A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

Stories from: Christopher Barzak, Jedediah Berry, Richard Bowes, Paul Di Filippo, Jeffrey Ford, Gregory Maguire, Lucius Shepard, Delia Sherman, Catherynne M. Valente, Marly Youmans, Greer Gilman, Lavie Tidhar, David Prill, Gavin Grant, Peter S. Beagle

On sale for $2.99 in Canada and the US. For the whole month. openroadmedia.com/ebook/salon-...

I’m so excited for my former student, Mary Carroll Leoson, whose short story collection, Devil’s Oak has finally released! I wrote the introduction to this gorgeous volume of supernatural and fantastical stories, and I’m happy to encourage others to pick up her book and love them as much as I do!

The Coyote Road edited by Terri Windling and me is on sale now $1.99 in Canada, GB, and US via open road-spread the news please: openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-co...

ANNOUNCEMENT 1. Afterlives 2024 curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has been COVER REVEALED 2. the collection will be available FOR FREE to paid patrons of @thedeadlands.com 3. join now, read The Deadlands, and receive the book magically when it is released beginning of November go see! 👇

🌈 Paying Market Alert! 🌈 @bonabooks.bsky.social is taking submissions for Fantabulosa - a celebration of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative horror from queer authors. 💰 8¢/word/fiction | $50/poetry 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30 (Dec 15 for trans authors & authors of color) 👉 horrortree.com/event/taking...

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Jenny Magazine's 2026 submission portal for issue number 24 (!) is open! Please send us your best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It's an open themed issue. And featured visual artists, please send us your work too! jennymag.submittable.com/submit

I’m honored to share that I’ve been named Graduate Alumni of the Year by Chatham University. This recognition means a lot to me and the work I’ve done as a writer since graduating with my MFA. Photo of me back when I was a student at Chatham below. It’s been a while, but I’m still smiling.

when the cold steps well into your morning and the days are noticeably shorter WE shall come into our FULL POWER and we will be raising funds not raising the dead but selling the coins that take you THERE ⏳💀🎃🪙 october 1st - october 31st

<New Story Day> My latest flash piece is now live at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social ! A dash of surrealism, a sprinkle of meta, and a cup of those swirling bubbles that transport you between scenes. www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/elad...

It's really book birthday month, right? seriously, this one is a DELIGHT and we really think you're gonna love it 🖤 buy at the link below ⬇️

Christopher said: "Chloe Clark is a master of blending the everyday with the strange, the supernatural, and the sublime. In Every Galaxy A Circle, she takes us far, far away, and brings us home again, whole yet changed.” —Christopher Barzak

I have looked up to Christopher Barzak's writing since I read One for Sorrow when it first came out. Monstrous Alterations might be my fave though, such dazzling work:

So happy to have blurbed Chloe's amazing new book!

"Summer in the House of the Departed is a luminous journey into the delicate boundary between life and death. With prose that sings." @cbarzak.bsky.social author of the Shirley Jackson Award nominated A Voice Calling this one is weird and wise and ORDER HERE psychopomp.com/product/summ...

Today was my 50th (!?!) birthday. Now for something sweet—orange olive oil cake—made by my sweet man. (Thank you, Connor, you made today so special💗). Looking forward to as many more years and sweets as I’m allowed.

Back from the Jackson Awards w/ a nomination stone. I won a Jackson for Best Collection in 2013, but you still get a stone even if you win. A few more and I’ll build a black box that no one in the village can remember where it came from, just that it’s always been part of the annual tradition.

To continue my "Posting Party" to celebrate the one year anniversary of my book's release, how about some nice comments from fellow writers? Here is my friend @cbarzak.bsky.social with some lovely praise.

My first novel, One for Sorrow, is being released in translation in Poland on July 29th by Zysk i S-ka Wydawnictwo. Here’s the cover and description. I’m always surprised and grateful that my work, even my earliest writing, is still out there wending its way through the world.

Unknown bucket list item: boyfriend winning me a teddy bear at a Pride festival. #pride2025

hey, we're always looking for new artists and illustrators to work with. please, if you are/know someone who is a great HUMAN artist, drop a link to your/their portolio. no promises, but we'd love to browse some portfolios today!! also pls share for visibility!!! 💀🖤💀

A Voice Calling by @cbarzak.bsky.social, Lovely Creatures by @ktbryski.bsky.social, and From These Dark Abodes by @lmanusos.bsky.social can now be found on Kobo for your reading pleasure. One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com is also there, yep yep! Happy Sunday. 💖💀💖

Sooooooo good. And so gay, thank god.

No Kings Day NYC.

Heading out to read at the KGB Bar for the fantastic fiction reading series tonight!

TONIGHT! Join us with Christopher Barzak and David Surface for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @cbarzak.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social

have you read "Shirley Jackson Award Nominated" *A Voice Calling* by @cbarzak.bsky.social yet?? you can get your own copy a the link! or pick up any of our AMAZING titles and when you do, you help a small press survive 🖤 psychopomp.com/books/

now you can say "Shirley Jackson Award Nominated" *A Voice Calling* 🖤 also urging everyone who CAN go to this, DO go to this!!

big congrats @cbarzak.bsky.social !! we are SO proud to see this novella nominated shout out to @ecatherine.com @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social @melisfluous.bsky.social @clevercrow.bsky.social @feliciafm.bsky.social @inkshark.bsky.social for helping get our first Psychopomp title out into the world!

I am so excited to announce that A Voice Calling is a nominee for this year’s Shirley Jackson Awards in the novella category. I’m so happy to have had the chance to bring it into the world thanks to Psychompomp Press. So honored to be among the nominees. www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2025/06/09/t...

Big congrats to @cbarzak.bsky.social on his Shirley Jackson Award nomination for his @psychopomp.com novella, A VOICE CALLING. 💖💀💖 www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2025/06/09/t...

This Wednesday, join us with Christopher Barzak & David Surface for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @cbarzak.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social

We're smashing into Pride 2025 with a gang of radical queer writers and a brand new book: #WrathMonth We're channeling our fury into a new collection of biting, blood-splattered stories at the cutting edge of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. 💙📚🪐📚🌈📚🌈🚀💫

Next Wednesday, join us for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series with guests Christopher Barzak & David Surface, June 11th, 7pm, at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @cbarzak.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social

Proof copy of MOON SONGS just arrived from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and the first thing I did was introduce it to its older siblings.

I’ll be reading with the wonderful writer, David Surface, on June 11th at the legendary KGB Bar in NYC. Looking forward to reading with David and seeing some old and new faces. If you’re around town then, come give us a listen!

Death of a Unicorn is a gore fest I can get behind.

More kind words about David Surface's and my latest novel, SAVING THORNWOOD, available for pre-order (Kindle). Paperback and hard cover coming soon! Thank you @cbarzak.bsky.social

#eurovision isn’t hitting for me this year. More witches, please.

#FundraiserPerk Fairy tales, gothic narratives, and classic monster stories are transformed into new wonders. Grab this signed and personalized copy of MONSTEROUS ALTERATIONS by Christopher Barzak. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025#FundraiserPerkor through our bio!

#FundraiserPerk We love Barzak books! Receive a signed & personalized copy of Christopher Barzak's A VOICE CALLING in softcover as a thank you gift for your donation Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025#FundraiserPerkor through our bio!

so we can support independent SFF journalism AND get @cbarzak.bsky.social's wonderful, signed & personalized, A VOICE CALLING?? *click click click!!*

I’ve donated a copy of "A Voice Calling" to the Locus fundraiser. Want to snag it? Click here to check it out and all the other great rewards: igg.me/at/locusmag2...

I’ll be giving a reading from A Voice Calling for the Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar in NYC on June 11th. Come out and give me a listen if you’re around town then!

Drumroll, please! Our 2025 IndieGoGo fundraiser is now live!! You can check out the bounty of donation perks available at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 (link in bio) We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!

Got this great review of SPACE TRUCKER JESS from Publishers Weekly!!! Coming in June from Fairwood Press: