It’s official! I have a short story collection coming out Nov 3! Pre-orders open now! And look at the gorgeous cover designed in-house by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...

Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that. Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too. clarkesworldmagazine.com

My kid’s dental appointment is actually literally at 2.30 and I feel like we are a punchline to a dad joke

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

Pre-order links now up! This 20 story collection includes originals plus tales that have garnered 13 awards, shortlistings or competition places books2read.com/drowninginth...

I think this is the best thing I have ever written: www.flashfictiononline.com/article/sile...

Gorgeous story by @mktighewrites.bsky.social in @castofwonders.org 💙💙💙

Favourite thing I read this week was this clever and lovely story by @tiatashiro.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com 💙 clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/

Your Daily Dose of #Empathy (myreadinglife.com/2025/07/27/t...) From the other side of climate change. "Through These Moments, Darkly" by @samanthamurray.bsky.social (2025) — 3,610 words (about 15 minutes for the average reader) Published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com issue #223, April 2025.

I'd be honoured if you considered my work for the Ditmar awards: 1) Painted Surfaces, published in @nightmare-magazine.com 2) An Object of Vision, published in Fission #4 3) Feel the Burn, published in Archive of the Odd Links in 🧵

Release date 6th October!!

FFer Read of the Day: "Through These Moments, Darkly" by @samanthamurray.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com clarkesworldmagazine.com/murray_04_25/

BASE GOAL: FULLY FUNDED! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far! BUT we're not done yet! We have some juicy stretch goals just waiting to be unlocked!

Why yes I DID pay the $20 postage and get my favourite cider shipped all the way from TASMANIA instead of continuing to bemoan that they don’t stock it in WA. Because I am an ADULT and I have this POWER (this may be obvious but somehow still came as a surprising revelation to me.) 😋

We're on our way to being funded - but we're not there yet! Tell your friends, signal boost, share awesome reads with folks who love to read💞 fantasy.kit.com/products/fan...

I had my first migraine with aura the other day, complete with bright jagged flashy scintillating shit, where I then temporarily struggled to read properly. SO THAT IS NEW AND FUN

This story gave me goosebumps 🔥

Through These Moments, Darkly, by Samantha Murray in Clarkesworld. Post slow climate apocalypse, we see the relationship between a biologist and a dark physicist. And the portals. The prose is graceful yet maintains the tension like a garrotte. Beautiful and disquieting.

It's publication day for Sour Cherry! I can't thank enough everyone @tinhouse.bsky.social and @wildfirebooks.bsky.social who worked to make this book happen. And now here we are! I hope it finds its readers. 🍒 US: tinhouse.com/book/sour-ch... UK: www.headline.co.uk/titles/natal...

My latest story, “Through These Moments, Darkly” is out in Clarkesworld this month!!! 🤩

HEEEYYY so "The Witch Trap" is a Nebula nominee!!! I am freaking outttt and I'm just so so grateful to everyone who nominated this story of my heart! Thank you to @gavingrant.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social for pulling it out of the slush 💙 (Also HOLY CRAP the entire category is STACKED)

Just read @samanthamurray.bsky.social's short story 'My heart a streak of light across the sky' - and so should you. It's very good.

I’m… just going to leave this here… Asimov’s was where I sent my very first story submission, many years ago. 😭😭😭 Thrilled to make my debut in this magazine, alongside a mate of mine, the excellent @trnapper.bsky.social

Really late on this because we were travelling for most of last month (and also I’m bad at social media ha) but my Strange Horizons story from 2022, “Coming Through in Waves” is now a podcast!!! Narrated beautifully by the amazing @jennahanchey.bsky.social 😍 strangehorizons.com/podcasts/pod...

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

Delighted to have my second audio narration with @strangehorizons.bsky.social out! In this episode, I got to read the fabulous @samanthamurray.bsky.social story "Coming Through in Waves" Hope you enjoy :) strangehorizons.com/podcasts/pod...

Attention, authors and poets! Submissions for our guest-edited issue close after December 11th. If you've been waiting to submit, wait no longer!

Here's my official awards eligibility post, with the links included from there! Thanks as always for reading and considering my work! amandahelms.com/2024/11/14/2...

New story day! @castofwonders.org A health care robot teaches his young charge to dance. CW terminal illness www.castofwonders.org/2024/11/cast...

Good morning

There was @samanthamurray.bsky.social in Small Wonders! @vivianhchou.bsky.social in Uncharted! @chalicotherex.bsky.social in Indie Bites! @angelaliu.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! @samhchung.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social! @avramargariti.bsky.social in Seize the Press! 4/

Ah! I’ve been so stupidly busy I didn’t realise what the date was! I have a little reprint out this month in @smallwondersmag.com! Thrilled to be in this lovely magazine 💜 smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-st...

My new speculative flash roundup with stories from: @khoreo.bsky.social @smallwondersmag.com @flashfrog.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com @Hexliterary.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com @podcastle.org @flashfictiononline.bsky.social @radonjournal.bsky.social & Ilanot Review #sffh #flashfiction

With Hugo nominations closing this week, it would mean the world to me if you'd consider "The Sound of Children Screaming" for Best Short Story, which appeared in the Locus long list and is a Stoker Award nominee. 💜 www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

IT IS HERE! The FFer "Best Of" list for 2023: 61 works by 36 FFers that appeared on various recommendation lists throughout the SFF-o-sphere. All of your FFer related awards season reading in one handy list! www.fusionfragment.com/2023-best-of/

Ooh, loved this one by @kurellian.bsky.social reactormag.com/evan-a-remai...

Honey I think the dog got into the boa again

Thank you for the beautiful narration @elizachanwrites.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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So there’s a bunch of award reading/nominating going on atm. With that in mind here’s my eligibility list. My faves are “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont” and if you’re reading darker fiction “The Body Remembers.” Thankful for your time and consideration. www.pacornell.com/2023-awards-...

Spider wielding lightning

Lots of stories I’ve loved are on this list. And others to add to my tbr pile. And so happy to find “Somewhere, It’s About to Be Spring” included too. 💜💜

I already told you what I wrote--here are some favorite short works by other people in 2023! marissalingen.com/blog/?p=3886

This excellent 2023 recs list contains works by FFers @aardwyrm.bsky.social, @samanthamurray.bsky.social, @mariness.bsky.social, @christinogle.substack.com, and @jennyrae.bsky.social!

My (belated and hastily constructed) Awards eligibility post 2023! "Somewhere, It's About to be Spring" at Clarkesworld clarkesworldmagazine.com/murray_02_23/ "Four Years Minus Twelve Days" at Lightspeed www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/four... I would be thrilled if people considered either 💜

It’s that time of year where lots of writers are sharing their awards eligibility posts, so here is mine! I had five pieces of original short fiction published this year. ephinygale.com/2023/11/26/m...

Nebula Nominations: I have 4 short stories with links to read them on SFWA's Nebula reading list: Morning Glory (Asimov's) Los Pajaritos (F&SF) Somnambulant (PodCastle) How to Say Goodbye (James Gunn's Ad Astra)

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