Update this issue fucking rules. I’m double-honored to have a story in it because turns out!! It slaps

We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️ Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW! Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe... Patreon Shop: www.patreon.com/othersidespe...

we are 80% funded (if you were curious) 80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey 80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear 80% off is a going out of business sale please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u join us! get fiction! 👇

Looking for help nominating for the Nebula Poetry Award? Below is a thread of Radon's eligible 2025 sci-fi poetry you can explore Also check out @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, @heartlines-spec.com for the best (free) spec poetry you can find online

We're hype for Issue 1 coming out SO SOON—March 1 for paid subscribers, March 15 for everyone else! So... reply to this post with a number between 1-110 and we'll give you a spoiler-free line from that page of the issue 👀 And join us on Patreon if you want to be one of the first to read!

Call for Submissions: QUEER MYTHOLOGIES: a celebration of spirituality, folklore, and queer cosmologies. 📌 foglifter.submittable.com

✅ WEIRD ✅ QUEER ✅ HORNY ✅ HOPEFUL LET'S GO

I have 2 short stories awards eligible this year! 1. Patient was the Doctor (PDF 📝) analogsf.com/for-your-con... with @analogsf.bsky.social (Locus & SFWA recommended) 2. milt (podcast reprint 🔉) escapepod.org/2026/02/12/e... with @bsfa.bsky.social and @escapepod.org (mild nsfw 🔥)

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the new Cyberpunk Canon is now live! The crowdfund runs all month. Accessible pricing and a portion of funds go to good causes. Let’s make this happen together! 🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

And now for poetry! 🤖 “Ignore All Previous Instructions” - @robotleblanc.bsky.social 🍽️ “Eat It Out” - Cypher 🦄 “blessing for molly grue.” - @thefoxmother.bsky.social 🐝 “Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be” - @mimulus.bsky.social 🐟 “Electrolysis” - Nico Santana (4/6)

IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing 🪐🗡️ More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/6)

HI YES HELLO “Handsomest Gentlest” is on the BSFA Awards longlist!!! Huge thanks to @havenspec.bsky.social for publishing it, to whoever suggested it for the longlist, and to the handsomest gentlest himself, Wilf, who will be getting an extra treat today to celebrate. www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

We're delighted to share with the world that Issue 9 author, @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social, won the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Award for her prose-poem "Ghost in the shell" Issue 11 author, @angelvleal.bsky.social is also recognized as an exceptional finalist for their poem "GPS Girl"

We didn't publish regularly last year, which understandably led to a drop in subscriptions. We're returning to a full schedule for 2026, including a special themed issue edited by the wonderful Rebecca Summerling. But we have lost some income, so if you like our stuff do consider subscribing.

A poignant bit of worldbuilding from @angelvleal.bsky.social "GPS Girl" 📠 🕹️ 📻 🔦 👩‍🦰 🕰️ ☎️ 🖨️ 📼 www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/gps...

She's adrift and trying to understand herself — her mind is a limitless, unending flow of data. @angelvleal.bsky.social 's transhumanist poem "GPS Girl" deals with themes of loneliness, self-formation, and machine consciousness. www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/gps...

12) "GPS Girl" by @angelvleal.bsky.social radonjournal.com/issue-11/gps-girl 13) "fritillary frigate" by @marisca.bsky.social radonjournal.com/issue-11/fritillary-frigate

It's officially poetry award nomination season. Things move fast and the biggest award in SpecPo, the Rhysling Award, is now accepting nominations from Science Fiction Poetry Association members. Radon is immensely proud of our poets and we want to help you find our poems that are eligible.

AND THE COVER Silver Island by @carlydraws.bsky.social

My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹

Cover letters can feel intimidating but, please, when you use AI to write them for you, we automatically distrust your writing. It doesn’t matter if you click the ‘didn’t use AI to draft/generate’, you’ve already fed your words into the plagiarism machine. We *want* your human awkwardness.

Hey all! YB=FD subs close tomorrow (or today, depending where you is!) Get your stories to us before the clock turns over in the latest time zone…whichever one that is? (And we’ll probably give it a couple extra hours 🖤☠️)

What are you waiting for? Write some strange queer poetry and FUCK SOMEONE UP.

Listen, you know what this team puts together is going to be the good shit anyway. But this just makes me so excited to see what Otherside is going to usher into the world. They're open to subs. Got something that might fit - something hard to place that you believe in? Fucking send it in.

As the other Otherside poetry editor, I can't stress this enough. "Please fuck us up. Please make it gayer and more trans and stranger and more unabashedly you than you think would usually be accepted. WE want that kind of shit. We want the othered queer pieces that take forever to find a home 💜

we are so proud of all we did in 2025! and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀 give this post a look!! find something amazing to read and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤 psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...

I’m so glad that readers seem to be enjoying the new issue of Kaleidotrope so much!

The cover artwork from the new Winter issue of Kaleidotrope—as well as my new header and avatar—is by the talented Cita A F, whose art has previously appeared in the zine! www.behance.net/citafarani

OTHERSIDE is officially OPEN for fiction and poetry submissions 🪐🗡️ If you’re part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, send us your speculative fiction and poetry: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and everything in between! 📚 Open window: Jan 1-14 📑 See guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

In @sfpoetry.bsky.social Eye to the Telescope Issue 56: "flowers without meadow" by @tiffmorris.bsky.social "Elven Forest Meets Climate Apocalypse" by @lynnesargent.bsky.social eyetothetelescope.com/archives/056... (🧜🏻‍♀️fin)

In @penumbricmag.bsky.social: "Queer for All That Jazz" by @avramargariti.bsky.social In @enchantedlivingmag.bsky.social Issue 71: “I Know Why Ophelia Picked Her Own Bouquet” by Kambriel and Ali Trotta enchantedlivingmag.com/collections/... cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In @havenspec.bsky.social: "she brings me waves, she brings me wind" by @angelvleal.bsky.social "Cryptid Sister" by @hvpatterson.bsky.social www.havenspec.com/cryptid-sister In @radonjournal.bsky.social: "GPS Girl" by @angelvleal.bsky.social www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/gps... cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In @heartlines-spec.com (cont.): "Orbit Decay" by Bella Chacha "Liturgy for Boys who Bloomed before the World was Ready" by CP Nwankwo www.heartlines-spec.com/liturgy-for-... "I Consult a Spiritualist by Merna Dyer Skinner" www.heartlines-spec.com/i-consult-a-... cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In @heartlines-spec.com: "Demonology for the Lovelorn" by @writerjencrow.bsky.social "What the Birds Taught Me" by @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social www.heartlines-spec.com/what-the-bir... "Time Loop" by Prasant Atluri www.heartlines-spec.com/time-loop-by... cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Rhysling noms are open & Hugo/Nebula noms are opening soon 🚀 so here's an incomplete list of speculative poems I loved in 2025⬇️ In @strangehorizons.bsky.social: "The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" by @rblemberg.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

as 2025 draws to a close we just want to say thank you thank you for reading for sharing for joining the deadlands for subscribing to fantasy for checking out our novellas and our blog for all the things you are and do 🖤

It's time for slower art. The constant churn and grind pushed by techno capitalism has reached its inevitable conclusion with AI slop. Let's make our best work and be patient with our process. Let's release art that's worth stopping for and savoring. Let's show each other what humans can do

okay, beloveds, some real talk in just three days, we'll be raising our patreon pricing BUT if you join before the 1st you'll get the old pricing (and it will stay that way)!! 🖤 thank you 🖤 from the bottom of our crunchy, calcified hearts for considering! www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

Make it an extra special Solstice by catching up on Sunday reads! 3 pieces from Issue 9 became free-to-read this week: Counting To A Hundred by @aishatuado.bsky.social I Consult a Spiritualist by @mernadyerskinner.bsky.social See You After Dark (When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder) by Laura DeHaan

you want to check this post out because WE CAN'T WAIT for you to read House, Body, Bird it's weird in the BEST WAY 💀🖤

The Submissions window for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is open for another three weeks! Get all the deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...

We're reopening to submissions on January 1st. Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.

Issue 90 is live! Please go read the amazing work within, including the top 7 stories chosen from hundreds submitted to the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest and the overall winner, Love; Sigh by Claire Y. Guo. Thank you so much to everyone who sent us work this quarter. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/

@aishatuado.bsky.social's new story is so, so haunting and beautiful!! An ethereal must read. "That's when I see them, children thin as morning's first ice, skin a translucent membrane with blue veins tracing frozen creek beds beneath." www.heartlines-spec.com/counting-to-... @heartlines-spec.com

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - OCTOBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 30 stories by @sentencebender.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @thesuiway.bsky.social @straith.ca & MANY MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

It was a wonderful first year of publishing! I'm proud of everything that was released this year, but I would be especially grateful if you considered my poetry and my recent story in Inner Worlds as you nominate this awards season. Links to every piece in the thread below! 🧵