Well, shit — a killer new horror bookstore in NYC got flooded and damaged by hurricane remnants. Help is needed if you can. Please share! www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com #FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks

Reminder that most little free libraries can also accommodate a few cans of food.

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.

The four aspects of a great character are the Need, the Want, the Ghost, and the Lie. A Want is their conscious desire. A Need is what they really want but might not know. A Lie is the thing they believe that keeps them from that Need. A Ghost is that spiritual wound that caused the Lie.

It's September 9th and the train to Lakegrave is waiting for you... OUT NOW - LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN, a sapphic dark academia horror with sinister secrets and ghosts haunting the halls You're going to be late for your first day, better hurry 🔗below~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.

PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb

PLEASE REPOST! "Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors Once Again!" buff.ly/7Ol5DQu

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

Officially up on the Marvel website. Available October 1. “Plus, don't miss out the Marvel debut of Bram Stroker award winner, Cynthia Pelayo, in this action-packed special celebrating the legacy of American Comic's first Latin Hero!” www.marvel.com/comics/issue...

Shelter is a good place to start looking for help if you know this family or are disabled person w housing issues or love a disabled person etc: england.shelter.org.uk

This is heartbreaking news, if you could help out I’m sure it will be greatly appreciated #BookSky 💙📚

Some personal news… @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit

There are 2 days left in our Fund Drive. We're getting closer to Fungi in SFF 🍄 We also really want to celebrate our 25th year with our second stretch goal: ✨an anniversary edition✨ You still have time to donate! And if you already have, we hope you can still help us spread the word!

@dennycarter.bsky.social thank you for reminding me of one of my favorites from when I was a kid. My Saturday evening is off to a banger start. youtu.be/NfDJ_Rx0K_Q?...

Just because you're a wannabe doesn't mean you'll Neverbe. All of your favorite artists started out as wannabes. They saw and heard art, got inspired, and said "I want to do that!" Just like you. So go make some fucking art and stop being so hard on yourself.

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

Block anyone who implies it’s crass to try to sell art bc of “Everything Going On.” Motherfuckers there is going to be a LOT going on FOREVER, and artists sell art AS THEIR JOB. Do you go to fuckin McDonalds and scream at the staff “HOW COULD YOU BE MAKING FRENCH FRIES AT A TIME LIKE THIS??” Grow up

Read Poppy Z. Brite Read Clive Barker Read Hailey Piper Read Andrew Joseph White Read Gretchen Felker-Martin Read Alison Rumfitt Read Sofia Ajram Read David Demchuk Read Paula D. Ashe Read Joe Koch READ QUEER HORROR ALL YEAR 🏳️‍🌈🖤

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

I feel this so very much and also simultaneously feel like one way we're going to get through all of this is to have artists and writers and musicians chucking in to create space for others to experience joy and rest for a moment before going out to fight again in the world. Creation is resistance.

Happy two year anniversary to YOUR DARLING DEATH !🥀 To celebrate, the ebook will be FREE until Friday 11th April! 🔗below~

Now is the time to support smaller presses to keep their doors open and keep as many voices in publishing.

So @sonorataylor.bsky.social and I are bringing this back. There will absolutely be a one stop spot for all you freelancers to post your services. Times ain’t easy. Also want to have a preorder page because they matter for writers. Oh and new podcast. Let’s talk shit together 😈

We're now at 15% funded! Pitch in at $5 and above to help out:

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

Just boosting this for my mom, who is an artist with Stage 4 colon cancer. I know it's a lot out there - out here - in America. Times are rough, but hearts are kind, and I am grateful for the many fierce and generous people I know. ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-m...

I didn't write my first book until I was 31. I now have over 30 novels and dozens of comics in print. Do you know how old you will be by the time you write that book of your heart? The same age you would be if you didn't write it, but YOU WROTE A BOOK. It's never too late.

I’m sorry you’re having one of those days. I know the feeling. Take a moment and think of a person you’d give anything to protect. That person, those people, are your point. Today, take care of yourself for them. Love yourself so you can love them. One day, and then another day, and then—

Get us to 10k bluesky followers and we will send everybody a free surprise novella

Your reminder that there's a call to boycott big chain stores on Friday, but supporting small businesses is still 👍 Particularly small Black businesses this Black History Month.

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

Dear artists: Afraid of death? It’s coming anyway. Afraid of failure? We all fail. A lot. Sometimes spectacularly. Afraid of these fascists? There are more of us cheering you on. Don’t stop creating. Not now. Make art. Piss them off. Create. With anger. With hope. Keep going.

Each day this week, I am doing a thread to signal boost creators that are being targeted for marginalization by jerks. If you are a creator with a disability, please post below and include a link/sample of your work. You DO NOT have to disclose your disability! Support these folks, everyone!

Write new worlds. Write beautiful places. Write angry people. Write imaginary beasts, futile quests, broken hearts, lifelong injustices, mysteries, love affairs, lost children, newfound purpose. Write anything that allows you to escape or heal or vent or rage or explore or reconcile. Write 🖤

Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to NOT post the first line of your book where it can be scraped like everything else online. That the A I goons are going to feed it all into their rusty blenders doesn't mean you have to make it easy for them. This goes double for a WIP.

Each day this week, I'm making a thread spotlighting and signal-boosting creators who are in different marginalized groups being targeted by jerks. Today, it's Trans creators. IF YOU ARE COMFORTABLE, please post below with links to your work if you can! Art, music, crafts, whatever! Show us!

Consider us launched! Issue 3 now available in our shop, or at the links below. Feel free to screenshot & share your work, and help promote others. Tag us so we can like & repost 🍀

If you sit down to write and for some reason still think that your work shouldn’t be “too gay” or “too political” or “too much about race” or whatever else, remember that motherfuckers are out here throwing up Nazi salutes. The time to go harder than ever is now.

These are very good suggestions, but a few key ones are missing: attend library board mtgs and speak in favor (many are on zoom), donate $, and vote for measures and bonds to increase funding. Patrons have real power. Don't let a handful of bigots destroy your library.

You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.

Hearing my daughters all laughing together. New pens. Listening to The Great Pumpkin Waltz on a cold morning while I make breakfast. A stranger’s handwriting in an old book. Seeing ducks swimming on the Hudson.

Writers of BlueSky, two weeks from tomorrow it’s #2025Pit, an online pitch event for those of you with completed manuscripts. If you’ve never participated in an online pitch event here’s an example from DarkPit’s website: jasonhuebinger.com/pitdark/ NOTE: 2025Pit is open to all genres

It’s the last #FridayReads of the year! Let’s boost all signals and make it a great one. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Trying to get a new contract in 2025 and every copy of this little monster that finds a home makes a difference! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

BUYING BOOKS ARE THE BEST GIFTS FOR YOUR FAV WRITERS AND OTHERS! bit.ly/3AJdPOZ bit.ly/4dQ103C amzn.to/4bwRaSB

Thank you! We have a delicious charity anthology of 21 cannibal stories, all accompanied by custom artwork. Proceeds go to support Philabundance (and local food banks). Donation proof form: tinyurl.com/3zy2v4ja Tasteful Ko-Fi: tinyurl.com/yb9bdfrz Amazon: tinyurl.com/465fd4eb