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! 🧵

"This is a city of people who continuously shed their skin. I can see piles of it everywhere these days. In pungent lorong-lorong damp from the monsoon." Read 'Moult' by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul... #SFF #Fantasy #Horror #ShortStory

"Cloud-soft, our animal floated through the room like slow music. You were still crying, phone in hand, when its pink mist spread and put us to sleep again. And we saw our underwater heaven." Read 'To Sleep In Seagrass Beds' by @angelvleal.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-to-s...

There are so many more. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

I appreciate everyone at @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social. The stunning poet and beautiful creature @angelvleal.bsky.social . @yaffasutopia.bsky.social is exceptional, they are a brilliant light. @amalelmohtar.com for bringing beauty and birds into the dark places. @nassos.bsky.social, my best mentor.

Been a while since I did a🧵 and I was thinking about how I haven't pubbed many spaceship stories recently. There's one on the way in 2026, but I'd love to give it company. So, I present a brief thread on a selected few of FF's spaceship stories. If you have something like this, send it my way! /1

gifts are important, especially for YOURSELF! and all of our titles are available digitally, so you can have an instant treat 🖤 here ⬇️ psychopomp.com/books/

Good morning sweets. I decided to make a starter pack for Rad Trans VTubers. Thought it would be a good way to get more folks in our community in contact with each other. Comment if you would like to be added - only requirement is you have to be trans and rad 🏳️‍⚧️ go.bsky.app/3sNBCiz

If you're an author looking to get into Radon's first 2026 issue, we suggest submitting in the next week or two. We'd like to lock in the issue by Christmas and have plenty of time in January for editing

"Regret was without question the emotion no membalmer wanted to see trickling into the basin when they tapped a skull." Read "If You Can’t Make Your Own Regret, Store-Bought Is Fine" by @rjaurand.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-if-y... #SFF #SciFi #Fantasy

Calling all Inner Worlds writers and readers: please tell me your thoughts about mental health and speculative fiction! 🧠❤️

Thank u!! @epistemiclit.bsky.social this poem is for every trans person who had a parent who (even with love) tried to scare them into not transitioning. And it is one of the only times I've read my piece aloud online for anyone who likes to listen to poetry 💜 epistemiclit.com/current-issu...

“I had a trans friend once she said; the medicine she took to become a woman ate her bones.” My Mother Told Me She Saw Spirits All Around Her by @angelvleal.bsky.social - powerful #poetry from issue 7: #integrity. If you’re not in the habit of listening to the pieces, I suggest you try this one

Uncanny Magazine Podcast 67B features "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy” by Rati Mehrotra, as read by Matt Peters; “My Duende: in the Wall and in the Mirror” by Angel Leal, as read by Erika Ensign; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Rati Mehrotra! buff.ly/hqW9OMC

Space Unicorns! Behold The Uncanny Magazine 2025 Poetry Eligibility Post! buff.ly/pTkzCUI

Thank you, ALL, who supported the BCS Patreon or donated this week and shared word! We really appreciate it. All Patreon support and donations go to pay our authors a pro rate, our artists, and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing personalized comments in all submission replies.

The Uncanny Magazine Podcast 67B features "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy” by Rati Mehrotra, as read by Matt Peters; “My Duende: in the Wall and in the Mirror” by Angel Leal, as read by Erika Ensign; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Rati Mehrotra! buff.ly/hqW9OMC

I had 4 new short stories published this year but would be honored if you checked out these two for Nebula/Hugo/Locus consideration 🙏 1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb... 2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi) clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/

My story 'About Alice' is in this issue. And as always, so much care went into the whole magazine, it is a joy to read!

This cover is soft and magical and wintry, and I'm so very honoured to say one of my stories is inside 🥹 'Winter Finds' is my first ever short story publication, and all I want to do is write and write some more because today is truly wonderful. Thank you so much, @lunastation.bsky.social 🤍

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...

this is so beautiful

This story was so tender and beautiful and I so lost myself in every description TT

This is such a beautiful story bathed in blue. Give it a read. 💙📚

Yay! My story “Triple Body Walking” has won the 2025 @fracturedlit.bsky.social Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize. 🖤

New month, new story! I am so excited to have a piece in the latest issue of FFO, one of my very favorite magazines. Do you like queer stories inspired by myth? Petty goddesses? Ovidian transformations? Being sad? Birdwatching? “Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings” was written just for you! 🐦‍⬛

Please share. Help me get some work lined up🙏

Longest title in the issue! 👇 👇 I spent most of the winter holidays last year rewriting this story, so it feels extra special to be able to share it with you this year. One week!

This T4T story is one of the best I've ever read... Stop scrolling and READ IT NOW!