Live right now in BCS #441: "Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth" by @katefrancia.bsky.social "The wind wailed around the tiny pile of stones at the base of the blackthorn tree. She stood for a moment, eyes closed, willing herself to move." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holl...

This only happens to you once

Just a week to go! Featuring our new and hopefully improved submission manager 🤞🏻

I've got a new story coming out on Oct 1. ☺️ "A Witch's Lament" will be published in this anthology by @celestialechopress.bsky.social. Preorders for the e-book are now open on @barnesandnoble.com! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/behind-the...

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

The leaves are going orange and the air is just chilly enough that being under a blanket is a treat. Autumn, my beloved, it is divine to see you again.

Happy Monday, friends. Some folks will tell you to do one thing every day that scares you. I'm here to recommend doing (at least) one thing every day that brings you joy. Especially in these times.

A walk by a pretty Finnish lake.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

My recent knitting projects. Just finished the lilac pair of woolly socks last night. It's going to be a gift. 💜

Finally copied *several years* of old writing notes off my phone. Some of those stories were published years ago. Some I'm still intending to finish. Most are just fragments. But at least now I can find them if I need them.

I see people talking about short story collections. There is lots to say on this topic but I will shut my mouth and just say, I have a short story collection! I also love short stories as a art form. bookshop.org/p/books/skin...

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

Dreaming of a kinder world.

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking. Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

Dreaming of peace and quiet.

Dreaming of houses, gardens, bunnies, and birds.

The ebook of the BCS issue with my story in it is out now! I’m so excited for people to read this one 😊

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” - Shakespeare

Stunning story with gorgeous prose by Julie Reeser @abetterjulie.bsky.social 🖤

#AugurMicros2025 @augursociety.bsky.social While this is far more of a wish, a dream, or a poem, I hope that Augur takes it in the spirit it's intended. <3

A goose at the park.

Autumn vibes. Got a heather for the balcony. (No matter that it's +22C today in Finland.)

P.A. Cornell did a service to our whole community in going public with her experience with the MRM contract. I love these magazines & their editorial teams & I hope that the new publishers get their act together before the damage is permanent. Contracts should protect the interests of both parties.

If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.

It's me! My story is out! Writing this story almost broke me, and I'm so happy everyone will get a chance to read it!

I hope you all have a good September. 🍁 I'm looking forward to nice cool autumn walks, reading & writing, hot drinks, knitting, and keeping an eye on the colour of leaves.

Oh, I love this!

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

Great fun. Enjoyed the various characters and the ending. #amreading

Seattle looks good from a lot of different angles. Here is a goose enjoying the view from Gasworks Park. #photography #PNW #BlueSkyArtShow #skyline #ClassicMono #BirdSky #birds #BirdPhotography

I launched Sofón, a speculative fiction magazine in Spanish. If you read the language and want to discover some great SFF short stories and poetry from Mexico, Spain, Cuba, and Morocco, this first issue is full of wonder. It’s available on Amazon. I hope you enjoy it! ^u^ amazon.com/dp/B0FJX3C9CJ

Revising a short story and I'm at the part where it feels like a messy patchwork and I alone can see all the seams, but just have to trust that I'm making progress.

My dying money tree is plumping up and has made new baby leaves!

It begins!

Saros #5 is open for submissions! Send us your 500-2,500 word fiction themed around sound(s), silence(s), and the spectrum in between: Music, speech, singing, unbearable (enticing?) noise(s), and/or auditory nothingness.

Birds are dinosaurs

This story is quite a ride. #amreading

New yarn supplies for multiple projects. Probably severals pairs of woolly socks & learning to crochet ANYthing. 💕

Have you reviewed us, or any of the stories we have published? If so, please send me a link! I've made a new page on our website where I'm keeping track of recommendations, awards, and other nice things inner-worlds.ghost.io/recognition/

part of being a romance author is, I think, looking at different kinds of real life people and trying to understand why they're endearing and lovable, which means constantly looking at people through a lens of love and, you know, I think that's neat

I'm assembling a team of fucked up bird fiction... I've got @rjaurand.bsky.social 's "One for Sorrow" www.blanketgravitymag.com/oneforsorrow I've got my recent story "Bird Burning": theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-... Karen Russel's "The Ghost Birds": www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Others?

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

You can read all of these poems in full (plus 37 more!) in Worlds of Possibility —Poetry, which is free to download until August 20th at www.juliarios.com/worlds-of-po... 8/8 —thanks for following this poetry thread!

Congratulations to all the winners! 🎉 locusmag.com/2025/08/hugo...

The second Worlds of Possibility Anthology is alllllll poetry, and you can get the ebook free through August 20th! www.juliarios.com/worlds-of-po...

This is why physical media is still so important.

LOVED this story by Michael M. Jones aka @oneminutemonkey.bsky.social in @factorfourmagazine.com. "Sandwiches for the Soul" is exactly what it says on the tin! factorfourmag.com/sandwiches-f...

A few photos from my favourite park today. Saw some geese, ducks, grebes, mergansers. It always astonishes me how lovely and quiet it is there.