*blows layer of dust off bluesky account We're also eligible for 2024 awards for semi-pro stuff. If'n, in all the current chaos, you wanted to throw a little love towards the little reading ghostie, perennial, outsider, underdog.

post a short story you love @emelkrishnan.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com apparitionlit.com/bride-knife-... I still think about this story on a weekly basis.

Awards eligibility for 2024!! Honored to be published by @apexmag.bsky.social , @kaleidotrope.bsky.social , @apparitionlit.com , and @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this year ❤️ links to all stories can be found on my website!

Finally ordered a physical copy of the @apparitionlit.com Resistance issue with my story in it. There she is now, wudja look at her 😭

It’s the most wonderful(?) time of the year…award eligibility post time! I have one poem out this year; ‘Replacement Rainforests’ (in @apparitionlit.com). Please keep it in mind if you’re nominating for 2025 awards 🙏

Poetry: "On brutal wing" (2021), one of my longest poems, is a blank-verse narrative which appeared in the brilliant @apparitionlit.com -- a magazine I'm really going to miss.

aaaaa!! i forgot once again (i had a major surgery 14 days after the magazine published), that i also had the *immense honor* of doing a *bucket list thing* and was Guest Editor for the @apparitionlit.com MERCURIAL ISSUE www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1G9MZL

Awards eligibility post 💜 This year I published 3 poems and 1 short story: Poems: ♠️ How Did I Die This Time? - @apparitionlit.com apparitionlit.com/how-did-i-di... ♠️ specular she (personal fave, @sfpoetry.bsky.social hiii) - @smallwondersmag.com smallwondersmag.com/piece/specul...

The first one in the series - "Anticaprice / Chemical Engineering Mage" in @apparitionlit.com in the issue guest-edited by @kurellian.bsky.social! (there is no particular reading order to those pieces and I might rearrange them entirely for a little book later.) apparitionlit.com/anticaprice-...

A story full of longing for a thousand-year-old self but also for a new one. What do you do when you find yourself in stories that were not written for you? How do you reconcile original and translation into a third thing that bears your name? by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social in @apparitionlit.com

Beautifully crafted prose rounds out our 2024 Flash Fiction competition - Dec winning story "We All Feed the Motherwood" by @akstories.bsky.social follows rituals of a society of murder trees. It is fitting as the last story we'll ever publish! Free online today! apparitionlit.com/we-all-feed-...

Very honoured that the lovely folks at @apparitionlit.com have nominated my short story for the Pushcart Prize, I was not expecting this ☺️

So very honored to hear that my short story “The City and the Styrofoam Sea” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Thanks to @apparitionlit.com for the nom! apparitionlit.com/the-city-and... Go, little story, go!

Ok, one last go for Pushcart Prize nominations with a pass by the lucky (?) pineapple!! Good luck to the @apparitionlit.com noms!!

This has really felt like a Midwest goodbye! My essay saying thank you, see ya later is free to read online today. THANK YOU to everyone who supported us, by cheering, sharing, submitting, reviewing, and subscribing. I've had the time of my life!! (*does the lift) apparitionlit.com/final-editor...

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Essay "See Ya Later" by Amy Henry Robinson apparitionlit.com/final-editorial-… @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Essay "The Stories I Tell Myself" by Jennifer Hudak apparitionlit.com/the-stories-i-te… @jenniferhudak.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "Thank you for Your Service" by August Cao apparitionlit.com/thank-you-for-yo…

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "The Pancake House at the End of the World" by L.M. Guay apparitionlit.com/the-pancake-hous… @nightgleaming.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "Gutted" by Cameron E Quinn apparitionlit.com/gutted @thecameronquinn.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "Skittering Within" by Kelsea Yu apparitionlit.com/skittering-withi… @anovelescape.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "How Did I Die This Time" by Anne Liberton apparitionlit.com/how-did-i-die-th… @anneliberton.bsky.social

I love the voice so much, I love this robot so much 😭

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "The Robot Malfunctions in Want of Locks and Braids" by Timi Sanni apparitionlit.com/the-robot-malfun… @timisanni.bsky.social

I loved writing this story and I'm so happy it found a perfect home in @apparitionlit.com's final issue. Give it a read if you're interested moons that mess up the world 😏🌛

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "Estelle" by Carol Duncan apparitionlit.com/estelle/

The opening paragraph to this one is actually perfect. I promise you that you will not expect this story to end up where it does, but it is satisfying and you'll be nodding along.

This poem is a whole JOURNEY of FAFO for the rainforests. Of all the delightful writers we've worked with at @apparitionlit.com May is one of the most delightfulest. Honestly, read the poem (or listen to May read it!!) and you'll be like "hell, yeah... this is it."

The forest has spoken! It also did a bunch of other things. Sorry, no take-backsies now.

This is a MUST READ 💙💙💙

This was something we tried to address at @apparitionlit.com by hiring guest editors for our issues. We wanted to: - teach what we knew - work with a range a diverse voices - pay for their work Every editor taught us something.

Proud (and a wee bit sad) to be part of @apparitionlit.com's last issue as well as its first. Replacement Rainforests spells out what might happen when bigwigs decide old growth can be replaced with something "better". (Spoiler: the forest thinks the same)

Stave off hunger with the October flash fiction winning story The Bread of Life from Katherine Frain free to read online today!! apparitionlit.com/bread-of-life/

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "Replacement Rainforests" by May Chong apparitionlit.com/replacement-rain… @maychong.bsky.social

Very sad to see Apparition close their doors. They published one of my very first stories, and I loved working with their team. Rest well. You've worked hard. ♥️

I can't tell you how having these works in this magazines changed me as an artist and changed the trajectory of my career as a writer. Apparition has meant so much to me and I can't overstate how much it was an honor to have hands and words in this finale. Love yourself. Read this magazine.

Writers: repost a random story you're proud of. Earlier this year the wonderful @apparitionlit.com opened its pages to my odd little tale The Other Sky apparitionlit.com/the-other-sky/

I have a piece coming out in this one! @aureliusr2.bsky.social had such nice things to say about it in his editorial (seriously, thank you) and I'm taking steps to ensure...shall we say...that you can follow his provided suggestions. Soon. :3

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City" by Madeehah Reza apparitionlit.com/our-last-evening…

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "The Siren’s Song" by Marilia Angeline apparitionlit.com/the-sirens-song/

Issue 28: Harbinger, our final issue, is here! You can read the lovely editorial by guest editor Aurelius Raines II @aureliusr2.bsky.social online for free today at apparitionlit.com/harbinger-ed...

Issue 28: Harbinger closes with a beautiful, bittersweet essay by co-founder and senior editor @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social. No one worked harder, and Apparition Lit wouldn't have made it 7 years without her (literal) blood, sweat, tears, encouragement, advocacy, and passion.

Fun fact: Apparition Lit was my first paid publication, back in their first issue. I could not have asked for a more warm and supportive introduction to the industry. I am honored to appear in their final issue as well, and I will miss the mag more than I can say 💙

Issue #2 will be edited by @speculativekane.bsky.social. A reader here at FF since the start of 2024, C.A. has been published in @apparitionlit.com. Full guidelines can be found at sarossf.com/submissions/

We couldn't be happier to have Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social as our Harbinger guest essayist. She was a part of our first issue, is now part of our last, and, whether she knows it or not, is a founding member of our little Apparition Lit community.

My latest speculative short fiction roundup features stories from @apparitionlit.com @nightmare-magazine.com @strangehorizons.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social & more! maria-is-reading.blogspot.com/2024/10/my-s...

Check out this sneak peek of the ISSUE 28: HARBINGER short stories! Coming October 15th! 🧵1/ (ALT for all 6 images in thread attached to first image. Image text matches posts.)

A portent of things to come in the (very near) future. The HARBINGER issue is almost a week away so it's time to release cover art with those who have been named as contributors. So it shall be written...

Here's a little peek at the 6 poems coming your way in ISSUE 28: HARBINGER! 🧵 1/

We are so honored Angel @angelvleal.bsky.social chose to publish this piece with us! You can read LANGUAGE AS A FORM OF BREATH for free at apparitionlit.com/language-as-a-form-of-breath and support the SFPA @sfpoetry.bsky.social by purchasing their Rhysling Anthology at sfpoetry.com