Build new skills & strengthen your writing with an Odyssey Online Class! *highly praised instructors *live, intensive, interactive classes *deep practice with demanding assignments *thorough feedback from instructor & classmates odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #amwriting #writetip

"The toy is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to small catnip mice who are slighted by other felines." - Fitzwilliam

Short stories out in 2025!! "No Mirrors Here" in The Dark, ed. @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social "Almost Like Blood, Almost Like Lilies, Almost Like My Friend" in Fractured Reveries, ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social "Mellie Rectify, Rectify Mellie" in Illustrated Worlds flywithpigs.com/a-kats-publi...

Fiction writers, join us tonight on Zoom for the Odyssey Salon at 7:30 PM EST for discussion about writing. Share your insights, questions, struggles, or contribute your thoughts on our discussion topic. www.odysseyworkshop.org/resources/sa... #writetips #amwritingfantasy #amwritingscifi

I should just save this image for when people ask me where I write.

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

Submission Grinder users! Okay! I said I would talk about new market currency feature in the morning and here we are. Markets can now be entered with non-USD currency. This feature requires data entry to utilize so you won't see it much until listings have been updated but see an example:

Today's travel read!

Technically, this is a book of spells.

New story day! "Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.

Goblins and Galaxies is our sister magazine specializing in sword and sorcery! Issue #1 is coming soon. Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/4lkbRpN

If I don't have a new story written next week, I'm holding this fortune cookie accountable. 🥠

We need to normalize getting your best horror friends a gift for Halloween. If you need an idea, how about a monthly subscription to the best of cosmic horror and weird fiction??? https://bit.ly/3WmVbRP

Share a cartoon from the past kids today probably never heard of.

“No Mirrors Here” by @akatherineblack.bsky.social from The Dark, “The Name Ziya” by @wenyilee.bsky.social from @reactorsff.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here -

Oh my gosh??!!

"Not lazy, just timing-conscious." ...I guess I'm a crow?

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020. $0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

While you wait for the upcoming issue of Goblins & Galaxies, check out the brand new issue of CHM!

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Was listening to @travisbaldree.bsky.social 's Bookshops & Bonedust on the drive home when the car suddenly drove itself to the local bakery...

We are preparing a new UK/RoI #queerpoetry anthology. Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance. call out is live until 1st Nov. arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689... pls share with any #queerpoets you know @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is editing with me @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social is doing cover

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

**clears throat** Mythic Delirium Books will be publishing the debut short fiction collection from Haralambi Markov, THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES, in July 2026! Read all about it: bit.ly/MarkovTLOK

cozy, floofy kitty buddy

Sometimes, goblin wizards and martian robots are what get you through the day.

Feels like she's about to tell me a juicy secret.

Troll sighting in MN!

My feed could sure as hell could use something to break up the doom right now, so for This Week’s Awesome Thing, I give you goats running. Because I will never not feel better watching goats run around like the adorable little chaos goblins they are: youtu.be/0KoXoDjTdZg?...

*adds one more moleskine to shopping list... eh, better make that two more...*

All fiction writers are invited to the Odyssey Salon, tonight at 7:30 PM EDT on Zoom. Share your struggles, questions, insights, or thoughts on our discussion topic: What makes a really great plot twist? www.odysseyworkshop.org/resources/sa... #WritingTips #amwriting

Story publication 🙂 "But Do You Know Our Names?" by yours truly has come out in The Orange and Bee! Features a retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses that centers all 12 sisters rather than just one. Dear to me as i have 6 sisters myself! theorangebee.substack.com/p/but-do-you...

The September edition of the SFWA monthly Market Report is here! Get the latest updates on markets and opportunities at www.sfwa.org/2025/09/10/s...

Spider pronouns be like: it/ze/bit/xe

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

Hey look, "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything" is a Locus recommended story! locusmag.com/2025/09/stra...

Not to brag but I don't need a wearable chat bot to shit talk me all day because my brain came with that feature pre-installed

SFWA's Contracts Committee will review contracts and this service is not limited to SFWA members. Email [email protected].

It is my birthday tomorrow! If you want to do something for me, I have a big request. Think of somebody in your life who is struggling. Make them soup. Play a videogame with them. Help get their window unstuck. You don't know how far a little goodness can go. But I believe in you.

That closet won't organize itself, she said, and then she baked little cakes instead.

If you've heard me talk about the Baba Yaga/Fairy Tale Architecture discussion that spawned my story seed for THE FARMHOUSE, @carinabissett.bsky.social has posted it on The Storied Imaginarium! open.substack.com/pub/storiedi...

I'd for sure get those chores done, but there's this tiger holding my leg hostage, so...

My new GenAI Grapevine column providing analysis and coverage related to generative AI is out. Includes a deep dive into the Anthropic settlement along with publishers failing to register copyright. Plus info on tension at Worldcon over writers using AI and a book people must read. 1/2

Just a reminder that i have a story in this upcoming Best Of Anthology! "A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life

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tfw kitty gives you an excuse to put off doing laundry...