We've received more than 2,500 submissions at Nightmare this submissions period (and we don't close until midnight). I don't know exactly how I'll get through all these subs, but I do know that if every submitter bought just one issue of the magazine, it would pay for a year of content.

I continue to be shocked by magazines and writers that continue to use generative AI. Even if you think it looks good (it doesn’t), or you’ve convinced yourself it’s ethical and non-exploitative (it isn’t), the environmental cost is so ridiculously high it should be a non-starter.

Just write the thing. What even is good? Just write the thing.

Super proud to have stories in this exciting anthology! Please give it a preorder :) www.wordsmakeart.com/collections/... @inkedingraypress.bsky.social @writehive.bsky.social PS I hear they are having a %15 off sale through Dec 2nd.

Super excited to share this one with you all is Manawaker Studios! Thanks a bunch @cbdroege.bsky.social

LOVE LOVE LOVE your story in this, Jake!!!! I can't wait for everyone to read it!

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Q1: Since we're talking about plot, we figured it would be fun to see how you plot! Based on this nifty chart, what is your plotting/writing style alignment? #WeeknightWriters

Can't wait for this anthology edited by @robinknabel.bsky.social coming in 2026! One of the creature features included is mine! :)

Of Beasts & Bones COVER REVEAL! I can't wait for this to be in readers' hands! I'll complete edits over the next 2 weeks, then it's time to format, get blurbs, & share author info. Every story I read again during edits gets me pumped for 2026! Love creature horror? You're going to love this book.🖤

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.

the cows are on the dark web

This is so frustratingly accurate.

We’re going to be closing to submissions from 12pm BST tomorrow (12th September). Not sure exactly how long for, until we get caught up. If you want to get something in, send it in before then.

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

Check out my latest!! Free to read!

So unbelievably happy to have a story in the latest issue of @lightspeedmagazine.com!! Talk about dream come true! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/sep-2...

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

Yes!!!

Belovéd Writers: We are putting the kibosh on the monthly submissions window, which did not at all result in a more manageable workflow. Instead, we will open a weeklong window later this fall. For now, we are now focusing on finalizing our June and July submissions. Thanks for your patience!

I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.

There is no third option.

I've got a strange little experimental story out in the latest by @acoupofowls.bsky.social, check it out!! :)

A woman endeavours to build a chair out of nothing while her son rides a dragon and learns to play the moon like an instrument… A Story About by @jakeiswriting.bsky.social Read now in our Summer 2025 issue acoupofowls.com/2025/06/15/s...

If your industry can't survive without plagiarism, maybe it needs to die.

There are people who want/need to write and there are people who just want to call themselves writers. The one thing genAI *has* done is made that difference extremely clear.

And in an unexpected twist, it turns out the most punk rock things of all are supporting public broadcasting and patronizing your local library and not cheating on your homework with AI

No actual writer wants this shit. Please stop forcing it on us.

Day 12 of taking Thomas' challenge, reading 1 short daily. Found some gems. From an older issue of Clarkesworld, my new favorite eco-horror by Xiaolin Spires. The way the MC mentally interacts with what is happening on the planet really got under my skin. clarkesworldmagazine.com/spires_03_19/

as a professional author, i like to share my literary insights

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That's if you're *lucky*.

1. Tomorrow's my birthday and here's a gift you can get for me: Buy a small creator's work. Local band, indie writer, up-and-coming visual artist, that crafter down the street, or whomever. Your support matters to them, especially in this economic/social environment. And you deserve some joy, too.

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

Still accurate, two years later.

Congratulations to Anna Stolley Persky, winner of the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for “The Jews on Elm Street,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September-October 2024 by (Dell Magazines). #Edgars2025

I'm starting a newsletter for those who'd like to be kept apprised of my stories as they get published—sign up here and you'll make my day! :) storiesbystein.substack.com

They keep insisting there are good use cases for LLMs, but none of them rise to the level of "this is so important it justifies breaking copyright, destroying the environment, and paying people in the Global South $1 a day to data train the worst parts out."

I can't spend all day complaining about Google's AI maligning us, so I'll take this moment to handle some overdue marketing. Subscribe to Clarkesworld here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ Only human art and writing. (No matter what Google tries to claim.)

if you’re a grown adult and you’re reading Harry Potter that’s like being 35 and only eating marshmallows and every marshmallow purchase goes directly to funding the Westboro Baptist Church

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20