Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here, including One Brick at a Time: Crafting Compelling Scenes taught by award-winning author Barbara Ashford! Barbara will help you make each scene reach its full power. App deadline 1/18 www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #writingclass #writingworkshop

Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here! Choose from 3 courses. Live class sessions, intensive assignments, in-depth feedback. Learn from successful pros. App deadline 1/18/26. And check out our bonus webinar! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritingscifi

Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here, including Worldbuilding in Fantastic Fiction taught by award-winning author Melissa Scott! If you want to study with the worldbuilding expert supreme, take this class. App deadline 1/18 www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #amwriting #amwritingfantasy

The big Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is live! 25% off all pre-orders, including my own upcoming THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! A grumpy dragon pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon riding academy. Need a monster in your life? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dragon...

Make this winter the time when the speed of your writing improvement goes into overdrive! Odyssey's Winter Online Classes offer live, online class sessions; intensive assignments; and in-depth feedback. App deadline 1/18 www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #writersofbluesky #writingworkshop

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here! Choose from 3 courses. Live class sessions, intensive assignments, in-depth feedback. Learn from successful pros. App deadline 1/18. And check out our bonus webinar! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #amwritingfantasy #amwritingscifi #amwritinghorror

Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here! Choose from 3 courses. Live class sessions, intensive assignments, in-depth feedback. Learn from successful pros. App deadline 1/18/26. And check out our bonus webinar! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #writingtips #writingcommunity #writingworkshop

witness the holiday cat, biding her time until the hooman looks away and she can bite the top off that lego candle. again.

A generous Odyssey supporter has pledged to match donations made by 12/31 up to a total of $5,000! Please donate & help Odyssey continue to empower writers of fantasy, science fiction, & horror. Donate by 12/31, & your gift will be DOUBLED! www.odysseyworkshop.org/support-us/ #amwri̇ti̇ng

Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here, including All the World’s a Page: Adapting Acting Techniques to Strengthen Your Fiction taught by Barbara Barnett-Stewart! Build new skills! App deadline 1/18. No acting required! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #amwritingfantasy #amwritingscifi

I’ve been interviewed about my upcoming Odyssey Online class, All the World’s a Page, over at WOW! Women on Writing! A short read if you’d like to learn more about the class or want to procrastinate on holiday-related drudgery.

witness the holiday cat, biding her time until the hooman looks away and she can bite the top off that lego candle. again.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Hope so...

Me: (working on novel) Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel. Me: (typing) Not now, brain. Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is? Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you

Hoping to see more submissions from under-repped groups in my submissions—don't self-reject, it's easier to send me a story about death. We're open until 12/31 (midnight eastern). psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

BCS stories of 2025! "Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" @mariecroke.bsky.social BCS #423: "I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. Wondered whether my admission of taking Danai into the Whispermarsh had been a final wedge between us." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/our-... #BCSof2025

Hope you can join us on Zoom tonight at 7:30 PM ET for the Odyssey Salon. Share your insights, struggles, questions, progress, or participate in our discussion topic: Do You Consider Your Target Audience? www.odysseyworkshop.org/resources/sa... #writingtips #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

Odyssey's Winter Classes always give me just the boost I need to get over the holiday writing slump! Apply! Apply! Apply!

Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here, including One Brick at a Time: Crafting Compelling Scenes taught by award-winning author Barbara Ashford! Make each scene powerful! App deadline 1/18/26. www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritingscifi #amwritinghorror

I love taking Odyssey Winter Classes - they provide just the jump-start Writer Me needs after all those holiday distractions!

Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here, including Worldbuilding in Fantastic Fiction taught by award-winning author Melissa Scott! Build new skills and strengthen your writing! Apply today! Application deadline 1/18/26. www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #writingcommunity #writingworkshop

Hey! Some fun news. "The Sort" (orig. @clarkesworldmagazine.com) was picked up for @wilwheaton.net's podcast. Went live today! Narrated thoughtfully and w/a kind shoutout for SFF mags at the end. And a surprise(!) mention of Uncertain Sons 🙏. Many thanks to Wil and his audio team. What an honor.

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 doing holiday shopping and want to support indie bookstores, you can get *signed* copies of Wearing The Lion from Oblong Books! They're wonderful folks and they ship everywhere. oblongbooks.com/book/9780756...

Do your openings draw in readers? @Scott_H_Andrews , editor-in-chief/publisher of the award-winning fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies will teach a live webinar on 4/12. Two-hour lecture followed by one-hour Q&A. Register before we run out of spots! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...

for my writers out there, especially folks getting some words down during a long weekend: rejection does NOT mean you are a bad writer! you got this!❤️‍🔥

Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here, including All the World’s a Page: Adapting Acting Techniques to Strengthen Your Fiction taught by Barbara A. Barnett! Build new skills! No acting required! App deadline 1/18/26. www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #amwriting

If you want all writers to be rich dorks born rich who don’t need the money this is how you get all writers to be rich dorks born rich If you want writers who were poor dorks born poor because maybe just maybe they have something different to say, this ain’t it

holiday mood

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

Here's my interview with the amazing @leahning.bsky.social! We discuss her incredible new piece of ecofiction, "We Used to Wake to Song," & many other things. LOVED this story 🪸 ~ "I think we’ll become a better sanctuary in the future. I hope we become a better sanctuary in the future." -Leah Ning

quick reminder for my writers out there - (yes... YOU! 😻) rejection *does NOT mean* you are a bad writer!!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

short fic folks should read this post -

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Odyssey's Winter Online Classes are here! Build new skills and make your writing stronger & more memorable. Attend live class sessions for intensive instruction and an interactive experience. Demanding assignments & in-depth feedback. www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #writerscommunity

It’s publication day! I would appreciate it if you would have a read.

New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: Part 2 of "Selling Your Shorts: Submission Considerations Amid a Changing Market" by graduate & author akatherineblack.bsky.social odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/g...

We’re delighted to announce The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social), a massive—37 stories, more than 600 pages—collection by the author of many acclaimed novels. Featuring a foreword by @scalzi.com. Full details and preorder: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...

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.