Our final author reveal for Wednesday's Issue 11 We double-dip into the poetic mind of Mark Dimaisip, explore some wholesome space-love with @marisca.bsky.social, and read an underground (literally) resistance battle with Bryn Farrar.

Issue 11 Author Reveal – Day 3 @jaredchenwynn.bsky.social, @miahomalley.bsky.social, Mark Wyatt, and Mark Dimaisip, bringing us some scifi body horror, gun violence, repression, revolution, and self-actualization

Author Reveal Day 2!

Day 1 of our author reveals for next week's Issue 11! Check back each day to see which authors you'll be reading soon, and what tantalizing titles capture your attention. @cpclemens.bsky.social @mathockey.bsky.social Full issue releases October 1

Acceptances for Issue 11 have gone out and all contracts are signed. October 1 will bring the world eight new poems and seven new stories. We've got a great mix we can't wait to tell you about soon. From cybernetic revolution to scifi body horror.

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

📸 On the hottest UK May 1st since records began. Let’s get fossil fuel ads banned– just 9 days left to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024

Hi everyone! I had some fantastic news today! FOUND2 has been nominated for a second award! The antho has been shortlisted in this year's Australasian Shadows Awards! Huge congratulations to all the finalists! 🖤 australasianhorror.com/australian-s... @gabino.bsky.social, @alandistro.bsky.social

Are you part of the 'silent majority' who wants faster action on dealing with the impact of our #ClimateCrisis? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hi everyone! I'm absolutely stoked to share that FOUND2 has been shortlisted in this year's Aurealis Awards! aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2... Congratulations to all the authors and everyone who worked so hard to make the antho as good as it is! 🖤 @gabino.bsky.social @alandistro.bsky.social

I was pickpocketed today but my phone is so old and shit they left it on the ground, so, a win... I guess?

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

I love seeing our two spooky (definitely not cursed) books together like this! They're like evil twins or Ringu and Pulse. If you'd like to win a FOUND double-bill like this one, follow me and share this post. I'll pick a winner on 01/18 👻. Huge thanks to samanthahaunts for this awesome shot! 📼🖤

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

I've been GMing RPGs for years... for the first time ever all the players used ChatGPT to come up with the character backstories. They don't understand why I'm so upset with them.

Does anything beat finding a forgotten story idea in an old pad and it's actually awesome?

FOUND 2: MORE STORIES OF FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR, edited by @andrewcull.bsky.social and @gabino.bsky.social, gets a lot of love from @jonezyboy.bsky.social. This anthology features stories from @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social, @peterrosch.bsky.social, & more! #amreading buff.ly/3CRHxlz

I had one short story published in 2024, so here's my little awards eligibility post! My story A Place Where the Sun Has Never Shone is in FOUND 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror, edited by @gabino.bsky.social and @andrewcull.bsky.social, published 10/25/24. www.amazon.com/FOUND-storie...

Please help me Skyvemind. I just followed everybody on the Spec Fic Short Story Writers list but it refreshed before I could ask to be added. Anybody know how I could find it again?

Looking for accounts to follow now you're on Bluesky? Here's a starter pack featuring the authors from FOUND2: More stories of found footage horror! 🖤📼👻 go.bsky.app/Nc4RaKK

Two days! TWO DAYS! You've still got TWO DAYS to enter the 7th annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Anthology (-slash-contest-thing)!!!!! weirdchristmas.com/2024/09/25/a...

I've been reading a lot of books set in New Orleans lately, so last night I made po boys and dirty rice. Delicious. It got me wondering, does anybody else get cravings for food from the books they read? If so, what are the best recipes you've found that way?

As writers, we support each other. We're not in competition. The creative industries need many voices and visions to survive. We're not in competition, we're working together to keep publishing alive and a diverse readership engaged—and that requires many voices, many stories.

In accordance with Bram Stoker Awards® Etiquette, I'd like to offer HWA members a copy (epub) of 'FOUND 2: More stories of found footage horror' for consideration in the Anthologies category. Please email: whatwasfoundtoo at gmail dot com.

Anyone for a #Giveaway? For a chance to win a copy of Intermezzo just follow me, like, and re-post! Feel free to tag some friends too! Giveaway closes Friday 29th November 6pm, UK only. 💙📚

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

More proof, if any were needed, that if you put the phrase 'AI' and/or 'disrupt' in your pitch, there are people out there who will jizz money directly into your pocket.

Climate warlords

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

Anyway… Here’s a visualization of all the curse words being used on Bluesky in real time. Each word is a cute fluffy little profane cloud. It’s oddly soothing. H/t @bagpuss.org #SwearSky swearsky.bagpuss.org

You know the rules: I see this one, I have to share it.

It's completely baffling to me that James Sallis (author of the phenomenal Lew Griffin series, Drive and many other excellent works) can drop a new collection of short stories and more people aren't talking about it. A beautiful book. Worth it for the closing novella alone.

It's the beginning of a new week, post a line you like from your current W.I.P. 🖤 I'll start. Here's one from my new novella, SHE SAYS DIE. "He could have been sparking up to tell a ghost story. As it was, he was about to become one."

New hero just dropped

The Bluesky slogan? And proud of it.

Anybody else ever had writers block but just for the title? Last five shorts I've worked on just had to be called 'Untitled [Blank] Story', never had this before!

For I am of the England where every turn of the way may offer ghost-glimpse or a growling by sprites. Whether deep country lane or path beside railway track, to walk is to scuff up stories. To walk is increase one's chances of an encounter with wonder. – #CLNolan

To all the people out there making starter packs, I salute you.

I didn't make this but it made me chuckle. (I couldn't find the creator to credit).

One fuck of a quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger about the alt-right and nazis. From this short article: theweek.com/speedreads/7...

The scariest part of Psycho is when she starts the shower while standing fully naked under the water without testing the temperature first.

I woke up to the amazing news yesterday that my story 'Trail Cam 004' has been selected for #Found2 the sequel to the best anthology I read in 2023. Coming soon from the wonderful @gabino.bsky.social and @andrewcull.bsky.social. I can't wait to read the other stories!

Repost because maybe Americans are awake now. Here is a free thing for you to listen to by some cool people. Now I'm going to go into a deep meditative state. Happy Friday.

Actual words that came out of my mouth "Do you want to watch 30 Days of Night with me, its about Vampires attacking a town where its dark for six months." Facepalm.

"Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself." -Miles Davis

New weird writer obsessions just dropped, now to put everything on hold and research the hell out of:- Vikings, Criminal investigation in Stalinist Russia, Fur trapping in 1820s Pacific Northwest, the hunting behaviour of the great apes. What are your weird writer obsessions?

I've barely written a word for the past 15 months (since my son was born). Since then I've been panicking that it wasn't just my new responsibilities taking away my time to write, but that somehow my ability to write had fled me. Yesterday I put him in nursery for the first time... I WROTE!