Get ready to revise your opinion of stories about writers writing about writing. This one by Anna Hogeland in @electricliterature.com is so smart and intoxicating and real. electricliterature.com/fictions-by-...

we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita

10) False Light by @mbvalente.bsky.social : Earth is a radioactive dump and humanity has taken refuge in orbital satellite. Artist Wey does not accept peddling artificial images of Earth and wants to visit the real thing. Good tenacity

My Writer's Hotel student, MB Valente has a new novelette in the current issue of Analog -- "False Light." check it out.

My novelette "False Light" is in the March/April issue of @analogsf.bsky.social ! If you like post-Earth stories or toxic relationship stories or mad-world-drives-girl-mad stories, then you might like this! And an excerpt is free to read online at analogsf.com/current-issue/story-excerpt1/ 📚🪐💙

A strange thing about being an author who straddles SFF and literary fiction is encountering people describe the "other side" with the strangest stereotypes. It's like when you read ancient history and locals have rumors the realm across the sea is populated by people with two heads and eight feet.

It's a tough time out there to be a lit mag, even if you're as kickass as JAKE. Treat yourself to some of the awesomeness before they go ungentle into that good night! They made a home for a story about a sad anarchist meeting Alien Jesus. They are beauty. Au revoir, l'ami.

Brief, elliptical, enigmatic, inevitable: love love love "Our Whole History" by Ashley Hutson in @baltimorereview.bsky.social baltimorereview.org/winter_2026/...

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀 buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon! please like + RT this to help spread the word psychopomp.com/the-deadland... behold!

Mmmmm the cheerful fatalism and funweird of this! "Anti-Capitalism vs the Man of Flowers" by Naomi Kanakia @naokan.bsky.social www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/anti...

Delighted to have a short piece in Flash Fiction Magazine, online today: a woman's cat loses patience with her depressive behavior and tells her all the reasons she's pathetic... but in a, you know, violent way. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...

Asking only the toughest questions here

"Lyrics of love lost drift into the sac-like chambers of its long, muscular heart." A dark, watery ode to Dolly's magic 💙 www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/bret...

Love this recent piece in Flash Fiction Mag: "You are almost five years old, and you have never been smaller—a mouse, a fly, a flea."

Choose your fighter.

The print edition of Quentin Zuttion's All Princesses Die Before Dawn, a graphic novel about a day in the life of a family struggling to care for each other, is also up for an Eisner 💙 (and in incredible company)

Thrilled to see these incredible authors getting international recognition and proud to be a part of it! Both these books are stunners btw and available from various ebook platforms 🐠💣

eat a book to gain its vocabulary

My favorite illustrator-photographer-human being is now here in the 'Sky 💙

This gorgeous book is already out in French, coming soon in English 🩵

My dear friend Marianne Villière is now sharing her brilliant, fierce and compassionate work on this platform. Check it out, I dare you.

This story emanates atmosphere, like the pink neon lights that flit across the MCs hand in the tattoo parlour. Read it now #writingcommunity #litfic

pitheadchapel.com/four-words/ A beautiful sad story by MB Valente. And hopefully not as prescient as it feels.

It's been a long, weird road for my speculative story "Four Words" about a society sliding into silence. I'm delighted that it has found a home, with excellent company, in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Read it here --> pitheadchapel.com/four-words/

Happy New Year from Pithead Chapel! Kick off the year by reading incredible writing selected by Danielle Lazarin for the Larry Brown Short Story Award contest issue. Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/01/01/v... @reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2024 Larry Brown Short Story Award! Please join us in congratulating these incredible writers: @reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue!

New flash story about alien mind games out from AntipodeanSF --> www.antisf.com/the-stories/...

Breaking into this hitherto unknown social medium with a story about a sad anarchist in the "punkest little shit" mag, JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social jakethemag.com/the-violet-l...