J. Y. Zhang
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sentient entity + occasional writer of words
https://jyzhang.ca/
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M. R. Robinson
3 days ago
OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all!
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
https://othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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anywayz happy 2026, i have a super srs website now, i made it instead of writing 👹:
jyzhang.ca
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J. Y. Zhang
https://jyzhang.ca/
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✨ 2025 writing roundup ✨ wrote a solid 2.5 stories between 2 internships, deleted 5k words from my novel ✨ 2026 writing goals ✨ obtain cs degree (optional), make non-negative progress on my novel (optional), live laugh love (mandatory)
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Fusion Fragment
5 days ago
I've got the day off work, so time to bring back an old favourite, this time using lessons learned from all the great stuff we published in 2025. Let's do this.
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Heartlines Spec
14 days ago
We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry. Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)
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Night Shades
8 days ago
“At dawn, we breach the perimeter to tag each one, disperse them, and make way for the next day’s batch.” a true chiller, new this week, from
@yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/the-wound-i-...
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The Wound I Watch
by Yasmeen Fahmy Mama asks on the phone “شو شكلها؟” What does it look like? I’m not sure how to respond. So I start scribbling in my A6 notebook in between shifts: like a glistening wound at sunris...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/the-wound-i-watch/
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Inner Worlds
17 days ago
"We do not know if Lepidoptera have episodic memories, or if it, too, would endure. Ma has always believed that it would—that the caterpillar remembered itself. She had to, if she found metamorphosis beautiful at all." Read 'Puparium' by
@jyzh.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-pupa...
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Puparium by J. Y. Zhang
Jie, are you listening? I want to tell you this story the way you would want to hear it.
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-puparium-by-j-y-zhang/
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read my poem about post apocalyptic happy endings ^v^
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18 days ago
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I’m 2 yrs late to the party but holy smokes “To Carry You Inside You” by Tia Tashiro blew my mind…
clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_11_23/
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To Carry You Inside You by Tia Tashiro
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_11_23/
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yasmeen / ياسمين
20 days ago
Writing I aspire to
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will i finish my internship or will my internship finish me 💀
20 days ago
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this story got me emo
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22 days ago
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thinking abt this story 🥲
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28 days ago
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I LOVE HER EVERYONE VISIT THE FOREST WITCH 😭
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about 1 month ago
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My story “Puparium” got reprinted in
@innerworlds.bsky.social
! I haven’t painted in a long time but wanted to challenge myself to make something based off the story for funsies :’) Ft: insects, sisterhood, metamorphosis shenanigans 🐛
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-pupa...
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I’m so honoured to have a tiny poem in this issue!
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about 1 month ago
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ahh this story has me feeling all sorts of ways…so good I am now thinking of the monster in my own house
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about 1 month ago
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This story was so tender and beautiful and I so lost myself in every description TT
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about 1 month ago
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P H Lee 🪬
about 1 month ago
review of aster f's hypertext version of my and rachel swirsky's story compassionate simulation:
essy.neocities.org/reviews/comp...
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review of Compassionate Simulation
https://essy.neocities.org/reviews/compassionatesimulation
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aksdhaskjhdkj so grateful that my bug story will be reprinted in Inner Worlds!!!! 🥰🐛🦋
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about 1 month ago
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Inner Worlds
about 1 month ago
Inner Worlds issue 9 will be out at the end of November, featuring this stunning cover artwork by
@bydhiyanah.bsky.social
✨️🌿💜
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !
about 1 month ago
We’re so honoured to be BACK as an Ontario Arts Council Recommender for grants this year! 🎊 We’re interested in receiving applications for various lengths of SFF & dreamy realism projects, including: ⭐️ fiction ⭐️ poetry ⭐️ short fiction
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Clarion West
3 months ago
Applications are now open for the 2026 Novel Writing Workshop with
@drkarenlord.bsky.social
! Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio.
#novelwritingworkshop
#clarionwest
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
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Fusion Fragment
about 2 months ago
We are exactly four (4!) downloads away from setting a new FF annual record* for most downloads! It's a perfect time to grab yourself a free download of FF#26!
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
(*I mean we're way ahead if I include Saros, but I still wanna beat the FF-only record)
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Issue #26
“A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above” by Nkereuwem Albert: the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution”A White Day Comes” by A.D. Sui: solar destruction…
https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
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A.C. Wise
about 2 months ago
Psst! Canadians! The eligibility lists for the Aurora Awards are now open for work originally published in 2025. Make sure your speculative fiction, poetry, art, and eligible related work is listed!
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
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Eligibility Lists – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)
https://www.csffa.ca/awards-information/eligibility-lists/
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where to submit sff poetry 🤔🥸
3 months ago
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khōréō magazine
3 months ago
📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions! We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme! ⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details:
www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
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brb digging up a story 🦝
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3 months ago
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦
3 months ago
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
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Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
http://kotowych.com/yearsbest/
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it is still sep 30th in some part of the world...right? 🌚
#AugurMicros2025
@augursociety.bsky.social
3 months ago
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shit i tell myself debugging at 4am
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3 months ago
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Heartlines Spec
4 months ago
TORONTO PEEPS! Heartlines Spec is going to be at Word on the Street! We'll be selling ALL THE SWAG: magazines, art prints, stickers, pins, and patches ❤️ Visit us! Say hi! Maybe buy something cute? WOTS is 100% free to attend. Learn more at
toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca
#TorontoWOTS
#WOTS2025
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it's almost spooky season and that means all my incomplete wips haunt me google docs is becoming a mausoleum at this point
4 months ago
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my short fiction writing process: so yeah anyway i sat down for 24 hrs straight and wrote le thing my novel writing process: ok so like first we write the 15k character study, restart, write 30k, overhaul the premise, restart, write 30k, overhaul the premise...
4 months ago
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omg its me >:) ty for sharing my witch story 🪄
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4 months ago
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !
4 months ago
The Augur Microfiction Contest is BACK for 2025 🏆 until Sep 30! THE THEME: We want microfiction that bursts open the futures we need to see 🌌 show us the who/what/where of your tomorrows! More info below ⬇️ and in our bio!
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Fantasy Magazine
4 months ago
are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
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Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
updated September 2, 2025
https://psychopomp.com/fantasy-magazine-guidelines/
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Uncanny Magazine
4 months ago
PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!!
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Apex Magazine and Book Company
5 months ago
stumbling into work on Friday like 🦑🌀 There's just TWO WEEKS (+ two days, don't worry fellow procrastinators I got you) to submit your flash fiction! The theme is DEEP SEA. You have until the end of the month to submit!
www.patreon.com/posts/august...
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Uncanny Magazine
5 months ago
PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!!
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Martha Wells
6 months ago
Oh yay, they announced it!!
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Tfw u have to kermit to the corporate bit
6 months ago
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Tfw u have to show up on the job
6 months ago
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Taco Bell Quarterly
6 months ago
life is such a nightmare and you still have to write your book. by the way, if you haven't submitted something and you want to, you still can just email it, we're still very much in our reading period
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !
6 months ago
HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀
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Caleb Draper
6 months ago
🌕 DOES THE MOON DREAM DEMO IS OUT NOW! 🌕 ⛈️ The Rainy Town Demo is approx. 1 hour long and showcases a complete segment of the game 💀 Meet new characters and change whether they live or die! 🪓 Engage in brutal real time grid-based combat against swarms of eldritch horrors
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Strange Horizons
6 months ago
We've got a week to go in the Strange Horizons Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2025! If you haven't had a chance to donate yet, it's not too late to pledge over on our Kickstarter. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!
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i am so normal abt this
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