I recently gave @astrolabe.ooo a visual overhaul I'm pretty proud of. I wanted to take nothing away from the universe viz but make it more grounded and better match the aesthetics of everything we've published over the last 3(!) years. And hopefully show we're in it for the long haul.

So thrilled to see Veronica Tucker's “The Waiting Room At The End of the Universe” selected for the 2026 edition of Best Microfiction! You can read the story, part of the Whale asterism we published this fall, here: www.astrolabe.ooo/tucker-the-w...

Hey everyone. Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been posted! We congratulate all the winners. Thank you so much to our brilliant Guest Editor for 2026, @dseuss.bsky.social ! www.bestmicrofiction.com? #FlashFiction #Microfiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

i wrote and submitted this in the bathroom of a party. 2025, what a year: moving out, playing tennis for the first time in years, witnessing djokovic still play legendary tennis, watching my parents separate, seeing a viet kid named learner tien winning left and right ... phew for @havehashad.com

Starting the year with a complicated one - featured today on Poetry Pause @canadianpoets.bsky.social : poets.ca/a-bell-is-a-...

I'm excited to have a new story with @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social

A brilliant new eco-cosmic poem from our Ice Floe guest editor and author Vikki. C. in @astrolabe.ooo (a new cool journal). "butterflies loiter in a cold spell, confused between fall and the next life" @vikkicwrites.bsky.social

The Clepsydra is live! As the year runs out, we hope you'll thieve away some time to spend with this wonderful group of prose, poetry, and artwork. astrolabe.ooo featuring... @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @binhdaur.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social Nnadi Samuel Lisa Dailey Didem Arslanoglu

Astrolabe @astrolabe.ooo (Fiction Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Honoured to have a new poem out with the cosmic and beautiful @astrolabe.ooo! Huge thank you to editors Joel, Jae and Astrid for including my poem 'Elegy for a Grown World' in the Winter 2025 materialisation 'The Clepsydra' alongside so many luminous works 🌌 www.astrolabe.ooo/c-elegy-for-...

a piece i wrote this summer. a final act of forgiveness. one step in a lifetime journey of healing. for @astrolabe.ooo

The Clepsydra is live! As the year runs out, we hope you'll thieve away some time to spend with this wonderful group of prose, poetry, and artwork. astrolabe.ooo featuring... @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @binhdaur.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social Nnadi Samuel Lisa Dailey Didem Arslanoglu

Taking a moment to treasure our Best Microfiction nominees! Congratulations to: Devan Murphy @shanaross.bsky.social Carter Lappin Veronica Tucker @susanllin.bsky.social

this perfect piece of spec fic in @astrolabe.ooo by @thisisguan.bsky.social in honour of his birthday. One of my favourite pieces this year. And by an Aussie too 🇦🇺🧡🧡🧡 ”It’s hard to see her in the dark but you can still hear her song like a hook in your spine.” www.astrolabe.ooo/un-sorrow-fo...

A gorgeous anthology of Canadian works from last year, and I'm very lucky to have my bittersweet prose poem "Light of My Life" (originally published by @astrolabe.ooo) included alongside this incredible lineup of Canadian writers

We just hit our submission cap, so we’ll keep things open until the end of the day if you have something you’d like to sneak our way. Friendly reminder that we’re friendly and always pay for the work we publish! astrolabe.ooo/submissions

Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!

With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning. Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker. astrolabe.ooo

With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning. Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker. astrolabe.ooo

I’m still pinching myself that my small story is in this year’s Best of the Net alongside so many amazing pieces. Many thanks to the good folks at COMP for nominating it. bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...

Great list of stories I need to search out - and litmags! @grist.org @orionmagazine.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com @apexmag.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

One week from today! Free / zoom / mid-day break

New micros up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social!! Thank you for giving these micros a home! 🥰❤️

Each day this week, I’m sharing why I loved one of the pieces we published last week on @astrolabe.ooo as part of the Retrograde.

ICYMI, I have a new flash story out at @astrolabe.ooo. It's about leaving a party with someone you just met, driving on highways at 1 am, the music up so loud you could sink into it forever.

Honoured to have materialized in the Astrolabe universe today: www.astrolabe.ooo/ross-annual-...

A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around. As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo

New story day! It's not everyday I get to join a Universe, but I'm so thrilled to join the Astrolabe Universe. A flash story about leaving the party at 1am, driving down the streets with the music up loud, and that girl beside you, whose song you want to hear the end of ...

A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around. As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo

I’m so excited to be a part of this anthology with so many amazing writers. Many thanks to @astrolabe.ooo for originally publishing my story.

We're shimmering at the sight of two Astrolabe stories on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 Longlist—congrats to @shakieranthem.bsky.social and Amelia K., whose work both live within the Errants asterism!

For all sorts of reasons, we're pushing back our summer issue to July 17th, and our next open reading window to the autumnal equinox. We got a quite a few submissions this spring, and we want to make sure we're giving each of them attention before we open for more. Thanks for bearing with us.

"I hear an ice cream truck ringing around the corner. Children are shouting. The seasons bleed into one another." Mr. Bear! And this issue of @astrolabe.ooo is transporting, as always!

Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds by @mrbearstumpy.bsky.social, @l42r.bsky.social, @maryloubuchi.bsky.social, Robin Steve, Jessica Richardson, Devan Murphy, and Angela Mihm. www.astrolabe.ooo

Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds—the wounds and the healing, the birds and the walnut shells, the tusks and the possibility of berries. www.astrolabe.ooo

New Flash CNF piece in @astrolabe.ooo. Joel Jae, and Astrid were amazing to work with and thank you to @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social for the class that brought this piece to life.

Profoundly proud of this year's nominations for Best Small Fictions—long journeys wished and real; a house or a home or a meteor; an agenda of ribbons and balls and fairies.

5. "Light of My Life" in @astrolabe.ooo is a prose poem that tells the entire arc of a love story with a physicist through wistful metaphors of light www.astrolabe.ooo/li-light-of-...

This story began in my notes app with a concrete uterus. I figured that was too heavy for my main character. Thank you Allison Field Bell and The Rumpus for publishing this “lighter” version.

We reached our cap for wintry submission window, so we'll close things down either tonight or first thing tomorrow morning. If you've been thinking about sending us your work, now is the moment!—until we open to submissions again in March. www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions

Many talented people follow me that should submit! Send your words to this little universe.

As is our way, we opened for submissions yesterday and will keep them open until January 21 or we get 150 in the queue—whichever comes first! We'll be reading for both the spring and summer 2025 issues and we can't wait to peek at all your wonderful words and art! www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions

On this winter solstice, two years after the Universe began to form, we have another materialization in an entirely new form: new prose from @lgeccles.bsky.social, @ianli.bsky.social, @forestfarmer.bsky.social, ~in orbit~ around artwork from Jacelyn Yap. www.astrolabe.ooo

I hope you'll love my micro/prose poem in Astrolabe as much as I do. "Light of My Life" is a wistful love story materialized in flashes of light: www.astrolabe.ooo/li-light-of-... @astrolabe.ooo also animated it as an orbiting orange star on their main page—how cool is that??

On this winter solstice, two years after the Universe began to form, we have another materialization in an entirely new form: new prose from @lgeccles.bsky.social, @ianli.bsky.social, @forestfarmer.bsky.social, ~in orbit~ around artwork from Jacelyn Yap. www.astrolabe.ooo

Taking a moment to celebrate our 2025 Best Microfiction nominations from @ianli.bsky.social (coming to the Universe in just a few days!), Amelia K., Satya Dash, and Joe Gallagher.

Wishing these Pushcart Prize nominations good luck! We so appreciate these stories, their writers, and everyone who's made this year of Astrolabe a brilliant one. @aabalaskovits.bsky.social, @jjlofflin.bsky.social, @lgeccles.bsky.social, Lucy Zhang & Laura K. Wallace ✨

Some exciting news from those behind the Universe—we've expanded our editorial team! Astrid has already done incredible work reading and helping select pieces for both our Winter and Spring materializations, and we're so lucky to have them onboard!

Just made a starter pack of all the folks we've published since 2022—give them a follow and let us know if we missed you! go.bsky.app/RCPX6Ev