As we stride boldly into a new year, here are our themes (so far) for 2026! #sciencefiction #submissions open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...

On the SF side, my favorite poem of 2025 is "them // us" in @utopiascifi.bsky.social! 🚀 They drop from the sky at moonrise when silver beams twist around their silver capsule.💫 This one's paywalled, so if you're interested in reading it for awards, contact me via my website (link in bio) or DM me!

and poetry in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social's Skull and Laurel @amazingstories.bsky.social @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @utopiascifi.bsky.social @analogsf.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com @radonjournal.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Star*Line with four more forthcoming

We're wishing everyone a very utopian Christmas and a happy new year!!!

If you like what we do, you can join us for free on Patreon, (or subscribe to vote in our contests as well for bonus on content.) www.patreon.com/UtopiaScienc...

Just finished writing my intro to an interview with S. T. Joshi for the weird fiction issue of @utopiascifi.bsky.social. I think readers are going to be particularly interested to hear his thoughts on how the genre is to be properly defined #weirdfiction

Free story from our latest issue, available on Substack! #sciencefiction #utopia open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...

Thought I'd share one of my l#sciencefiction #SciFiArt #scifi arts. This retro piece was drawn as the cover for an imaginary book called "Have Ray Gun, Will Travel". Please do take a look at my other #artworks in this #DecemberDelights issue of @utopiascifi.bsky.social

Hello! Found some energy to be more active over here. I'm Alyssa, I do corporate illustration by day and fantasy/sci-fi book covers by night. I also really like dessert.

Absolutely stoked to be featured in @utopiascifi.bsky.social #December1st #art issue. Thanks for giving me the chance to be included! If you love #sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart please do take a look It's available in #digital #print #magazine #ArtistSpotlight www.utopiasciencefiction.com

...Huge thanks to Tristan Evarts and Angelica Sokolovskaya Bryer @utopiascifi.bsky.social ! What a treat to be included in such an esteemed line-up. Pick up your copy here: www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...

We're very excited to share our latest issue, featuring a range of fantastic art, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction - available digitally and in print. Huge thanks to all contributors, including Alyssa Winans @alawinans.bsky.social whose art appears on the cover! #art www.utopiasciencefiction.com

Have my fingers crossed!

Chill Subs is running their third annual best lit mag awards. If you like the kind of stuff we do here at Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, we'd really appreciate your vote. Voting closes Dec 7. #sciencefiction #positivity www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

The 7 day count down to our Alien Celebrations issue has begun. It's our art special with profits donated to charity, so we're very excited to share it. It's also your last chance to get our latest issue before it becomes an old one #sciencefiction www.utopiasciencefiction.com

Worlds of IF #179 is now on @bookshop.org bookshop.org/a/197/979899...

wrote a poem about those warriors who valiantly battle the sun for my partner years ago for @utopiascifi.bsky.social www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...

(2) What if you came down to Earth, just to swim in the ocean? “Skinny Legs” in @utopiascifi.bsky.social June 2025 www.utopiasciencefiction.com/2025-archive

thanks forever to @utopiascifi.bsky.social for publishing this and also making it free to read (though the issue is lovely and they deserve the dollars) www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...

Very excited to be conducting this interview for @utopiascifi.bsky.social. Let me know if anyone has any burning questions about the history of Weird Fiction! #weird #sciencefiction

Great news! An interview with S. T. Joshi, the world's leading expert on the Weird will be appearing in our Weird Science Fiction Issue! #weird #sciencefiction stjoshi.org

We've received several queries recently regarding how the weird in our "weird" science fiction call fits in with the "science" in science fiction. This is open to interpretation and we don't need your weirdness to stem from scientific principles, although fun to see what you can do with black holes!

Highly recommend getting tickets for this free event, not just because it features Utopia interviewee Ken Liu and contributor Jean-Paul L. Garnier @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social. It also features a range of other experts, providing deep insight into the world of speculative fiction! #sciencefiction

Thrilled to be a part if this, what a lineup! Tickets are free

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Here's the opening of "Wearing The Lion.")

Especially pleased to read, "We do not accept AI generated artwork, poems, or stories - those found submitting these types of manuscripts to us will be rejected immediately without feedback. Give us your own original work!"👍

Utopia Science Fiction Magazine is on the lookout for your weirdest writing and art! #sciencefiction open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...

If Halloween's put you in the for some spooky SF, why not try Roger Zelazny's A Night in Lonesome October. Dream quests, Halloween, Sherlock Holmes, plus a sprinkling of magic and science fiction - what's not to like? #sciencefiction www.amazon.com/Night-Loneso...

Happy Halloween!

We're looking to donate profits from our next issue to a US charity that supports the arts. If you have any suggestions, please let us know! #literature #poetry #art

If you haven't read Calie Voorhis' story from our last issue, you can read it now on Substack! Let us know what you think! utopiasciencefiction.substack.com/p/sylvester-...

Hey you. Yes, you! Want to volunteer for a feminist, inclusive SFF convention? wiscon.net/volunteer/co... #WisConCommunity #WisCon #WisCon2026 #FeministSFF #Volunteer

Deadline's closing in fast! You can read more about our guidelines via the website or our Substack: open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...

There was a point in my writing life where it felt like everything I wrote contained a few lovely scenes and a lot of icky interstitial material awkwardly stringing them together. Then I realized that you rarely need the stringing together. A story can be just the lovely scenes.

You wanna follow some cool trans writers? I gotcha. go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

Almost 6 months later (due to issues with customs), I finally have my novella in my hands! Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle is a dark space opera about a ship returning to Earth after a failed expedition! 🌌👩‍🚀

Quick reminder that our 5th Anniversary Anthology is still available to buy in print, featuring some of the finest writers in contemporary SF, including @bethcato.bsky.social, @epapasoulioti.bsky.social, and @avramargariti.bsky.social mixam.com/print-on-dem...

Congrats to everyone who placed in the Dwarf Stars this year, particularly former Utopia SF contributors Jean-Paul L. Garnier @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social whose poem came third and Mary Soon Lee @marysoonlee.bsky.social who received an honorable mention. #poetry sfpoetry.org/wp/dwarf-sta...

The reviews are in on our latest issue, courtesy of Chuck Rothman @chuckrothman.bsky.social in Tangent Online. "Speak" by Nico Martinez Nocito @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social is described as a story that hits "far too close to home." #sciencefiction tangentonline.com/e-market-qua...

thanks eternal to @utopiascifi.bsky.social for taking one of my best poems for their publication

Thanks to @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social for this mini interview about Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! We talked strength in numbers, borrowed forms, and some of the book’s most fun experiments. Pictured with the current state of tour prep... 😵‍💫

I have two trans SF flash pieces that came out in August! "Through Time and Calamity" came out in @tychebooks.bsky.social's STARSHIP LIBRARIANS anthology, and "Speak" was part of @utopiascifi.bsky.social's August issue! www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page... tychebooks.com/starship-lib...

Genuinely bewilders me that the work of Michael Moorcock is as absent as it is from the conversations around the fantasy genre today. The first author I read to show me what else fantasy could be. So of course I'm biased and yes I'm old.

I've just conducted a fantastic interview with Alyssa Winans @alawinans.bsky.social! Look out for her answers in the next issue of @utopiascifi.bsky.social. It's a must read for the speculative artists out there. #art #sciencefiction

Thanks. We can't wait to read the rest!

We'd love to hear something from page 37 (the number of issues we've published so far)

George MacDonald sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/macdon... died on this day, so here are some of the illustrations from an 1894 edition of his "Phantastes: a Faerie Romance" (Artist: John Bell):

We've had loads of beautiful submissions lately but on thing we're always on the look out for is great non-fiction. If you have a unique take on something in the world of SF, Fantasy, technology, or the environment, we'd love to hear from you! #sciencefiction

It is a fine day to be excited about books.

Powers is one of the great reinventors of modern fantasy.