Celebrating my fresh-baked story in the latest issue of @pinchjournal.bsky.social about a demonic suburban PTA bake sale by making some zucchini bread!

Hey Weirdos, LONGFORM SUBMISSIONS (20k+ & Weird Forms) ARE OPEN! 2 notes: 1.) We close again at the end of August TO ALL BUT BIPOC WRITERS for Sept & Oct. Please be respectful of this, thankya. 2.) This is for publication in 2027 or later. Deets here: tenebrouspress.com/submissions Hails🖤☠️

i've been chewing on this essay for a long time ~ deeply grateful to @ruadanbooks.bsky.social for giving it a home and to @mariahaskins.com for her careful editing 💚 ruadanbooks.com/missing-myth...

Huge surprise to find that I made it onto the longlist with my trippy music video micro! ty to the editors @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for seeing something special in this piece :) maudlinhouse.net/the-pop-star...

I’ve loved being part of Split Lip the past few years, and I’m stoked for the new role and to be part of the amazing team here!

Honored and hype as hell to have THE CRAWLING MOON as a finalist for the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social 🌕 (and what great company the book is in!) www.shirleyjacksonawards.org

1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social) #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

the em dash has grown in popularity over the last 20 years or so and is thus over represented in the data sets they trained the fraud machine on and now we are supposed to tell people to stop using them because they were finding them useful, it's idiocy all the way down

OK let's do this. I wanted to do a newsletter that felt fresh and fun to me, and "Undercover in the Apocalypse" is that creature - an epistolary science fiction story addressed to an army of shadow operatives. I hope you'll join me on this covert mission. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io

Guess who’s on here this year 👀👀 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

"The day the women collectively lost their heads again, you could see them in the streets" Love this from @tinazhu.bsky.social - using the surreal to reflect the real in such a clever way, all written in a brilliant breathless rush www.ceasecows.com/2024/02/08/h...

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

!!! so psyched to be an Astounding Award finalist this year! Delighted to see such a great group of fellow nominees and it's awesome to be short fiction buddies on the ballot with @angelaliu.bsky.social :D

>:3 hugo finalist isabel j. kim. please excuse me while im insane about this on account of it being a long held dream.

ty @cypayseur.bsky.social for the rec!! 🦸‍♂️exciting to see my dystopian superhero story go places muahaha

“Xeno ISO Synth for One-Time Encounter” by @louisevanswrite from @BafflingMag, “Why I Quit Teaching at the Villain Academy” by @tinaszhu (@tinazhu.bsky.social) from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @ClowderofTwo here - locusmag.com/2025/04...

My first book is officially out! If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out! Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social! www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...

Submission info for the eighth novella series can be found here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

That's right: 106+ volumes all on the Viz app, as of today! We'll be catching up with the print volumes soon. Whew.

ai art is like being a runner and youre excited for a marathon and youre training and then someone comes up and says 'why not use this new 'car tech' it can drive you to the finish line and youll have run the marathon without that pesky running'. then theyre confused when you say no and run instead

Three words: Read this book! Wanna know what happens when Hansel from Hansel and Gretel meets one of the swan brothers from The Six Swans? @smhallow.bsky.social welcomes you to the fairytale multiverse and has got you covered

Happy Tuesday! I've got a couple very short stories about a pop star's adventures out today in @hexliterary.bsky.social :) This is part of a series of pop star flashes I wrote to explore how celebrities are basically modern fairy tale heroes. Enjoy!

“The pop star moves to Los Angeles at sixteen to discover she is only one pop star in a meadow of pop stars.” So damn stoked to have the incredible @tinazhu.bsky.social up on @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! These Pop Star flashes are eerie and surprising and so so wonderful. Go check them out!!

Love these @tinazhu.bsky.social & @hexliterary.bsky.social !!

"How quaint to be offered anything handwritten, the pop star thinks, how unusual it is that she is on the receiving end of waiting for a signature" Loving these two delightful, unexpected pop star shorties from Tina S. Zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social , sparkling new on hex today !! 👇🎤🌟

it seems likely that trans works are gonna be heavily-suppressed over the next four years and this is one of the few sites that isn't yet playing along so: if you want to keep abreast of what trans authors are up to, follow these fine folks go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth. The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.

HAPPY PUB DAY TO US🥳🥳🥳 Will This Be A Problem (@willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social): The Anthology is out! Edited by Olivia Kidula and yours truly, and available on Amazon, Kobo & wherever books are sold!!! These brilliant stories will stay with me—and you—forever✨ Link below👇🏽 a.co/d/hi6T45a

Got a Succession-y retelling of the Grimm Brothers' story "The Juniper Tree" in here! Read for stepsiblings, evil stepmothers, and a giant mansion 👻

Some things should stay buried. Some things shouldn't be buried at all. We leave it to the earth to decide which. While the soil deliberates, join us... "Under the Orange Tree" by @tinazhu.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2025/02/05/u...

I've got a very short piece that's half memory from my childhood, half poem in Centaur today! My first ever piece of CNF :D

“MTA Chair Janno Lieber said the reduction in traffic has allowed some of the agency’s buses to move faster than their schedules account for. Lieber said he’s considering boosting bus service as a result.” 🚌🚌🥳🥳 gothamist.com/news/manhatt...

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN DECEMBER 2024!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's November's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

We are delighted to announce a new Six-Week Workshop scholarship for Trans writers. The Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for the Six-Week Workshop, has been offered by an anonymous donor and will be available for the first time this year.

The world is bleak, but the SLM FAM is still shining. Big congrats to @jerilynnaquino.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social @cdeskilson.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social @dustinkpearson.bsky.social @tinazhu.bsky.social @samforbreakfast.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social & MORE

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It’s romance. It’s dark fantasy. It’s a Christmas horror story. It’s a righteous fury revenge quest. It’s about love lasting longer than death. It’s got cannibalism, blood magic, a guy full of bugs, a protag w chronic pain, and an OT3. Let’s celebrate with a teaser made by @izzysinger.bsky.social

Shhhh. Come're. You'll be the first to hear about this. Starting May 11, we'll open our themed call for submissions "Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller" for our September issue, paying $300 for accepted flash (under 1000 words). Watch our social media channels for more info.

More congestion pricing glamour shots Remarkable

@tinazhu.bsky.social reactormag.com/must-read-sh... you got a shoutout for "What Kind of Monster are You?" !!

I've been writing professionally for almost two decades (???) including publishing 7 books (and another forthcoming) and helping run a lit mag for 7 years. I've learned some important lessons in that time. So I'm going to thread some of them here:

Travel Read #1 was the ARC of @smhallow.bsky.social’s HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE. I cried eight separate times. Extremely embarrassing book to read on a plane. And also a gorgeous, heartbreaking, heartmending book. Out so soon! Preorder now!!! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE and then talk to me about it!!!

Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.

#amreadomg A new annotated reading post #booksky #essays #flashfiction #humor blog.gailgauthier.com/2025/01/some... @aknott21.bsky.social @tinazhu.bsky.social @yomiadegoke.bsky.social

Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as deprivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. I had to make alternative routes; it made me curious; it made me ask, “Is this enough for me?” —Ocean Vuong

One of the proposed new Illinois flag designs, out of thousands submitted