New Suzan Palumbo story = the good news I needed today! As always, a gorgeous and moving piece of prose from a writer who just keeps getting better and better and better. This one unfurls with such a delicate touch that almost belies how affecting it is in the end 🖤

I am so beyond emotional right now, because my @khoreo.bsky.social non-fiction essay about the importance of Greek and BIPOC voices in Greek myth adaptations, the angriest thing I’ve ever written, has been longlisted in the Best Short Non Fiction category in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards.

Do I know any scientists based in Antarctica? Or who can put me in touch with someone? Reposts gratefully accepted!

anything and everything by Naoko Ogigami but especially Kamome Shokudo (my favourite of many years), Rent-a-Neko (an incredible laughing-crying film), and Riverside Mukoritta (maybe my actual favourite now holy **** what a film)

I know things are frightening right now, but don't forget to share people's art alongside all the news! I feel like I haven't seen much of the writing community getting traction on the TL lately but art has never been more important

I really love this story. It's devastating.

We're putting together a mailing list for short fiction reviewers and critics to get review copies of the magazine. So if you're a short fiction reviewer - first off you're doing the lord's work - but also email me at [email protected] and I'll add you to our shiny new reviewers list.

THREAD: Some "state-of-the-mag" updates for Fusion Fragment now that 2025 is in the books. And don't worry--no negative news to share! Just wanted to share for the sake of transparency, celebrate, and get the table all set for 2026! 1/

The haunt begins today.

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - NOVEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 15 stories by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @sarahpinsker.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @yoakeim.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @authorizedmusings.bsky.social & MANY MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/147084...

oh wow I would probably buy a book just for cover art this glorious

We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry. Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)

I think about the meat bag story alllllllll the time :(

For someone who doesnt want to use AI-loving Duolingo, are there any similar (free) apps for learning languages? I (sadly) do like the gamified learning and don't mind ads. My main goal is learning words for reading, less so for speaking.

Day=made. Is there anything better, for a writer, than finding out that writers you greatly admire have read--and liked--your writing? (If you haven't yet been exposed to the wonderful emotional/ existential devastation of a Joe Koch story, here's a good one: www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/t...)

Strange Horizons is still open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors! More info about this submission window: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... Submission guidelines: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... We look forward to reading your stories!

This is a very good anthology.

So intensely pleased for my horrible lil deer gore anxiety nightmare to be included in a zine from perhaps my very favourite small indie publisher of them all! I am very very very excited to read the rest of the FLESH zine and also--especially --GORE POETICS!!!

I have a short story collection ready to submit. I have a list, but curious if anyone has favorite presses (who accepted unsolicited subs) for speculative horror 👀

Delighted that Heartlines chose to release this piece just as snow is finally starting to fall along my stretch of coast ❄️

A week ago we released Issue 9! We’ve been shining a light on the stories, poetry, and essays within the issue but now we want to highlight @itsbabypears.bsky.social gorgeous cover art. You might have noticed that we’ve been shifting our covers to be inspired by Canada’s provinces and territories🍁

Well, now I know what every penny I make from selling stories for the forseeable future is going toward. I cannot get over how cool this is and I will not rest until I have one. I love the harp I have but it doesn't have levers that let you bend notes (!) and I need to do that. www.harp-e.com/en-ca

Was not expecting this to put such a face-hurting smile on me. Magical. youtu.be/jjuorGiEUS4

Got the ebook, just read the first story, now I'm on here to say this is a *great* opportunity to support a very worthy cause while treating yourself to some !!!!!!!!!!!!!! writing. Also my god it is such a baller move to have a whole book out you only occasionally make available. So tantalizing.

We’re so honoured to be BACK as an Ontario Arts Council Recommender for grants this year! 🎊 We’re interested in receiving applications for various lengths of SFF & dreamy realism projects, including: ⭐️ fiction ⭐️ poetry ⭐️ short fiction

Whoof, brutal day in publishing news. I was so proud to have a few little essays published on the Psychopomp blog before my brain broke too badly to keep writing them, and I'm sad to see Sean & co. having to scale back operations now. A lot of beautiful words came into view through this endeavour 🖤

oh yes the abyssal plain awaits you

Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread? Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.

This is very exciting to me.

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For many folks, money is tight and about to get tighter with the manufactured SNAP benefits crisis. As such, between now and the end of the month, I'm donating all Cursed Morsels store proceeds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. Buy a book and support unhoused folks: www.cursedmorselspress.com

I am so delighted to have a seasonally appropriate little snowy gloom of a story coming out in this issue of @heartlines-spec.com alongside the zombies and sheep and decay!

FF#26 and Saros #4 have arrived! Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at fusionfragment.com/issue-26 Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!

FF#26 features work by Nkereuwem Albert, @thesuiway.bsky.social, Emma Russell-Trione, @eggandcressida.bsky.social, @straith.ca, @leokaaolive.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, and Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta! @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social recs stories from Fractured, edited by @silviamg.bsky.social

Oh wow this is devastating.

It's Friday, I'm in love with the table of contents for Saros SF #5! We have such a wonderful variety of strange, lovely, and thought-provoking stories to share with readers of our Sound/Silence issue, and I couldn't be more proud to work with these fantastic writers on my first foray into editing 🖤

Best SFF of the year, Elbows Up edition! Contains "The World in Our Hands" by Sophie Gazarian from FF#22, plus work by FF staffers @pbarmby.bsky.social and @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social, and lots of other incredible Canadian writers!

I love @architamittra.bsky.social's stories (I especially like "The Green Man's Wife" in Tasavvur and "Swan Sisters" in Kaleidotrope). This is clearly the ideal moment to send an excellent artist a tip for making fantastical, memorable art and help her get through some truly dire circumstances.

Hey, it's my 33rd birthday today! My selfish wish is to raise enough money to edit another zine bundle with these themes: -Cunty Horrors -Cursed Concerts -Monstrous Dating Profiles -Batshit LinkedIn Posts -Nightmare Grifters Interested? Donate to Cursed Morsels on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/cursedmorsels

CANCER EATS THE HEART by @pauljessup.com is one hell of a sick day/week/month read. Curled up in bed continuing to have a lengthy CFS/ME flare and wondering what I would do if offered a vampiric cure(...ish...) with such a dire cost.

It's Friday, I'm in love with the table of contents for Saros SF #5! We have such a wonderful variety of strange, lovely, and thought-provoking stories to share with readers of our Sound/Silence issue, and I couldn't be more proud to work with these fantastic writers on my first foray into editing 🖤

(1) kudos to ben for transparency, v important; (2) i'm old enough to remember in April when MRM told SFWA the merchandising clause was an "error." yet they keep soft toying w/it and seeing if there are takers. i get ben made a personal call, but short fic writers should know, this is not standard.

Tonight! I'll be reading "Interstate Mohinis" (originally published in @diabolicalplots.com) for the first time ever! Be there, or be square 🖤🌃▪️

Enjoy a free ebook download of BITTER APPLES, our teacher horror anthology written by current and former teachers. This is one of those anthologies that's 100% fictional but feels TOO REAL. #teaching #horror #horrorfiction dl.bookfunnel.com/aq9wzj3aql

Even just in the ~5 years I've been submitting, it's gotten noticeably harder to find open, appropriate markets when I've got something to submit. It's a hard game, and one I frequently wonder if I still want to play (but then I get an idea and have to write it down and then I have a story, so...).

Saros #4, edited by @hannahgreer.bsky.social, features stories by @helenfrench.bsky.social @jlgeorge.bsky.social @ctbideas.bsky.social @ericfomley.bsky.social and Lex Chamberlin. And gorgeous cover art! FF#26 by @evelynepark.bsky.social and Saros #4 by @warls.bsky.social.

RELEASE DATE: What's better than a new issue from FF? Two issues on the same day! In our first-ever dual launch day, you'll be able to get FF#26 and Saros #4 in one handy download package. Get excited for Monday, October 27th!

86 years is a good run, but I am truly sad to know we won't get to hear any more music from the great Danny Thompson. I have dearly loved so many records ornamented by his eloquent, inventive bass--just listen to his spellbinding introduction on this gorgeous John Martyn track: youtu.be/bzWIcsgS0xQ

Just got an email telling me it's the last day for 'prime deals.' Fug that crap. Want a real deal? Check out our selection of $2 eBooks for October. Any sale helps keep our indie spirit going. Thank you! undertowpublications.com/ebooks