@thisisguan.bsky.social said this made him think of me, and I'm choosing to take it as a compliment

I'm teaching a class on basic story structure at the fabulous Write Space in Orange, NJ on October 21st from 7-9pm--more info and signup: bit.ly/4296vX0

fair warning: these poems bite back 🌷please continue reading if you experience the following: persistent desire, the urge to give birth to a bird of hell or pick your teeth with an orbitoclast. some also experienced pre-grief for perfect strangers, resentment, reverence, and gender euphoria.

Librarians (and honestly, everyone). Block and/or watch out for this account, which appears to be gathering posts critical of Charlie Kirk/right wing ideology. Note the misspelling of the handle.

Did you know Flights of Foundry is Dream Foundry's biggest fundraiser of the year! If you can make a donation, we always appreciate it and it helps a lot. flights-of-foundry.o...

We're giving away 5 copies of HIGHER MAGIC on Goodreads this month! Enter by the 21st. ✨ #booksky #Goodreads @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

🚨 FoF Reminder for Registrants: The lottery is open until Sept 15. Results will be emailed Sept 17, even if you didn’t win any seats. After the lottery closes, everyone can directly sign up for remaining seats. Haven't registered yet? Now's the time! flights-of-foundry.o...

Today's read is a book I'm incredibly excited for - last year's award-winning cyberpunk anthology from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @robotleblanc.bsky.social! Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨

At 384 pages with a perfect binding and no ads, our September issue isn't really a magazine, it's a book! www.lunastationquart... www.amazon.com/dp/19... #ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines

My flash "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero" is free to read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social today! What happens after a hero grows old ... and has to babysit his granddaughter? (My first reprint!)

The program for the 6th edition of Flights of Foundry, a virtual, worldwide conference (free to attend, but donations and sponsorships encouraged) is now live! It happens September 26-28, running around the clock, with something for people in every time zone. flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/

Register for @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social and you can yell at me about how wrong I am! flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

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!

Hey! It’s a full moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. It’s a giveaway! Win an annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC and some moon-themed stickers! 🌚 Details in thread.

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

It's finally September! Do you know what that means??? Flights of Foundry is THIS MONTH. Register: flights-of-foundry.o... Let's gooooo! 🪽🪽🪽

If you enjoyed my short story, "Deconstruction in the Form of a Cat God", @uncannymagazine.bsky.social just published my essay about my faith journey complete with cats, figuring out my faith, and a bonus rumination on what following love looks like when horrible stuff happens unexpectedly.

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...

I've taken a marketing class with Allison and learned a ton! She understands so much about working with those of us (all of us?) who know we need to market while also loathing the very idea.

I'm in this! With a little fabulist story about bird mom problems aka what happens when you have an immigrant parent and the choice to assimilate is made for you.

I have a reprint out in this, with many other fabulous authors! "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild's First Dragon" is about what happens after you save the world, and have to babysit your grandchild. Now available to order at the link below!

who breaks the cycle? what does breaking it cost? these are questions i wrestle with among other things: angels with buzzcuts and dermal scars, corrective lobotomies, grandmothers in silt lagoons, and persistent, incurable desires in 'better hands', my debut poetry collection🌷 #SapphicSeptember

Subscriptions are $5 an issue/$20 a year at magazine.trollbreath.com @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bmorrisallen.com @maressakate.bsky.social @sarahpauling.bsky.social @cjtavares.bsky.social @jessonemoreword.bsky.social @mytherea.bsky.social @michaelallenrose.bsky.social

Psst...Trollbreath runs on GMT. That means that our new issue drops and our submissions open in about 15 minutes!!! magazine.trollbreath.com

Excited to say I’m in this Air and Nothingness anthology with a little story of a man who walks the same streets, everyday. Aan is such a beacon of art in this community, and I can’t wait to see the book in print.

Listen, everyone says "start a newsletter" so that's what I'm doing. Your motivation to sign up is next week ONLY IN MY NEWSLETTER I will reveal my dog's weird and very specific rice preferences. You know you're curious. www.kmveohongs.com/newsletter

Go read Val's latest!

OK, I promised @apottern.bsky.social awhile ago that I would start a newsletter so I am FINALLY starting a newsletter -- next week! Sign up here (please): www.kmveohongs.com/newsletter

Check out the excellent "Two Songs Before the Airlock Cycles" by @rkduncan.bsky.social www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/stories/rkdu...

The Goldman Fund window opens September 1 through October 16. If you're a member of the Palestinian diaspora attending Metropol Con in Berlin, apply through Con or Bust program dreamfoundry.org/con...

gnahahah my friend keeps telling me how unbearable Bunny in The Secret History is, and they're only in chapter 1. babe. babe. babe. this isn't even Category 1 Hurricane Bunny. this isn't even Tropical Storm Bunny. please pace urself. you'll want to murder him MUCH more as time goes on.

There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.

My debut short story, "When the Oracle Speaks", got a reprint in @escapepod.org! It's about fate, war, and what it takes to try to change the world. This piece got published in @metaphorosis.com a lifetime ago in 2023. Thanks everyone for putting my work out there. escapepod.org/2025/08/07/e...

I think this is a really great and important initiative but I think it'd be really important to be inclusive of poets, and also to get more translators of color and those from the global south involved. It would be great if the team can reach out and chat more

The Welkin Writing Prize is pleased to announce our nominations for Best of the Net: @thisisguan.bsky.social for "A Parable of Slow Songs" and @sfreligh.bsky.social for "Nine One One" Congratulations both! Such brilliant writing! Story links in the thread below.

It’sss pub day! MAD SISTERS OF ESI is now out in the US and Canada. To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York! (*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)

Everybody loves a VM Ayala story, at least those with good taste. Go check this out now if you're a subscriber (and in a month if not. I'll remind you.)

Interested in some summer reading? Join our book club! August's theme is more pride and we'll be reading The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wrecker. Head on over to our Discord to participate. discord.com/invite/d...

It’s finally here! Thank you so much to @reactorsff.bsky.social for ushering into the world the cover for my gothic horror THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED! Welcome to Villa Sepulveda…hope you survive your stay. 11/25/25 from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social. Preorder info ⬇️ reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

flailing and screaming that OTHERSIDE is at the pre-launch phase alreadyyyy AAAAA!!! signing up to get notified on kickstarter launch in october will help us out a lot. please help make this queer speculative magazine a reality 🥺 💜

I saw two great blue herons on my dog walk today but before I could get my phone out to take a picture I said: “Ooh! Herons!” and scared them away, so you’ll have to take my word for it.

New story day! It's not everyday I get to join a Universe, but I'm so thrilled to join the Astrolabe Universe. A flash story about leaving the party at 1am, driving down the streets with the music up loud, and that girl beside you, whose song you want to hear the end of ...

After a devastating battle, a reluctant rebel is forced to work with a dangerous enemy to save their world. In the mood for a book about found family, fighting technofascism, and second chances? There are 100 free copies of The King Must Die available on GR: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

The Submission Grinder launched about twelve and a half years ago! In that time, 712,809 submissions have been recorded by 12,436 users. Of those, there were 42,894 acceptances have been recorded by 5169 of those users. So the overall acceptance rate of submissions records on the site is 6.0%.

✅ Generational trauma ✅ Wedding drama ✅ Body issues ✅ Philippine mythological creatures ✅ Shadow mommy villain ✅ Queer rep (bi, lesbian, pan, NB) ✅ Might make someone create a WorldCon panel about strong female characters w/ an anti-lesbian bent MIRROR MARKED is now available for pre-order!

btw here's the full cover since it always cuts poor Noah's head off haha

Metrowest Writers’ Guild is a fun, supportive writing community. This is also a very fun fundraiser

It's Fantasy Friday @fantasymagazine.bsky.social pubbed by @psychopomp.com and it features my story, Corporate Policy! "Just a quick note to ask if it’s an issue that an employee has called out of her shift because she says she’s possessed." Read it free: psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu....

A reminder that the amazing Martha Wells of Murderbot fame recommended THE NIGHTWARD as a world to escape into. If you want to see what all the fuss is about, it's on sale now. www.harpercollins.com/products/the... And support indie bookstores! Try the audiobook here: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

This line up is 🔥! Donate some money if you can!!!