Thrilled to have my first story of 2026 published by the lovely @hexliterary.bsky.social ☺️ 📚💙 This is an extremely short fairytale 👇

I've just realised it's the one-year anniversary of publishing What Saints Fear! If you like dark tales of macabre relics and holy comeuppances, then I have the book for you... With demon-addicted scribes, factory-farmed relics and murderous monks - and more More info and link below 👇👇

He’s had enough of the #enchanted forest. The politics of mushrooms, the hysteria of bubbling streams, and the constant hype of butterflies make him sick. In the early hours of the morning, he boards a stinky Greyhound bus, closes his eyes, and dreams of the concrete and fumes of the city. #vss365

In hindsight perhaps letting the most antisocial techbros decide how we communicate whilst also letting them have full control over what art becomes popular with their algorithms was a terrible idea.

Uncial or majuscule, cursive or #minuscule. The words sound like music to your ears. You learn to distinguish papyrus from parchment, study the texture of vellum, the smooth glide of paper sheets under your fingertips. The art of paleography is an obscure one and yet, you regret nothing. #vss365

Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Command center blooms Kisses of bright red poppies Across the dashboard #scifaikusaturday #command #vss365 #kiss

As it's Valentine's day & yesterday was Friday 13th, take the opportunity to snap up some spookily-romantic titles in our Valloween 0.99 eBook sale! https://geni.us/Solarissale @natania.bsky.social @alexdecampi.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com

The year 2026 will have three Friday the 13ths 💀. The most you can have in one year… #aproposofnothing #random #writerslife #horrorfam

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 14 February 2026 is 🫵🏼 🗣️ 🫡 🖖 #COMMAND ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🎨 See alt text.

I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Check out what's new and keep sending your links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

I find a #lacuna in my memory. A shallow hollow where once our friendship bloomed. When you left, you uprooted your life from mine so thoroughly that nothing can grow in its place. It is a desolation point, a bed of sorrow, an empty socket, a finall call. #vss365

Joining this adventure was one of the best decisions I ever made. I’m not exaggerating 😊

It’s not spring yet but there are tulips 🌷 #writerslife

Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 10 is #ache "I wish to run my trembling fingers long Through the black tangles of your heavy hair, To plunge my aching head amorous of Your skirts as into secret, perfumed bowers, To breathe your scent as from pale withered flowers" 'Le Léthé', Charles Baudelaire #10

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 07 February 2026 is ⛓️‍💥🔋💥 🌟 🤯 #GLITCH ! ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🎨 See alt text.

Excited to have one of my Amelia Li stories in this anthology! Pre-orders are open! Thanks to Shacklebound Books! @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social @ericfomley.bsky.social

@expositionreview.bsky.social thank you for choosing this little story of mine 😊

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

#vss365 There's something burning behind her eyes. Is it the #lambent glow of desire, or the embers of anger? He places each of his words in a sky lantern, and lights their wicks, sending them aloft. He hopes they will find her, enter her dreams, and speak to her, when fear has left him mute.

If you can, please help a vulnerable #trans #autistic person get out of #TrumpsUSA and back home to England, friends and family, and the NHS. And if you can't contribute, a share would be much appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/catsmedica...

2 hours into the KS campaign and the "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" anthology (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...) is 52% base funded. Great to see the support for us for 2026. Thank you all. Stretch goals, when reached, have the potential to add an additional 12 authors to the book.

2025 Recommended Reading List locusmag.com/2026/02...

We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Nicola Griffith Mat Johnson Fonda Lee Darcie Little Badger Peter Rock Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.

New Review - happy publication day to this wonderfully spooky atmospheric tale of hauntings - In This City, Where It Rains by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social out now! Thanks to @lunapress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

ALL SUBMISSIONS close end of day tomorrow Saturday January 31st. Submit! And take note: there will be no deadline extensions this year.

Our next theme is ENTRANCE.

Working with Marissa and Violet Lichen / Apex Books was a delight and my only regret is I don't have anything for this one. But you can! 🌏

Lapse by Sarah Chin

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

I'm happy to announce that I'm working on the sequel to 'Trans/Rad/Fem'! In 'Brown/Trans/Les', I will explore the construction of a third-world feminist ethos in the face of colonial and local epistemicide. Preorder now! Itch: taliabhatt.itch.io/browntransles Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV4RBJMY

Referring to the US as a "homeland" was always creepy as fuck, always nazi-adjacent, and creating a Dept. of Homeland Security was an obvious lurch toward authoritarianism that should have been strenuously resisted from the beginning. (Oh weird the hippies were right again.)

feels like poem used to be like "inside of me there are two wolves / they keep my population of dears down / which is to say my dear / I love only you / and tacos" and nowadays poems are like "THE SKY IS A GUN / ITS HOLSTER OUR THROATS / LET'S GET LOADED / AND SHOOT THE / EVERYTHING" i wonder why

Now...where to submit horror stories with forest fairies...and/or witches???

what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?

📣 New novel announcement: ANNA DREAMS OF A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY is coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2028. When people ask what it's about, I say it's like SOUR CHERRY, except the haunted house is Greece, and Bluebeard is fascism. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊ Keep writing your queer, trans, antifascist books, friends.

Getting ready 😊

#aproposofnothing Universities should stop awarding PhD degrees to stupid people 🙄

Meanwhile, at s local bookstore 🤣. Now, this is the kind of book placement I can appreciate. I applaud whoever did that 👏👏👏 #booksky 📚🩵 #writingcommunity

A reminder that my story about grief, ghouls and diaspora is available free to read on @kaleidotrope.bsky.social It's pronounced mar-ghi (guttaral like the ch in loch) fawl, oo-er ghis (guttaral ch) two. The i sound sound rhymes with quay/key So helpful, I am kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

Error. Doesn’t compute Your love like unfinished code Stuck between my ribs #scifaikusaturday #compute #haiku

"We tried to get to the lighthouse but it remained eternally distant, blocked by sandbars and rutted roads, a lighthouse out of time and place" Quietly beautiful writing from @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social; love the way this feels both unsettling and grounded all at the same time

Woohoo! 🥳 🥳🥳 Celebrate with us 😊

From @ayisi_yaw on X, the #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 24 January 2026 is #COMPUTE ✍️ 👽 🛸 👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts

The SmokeLong Workshop Prize Long List just went live. It has been a mountain of great work. We received just over 400 entries from our workshop participants in 2025. Congratulations to all! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

😭 I love the Safekeep!!! And she's a Dutchie!!! But Madrid ain't happening for me...

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 23-JAN-26 is: Thanks & Bay #Prompt

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason