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sentient entity + occasional writer of words
https://linktr.ee/jyzhang
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Clarion West
about 1 month 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
1 day 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
8 days 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 🤔🥸
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Night Shades
27 days ago
night shades is OPEN for submissions 🛸 pro pay 🛸 500 words max 🛸 all speculative 🛸 quick response/ simul. ok 🛸 looking for 23 stories this time guest reader for this call is
@leilasedai.bsky.social
🛸 beam em to us!
www.nightshadesmag.com
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Night Shades
Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/
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khōréō magazine
28 days 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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Night Shades
about 1 month ago
important news! night shades will open for submissions again this coming friday october 17. 🛸 staying open to fill the calendar, 23 spots. all the details are here :
www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
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Submissions
Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is opening October 17, 2025. Staying open until the calendar is full through April. There ar...
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦
about 1 month 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
about 1 month ago
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shit i tell myself debugging at 4am
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about 2 months ago
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Heartlines Spec
about 2 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
about 2 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...
about 2 months ago
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omg its me >:) ty for sharing my witch story 🪄
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about 2 months ago
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE !
2 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
2 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
4 months ago
Oh yay, they announced it!!
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Tfw u have to kermit to the corporate bit
4 months ago
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Tfw u have to show up on the job
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Taco Bell Quarterly
4 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 8.1 is NOW LIVE !
4 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 | 🎮 - Does The Moon Dream
4 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
#indiedev
#gamedev
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Strange Horizons
4 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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5 months ago
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amazing i can finally capitalize on all my life regrets ty ffo
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P H Lee 🪬
5 months ago
half of writers need to revise more and the other half need to revise less. everyone knows this. the problem is that everyone ends up sorting themselves into the wrong half.
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the horizons must grow stranger
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5 months ago
Don't miss
@jyzh.bsky.social
's wonderful poems in Issue 31! From "Filial Filet": You open the patio door for the first time in years and you see it: Girlthing 3000, new and shiny, the model for families in grieving, customizable down to the mole and follicle...
www.thetemzreview.com/zhang-31.html
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Read my poems in
@thetemzreview.bsky.social
(My first published poetry!! >:3) Featuring: robo fish-gutting, grasshopper imprisonment, new beginnings, & The Solar Apocalypse!
www.thetemzreview.com/zhang-31.html
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Zhang 31
By J. Y. Zhang
https://www.thetemzreview.com/zhang-31.html
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Apex Magazine and Book Company
5 months ago
Brace yourself! 🦷⛓️ The flash fiction theme for June is TEETH! You have until the end of the month to submit!
www.patreon.com/posts/130412...
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claire jia-wen
5 months ago
My new story "If An Algorithm Casts a Shadow" is out at
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
now! It's the amalgamation of my anxieties around big data and language models, condensed in a narrative about grief and suburban claustrophobia
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_06_25/
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If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow by Claire Jia-Wen
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_06_25/
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need...finish...novel
5 months ago
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so good!!
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6 months ago
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murderbot weekly episode release is like 50% of my will to live
6 months ago
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John Wiswell
6 months ago
The haters said I wouldn't get any writing done. And I didn't. Honestly, great call by the haters.
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Clarkesworld
6 months ago
This is what happens when you get marketing suggestions on Discord. (And because it's not in the actual image, you can find us at
clarkesworldmagazine.com
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Fusion Fragment
6 months ago
Did you know that FF is always on the hunt for more volunteers to join the reading team? Here's a brief thread on what it looks like to be part of the team here. And the application link, if you're interested!
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Baffling Magazine
6 months ago
We'll be open soon for submissions of queer speculative SFF. Stand by for some thoughts on the Mecha vs. Kaiju call by Associate Editor D. A. Vorobyov, who'll be editing this particular theme issue. More info:
www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
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Quaggy junior infiltrates the WeWork
6 months ago
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Quaggy infiltrates the big apple 🕵️
6 months ago
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MURDERBOT 🥺
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6 months ago
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WeWork? sure hope we do
6 months ago
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stuck in the deadzone of the day which is post day and pre work. doomscroll galore.
6 months ago
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Diabolical Plots
6 months ago
Pspspspsps (wait, is that the sound you make when you're whispering secrets or when you are talking to a cat) Diabolical Plots is tentatively planning to open for submissions from July 7-21, 2025. PS cats are welcome to submit, we hold them to the same standards as humam writers, so no AI
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living in america be like: i have been eating trader joes instant oatmeal for breakfast, trader joes instant noodle for lunch, trader joes instant muffin for snack, trader joes lentil wrap for dinner, ty mr joe for providing sustenance
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