Calling all 2SLGBTQIA+ poets! We have a message for you from our poetry editor Jess Cho: “Dear queer poets, PLEASE FUCK ME UP.” If you have something strange, dark, and unrepentantly queer… send it our way! We’re open to submissions right now and we pay $50/poem!

weird hill to die on but friends please, its not Dosahhhh, its Dosa (or Dosai, if you are being formal). Its a quick and sharp word, with a stressed start and a short uh at the end. Please, i beg thee, stop the dosaaaaaaaaah propaganda

OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Universal healthcare and education. Abolish private schools and hospitals. The rich must inhabit the same space as the rest of us. If they are allowed to opt out, we will never see improvement in the quality of public goods

Wealth should have a cap. Once you've made, I dunno, $100 million dollars, that's it. Congratulations, you won Capitalism. You benefitted from society so much, you'll never have a material worry again. We'll name a dog park after you. Everything past that goes into a "social benefit fund."

Just got around to reading this one and I loved it. Excellent choice to end the 4th (or 9th, depending on how you count) year I've spent away from home.

So in the UK, they'll arrest you for supporting Palestine, and now we find they'll also arrest you for supporting those who support Palestine. If you hold a Free Greta sign, will they arrest you for supporting someone who supports those who support Palestine? British Matryoshka doll-ass fascism.

there are characters I love and there are characters whom I want to splice open to climb into the crevices of their brain and never leave

You guys are gonna LOVE THIS STORY ‼️

This story is so good??? This story knows all about the incredibly specific shame of not speaking a language as well as you should, and has something to say about it.

All this to avoid making awards eligibility posts lmao

If you are reading a story from me this year, please consider "To Kill A Language".

all rukman stories slap so very excited to read this one! 👀🤩

Incredibly excited to announce that my story, The Salt and the Cure, will be coming to @lightspeedmagazine.com next February! Its about looking at the question of 'what is even god' and instead asking if you can love someone into god.

Possibly my favorite story I published tis year!

It's the 25th Day of TTL's retrospective and today we've got Wolfmothers by @rukman.bsky.social A story of Angrboða, mother of the monster-brood, and how she seeks companionship after the downfall of Loki.

would someone please buy this book? my publisher and i think it's funny. www.blaft.com/products/con...

one does discover that one has just too fucking much to say about Jane Eyre

Horror

Such a fantastic list! Very happy to see Wolfmothers, published in @translunartl.bsky.social included

More story recs today, combining two of my favorite things: SFF and fiber arts! Stories by @rukman.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @reasie.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @samtasticbooks.com @trailofleaves.bsky.social, Dee Straith medium.com/@katefrancia...

Guess who's back? I took November off from the newsletter, but here we are again. I've got stories from @rukman.bsky.social and Ann LaBlanc as well as a throwback story all the way from January by @lynnesargent.bsky.social howsweetthewords.com/two-fic-tues...

i haven't been religious for almost a decade now but its truly cursed that my goto self soothing music is often devotional hymns lmao

one of the BEST covers!

oh man, @rukman.bsky.social?! @avramargariti.bsky.social!?!!?!? stacked as fuck

need to make an awards eligibility post but one hasn't opened Canva in five-ever....

Incredibly excited to share the cover of Being Aro! Such wonderful stories in here, and among them is Paper Rebellions, my cozy fantasy story where an archivist fights book banning by turning books into dragons!

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

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

So incredibly excited about this line up!

"i loved you, as i could" KATHERINE ARDEN WHY DON"T YOU JUST STAB ME A THOUSAND TIMES INSTEAD

You know what? In the spirit of my post, my friend @ghoulpus.bsky.social's story, "Regina drosera" in Lightspeed, is one of the best things I've read in a while www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros...

I cope with life by throwing myself into new writing projects. Its the greatest source of my joy even when everything else goes to hell

I published a few stories this year but this perhaps is my favorite www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Contract signed, so I'm thrilled to announce my poem, "There are lonely things in the forest" will be coming out with @thedeadlands.com next year. i wrote it because I loved Mary Oliver's Wild Geese so much, so much that it hurt and it kinda spilt over.

Contract signed, so I'm thrilled to announce my poem, "There are lonely things in the forest" will be coming out with @thedeadlands.com next year. i wrote it because I loved Mary Oliver's Wild Geese so much, so much that it hurt and it kinda spilt over.

Hello everyone. Talented artist, reviewer, and beloved member of our community Archita Mittra is going through some really hard times currently. If you can spare a few $ it would make a world of difference ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-archi...

Make that $69 away from reprints, which is very very NICE! AND we're nearing our final backer goal—we're six backers away from a bonus sticker added to all sticker purchases!! Help us get to reprints AND extra stickers? We're so close! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

It's now the 2nd, but that's not a reason to forget to submit to Translunar Travelers Lounge.

Back Apex for strange surreal and incredibly beautiful fiction!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I have been eagerly anticipating the launch of this Kickstarter for SO LONG! Otherside is a speculative fiction magazine dedicated to highlighting the work of queer authors and creators. Please consider pledging! (GO GO GO THEY HAVE BEEN OPEN 46 MINUTES AND ARE 46% FUNDED!)

HI YES WE JUST PASSED $2,000 IN 30 MINUTES?!? THANK YOU SO SO MUCH?????? WE'RE ABOUT 37% FUNDED!!!! AND if we get 6 more backers we unlock 1000 more words per issue due to a lovely anonymous donation!

We are live friends!! Consider supporting Otherside so we can bring you and the world more queer art! Plus, there are wonderful rewards there

My panels for Flights of Foundry are done! its been a wonderful weekend, had lots of fun talking genre, tropics, themes, and queerness with everyone I was fortunate to share a panel with.

Talking about queer art yesterday with @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @granades.com and @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social was incredible

Incredibly excited for this session!

In 20 minutes I'll be chatting about didactic writing with Vajra Chandrasekera, Gregory A. Wilson, Rukman Ragas and Rachel A. Rosen! flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/

(Please pretend this is a graphic) I'm at Flights of Foundry this weekend. Come say hi

First panel down! Big thanks to @mruthrobinson.bsky.social for excellent moderating and @rukman.bsky.social and @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social for great insights.