Mark your calendars or drop a silver dollar in the swamp so the chronotoads whisper a reminder to you while you sleep.

We need your helping hands for Issue 10.

Now that you're back from AWP or recovered from your AWP fomo, remember that we're open for submissions until the 15th! We would particularly love to see more visual art and non-fiction/essay work!

Writers with MFAs (or PhDs): The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University (where I teach!) is hiring a full-time, tenure-track, Associate Programs Director at the Assistant Professor rank. (On campus in Louisville 2-3 days/week.) www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

OS contributor @shastagrant.bsky.social has a new book coming out! Pre-order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/when...

when the body is the mother tongue By Sarah Aziz From Issue No. 9

Outlook Springs contributor Kyle Minor has an amazing new book out! These essays explore things that disappear, like ghosts and civilizations and your career.

Most unexpected sequel. Not even the same author or genre. Weird.

OS contributor Dave Housley has a new book out: asterismbooks.com/product/alie... Buy it and while you're waiting, read this story: www.outlooksprings.com/stories/here...

We need your helping hands for Issue 10.

OS contributor Dave Housley has a new book out: asterismbooks.com/product/alie... Buy it and while you're waiting, read this story: www.outlooksprings.com/stories/here...

Hey writers: How are you finding markets and tracking your submissions? Duotrope? Chillsubs? The Submission Grinder? Good old fashioned spreadsheet?

Most unexpected sequel. Not even the same author or genre. Weird.

Outlook Springs contributor Kyle Minor has an amazing new book out! These essays explore things that disappear, like ghosts and civilizations and your career.

Hey writers: How are you finding markets and tracking your submissions? Duotrope? Chillsubs? The Submission Grinder? Good old fashioned spreadsheet?

when the body is the mother tongue By Sarah Aziz From Issue No. 9

Many of the coloring pages in the new issue contain rare Outlook Springs history nuggets.

movie poems are the best poems, ask any movie

movie poems are the best poems, ask any movie

Don't forget to sign up for the Speculative Fiction Salon this Saturday! 🪐🌱🏳️‍🌈 Featuring a stellar panel of authors from ECO24: Best Speculative Ecofiction and We're Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Sliding scale tickets for both in-person and virtual attendees available here! ⬇️

Many of the coloring pages in the new issue contain rare Outlook Springs history nuggets.

"When I was ten years old, I found a magical worm in my body."

One of the many coloring pages inside Issue9. Operators are waiting to take your order.

One of the many coloring pages inside Issue9. Operators are waiting to take your order.

"When I was ten years old, I found a magical worm in my body."

Outlook Springs is open for submissions! Send them weird stuff you've written! Before they published me, I thought I was just a loser dweeb. After they published me, I still thought I was a loser dweeb ... but at least I'd been published by Outlook Springs. I wish this for you.

Outlook Springs has published some Bigfoot stories. I don't know if that means they've met their Bigfoot quota or are looking for more, though

Charm City Spec alumna and spectabulous storyteller Amber Sparks had a story in Outlook Springs—how did we miss that?

We're open for your submission and your submissions and your missions and your subs, of all sorts.

We're open for your submission and your submissions and your missions and your subs, of all sorts.

We are open for business. SEQUENTIAL WORD BUSINESS. Send us your writing or tell your friends to send us their writing. Tell strangers who look like they might write; maybe you'll make a new friend who will later inevitably betray you.

@outlooksprings.bsky.social is opening soon and they’re brilliant

Woah! Turns out, not hot dogs. Good stuff!

HEY SIRI SET A TIMER FOR FOUR DAYS.

Later in the month, I'm doing a QuickReads with 5 other authors. I'll be reading from my upcoming STARTUP HELL about a startup employee and the demon her boss summoned. It's free and online and will be lots of fun! Register here: tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n #SWSWQR

Why does NYT Cooking hate vegetables?

Any footwear can become a slipper if you are clumsy enough.

When I hold her stomach in my hands, I wonder what she ate.

Any footwear can become a slipper if you are clumsy enough.

When I hold her stomach in my hands, I wonder what she ate.

ICYMI

Arthur likes to think of himself as the King of 12th and Garden Street, although his coworkers would laugh at him if he said that out loud. His official title is ‘Intersection and Crosswalk Coordinator’ for the City Department of Pedestrians and Municipal Lights.

Arthur likes to think of himself as the King of 12th and Garden Street, although his coworkers would laugh at him if he said that out loud. His official title is ‘Intersection and Crosswalk Coordinator’ for the City Department of Pedestrians and Municipal Lights.

Dog Throat says go for the toad option.

Mark your calendars or drop a silver dollar in the swamp so the chronotoads whisper a reminder to you while you sleep.

@anne49bsky.bsky.social here's a good opening line!

New essay on the site! "I was the child who feared vomiting in Mass but I am not that child anymore. He retched every time he ate the communion wafer. He was a good eater everywhere else on Earth. No adult knew what to say." www.outlooksprings.com/essays/josh-...

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