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Little update on Saros #5: I've read all 111 submissions and (with great difficulty, given that I'm only able to accept 8 stories and there were definitely more than 8 real good ones in that stack) whittled them down to a shortlist of 11. Hoping to make final decisions in the next week or so!

It's October! Hurrah! I've specially curated 5 of our spookier titles, and discounted the eBooks to just $2. Grab a couple, or all 5 for $10. It's your choice. @seanbirnie.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social undertowpublications.com/ebooks

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! ...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year. Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025. All the deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

going to start using the equivalent of “a writer’s writer” for everything—“an abyss’s abyss,” “the twins’ twins,” “the absolute fucker’s absolute fucker”

september 30 / october 1

My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and-- itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/09/shor...

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Year's Best Canadian F&SF TOC is out, and it contains Sophie Gazarian's FF#22 story "The World In Our Hands"! Plus work by so many FFers: @drfionamoore.bsky.social @thesuiway.bsky.social @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social @tiffmorris.bsky.social @pbarmby.bsky.social! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-22/

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

Yessss love to share a table of contents with the cool kids!

24 hours remain on late pledges. Help us hit our stretch goal and unlock another issue of 3LBE in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

I hear people are talking about more short story collections. Yes, hello, I would like more collections by @seanbirnie.bsky.social, @casskhaw.bsky.social, @acwise.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social, @stevetoase.bsky.social, @sillysyntax.bsky.social, and many others not on Bsky please and thank you 🖤

I love Suzan's short story collection! It is so beautiful.

It means so much to me to share that Green Fuse Burning won the Indie Ink Writing the Future We Need Award for Indigenous Representation by an Indigenous Author!!! 💚🌿

See also (this song is so good it just levels me): youtu.be/NTpiadDuA5o

If there is a live album/concert film lovelier than John Cale's Fragments of a Rainy Season, I can't imagine what such an album might be. youtu.be/yjhEMGMf5_Y

Here's Gretchen Felker Martin's original essay that appeared in the back of COME INTO ME #2. She's a phenomenal writer and you should absolutely read her work.

MIDNIGHT ROOMS by @okokno.bsky.social is perhaps the most perfect book to read when you can't sleep for several nights in a row and you're already in a bit of an end-of-summer haze. Such a strange, lovely, terrifying dream state of a book. I hadn't read it before but am sure I will again.

Happy 1 year to my novella, Countess. Thank you to everyone who has spent even a moment with my rebellious Virika. You all have given this book a life beyond what I expected. It is a book about this very moment we are living through, and if art is an act of resistance, it is the rock I have thrown🖤💜

Oh my god you guys they have less than three days and still like a whole bunch to go. It’s going to be so sad if another press is forced to shut down. There are so many other things that are fucking with art right now can we please not keep losing places that give us good stories?

She is done. No more last looks. No more polish. No more what if I added this or that. She is proofread, revised, edited and all shined up. I am euphoric. This is a high I have not experienced before. I wrote a fucking Trinidadian lesbian gothic banger. Dear publishers come get her. 😃 💥💥💥💥

Slightly diminish a book: Moderate Expectations

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We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

We have such sights to show you! Very excited for 2026, but we must reach our funding goal in one week to do so. Incredible authors already writing new stories of relentless monsters, uncanny places, terrifying discoveries. Thank you, 90 backers so far! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Hellllooooo from the static! It is fundraising season for many spec mags out there. We are doing things a little differently with a small gofundme to help us into 2026. We are already at $2 and just need a little boost to help us to our goal of $2400 👻 www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

Update: We're up to 103 out of 111 submissions. If you were thinking of sending something in, now might be a good time!

This makes me wish I could read a lot more Spanish (maybe I'll work on that)! Love to see a new SFF magazine come into the world. So cool.

Oh, I love this!

Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1

Submissions for Saros #5 are really rolling in! 40 spots left in the queue--if you were thinking of submitting something to this issue, soon might be a good time...

Oh, really? undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would...

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So delighted by all the submissions rolling in for Saros #5! It's a lot of fun to find out how many different ways you're all finding to interpret my theme of Sound/Silence. Some really phenomenal work in the queue; it is *not* going to be easy to whittle all these wild stories down to a shortlist.

Turns out developing harp calluses is no joke. My poor little fingers! But also: Not sure I've ever enjoyed learning anything this much before in my whole life. Now I need *so much money* to buy a real harp.

In FF#25, reviewer @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social digs deep into the archives and recommends stories by Marge Simon, Bruce Holland Rogers, Alex Dally MacFarlane, and @kellybarnhill.bsky.social from issues of Sybil's Garage, edited by @matthewkressel.net. www.fusionfragment.com/issue-25/

If you like your #ghost stories dark, scary, and full of sharp social commentary, read our Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology Why Didn't You Just Leave. This weekend, we're offering the ebook for free. It's best to read it right before bed. #booksky 👻 dl.bookfunnel.com/tg9np8e7ap

....😳...🥹...🥰... Send me your weirdest stories now, please, while I'm riding this unexpected and delightful high!

Weird Horror is still open until filled. I've had 494 submissions. 102 are unread. 6 are being held. 3 have been accepted. It takes 2 minutes to read the guidelines. Please adhere to them: www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/submit

We're at 36 of 111!

Saros #5 is open for submissions! Send us your 500-2,500 word fiction themed around sound(s), silence(s), and the spectrum in between: Music, speech, singing, unbearable (enticing?) noise(s), and/or auditory nothingness.

The full thread of Saros #5 editor @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social's fave story vibes! Saros #5 opens for submissions tomorrow right here: sarossf.com/submissions/

Oh, yes, please do send me stories that will make me feel precisely as uncomfortable as @seanbirnie.bsky.social does with this one. I want you to.

And *definitely* send me stories as purely weird and alien(at-ed/ing) as this one. Yes please.

We need MORE people like @tiffmorris.bsky.social and more Indigenous writers, and so when genre spaces and institutions do things like the way they have promoted a most recent 'big con' and erase over Indigenous folks, show a lack of care, or overt harassment, it is not right!!

And *definitely* send me stories as purely weird and alien(at-ed/ing) as this one. Yes please.

"in flashes of bright plumage- days measured in rustling phantoms" —Tiffany Morris :: “saguaro, at sunset” alocasia.org/2025/08/15/t...