It’s another Onomastics Corner for “Songbook for the Jovian Resistance,” out today in @smallwondersmag.com ☄️ smallwondersmag.com/piece/songbo...

I rarely weigh in on things outside of my writing bubble, but Jay's a great short spec fic reviewer w/high volume, consistent coverage that isn't in a mag/column. Extremely hard to find blogs like it. Def check out his work if you're curious about the latest in short SFF. www.tarvolon.com

I got to read an early iteration of this story and immediately knew it was something special. Another one by my powerhouse of a friend Anna Clark. Go read it you won't regret it. #newstory #shortstory #sff

This is one of my favorite pieces as well! Such a raw, beautiful, truthful story. Frankly, I consider it required reading, especially now. Take some time today and read it. You won't regret it.

Eligibility post: I’m Hugo-eligible for Best Fan Writer for my blogging at Tar Vol On and work facilitating discussion for the Hugo Readalong and Short Fiction Book Club 🧵

There's nothing quite like the experience of having a writer friend whose writing you love say nice things about your own writing.

Things are shit, but I painted a seal in a shell for a friend's birthday.

Times like this make me feel very small, even from my currently safe distance. This is wrong.

This is my favourite story I've written.

I'm on a reading spree. This is the first time in forever that I've been on holiday with nothing else to do while recovering from a virus. Recommendations! I've read half of the current issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, and it's a really strong collection.

This is my favourite story I've written.

A beautiful story of a well-worn relationship finding new rhythms!

I am emerging from my cold, I worked on a few revisions, and I have a story out that I'm proud of. And it's sunny!

🎊 Happy New Year! 🎊 Phano has three brand new short stories, free to read here: www.phano.co - “The End of the Line” by Anna Clark - “The End of Everything, the Beginning of Something” by Peter Barretta - “Symbiosis” by Catherine Tavares Also... 🎂 Happy Birthday Phano - Proud of you! 🎂

Happy New Year! Come check out my latest sci-fi short "Symbiosis"

New story day!!! I can’t even tell you how much this one means to me. It’s the first short story I wrote, the story of my heart. I’ll find better words later, but… for now I will just say thank you to GNS for giving this one a home, and thank you to anyone who takes the time to read it, too. 🖤

I just read "Full Five Fathoms" by @prioryruins.bsky.social I can't recommend it enough. I has grief and friendship, descriptions of fish I know and a place I've been, and oh-so-gorgeous writing.

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

A poignant start to the year, well worth the read.

Congratulations, everyone. You made it.

December Speculative Flash Roundup! Some truly phenomenal stories this month, and a bonus craft article!

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN NOVEMBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's October's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

"Tuesday", my most recent short story, is available for free, and I'd be eternally grateful if you read it and considered it for any awards you're able to nominate stories for: smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/

Considering this is the year I got diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and broke my ankle, I guess it's appropriate I'm finishing it up as personified snot. (I am feeling overly sorry for myself.)

While I'm on the topic of AI, I hate how I now hesitate when I revise a clunky sentence in my work, wondering if I'm erasing a signature of my humanity. Right, now I'm done with the topic.

If you're a new writer feeling demoralised by the encroachment of AI into an art form you haven't had the chance to get good at, please keep writing. Push through the ugly part of making and learning (it is necessary). Share your authentic voice so someone can know you and not the machine.

This is great, "Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death," a story where Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who administers the lottery from "The Lottery" archiveofourown.org/works/733964...

Holiday week done. I saw my parents and caught the plague from my parents. I participated in the kayak club Christmas relay, which is absolute bloodsport, and survived mostly dry. I did no writing but read a fair bit - a few shorts and Diana Wynne Jones.

Holiday watching with family has consisted of the new Knives Out and Wallace and Gromit. These were selected to fit everyone's tolerances, but they're also genuinely good fun.

Well, speaking of the Nebulas, I can assure you no part of this story was created using AI. In fact, it’s inspired by my utter disgust of AI-generated art. I wrote is as an F-you to this whole shoehorning of AI in art. Give it a read if any of that speaks to you. #fuckai

I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/

Just finished "The Year of the Griffin" by Diana Wynne Jones (one of hers I hadn't read before). I love how effortlessly it escalates. Of course the irate royal parents/family of the main characters would turn up on the campus right when they've just tried to reach the moon (and overshot).

My 2025 Recommended Reading List is finally ready! Honestly, just writing these descriptions made me excited about this year's sci-fi/fantasy all over again. www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/18/t...

ICYMI Shedding has been nominated for Best Small Fiction 2026! 🥹 Thanks to the amazing EIC Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social Read this mag for great stories! Here's Shedding for a short break: fictivedream.com/2025/09/29/m... Keep #writing y'all! 💪💖 #5amwritersclub #writerslife #speculative

Super excited to see @cypayseur.bsky.social recommend my teleportation story “Dislocated”! Read that and Charles’s other reviews at locusmag.com/review/flash... and my story at www.flashfictiononline.com/article/disl...

My story was recommended in Locus by Charles Payseur! On a page with other amazing stories! I am unbelievable happy.

I've signed and confirmed this. Please do the same!

A love letter to public libraries: I'm in a new town waiting for my girlfriend to finish work. I have three bags I need to finish work too. The public library here is beautiful and has a community area and computer area both in solid use and loads of books and a free coffee machine ❤️ more of this!

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

I endorse these stories. They are very good and should definitely be read. My personal favourite is Bone-Eater Earth, which is the perfect melding of concept and character voice, in my view. The others will break your heat in the best way.

With the Nebula and BSFA nominations open, I’d be honored if you’d consider my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. It's a story of friendship, love, and fireflies✨🪲 clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/

In light of today's episode of lunchtime politics, there haven't been over 50,000 stabbings recorded in the UK last year. We don't track 'stabbings'. There is a record of offences involving a knife or sharp object - a broad category. A more relevant statistic might be NHS admissions: 3500.

Just read this phenomenal story by @slashnburnett.bsky.social: mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-... It features food as a sensory metaphor for generational trauma and is heartbreakingly rendered, with just the right touch of hope at the end.

New eco horror story! About a subject that's close to my heart (and my rage): aedeakin.substack.com/p/plastic-tr...

My words are projected onto the side of Freo Ports building as part of a series with other amazing local writers for a literary festival! 🥹 Catch @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social and @belindarowe.bsky.social too! (Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!) #totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic

Coming spring 2026!

Oooo, this one rings a bell for those of us still looking for ourselves. Be careful, it may leave you cackling at the end. Wonderful piece by @annaclark.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l... #speculative #flashfiction #shortstory #specfic

I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

New story! This one comes particularly from past worries about authenticity when doing the very natural thing of adapting behaviours around different people, taken to the extreme.

I always read @annaclark.bsky.social’s prose with a magnifier, to see every tiny touch, sentence by sentence. And this one is fantastic! And what a first sentence to begin a story: Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.