Nichole L. Lightner
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weird writer and managing editor at Violet Lichen
https://nichole-l-lightner.neocities.org/
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Arley Sorg
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"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"
arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...
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By the Numbers 10 - Arley's House
https://arleysorg.com/by-the-numbers-10
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M H Ayinde 🍉 Preorder A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES!
about 4 hours ago
“One of the most insidious aspects of colonialism, reinforced by the paucity of positive diverse representation in literature, is that authors of color often have to undertake an entire personal journey to learn that it is okay to write characters (and stories) that aren’t white” Essential reading:
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Fit check for my Hobbit Era!
2 days ago
Once again, fuck AI.
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich
1 day ago
Rivers are living beings.
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James Austin
17 days ago
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
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Bart Harley Jarvis
6 days ago
Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).
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Olivia Portlander 🐙🧡🍋🐊🦋☂️
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Seize The Press Magazine
9 days ago
Samir Sirk Morató is back in STP with "Starspeaker", an apocalypse story that digs into a parental relationship encompassing pain, duty, resentment, love, and all the contradictions having all those feelings at the same time involves.
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"Starspeaker" by Samir Sirk Morató - Seize The Press
You were a great starspeaker. You weren’t one of the best. Once, you mistranslated a location and directed a haughty emerald comet into an icy sea, where it obliterated three islands, inhabitants, lim...
https://www.seizethepress.com/2026/01/30/starspeaker-stp13/
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Samir Sirk Morató
9 days ago
fun fact: i wrote this story about cosmic diplomacy & generational apocalypses after being obsessed with the Augsburg Book of Miracles for years ☄️💘 thrilled to be in Seize the Press again & thrilled that this is out!
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine
12 days ago
🖌️WELCOME BACK HARDEEP AJULA!🎨 Hardeep will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art and gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives before it's too late! 👉
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
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Zé Burnay
11 days ago
A before and after
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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥
11 days ago
Mars
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Apex Magazine and Book Company
17 days ago
ATTENTION FELLOW STORYGRAPH ENJOYERS 📢🌟 We're running a giveaway of
@ivygrimes.bsky.social
's folk horror THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR until March 18th! If you're interested in winning both a free copy and bookish bragging rights, link to enter is below ⬇️
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violetlichenbooks's giveaway for The Cellar Below the Cellar: A Folk Horror Novella on The StoryGraph
Violet Lichen Books, an imprint of Apex Book Company, is excited to offer copies of The Cellar...
https://app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/ffe1fa7c-20ac-46c2-925c-c0549193ed05
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Marissa van Uden
17 days ago
BOOK GIVEAWAY! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Apex Magazine and Book Company
12 days ago
Free tickets for the virtual book launch of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR are LIVE 🌟🌌🎉 Join author
@ivygrimes.bsky.social
, guests
@eerieyore.bsky.social
,
@christinogle.bsky.social
,
@sashabrown.bsky.social
, and host
@authorplm.bsky.social
March 25 for a Q&A, live reading, and giveaways! See you there 💜
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The Cellar Below The Cellar | A Fabled Book Launch
A FREE book launch event for THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by Ivy Grimes ||| Wed, March 25th||| 5pm PST, 6pm MST, 7pm CST, 8pm EST
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cellar-below-the-cellar-a-fabled-book-launch-tickets-1983585230822
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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥
about 1 month ago
This crooked smile
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surrogate corpse
14 days ago
this came to me in a dream
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Zachary Gillan
26 days ago
So what is weird fiction, anyway? It's when you read weird fiction.
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Orcspiration
26 days ago
A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.
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Vincent Ledvina
28 days ago
The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!
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Samir Sirk Morató
about 1 month ago
excited that "möbius loop"—my
@khoreo.bsky.social
short story about hard-won healing in a retrofuturist time travel nightmare—is on this list! i'm happy that one of my thorniest pieces of 2025 is apparently resonating with people
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Sara Alfageeh
29 days ago
Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
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Raven Books
30 days ago
Epigraph from James Baldwin
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Tolarian Community College
about 1 month ago
OMG! Something very special has been put up for auction: Original art by Kev Walker from the Mercadian Masques comic series from 1996! Depicts the entire weatherlight crew! The sale of this goes to Trans Lifeline! You can follow the auction here:
mtgart.auction/MasquesTCC
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Apex Magazine and Book Company
about 1 month ago
Never a dull day in the studio 🪡🪆 get ready to meet your new favorite character from
@ivygrimes.bsky.social
's upcoming folk horror THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, creeping up behind you soon! (tbh we don't have a studio and the scissors are very dull. We ARE making a giant spooky ragdoll though!)
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Zebulon Hearse
about 1 month ago
and the forthcoming Cellar below the cellar—I do recommend everything Grimes!
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This is Nichole's pothos, I do crave this. 🍽️
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Ivy Grimes
about 1 month ago
Please preorder my book...it's $13.27, and it's got the taste plants crave:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
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The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 3/25/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the-cellar-below-the-cellar?variant=44671897305225
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Samir Sirk Morató
about 1 month ago
surprise: it's pre-order time! 🥩✨️ seeing this collection emerge into the world makes me feel so loved. a lot of passion & effort from multiple people went into creating this. i hope that you're all as excited for it as i am
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Marissa van Uden
about 1 month ago
Just preordered GORE POETICS from
@cursedmorsels.bsky.social
because Samir Sirk Morató is one of the most sublime writers out there and I cannot wait to read this beautiful horrible delight. And for an extra treat, the interior art is by Samir as well!!🖤🖤 Grab it here>
buttondown.com/cursedmorsel...
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Abigail Nussbaum
about 1 month ago
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
about 1 month ago
coyote’s chase ended abruptly, having fallen victim to the “culvert painted onto the hillside” charade one too many times.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)
about 2 months ago
I was trying to give them a chance to respond, but it's been 15 hrs and nothing so: LA WorldCon is using genAI "art" on their website and promo materials. Given everything that went down last year (and with SWFA recently), it's pretty disheartening to see this.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
about 2 months ago
10/10 no noots
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Split Lip Magazine
about 2 months ago
"The neighborhood is in chaos. People are nailing plywood over their windows to keep out the babies." This time last year, we published
@sashabrown.bsky.social
's flash piece CATCHING BABIES. Find it in the archives!
buff.ly/D54gP1Y
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Zachary Gillan
about 2 months ago
New entry coming soon(ish), perfect time to read the old ones and see how many times I used the words weird or liminal or unsettling
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Sar Cousins
2 months ago
Red Wizard Team: Goblin
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Apex Magazine and Book Company
about 2 months ago
Whether it's horror, scifi, or fantasy, we're always in our element at Apex 🌌🌊🌍 We're thrilled to share our current list of upcoming 2026 titles by
@ivygrimes.bsky.social
,
@reasie.bsky.social
, and
@marissavu.bsky.social
, with more announcements to come! Which one is going on YOUR TBR this year? 📚🔮
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Sasha Brown
2 months ago
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: "My Stalagmite" for the Literary Nasties. This is a 1k story I wrote about butt plugs and body horror. Here's how it works: 1) read story:
www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...
2) vote for story:
filthyloot.com/literary-nas...
Thank you for your support!
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Literary Nasties - filthy loot press
Click Here To Vote! It’s time for the FOURTH Annual Literary Nasties Awards! Presented by Filthy Loot and Rebecca Rowland, the Literary Nasties exist to honor groundbreaking “misfit,” “cult,” and gen...
https://filthyloot.com/literary-nasties/
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carlydraws
about 2 months ago
details! bone white and silver tones against midnight blues. Oil pastel plus digital colour.
#art
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Maurice Broaddus
3 months ago
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...
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Black Horror | Call for Submissions
We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/a-history-of-black-horror-call-for-submissions
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Kameron Hurley
about 2 months ago
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.
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We Are the Stranger Things - Kameron Hurley
CONTENT CAUTION: Contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 and discusses childhood emotional and physical abuse. When I was a child, I lived with a monster. He slept in the big room at t...
https://www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-stranger-things/
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Ivy Grimes
4 months ago
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...
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The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the-cellar-below-the-cellar
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Sliced Up Press
2 months ago
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.
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Sasha Brown
5 months ago
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
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The Butter Thief pictured has not harmed any butter in 2026.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦
2 months ago
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...
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Kaleidotrope
2 months ago
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:
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Guidelines
https://kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
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ELA Literary
4 months ago
♥️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
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Our next submission call is right around the corner. Check out our guidelines to learn more:
https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA
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