Submissions are now closed for Issues 19 and 20. Thank you to everyone who shared a story with us! We're moving a bit slowly through the inbox due to illness on part of the editors, but we'll get back to submitters as soon as we can. You've given us lots of hard decisions to make!

Last call! Submissions for All Worlds Wayfarer: Issues 19 and 20 will be closing in a couple of days.

Kissing Bug Day appears in this anthology!

My wuxia fem rage short story, "The First Woman of the Qingyan Sect," is out now in the @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology! This anthology is jam packed with amazing dark fantasy stories by so many talented authors, and I'm delighted to be in such good company. ⚔️🧟‍♂️

🦌My story "The Antler Shed" is out in the Into the Dark anthology from @awwlitmag.bsky.social ! Pick up a copy today and enjoy a short story on bones and family ties, along with the rest of the dark fantasy collection!📖 www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in... #anthology #writesky #author

Happy to have a creepy little story ('What We Lose in the Weeds') stalking the pages of this anthology... 💙📚

With Into the Dark entering the world, our magazine issues are leaving their hiatus! Submissions are OPEN for issues 19 and 20(!). We're looking for speculative stories centering characters/themes. Guidelines: www.allworldswayfarer.com/submissions/ We can't wait to start reading your work again!

INTO THE DARK IS OUT NOW! my story is in this and i hope you guys will check it out ☺️

INTO THE DARK is out NOW! You don't want to miss @awwlitmag.bsky.social's gorgeous dark fantasy anthology featuring my story 'Imperfect Monsters.' 🌘 Two hundred years ago, you would’ve been called a monster. 🌒 💙📚🩸📚🤏 www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...

Out today!! Includes my story, "Phalanges and Flames."

Into the Dark is available now! Enter an abyss of dark fantasy and fantastical horror with 34 stories by emerging and established authors. Find out where you can claim a copy at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in... We can't wait to finally delve Into the Dark with you!

I have a story in this one! "Imperfect Monsters" is a YA horror story that blends time, space, and fairytales. I'm so excited for it to be out in the world tomorrow!

The darkness approaches... Into the Dark launches tomorrow, on the solstice!

It's almost time for our magazine issues to leave their hiatus! An open call for issues 19 and 20(!) will open on December 21st, 2025. Any speculative short story that centers characters or themes could be a fit. Are you ready to share your story? Guidelines: www.allworldswayfarer.com/submissions/

My short story “Second Love” is officially out in the anthology Into the Dark on December 21st! This will be my second published story and my only piece published in 2025. Click the link in the quoted post for preorder options.

Get ready to delve Into the Dark with us later this month: 34 dark fantasy and fantastical horror stories are arriving soon! www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...

“We created the Unpublished Novel Award to do what the Black List has always done: Find exceptional work and tell people about it,” said Black List founder Franklin Leonard.

The Trembling With Fear drabble cupboard is looking bare, which means we're all in danger and need more 100 word stories! Questions/details: horrortree.com/submissions #amwriting

Mysterion is open Jan 1–31, 2026 for speculative stories that engage with Christianity 🕊️🌌 📚 SF, fantasy, horror with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology 📏 Up to 9,000 words 💵 8¢/word originals, 4¢/word reprints Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi... #amwriting #specfic #christianfiction

❄️ If you have a Christmas horror story waiting to be told, now’s the time to send it into the dark. Submit festive microhorror — 500 words or less. 👁️ link in bio #booksky #readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #darkfiction #indieauthors

Hwang Bo-Reum recommends little ways to cultivate your reading (and writing) life.

Call for subs: Solarpunk Magazine 🌱 Optimistic SFF, poetry, nonfiction & art about defiance, change, achievement. Window: Jan 1–14, 2026. Pay: pro rates. Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social #AmWriting #OpenCall

👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾 Includes numerous CREATURES. inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e... #SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag

Hi everyone! I just saw that All World’s Wayfarer posted my interview about what it was like being a first reader for their latest anthology. Check it out here: www.allworldswayfarer.com/kickstarter-...

Since I have so many new followers, reminder that I'm still adding people to my ARC list for my queer science fiction novel! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WritingCommunity #SFF

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Inside you'll find... 🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest 🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens 🫐 a berry world of grief and awe & so much more! 🔗 Link in bio! More details below 👀⬇️

Have you read?

Only a few days to go! The paperback edition of The Adventure of the Faerie Coffin will be available on 1 December. :) #mystery #gaslamp #fantasy #witch #witchsky #booksky #sherlockholmes books2read.com/u/mg5ZRq

You can preorder Into the Dark now! Includes my dark fantasy story, "Phalanges and Flames"!

The Into the Dark anthology is now available for pre-order in hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions ahead of it's 12/21/25 release date! Find out where you can claim a copy, or new themed merch, at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in... We can't wait to delve Into the Dark with you!

#WritingCommunity Everyone has their own method for motivating themselves to write, for me I will find something that sparks my creativity like reading, listening to music, or watching my favorite films.

New post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange. Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬 www.patreon.com/posts/143052...

“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything." ✒️ #JosephConrad, Polish-born British author, #DOTD 3 August 1924. #Literature

Come see us at the Central Jersey Book Festival this Saturday! Preorder Into the Dark or buy one of our other anthologies to get free merch, pick up some pins and posters, or simply stop by to chat. We're looking forward to meeting some of you face-to-face and celebrating our shared love for books!

I love when authors’ lives spill into their work The monsters in Where the Wild Things Are were inspired by Maurice Sendak’s aunts/uncles. Relatives who’d coo, “You’re so good, we could eat you up.” As a sickly child often confined to bed, he must’ve felt both loved & terrified during their visits⬇️

library halls on rainy days when the bats sing #♡ᝰ.🖋️ #poetrysky #poetry #poem #writingcommunity *(otherwise known as Dark Batcademia)

Like #reading? Like helping children? Check out the Children in Read auction where you can bid on books donated by authors (including me! Lot 255). Funds go to the BBC Children in Need charity. Learn more about it below! www.jumblebee.co.uk/childreninread2025

Don't miss Harvest the Night, an anthology of Folk Horror from Chthonic Matter and C.M. Muller, out at the end of the month! Preorders are open through Chthonic Matter's website (see my bio/linktree). Includes my story, "Our Lady of the Grain", and thirteen other dread-inducing stories.

I’m really loving how I can fit whole stories and sci-fi ideas into songs. There’s a whole complex arc going on in my story, “A Second Enchanted Evening,” and this song managed to really capture the heart and basically the whole of it in music: youtu.be/X4ZdCVk9TJ0?...

So excited to have a short play in Hellerween! This week, from Thursday the 16th-Saturday the 18th! If you're in the Tulsa area, don't miss this spooky good time. More information and tickets linked below!

1,200 years ago, Fatima al-Fihri, a Muslim woman, founded the al-Qarawiyyin Library in Morocco—the oldest continually used library in the world Some of the greatest poets and philosophers in Muslim history studied here. And, it was instrumental in leading Europe out of the Dark Ages What a legacy!

🏦Library Hand: A style of rounded handwriting adopted by librarians in the early 1900's. These clear rounded letters ensured card catalogue entries were legible. 📚 Invented by the infamous Melvil Dewey and inventor Thomas Edison. 📚Even in libraries, every letter counts! #books #libraries

#indieauthor #writingcommunity #amwriting #authorsky #writersky

Our Into the Dark Kickstarter is over. We raised 76% of our goal! It didn’t fund, but this isn’t the end. The anthology will still be published on 12/21/25. We’re so grateful for every bit of your support! Please sign-up for our newsletter for updates on the book! allworldswayfarer.eo.page/j557f

Thank you, Matt!

Just $1,200- to go with 7 hours left!

The clock is ticking… ⏳ Into the Dark has less than 10 hours left, and we’re just $1,400 from the goal. If you’ve been waiting to join us—now’s the moment. Let’s pull this from the shadows together. 🖤 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Last hours for the #intothedark #kickstarter, an anthology of 30 dark fantasy short stories!

Just 14 hours left, and so close! Check out Into the Dark's Kickstarter page if you haven't already (that cover!!!). Feeling very honored to have my story, The Feeding, in this project. @awwlitmag.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

If you like dark fantasy, consider backing this anthology from @awwlitmag.bsky.social!