✨ 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 If you're unpublished in book form, this is a great opportunity to consider.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...

If everyone could speak to me the way my partner does when I’m at the dentist that would be great. 🥺

Writing I aspire to

The most compelling character I’ve seen in a while.

I love eels and I love this story.

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a specific set of genetic variants go.nature.com/3Ymtiwg

Call for subs: The Orange & Bee – Jan 1–14, 2026 🧡🐝 Fairy-tale/folklore-inspired poetry, flash, short fiction & essays. Pay: $50/poem, $80/flash, $0.08/word short. No reprints, no AI, 1 piece. Info: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

Calling all Inner Worlds writers and readers: please tell me your thoughts about mental health and speculative fiction! 🧠❤️

A little crushed tbh 🥲 a dream market

Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times with a gif (Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, or Marvel).

the next scene in my bad-romance-space-opera got beamed into my brain this morning; much gratitude to the muse as always 🙇🏻‍♀️

My first (!!) story is out in the world. Thank you Sarah @innerworlds.bsky.social for tucking it in with the vibrant, heartfelt stories of Issue 9. ✨ In a few words: sartorial, surreal, warm, wistful, like a good cry inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-wond...

With only 10 days left, this year's Kickstarter is not trending in a hopeful direction... This funding is what keeps us online. If you can, we would deeply appreciate your support. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

First snow day!! ❄️

"Chantilly, bobbin, guipure, knotted, knitted, on and on. Where is the floor? The door? The wiry buttermilk cat that led me into this maze? And how might I leave?" Read "Wonderful" by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social in our new issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-wond... #SFF #Fantasy #Fabulism

Ever wondered what it might be like to taste someone's final moments? Look no further 👇

This!! We are only here for a short while, go ahead and be effusive!!

Gonna say it: Everyone should read the works of Omar El Akkad. www.cbc.ca/books/omar-e...

A story of which there are thousands, yet no less worth sharing. "Her son, Sa’ad, was born just before their exile, shortly after what people called “America’s first invasion” of the capital."

Ok I’m caught up on Pluribus. My only thought so far has been “wow she’s handling all this much better than I would be” Then again, I don’t drink and she seems like a functional alcoholic so maybe that’s the gamechanger 💀

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3