EYYYYYYY WE CROSSED $10,000 YOU GUYS, let's keep this goingggg

Our 2nd poem/broadside, “love note from my guardian angel” by @carolinehung.bsky.social, is live Jul 17 at noon! 💌🫦🍽️ Not subscribed? Purchase the individual post (including an author recording) when it's up for $4—or right now, the '26 Poems + Q&As Collection for $14: www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor...

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🌈🚀 Open call: *Constellations of Becoming: Queer Futures and Other Worlds* 📚 2,000–6,000 words ✨ Queer-centered speculative fiction 📅 Sept. 15, 2026 deadline 💰 Royalty share + possible Kickstarter bonuses horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #SpecFic

This one is special, closing out a ten year run of Black SFF 🥹 Share this with a Black author or poet of speculative fiction who will help us send off issue #40 in style 🔥🔥🔥

🌈On this last day of Pride🌈 I invite you to listen and read our first publication @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social — a queer Bipoc speculative poetry & microfiction space that pay to publish our writers. ✨MOKO by Dkéama Alexis ✨ Available for free. www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...

Celebrating co-editor @jdridges.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉 Happy Birthday 🫶🏾

"So much of writing is fun. It's first letting your interests and your imagination take you anywhere at all. Once you're able to do that, you'll have more ideas than you can use. Then the real work of fashioning them into a story begins. Stay with it. Persist." Octavia E. Butler (Bloodchild p. 142)

Speculative fiction stories by immigrant and diaspora writers are so very important, especially in current times, and this magazines deserve all the support it can get! Please share widely and consider backing if you can.

Clarkesworld is a unique science fiction magazine that I love and support. It’s worth the subscription price if you can afford it. The magazine also has a very active subscribers-only Discord community that I’m glad to be part of.

The celebration, the movement don't stop. True in another way today as we have our first '27 acceptance—contract delivered, signed, and delivered again. If you read "Moko" and go wow, then wow I'd love to experience my work this way, we makin' more decision moves top of July for '27's 1st half.

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🌠❤️Happy Juneteenth! And what dis?! Our first poem! Do add "MOKO"'s liberation rhythm to your celebration playlist: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... 💚🌊 💐Dkéama Alexis💐 Support queer BIPOC spec poets by sharing, subscribing, tipping on ko-fi.com/speccolorway... #CaribbeanHeritage #Juneteenth #Pride

Happy Juneteenth! If you're looking for something cool to play today to support a black business in the U.S., check out some of my games. - Studio is Black-owned - Black characters - Black Voice Actors And racist trolls hate us ♥️ linktr.ee/aerial_knight

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📯Announcing our '26 lineup📯 @carolinehung.bsky.social @gailguerrero.bsky.social "Moko" by Dkéama Alexis will be available to all subscribers. (Onward, paid tiers [$3–5] & $4-post-purchasers will have access to poems—digital broadsides & audio recordings.) patreon.com/SpecColorway...

Its so good !! Cant wait to share it

Strange Horizons is a cool, free-to-read speculative fiction magazine worthy of support!

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A reminder: Strange Horizons has no external funding, and runs entirely on community funding, through the fund-drive. Quite literally, our future is in your hands. We hope to be with you for our 27th year. Support us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Let's try this again... 🗣️ The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us up and running in 2027 will begin on Sunday, 14 June, 2026 on BackerKit! 🗣️ You can sign up to show your support and receive a notice when the Fund Drive goes live at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

This generative workshop invites participants to world-build their own utopia while learning about the tools needed for world-building and using poetry as the engine and examples to form this world. ko-fi.com/s/220055ef8d

we LOVE our little death magazine we are so proud of all it brings join the deadlands patreon today www.patreon.com/the_deadlands and keep the skelly times rolling 🫶

khōréō is simply one of the best magazines in our industry. There are only 28 Backers. If you are somebody who says they support marginalized SFF creators and posted about your sadness over Fantasy & FIYAH closing, you have this opportunity to make sure khōréō continues publishing amazing things.

This generative workshop invites participants to world-build their own utopia while learning about the tools needed for world-building and using poetry as the engine and examples to form this world. ko-fi.com/s/220055ef8d

Officially on Ko-fi (should subscribing not be something you can commit to but you wanna sling us some digital dollas): ko-fi.com/speccolorway...

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalist in Speculative Poetry are: After the Storm – Ishita Basu Mallik In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love – Karan Kapoor Set It Off (1996) – Fans’ Cut – Nova Cypress Black (1/2)

We're running a ✨ poll for input on a ✨ from our members: www.patreon.com/posts/specia...

Update 6/5/26. Lessons from first batch: 1) Reading y'alls work affirms the work we're doing 😌 2) We sure won't complain of more 📥☄️

We’ve got one last chance to keep ICE funding blocked in the House, but that won’t happen unless Congress hears from us. Send an email to your representative and demand they vote NO on the reconciliation bill.

www.youtube.com/live/ZJaTbKO... a reading and resources in the description for mental health!

ICYMI: ISSUE 2 IS OUT NOW! If you'd like to support a queer magazine during Pride Month, here are a few ways: ✨ Become a patron: www.patreon.com/othersidespec OR buy Issue 2 via... 🪐 Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe... 🗡️ Patreon: www.patreon.com/othersidespe... 🌈 Elsewhere: books2read.com/u/bpBjnW

The digital version is out for those who backed the kickstarter ! Thank you to @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social for making this version of Woz Quartz possible. Welcome to Woz Quartz — my Utopia looks like All Black Womxn across the diaspora free for a millenia. You can buy your copy later today!

I loved @lyszflo.bsky.social's story of a Black woman utopia. It had to be in the book.

The digital version is out for those who backed the kickstarter ! Thank you to @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social for making this version of Woz Quartz possible. Welcome to Woz Quartz — my Utopia looks like All Black Womxn across the diaspora free for a millenia. You can buy your copy later today!

open.substack.com/pub/cosmicth... sharing my horoscopes for June published In this mag

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(And, pssst, big decisions are nigh at the end of this week. Know whatever they be, we're glad you're out here doing your work and shared some of it with us.)

Happy Pride Month ya’ll!

Why don't we fall in love? (Did you hear 🎶? If not, we're still friends.) Anyhow, today me Jeané brings you our first Spec Colorways In Love post, where I muse on how duplex has become a beloved muse: www.patreon.com/posts/spec-c... 💜🏘️💜 What beloveds have you been returning to?

We're preparing the 2026 Shortlist for announcement and the open voting period on June 8! There are currently 2 ways to support: General Donations (for which you receive our thanks): ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/ Sponsorship (for which we might send you stuff): donorbox.org/sponsor-the-...

Launching a new tier on Patreon. Evergreen Reader for those who're like all I want is to make an offering that'll mean new queer BIPOC spec poetry out connecting with the world—and, importantly, bimonthly in my inbox 💚🌱☄️💚: www.patreon.com/c/SpecColorw...

Update. Please keep the incredible submissions coming 😀💐.