Check out this week’s featured story, “World Hunger” by Mark Manifesto, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140483

Check out this week’s featured story, “The Poisoner” by Amber Velez, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140401

Contract signed! 🥳 My short story "How to Reset the Timeline in Three Easy Steps" will appear in the winter issue of The Colored Lens. ( @thecoloredlens.bsky.social ) Can't wait to share it with you all. :) #WritingCommunity

Check out our latest featured story, “Fish, Fog and the Sea” by Nora Schinnerl, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140392

Check out this week’s featured story, “The Meaning of Baskets” by Katie Gray, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140390

Check out this week’s featured story, “Tick” by Mark Manifesto, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140385

Check out this week’s featured story, “The Conspirators” by Travis Lee, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140382

Today's listing of the day is: The Colored Lens: Speculative Fiction Magazine @thecoloredlens.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Check out our latest featured story, “Give the Algorithm What it Wants” by J. R. Dewitt, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140378

Check out this week’s featured story, “Paradox Lost” by Hec Lampert-Bates, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140375

Check out this week’s featured story, “Spoons” by Adria Bailton, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140366

Check out this week’s featured story, “Parlor Tricks” by Laine Perez, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140364

Exciting news!! I'm going to be published in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Colored Lens! This is the first time I'll have been published in an actual print magazine (if they keep doing physical zines by then!) Thanks @thecoloredlens.bsky.social for choosing my story. #writingcommunity #writersky

Check out this week’s featured story, “Always by Your Side” by Anthony Regolino, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140359

Check out this week’s featured story, La Cumparsita by Aster Loxley, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140357

Check out this week’s featured story, “Dog Catching” by Samantha Balliet, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140355

Check out this week’s featured story, “Dial Tone” by Shiloh Miller, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140353

Check out this week’s featured story, “Thanks, Nostradamus” by Scott Colby, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140351

Check out this week’s featured story, She Came Down From the Sky, by J.E. Schleicher, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140348

Check out “Paper Brush Stick Stone” by Sophia Zhao, in our newest issue, available here! www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1TV54JL

Check out our newest story, The Rules of Divining Lentils with Tweezers, by DLC Hanson, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140346

My story The Ghost Merchant is out this week in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social If you want a dark fantasy story about a shop that sells ghosts to haunt mansions, and an apprentices first day as he realises what that entails, then this is the story for you!

Check out this snippet from “BEWARE OF THE GOBLIN GIRLS” by Tunvey Mou, featured in our spring issue! Available here! www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...

Check out this week’s featured story, Paradise Found by David Whitmarsh, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140344

It's out! Our Spring 2025 issue of The Colored Lens is now available exclusively on Amazon. Do you have your copy? Get it now! www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...

Check out this week’s featured story, Maybe We Can Be Just Two People Talking, by Salena Casha, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140342

My short story "The Ace of Rules" which may or may not (ahem) be based on real life experiences is free to read on @thecoloredlens.bsky.social at thecoloredlens.com . (If you want to know more about what really happened... well too bad... :-P

Check out "The Ace of Rules" by S.L. Johnson, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140340

First Readers – TCL is looking for volunteers The Colored Lens is looking for a First Reader to join our team. Working as a First Reader gives you excellent insights into the editorial process. For further information on how to apply, visit thecoloredlens.com?p=137374

@eunoiareview.bsky.social @oneart.bsky.social @intrepidusink.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @havehashad.com @alocasiamag.bsky.social @thecoloredlens.bsky.social @neologismpoetry.bsky.social @trampset.bsky.social

Check it out! My story, Openminded, about how one-way thought sharing affects a relationship, is in the latest issue of The Colored Lens. Thank you to The Colored Lens for sharing this story with the world!

My physical copy of the latest issue of @thecoloredlens.bsky.social has come in, with my story "The Buried House" in print! Ridiculously pleased that my name is on the cover right next to a dragon. And above a viking with sled dogs. Sick as hell

Very honored for my story "The Buried House" to be in this issue with a group of great writers!

Beyond excited for the first TCL of 2025 and also the first issue I got to vote on all the stories :) #booksky #writingcommunity #bookrecs #sff #scifi #fantasy

The Colored Lens Winter 2025 issue is available RIGHT NOW! Do you have your copy yet? Pick it up in paperback OR Kindle electronic version right here on Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS8VCW35 #booksky #books #kindleUnlimited #scifi #SFF #fantasy #WritingCommunity

Wow - great stories in the latest issue of The Colored Lens: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS8VCW35 I'm also impressed by the cover design Support speculate writers + short story publishing & get your copy today 😁 #writingCommunity #fiction #writer #scifi #book @thecoloredlens.bsky.social

a 2024 #AwardsEligibility post -or- an excuse to post about stories that got published before I was on bsky "Crop Circles in the Carpet" is in @fusionfragment.bsky.social 21: www.fusionfragment.com/issue-21/ "La Cumparsita" is in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social summer '24: www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9GLX5M8

White House NPR correspondent Scott Detrow interviews our friend Ted, the "newest recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story" for All Things Considered: www.npr.org/2024/12/07/n...

We’re in the final stages of reading for the Spring 2025 issue. If you’ve been sitting on an epic space opera story, now is the time to submit! thecoloredlens.com?page_id=137752 #sff #writingcommunity #scifi #spaceopera #sffwriters

Massive thanks to @thecoloredlens.bsky.social for nominating my kooky story for the @pushcartprize.bsky.social - much appreciated! And big congrats to the other nominees. #writingcommunity

The fluffiest (in multiple ways!) story I have ever written 👇👇👇

The days are getting shorter, the evenings darker, so we’d love to share this wonderful cozy fantasy “Fiona and the Fairy Queen” by A.P. Golub to brighten up your day! thecoloredlens.com?p=140248 #SFF #storyrecs #fantasy #cozy #writingcommunity

I’d love to build a community here on Bluesky- so please help me build this list! go.bsky.app/Jm58kNg

🍃🍂🍁 If you like your cozy fantasy with a twist of anarchy, check out my TCL Autumn issue personal favorite “The Meaning of Baskets” by Katie Gray #kindleUnlimited #SFF #bookrecs #fantasy #BookLovers

Sounds exciting! 🍂✨ Can't wait to dive into those stories! Autumn is the perfect time for cozy reads. What’s your top pick? 📚 #SFF #BookLovers

Some amazing stories in our Autumn issue! #scifi #fantasy #sff #writingcommunity #bluebooks #booksky

We hope your attention batteries are charged to the maximum, because part 2 of "Old People’s Folly" by Nora Schinnerl is available to experience now! If anyone fell off the cliff while awaiting for the cliffhanger to resolve, rescue services are available.

Happy weekend, because *someone* forgot to post this earlier! This week we have the first of a two-parter for your sensory organs: "Old People’s Folly" by Nora Schinnerl. Check it out!

Honored and excited to have a story accepted by The Colored Lens! 😆 This little story has been rejected 20+ times, almost half of those Rs being after a hold… so happy it has finally found a home!

Pleased to announce that my science-fantasy story "Reflections on Discord" will be appearing in the forthcoming winter issue of The Colored Lens. Parallel worlds, living reflections, and an abandoned ancient city. More soon. thecoloredlens.com