FF Reading Update: Now that subs are closed, here's where the numbers are at! 18 stories undergoing additional reads (oldest from Jan. 22) 141 unread stories in queue Oldest unread is from 1:08 PM ET on Feb. 17 273 subs received in the last 30 days

For awards season, I'd like to take a moment to hype FF's 2025 cover artists. FF's cover art is commissioned, based on stories from each issue, and @abistevensart.bsky.social @almosthomefree.bsky.social and @evelynepark.bsky.social did an incredible job of bringing these stories to life! 1/4

FFer Read of the Day: "Miles To Go Before I Sleep" by @bethgoder.bsky.social in @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

FFer Read of the Day: "The Cut" by @sjp-ow.bsky.social in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Check out a preview here, and the full issue is only $3.99! fiyahlitmag.com/issues/issue...

FFer Read of the Day: "Beyond Those Shadowed Hills" by @shedric.bsky.social in @chmmagazine.bsky.social cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/beyo...

Happy to announce our first acquisition for 2027: the novelette "Sleeper Hit" by @kjkabza.bsky.social! KJ's work has previously appeared in Reactor, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, F&SF, and many others.

Between this one and "Winter's Song" in FF#5, if @spencerwriting.bsky.social writes a story with song somewhere in the title, I think I'm legally required to buy it.

FFer Read of the Day: "Restaurant Space for Lease" by @vivianhchou.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social havenspec.com/fiction/rest...

📣📣📣 We've gotten so many great stories that we're now scheduling pieces for our Feb '27 issue (and probably our June '27 issue for at least a couple stories in queue!) so we're going close the submission gates for a few months. Keep sending us stuff till end of Feb, and we'll see you again in July!

FFer Read of the Day: "Mother Sun" by @amynagopaleen.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social (and originally published in FF#19!) www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

thanks again. also good reminder for me to shout out original publisher in 2020, @fusionfragment.bsky.social, issue #3. them taking this piece might've set me on the weird horror path 🫡🙏 www.fusionfragment.com/issue-3/

The full FF 2026 lineup is officially set and I can't tell you how excited I am for what we've got in store for you! We've got: -writers making their second appearances in FF! -writers you'll likely recognize from their work in other mags! -writers making their debuts in SFFH short fiction land!

Excited to announce that we've acquired "The Stone Garden" by @elliottgish.bsky.social for FF#29! Elliott's short fiction has previously appeared in Vastarien, PseudoPod, and Metaphorosis, among many others, and her novel Grey Dog is available from ECW Press.

Some great 2026 short fiction reads for you, including recent work by FFer @thelialao.bsky.social!

FFer Read of the Day: "Five Different Realities to Explore, and One to Avoid" by @breewernicke.bsky.social in @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social www.orions-belt.net/archives/fiv...

FFer Read of the Day: "Blessed Soil" by Russell Nichols in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social www.tractorbeam.earth/story/blesse...

One of my favourite things is updating the FF contributor page. Look at all those great stories over the years! www.fusionfragment.com/contributors/

as a new zealander, i’m also eligible for the sir julius vogel awards! 🥝🥹 anyone can nominate, so i’d be honoured if you’d consider “looking glass” (pubbed in saros sf #1 by @fusionfragment.bsky.social and edited by @meganjkerr.bsky.social) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... sarossf.com/issue-1/

FFer Read of the Day: "The Walled Garden" by @drfionamoore.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_07_25/

Since awards voting is opening up, reminder you can see FF's eligible works at www.fusionfragment.com/2025-awards-... and Saros SF's eligible works at sarossf.com/2025-awards-... There's also my under-construction "Best Of", in case you want a reading list: www.fusionfragment.com/2025-best-of/

There are only 3 days left to send us your story! thephantompulse.com

Excited to see @timjmajor.bsky.social's "Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes" from Saros #1 make the TOC of Best British SF! You can read the story for free here: sarossf.com/issue-1/ And congrats to FFers @drfionamoore.bsky.social @davidcleden.bsky.social and @lindzmcleod.bsky.social as well!

FF survives by the grace of its Patreon crew, so every so often I like to buy things for them! There's a giveaway on right now over at our Patreon where one lucky winner is gonna get their choice of 8 great prizes celebrating recent publications by FFers. Join up!! www.patreon.com/posts/april-...

FFer Read of the Day: "A Charm to Keep the Evil Eye Away From Your Campervan; Or, Roamin' Rights" by @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social in Compost: stopcopaganda.compost.digital/a-charm-to-k...

Happy to announce that we've acquired "Graftage" by Sarah M. Saif for FF#29. This is Sarah's first publication!

FFer Read of the Day: "The Best Way to Survive a Tiger Attack" by @awprihandita.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

If you've been mulling over buying a physical copy of FF or Saros, our printer is having a 25% off sale that runs through tomorrow. Here's the link to our latest! www.blurb.ca/b/12602785-f...

FF Reading Update 25 stories undergoing additional reads (oldest from Dec. 29) 67 unread stories in queue Oldest unread is from 4:28 PM ET on Jan. 27 242 subs received in the last 30 days

The final story in Saros #4, edited by @hannahgreer.bsky.social: "At the Heart of It" by @ctbideas.bsky.social To read it, grab a copy of Saros #4 for free at sarossf.com/issue-4/

FFer Read of the Day: "Please Properly Cage Your Words" by @bethgoder.bsky.social in @diabolicalplots.com www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

We are currently open to submissions! Send us your rotten ecosystems and haunted biomes

Congrats to all the FFers on the Locus Recommended Reading List! So many this year I need two whole pages for it: @bogiperson.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @vanessafogg.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @bethgoder.bsky.social @jordankurella.com locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Saturday music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week.

Happy to announce that we've acquired "The Rocket Equation" by @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social for FF#29! Chloe's work has previously been published in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The Rumpus, The Future Fire, and many more.

FFer Read of the Day: "Without Sunsets or Snow" by @mariness.bsky.social in @3lobedmag.com www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/3lbe...

The beautiful cover for FF#27 has arrived! Stunning work once again by @abistevensart.bsky.social! Stories are coming your way soon from @ewenmaer.bsky.social @jyzh.bsky.social @julialicia.bsky.social @catenotkate.bsky.social @rossshowalter.com @katharinetyndall.bsky.social and Anya Leigh Josephs.

My #scifi story "Margin Walker" (originally published by @fusionfragment.bsky.social) made it to the longlist of the Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Kind of 🙁 it didn't get to the final selection, but good to see it in the running. (And yes, the title does come from the Fugazi song, ICYWW.)

OK this 1 like = 1 line from a story is going around, so I'm gonna join in. But instead, let's do 1 like = 1 story's classic FF vibe tags, plus bonus slightly unhinged tags that I come up with right now as I drink the cocktail I just mixed myself.

Ah, the first time Louis upset/delighted me. Feels like only yesterday. Read it in www.fusionfragment.com/issue-6/

Still among my fave FF stories. Also, one of our contributions to the messed-up-deer subgenre. Find it in www.fusionfragment.com/issue-10/

The beautiful cover for FF#27 has arrived! Stunning work once again by @abistevensart.bsky.social! Stories are coming your way soon from @ewenmaer.bsky.social @jyzh.bsky.social @julialicia.bsky.social @catenotkate.bsky.social @rossshowalter.com @katharinetyndall.bsky.social and Anya Leigh Josephs.

FF Reading Update: Almost back to pre-December break turnaround times! 17 stories undergoing additional reads (oldest from Dec. 21) 77 unread stories in queue Oldest unread is from 10:43 AM ET on Jan. 18 237 subs received in the last 30 days

Story #4 in Saros #4, edited by @hannahgreer.bsky.social: "New Immortals" by Lex Chamberlin To read it, grab a copy of Saros #4 for free at sarossf.com/issue-4/

With awards season ramping up, I'm once again compiling a 2025 "Best of" list of works by FFers for your readings lists. So far, it contains work on the BSFA Longlist and recommendations made in Locus, Reactor, and Charles Payseur's Quick Sips. www.fusionfragment.com/2025-best-of/

✨ We are delighted to welcome ten writers to this year’s 2026 Novel Writing Workshop. These writers will be working to complete a novel draft under the guidance of novelist and teacher Dr. Karen Lord (CW instructor ‘18 & ‘23) ✨

Friday music celebration post: The production of FF runs on good tunes, so here are the five albums that spent the most time on repeat at FF HQ last week.

Happy to announce that we've acquired "The Children of Cadmus" by @louisinglishall.bsky.social for FF#29! Louis has previously been published in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and The Dark, just to name a few.

Wooo look at all those FFers on the #BSFAAwards2026 longlist! Congrats @thomasha.bsky.social @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @drfionamoore.bsky.social @thesuiway.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social and.... www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Spam poetry in from the FF contact form tonight: Through death, the family is not destroyed, it is transformed; a part of it passes into the unseen. We believe that death is an absence, when in fact it is a discreet presence. I have €512,000 in my bank account, which I would like to donate.

FFer Read of the Day: "Woman Like Stone Like Water" by @aardwyrm.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/woma...