it's about that time!! 🥩 in October, please send us writing with transcendance through obliteration, emotional / physical splash zones, experimental prose, compassion, cruelty, kink, brand new man-made horrors of the viscera, & excruciating earnesty. get weird with it.

Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'! Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

I am outside your house as you read this.

Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

if you're in Sacramento, three of my poems are available to read in person at the E Street Post on the corner of 20th and E!!!!! (⁠☆⁠▽⁠☆⁠) or online at estreetpost.com !!

we are currently OPEN for nonfiction subs until Oct. 15 and yes, it's true, we pay $100 per accepted essay so polish those deathly dealings and do the thing ⬇️💀🖤 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

During the first week of October, @spicycloaca.bsky.social and I are running an open sub call for the zine that will accompany their book Gore Poetics. 500 words max on the theme FLESH. Pay is 10 cents/word. Samir's book is weird, erotic, and often transgressive vibewise, so keep that in mind.

There’s a LOT going on right now, but the fact that there is a racist pedophile in the White House and so many people are cool with it is still fucking wild to me.

Hey, free ebook. Nazis eat shit. dl.bookfunnel.com/rtl56fi074

We just met our funding goal! Thank you times infinity to the backers of the last 30 minutes, and everyone in the last 28 days. There will be 3LBE 2026! 🖤🐙 📖 There’s still time for stretch goals, which will add more issues and more stories.

72% of our funding goal with only 45 hours left. We need your support now to publish another year of stories that are strange terrifying numinous inspiring queer heartening subversive unexpected intrepid. kck.st/4mIkEm1

Oh my god you guys they have less than three days and still like a whole bunch to go. It’s going to be so sad if another press is forced to shut down. There are so many other things that are fucking with art right now can we please not keep losing places that give us good stories?

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Cat Eye Press ( @cateyepress.bsky.social‬ ) - October Oddities Horror Microfiction Contest horrortree.com/cats-eye-pre... Window: Aug 16 - 31 Prizes: $15, $10, & $5 for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place respectively. Theme: Micro horror stories about strange and/or unusual items #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Taking Submissions: Last Girls Club Winter October 2025 Window horrortree.com/taking-submi... Open Window: October 1-15t Pay: Short Story-$0.015 USD per word/$37.50 max, Poems $10, Flash Fiction-$0.015 per word/$15 max Theme: Secret Police, ICE, and Desperate Times #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

🎃 more details later but we we will re-open for GHOULISH TALES submissions September 15 - October 15. nothing longer than 5k words. payment 10c per word. an emphasis on "fun horror"—however you interpret that. let's get spooky, ghouls. 🎃

Psssst... The Flights of Foundry schedule is now live! flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/

The next Tempered Tales is long overdue so the next one will be in 2026. The theme? Little Red Riding Hood. I’m still hammering out the details, but I do know the short story word count will be a max of 2500 words. There will be poetry. And. SD doesn’t know yet. Start writing.

We discuss the too-often bland and safe nature of science fiction and fantasy before diving in to a work that's anything but, "One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve"! Body horror and familial obsession mix in this arresting and clever novella about a man sawed in half! soundcloud.com/death-senten...

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇

Our Kickstarter campaign is now coming September 29th! Turns out Halloween is busy (who knew)—and with our co-founders' schedules, it makes more sense to end the campaign on October 29th instead of the 31st! That’s VERY SOON! We are VERY EXCITED! In the meantime: follow our pre-launch campaign? 👀

The Apex Magazine team is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter for 2026 begins OCTOBER 1ST!! 🎃🍁 We're keeping all the rewards you love, adding exciting new rewards for readers and writers alike, AND reopening submissions! Mark your calendars, and we'll see you at the graveyard smash! 👻🌙🐈‍⬛📅

are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Cozy in the Apocalypse now open for submissions of speculative fiction and poetry of a comfortingly apocalyptic nature. angrygablepress.com/submissions/

If you'd like to give us a birthday gift, here's 3 ideas 🎁 1) Share a story from our latest issue & tell us why you love it ❤️ 2) Pick up a couple of past issues in epub or pdf 📚 3) Become a subscriber, and help us keep this whole glorious show on the road! ⭐️ inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions! From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website: www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi... 🖤👻📚

Taking Subs: Trollbreath Magazine Sep Window horrortree.com/taking-submi... Deadline: Sep 30 Pay: Fiction: 4 cents/word, 1/2 cent/word for reprints. Poetry: $25/poem. NonFiction: $40. $150 for cover art Theme: Specfic, poetry, & non-fiction of all kinds. Fondness for slipstream & fabulism #AmWriting

Why send us early subs? You get: ❣️fresh eyeballs (plump, moist, dense) ❣️boundless reading energy (cackling and exhaustion free) ❣️more time to submit again (good vibes of deadlines)

A few updates! 🖊️ Weird West Quick Draw Flash Fiction Contest The Weird West Quick Draw contest winners will be announced Sept 1 on @reachyourapex.bsky.social and my social channels. Thanks everyone who submitted! 🏜️Women of the Weird West Due to a much larger number

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

🛸🛸 i’m going to close submissions this friday august 29 at 11:59 pm. 🛸🛸 please send your stories this week! 🛸🛸 especially if you’ve never submitted anywhere before! no need to be intimidated by me i’m literally just some guy

I've seen every single major US publisher named as failing to register copyright (a contractual obligation for my books with Penguin Random House, of which they only registered 4 out of 7, and I expect for all the others too).

⭐️ One week to go and it's Issue Eight TOC time! ⭐️ Featuring 14 fantastic stories by @cindyphanauthor.com @busayo.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social @katharinetyndall.bsky.social @esichr.bsky.social @chloehsmith.bsky.social @lost-squonk.bsky.social & more!

Taking Submissions: Translunar Travelers Lounge Fall 2025 Window from @translunartl.bsky.social‬ horrortree.com/taking-submi... Submission Window: September 15th through October 15th Payment: 3 cents per word Theme: Speculative Fiction in the science fiction or fantasy variety #WritingCommunity

Contest: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Short Fiction Contest ( @thebulletin.org‬ ) horrortree.com/taking-submi... Due: Sep 30th Prizes: $3000 for 1 place, $500 each to 4 runners-up Theme: Stories that deal with various types of existential threats that could cause an Apocalypse, & avoiding it.

Taking Submissions: Dreams Divine horrortree.com/taking-submi... Deadline: August 24th, 2025 Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. Theme: Romantic fantasy stories set in or about dreams

Have you heard? Our #Fairytale themed #horror anthology is now on #sale for $0.99. Warning! These tales ain't for kids: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9KT8V3S #booktwt #author #indie #BookTwitter #writer

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words. If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

⚔️ ✍️ SHORT STORY SUBMISSIONS FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY's 2026 ISSUES ARE NOW OPEN ✍️⚔️ Details here: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions

Our third @starsandsabers.bsky.social anthology, OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM, has the most incredible lineup of horror authors. Still, the crowd-funding campaign could use some help. All shares appreciated! First, the cover, by Niall C. Grant:

A good overview of writers' concerns about contracts from Must Read Magazines, which recently acquired a number of well-known genre magazines including Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

Get ready for an exciting announcement straight from the horse's mouth! 🎠🐴 The theme for July's flash fiction contest is CAROUSEL! You have until the end of the month to submit! Check out the full submission requirements here: www.patreon.com/posts/july-f...

Taking Submissions: No Anesthetic III horrortree.com/taking-submi... Deadline: Extended to July 3rd, 2025 Payment: $15 Theme: Extreme/splatter-punk tales #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Taking Submissions: Diabolical Plots 2025 Window horrortree.com/taking-submi... Submission Window: July 7th-21st, 2025 Payment: 10 cents per word Theme: Science fiction, fantasy, horror (everything must have a speculative element, even horror) #AmWriting #WritingCommunity