📣 Romance writers, editors, marketers! The Federation of BC Writers is still seeking presentation proposals for the November romance writing intensive. Get paid to teach a 1 hour class about your favourite sub genre, tropes, structural tips, etc! fbcwadmin.com/presentation...

Seriously, DON’T SELF REJECT! I self-submitted my story “Summer Soup” a couple years ago, and it was included in volume 2! Shoot your shot, be your own biggest cheerleader, you’ve got nothing to lose, etc etc!!!

October should be conference month. We're all missing our friends, so we thought it might be fun to swap some anonymous words of writerly encouragement to support each other & SiWC Send a message: forms.gle/1GRHKDBJz4Ai... Receive a message & support SiWC at the same time: square.link/u/P7tmMvzh

Welcome to our Fall submissions window! Open until 10/31 flashpointsf.com/submissions/

hey, it's Fantasy Friday 🦄 💖 and general subs are currently OPEN!! send us your stories and poems that play with the limitations of borders and be a part of issue 100! ✨ more details on theme and how to submit here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

Details in … well: in the reply to what I’m reposting/quoting:

We are heartbroken to announce that an ongoing labour dispute at our conference hotel has forced us to cancel this year's SiWC for the first time in our 33-year history. We hope to see you at next year's conference, October 23-25, 2026 with master classes on the 21st and 22nd. Reg opens June 3, 2026

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

Hey book-writin’ Augurians! We’ve been informed our Moksha turned itself off over the weekend for novella & novelette submissions 👀 To be honest: we don’t know why or how. But we’re open again, and will be extending the deadline past August 30–more to come! ✨✨✨ Thanks to those who notified us!

Hey, I'm doing drugs and reading subs. If you have something Literary and your process is last minute and chaotic and you missed the window, email it to me or shoot it through our secret TBQ8 Straggler submittable opening. We pay $150.

We are searching for an Acquisitions Editor for University of Alberta Press. The posting is up and the deadline is September 10. This is a rare opportunity: please spread the word. https://bit.ly/3J3rHqS ##UAlberta @abbookpub.bsky.social‬ @cdnpublishers.bsky.social‬ ‪@writersguildab.bsky.social‬

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

I'm hitting the submissions tonight! I'm so happy to see the enthusiastic flood of horror stories already. If you'd like to submit a horror short story, up to 6000 words, our short submission window closes on Aug 11th. Please read submission guidelines closely first ❤️ pseudopod.org/submissions/

Guidelines for Saros #5 have arrived! We open on August 22nd for stories 500-2500 words in length centered on the theme of Sound/Silence. Payment will be $25 CAD for both originals and reprints. The period will stay open until we've collected 111 subs. Full details at sarossf.com/submissions/

📣 Calling all SFF writers... We're now OPEN for submissions of 🌟 Short fiction 🌟 Flash fiction 🌟 Poetry for Augur Issues 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3, AND @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 5! Got a sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, slipstream, or a slice of life story that feels like a warm hug? We want it! 🐉🧚

Today’s the LAST DAY to snag early bird pricing for the best creative writing conference in Canada! Hope to see some of you beautiful wordy weirdos come October in sunny Surrey, BC, or online at the virtual conference.

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words. If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

Early bird pricing for this year’s SiWC ends Thursday. Register now at www.SiWC.ca/registration

👀 We know we said we'd be open in the Fall... But Augur Magazine and @talesfeathers.bsky.social subs are opening on AUGUST 1!!! Peep the subs guidelines ✨ now ✨ 🔗 Link for more info: augursociety.org/submissions/

LAST CHANCE to vote in the 2025 Aurora Awards! If you're already a CSFFA member and haven't voted your favs yet, you STILL CAN until 11:59pm Eastern TONIGHT (Saturday, July 19)! 🔗 Link to vote www.csffa.ca I hope you’ll consider Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 2 for Best Related Work

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

We've also set our themes through the next year, so if you want to draft some poems for me... :D DECEMBER - Alien Celebrations - Sub by Nov 1 MARCH - Weird - Sub by January 1 JUNE - Cozy - Sub by April 1 AUST - Anything Goes - Sub by May 17 Full guidelines www.utopiasciencefiction.com/submit

Get ready for an exciting announcement straight from the horse's mouth! 🎠🐴 The theme for July's flash fiction contest is CAROUSEL! You have until the end of the month to submit! Check out the full submission requirements here: www.patreon.com/posts/july-f...

Apologies for anyone who tried to submit to the DP window and could not. Your Editor In Chief has apparently forgotten what year it was and entered 2024 dates. This has been corrected and the submission page is now open! www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines/

Putting on my Publisher hat, I have an announcement: Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK! It’s not open yet. But while we wait… AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.

Hey! Last chance to grab Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 2 and/or my collection, Seven Against Tomorrow, for just $3 each as part of the Canada Day sale on Kobo. Sale ends tonight (July 2nd) so click now: www.kobo.com/ca/en/search...

🚨 Submissions are OPEN! 🚨 We are open to short stories under 5,000 words, translations under 3,500 words, and flash fiction. We offer $0.10/word. Send in your submissions now! For more details on submissions, please visit our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Our next monthly submissions window for fantastical flash fiction (up to 1,000 words) opens on Tuesday, July 1, at 12:00 a.m. To ensure a timely review process, this specific window will be capped at 100 manuscripts. fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis...

14) Obscurity is a blessing. Don’t ever think otherwise.

It's almost July, friends, which means: PodCastle will soon be OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS! General subs call, so: fantasy stories <6k, originals or reprints. You can send one of each at a time, and submit as soon as you're rejected, so get sending! escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...

New special call for July!! 🎉 The theme is REGRET. Stories selected will be featured in our Jan 2026 issue, guest edited by Ai Jiang ( @aijiang.bsky.social ) You can find all the details on our Submittable page: ffo.submittable.com/submit #writingcommunity #flashfiction

One week from today, all of us here at SiWC Central will be glued to our computers as people register on opening day. We're SO excited!

Heads up if you want to submit to TBQ8, we're closing the 31st! You got about 9 days left to shoot us something to consider for the most prestigious literary magazine of all time!

The Fabulist's next submissions window for short (up to 1,000 words) fantastical fiction opens June 3-4 ... please review our submissions guidelines for more details: fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis...

A favorite revision trick that almost always brings a dull scene to better life: transform anything the protagonist thinks into something they say aloud and then just write what happens next.

Pspspspsps (wait, is that the sound you make when you're whispering secrets or when you are talking to a cat) Diabolical Plots is tentatively planning to open for submissions from July 7-21, 2025. PS cats are welcome to submit, we hold them to the same standards as humam writers, so no AI

Our 2025 master class and conference workshop and panel schedule are now up on our website. We are so excited about this year's conference and can't wait for October! www.siwc.ca Registration opens Wednesday, June 4, at noon Pacific. Hope to see you there.

Goblins and Galaxies opens for submissions today! See the guidelines here: bit.ly/4i2c9QR

Fascinating 🧵 about illustrating and the anatomical heart:

We are open to submissions! Send us your best and brightest (or darkest) flash fiction: flashpointsf.com/submissions/

It's a new day, a new month, and we continue to seek joy. Announcing the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, coming November. Details: bio.site/bestweirdfic...

Okay, it's come out in the @barrelhouse.bsky.social newsletter, so it's official: We're opening for print submissions (fiction, nonfiction, poetry) on May 30 Peruse general submission info here and get ya s#*+ ready, y'all: www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-i...

Walpurgisnacht again, and as is traditional, the submission window for Hellarkey V.4 yawns wide as a grave! Myself, @ossuary.bsky.social, and @renbolger.bsky.social are your editors, and the printing presses of @malarkeybooks.bsky.social are ready! Here's the details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Our new monthly submissions window for speculative flash fiction opens IN ONE WEEK, May 6–7, and recurs each first Tuesday and Wednesday of the month. We look forward to reading your fantastical flights! fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis... #opencall #flashfiction #fantasy #sciencefiction

Submissions for our Afrosurrealist Special Issue are open now until April 30th for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction! Find out more about what the editors are looking for and the link to submit in the Call for Submissions at the link in our bio!

Update! We will be closing to submissions on April 30, 2025. Right now, we have 1,000 submissions pending, so we are going to close while we get caught up. We will re-open once we have gotten through our pile. Thank you to all the strange authors that have trusted us with your work.

Hey look at me I've been here for years and I still have zero books out. You can just be a writer! No qualifications! No clue what you're doing! Just making things and telling other people about it all day who barely care! That's all I do!

me, reading dark academia: these kids are not nearly depressed enough.