So excited to share this sweet comment a voter left for @claudineliterary.bsky.social! Our Best Lit Mag Awards close in a week, so get your votes in now‼️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... #writing #writers #litmags

“One for the heart that skips. Two for the bones that bend. Three for the mind that forgets my name but remembers the recipe for pounded yam.” www.claudineliterary.net/femibakare

Subs for the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day anthology & micro comp are now open, closing 15 Feb. Please repost for #FlashFiction friends.

Always cool to see your work resurface from the archives!

My new Genre Grapevine is an update on both the Anthropic AI settlement and other genAI class action lawsuits filed by authors. While I'm not happy with the Anthropic settlement, I've come to see it as merely the first battle in a much larger war. www.patreon.com/posts/144817...

I enjoy PA's newsletters, especially the Story Behind the Story feature -- but I was freaked out to see one of my stories on her year-end rec list, along with some truly fantastic stories by my favorite writers. What a great way to start the day! Huge thanks @cornellwriter.bsky.social!

I read "Autogas Ferryman" a few days ago and can't get it out of my mind. Fantastic storytelling! @champwongs.bsky.social

To celebrate the release of WHEN THE WINDS SING, @mynachang.bsky.social interviews author @ldcolter.com, talking PERILOUS GODS, Slavic folklore, the importance of research, the writing process, & ex-con Alex Orlov having a VERY bad day. https://mynachang.com/2025/11/18/author-interview-l-d-colter/

Join our Patreon to unlock monthly giveaways, digital issues, rare author content, ad space for your business or project, and at the higher tiers: short story critiques, invites to exclusive industry events! Here's a treasurE from our archives ;) patreon.com/locus

ICYMI!

DISINTEGRATION DELUXE! Today is the six month anniversary of our first release! To celebrate, we're releasing a digital edition for the very first time 🎨 Feat. 20 additional poems & illustrations (as well as a remixed red cover), this one’s for the superfans who need more Kiik

Happy Small Business Saturday! Our biggest holiday sale ever continues today on books, chapbooks, t-shirts, keychains, art prints, and more. Use code HOLIDAY35 at checkout to get 35% off nearly everything in our direct shop, including new releases and pre-orders! shop.shortwavepublishing.com

Super exciting to have a poem sneak into a flash roundup as a "bonus" recommendation - I'm blushing! And wow, such good company - what great stories.

Thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social for mentioning my short, sharp and shocking story about a spider!

Wonderful list here!! Thanks so much @mynachang.bsky.social for including my speculative flash ‘The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter’ alongside all of these amazing pieces!!

kind mention of Dan Weaver's hex story "A Home Run" in Myna Chang's @mynachang.bsky.social Spec Flash Roundup ! 👇

Thank you for the shoutout!

Book mail! Looking forward to reading VAN BOYLE by my friend Nathan Leslie!

Annual reposting - 1986 Thanksgiving Incident! Hope it makes you smile.

ICYMI!

woot woot!!! I’m such a big fan of this press and beyond honored to make their nomination list alongside some truly incredible work. thank you so much @tldrpress.bsky.social!

Just in case you missed it! My interview by @mynachang.bsky.social!!

Thanksgiving is almost here, but not quite. Let me help tide you over to the feast with some of my foodie fiction!

it's that time of the year again! this award season, i want to highlight a story that was very difficult for me to write, but i am glad is out there. you can read or listen to Mavka by following the link below. thank you @yelenacrane.bsky.social for the narration!

Welcome to Day 10 of our look back through the TTL 2025 archive and All These Inscriptions Are For Me by @carolscheina.bsky.social a story of the books inscribed to Paula - but a Paula who has lived a very different life.

Introducing The 2025 Story Yearbook—a small collection of my published fiction from this year that I put together, along with an introduction and brief notes about what sparked each piece. If you’d like to read it , you can download the EPUB for free, no email req'd: davidanaxagoras.com/yearbook/

Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!

My final Patreon Q&A of the year is on Tuesday, December 2nd at 8 PM ET. Come with any question, and I'll answer it. Puppetry, writing novels, navigating creativity with ADHD and depression, working with agents and editors, audiobook narration, talking cats... you name it. patreon.com/maryrobinette

Great list, as always - I love seeing so many friends highlighted!

My debut novel I’M THE UNDERTOW is now up on Netgalley! It’s a story about guilt, grief and the unexpected places we go to find redemption. Request away! 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️ #netgalley #fiction #debut @netgalley.bsky.social

Oh wow. The ending to this devastating little flash.

Must read. #empathy

Thrilled to have a micro in the Amazing @fictivedream.bsky.social !! Thank You EIC Laura Black for giving this little piece of my heart the perfect home!!! ❤️ 🙏🏼

The collection's cover is here! And a newer release date! I’m in love with this design—the watercolor texture, the way it expresses how deeply this collection inhabits the Sonoran Desert and how collage-like these stories are in their styles and sizes. Can’t wait to share the book with everyone.

This came to me via @jolantru.bsky.social and @mynachang.bsky.social --Brilliant take on Eat the Rich! Very fun read.

My review of the August issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online! locusmag.com/review/clark...

We've dropping Flights of Foundry content over on our YouTube channel. Check out the latest videos and subscribe so you don't miss out! www.youtube.com/@dre...

Finally added 2025 eligibility to my website, with a couple of flash & short stories at the top & my full 2025 bibliography below. I'd be honored if you consider any of these for your awards noms. ☺️

ICYMI!

I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me. Yes, stole it. I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME. 🖕

Recently, I received my author copies of the graphic novel of Anticipation of Hollowness, illustrated by Lorenzo Livrieri and adapted by Michele Paris! They're gorgeous and are out in hardcover and paperback. AoH is a solarpunk piece about gentrification, friendship, and social sustainability.

Hoping to see this one on some awards lists - check it out! @slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social

Instructions for Rewilding the Wasteland, in Radon Journal Do your time. Join the forest. CW: body horror, incarceration Reviewed by @mynachang.bsky.social, 'must-readed' by @reactorsff.bsky.social/@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social. It's a gut punch. www.radonjournal.com/issue-10/ins...

In a twist of fate, my first full collection and a new member of our family are due on the same day--December 2nd!

There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

My friend Caroline's upcoming novel is going to be fantastic. I can't wait to read it! Preorders are open! @cabockwrites.bsky.social @regalhouse.bsky.social

Just listened to this on my walk and loved it. Listening to birdsong as the last lines closed the story was just...achingly perfect. @ruthjoffre.bsky.social

@shortwavebooks.bsky.social for books across the speculative genres; @chmmagazine.bsky.social for the best Weird Horror/Sword & Sorcery magazines; @malarkeybooks.bsky.social who force us all to be smarter & more literary; I'll never remember everyone. THE FUCKING POINT IS, SUPPORT INDIE PUBLISHING.

Thank you! Publication happened sooner than I thought it would, so it is actually out now to read:

Today's throwback story rec is Scratchers by Corey Farrenkopf at The Arcanist (2022) nhttps://thearcanist.io/scratchers-f4fcacfaef6e