Morning reading 💕

My good friend got her first story published!! It's beautiful and sad and so sweet ❤

Sometimes, you just have to curl up with your childhood fave and a cup of chamomile tea before bed 😌

I never thought I’d see the day when I’d have to warn writers against submitting to Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, Alfred Hitchcock’s, or Ellery Queen’s.

Weird?

Persimmom season is approaching! Hopefully I can get to them before the birds and the goats this time 😋🌱

TIL the MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft

the cool thing is, huge corporations have invested billions into AI, hoping it will pay off. so, if we manage to bully AI out of most spaces, those corporations will also lose billions of dollars. it's the best two-for-one special i can think of.

From a forthcoming essay by our beloved contributor & workshop participant & friend, Alaa Alqaisi. An incredibly gifted writer, translator, & scholar. Being starved.

This was PERFECT in every way. I feel so seen

Our #OpenCall for Issue 3 submissions is closing July 21st! 🚜🛸🌿💫✏️ We are looking for original works that have actionable soil-based technologies as their premise. Tractor Beam pays $1,000 for all accepted submissions. We prefer stories under 6,000 words or graphic novellas at 16 panels.

Yess!! This is what I'm here for!! So excited for you, and congratulations!!! 🎉

Deeply cathartic. Love it!

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

"Is there a secret for creating a world that feels eerie, or ever-so-slightly off?" "The quickest way is probably to be a slightly off person." I feel this in my soul. And this book is fantastic. Great interview @ivygrimes.bsky.social!!

What movie did you see way too young? The Exorcist. I had nightmares of it well into my teen years 🙃

This just stirred a ton of ideas in 0.009 seconds 🤔

FYI, the Must Read Media digests are Analog, Asimov's, F&SF, Alfred Hitchcock's, and Ellery Queen. I have heard very Not Good things about the contracts and, for that matter, the negotiation process. Approach these legacy print magazines with extra caution.

If you want to stop funding everything Amazon does and stands for, you’ve come to the right place. We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative for buying books online. Every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores, allowing them to continue serving their communities.

My June reading goal was to read a book's worth of short stories from various magazines. I aimed for 40k minimum and ended with about 50k!! 🎉 Gonna share my favorite pieces soon!

I'm SUPER excited to read this special issue. Thank you SH for making this possible! 🙏

Pitched as black Robocop meets Gremlins, The Black Refinery is out on Strange Horizons! It's my first publication!! And a pretty good show of the dark sci-fi, dark humor I enjoy so much 🖤💜 Available here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

We're heading on vacation for July, FAM. Subs close tonight at midnight! But we'll be back open for submissions on August 15! If you're wondering what we're looking for: ⭐ Voice-driven writing ⭐ Pop culture twist ⭐ The kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.

Yess!! I am SO excited! Really gonna flex my creative muscles on this one! 😁

Look at those covers! 😍

This summer look for these two great anthologies featuring Indigenous voices from across Turtle Island. I contributed a piece of writing to the one called A Steady Brightness of Being. It's a letter of love and hope to my future great-great-grandchildren ✊🏽❤️

ICYMI, "High Performer" by Jason Pangilinan is live on our website! This story was edited by @witchywonderer.bsky.social. The audio edition was narrated by Angelita Esperanza and produced by @xjenuine.bsky.social. Listen to or read it now: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/high...

New fave! I also read another piece from this author on Fractured Lit. The poignant emotions in such short pieces, and while being dialogue focused. It's great writing. I love it! ❤

And 1 week left till I'm officially published!! Let's goo

Yess!! I'm here for it! Super excited to sub something outside of this dark-scifi trip I've been on

Okay I got death on the mind but I gotta get back to work Everybody read IMAGINE YOURSELF HAPPY and I will get back to work smallwondersmag.com/piece/imagin...

Breaking News: Juneteenth Eve has been invented

Just got my first short story acceptance!! And from a lit mag that couldn't be any better for a debut pub!! See you June 30th!!

She sits with me in the living room. It pains me to look at her hands: old and crooked, swollen joints and trigger-finger twitches. Still, she moves them. Mine ache softly as I watch her. Today on ergot.: 'a lifetime without you' the publication debut of Swade Best www.ergot.press/authors/Swad...

And we are live on KS - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... - The “Mmeory” anthology is launched with a theme of memory manipulation - magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone wrong. Help us bring this book to life. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

What a beautiful story. And stylistically pleasing. Definitely a new fave 💕

Open call submission information for "Mmeory", our upcoming genre spanning memory manipulation anthology is now live. Submissions open July 7th and close August 15th - aanpress.com/submissions....

No one reads anymore. No one makes money doing this. And none of it is real. Come join the mass delusion of creative writing with us

Very beautiful and heartbreaking. Thanks for sharing 🙏

This kind of info is enlightening and incredibly helpful for those of us deep in our rejection cups. If a great novelist like Ai Jiang can be turned down by a mag, then hey, we're all doing okay actually.

Ooh I have just the thing 😁

Also found a great way to reuse the book box from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social! Its been collecting dust for a year until I realized that it's a great fit for my travel art supplies!

Feels like I'm finally getting somewhere with watercolor practice! The milk thistle has been growing wildly this season. Lots of great backyard inspo! 😁

OMG YES!! Exactly what I've always wanted for my collect-all-the-anthologies obsession!! Thank you!!

Okay this is instantly my new HAD fave, thanks. Absolute perfection 👏

Feels good to be sketching again. I think writing has helped my art confidence grow. It helps to turn my brain off and just go with gut instinct, and that always seems to be where the good stuff is

So real 🥲

“sHoRt sTOrY colLECTIoNS DoN't seLl”

The latest Elegant Variation is live and it's the end of the world as we know it! "When the tectonic plates smash against each other and make a new ridge above my house, I’m glad I’m not on the other end, where they come apart." — @matthewtpritt.bsky.social www.stanchionzine.com/post/inverte...

NOT A JOKE: I have a new poem out in Pictura Journal, called "We Could Be Doing Anything Else." Also not a joke: It contains the word "SPUNGE," as all poems should. picturajournal.com/issue-three/...