This Xmas season, don't forget to look after the essentials - and maybe seek out a proofreader (psst, we're opening up for FREE editing slots to help the LGBTQIA+ horror writing community next month! No lemonade though, sorry). sliceduppress.com/editing-serv...

If you don't wake up in the middle of the night on Wednesday to the sound of jolly old saint nick shoving one of our books into your stocking, fear not! We'll be doing a special post-Xmas giveaway next weekend, so you can ring in 2026 with a little treat. Watch this space! 💀🎁

Thank you so much @bitterkarella.bsky.social for choosing CHASERS for one of your favorite horror books of 2025!! Due to the publisher closing, the book will be out of print for awhile at the end of the year so get it now while it's available! gizmodo.com/sci-fi-horro...

A little poem befitting the season ☕❄️ @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-ro...

This is my awards eligibility thread for poetry for 2025, this year with Helpful and Clever Graphic. For those who don't know, I'm Elizabeth R. McClellan, and my poetry can be found at popelizbet.com.

Release day! I'm very happy to be a part of this tasty anthology! Come get some here: doylestownbookshop.com/book/9781963... #horror #horrorbooks #booksky

Many thanks to publishers that took a chance on me in 2025. Latinos make up 4.6% of people in publishing, so I am extremely grateful. FEVER DREAMS OF A PARASITE- @rdspress.bsky.social ECHOES AND EMBERS: SPECULATIVE STORIES- @starsandsabers.bsky.social THE FIB- @gloobooks.bsky.social

My newest short story is out in the world! Thank you, @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social , for bringing "To Scorn the Power of Man" to print! Read more about it here: mailchi.mp/74f6ad420c8f... #amwriting #amreading #horror #publishing #macbeth #shakespeare #ecohorror

Ooh nice! I commissioned art for my story in this collection too. By Piere d'Arterie, here is Grill Man, from Grilling Time!

I don't have a lot of reviews for 1000 Pieces of Sweet... but I like this one. Thanks to Michelle for reading the book and leaving this killer review! Get you a copy of 1000 Pieces of Sweet if you're looking for some creepy Halloween-vibes while you're drowning in the holidays.

I'm going to escape this particularly shitty news day with a little snowshoeing and a little MM Romance. Don't let the bastards win! bwlnk.com/9781641088855

Virtual launch with @ruadanbooks.bsky.social was so much fun, thanks Ruadán folks, ace to meet you @rossbaxter.bsky.social @xanwriter.bsky.social and hear your awesome readings! Vid will be online soon for anyone who missed it, and you can get Spring in the City here: ruadanbooks.com/product/spri...

HAVE YOU HEARD MY VERSION (VIA ASPIC TINES>>my Klaus Nomi homage) OF THE HOLIDAY CLASSIC "HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA?" The family and I gather around the tree every year to listen, dreaming of lovely Southeast Asian prison camps sprinkled with ash. #deadkennedys #musicsky #klausnomi

It’s been a fervent wish of mine to be part of a Filthy Loot F*CKED UP STORIES anthology, and behold! And with a bunch of my favourite writers, too. Buy one for your weirdest friends this holiday season.

New hand painted wooden ornament just added to my shop. 😈🎨🦇 It'll go out tomorrow with the other batch of orders if you order today. $13 + $7 S&H stinasdemons.bigcartel.com

Rhysling Award season is quickly approaching, and we're excited to announce the 2026 Rhysling Award Co-Chairs! @ajwentz.com and @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social ✨ Thank you so much, AJ and Jordan, for helping speculative poetry thrive! Rhysling award nominations open January 1 ✨

Issue 8 of Carnage House features my short story LMS which is about a family living through the end of the world. One brutal ride. This week will see the release of issue 9, featuring Girl in a Cupboard my very own slasher. If you want to check LMS while it's here: carnagehouse.com/house/story....

I think this goes til the end of the year? yay

Some buds invited me to be part of their monthly 30 second filmmaking project - here’s my first one!🖤🎞️ youtu.be/Rc4cHLxlddo?...

Eucatastrophe poem 🌱

For your general consideration....we published eight novellas this year. Three issues of Baffling. And a short story collection by Christopher Caldwell. (Plus we are sneaking out AT LEAST two more anthologies, an issue of Baffling, and a chapbook by Izzy Wasserstein before the end of the year.)

All of my stories are queer and all of my stories have autistic POV characters !! #booksky

Grab one of our anthologies and experience: Cake horror 💀🎂 Menopause-themed horror 💀🔥 Weird monster horror 💀👾 Blood-free horror 💀🩸➖ Sea-based horror 💀⚓ Queer horror 💀🏳️‍🌈 sliceduppress.com/books

SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION announcements🧵 below with all 30 of our brilliant authors! Give 'em a follow where you can! 💀📺

We'll be finishing up our author announcements for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION this weekend - if you thought it was a stacked line-up already, just wait! Then we'll be taking a breather for the Xmas season before the road to editing (and finishing up the cover art) begins. 💀📺

Here we have production art of Gray “Fuse Dude” Milder of the planet Edison from the Power Paladins cartoon adaption by Caucusboi

More SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION announcements next week! 📺💀

We're definitely asking Santa if we can get nominated for a Cummy next year. Good luck to all the entrants!

Our first author announcement for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION is @tashise.bsky.social with Drawn to Death, a tale of cartoonish cruelty felt from both sides of the animator's table.

Tomorrow! Or possibly Sunday depending on pesky real life stuff! Author signing announcements for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION will commence! 💀📺

Picture an elf living in that bathtub. The Loneliness of Malabron is about the elf relationship to a newborn baby. It was published by @sliceduppress.bsky.social in Monstroddities edited by @bensnotwriting.bsky.social before being translated to French for Malpertuis XVI godless.com/products/mon...

Working on the cover design for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION and as usual, another idea has come to mind. Might end up scrapping the current one and going with the nw one instead. OR WILL I? 💀📺

Wow, you lot sent your Saturday Mourning TV contracts back FAST! Thank you! Working on payments from next weekend onwards, then into editing mode soon after. Also anyone accepted for the book (or previous ones!) who we haven't followed back on here, give us a reminder and we will. 💀📺

Acceptances have all been sent out for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION! Let's do this! 💀📺

We're not going to be able to offer out our annual LGBTQIA+ Writer's Grant this year as it stands, but we hope to offer it out again in 2026. We will be opening up free short story editing for LGBTQIA+ writers again after Xmas though, details here: sliceduppress.com/editing-serv...

Okay! So! It looks like we should be able to move ahead with SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION! Now comes the housekeeping part - it will take until the end of the month for us to make sure contracts and offer letters are in order. We plan on sending them out just after Hallowe'en. 1/2

I totally missed this at the time 😳 Congrats to all the winners!

Whether we get the good news we're hoping for next week re. the future of Saturday Mourning TV or not, I just feel the need to say thanks again to all those who submitted their writing, especially those who are bearing with me for a proper decision. - Ben

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! ...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year. Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025. All the deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

My first work ever published was titled the Loneliness of Malabron. It was published by @sliceduppress.bsky.social in 2022. It has now been translated to French, my own language, in Malpertuis XVI. 🥰

HV and me crossed path on my first publication EVER! Monstroddities by @sliceduppress.bsky.social edited by @bensnotwriting.bsky.social Within which you can find The Loneliness of Malabron and HV's poem Mother:Microbe sliceduppress.com/monstrodditi...

Only a couple more weeks until we find out for sure whether we can crack on with SATURDAY MOURNING TV this year or not. Watch this space!

This story was originally written for @sliceduppress.bsky.social 's "Saturday Mourning" anthology. It didn't get in, but I put it up anyway because I think horror stories need more deformed PROtagonists.

And Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes from SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! is on the shortlist along with many more brilliant poems - the Rhysling anthology is stacked with great stuff!

In the wake of the Anthropic suit, here's a bit about copyright in our publications. Copyrights for all stories & poems we publish remain with the writer, this is a standard clause in all our contracts. We're based in the UK so works don't have to be registered here to be copyrighted. BUT! 1/3

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

a reminder that you can still sign up for the settlement if they stole your work www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there. Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...