@translunartl.bsky.social submissions are open for writers of color. In a week, the general window starts. Time to polish those 5k max speculative stories, don't you think? On 15 April, it'll be over and you'll have to wait until September! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

We come bearing good news: we are slowly but surely working towards the re-launch of Anathema Mag: Spec from the Margins, which involves expanding our team. Would you like to be part of it? (1/3)

If you're in the US, considering Europe for your PhD, and you identify as a minority, I will chat with you and review any application documents you need 🧪

❤️ #booksky @goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Big news! I am extremely proud to announce that my debut picture book The Fib will be out October 7th from @gloobooks.bsky.social with some amazing art by the sensational Nathan Kwan @nathankwan.bsky.social I can't wait for everyone to check this out!!! gloobooks.com/collections/...

Yay preorder sale at B&N ( Code: PREORDER25) get 25% off The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association and also CALL YOUR SENATOR IF YOU LIVE IN THE US

Something I wrote: "Eastern writing is non-linear, something which frustrates the Western reader." Not everything must have a definable goal. #amwriting #writingcommunity #editorhat

My 2025 hobby is helping my pals de-centre tech from their lives. Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library! Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.

Really hard to pick but the Brueghels rank high, and I enjoy forest landscapes...

me, spending years carefully + lovingly crafting all my postdoc work into the Perfect Journal paper: 3 rejections in a row also me, hammering out world's most rushed extended abstract submission b/c I forgot the deadline: accepted in 1 day who needs rollercoasters when you have science publishing

#Parenting: being awed & delighted by your 4yo showing amazing self-control and logical reasoning...five seconds before sending same 4yo to timeout for trying to shiv you with a broken chopstick

For those of you who don’t know us, hello! We are a new flash fiction and poetry magazine publishing all that is weird and slipstream. Always free to read ans we pay our writers pro-rates. Start the year off with some reading: www.thecosmicbackground.com

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

The Crossroads Review, a youth-focused magazine, is seeking submissions! thecrossroadsreview.org/submit Get published today! #writing #fiction #art #literature #magazine #journal #callforartists #callforsubmissions #literaryjournal #photography #writingcommunity #callforwriters

Meet the Plott Hound Pack! Frances Pauli, Submissions Editor, Flash Fiction Her favorite animals include snakes, spiders, seahorses, horses, and bears. Read more about Frances and the rest of our team here:

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

Super random, but I hope someone can help: I am the director of a small 501c3 writing community and I am looking for a video game writer to teach a craft class in 2025. Like a literal “How to write for a video game 101” because a couple members are curious. Anyone know anyone?

Want to 'disrupt' the publishing industry? Pay authors enough to earn a living. #writingcommunity

I just looked at a highly circulated starter pack for top science and science communicators and there are 58 men, 27 women, the rest orgs based in the US, and 95% white. Maybe, just maybe, do a bit of curation and check your biases and show some care with what you put out into the wild.

My latest parenthood essay is out in Funny Pearls today! Will I ever again write about anything other than 'brain bzzzt, parenting bonkers'? Who knows!! funnypearls.com/2024/11/geng...

Seconding that DREADFUL is a goddamn delight.

Two SFF publications packs from Maria Haskins: go.bsky.app/4FbEmZU go.bsky.app/4FbEmZU

felt this one straight in my soul

#writingcommunity - seems like you’re here? Are you here?

i've been loudly cackling over this for a full minute. morning rescued. thank you.

If you're looking for a queer book about killing tyrants to show up at your house in 2025, we will take your angry $25 and make it angrier. (We can also turn an angry $2500 into a ton of angry writing, including a zine of angry gay art.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Not the best week to promote this, but - if you're looking for a distraction and you're in the North Jersey area, come to my event on Saturday in Paramus!

just got to my turn on the library waitlist for this, and i am EXCITED!!

if only the powers that be put in as much vigorous effort into legislating this BS as they do into legislating people's bodies

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Toddler Parent: WHY IS THE DOG COVERED IN BANANA SMOOTHIE

I've made two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines and podcasts - on Bluesky. I hope they make it easier for people to find & follow a whole bunch of great spec-fic venues. I'll keep adding as I go. Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/4FbEmZU Starter pack 2: go.bsky.app/ASWSvfZ

HEY So I have a story forthcoming in the next issue of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet--the biggest of dream pubs for me! "The Witch Trap" is a weird, crazy quilt of a story, and I am SO EXCITED to share it with you all! You can order it here: smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2024/04...

Make a band milder: Regulation-length standard security screws

Cover letters are basically unimportant. "Dear editors, name, title, wordcount, anything you asked for in the guidelines. Thank you for your consideration." Done. All the rest is wasting your time as a writer.

Remember that big news @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social has been mumbling about? It happened: Reckoning has received a substantial grant from ARLA, allowing us to significantly raise payrates AND produce a new special issue! Some details here, more forthcoming: reckoning.press/big-news-arl...

so long as humanity never has to rely upon mushroom-foraging for survival🍄☠

Hey, science fiction writers. A request to make. Normally it's unethical to discuss a story we didn't buy. But years later, there's a "one that got away" I still think about, and I REALLY want to know who wrote it. Did YOU write about space snails taking over the anglican church? (Read on...)

We're looking for a story for one of our 2025 issues of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine. Submissions close 8am EST, September 16th, 2024. Further details on our website: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/