TECHNICALLY the campaign has ended (with an incredible $11,945 pledged!!) but we've enabled LATE PLEDGES! 🎉 You have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to still back us and help us reach $13k to fund TWO MORE YEARS of T&F!! ⏳😍🎉 Back and share while you can!! 💚💚

Boosting this before it closes—I love Tales and Feathers and they’re so close to funding year 6!

I’m so excited to have a story in this anthology! It’s already funded (yay!) with original illustrations, but you can still snag the beautiful special edition! Plus you can read my gothic regency epistolary romance, in which the poet is Terrible and the romance is a very bad idea

Hello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚

📢 GOOD MORNING AUGURIANS It is the FINAL DAY and we are ONLY $1600 CAD away from... 🌟 TWO MORE YEARS OF TALES & FEATHERS 🌟 Back now and SHARE‼️ Every dollar, every like, and every share helps, and after today it's GONE 😱

We're under 3k to go before funding one more year of T&F!! It ends this weekend! This morning we shared some of the team's favourite stories we've published and why we love them. Maybe you'll find a new favourite in there too! Help T&F keep going so we can fund more incredible stories like these 💚

The Shortlist, May 15: Twelve (!) stories selected by guest editor Adriana Kantcheva @catchingwords.com With: Spencer Ellsworth @spencimus.bsky.social and Kate Francia @katefrancia.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social Eliza Chan in Psychopomp @psychopomp.com (...1/3...)

Can you believe we launched Tales & Feathers a half decade ago?! ✨ From humble origins, it’s now the only pro slice of life fantasy mag in the English-speaking world—pretty cool 💜 AND! Its future now depends 100% on the backs and shares this campaign gets 🔮 Repost, repost, repost !!

Hello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚

"The Dragon and It" by @katefrancia.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com; as with the above, an incredible richness of emotion and nuance evoked in such a small space!

Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳

I remain incredibly proud of my work here! With a week left in the Hugo nom period, I'd be honored if you'd consider this work about connection, power, identity, and the erosion of all those things: "Because I Held His Name Like a Key".

Nominating for Hugos? Here's all eligible BCS stories, category, nominating links, and link to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts. (Pls *DON'T* nominate BCS for Semiprozine; we recused. You can nominate Scott for Editor Short Form if you find him worthy.) www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/12/07/2...

I wrote a personal essay about my love for bittersweet endings and LOTR, via the awfulness of the year 2001. And uh I wasn't expecting history to be rhyming quite so hard this week but here we are 😓 www.uncannymagazine.com/article/bitt...

Stories I loved by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, @katefrancia.bsky.social, @chrisblake.bsky.social, and @tiatashiro.bsky.social. psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu... www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holl... www.tractorbeam.earth/story/in-eve... clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/ Go read them.

Favorite SFF novels I read last year! Many of these were published in 2025, so check them out if you're nominating for Nebulas/Hugos, or just looking for some great new reads! medium.com/@katefrancia...

The kingdom is drowning, reality is collapsing, and now this hot married couple, in ignorance of the time loop he's oathbound to maintain, is playing kissing games with Sir Gavin. The yearly beheadings don't seem to be helping. Neither does being "good". Time to try something different 🏳️‍🌈🌈✨

IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing 🪐🗡️ More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/6)

Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members! ☄️ This year, I'd be very humbled and delighted if members considered my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, in their ballots. Drop me a DM if you want a copy for consideration!

I'm flattered to see "Five Books Unreturned When the Library Vanished" alongside some of my favorite stories from 2025!

"Ghosts of Summer" received a lovely shout-out from @katefrancia.bsky.social alongside some truly spectacular works of fiction. I am so delighted to see my story included amongst authors I greatly admire. Thank you! Check out the list below, which includes links to read the stories as well!

Belated, but I'm so thrilled to find "Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social on the 2025 BSFA longlist, along with so many stories I've loved this year! ICYMI you can read the story here: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holl...

hello! new story day!! this one is a weird western murder mystery set on the back of a jackalope. did i say weird western? i meant WEIRD western. it's hell living on the back of prey

A lovely little review of my @strangehorizons.bsky.social story THIRTEEN SWORDS THAT MADE A PRINCE: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARMS AND ARMORY COLLECTION (Plus some other excellent stories!)

More SFF short story recommendations! Amazing stories by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @nadiaradovich.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @sharangbiswas.bsky.social @bethgoder.bsky.social @cjtavares.bsky.social medium.com/@katefrancia...

There's a month to nominate for the Nebulas, so I'm going to shout about my novella again if you don't mind! 🌌 I'd be very humbled if anyone considered Kap's Needle in a ballot! Art is under attack and we haven't many reasons to celebrate in general as of late, so let's at least celebrate art.

Whoa! A House Between Sea and Sky is featured on BookBub today! 🤯This came as a total shock to me. Grab the book while it's on sale for $2.49! amzn.to/4lb2R73 [promo link]

New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠

want to lol at a bunch of really bad optical illusion puns stitched together into the shape of a story? ENJOY: translunartravelerslounge.com/2023/08/15/m...

2025 speculative poetry recommendation list! If you need a quiet moment with some stunning words, take a deep breath with one of these poems by @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @lynnesargent.bsky.social @joemario.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social medium.com/@katefrancia...

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/smal... Cannot recommend this perfect, bittersweet flash story by @katefrancia.bsky.social highly enough

Thank you @castofwonders.org! So happy this story got a second life and really fun narration last year at Cast of Wonders :)

So excited to see my story “Small Prayers for the God of Sow Thistle Hill” in great company in this roundup of Dec flash stories! Check it out for some more amazing story recs 😊

December Speculative Flash Roundup! Some truly phenomenal stories this month, and a bonus craft article!

Our last story of 2025 is “Small Prayers for the God of Sow Thistle Hill” by Kate Francia. We hope your new year is filled with kindness & folks who don’t need sacrifices to feed their ego 💚 @katefrancia.bsky.social #writingcommunity #flashfiction #fantasy www.flashfictiononline.com/article/smal...

Sometimes, you have to ask the small gods instead of the big ones. This is touching and timely in a timeless way? www.flashfictiononline.com/article/smal... by @katefrancia.bsky.social

In honor of the solstice, tonight's the perfect time to read my story, "Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth"! This story takes place on Modraniht, or Mother's Night, an ancient solstice festival honoring the mothers of your line who've passed on. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holl...

If you want to support LSQ as we continue to champion women-identified authors and their work, I hope you will consider becoming a paid Patreon member this holiday season. I'm currently offering a 20% discount for your first year or month (all tiers) using this code: ED8FC (offer ends Jan 3rd)

Nominations are open! I would be honored if you considered my stories but especially my novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great" published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social written as a series of Goodreads reviews! 🙏

Here's my 2025 ✨ Awards Eligibility ✨ post - only 4 stories but I'm very proud of them all and would love for more people to see them 🥰 Thank you so much to everyone who has read / published / been supportive of my work this year! ❤️ 🧵

"Chantilly, bobbin, guipure, knotted, knitted, on and on. Where is the floor? The door? The wiry buttermilk cat that led me into this maze? And how might I leave?" Read "Wonderful" by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social in our new issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-wond... #SFF #Fantasy #Fabulism

This year I've been reflecting upon and writing about my life as a neurodiverse author. Here's one of the most personal essays I've ever written about being on the spectrum. In addition, an updated version of my free booklet "Tips and Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers" is available.

Anyway is this the story I had published this year that made the most people claim to have leaked their precious vital essences out of their eyes? MAYBE. Am I thinking about the end of the world a lot? (A lot a lot a lot?) YES. psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...

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It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!! I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜

TTL got another one 🎉 If you like warm and cozy (and knitting) translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/y...

I’d love to throw my story “Wonderful” into the pile! A struggling human wanders into a weaver’s workshop. It was just published in @innerworlds.bsky.social Issue 9 ♥️ inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-wond...

More story recs today, combining two of my favorite things: SFF and fiber arts! Stories by @rukman.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @reasie.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @samtasticbooks.com @trailofleaves.bsky.social, Dee Straith medium.com/@katefrancia...

I have a new Uncanny story! Set in a village that was flooded and is no more, though its inhabitants remember...but what they remember and what's the truth - that's another question. Contested memory & generational trauma of the Greek Civil War (and more family dinners with...issues.)