Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines… blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...

This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026! Thread updated weekly, maybe? www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the... www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Oh, hello, would you like to win a copy of one of our books? And some silly extra bits like stickers and whatnot (basically anything we can fit in the parcel)? To be in with a chance of winning, let us know what your favourite read of 2025 was in the thread below.

My 9-yo and I wrote the cover story for Interzone #303, and we've created this handy synopsis using legos. Pictured: shark wearing a mech suit made of pirate shipwrecks, attacking a surfer on a chainsaw board. Oh, it gets weirder. Check it out: shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw

The Butter Thief pictured has not harmed any butter in 2026.

Writers! Vol. 2 of 'The Best Weird Fiction of the Year' is open to your submissions. Please adhere to the guidelines. undertowpublications.com/best-weird-f...

By the way, Kaleidotrope is open again to cover art submissions. As with everything, nothing AI-generated or assisted, but reprints are more than acceptable. You'll find the full guidelines, along with where to email me links to your portfolios or galleries, here:

♥️SUBMISSIONS OPEN♥️ We are opening up our Call for Submissions for our next issue! 🖋️✒️📚 This issue is all about reinventing the romance genre, taking ideas around love and sex and hatred to a whole new dimension. #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Our next submission call is right around the corner. Check out our guidelines to learn more: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA

Vincent Chong, cover art for the Polish version of Wizard and Glass, 1997/2000’s

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Speaking, you know, *as a market*, writing to what you think my tastes are as an editor is a bad idea. What I want most are the stories I don’t yet know that I want.

AI writing is people expecting readers to spend more time reading it than they put into making it, which is the opposite of the way value was created by an author putting in thought, organizing, research and editing that benefitted each reader in less time than it'd take for them to do it themselves

These are STUNNING.

timeless banger one of the profound mysteries of human culture is that people continued to compose more new songs after music was fully solved

We can do even more.

Look what’s arrived! A beautiul volume of @fraidycatpress.bsky.social Fraidy Cat Quarterly, featuring stories by me and others including @nicholeon.bsky.social and @abigailkemske.bsky.social. Pick up a copy at fraidycatpress.com/shop/

🏰Will you dare to enter THE GLASS CASTLE?🏰 Just one of the gorgeous illustrations @carlydraws.bsky.social drew for a new story from sorcerous @saracentury.bsky.social. ⚔️ Find all this and more in issue six of New Edge Sword & Sorcery: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 📖

I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that 💅🍓🫙✨ Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now! 🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

The call for ice cream hid a descent into a chilling, secret world. Ivy Grimes explores the horror in her grandmother’s basement & the fiction it inspired. A masterclass in eerie memory. gnofhorror.com/ivy-grimes-t... #Horror #IvyGrimes

"I loved both of my grandmothers, but I never fully knew them. [...] I was the one who was afraid to look in the dark places. Of them, of myself, of everyone." 🌌 Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️

Many thanks to @gnofhorror.com for featuring this little essay o mine about grandmothers and cellars!

Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction! Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️ Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/... Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

It is that time of year again fam! We are in the end-of-year festive and gifting season :D (We love getting presents!!!!) Have you considered gifting a subscription to one of your loved ones? It’s the best kind of gift because it keeps on giving throughout the year XD escapeartists.net/support-ea/

Svend Rasmussen Svendsen (Norwegian/American, 1864–1945) "Tree Trunks in Snow", 1920. Oil on Canvas, 81 × 61 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

OMG thank you for this compliment!!! 📚📺🎒

And @nicholeon.bsky.social brings you a Very Special Episode - picture an episode of Saved by the Bell directed by David Lynch.

Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!

I love everything Joe writes, but I am REALLY excited to read this one.

This marketing targeted me, and I bought the black Black Friday shirt to support ergot writers like @spicycloaca.bsky.social and @kayv.bsky.social.

Frankenstein, or: Maybe You Shouldn't Have Built That Weird Man

we have to go back. to warn them.

🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼 ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤 Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

It's nearly time to nominate your best speculative ecofiction for ECO25! Full guidelines here: www.violetlichen.com/ecofiction-guidelines 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 🚨 And don't miss your 30% preorder discount on ECO4. Only a couple days left to preorder - release day is Nov 18! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

Last chance to pick up ECO24 at the preorder discount for yourself or as a gift for your favorite #nature, #wildlife, #animal lover. It's a glorious bouquet of some of the very best nature-based scifi and fantasy published last year, and everyone who reads it has different favorite stories.🖤🌿

Are you ready for the ECO Equinox? 🌿✨ ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION releases TOMORROW, November 18th! Today is your last chance to preorder these 23 stellar tales from our all-star lineup of sci-fi/fantasy authors for 30% off! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

Come away with me… #matthewart

A Cover Reveal! 🌕 Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026

something just arrived on the solar winds 👀✨

Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com! Cover Art: Jack Hillside Cover Design: Silent Q Design

As night falls and the sky begins to dance, something looms over the dark horizon... 🌕🏚️🌌 Full cover reveal of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social coming Monday!

FCQ7 is our rage-themed volume and features excellent writing by: @kayv.bsky.social @nicholeon.bsky.social C.O. Davidson @abigailkemske.bsky.social @alexhoeft.bsky.social C. Lenz @corriehaldane.bsky.social @jdlskie.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social Myra Stephenson Rachel Desiree Felix

Very excited to announce that my freaky little bone marrow horror story about generational trauma is going to be with @castofwonders.org ! I've been a long time listener to all the Escape Artist's pods, but CoW has a special little corner rib cage. Can't wait to share it with the world. 🍯🦴💀

There's just 69 (yes really) HOURS LEFT to donate to the Apex Magazine Kickstarter! ⏰ We're thrilled to bring you more Apex in 2026, but there's still time to unlock our stretch goals! At $22,500, we unlock drabble submissions with editor @kaidelmas.bsky.social! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Book Company is thrilled to announce the acquisition of @reasie.bsky.social's novella, MULTITUDE, coming out April 2026! 🌌🦑🌊 Check out our full acquisition announcement here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...