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“Neck the Neck” By Frances Gapper Longlist – 2026 Gooseberry Pie Annual Writing Competition gooseberry-pie.com/neck-the-neck/

Everybody talking about chickens made me look at the videos from years ago.. I had forgotten about the beautiful contented noises they make. Sigh..✨

Dewdrops on capsule Shells, scattered beyond the dunes. Crew dead on landing #scifaikusaturday #beyond #vss365 #dewdrop

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

“Mother, Take Me Home” Art by me for May’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of RESCUE! Authors, 14 days remain until submissions are due on May 21st. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 08-MAY-26 is: Radical & Tank #Prompt

The print it out and physically surround yourself with your bullshit method is the class I'm going to teach. And then how to make friends and recruit fresh blood to read it for you. No more isolation, no more phones. We're killing trees and our inner critic for creative writing

I’m so excited about this! 😊😊😊

It's April 28, 2026, and today's #vss365 #prompt is #lightning! Inspired by the lightning bolts of Zeus, King of the Greek gods. An epic figure, Zeus presides over the sky, lightning, and thunder. He won his crown after overthrowing his father and freeing his devoured siblings!

My daily struggle 🤣😆 #weekendvibes #meditation

#amreading #poetry

I now know several people much younger than me who have flip phones. For reasons.

wind plays catch through the broken mill where ghosts hide #DailyHaikuPrompt (windmill)

issue 42 of The Deadlands is RELEASED UPON THE WORLD including many deathy fiction and poetry INCLUDING ONE (1) NOVELETTE, our first novelette in a while it's been too long tbh. check out the issue page below and DEFINITELY, PRETTY PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND SUPPORT US LIKE A SKELETON 💀🦴🖤

#amreading #poetry rattle.com/weathering-t...

Oh joy, here I am with my laptop in my favorite coffee place and two people came in and sat next to me and now they are being loudly excited about their AI slop book production 🙄 #writerslife

The Narratess Indie Sale starts today! For the next three days, 280+ books will be on sale, available for $1.99 or less. Even if you're on a budget or book buying ban, you can still grab the free ebooks (those don't count for your buying ban, because you're spending money!) indiebook.sale

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 11 April 2026 is #HYBRID 🚀👽🛸🖊️👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🎨 See image alt text

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 10-APR-26 is: Galaxy & Bloom #Prompt

I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. . . . HP Lovecraft, „From Beyond”

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 05-APR-26 is: Method & Museum #Prompt

Ten more days of open submissions. No need to panic yet (please read the guidelines) translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

You have exactly something like 42 days to enter. That feels like a portentous number, so we hope it's correct. It probably isn't. Deadline May 10th. You tell us. The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction in its sixth year. Nearly $5k in the prize pot. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Read that alt text, I’m begging you

I really enjoyed running this prompt writing session. Will keep working on that box and its contents 😊 #writerslife

🩸📚 Dark Allure: German Mythology & Horror Fiction The deities, ghouls and spirits of German mythology influence horror & weird fiction genres even today. Meet a few of these timeless entities. 📚🪐 #germanmythology #horror #weirdfiction #germanmonsters #germanspirits #harvestspirits #naturespirits

I really like the size of this latte. What I don’t like is that the cup has no handle. Minimalistic esthetic and all, I get it, but pleeease 🙄 #writerslife

Then he thought about how much he loved everything; the forest and the sea, the rain and the wind, the sunshine, the grass and the moss, and how impossible it would be to live without them all… Comet in Moominland 1946 Tove Jansson #BookWormSat

'We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.' -Ursula K. Le Guin 🎨Arthur Rackham #BookWormSat

#BookReview: THE WONDER ENGINE by T. Kingfisher @titanbooks.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/b...

What a joy to share a ballot with such wonderful writers - congratulations, you rock stars!! And huge thank you's: to the readers and nominators, to @herlizardness.bsky.social, who pushed me to make this story the best version of itself, and to @strangehorizons.bsky.social for giving it a home. 💜

‘Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.‘ ~ Algernon Blackwood. Since it is Algernon Blackwood’s birthday tomorrow, #BookWormSat Inc will take this opportunity to embrace the supernatural in literature. Do you dare to join us? #GothicSpring

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 08-MAR-26 is: Stretch & Faint #Prompt

Words faded and blue Ensconced in glass and sorrow Message in a bottle #scifaikusaturday #message

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 07 March 2026 is ✍️ 📝 👩‍💻 #MESSAGE 🚀👽🛸🖊️👍 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🎨 See alt text

I feel space — tangled and expecting

Part of functional literacy is being able to understand, on your own, the concept that the writer is writing for a specific audience. That the thing has a specific context. Like, an article about dog grooming is addressed to dog owners. It does not need to include cat grooming.

NEW STORY: “First Human Ghost on Mars” in the March issue of Clarkesworld. I’m thrilled and honored to be included alongside so many talented authors!

And so the March Micro Marathon @smokelong.bsky.social begins 💪💪💪 #writerslife

I seriously love this poem rustandmoth.com/work/the-sor... 📚💙

Submissions to open for HORROR LIBRARY, VOLUME 10: February 23, 2026 through March 9, 2026! Details here: www.darkmoonbooks.com/Submissions.... (*PRO TIP: Read this week’s released volume, #9, to get a sense of material that is selected!) #theHorrorLibrary #EricJGuignard #Submissions #DarkMoonBooks

disguised by a starless sky blackbird #dailyhaikuprompt blackbird

I’m so looking forward to this and have my prompts ready 😊🥰😊 #writing

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ~ Carl Sagan

💙📚🩸 THE WRITHING, VERDANT END compiles 6 uniquely intense, memorable stories of ecological-horror. @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, & @ericraglin1992.bsky.social all contribute eerie, haunting tales where human nature & the natural world clash and fight for survival. #MSReview

Summer leaps at us like a #crazed jaguar bursting out of its cage. We gasp, gulping overheated air, pollen, dust. No shade is cool enough to hide us. Beyond the shallowed river, a new data center chews through our dreams and spits out statistical probabilities and rising stock prices. #vss365

Welp, it turns out that our university building is no longer open on weekends. I feel like I’m being forced to observe a healthy work-life balance, and I’m not grateful 🧐 #writerslife #randomobservations

The mermaids of the White Sea are rather #beastly this tme of year. Off the coast if Archangelsk, they wallow in the waves, drag bone combs through their green hair, tangle the fishing nets and hiss at the ships’ cats. The cats hiss back. #vss365

Creatures from the deepest sea