Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long the sale will last. www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...

We're at $724/1000 and one backer shy of 40!! We have FIVE DAYS until subs open!!! Let's gooooo! 👀🌈🎥 #Recorded #shortstories #SFF #horror #writers www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Happy to see Editors Canada publishing this free handbook. editors.ca/publications...

✨COVER REVEAL! ✨We’re super excited our “RESIST” anthology, a collection of resistance-themed flash fiction, is coming out Monday, June 15th!! 🎉 Edited by: @wordrat.bsky.social This cover was designed for us by Andy Cotnam. All proceeds will be donated to the nonprofit Waging Nonviolence.

Thrilled to be included! And that cover is perfect! Huge thanks to @wordrat.bsky.social &the team at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social !

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

🧵 I’ve been sharing review excerpts for SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL since it launched in Feb (still no repeats). If you’ve missed some or just want to read a bunch at once, did you know you can find them on my website? Here’s my main page for books: www.pacornell.com/books.html

My queer Gothic historical witchy book, Muñeca, will have its launch party, Friday June 12, 7 p.m. Pegasus Books, Berkeley. In conversation with Tamika Thompson! pegasusbookstore.com/gomez

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME I KEEP GETTING ISSUES OF THIS PARTICULAR MAGAZINE IN MY VEINS thanks

Bay Area folks, this event is in two days! I really hope to see a lot of your faces there. Tamika is brilliant and the conversation will be great.

Pre-orders are up for my new novella, so be the change you want to see in the world and support queer books this Pride! [This story has a trans protagonist AND a trans love interest AND a cult AND a pink fairy armadillo so obvs it ticks all the best boxes] Are you parched or are you flooded?

Reminder that Small Wonders is available for $2.99 USD at their store and an annual subscription is available for $32 USD via weightless books. It’s great stuff, sent right to your inbox so you have an alternative quick dopamine hit to read on your phone besides a hellsite.

At the Nebula convention several of us poets recommended @smallwondersmag.com as a great venue for folks interested in reading more spec poetry. This poem by @ianli.bsky.social is a perfect example of what makes Small Wonders so great (and what makes Ian Li so great as well!)

Speaking of “The Soundtrack of My Afterlife,” there’s another nice review for it here: sffreviews.com/2026/06/09/r...

i have NOT been good at promoting this, due to (waves hand at everything happening right now), BUT. There is a sale going on for this really beautiful audiobook featuring @lindseydorcus.bsky.social and @marawilson.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social

I LOVE seeing more enthusiasm for found media stories!! if you too love these, make sure you follow and back my upcoming anthology [RECORDED] because I want to give you SO MANY AWESOME STORIES!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Reposting! It remains Caribbean Hertiage and Pride month. I will say, while I've seen a lot of SFFH outlets talk about Pride, (Yay) I've barely seen any SFFH outlets mention Caribbean Heritage Month. Which kinda makes me sad. The region does produce great spec fic. Buy our books! Mines are gay!

Possibly the coolest thing about me: I just backed Abandoned: Asylum, a horror anthology on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/902...

New story! "Photographs I Have Been Trapped In" at Small Wonders. 📷meditations on art 📸Oh no, trapped in the art 📷references to Alice in Wonderland 📸I actually have made roses out of playing cards, and it went about as well for me as it did for my protagonist smallwondersmag.com/piece/photog...

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

COVER REVEAL ON THURSDAY

The #2026IgnyteAwards Ember Award finalists for Unsung Contributions to Genre are: @arleysorg.bsky.social @davering.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @marthawells.com @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social

#2026IgnyteAwards Creative Nonfiction finalists: Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler – Susana M. Morris The Outspoken and the Incendiary – Terry Bisson The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction – @gautambhatia88.bsky.social (2/2)

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction are: A Conjuror’s Manifesto: Notes on the Afrosurreal – @conjuringliteracy.bsky.social Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence – @tanawir.bsky.social (1/2)

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works (5/5): We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope: EDs. @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @older.bsky.social

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works (4/5): The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories: ED. @andrecarrington.bsky.social

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works (3/5): As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories: ED. @teresempierre.bsky.social

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works (2/5): Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity: ED. @leemandelo.bsky.social

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works are (this is going to be a long one): Detailed contributors on the following slides, but congratulations to @seraph76.bsky.social for Call and Response

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Fiction Podcast are: @bcsmagazine.bsky.social @escapepod.org @khoreo.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com @nightmare-magazine.com

The Critic #2026IgnyteAward finalists are: @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social @gabino.bsky.social @mariahaskins.com @skiffyandfanty.com @vanessafogg.bsky.social

#2026IgnyteAwards Speculative Poetry finalists (2/2): The Language of Fireflies – @angelaliu.bsky.social cial The oblique light at Kakushima (a memory of persimmons) – @ryu-ando.bsky.social | 安堵 龍

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalist in Speculative Poetry are: After the Storm – Ishita Basu Mallik In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love – Karan Kapoor Set It Off (1996) – Fans’ Cut – Nova Cypress Black (1/2)

The #2026IgnyteAwards Short Story Finalists (2/2): Ichthyosis – @emelkrishnan.bsky.social ocial The Octopus Dreams of Personhood – @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social cial

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Short Story are: Autogas Ferryman – @champwongs.bsky.social Because I Held His Name Like A Key – @aimeeogdenwrites.com Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth’s Vessels – @nkereuwxm.bsky.social (1/2)

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Novelette are: Human Voices – @isabel.kim Never Eaten Vegetables – @hhpak.bsky.social Uncertain Sons – @thomasha.bsky.social We Begin Where Infinity Ends – @somtoihezue.bsky.social What I Saw Before the War – Alaya Dawn Johnson

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Novella are: Audition for the Fox – @mcflycahill90.bsky.social Descent – @wtalabi.com Psychopomp & Circumstance – @edenroyce.bsky.social The Iron Below Remembers – @sharangbiswas.bsky.social The River Has Roots – @amalelmohtar.com

#2026IgnyteAwards Middle Grade finalists 2/2: ​The Glade – @jamsternazzy.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social The Island of Forgotten Gods – @victorpineiro.bsky.social

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Middle Grade are: Afia in the Land of Wonders – @miaaraujo.bsky.social Candace, the Universe, and Everything – Sherri L. Smith Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave – @allyoutthere.bsky.social (1/2)

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Novel: Young Adult are: Needy Little Things – @elledesamours.bsky.social @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social (S)kin – Ibi Zoboi The Leaving Room – @ambsmcbride.bsky.social They Bloom at Night – Trang Thanh Tran The Transition – @transhorrors.bsky.social

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Novel: Adult are: Cursed Daughters – Oyinkan Braithwaite Harmattan Season – @tochitruestory.bsky.social Motheater – @lincodega.com Song of Legends Lost – @mhayinde.bsky.social The Buffalo Hunter Hunter – @stephengrahamjones.com

And finally, a survey of orgs, mags, and other entities focused on speculative fiction, to determine where need might be greatest to help the field stay alive, whether it be through funding, outreach, or anything else. The survey is open thru 6/29. #2026IgnyteAwards airtable.com/appOgisruufu...

Hello hello and welcome to the shortlist announcement thread for the #2026IgnyteAwards, recognizing outstanding contributions to SFFH and its community in 2025! We are grateful to be supported this year by sponsors @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, & @laworldcon.bsky.social

The winners of the 2025 Nebula Awards have been announced! Congratulations to everyone!! 🎊🎊🎊

HAPPY LAUNCH DATE to a fantasy that I'd joke to say "it's like Dark Souls" but it really is DEVOURING FORTUNE by @oleandercraw.bsky.social is live on Kickstarter now; come get your food, weird dark fantasy nerds Back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

If you went to #stokercon and received a rejections punch chard, please @ me as you fill them out and tell me what your self-rewards are! :D LET'S COMMISERATE

If you went to #stokercon and received a rejections punch chard, please @ me as you fill them out and tell me what your self-rewards are! :D LET'S COMMISERATE

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