My sex robot story is free to read at Adventitious! Stoked to be part of the monstrous (complimentary) Issue 2 with my anti-ode to the dehumanization of modern dating by way of a pleasure bot who's *too* entitled to his owner's data.

Lady knight mech jousts, you say? I spy @scmillsbooks.bsky.social's excellent flash story...!

my debut short story, "Song for the Once-Dead Earth," is posting all week long at @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social!! check out part 1 here and follow along throughout the week: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/song-for-t... 😊🌱

VEGETAL begins! Our first themed issue begins serialization today, only at The Daily Tomorrow. Don’t miss our first story, “Song for the Once-Dead Earth” by debut author C.M. Sullivan (@cmsullivan.bsky.social).

When we asked poetry editors Jess Cho and Angel Leal what they wanted to see in Issue 2, they immediately said things like "VISCERAL VERSE" and "weird queer monsters" and "joy and euphoria" and "MORE POEMS, PLEASE." Poets, you know what to do! Send us your work + spread the word! We pay $50/poem!

Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st! If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈

THERE'S CHOLULA IN SPACE

"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves

OTHERSIDE'S ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! if you're a queer writer or poet, please submit your original fiction and/or poetry to us 👀 AND if you are sci-fi writing inclined? do give me some cool gay fucky space stories. epic or strange stories of planets, moons, spaceships etc. thank youuu ✨

Despite seemingly making one big change to Margaret Atwood's novel, The Testaments is a promising new series because of how it explores familiar teen girl coming-of-age tropes in a post-Handmaid's Tale Gilead. Come talk spoilers and predictions with me!

amen 🤖📈📊🧠😵

This is so, so well-articulated.

Hey friends! I’m gonna run another query and first page workshop, as I plan for our summer of events. These help fund those endeavors. Details here! Help me help you! ☺️ www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2026/4/...

ARTEMIS FROM SAILOR MOON WAS AT THE ARTEMIS 2 LAUNCH AND IM VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...

Yup. And by the way, if you think that someone could’ve optimized writing like Stephen King or any other best selling authors, we would’ve seen that by now. Not possible! You have to flail, you have to master structure, you have to write to entertain yourself & there’s no formula for that.

Excited to share Tasavvur's Spring 2026 issue. Huge shout-out to the writers, contributors, and team Tasavvur. Hope you all enjoy what we've put together.

This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

Issue Two is live. Three stories are free to read. The other monsters are behind the door. Start here: adventitious.net

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

Back in 2013 (!) I got to be part of the Sex With Robots Festival with @dannybowes.bsky.social @macrogers.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social + so many incredible artists. My play was the seed of this story, about a pleasure bot who discovers his human owner is awfully good at compartmentalizing.

We would like to submit Molly Templeton's column Mark As Read for consideration within the "Best Related Work" category. @mollytempleton.com writes on the culture of reading – covering everything from what we read and why to the ways we organize our bookshelves.

this is such a good post, & while I read it I thought a lot about how the "waiting to be let down" mode of engaging with things relates to everyone's constant insistence that we are "not surprised" by anything. be surprised! for better or worse! it's okay to be wrong about things!!!!!

hey nyc homies what are you doing on may 2 and do you wanna hang out and talk about dark academia with me, Naomi Novik, Mónica Ojeda, and Elisabeth Thomas?

March and April bring pollen, rain, and a new crop of romantasy books! @zutsuit.bsky.social highlights a spellbinding take on Phantom of the Opera, a sexy necromancer, and a dark academia novel where the students may be studying more than their books...

Friends! There is so much to celebrate on the Nebula nominees list! We are delighted for everyone, but especially for our alumni and faculty.

This cover!! Psyched to have my story "Last Edit to THE ALL BANGERS LIST Made By Your Sex Robot at 11:39 A.M." running free in this issue next month.

This is so excellent!!

The Outlander premiere did a fair amount of scene-setting for the final ten episodes, but when that involves stabbings and posthumous literary bombshells from the future, you know it's gonna be a good road to the end.

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

Thinking about this wrt how LLMs are being posited for archival scanning/digitization, creating records, and doing research. LLMs distract from the actual systems problems of a lack of funding, lack of resources, and lack of staff paid at a liveable wage.

Reminder: we are OPEN to reprints all month long! We are looking for reprints that cannot currently be read online for free! This includes stories that were never available online or are no longer online after a publication closed, etc. Find all the details in our guidelines!

There are monsters roaming free. www.patreon.com/posts/author...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

My latest story is very angry and timely and I'd like it to stop being timely.

let the new (FINAL sniff) Outlander theme song get you amped for this week's premiere, and enjoy this analysis slash song feels post that I've updated every season for the last eight (!) years

My open call with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! ffo.submittable.com/submit/35050...

it's march, beloveds which means we are currently open for POETRY SUBMISSIONS read the guidelines and send in those poems 🖤💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Nominations open for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

For awards season, I'd like to take a moment to hype FF's 2025 cover artists. FF's cover art is commissioned, based on stories from each issue, and @abistevensart.bsky.social @almosthomefree.bsky.social and @evelynepark.bsky.social did an incredible job of bringing these stories to life! 1/4

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨 Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.” Please send in your mycelial pitches to [email protected]. For word-count, formats, and remuneration: strangehorizons.com/submit/non-f...

Reminder: we open to reprints on March 1st! We are looking for speculative stories (by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors) that cannot currently be read for free online. We will stay open to reprints until the end of March and will likely open again later this year. 📝Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

So psyched to share a TOC with all these incredible authors! Adventitious Issue 2 letsgoooo

The empire needs someone to play the prophesized hero. Instead, they get Gev, a 40yo quartermaster with more talent for the logistics of supply lines than killing actual gods. Fake-it-till-you-make-it…or die trying (spoilers: he'll probably die trying). #WSPit #Q #A #F #LGBT

THE ELEGY AT LAKE LAMENDO Lucio is a court mage in Lamendo, a conquered Imperial territory. When his rebel sister attempts to assassinate Lamendo's puppet ruler—Lucio’s not-so-secret amor—Lucio risks everything to protect his familia. > Mesoamerica-inspired setting > tM/M #WSPit #Q #A #F #LGBT #ND