Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

I spent three days last week putting together an eligibility MEGA POST for @strangehorizons.bsky.social, with all the people and work within it that's eligible for awards in 2026. I hope you'll check it out, click on some things, and consider putting your faves forward 🥹 Thank you, and here's to 26!

This week I was able to announce the launch of the Call of the Black Wing Audiobook kickstarter. Join me on the journey! The Kickstarter - www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri... www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7g1...

How to help sustain an award-winning sff magazine? Donate to it directly. 🌈🚀 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/do...

It’s awards eligibility season in publishing, and I’d be honoured if you would consider All the Stars in the Daylight Sky in your reading for YA novels (Andre Norton Nebula, Lodestar, Locus). I’m immensely proud of this book: a love letter to my Gaelic culture and our intergenerational bridges.

The big reveal! What I've been up to for the past month is getting this project ready to go and now I'm finally ready to announce it. Coming February 2026 - the Kickstarter for the Call of the Black Wing audiobook read by @mhairi-bee.bsky.social launches! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

NEW PODCAST ALERT! Episode 17 of the Strange Horizons @ 25 podcast is live now featuring R.B. Lemberg @rblemberg.bsky.social interviewed by Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno. Listen and read at the link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

This weekend the World Fantasy Convention takes place in Brighton, and I can confirm I'll be there with bells on, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Strange Horizons and talking about how music fuels my writing. Come say hi!

My #WorldFantasyConvention2025 schedule: Thursday 30th October: 5pm - Multimedia Writing - Edinburgh Panel Room 3 Sunday 2nd November: 11am - Strange Horizons Tea Party - Osborne Reading Room 1 See you there!

Sunday, 11 AM, Osborne Reading Room 1. Come talk about speculative poetry for an hour #WorldFantasyConvention2025

NEW PODCAST ALERT! City Grown From Seed by @dianadima.com read by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social ! Listen to the story at the link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Incredibly silly job to have that I couldn't do with out @mickallister.bsky.social and the boys

Congratulations @gautambhatia88.bsky.social!

Surprise! I have joined the fearsome and terrible hive at RRD, and will be the new Soc Media wretch! Lots of love and mouth full of dice, Naomi xoxo

All of which is to say: yes, I made a typo for Aisha's name above; yes, as an editor I am reliant on our proofreaders (sorry, @jampersand.bsky.social); and, yes, listen to the great @darthj.uno and @mickallister.bsky.social's latest SH@25, in which some of us talk about the mag. SH: it's nice. 🙏

Plug Alert: In addition to my story (Pvt. Parker, MiA) incld'd in this 1/4 C roundup; another story by me back then (strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...) was in the book SH: Best of Year One! Haven't placed any (fic) w/ SH since; guess they raised their standards...HahHah...heh... ..heh... sigh :(

First @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social panel done! Creative collaboration with @brandoncrilly.bsky.social @hisiheyah.bsky.social was so much fun. Go check out their lovely work!

It's @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social time!! My first panel later today is "Collaboration: The Art of Sharing Success" in Hour 7 (7 pm EST) w/ @mickallister.bsky.social and @hisiheyah.bsky.social. We've got a whole bunch of topics prepared and I can't wait!

as a new month of creativity has begun, a reminder that if you liked any of the cool stuff I've made while I was traveling, you can support my writing via Patreon or Ko-Fi!

one of my favorite stories I've penned gorgeously read, rich and wry, if you're in the mood for a slow exploration of the inevitable results of aspiring to both justice and power

The new issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social is out! on the Podcast we have @emmiechristie33.bsky.social reading @aardwyrm.bsky.social 'Of Flowing Stone, of Liquid Gold, of Justice, Ash, and Battle'. Go listen on your preferred podcast app. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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

As of 2025, @naomikritzer.bsky.social has joined an exclusive club of only 21 authors who have earned at least four Hugo Awards in the prose categories (novel, novella, novelette, short story, or series). It's the same number of wins that Heinlein managed.

It's 2025. Saying every name on the finalist card and saying every name correctly shouldn't be an aspirational goal, it should be the bare minimum of professionalism and courtesy. Mike's one of the best audio producers I've ever worked with. He's amazing. Boosting this to @laworldcon.bsky.social

In the wake of the mispronunciations at this year's Hugo's, if anyone needs technical support in creating pronunciation guides for titles/names or use of non Anglo language in any of their writing. I'll help create an audioguide you can send to any awards, narrators or for your press kit. No charge.

Less than 30 minutes! Any help toward the $25k goal to celebrate the 25 Years of Strange Horizons would be a massive help!

🚨LAST TWO HOURS! 🚨 www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

🚨Last 50 HOURS🚨🚨 of the annual Strange Horizons fund-raiser! Last 50 hours to fund special issues on SFF and fungi, and SFF and the working class. A number of rewards still up for offer. Donate here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Do you want to see Strange Horizons do special issues on SFF and Fungi and SFF and the Working Class in 2026? Three days (and a bit) to make that a reality! Donate here to help us achieve these two stretch goals in our annual fund-drive: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

There's 4 days to go! Fungi in SFF is our first Special Issue stretch goal! it's mould it's mushrooms it's yeast ✨ it's infinite SFF potential ✨ We're halfway to making it a reality. Just $1327 left! Let's GO! There are still books available and our Kickstarter-exclusive patch!

They're so close to doing an issue on MUSHROOMS. I want the special mushrooms issue, y'all. 🍄🍄🍄

It's a special week at @strangehorizons.bsky.social Reviews: we're putting the focus on small US presses publishing speculative fiction in translation. We have five reviews this week *and* the return of our podcast, Critical Friends. The goal: to note the amazing work done by these houses.

If you'd like to read my World Fantasy Award shortlisted story Godskin, then amble on over to @strangehorizons.bsky.social ... strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

We've got a week to go in the Strange Horizons Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2025! If you haven't had a chance to donate yet, it's not too late to pledge over on our Kickstarter. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!

The world feels awful right now, but you can still come together with others to make good stuff happen !

Now just $2.5k from being baseline funded for next year. Everything the magazine does relies on reaching this goal. C’mon. If you’re able, you want to be one of the donations that makes it happen, right?

🚨🚨LAST 9 DAYS 🚨🚨 of the annual Strange Horizons fund-raiser! Still a host of rewards up for offer (see link), and we need around $4.4K more to hit our base goal. If you’ve been intending to support us this year, then the time is now! Donate here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Our Fund Drive is still live! This year's AfroSurrealism Special Issue was funded through a stretch goal during last year's Kickstarter! Here's some more from that issue: luminaries by Adebe DeRango-Adem Let Sleeping Hyenas Lie  by Rutendo Chidzodzo Read at the link in our bio!

Two weeks more to go - in order to have awesome fiction and nonfiction, please give us a chance to fund! www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

For the evening crowd!

Thanks to the Scalzi Family Foundation @scalzifamily.foundation @scalzi.com, the next $1,000 pledged in our fund drive will be matched dollar for dollar, so donating right now has double the impact!

We are $750 away from our next landmark of $12.5K, which will see us two-thirds of the way towards securing our baseline funding for next year. To get us there: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Kickstarter UPDATE! You can now choose to support the publication of a poem, story, review or artwork as an add-on, so you don't have to choose whether to get a cool signed book or support a piece of work. You also don't have to stick to supporting just one!

We've just hit our next landmark - $11K - and can therefore unlock the next piece in our fund-drive issue: Kerry Ryan interviews two titans of the genre, Nicola Griffith and Pat Cadigan. "No defeat is final" -- strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... Please continue donating for more such pieces! 👇

We are $175 away from hitting a milestone of $11K, and publishing a set of interviews with some of the towering women writers in the field, such as Nicola Griffith and Pat Cadigan. Who will get us there? www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Mistico's entrance was special. #AEWGrandSlamMexico

New Strange Horizons Fiction Podcast time! This week we have the fantastic 2022 story Sister, Silkie, Siren, Shark by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social read by the wonderful @emmiechristie33.bsky.social Amazing writing and superb narration. 📚🎧 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

We are now 50% funded! To get us through the next 50%: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢 Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues! Donate at the link ⬇️