2025 was a year of trying again. I wrote a novel that might not be sold. I rewrote my old literary stories speculative, just to learn. I waited on news on SFF novel subs📘📉🔥 I wrote my first contemporary weird novella🕷️🤞and dreamed of a completely different Thing for 26. Anyway, here're my 2025 pubs 🏆

Working on the layout for Electronic Brain issue 2 and wow the contributors delivered some incredible material! Can't wait to bring this into the world in May.

Coming soon! This will be for our March episode

I'm happy to guest host tomorrow's @storyhour.bsky.social with authors Somto Ihezue @somtoihezue.bsky.social and Gordon B. White @gordonbwhite.bsky.social! This reading series has been rolling weekly on Wednesdays @ 7pm PT since 2020. Join on Zoom or view on Youtube later: www.storyhour2020.com

I'm one of the featured writers in Missed-Fits: A Calendar of Fools Anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place. This will be an amazing anthology, so consider backing their Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/cal...

SFPA members, there’s still time to nominate your favorite poems of 2025 for the Rhysling Awards! Nominations close February 15, so get yours in today!

Hey, neat! The Winter 2026 issue of Star*Line, the journal of @sfpoetry.bsky.social, includes (among lots of other things) an interview with me!

Looking forward to reading this! Latest score from @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social by @annaleen.bsky.social

Coming up tomorrow

One of the best things you can do as a writer to support the literary landscape is to buy small press books. Buy them at indie bookstores, ask for them at your libraries. The big publishers have proven they are just another corporation. Small presses are responsible for innovation.

Another month, another SFPA poetry round-up! This month we have new work from @marisca.bsky.social, @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social, @richardleis.com, @ghostlyverse.bsky.social, @lisatimpf.bsky.social and so many more! Check out all the freshly pubbed spec poetry here: sfpoetry.org/wp/2026/02/0...

We're co-sponsoring a talk tomorrow at 3:30 Central about Miles (Miloslav) J. Breuer, a Czech-American sci-fi writer who published a bunch of stories in the early pulps. Register to watch it on Zoom here: events.uchicago.edu/event/260646...

Organically inclusive reader? Fan of speculative fiction? Want to judge the 2026 Ignyte Awards? Judges compose our longlist before we open up to public voting. Applications are currently open thru 2/14. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/

Consider attending! A very interesting book. For a preview, check out my interview with the author: sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/06/23/e...

I love working with Librarians and Archivist! You all are amazing!

This deal is incredible & it's for the best cause! You can get ALL the fiction by me and @charliejane.bsky.social from @humblebundle.com for a low, low price -- and all sales benefit the Miss Major Alexander L. Lee Black Trans Justice Center. www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...

On Feb. 8th I'll be reading as part of Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series with Juan Perez, Akua Lezli Hope, & Jennifer Crow www.eventbrite.com/e/speculativ...

Applications are now open for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2026! The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you! Choose your pace: 6wk, 12wk, or 18 wk App deadline Apr. 10 www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

We're co-sponsoring a lecture by Jaroslav Olša Jr. about Czech-American sci-fi writer Miles J. Breuer on February 6 at 3:30pm Central. In person at the University of Chicago or register to watch on Zoom at the link. events.uchicago.edu/event/260646...

Our general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/

Thrilled to see Jaroslav Olsa's Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Issue 12 is live! Sixteen stories and poems are available on our site, and we have print copies + eBook + PDF version available. www.radonjournal.com/issue12 A speculative commentary on the present world with just enough hope that we're sure you'll mourn freedom and cry beauty in equal measures

Sorry I remembered I should still be doing this?

"Breathing Night" is one of my few Nice Stories. It's about anxiety and trust, and @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social's reading is warm and gentle. If that sounds like something you could use, go ahead and give it a listen. (I should warn that the two following stories, though excellent, are scarier.)

Fellow SFWA members, I hope you won't be leaving the poetry section blank in your Nebula nominations. It's the first year of the award, and important to show that it gets the love it deserves. If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you

We will be closed tomorrow for the National Economic Blackout. Fuck Ice!

Xicanxfuturism contributors include @pedroiniguez.bsky.social, @doctor-e-c-dukes.bsky.social, Frederick Luis Aldana, Catrióna Rueda Esquibel, Erika Said Izaguirre, Osmani Ochoa, Luis Valderas, Angela Acosta, and many others. spacecowboybooks.com/new-book-spo... @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social

New mini-interview up on the blog with @andrecarrington.bsky.social about his upcoming book Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination spacecowboybooks.com/new-book-spo...

Cover reveal!! Happy to introduce my upcoming horror poetry collection THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP! Herein I touch on topics such as politics, deportation, school shootings, toxic tourism, poverty, an apology from a spectral HP Lovecraft, and more! Much love! rawdogscreaming.com/cover-reveal...

Issue 12 cover reveal! Click the art to experience the full piece by Artem Chebokha. Sixteen authors are coming to you February 1 to share their hearts and imagination. Writer reveals begin this Monday in the lead-up to launch.

Our January 2026 issue has gone out to subscribers! The free-to-read public version of the issue will go up February 2nd, but don't miss out! You can read it now by subscribing through our Patreon! www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag...

I'm floored. My story "Breathing Night" is on the BSFA Longlist in the Short Fiction category! And thanks to its reading by @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social for Simultaneous Times, in Audio Fiction, too! And it's in such great company in both categories. I'm swooning. www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Has anyone here ever used GameMaker to create games? Any thoughts? gamemaker.io/en

If you intend to nominate for the 2026 Hugo Awards, now is the time to sign up for a WSFS membership. Only those who are WSFS members prior to the end of day on January 31, 2026 have the right to nominate for the Hugos. LAcon.org/Register

Join us tomorrow for the festivities

🚀 Congratulations to all those longlisted for BSFA Awards! Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works! bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Calling all poets: Eye to the Telescope is accepting submissions for issue 60, edited by Angela Acosta, on the theme of Paying Tribute. Find more details and a form to submit here: eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html

What a fantastic surprise! Thank you, @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social for making this possible! ❤️

Hell yes!!! Jenna's work in my story is impressive! Congrats, Jenna! And congrats, @taracampbell.bsky.social! Happy to share this moment with both of you! 💚

z107.7 interviewed me about our bookstore's 10 year anniversary z1077fm.com/space-cowboy...

Thrilled to appear twice in the @bsfa.bsky.social longlist! Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle for Best Shorter Fiction and Plucking Flowers From My Garden of Poison for Best Audio (pub. by @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social and narrated by @jennahanchey.bsky.social). www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

I'm proud to have narrated *two* stories up for the @bsfa.bsky.social Best Audio Fiction Award!! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-... 1) @renanbernardo.com's "Plucking Flowers From My Garden of Poison spacecowboybooks.bandcamp.com/album/simult...

Coming up on Friday

Space Cowboy Books has won the Critters Readers Poll for Best Bookstore!

Out today: Simultaneous Times Ep.95 featuring stories by Mark Soden, Jr. & Jean-Paul L. Garnier with music by Phog Masheeen and TSG www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

Out today: Simultaneous Times Ep.95 featuring stories by Mark Soden, Jr. & Jean-Paul L. Garnier with music by Phog Masheeen and TSG www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

One hour left to vote for Electronic Brain for Best Magazine critters.org/predpoll/fic...

This month is Space Cowboy Books 10 year anniversary! Come celebrate with us on January 23rd at our brick and mortar bookstore Live music 10% off store-wide Snacks and libation www.eventbrite.com/e/space-cowb...

Last day to vote in the Critters Readers Poll. Space Cowboy is up for best bookstore, best publisher, and a few other categories. Vote here critters.org/predpoll/

Last day to vote in the Critters Readers Poll. Space Cowboy is up for best bookstore, best publisher, and a few other categories. Vote here critters.org/predpoll/