@anathemamagazine.bsky.social has a little under 20 days to go and is over 80% funded! Come and support a magazine paying pro rates for queer voices of color, no submission fees! Spread the word for the upcoming opening for submissions in June too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

EIGHT PEOPLE AWAY from Sasha Soup stretch goal and only 12 hours left to sign up! Will you help this overlord get her cat soup treat????? #BookSky #QueerSky #WriteSky 🌈📚💙📚 forms.gle/uRmJiqt77eyK...

When I realize I put my KPDH ramen in a random plain bowl instead of my special Gudetama ramen bowl

Today is the last day, FYI!

In the next few months, I'm looking to pay Magic people to narrate English audio versions of select past MTG stories. Typically $100 for around 5k-8k words. Interested? Email [email protected] with your name, any decklist, and a one-minute audio sample attached.

Ok, so, these contests are awesome, and I'm not just saying that because I know the folks who make them go. This is a real opportunity, and the opportunity cost is very low. No fees. You retain all rights to your work - written or visual. Get your entries in!

My laptop rebooted while I was asleep, and when I turned it back on, for no discernible reason it went to the tab where I have the virtual Oblique Strategies deck open. The card it gave me? "Abandon normal instruments."

Me as teacher: Make sure you look up the names you're creating to see if they've already been used in other media. That way you can come up with something new and unique! Me as writer: All the cool names have already been taken, I hate all of you, I refuse to rename this thing again!!!!!

I have not yet waded into discourse but I guess it's my day to feel strongly... I want to read the book someone wrote, the one they made choices in crafting and did intentional things to create, and that is why no amount of slopified Bowdlerizing is ever going to be satisfying.

The Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Artists and Writers is now open!! No submission fees No rights encumbered 1st Place: $1500 (the art contest’s prize money as part of the Monu Bose Memorial Prize) 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Submit by June 8, 2026 1/2

I have been goaded into fighting a dragon with a banana on a stick and a giant wheel of cheese. This is gonna hurt.

Excited to be back on Story Hour after a long hiatus, and double excited to be sharing the evening with Premee!

I'm a Hugo finalist once again for my work at Escape Pod. Check out my thoughts on the honor, as well as a selection of my favorite stories we published in 2025 while I was assistant editor. Plus: why I think Escape Pod should be your pick for best semiprozine! kevinwabaunsee.com/2026/05/05/a...

Baby: Why do pirates always have plenty of pants? Me: I don't know, why? Baby: So they can hide their booty!

Escape Pod has again made the finalist roster for Best Semiprozine at the Hugo Awards. It is, as always, an incredible list of publications to be on, and it only scratches the surface of the robust, diverse scope of short fiction available today.

Just 23 hours left to send your stories to PodCastle!

oh no OH NOOO (what a great title unf)

I made this for Instagram because I am told that videos get more algorithm support there? But I can share it here, too! Why not! Anyway go read this story and also the other stories and then maybe buy some cards? I hear the Prismari deck is sick.

"Valerie, how many times did you eat sweet chili sauce today?" twice but in my defense worth it no regrets

Last day to submit your stories or poems to Kaleidotrope until July! kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

The problem with making sweet chili sauce is I want to keep eating things with sweet chili sauce. "You just ate something!" Ah, but what if I ate, another thing??

I love urban fantasy but don't find a lot that I enjoy on TV or in movies... so far Agent From Above is rad! Magic, demons, ghosts, martial arts... very Constantine with kung fu.

OKAY WE ARE SET TO GO I got my surgery date for Operation Literally Operation Yeet The Uterus Into The Sun! May 8! (If anyone feels like donating $3 for grocery delivery and catsitting moneys -- and IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT!!! -- I will not say no! ko-fi.com/premee )

heyo my scifi linguist book came out this week! Languages, spies, and lots of nerdery us.macmillan.com/books/978125... (I'm serious about the nerdery)

I'm still fundraising for the increased costs of my cancer treatment. I also need new glasses, which aren't cheap here. More details are at the link, but if you could toss a coin to your writer for my birthday next Tues, I'd be grateful. Thanks & please share! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

Please help get the word out that I am open for submissions. Thyme Travellers is an award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror. My publisher and I are making it a series. Submissions are open for short stories, pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

hey GUESS WHAT Sword and Kettle Press is kickstarting their TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY and it contains me (along with a bunch of other rad writers) $3000 goal, digital and/or print copies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/swo...

I just backed Thyme Travellers 2: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Calvin and Hobbes dad lecture meme comic about how all SFF stories are actually either Omelas or The Cold Equations

#NarratorCall: we need a Hawaiian male-presenting narrator for an incredible 4700-word story. $30 paid! If this is you, record a 2min sample MP3 and email it to [email protected] so we can check recording quality.

In our upcoming Modern Cosmic Horror class, author Premee Mohamed will take you beyond tentacled gods to explore the transformation of cosmic horror, esp in the hands of marginalised writers. Join us on May 16 & 17 - you just need to apply for a scholarship! events.humanitix.com/modern-cosmi...

Pleased to be reading a short bit of my novel UNITY among some amazing authors! Sign up to join us at noon Eastern on May 1st. strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com

Congratulations to all the finalists - and thank you for liking what we do enough to vote us there ourselves! You have no idea how happy you've made the trilobites. (We don't know either. They don't talk.)

So excited to be a finalist again! And in this, our year of the Artemis II!

Happy book birthday to Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry! 🎉🎂🫖 A museum of rare and precious foods. Lovable found family. Loads of queer characters. A tasty mystery & a sweet F/NB romance. Get your copy: books2read.com/tea-treachery #BookBirthday #BookSky #QueerBooks 🌈 #CozyFantasy #SFF

Hello BlueSky. Do you like lesbians? Of course you do. You're on BlueSky. You can get 94 sapphic and lesbian books for just $40 all week next week. It includes Kotov Syndrome and Woodpusher, as well as many books more famous than mine. I am very excited to get it. itch.io/b/3635/lesbi...

THE PHOTONIC EFFECT releases tomorrow! To tempt you into preordering, let's deep dive into the initial pitch of "Voyager x DS9 x Mass Effect" and how its influences all shake out on the characters and world. THREAD (And the all-important preorder links!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ph...

If you're a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer: there are about 36 HOURS LEFT to submit your original fiction and poetry for Issue 2! Send us your work! 👀 Submit here: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Psst! If you've preordered, or meant to, today's the last day to enter the giveaway! Win a care package with some yummy treats: forms.gle/q2t2n28NAheg...

Baby walked away from her Minecraft game for some reason, I look up from work and this is what I see. BEES!

My friend is still a ways from meeting his goal and they're going to take his house in a few weeks if he doesn't make this. Any help you can give is appreciated.

Me: Come on, Bluesky, I just wanna read a cool-looking thread about hay Bluesky: Why not go touch grass instead? 🙂 Me: 😕 Bluesky: 🙂 Me: 🙁 Bluesky: 🫠 Me: ☹️ Bluesky: 🕳️

Me: I'm going to eat an orange, for health My mouth: Cool I'll get right to work on that painful canker sore for you Me: I am betrayed 🥺

Wolfpack is OUT! The sequel to Foxhunt, this queer solarpunk adventure features our favourite disaster bard Orfeus climbing to new heights to forge her own way ... but can you really escape the bloodstained past you inherit? The Vengeful Wild duology is now complete! books2read.com/vengefulwild2

I love watching Kindred Spirits because on the one hand I am treating all of this incredulously, and on the other hand I'm like "Adam! stop chugging the grave honey!"

NEW STORY COMING SOON! The sequel to my Nebula & Sturgeon award-winning short story, TANTIE MERLE & THE FARMHAND 4200, is out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social this May/Jun! I can't wait for you to read LINCOLN & THE HARVESTER C-100!Here's the original story: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tant...

Me: Why is my body so tired Also me: You gave your four and a half foot tall daughter a piggyback ride down a jogging trail at the park because she was "too thirsty to walk"

If you've ever wanted to learn how to craft the unsettling stories in your heart, join us on May 16 & 17 for our Modern Cosmic Horror Workshop! Attendance is fully funded by our generous donors, so all you have to do is apply for a scholarship. events.humanitix.com/modern-cosmi...