It's my last short speculative fiction spotlight column of 2025 (my Dec picks will come out in Jan). I have 10 stories to tide you through the long, dark nights and short, cold days. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

“Last Meal Aboard the Awassa” by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, “Compass Rose, Running” by Julie Reeser from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social

One more day folks! Send us your queer speculative flash fiction!

@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social's Those Beyond the Wall is EVERYTHING I could've hoped for in a sequel. A new protagonist—as well-developed as the first one—took me deeper into the characters, settings, and storylines I grew to love and blew my mind!! Don't sleep on this series, y'all. It's gold.

I'm $91 overdrawn. please help.

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Students touched me so much with their words and deeds during our last classes this week. One told me I was her favorite professor. I joked, "Darn it! That means I can't quit." "Don't quit. We need you." (Give me oil in my lamp. Keep me burning, burning, burning. Give me oil in my lamp, I pray.)

Putting up my editing shingle! I offer constructive developmental editing, and authenticity/sensitivity reading of short and long form prose fiction. I’m an Ignyte and Ember award winning editor. There’s room for a few clients this month and after January. Get in touch! soniasulaiman.com/contact/

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

(Repost with screenshot) The Subtle Art of Folding Space got a starred review from Library Journal! "Chu finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum in his debut novel."

I didn't know this had been announced! I'm excited to be teaching at Clarion next summer with all of these cool people.

This story is so short and yet you'll fall in love with all the characters as a whole and their attitude in the face of absolute catastrophe. With what humans could have been if we were more like them. by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.

When I was a submissions editor, I really enjoyed the feeling of sending up work from new writers. I think most editors do. Today, I learned that someone has their first pro sale because I told them about a call for submissions. This is what it’s all about.

Good news! You can read an oldie but a favorite of mine in Apex today! "Before, After, and the Space Between", first published in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, is about the fraught relationship between a daughter and her mother and their magic 💜🖤

Graphic design skills I do not possess, as evidenced by this free template I selected because the other free templates kept crashing... Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨

Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills

Happy release day to the very special Orbit Gold edition of the trilogy of my heart. 💚 Thank you @orbitbooks.bsky.social and @tommyarnoldart.com (Last day to take advantage of the 20% preorder discount! Link below.)

Big news! My second collection of horror stories, NOCTIVAGANTS, is coming out in 2027 with Lethe Press! Cover reveal coming soon!

Hey look at that! My story “Bloody Muddy Water” is featured by Locus Magazine!

I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

Can't wait until I'm allowed to tell you all about my next novelette that revisits our favorite (and only) space-faring fenox Chesirah (link if you've forgotten) in an entanglement with the fae. podcastle.org/2018/07/03/p...

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

thank you to whoever just went and bought books 2-8, I assume you liked the first book well enough to continue running!

So folks in my bondage class are really enjoying BLEED FOR ME BRO, my new story over at @nightmare-magazine.com Just saying… www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/blee...

This is a banger of a story. If you enjoy Carmen Maria Machado and/or Pemi Aguda's work, you'll probably dig this.

I'm so proud to have a story in "Amplitudes," thanks to Lee. "Fettle & Sunder" is very personal, and to have @arleysorg.bsky.social describe it as "timely" and "timeless" in his @lightspeedmagazine.com review makes me even prouder! Now's the time to grab the book and find out why!

Huge thanks to @diabolicalplots.com for looking at drafts of these contracts, too, and helping us tweak some language to better serve authors. David does so much for this community, and it’s never a bad time to toss a coin to your Grinder 🙂 thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Home/Donate

LP is working hard to complete their BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago, but financial hurdles are making it tough. Every donation helps cover tuition. Please consider contributing or sharing this campaign to support their journey. Every bit counts! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...

a lovely review of @bafflingmag.bsky.social's latest issue -- absolutely stoked to see my short story "At First Blush" get reviewed downthread as "fun and heartwarming" 🚀👽💗 please check it out, along with the rest of the issue! thank you so much for your kind words, Charles!

A podcast of my story "Disassembling Light", originally published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is up on It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton!!! This isn't even a career milestone I knew to want, but my nerd's heart is so full!!

Look what dropped today. A little background Sis’ Bouki: the Hyena Gifts, my poem in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social I wrote it during the height of the pandemic at a time when I was under a lot of pressure, dealing with a serious health crisis and family.

Psst! I've added a whole bunch of new links to my eligibility and recommendation round up post with further updates to come. Keep sending your links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

Yesterday my little monster book broke into the Top 1000 Kindle books. I think this was for the first time ever? It hit #977. I was so grateful. Today the sale is over, but it ROSE to #644. The only reason is word-of-mouth of readers. It's been a tough time lately, and I can't thank y'all enough.

New story this morning! The Crow's Second Tale in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... This is one of my stories that is 100% not autobiographical except the part that is, which is that I tell stories to crows too, just in case.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

A podcast of my story "Disassembling Light", originally published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is up on It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton!!! This isn't even a career milestone I knew to want, but my nerd's heart is so full!!

My story "In the Zone", about a young woman with a special power that allows her to rescue immigrants, is now available to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com. Check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...

I loved this book. Such quiet, devastating, beautiful science fiction.

My essay “Papershells” for @sarahgailey.bsky.social's year-long essay series Love Letters: Reasons to be Alive is live! This series celebrates “the objects and experiences that keep us going, even through the hardest of times” and is always free to read. stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letters...

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!

at long last! fresh bats flying out from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @nicanstett.bsky.social, @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, & Sanni Omodolapo🦇 don't subscribe to my weirdo letter? to each their own but you should still check out these stories! so here's the link

For the day crowd, the first batches of cards have gone out but there are plenty left. We can't make it on my disability alone so I'm selling greeting cards to make up for our SNAP benefits. Be the reason someone smiles when they open the envelope. Pls share & much thankiness.

Psst! Illumicrate currently have a sale on! If you wanted to grab a copy of the special edition of A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST, it’s currently available at 25% off! illumicrate.com/products/may...

It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

And i was able to deal with this but the internet is now turned off Any help please

Day 10 & 11! A double posting of Black SpecFic month recs because I was too tired yesterday to do it. Classics: 1. DARK MATTER edited by Sheree R. Thomas www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-matte... 2. WHISPERS FROM THE COTTON TREE ROOT edited by Nalo Hopkinson www.goodreads.com/book/show/84... 1/2