ahhh this is amazing to hear! Thank you for reading 🫶

"ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction is a strong collection with no misses that will leave you spellbound by the beautiful and terrible forces of nature." 🌩️ Thank you to Magdalena Nitchi and ImaginAtlas for your review of ECO24! 💜🍄 imaginatlas.ca/catch-of-the...

I love Oscars! Amazing fish 🖤 These illustrations are both so beautiful

Lovely review for "ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecoficton" 💚💚💚 "The most effective stories, for me, came under the theme of social commentary on novel solutions to environmental decline. These stories ask: who bears the brunt of these innovations, and who gets to carry on as before?"

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

ATTN EDITORS & AUTHORS: If you published original short SF/F/H this year that engages with themes of nature, climate & animals (pets included!), send it our way for consideration in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction ✨ We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).

Thanks to the wizard at Apex who made this beautiful paper garland template with pictures from the Northern lights! To print and snip and festify. Craft time!

Hell yeah @marissavu.bsky.social my copy arrived just in time for snow day reading. ✨❄️🎋

Thank you to @apexmag.bsky.social for this gorgeous copy of ECO24 edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌺 Excited to dig into this one!

There's a new holiday to celebrate this year! ❄️🌌 We're kicking off our countdown to @ivygrimes.bsky.social's folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR with a collection of printable DIY papercrafts! Get into the cozy, screen-free Cellar Solstice spirit and check out the first craft below! 🧵

😭✨🌌 I'm so in love with these beautiful winter-solstice paper garlands! Inspired by Ivy Grimes' "The Cellar Below the Cellar," designed by the brilliant Ori Whipple, and perfect for your tree, your bookshelves, or your best festive hat. Print, tape and drape!

Just bought my wife ECO24 for the holidays. She's obsessed with native plants and California ecology (no, she doesn't use bsky-no secrets revealed). Hopefully this stokes her burgeoning desire to write speculative ecofiction! @apexmag.bsky.social @marissavu.bsky.social

Ivy Grimes on crones and dark places!🖤 "Part of growing up, making my own way into my crone season, has meant looking beneath things. ... The older I get, the more natural it seems to me that darkness lives below the light. I like to poke around there now, see what’s lurking in the shadows."

Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social

Publishers, editors, authors, send us your favorite speculative ecofiction published this year. This is going to be another bouquet of truly stellar ecofiction ✨🌿🦋

We all know what spaceships look like. But how do artists depict time machines? Sign up for my art blog newsletter and you'll find out in tomorrow's issue: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io Here's the sneak peek: Josh Kirby, Trevor Webb, Karel Thole, and Richard Powers

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE WORKS OF VERMIN by Hiron Ennes. A entomological epic in a Weird city where art & revolution are intimately entwined, this queer puzzle box is TRANSCENDENT. Our drink is the Extemporist, for a perfume-soaked night at the opera.

LOOK AT THIS STUNNER ECO24 PHOTO! Always fun to see this book creeping around in the wild, but this shot is 🔥🔥🔥 (And thank you Sasha for the Sasha Brown Awards, greatest honor of my life and now I can't make fun of you for at least 6-8 days 🥹)

This was a pleasant surprise! It's a huge honor to be included. Big congrats to @laurelhightower.bsky.social and everyone else who made the list!

Want to know the origin story of Shortwave press and how Alan got into this whole publishing adventure? I think this is one of the coolest NaNoWriMo tales I've heard.

I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that 💅🍓🫙✨ Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now! 🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

I love everything Joe writes, but I am REALLY excited to read this one.

I made an awards eligibility post! I always feel a bit embarrassed doing these, but I'm really proud of these stories and extremely grateful to the editors who've published them

contract is signed!!! in a post-apocalyptic future where people live on megafauna, Beau put his roots down on the back of a jackalope. but bodies start showing up, and he's the primary suspect. forthcoming in @apexmag.bsky.social !!!!

Another inspiration: Cormac McCarthy's The Road Cormac and I don't have much in common, God bless us, but The Road made me think seriously about what would happen to us if we lost most of our technology. In CELLAR, I wanted to explore this loss in the context of a small community.

it's truly a beautiful piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social. pensive, mysterious, thoughtful, and weird in all the beautifulest ways. thank you for the ARC, and I can't wait for this to be out!

This is such a beautifully thoughtful review! Love when the reader brings so much to the experience 🖤🖤🖤

Finally have a minute to reflect on what a fun time this was on Tuesday (now that I'm not on a dredge 🥲). So much thoughtful discussion and many new friends! Can't wait to plant my little seed packet seeds 🌱

Particularly affecting is interplay of fantastical and science fictional stories, showing just how broadly ecofiction speaks to our present moment. Kaleidoscopic in its approach. This series is going to be a fantastic annual addition to the thriving ecosystem of short fiction anthologies!!

Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!

NOW OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS If you published speculative ecofiction this year, we'd love to consider it for ECO25 💚🌿🐾🐚🦋🌿💚

Dr. Louella Cable | Aquatic biologist & brilliant scientific illustrator #WorldFisheriesDay First woman hired (1927) by the US Bureau of Fisheries (later became US Fish & Wildlife). Her research + art advanced fisheries science. #WomenInSTEM #art #conservation thefisheriesblog.com/2020/04/27/l...

wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

Also got interviewed by the delightful @marissavu.bsky.social ❤️ I always appreciate the research and thoughtfulness she puts into her interview questions!

Here's my interview with the amazing @leahning.bsky.social! We discuss her incredible new piece of ecofiction, "We Used to Wake to Song," & many other things. LOVED this story 🪸 ~ "I think we’ll become a better sanctuary in the future. I hope we become a better sanctuary in the future." -Leah Ning

✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨ if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍🙇🏻‍♀️

This story will haunt you - it is somehow harrowing and heartening at the same time. Unforgettable 🖤🖤

Vasilisa has to contend with Baba Yaga, a crone who lacks the charm and safety of a fairy godmother. Instead, she's rich in magic, lights her property with fire skulls, and guards many secrets in her house and the surrounding woods.

My main inspiration was "Vasilisa the Beautiful," a Russian fairy tale about a girl whose mother dies leaving her with only a (magic!) doll. Her stepmother sends her to get fire from the magical and dangerous Baba Yaga, hoping she'll die there.

Bookmark this thread! It's Ivy Grimes' CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR origin story 👀💜

New review of ECO24! ✨

A few 📸 from the ECO24 book launch at Lofty Pigeon! Word is it was a full house & all the books sold out 🙌🎉🔥✨🎉💚 Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia." Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!

LAUNCH DAY! COME TO LOFTY PIGEON TO SEE ME AND @kayv.bsky.social TALK ABOUT IT!

Proud to have a story in this amazing collection!

Happy publication day to this amazing anthology! So many great stories in here! 🌿🌊🍄

YAY!!! I'm so delighted that my story "The Colonists" appears in this gorgeous book along with stories by @renanbernardo.com @osahon4545.bsky.social @emlinden.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social and many others!

If you're in New York tonight, Kay Vaindal will be reading Pig House 2: Pig in the City at Lofty Pigeon Books! Jk but they are reading the classic OG Pig House and answering questions alongside Louis Evans for the launch of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Mooch on over, it'll be fun.

#fox #wildlife Darling

HAPPY PUB DAY!!! 🎉

I had a chance to read an advanced copy of this one and can confirm it's full of great stories. Absolutely worth picking up a copy