus on reading original fiction and poetry. We’ll open again in March 2026 for reprints for Issue 2! Nonfiction will stay open!

Although we had planned to stay open to reprints year-round, we’ve received so many fantastic stories that we've decided to temporarily close on January 1st in order to focus on reading original fiction and poetry. We’ll open again in March 2026 for reprints for Issue 2! Nonfiction will stay open!

For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷 Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.

We’ve responded to all stories submitted before 12:01am on December 6 Eastern Time! If you haven’t received a rejection or a hold and you submitted BEFORE that time, please contact us. And please don’t be discouraged by rejection—our original fiction and poetry submissions open January 1!

We’ve responded to all stories submitted before 12:01am on December 6 Eastern Time! If you haven’t received a rejection or a hold and you submitted BEFORE that time, please contact us. And please don’t be discouraged by rejection—our original fiction and poetry submissions open January 1!

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

Since we opened to reprints & nonfiction, we've received over 150 submissions! Each issue will have 2 reprints & 1 piece of nonfiction, which means a lot of tough decisions. A rejection is not a reflection of the quality of your piece! We feel incredibly lucky to pick from such wonderful stories.

👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾 Includes numerous CREATURES. inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e... #SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - OCTOBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 30 stories by @sentencebender.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @thesuiway.bsky.social @straith.ca & MANY MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

Number 9, number 9, number 9. Issue 9 has been released! It's a bittersweet one as we welcome @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social as Poetry Editor and say goodbye to Jess Cho 2 pieces are available now to all subscribers! Snow, Stars, Stone and grotto www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-9/

OTHERSIDE is published by Hybris Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the publication and promotion of queer speculative fiction. Every donation on #GivingTuesday - and every day - helps us support 2SLGBTQIA+ creators. Thank you so much for all your support this year!

Our December behind-the-scenes newsletter is out for paid patrons at the Voyager tier and up! Please enjoy some fun submission stats and a silly glimpse of MR (and her parents, the best volunteers ever) hard at work with sticker fulfillment! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

How can we use history stories as a tool for liberation? Three Trans+ creatives share their insights https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-do-we-tell-trans-history-so-we-can-all-learn-from-it/

it's here it's QUEER it's the 2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!! 🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈

The time has come! Today is our Table of Content announcement for COMMON BONDS 2! You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla... But I'll also thread them below!

Applications for the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices are now open! Apply for your chance to work with one of our 8 amazing faculty members, attend programming aimed at developing craft and demystifying the publishing industry, and build forever-community. 🥰 bit.ly/48cM1iy