ARTISTS. We have an open call for fanastical art running from April 17-May 17. We pay. Selected works will appear in print, and possibly on the cover of our print magazine. Full guidelines here! (photo: Ivan S.) fabulistmagazine.com/spring-2026-...

Hello all you last-minute Hugo voters. Nominations close TOMORROW. Here's our utterly shameless last-minute pitch ... thanks for considering! fabulistmagazine.com/the-fabulist...

Running an indie mag and press is like "oh just another 600 yards of tar pits" and then that floaty feeling of liberation — you go through the slog! — but oh, what's that ahead ... ?! And you know you can do it again, you can damn well slog through another 600 yards of tar pits ...

In a word or three, "Hell to the yes."

Hum a little Piaf as you consider "Press Me To Your Heart" for your witchy little Hugo ballot. fabulistmagazine.com/press-me-to-...

Firmly in the "New Weird" end of the spectrum, this unnerving tale of an uncanny phone call sets your teeth ever-so-slightly on edge ... One of our 2025 treasures, for your consideration. fabulistmagazine.com/dead-mens-fi...

One of our favorites. Where the fantastical is all in the mind, the heart, the mystery of the other. "Out Yonder," by Samuel Wood. Thanks for your consideration. fabulistmagazine.com/out-yonder/

Fantasy is getting way too mormon coded all of a sudden, sanderson's window plan prose, DNDs pathetic art style and cultural practices, everything going on with popular romantasy. we need to make it fucked up, illogical, and transexual again. At least catholicism was theatrical; tolkien and wolfe.

LeeAnn Perry's anxious narrative of an invasive, seductive, inscrutable phone-app magnifies the helpless fascinations of the digital millennium. #hugoawards fabulistmagazine.com/a-tyranny-of...

Hugo voters, here's a story for our times. And yeah, it doesn't really go down easy. fabulistmagazine.com/wigs/

This is a hard story about a moment of true peril, and the beautiful transformation that follows. #hugoawards fabulistmagazine.com/what-a-wonde...

Just gonna quote the blurb on this one: "We love how this gentle, urgent charmer uses sci-fi cliche to show us so much about being human." #hugoawards fabulistmagazine.com/heartless/

"But I don't know what to nomi—" Let me stop you there. We built an entire resource for this! It's free and operates as both a rec list and a second brain for remembering stuff you read/watched/played a year ago. #HugoAwards

Hugo voters, this little gem about a pet allosaurus is a poignant gut punch wrapped in Pythonesque absurdity. Take a breath. fabulistmagazine.com/the-dinosaur...

Time travel and romantic obsession. What could possibly go wrong? Katie Kent's "Mine Again," for your consideration. #hugoawards fabulistmagazine.com/mine-again/

Plumb the weirdness of family and social obligations in the surreal coming-of-age ritual of Jen Soong's "Harvest" ... #hugoawards fabulistmagazine.com/harvest/

We offer you TZ Hum's otherworldly animal fable "Foxhunters" for your Hugo consideration. "They say cats can slip between worlds. Cats do slip sometimes, by accident, but foxes do so with purpose." fabulistmagazine.com/foxhunters/

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Hey Hugo voters ... Joe Belarge's "Rendezvous at the Pier" is a strikingly uncomfortable, insightful portrait of need and self-delusion in the age of virtual lives and digital self-sequestration. fabulistmagazine.com/rendezvous-a...

For your Hugo/Short Fiction consideration, kevlin.bsky.social Kevlin Henney's "Spring Flight" is a gorgeous, lyrical grasp at childhood's last chances and the new hopes that follow. fabulistmagazine.com/spring-flight/

Reading for the Hugos? In Best Short Fiction, we recommend "The Garden of Feelings," by Aotearoa New Zealand writer Tehnuka. It's one of the most yearningly abstruse, exotic, strange and beautiful stories about the trials of parenting you'll ever read. fabulistmagazine.com/a-garden-of-...

That feeling when you have boatloads of awesome to share with Hugo readers but have spent the last three weeks doing taxes, royalties and contracts for contributors and also still have to finalize the next issue of the magazine and who said anything about deadlines, anyway??!

Hugo Award nominations are OPEN and The Fabulist is eligible in the Best Semi-Prozine and Short Fiction categories, and more. Check out our full eligibility post here, and THANKS for your consideration. fabulistmagazine.com/the-fabulist...

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice. We noticed. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Please to receive my copy of the new print @fabulistmag.bsky.social. Includes my Short Review of a Short Book--Marisolania by Michele Cruz Gonzales AND my new flash fiction designed to be the 52nd weekly of 52. The rest are online at The Fab's website, and my story—"Punchline" is in print.

In a word … hurray for proofreaders!!!!!!

Honored to have a small part (as proofreader) in helping a wonderful, unique lit magazine find its way to print. Kudos and thanks to publisher/editor in chief Joshua Wilson on the new edition of @fabulistmag.bsky.social, which is fabulous. Print is NOT dead. fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-...

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Adding a link to a story about Diana with more details of her abduction. She was GOING TO THE DOCTOR BECAUSE SHE HAD A NOSEBLEED AND NOW SHE IS IN A PRISON FULL OF MEASLES. www.opb.org/article/2026...

There is no way in hell the United States under the Trump regime can host the World Cup in a few months. They are murdering citizens in broad daylight, threatening war against NATO, and lawlessly kidnapping children and foreign heads of state. The world has to organize a boycott. It’s not safe.

Tomorrow, Jan. 22, is STIR's "Rainy Season" reading event. The lineup is SUPERABUNDANT. Mukethe Kawinzi! Sam J. Miller! Jason Bayani! Annalee Newitz! And the venue? *chef's kiss* Hella kudos to our event lead TK Rex for bringing such care and intention to this happening. If you're in SF, ya gotta!

Thursday in San Francisco! Coffee hour, readings & discussion with: 📖 Mukethe Kawinzi 📕 @jasonbayani.bsky.social 🦖 @sentencebender.bsky.social 📚 @annaleen.bsky.social 1246 Folsom near Civic Center ☕️ Coffee hour 5-6 🎤 Readings start at 6 Hosted by me & @fabulistmag.bsky.social

Twenty minutes into this Award Winning Military Science Fiction Novel and I am trying and failing to give a shit about another goddamn galactic empire. How about an epic far-future science fiction novel about an artist cooperative or something. Fucking please.

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...

Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.

This is gonna be good.

Raul Sanchez of the great SoMa SF cultural space Cafe Suspiro suffered a stroke before the holidays. Raul hosts the Stir reading series produced by our comrade @tkrex.bsky.social (next one is Jan 22!) and is a stand-up fellow. We donated to support him and we encourage you to as well!

It’s my birthday and I’m 45! One way to celebrate with me is to support @truthout.org. TO’s news and analysis rocks, and our Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism works to foster and maintain the ecosystem of movement and indy journalism that we need to fight fascism. truthout.org/donate

Let's talk about SFFH magazine editing! With @mrjoshuawilson.bsky.social, editor of @fabulistmag.bsky.social, and Alexandra Pierce, editor of @speculativeinsight.bsky.social. wizardsandspaceships.ca/2026/01/15/s...

So many. This made me cry.

Expiring on Jan. 15! Subscribe to The Fabulist Magazine in print and get a free, collectible copy of Issue Zero. Limited stock • Offer ends 11:59pm Jan 15. fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-...

One of my favorite local poets is reading at Stir on the 22nd and she’s not on socials so I’m gonna go ahead and tell you to get to know her the old fashioned way and come to our reading! 1246 Folsom in San Francisco, hosted by me and @fabulistmag.bsky.social www.mukethekawinzi.com

“It’s dangerous to confused self-expression with communication” phew!

After 2 and a half years of delays, I have the new issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION in my hands. My story in it has been waiting a long time for their new owners to get it together. AND I got the new WORLDS OF IF in. I'm in there too. IF is a BIG thick mag full up with wonder.

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

I need everyone to memorize this poem by the US citizen shot by ICE and then try and tell me poetry doesn’t matter. life is merely to ovum and sperm and where those two meet and how often and how well and what dies there. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

Now on to the disgusting spectacle of politicians and mass media retconning the murder of a young woman.

Read her award-winning poetry right now and remember that Garcia Lorca was also murdered by a fascist government poets.org/2020-on-lear...