James Yeh interviews Ted Chiang for The Believer (2019) www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Authors and poets, submissions for our second themed issue are OPEN 🎉🎉🎉 Details here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Writers! How are your workshop applications coming? I have good news and bad news… The good news is that we have a STELLAR group of instructors this year! Fonda Lee is back this year after a break, joining Arkady Martine and Valerie Valdes, and new to the faculty: John Wiswell! FOUR amazing alumni!

A highlight for me too! I've missed interviewing, and talking with Lee was an absolute delight.

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Happy New Story Sunday, Daily Tomorrow Readers! I hope you’re all warm and cozy and forgetting what day of the week it is (it’s Sunday, apparently). This week, we have the last story of the Autumn issue and of the year, by @muteddragon.bsky.social. Now sit back, relax, and let's a moment of silence

Closing out 2025 with my first published SFF story! "My Trust Must Be" puts the Lady of the Lake on a generation ship, frozen/thawed/refrozen again to fit a hero's journey. Honored to be part of @icaruszine.bsky.social's Currents issue, with fiction related to water—or in this case, cryogenic pods.

Making my debut at @avclub.com talking about the year's best trend in fantasy publishing: Lady knights.

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th. Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. <6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

What’s all the comm-ocean? 🐟 Another teaser! This time from Natalie’s @zutsuit.bsky.social short fiction piece, "My Trust Must Be."

NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥 YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Art by @mxmorgan.com All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...

In Pluribus, the unhappiest woman in the world is a romantasy author. @gavia.bsky.social discusses how the sexy pirates in Carol Sturka's Bloodsong of Wycaro shape her experiences with art and sexuality against an alien hivemind.

'Tis the season for eligibility posts! As you're reading for awards this year, I'd love for you to consider my short story "pocket futures in the present past" & the other works in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social.

This is so frustrating for books coverage. I've written several of my favorite books culture pieces for Paste over the past few years, because Lacy trusted me with an idea and let me run with it.

Hire Lacy! She is brilliant and a champion for books coverage in all realms—interviews, reviews, yes-and-ing all manner of pitches. As an editor and writer both, she rocks.

For your consideration this year, I have eight originals! Most are free to read! In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!

welp this is giving plenty of awful fodder for the SF ghost dad story I'm already working on

I get to shout out new romantasy over at Reactor! Including the books pitched as big The Mummy (1999) and Titanic vibes that made me go 👀

My @talesfeathers.bsky.social story is now free to read! Mind the content warnings augursociety.org/the-purpose-...

someone explain in terms a starving five year old can understand what this supreme court order means bc it sounds like more starving

So Lost had me until the season 5 finale with Juliet bashing the nuke ("come on, you son of a bitch!") but it's losing me so hard with the final season. Smoke Daddy Locke managing his quarreling daughters Kate and Claire while Sayid looks on all Dr. Manhattan. Thank goodness for Ben's sassy quips.

This essay was so affirming for someone who usually thinks of story first and only then can ask -- as Javi so succinctly puts it -- "what sort of character needs this plot?"

The Holiday season is coming up, and I'd like to humbly suggest you consider buying someone in your life a copy of SONG OF THE LIONESS BOOK 1: ALANNA. Available at your local comic shop or bookstore, or online!

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

@zutsuit.bsky.social picks new autumnal sci-fi and fantasy reads from authors including Travis Baldree, Claire North, Victor Manibo and more.

i hope their apartments open up

I have seen like 15 videos this morning of Mamdani joyfully canvasing for volunteers in the middle of NYC nightlife last night and I am so mad I don't live in NYC anymore so I can vote for him, so NYC you better come through!!!!

Watching the new season of The Diplomat after coming home from Viable Paradise is a trip -- all the clothing/decoy business brought to mind conversations with @byzantienne.bsky.social, while the big dinner scene in the finale had me hearing @sherwood.bsky.social's voice in my head: SET PIECE!!

Starting to think about next year's most anticipated SFF* list for Lit Hub, and while I have a pretty well maintained spreadsheet I invariably miss stuff -- so please let me know about the books you're psyched about! (yours and others') *primarily SFF but def into horror and literary crossover too

My latest story is up in the new @translunartl.bsky.social! Pirates! Indian History! Necromancy! Etc.!

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

Blood of My Blood did a pretty great job wielding the romance tropes all season, and can confirm that I get choked up at the theme song every time. A proper Outlander finale, and yeah, I'm looking forward to next season. You?

THE DREAM

oh, bless whoever made this

@zutsuit.bsky.social discusses how William Bridges’ All of You takes a familiar premise to make something romantic and complex–even if it can't commit to its sci-fi theme: reactormag.com/movie-review...

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! ...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year. Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025. All the deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Upcoming submission call! Theme "LUCK" In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry" guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

@zutsuit.bsky.social recommends some spooky season SFF featuring cannibal sororities, butterfly girl gangs, and more! buff.ly/K2UaIu9

this is so me lol

They are literally canceling culture

Hey! It’s a full moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. It’s a giveaway! Win an annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC and some moon-themed stickers! 🌚 Details in thread.

are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

@zutsuit.bsky.social highlights fall sci-fi and fantasy by C.L. Clark, Naomi Novik, K.J. Parker, and more.

surprise i just dropped a new article! i had a lot of thoughts about how people don't know how to engage with fiction, which ties into chatgpt delusion & book bans among other things. big thanks to @cxorlando.bsky.social for telling me to write about it when i posted a throwaway insta story

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

Rewatched Freaky Friday and it was a delight, holds up after twenty years. Watched Freakier Friday and it was cute (with the potential to smartly build on its predecessor!) but ultimately too much ageism, unsubtly-winking callbacks, and Lindsay Lohan career Easter eggs in place of real sequel plot.

this is so lovely and clever and is making me tear up remembering how my dad gifted me my own swiss army knife for my ninth birthday (miss you, dad)