Aina Hunter reads to a hungry crowd at the next Charm City Spec, this Saturday night at the Bird in Hand! Don't miss this unique CCS event! #baltimoreevents #baltimorelit

Scott is always a good time, and we're thrilled to have him read for us again! Don't miss this!

Thanks, @duotrope.com ✨

Come out this Saturday evening as Trae Hawkins takes the stage at Charm City Spec! He'll be promoting ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, in which his work appears. Signs and Wonders! You really won't want to miss this!

If you've never heard @fondalee.bsky.social speak she is a marvel.

TT Madden makes a second appearance at this Saturday's Charm City Spec, this Saturday along with a bevy of talented authors! Come and join us!

Author copies babiiieeeee!!!!!! @speculationpub.bsky.social

Crypto — NO! Cryptids — Yessssss...

Come out for the April Charm City Spec! We have a great lineup of authors—it's going to be an adventurous night of readings, with author Q&A, refreshments, door prizes, and surprises! Free for all, and everyone is welcome!

Hey is that Charm City Spec alumni David Simmons, appearing in PROFANE SORCERY volume 3? Go David go!

Congratulations to Charm City Spec alumni J.R. Dawson! We surely can believe they're on this list!!

Congratulations to recent Charm City Spec alumni Somto Izehue and all the authors of works nominated for this year's Nebulas! What a great year we've had for new works!

Our celebration doesn't stop here! *Only* through Tuesday, you can order the paperback of Hornytown Chutzpah (Oy vey! Not that type of horny! ... Maybe.) and receive a free Spotify code for the delightful, joyful brother-sister read audiobook. Show some love to indie fiction tonight? 💖

One down (A phenomenal success. Thanks @charmcityspec.bsky.social) and so much more to go. Join me. Invite me!

Had a blast up in Baltimore at #AWP representing the University of Maryland’s MFA in Creative Writing program and running into @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social and so many wonderful people!!!!✨

Come see Baltimore from a new vantage, as you listen to up-and-coming authors reading fresh new work! At the Top of the World Observatory, World Trade Center Baltimore. 5pm today!

Andrew Hiller reads from his mischievous Jewish fantasy noir, at the Top of the World Observatory (and with a surprise special guest!) Come join us for the highest—measured by altitude—AWP offsite in Baltimore, as we host a Charm City Spec in the sky! #AWP #AWP2026 #awpoffsites

Please use the elevators when you come to hear Elwin Cotman read from the 27th floor observatory! Don't miss this one of a kind event! (Free to all. Just say "Charm City" at the door to gain entry after hours.)

Don't miss red-hot writer Chris Campbell when he reads his truths from the highest building in the Inner Harbor. This will be a Charm City Spec like no other. The program is STACKED with talent! Come out and join us!

Gina Tron lights up the top of the World Trade Center Baltimore, when she reads from her as-yet unpublished novel, as part of Charm City Spec! Live readings, free for all 5-7pm this Wednesday! Don't miss this one-of-a-kind event! #WhiskeyTit #AWP2026 #AWPoffsite

Don't miss the loftiest literary event ever held in Baltimore, and killer views of the city at sunset! 5-7pm on Wednesday March 4th. Free to all, and everyone is welcome! #AWP2026 #AWPoffsite2026 #AWPoffsite #CharmCitySpec

The Tit's @ginatron.bsky.social will be there, with some of our besties. Please go! Take photos!

Lanternfish Press authors Andrew Katz and James Slater Simmons III read as part of Charm City Spec's AWP festivities! From the Top of the World Observatory — don't miss it! #AWP2026 #AWoffsite2026 #CharmCitySpec #AWPBaltimore

This is going to be so much fun! If you're attending #AWP in #Baltimore check it out!

Next year: AWP but we just do the offsites for three solid nights and skip the rest. That's the idea. Now buy the books so we can make it happen.

I'll be a part of this reading a week from today on 3/4. If you're in the Baltimore area, it would be lovely to see you there! What a cool location for a reading!

Don't miss the loftiest literary event ever in Baltimore, and killer views of the city at sunset! You won't regret it! #AWP2026 #AWPoffsite2026 #BaltimoreIsLit #CharmCitySpec

Shocking. Amazing. Thrilling. And that’s just the Blizzard of 2026! I’m so damn happy and grateful to see Storyteller is a finalist for the Stokers! @carinabissett.bsky.social @ethereallad.bsky.social

Plan to be there as Charm City Spec makes history with what is believed to be the loftiest reading event ever held in Baltimore! 5-7pm Wednesday March 4th at the Top of the awprld Observatory, 27th floor of the World Trade Center Baltimore—attendance is free, and all are welcome! #AWP26 #AWPoffsite

O.M.G. Publishers and authors, please make sure the contact form on your website actually connects to a person who will read and answer reasonable inquiries. Why even have a contact form if no one is gong to respond?

For the Monday crowd: Publications at the end of the year don't get as much lead time, so I'm trying to make up for that. Thanks for reading!

December’s giftable What I Love & Where I’ll Be is up at the patreoblog for all subscribers! Contains details on December’s 2 free write-in sessions, goal/intention setting workshops, & a list of nifty gifty things. Not signed up yet? Come on over & check it out! www.patreon.com/posts/144927...

Charm City Spec alumna and fabulous writer and person, Meg Elison—really looking forward to this!!

MYTHIC DELIRIUM returns w/ new books in 2026‼️ The 1st step toward that goal’s underway, w/ the forthcoming publication of Haralambi Markov’s debut collection of horror & Weird fiction THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES. (Introduction by @annvandermeer.bsky.social!) Sale link here! bit.ly/BoneSwans10th [1/3]

Congratulations to CCS alumnus and one of our all-time favorite writers, Vajra Chandrasekera!!

That's right! THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES, latest and so far longest of the Mossa & Pleiti Investigations, is on ebook sale across platforms! If you've been waiting to catch up on the latest Jovian mystery, or wanted to get your own copy, now is a great time to do it!!

A HUGE congratulations to CCS alum and fabulous (in both ways) writer @vajra.me !!! 🎉 We can't wait to see what he does next!

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CCS alum and TropiWeird pioneer Karlo Yeager Rodriguez selling a veritable trove of great fiction over at itch.io right now! Don't miss this!

Fabulous and funny, recent CCS alumna Alaya Dawn Johnson appears in the new issue of Uncanny! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Funny, smart, generous CCS alum Amber Sparks has a new novel out! I'm looking forward to it! www.ambernoellesparks.com

Charm City Spec alumna (and friend) Fran Wilde putting an early flag down with her new fantasy heist—Go Fran Go!

Edited by CCS alumna Ann Leblanc!

The first episode of the new podcast miniseries I'm hosting at @issuesinst.bsky.social comes out on Tuesday! I'll be talking with @boriscrito.bsky.social about the anthropology of cloud storage, his Caribbean-influenced speculative fiction genre, Taínofuturismo, and more!

TOMORROW!

Just a heads up that if you're coming to Charm City Spec tomorrow night--and you should! Look at that lineup!-- the bike race has falls road closed from Hampden to northern parkway and Northern parkway closed falls to Roland Ave. You can still get to the ivy if you come from the north.

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT!! Don't forget to join us on the patio of the inimitable Ivy Bookshop, for an evening of drama and intrigue, as author Jeff Reynolds takes the mic to read, alongside a stellar lineup at the next CHARM CITY SPEC!! This Spec is going to be truly special. You won't want to miss it!

New story day! "The Truth About Crows" is a sweet fun story about what happens when a dragon finds a crow trespassing in her lair. I think my fondness for both crows and dragons is well documented by now! It's the perfect length for a Friday afternoon break, too: factorfourmag.com/the-truth-ab...

Friends, please join us this Saturday, September 6th, when Mary G. Thompson takes the mic to read from her provocative story of simulation, ONE LEVEL DOWN, at the next Charm City Spec! She joins a thrilling group of authors for what's sure to be a classic night!

Charm City Spec alum Andrew Hiller, kickstarting the audio book for his new novella—>