Following from our announcement that Quindrie Press will be closing at the end of 2026, I want to make people aware that in Spring 2026 we will be opening a one-off comic fund for UK creators. More details will be released next year. Sign up to our newsletter: quindriepress.com/newsletter

🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026. Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️ 🧵 Details 👇

Need some seasonal ghost stories for yourself? Good news, I have a webcomic: sablecomic.com

Keeper of ghost stories.

🌱 WE BUILD A HOME: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan. More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

oak warden -{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-

About to miss their bus

Little magical house #pixelart #aseprite #fantasyart

adventure in the Dark Woods #art #cuteart

The sub call for Indigenous writers is now open! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

We're not going to be able to offer out our annual LGBTQIA+ Writer's Grant this year as it stands, but we hope to offer it out again in 2026. We will be opening up free short story editing for LGBTQIA+ writers again after Xmas though, details here: sliceduppress.com/editing-serv...

Exciting news! I've been working all year on a vertigo arts project in collaboration with others in academia, physical therapy, puppetry, and dance. Now the first part is out: I'm running a creative writing workshop for people who are directly or indirectly affected by vertigo. >

Familiar. Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, 100 × 150 mm. From 2019.

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.

📢ANNOUNCING the Mentors for the upcoming #HiveMentor program! We have 20 talented mentors from Traditional Publishing, Small/Independent Press, Self-publishing, Cooperative Publishing, Multi-Author Series, Serials & Web Novels and Kickstarter! Take a look 🐝 writehive.org/writehive-me...

Some recent hens. They do look good together like this. 🐔 Friendly reminder that I have a Ko-fi by way of a tip jar, if you enjoy my work and would like to send a little material support. Thank you so much to everyone who contributes. ☺️🥲🙏💙 Link also in profile. ko-fi.com/himmapaan

Welcome to Wit's End. SABLE: A GHOST STORY is an ongoing webcomic, you can start reading for free now! Sablecomic.com

#DVpit 2025 has officially begun! Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors! Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts! Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co

I've been waiting all year to repost this 🎃

Initiating death roll

Tyrannosaurus rex was named 120 years ago today on 4th October, 1905. I would do things a little differently now, but this drawing is from 2020.

It's Black Speculative Fiction month! All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own. 1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a... 2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

Hen and Dragonfly. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

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Theme: #lamp #pixelart #pixel_dailies @pixeldailies.bsky.social

Excited to announce we've expanded the #preDV hours to mimic #DVpit It will now be Sept 29, 2025 from 8AM ET-8PM ET We hope this will give everyone a true feel for what DVpit will be like & practice their pitches together! Plus, amazing agented/published authors have volunteered to give feedback!

Day 27 of #septempera - the connoisseur.

Microraptor repost time!

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

#Pitblk Submission Instructions *Pitblk submissions begin at 8am EST on Sunday, Sept 21st until 8pm EST on Wednesday, Sept 24th. *Please use the following form to submit your pitches: www.pitchpitblk.com/pitblk-submi... *Complete the form w/ your name, email, book title, pitches, age and genre!

A dream of the fields study

SABLE: A GHOST STORY is an ongoing gothic horror webcomic, and it launches publicly today!!! Sablecomic.com

The 2025 #PitchDis pitch form is now open! 🎉 Click below to enter and submit your pitch! Remember - you don't have to rush. Pitches will be posted in random order. Take your time. Good luck and happy pitching! forms.gle/nKMDdnHKJ8MY...

Little fool 🎈 [ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]

Pure whimsy 🧡 [ #cuteart #illustration ]

If you see this, quote post your cat art! 🐱💫

Just spotted this: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for emerging BIPOC writers in Canada: an opportunity to work with Lindsay Wong arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/CA...

Issue 4 is out now! Go read the issue here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/issue-4/ Our Contributors (1/3) Abel Saldaña Allison Martel Angelica Urquizo Ashley Kirkland Betty Powdrill Chris B. Cypher Deanna McFadden Faune Vita Justine Berezintsev KM Dunn ligerlillie.bsky.social Morgan Leanor

Theme: #DisplayCase #pixelart #pixel_dailies #paleoart @pixeldailies.bsky.social

Illustration of the Silurian Period based on fossils in Scotland. The first animals to live on land were tiny arthropods, escaping predators and eating food in fields of cooksonia plants. Art from my new book DINOSAURS preorder here: a.co/d/fGVwsX0 #sciart #paleoart #evolution #fossiladdict

New paleoart! A pair of Ancyloceras (a heteromorph ammonite) drift along the coral reefs of the lower Cretaceous waiting for food to pass them by. 🐚🐙 #SciArt #Paleoart #Invertebrates

The countdown is on! Join us in 48 hours for a special announcement about Hollow Knight: Silksong! Premiering here: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

I'm agog! FORTS is one of @usatoday.com's bestselling #picturebooks this week! Thank you to all the indie bookstores who believe in this book and have been sharing it with their customers. ❤️💙📚 #kidlit www.usatoday.com/booklist/gen...

Head in the Clouds ⛅️💜✨️

A Stranger in the Night 🌟

About a week left to submit to our last main issue of the year! Submit here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/submission-g... #chronicillnesses #disabilities #mentalhealth

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