Uncanny Magazine Issue 69 Part 2 also features essays by Jane Espenson and Ai Jiang; poetry by Marissa Lingen and Thomas Mixon; an interview with Sunwoo Jeong by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Broci’s Kuolonuni as the cover! buff.ly/DFoGFfz

getting some real third act of canticle for lebowitz vibes out of the all of it these days

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My dearest friend, travel into strange lands and see sights stranger still, in @ernerker.bsky.social's fantastical story "The Mixling Mare." kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

Only two more weeks until WHAT WE ARE SEEKING comes out, and B&N is offering 25% off preorders now through Thursday! Use code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/what-we-ar...

Oh I am SO excited for this one

Kaleidotrope opens to fiction and poetry submissions four weeks from today, from April 19 to 25. It's one of only three weeks this year that Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

I’ve had a genius idea that I am now going to speak into existence: A short story anthology where writers hand off a trunked story to another writer, who then has carte blanche to really get in there, take the thing apart, and put it back together We’ll call it…Lishtomania

I’m biased but I think my weird epistolary gothic novelette about a guy who would probably think Frankenstein was aspirational is pretty good!! kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨 Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.” Please send in your mycelial pitches to [email protected]. For word-count, formats, and remuneration: strangehorizons.com/submit/non-f...

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

Please consider nominating Kaleidotrope in the annual Pretty Nice Zine You Might Consider Maybe Nominating for Some Kind of Award if There’s Room Left on the Ballot Someday Award!

hey that one’s mine

Hey friends, can I ask you all to give our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Crowdfundr a look? Any amount helps us with our workspace renovation plans, if you're not able (which I understand!), if you could share the link that would be amazing. Love you all! 🤗🧡 👻📚 crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

well I remember when the Luddites said “let us not smash the stocking frames, let us merely embark on a milquetoast campaign of public education” you absolute weapon

Who wants to come over and supplicate the old gods

We're putting together a mailing list for short fiction reviewers and critics to get review copies of the magazine. So if you're a short fiction reviewer - first off you're doing the lord's work - but also email me at [email protected] and I'll add you to our shiny new reviewers list.

god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page

self-promotion breaks me out in hives but if this sounds as good 2 u as it does to me, you may like “the mixling mare” recently published by me in kaleidotrope ! ! !

So good & riveting it may also be for good vibes ppl too 🤓🐴 🔥

Guys you CANNOT miss this impeccably crafted, heartbreaking, freaky weird story. One of my all time favs!

If your approach to the New Year is much more “bad vibes only,” then “The Mixling Mare” is for you!!

Start your year off wrong with my weird, epistolary, gothic novelette about a very slimy anatomist with a centaur fixation

What's this?! A message tossed backward in time, from the far-flung future worlds of literally tomorrow—it's the table of contents from Kaleidotrope's upcoming Winter 2026 issue!

in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Keep your eyes peeled—I have a novelette in this one!

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

When I’m trying to pack my suitcase and my cats climb inside

the most important thing any novel can have, though, is The Worst Woman In the World

Reading for 2025? Here's all BCS stories from 2025, what length category they're in (Short Story, Novelette, etc), links, and links to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts, so you can read our authors' work in other zines. Thank you for reading! #BCSof2025 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/12/07/2...

Further proof (as if you needed it!) that keeping BCS going is a worthy endeavor, deserving of your support: it’s ranked third* on the 2026 Fish list of independent lit mags www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/fish-list.... *out of almost 2000 ranked, 4K surveyed

Joe hive rise up and stare deeply into the sun together

I’ve loved being a BCS first reader, and also, it is a LOT of work! But I think it’s worth it for the quality of stories we publish. And if you also think that—maybe consider throwing a couple of bucks our way

As discussed in this episode, there are two kinds of people: people who love PENDA’S FEN and people who haven’t seen it yet

they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well

Someone once told me that, whenever she read genre fiction with political/revolutionary themes or messaging—and what genre fiction doesn’t, in this day and age—she could always tell whether the writer had gone to meetings. I think about that a lot.

If you’re reading for awards season this year, perhaps you might like to consider my Submissions Grinder dashboard, a tragedy in 42 acts

If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...

For many folks, money is tight and about to get tighter with the manufactured SNAP benefits crisis. As such, between now and the end of the month, I'm donating all Cursed Morsels store proceeds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. Buy a book and support unhoused folks: www.cursedmorselspress.com

wait until the post hears about my aunts and uncles who are all just my parents' friends from grad school

sittin on the dock of the bay

Fukuyama and Find Out

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."