🚨 Prize increase alert! 🚨 We have enough sign-ups to bump up what you can win in Ember's First Contest! 1st: US$225 (from $200) 2nd: US$200 (from $175) 3rd: US$175 (from $150) 3 honorable mentions: US $65 each (from $50) If we get more before registration closes on Thursday, we'll do it again!

Best rats in the business!

⚔️Enjoy this pic-heavy update featuring our advance copies of the new issues: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... Pre-Order them here: new-edge-sword-sorcery-2025.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... 📚

It hasn't even been 2 hours from the LAST post about reaching backer goals but WE'VE HIT 100 BACKERS!! THAT'S ANOTHER 1000 WORDS/ISSUE!! We're also VERY close to reaching our base funding goal. As in LESS THAN $700 TO GET FUNDED!! Help us get there? 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Ratty and his Rat Pack of editors are SO EXCITED to say that submissions to Rat Bag Lit are NOW OPEN 🐀📝 The rats look forward to reading your work! Please take a look at our submission guidelines on the site. We want your weird fiction, but remember - we're rats, not heathens. We do have SOME rules.

Some fun news: our website is no longer a placeholder! If you want to read our submission guidelines, or just want to learn more about OTHERSIDE’s vision and team, go check it out! Ash did such a kickass job—the website is gorgeous and we are SO thrilled for it to be live!

Winners Flying In! Find the winners of the 2025 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize on the Pulp Lit blog... pulpliterature.com/congratulati...