Extra extra! Starting March 1st, Plott Hound Magazine will be accepting reprints! For reprints, we pay $20 USD for flash / $100 USD for shorts (up to 10,000 words). In your moksha cover letter, please include the name of publication that had originally published your piece.

Plott Hound Magazine opens to submissions in three days! Tell us, what fantastical/scientifical animals exist beyond our ken? Glowing kingdoms in the deepest reaches of our oceans? Alien vacationing in active volcanos? Space opera singing space whales?

If you're looking for some feline fiction, look no further. Read "Mild Fish and Linen" by Veronica Mullen We love it, and we hope you will, too!

Ready to dive into the sea and spend some time with a single octopus arm? Say no more! Give "Animapod" by @marshwitches.bsky.social a read We love it, and we hope you will, too!

Sniffing around for some good fiction? Well do we have a seal of a story for you. Check out "In the Sea of Binary Stars" by @herlizardness.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too!

Is it a chicken? Is it a phoenix? Read "Flames Sprout Wings" by @cdgoodman.bsky.social to find out We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/flames-sprou...

Four days until Plott Hound Magazine opens to submissions! One of our submissions editors is especially interested in seeing more: • ravens • maned wolves • bats • deer • coyotes Warm blooded or cold, feathered or scaled, naked or clothed, we want it all! Consider submitting come March 1st!

More dinosaurs would be good!

Five days to go! And here's some more animals requested by one of our submissions editors: • antelope • worms (worms with teefs!?) • sightless moles • platypus • various (alien?) monotremes • tarsiers So many animals with weird biologies rife for the weirdering.

Want to paw through some foxy nonfiction? Well we've got you covered. Check out "Foxes are Totally Trustworthy (Until They Aren't)" by Yoon Ha Lee We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/foxes-are-to...

Need some more poetry in your life? Give "Cold Blood" by Krity Ettel a read. We love it, and we hope you will, too!

If you're looking for a crow of a good tale, check out "When the Crow Sings" by @brokenswanquill.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/when-the-cro...

If you're sniffing around for good fiction, check out "Respect the Hustle" by @risawolf.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/respect-the-...

Check out this unicorn-in good story, "This, too, is magic" by @crossingwinter.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/this-too-is-...

Here at Plott Hound Magazine, we can confidently say there are more extinct animals than we have paws. Sadly, very few of our paws have touched tales of such incredible creatures. If you've got something cooking from the Pleistocene or beyond, we'd love to see it in March!

Plott Hound Magazine publishes science fiction and fantasy stories with animal main characters and POVs. So reach for the stars, search the seas, mine the myths, and polish your best short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and more, because we're opening in a week!

Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.

If you're looking for a calfing good time, check out "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-...

Need some more short fiction to round out your 2025 reading list? Give "To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social a read We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/to-dream-of-...

If you're looking for a buffalo of a good tale, check out "The Buffalo Woman" by @jacymorris.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/the-buffalo-...

Eight day until we reopen! All I can say is, more birbs, please! • blue herons • bower birds • white-naped cranes with human husbands • extinct dodos • space birds • spacewhale birds • ancient alien birds • shoebills If you write them, we want to read them!

If you're sniffing around for good fiction, check out our delightful story, "Death Walks on Silent Paws" by Katie Mansion We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/death-walks-...

Check out this jackal-in good story, "He Came Starving to the Altar" by @dearnicoletta.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/he-came-star...

If you're looking for a dragonlicious short story to read, please check out "Fire & Flight" by @cornellwriter.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/fire-flight-...

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hey thats me lol yeah we got like 890 million + years of animals that you can write about be weird show me that you read all the zoobooks as a kid i want to learn about a new animal

Nine days and counting before Plott Hound opens to submissions! One of our submissions editors would love to see more stories about • parasites • giant ground sloths • terror birds • bugs (the extincter the betterer) • ordovician invertebrates Check us out!

Yay, thank you! We're having a blast over here, and we're so glad to have your story in Issue 2! plotthoundmag.com/who-is-wrong...

We open in ten days! Send us your short stories and flash fiction, poems and essays. We love all kinds of animal from living to long gone, possible to impossible. I would say skies the limit, but we're also interested in unearthly (non-humanoid) aliens to boot.

We're looking for all kinds of tales! At Plott Hound we're looking for everything animal from living to extinct, from dinosaur to far future, from possible to impossible. And I would say skies the limit, but we'd also love to see more alien animals and space stories to boot!

We open again to submissions in eleven days! One of our readers would especially like to see more • jellyfish • sponges • parasitic worms • insects • birds like cuckoo birds • aggregate organisms like the Portuguese man-o-war Consider submitting come March 1st! plotthoundmag.com/submission-g...

We open again in twelve days! Come March 1st, 2026, we'll be looking for more short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and essays to sniff through. Looking forward to seeing what wonderful words you've written! 😃

I’m excited to have an essay — “Crafting Animals: Sense & Sensibility” — in the latest Plott Hound! Dear Reader, ever wondered how animals sense the world? I offer a primer. Plus, check out that amazing cover and the rest of the exceptional content!

My flash fiction “The Taste of My Own Wings” and my poetry “The Isopode That Swallowed a God’s Tongue” are in Issue 4 of plotthound Magazine. Get it here (scroll down): plotthoundmag.com/issues/ Thank you @plotthoundmag.bsky.social #FlashFiction #Poetry #LitMag #authorsofbluesky #writer #author

I’ve got a flash piece in this!

Today is publication day for my story, "How May I Serve You?" in Plott Hound! plotthoundmag.com

I had two different ideas for this place that I totally forgot about (because life) but now they’re back in the vat, bubbling bubbling

ICYMI Plott Hound Magazine publishes all kinds of animal POVs and protagonists. We've seen a lot of cats, dogs, crows, and dragons. But we love a wide variety of mammal, avian, reptile, arachnid, fish, amphibian, insect, parasite, dinosaur, mythical, (animalistic) alien species, and chimera.

New short story out! 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀 ”Plague of Plenty” is about one fevered night in a rat colony’s sewer. At its heart, Nix's story is about the loneliness of principled survival—the cost of saying no when every force around you promises faster pleasure and easier belonging.

Issue 4 is now available on our website! Scroll to the bottom of the pages for Issue 4: plotthoundmag.com/issues/ And, Issues 1 and 2 are free to read online at the same link!

Yes! "No One Poops on Winston Churchill’s Electric Head" is a great story. It starts on page 38. plotthoundmag.com/issues/

Issue 4 is now available on our website! Scroll to the bottom of the pages for Issue 4: plotthoundmag.com/issues/ And, Issues 1 and 2 are free to read online at the same link!

Hey friends, we're curious. What's your favorite Plott Hound story, poem, or essay? Reply below or quote post with a link and let us know!

Sniffing around for some nonfiction? Well, then, give "Cruising Over Cozumel Coral" by priyajsridhar.bsky.social a read We love it, and we hope you will, too!

Time to hit the beach with a good poem. Check out "The Sea Turtle Teaches Us to Migrate" by Oladosu Michael Emerald. We love it, and we hope you will, too!

Harpy. Nike. Nemesis. Karura. Time to feather and read "Your Birdsong Pleading" by @loragray.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too!

Wolfing around? Swallowed a sun? Need some guidance? Well, then, you should read "After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun" by @linardos.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too!

I feel this may be my best horrifying horror-y pieces. I feel pretty proud of this line: "billionaire sounds like bilious air full of nothing" Hope you enjoy my deer-parasite wasp-cryptid!

Ready to chomp into some good fiction? Well then, by all means, take a bite out of "Who is Wrong When They Are Hungry" by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too!

Ready for a houndin good time? Check out "Hound of Annwn" by Rem Wigmore We love it, and we hope you will, too!