It's release day for Saros SF #5, the sound/silence issue! This was my first go at editing a magazine. I have more to say about the experience, and about each of these fabulous stories, but for now: Yay! You can (and I hope you will!) acquire the issue for free or PWYC here: sarossf.com/issue-5/

They're here! Delighted by this juxtaposition of covers. Thrilled to release Saros #5 and its 8 haunting stories about sound and silence by 8 authors I will forever be proud to have worked with on my first editorial adventure. I'll have more to say about these stories in the coming days; stay tuned!

Today’s the day! Saros #5 includes my linguistic detective / cosmic horror story “Root Words” sarossf.com/issue-5/ This was my first ever sale so it feels extra special, and alongside such powerhouse writers too!

🚨 Goodreads giveaway alert 🚨 Enter below for a change to win an early copy of THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY from Saga Press. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

TOMORROW!

I don't know if I've been exceptionally lucky but every single editor I've worked with so far (not many!) has been so lovely and encouraging.

A story I -loved- writing (and also my longest short story thus far at 4500 words) just went in! 🎇

I’ve been so excited to share this one! My flash story about two envoys each searching for a new home is out now in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social You can read the whole issue here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

Translunar Travelers Lounge is open for submissions from writers of color. We're looking for speculative fiction short stories of 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines before submitting. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

So delighted to announce we have a release date now! Very very very very excited to share the Sound/Silence issue of Saros SF with the world and immensely grateful to each and every one of these wildly talented writers for trusting me with their work. These are *such* good stories.

✨ Flash Fiction Online ( @flashfictiononline.bsky.social ) Special Call: Tiny Gods 💰 $100 📝 500-1k words 📅 Deadline: March 31 Speculative stories about small rituals & everyday acts of worship to the tiny gods in our lives. Details horrortree.com/taking-submi... Edited by @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social

I’ve been so excited to share this one! My flash story about two envoys each searching for a new home is out now in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social You can read the whole issue here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

Submissions are OPEN for our special issue theme: THROWBACK TECH 🎥📺📻🎮📀📼🕹️👾 Edited by @prof-bogs.bsky.social Let's do this. You have until March 31. It's a new year, let's celebrate with old tech. ➡️ thecosmicbackground.moksha.io/publication/...

Congrats to Sarah and all the contributors! This is bittersweet for sure

Submissions for the next issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge open soon. From March 15-21 is reserved for writers of color; from March 22 until April 15 is general submissions for everybody. We are looking for speculative fiction up to 5,000 words. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

My flash story “The Dispatches of Dr. Clara Weber and Sgt. Andres Ramírez” will be out soon in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social alongside some really stellar writers! Two envoys, two planets, one decision, told in one-way dispatches. It was fun to write and hopefully will be fun to read!

Such kind words, lifted my spirits on a gloomy end-of-winter day ♥️ @hearthstories.bsky.social are open for subs so send them your stuff folks!

friends, please share ❤️👹: everyone who follows my bsky account between now (1:08PM EST) and when i’ve crashed into bed with my yasso bar (8PM EST) will be entered into a raffle for a free full edit of 3k words or less i’m tired of being unpopular lfg

🛸big week in night shades world 🛸🛸it’s the first week of the new $75 flat rate. only 2 stories this month! 🛸🛸we’re still open for subs! 🛸🛸i’ll be lurking awp with stickers! 🛸much to consider

The 3-Day Weekend Stretch Goal Surge continues, we might have to send out for more tea to keep it fueled. $344 to reach the first Stretch Goal of adding an additional 4-6 authors to the anthology. www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... Continued thanks bearing with us for these signal boost posts.

✨ I’m excited to share that Orion’s Belt will reopen for submissions from March 1 to May 15! We’ll be seeking spec flash, micro, & poetry, as well as translations & reviews! Most importantly, our payment for poetry & art will increase. Follow us on this new adventure and for more exciting news! ✨

Hi friends, just checking in from Minneapolis. Can we put out a couple asks for your support? 💕 Turns out, it's really hard to run a lit mag in your free time when the federal government has besieged your beloved city.

I wrote a little for the first time in a week yesterday and it was glorious. The flu really is no joke, even vaccinated! Glad to be human again

Fiction submissions are open now! The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

I feel like I write characters moving through different emotions / having interior realizations well. It helps that it’s one of my favorite things to write!

“Carol is, in fact, a portrait of deradicalisation; the comfortable dissenter in a position of privilege who must loosen her ethical boundaries to preserve that privilege (like so many of us, our ideals and morals shackled to capitalism even as it devours the world).”

RT this with your home river. We’re by the Delaware (Lenapewihittuk) which has a few different walking bridges in our town and the next. I used to walk along the river with my daughter in the pram when she was a newborn so she’d nap. Hours and hours of white noise.

Please boost! Applications for Odyssey's Online Winter Classes close on 1/18! Apply today!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...

I just submitted my application! If you're unpublished in book form, this is a great opportunity to consider.

Going to try something a little different this time for the "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" anthology KS campaign - a pre-launch page - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #sciencefiction. Launching officially February 3rd, 2026. Please join us as a backer!

This is exquisite. Words for the soul.

really told myself I wouldn’t fall asleep reading Tolstoy at 10pm, what was I thinking

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

A very fond farewell to 2025, year of my first publications at @innerworlds.bsky.social and @nightshadesmag.bsky.social If you missed them the first time around: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-wond... www.nightshadesmag.com/the-wound-i-...

Submissions for issue 10 are open a few hours early! For this, our last issue, we're looking for stories which explore the theme of endings 🥲 1-14 January: open to authors who are members of marginalised groups only 15-31 January: open to everyone

Came across this wall of frozen English ivy on a walk yesterday <3

2025 started with a scary staph infection and included a unwanted miscarriage but (somehow) also the most fulfilling writing, publishing and parenting experiences I’ve had so far. I know people say it all the time but joy and grief really do exist at once. ❤️‍🩹

I’ve been so excited to share this one. Much gratitude to @nightshadesmag.bsky.social for making the blend of English/Arabic dialogue work on the page (not easy, it turns out). It’s a tale of gaps (between languages, between worlds, and between who we are and who we ought to be). Hope you enjoy.

“At dawn, we breach the perimeter to tag each one, disperse them, and make way for the next day’s batch.” a true chiller, new this week, from @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/the-wound-i-...

Yikes, in the best possible way. Nice work @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social !

My 400-word moral quandary is out in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social Apologies in advance!!

Toddler is obsessed with giant Bluey and I’m obsessed with Wingspan

🛸🛸hey guess what 🛸🛸 Night Shades will open for submissions on December 26 🛸🛸 all speculative, pro+ pay, 500 words max, sim subs ok 🛸🛸 please read the guidelines carefully! www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

So cool to see what an advance copy looks like!

The Lottery has been on my to-read list for a while and all I can say is what www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...

I’m so sad to read this. Inner Worlds was the perfect home for my first published story. Everyone give Sarah her flowers please! 💐

The Markaz Review @markaz-review.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Mother Tongue. #CallforSubmissions

Woah I won one of these! Can’t wait to read it, premise sounds fascinating

What a gorgeous, wistful visit to the deep. "Once, her house—like her—used to swim in the sunny waters that now pass for her sky. Everything falls in the end, whales and women alike."

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...