for the weekend crowd!

It's @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social weekend! On Sunday at 3pm Eastern, come listen to @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @yarntheory.bsky.social and yours truly, led by moderator @bugthewriter.bsky.social, as we chat about speculative poetry! FoF is online & free! Register here:

We just finished up the Speculative Flash Fiction panel! (I'm very good at promoting these after the fact.) @cjtavares.bsky.social brought the great questions, and @dianadima.com, @kaidelmas.bsky.social, and @howsweetthewords.bsky.social were super insightful.

Loved this essay by @kristinaten.bsky.social about nostalgia, speculative fiction, and in-betweenness. puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/w...

Can*Con approacheth but you can already be making plans for after and LOOK AT THIS AWESOME CON IN HALIFAX IN MAY! This is a rad lineup of guests and this looks to be a great time!

Do you like queer speculative fiction? Do you want to help support my work highlighting, reviewing, writing, and discussing queer speculative fiction? Because I'll be reorganizing my Patreon soon and it's a great time to become a patron! www.patreon.com/c/quicksipre...

Excited for Flights of Foundry this weekend and talking about flash fiction on Sat!! flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/

IT'S COMING 45 days until halloween! who will give their soul 🔪 we mean their bones! 🦴 oops we mean their coin! yes, their coin to the ferryman today? www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla... you trust us, right? 💀

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

We're celebrating @thomasha.bsky.social today. It's pub day for UNCERTAIN SONS. (Yes, I'm posting again. It's exciting.) Please consider grabbing a copy, print or eBook, from us, or elsewhere. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

The full audio story of "The Significance Cofactor" by @hhpak.bsky.social is out now! The story was edited by @danaiwrites.bsky.social, & the audio was narrated by @cyrusrodas.bsky.social, with production by Jenelle DeCosta. Full audio version & story here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

It’s my birthday! Everyone who preorders Tell Me Yours from Stillhouse Press today (9/9 till 11:59pm ET) will get a signed—and, if you want, respectfully doodled in—copy! And one lucky duck will also snag this sexy, sparkly “cool S” pin. iykyk!

Friends, Flights of Foundry is free to attend but it isn’t free to run. If you like what we do, and want to see it continue, consider donating. Those funds are essential to ensure Flights of Foundry continues in the future. flights-of-foundry.o...

We need your support in the next 3 days, before the fall of eternal night. Help us breathe new stories that keep us alive, each word and phrase building the monster’s body, the one who rends and tears and protects us from darkness. kck.st/4mIkEm1

Lots of discussion lately about increased interest in short fiction, and we love that. We have 25 years of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction stories for you to read. And we would love to do 25 more, if you can help. kck.st/4mIkEm1

is the sci-fi genre dead? i don't know. but i do have a very much sci-fi, very much alive book up on Netgalley right now that you should request 👀 comes with classic sci-fi tropes such as: big ship doesn't like you, passive aggressive men, and cool religious fashion.

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JULY 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up nearly 30 stories by @elijah.mea.rs @karinlow.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @johnchu.bsky.social @emnorth.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social & more!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design

I read this book and it is dark and beautiful and tore my heart a little bit (or a lot).

My collection UNCERTAIN SONS comes out soon, and early copies are already going out to folks who pre-ordered (racing the de minimis change in tariffs!). Now's a great time to pre-order if you're thinking about it. Here's what @wiswell.bsky.social said (art by @cdsart.bsky.social). Thanks, John!

Why yes that is me, third from left, so if you want to hear me read my story “N-Body Code” from @parseconfluenceink.bsky.social’s 2024 “Hospitium” anthology, now you can!

A huge thank you to everyone reading, reviewing, buying, recommending, nominating, voting for, and hyping up these books! It has been a very exciting … uh two years, it's only been two years?!

Includes "Forest" by me. And also check out the amazing TOC.

My story-poem "The Founding of Zeget" in @smallwondersmag.com is in this lovely roundup! Thank you, Myna, for the kind words!

looking ahead to september and getting excited for what we have to share with you! issue 98 is on the horizon (can you believe we've almost made it to 100!!!). thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting ✨ because we truly can't do this without you subscribe here 🦄 psychopomp.com/fantasy/

Eyyy! THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES is in CBC's Fall Fiction Preview! :D The final book in THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS trilogy tells Henryk's story as he leaves campus and heads north to ?? hopefully something nice and good ?? haha no

Want to support @3lobedmag.com’s Kickstarter and maybe snag a signed copy of Haunted Ecologies or a short story/flash fiction critique from me??? If so, follow the link and support beautifully weird, genre bending speculative fiction :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

An amazing thread full of bird stories!!

The second Worlds of Possibility Anthology is alllllll poetry, and you can get the ebook free through August 20th! www.juliarios.com/worlds-of-po...

A new story-shaped creature is live in the lovely Small Wonders!! This one contains a poem, two sets of footnotes, and other assorted weirdness, and you can read it below:

Our new Kickstarter is live, and we are excited for 2026! Help us continue publishing new horror, dark fantasy, & science fiction; pay our awesome authors, and begin another 25 years, along with some very haunted rewards. kck.st/4mIkEm1

Parenting is hard. It's even harder when "Echo Syndrome" strikes, and identity starts to splinter... read Jennifer Hudak's story full of existential dread in our issue 20: smallwondersmag.com/...

Voting for the Ignyte Awards closes later this week (August 15th), and ANYONE can vote! Don't forget to vote for what you loved! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

"They watched the other creatures and followed neat, spreading themselves wider over the rocks to dine on the earth’s wine-sweet bibelot." --"New Regime" by Jeremiah Moriarty, up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social today. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

A new story-shaped creature is live in the lovely Small Wonders!! This one contains a poem, two sets of footnotes, and other assorted weirdness, and you can read it below:

hey, it's SUPPORT SMALL PRESS SATURDAY once again we're only able to continue publishing the things we do because of our patrons (SHOUT OUT PATRONS) if you love us and our whole vibe, PLEASE consider patroning you get digital/physical copies of the deadlands IT'S JUST A SMART MOVE 💀👇

So, this happened... :) So thrilled to accept the 2025 Aurora Award for the anthology I edit, Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume Two. It means a lot, particularly _this_ year. Congrats to all the other winners and nominees across 10 categories. Check out the replay of the full ceremony on YouTube!

Reminder of 2 great books up for pre-order shipping soon. This is your late summer/autumn weird short fiction sorted, to be sure. undertowpublications.com/shop

“We are the sum of our collected ruins and the amalgamation of thousands of years of stories, stories that were neither perceived by nor sanitized for the Western lens.” ICYMI, my essay on Greek myth retellings and adaptations is now free to read in @khoreomag www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

our next release from 2x @thedeadlands.com author @joshrountree.bsky.social has a cover we want to share with you AND ALSO a first chapter ready for you to read AND ALSO IT'S AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER RIGHT NOW!! pls share & help us celebrate this 💀💀🏠

A new queer SFF magazine is rising!

looks like 2026 is going to be a double feature! thrilled to announce that the infamous novel that was written in a month, the one that started as a sweat-drenched nightmare, now titled OUR INFINITE AND INEVITABLE ENDS, will be coming to you in fall of 2026 from @ecwpress.bsky.social!

We're biiiiig Heartlines fans over at OTHERSIDE—AND this issue features the amazing @angelvleal.bsky.social as guest poetry editor! What more do you need to know? Go check it out!

hey we're just out here trying to do some cool shit so if you're into that why not grab a book or three you can find them all here: PS we also publish two magazines you might have also heard of @thedeadlands.com @fantasymagazine.bsky.social you can support THOSE cool project in the 2nd post

If you'd like to run a workshop at Flights of Foundry this year, now is the time to register and get those program suggestions in! I'm going to be working on workshops this coming week!

SURPRISE! We couldn't wait until next week—our Kickstarter pre-launch page is live right now!!! Sign up to be the first to know when it launches in October, and please spread the word and tell a friend! Every sign-up makes a huge difference. We are officially one step closer to OTHERSIDE!

Louder for the people in the back!! Issue 8 released yesterday and is a labyrinth of delicious words: 8 short stories, 5 poems, 1 Horizon Zero Dawn essay, 1 review on spec-fic books Not to mention the delightful @angelvleal.bsky.social acting as Guest Poetry Editor ✨✨✨

We're nearly 30% funded with 12 days to go! Thank you to everyone who is backing the project — please repost and help us make our goal! ☀️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam... #solarpunk #scifi #fantasy #scififantasy #scifimagazine #fantasymagazine

Story Day! "And The Planet Loved Him" is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com Featuring: academics forced to do contract work for healthcare, a planetwide fungal intelligence, talking with the dead, love and death (no robots) clarkesworldmagazine.com/chan_08_25/