details! this was a very fun project, showing the ship gradually get more complete across the image.

And for the US evening/international crowd... we are 80% of the way to funding [RECORDED]! 👀📽️📚 We open for submissions on Monday! Can we reach the finish line by then???? It's gonna be such a kickass anthology and I so badly wanna buy MANY STORIES for it! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

If you ever got to the point where somebody like an editor says this actually kind of sucks, you'll be so lucky, so just write whatever you want

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle…

This anthology is still one of my proudest accomplishments and full of some of the best spec fic writers I know. And there's never a bad time for self-reinvention. linktr.ee/newyearnewyounewstories books2read.com/newyearnewyo...

Doing my faculty lecture this morning. Talking about sagging middles. It’ll be fun. Here’s my second slide.

May her memory be a blessing.

THE ONLY DATA CENTERS WE NEED TO BUILD ARE LIBRARIES!!! SHIRT AVALABLE AT dashare.zone ALONG WITH TANK TOP'S, HOODYS ETC - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

I’m auctioning off an AMA and a personal query critique (live on zoom!) for the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social fundraiser. Come bid! www.32auctions.com/organization...

HUGE congrats to @mariahaskins.com for her @theignyteawards.bsky.social nomination! She has graciously rec'd/rvwed TWO of my stories for which I am still deeply grateful. Mother, Darling Review: locusmag.com/review/fiyah... Cryptid Car Rental Rec! maria-is-reading.blogspot.com/2024/10/my-s...

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Posting for the morning crowd! Would love to hear about how you get the word out about your stories, whether you're an author or a magazine editor. Feel free to drop thoughts in the comments or shoot me a DM!

I'm writing an issue of my newsletter pottern.substack.com (still lives there, atm) on marketing short stories and I'd love to hear from short story publications & short fiction writers: What, if any, marketing do you do for your stories? How do readers find them? What do you find moves the needle?

SO many incredible writers & magazines up for the @theignyteawards.bsky.social! These folks especially put so much effort into keeping the SFF community informed & providing safe spaces. Special shout out to @strangehorizons.bsky.social for taking a chance on my Peter Pan novelette about motherhood💜

FINAL CALL! CLOSING TODAY! Enter now to the Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Artists and Writers! No submission fees No rights encumbered 1st Place: $1500 (the art contest’s prize money as part of the Monu Bose Memorial Prize) 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 1/2

And finally, a survey of orgs, mags, and other entities focused on speculative fiction, to determine where need might be greatest to help the field stay alive, whether it be through funding, outreach, or anything else. The survey is open thru 6/29. #2026IgnyteAwards airtable.com/appOgisruufu...

Exciting news! ARB has updated our polices & procedures to reflect our upcoming rates, possible thanks to our Patreon supporters and everyone who donated for our first annual fundraiser.

Congrats to the 2025 Stoker Award winners! file770.com/2025-bram-st... Congrats @stephengrahamjones.com (who also won a Nebula for THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER) @tananarivedue.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @delilahsdawson.bsky.social @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social and all the winners

Just spent over a tenner on a baguette & can of coke, so feeling pretty good about what you we give you for less in our current issue tbh (mind you it was a good sandwich, support local boulangers yo!) Anyway, Wyrd Science - dogshit social media video content, great print magazine wyrd.science

Anyway there are still publishers who edit, and my advice to anyone being offered ✨debut✨ publication is to ignore the parts about sprayed edges and look very hard at your proposed editor's current reputation with their current authors. Because you want editing more than you want pink foil.

A new funny, heartfelt, weird-formatty story has struck me like lightning today so while I'm drafting, please enjoy my OG funny, heartfelt, weird-formatty story! Just a perfectly normal travel forum thread about a definitely-not-demonic car rental agency. magazine.trollbreath.com/cryptid-car-...

I sure do! Here's the Queer Editors starter pack. bsky.app/starter-pack... And there's also @lgbtqeditors.bsky.social. (The org doesn't have a directory yet, but hopefully it will soon.) #StetChat

Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

📢 Hey friends and fiends! 📢 I'm (finally) working on the 2026 Queer SFF Book list and I want to make sure I don't miss YOUR book! So if you have a adult SFF book coming out this year (2026) that has a queer MC, please take this opportunity to SHOUT IT OUT in the comments or QTs!! 📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜📚

Hope your path today leads you somewhere magical (or at least eventually with donuts)

A new funny, heartfelt, weird-formatty story has struck me like lightning today so while I'm drafting, please enjoy my OG funny, heartfelt, weird-formatty story! Just a perfectly normal travel forum thread about a definitely-not-demonic car rental agency. magazine.trollbreath.com/cryptid-car-...

At 30%!! Can we get to the halfway point today? 👀📽️ #crowdfund #BackerKit #SFFH #anthology 💙📚 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Going off road. #comicsky #webcomic #comic

Happy Pride!! I'm taking part in the Pride Book Fair again and we've got 4 awesome bundles full of fantastic queer books. From now until June 8! Shadows Dark and Deadly is in Live Free or Pride Hard ^_^ 🌈📚🌈💜🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ itch.io/b/3677/pride...

MOON’S WINDOW (2007) Acrylic on Panel - 7” X 5” This window was suggested by shapes at the Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire England. (Nothing to do with the painting, but Whitby is where Count Dracula landed when he arrived in England...) 1/3

LAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!

oh HELL yes

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it

1 more week to apply! ❤️❤️❤️

The Strange Horizons Kickstarter to fund 2027 will begin on Sunday, 7 June, 2026! This is a critical time for SFF publications when the existence of venues publishing short speculative fiction, poetry and non-fiction is sometimes uncertain. We hope that you will keep us publishing for another year!

HUGE congrats to @joybaglio.bsky.social on winning a Pushcart! I know what a journey it has been to get this story in the right state and the right hands for publication, and this prize is so justly deserved. ❤️

24 hours left! 🥹 THANK YOU to everyone who helped us reach our goal! ✨ With the finish line behind us, we still have time to reach our stretch goals—and you can get some merch while you’re at it! Again, from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU! 💜

📣 New novel announcement: ANNA DREAMS OF A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY is coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2028. When people ask what it's about, I say it's like SOUR CHERRY, except the haunted house is Greece, and Bluebeard is fascism. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊ Keep writing your queer, trans, antifascist books, friends.

Congratulations to all the Locus Awards Winners! 🎉🚀 locusmag.com/2026/05/2026...

We're opening applications for volunteer editorial readers at Gavagai! If you love discovering new voices, thinking critically about fiction, and contributing to a growing literary community, we'd love to hear from you. More details and application information available here: gavagai.com/careers

Sneaking this announcement out before the weekend: We are pleased to announce the ToC and share the cover for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 326: Don't let the fear of rejection stand in your way. Every author you have ever admired has been rejected many times. It's not a mark of shame: it's a sign that you dared to put yourself out there. Most people never do.

(sound on for full effect) Chapman State Park near Clarendon, PA is home to Chapman Lake, which is home to a group of energetic North American river otters (Lontra canadensis) that like to host a midnight rave / leaf frolic. Not sure where they plug the speakers in.

"...the central question of this layered novella, rife with forgeries, clones, replicants and replicas, mycelium-reanimated-life forms, and at least one hive-minded alien race: where and how do we draw the line between original and copy?" My first review for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org is live!

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Sometimes, when the ghosts speak, we have to listen. The Ghastling, Book 23, available now: theghastling.com/the-ghastlin...

Writers, it's the time of year when 'Best Of's' and award noms are announced. There is a lot of great work being done, a lot falling through the cracks and going unrecognized. It's inevitable. It's validation enough that you created something and put it out there. Ignore the din and keep writing.

Hey folks, I'm looking at hosting alternatives to Substack. My newsletter has ~700 subscribers and is free (I plan to mostly keep in that way) which is why I've stayed — they have lots of resources for a free service. But like, also they been shady for a while. What are you using? What do you love?

Hey folks, I'm looking at hosting alternatives to Substack. My newsletter has ~700 subscribers and is free (I plan to mostly keep in that way) which is why I've stayed — they have lots of resources for a free service. But like, also they been shady for a while. What are you using? What do you love?

There's a situation unfolding in the land of online bookselling that I haven't discussed primarily because I have little information to share. An unknown company is making multi-volume purchases, and when I say multi-, I mean some of us have been getting 500 orders a week. For REALLY random books.