It’s not too late to register for the virtual Eaton Symposium taking place tomorrow, Jan 8th, 10am-4pm PST! Check out our amazing line-up of guests, and register at the link below. www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...

"The children saw their chance." This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!" Go check it out!

Absolutely pristine horror. I adored this

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While I haven't read everything on this list Praise Song was amazing and I highly suggest people go read it! The story is fantastic.

Awards Eligibility Post! I’m very proud of these three delinquents: Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine). Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine). Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark). Links can be found on my website. Here’s to more art-making in 2026!

I admire those who can write a story in script format/purely in dialogue and this is one of those. It hits the mark so well because the body horror parts are given space for us to imagine them. Grotesquely fun! *suctioning noises* by @dracopoullos.bsky.social in @bafflingmag.bsky.social

It’s here!! I get to squeak in with a final story for 2025 in the latest double issue of Baffling, which includes ‘Doppel Doppel Gang Gang’: a weird tale about something Very Horrid infiltrating a dance class 😈

My local radio station did a piece about the new LLM laws in California and gave me a chance to speak out against so-called AI z1077fm.com/new-ai-trans...

Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona, my last read of 2025, has become one of my faves of the year. It’s a monstrous, profound classic. I feel like I’ve read something ancient.

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

I feel like Sturgeon’s Law needs an update in the age of AI. ONLY 95% of ‘art’ (and I use that term generously) is crap? Those are rookie numbers, bbs.

I don't think you could come up with a list more designed to inflame sentiments than "here is a list of things that publishers MUST use AI to do and remain competitive, but don't worry, this isn't pushing out creative labor"

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction just published their first issue in over a year. Sheree Renée Thomas continues at the helm, so we are in for some good stories. Follow along as I post short reviews of my favorites. @shereereneethomas.bsky.social #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #FandSF

Daily thought about writing novels I’m glad I figured out that I actually make the book great when I revise it. My 1st draft is ideally a joyful race to the end, and to do that, I have to trust myself. But great ideas happen after that too! And they can’t happen until after the 1st draft is done.

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

If you’re looking for Palestinian speculative fiction for #ReadPalestine week, I got you: soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

Space Cowboy has launched Electronic Brain The 1st issue features works by @genni.bsky.social, Michael Butterworth, @taracampbell.bsky.social, Alice W Fuller, Rocco Harris, Charles Platt, @dracopoullos.bsky.social, Gregory Feeley, @jamesmachell.bsky.social & John Clute bookshop.org/a/197/978196...

‘The Death of Mountains’ is astonishing work, even from an author as talented as Jordan. Give this one a read for your awards recs! 🙏🏼

just use the fucking library.

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd! My new story in @unchartedmag.bsky.social enfolds Tarot, dimensional fractures, crystalline body horror - and a love that persists across every reality. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

This week's guest is Lyndsie Manusos! First up is "She Builds Quick Machines." You can read it in Apex's ROBOTIC AMBITIONS anthology or you can listen at LeVar Burton Reads! @lmanusos.bsky.social

Go read this ASAP! It’s so so so beautiful and heartfelt and ambitious 💫 It’s one of those stories you’ll keep thinking about for days after finishing!

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

New SFF story by @dracopoullos.bsky.social !! “This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but..." www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

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

The Eaton Symposium returns! Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others! Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

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Story sale! I’m delighted that my interdimensional romance, ‘Love Story in Colored Glass,’ will be published in @unchartedmag.bsky.social!!

oh look the best graduate conference is back 👀

CYPRIOT QUEER YA?! Agents, get on this!!

Finally got my website in order! Links to my work, bios, photos, and other good stuff can be found at www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com 🤓

Story acceptance! I’m delighted to say that my short story, ‘Dispersal,’ will appear in @hexliterary.bsky.social next year! It’s about the end of a relationship… and the start of something stranger.

Attention, sophonts! We've finished changing the locks and Escape Pod is now OPEN to all your amazing, amazing submissions! Consult our submissions page if you want to refresh your minds on what we're looking for - ignore that "CLOSED" bit at the top - and we hope to see rad work from you all!

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

What's this? A wild @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social program has appeared! Lots of things still in flux, a few things still in need of panelists or moderators. But it's shaping up to be a fabulous three day weekend! flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/

hello!!!! would you love to come to this all-virtual convention that runs all timezones?! i know i'm going!! i'll be doing a Chit-and-Chat for anyone who's ever had a burning question like: "Jordan why?"

I’ll end this with something I’ve said before. Art has value. It’s an essential service. What we do, is one of the most important jobs on this fucking planet. Do not undervalue it or yourself. Ever. Fight for it. Trust me, you will never regret that. 5/5

Question for the writing community: is #ownvoices still a thing? Does it hold any weight with agents and editors?

P.A. Cornell did a service to our whole community in going public with her experience with the MRM contract. I love these magazines & their editorial teams & I hope that the new publishers get their act together before the damage is permanent. Contracts should protect the interests of both parties.

Apparently I missed the Discourse r.e. sci fi being a dead genre, so posting this for all my fellow aspiring sf authors 🥲

Would you care for a queer cyberpunk short story in these trying times? Because hi yes "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" is out for free now at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨ This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜 🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆

Here’s the thing. I’m not pointing fingers at individuals. All I ask for is consistency. If one Masthead is being carefully listed for the category of Best Semiprozine, then read them all. If there is a word or a time limit, let us know! We will happily adhere to the rules you’ve set!

There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.

Join me over at Reactor where I talk about misgendering, masking, and freedom through the lens of Murderbot. reactormag.com/the-martha-w...

Announcements on announcements this week! Calling all ARTISTS: We're searching for next year's cover art contributors! Check out the sub page for details and how to submit your portfolio: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/ Share with a Black creator who the world needs to know about 🔥🔥🔥