Yeah, we quiet over here, but we love y'all. These publishing streets are rough these days. October marks Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we're thrilled to drop TWO issues on you in the coming weeks. Updates soon come. Anyway support some Black creators: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p Follow, share, BUY 🔥

Bay area friends! Come hang out with me, it's a big free party!

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

Contract signed! So excited my poem, “Butterfly Effect," will be in a future issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! This one was inspired by my fear of the phrase "every end is a new beginning."

I feel like we’re in the middle of a natural disaster that will only devastate specific groups while other groups complain about how inconvenient the humidity is from the comfort of their lifeboats

My story is out in Small Wonders today! “What was supposed to happen was this: on the faire’s opening day, Princess Lilaclaire would visit the pond, kiss a frog into a prince, share a candy apple with him to test their true love, and live happily ever after.” Read to see what actually happened…

I’m so excited for Flights of Foundry! (Even if I cannot believe that it is somehow already mid-September??) Here’s my panel schedule! If you aren’t registered yet, you can still sign up for this fantastic free virtual con here: flights-of-foundry.org Hope to see you there!

At @scalzi.com 's Whatever blog, @authortachan.bsky.social has a guest post on One Last Game whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/10/t...

BIG BIG DAY! Pantomime is out TODAY in the US! 🎉 Don't worry UK readers, it will be coming to shelves near you on Thursday💜 Let's fly, me lovelies🎪

We are so excited to be finalists, and so honored to be in such great company too! Huge congrats to the winners—and huge thanks to Chill Subs for supporting lit mags in such a big way!

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this. Every pub should do this.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

We have a few tickets left for online attendance at the Stanford Neurodiversity Summit September 13-15! Keynote speakers include Ari Ne'eman and Christina Nicolaidis @cnicolaidis.bsky.social. For tickets, email us at thinkingAutism @ gmail. stanfordneurodiversityproject.stanford.edu/stanford-neu...

Welcome to OTHERSIDE, a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! This October, we’ll be fundraising on Kickstarter. Until then, you can join us on our Patreon! We’ll open for submissions in January 2026. See thread for details! 🪐🗡️ (1/5)

are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

In case you missed it, we're now using Ko-fi and we're pushing OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM to June 2026. This is an open-ended funding situation which worked great for us for our first anthology, OF SHADOWS, STARS, AND SABERS, and also leads to faster author payouts! Let's get this book made.

It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year. Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it. gofund.me/ca0c2b7d

It really needs to be understood that there's medical and scientific consensus on this, as well as trans people's own knowledge and experience on the subject, which is just as if not more important, as we are the sole stakeholders in our own healthcare. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:

1 day left to go on my 2x We the People auction items: www.32auctions.com/organization... What does a $75 '60-Minute Virtual Psychologist Consultation' get you? 🤔 Let's discuss mental health coaching and consultation!

My old eyes perceive that by explicitly describing ourselves as nonbinary and trans, many of us are able to stave off the unwanted "romantic" attentions of men we won't ever have to meet.

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨ Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza! 322 still without bids: www.32auctions.com/organization...

I am incredibly excited to share that my story, "Bodies of Sand and Blood," has been nominated in the short story story category for the Nommo Awards 2025!! Thank you to @castofwonders.org, members of @africansfs.bsky.social, and everyone who has supported my work 🙏🏾

Here's the full press release for the Nommo Awards. Congrats @plangdineple.bsky.social ! www.africansfs.com/nommo-awards...

I wrote this! It's a little heavy, but I do feel most of the great things science has done for us—in this case, psychology—is to help.

I have two mental health/psychology consultations available! Excited to provide sensitivity counsel, chat about author stress, or anything else on your mind.

Usually after Hugo nominations and Nebula nominations and then for each award, I try to update the award tags on Grinder listings accordingly. I'm behind so I haven't some I meant to do this year, since the Hugo awards were last night (congratulations everyone!) let's remedy that shall we?

I'll be moderating 3 panels at WorldCon, as well as running around with the unruly ragtag mob known as the Clarion West class of 2025. See you there! - Coping with Short Story Rejection - Neurodiversity 101 - Magic, Machines & Mental Health

Preorder links for THE KING MUST DIE, my science fantasy novel about found family, revolution, and second chances are live! Submit receipts via this form to receive a digital poster, drawn by the incredible Eepz. www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...

I'll be moderating 3 panels at WorldCon, as well as running around with the unruly ragtag mob known as the Clarion West class of 2025. See you there! - Coping with Short Story Rejection - Neurodiversity 101 - Magic, Machines & Mental Health

I'd love to see more YA and MG in my inbox #mswl

this one was for us #wednesday

Some fun news: our website is no longer a placeholder! If you want to read our submission guidelines, or just want to learn more about OTHERSIDE’s vision and team, go check it out! Ash did such a kickass job—the website is gorgeous and we are SO thrilled for it to be live!

I keep encountering new spec fic mags just sort of randomly on my feed, so let me remind y'all that I cover short spec fic for Reactor and I want to read your issues! Editors, pls connect via contact form about reviewer copies. Authors and readers, link me in the replies bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

"Patient Was the Doctor" by @shewritesprose.bsky.social (6,761 words) — A psychologist takes a job treating an octopus-like alien to get health coverage for IVF with is wife. Reminds me of the movie Arrival. (My rating: 5/5)

the baddest folklorist of Clarion West 2025 is starting a magazine, you'll want to check it out!

Hey everyone, #KidLit4Ceasefire has now fundraised the evacuation of 10 people. I am focusing on the next two families. One family of 6 and another of just 3, with a 4-month-old baby. I need 500 items for this fundraiser. I only have 218 at the moment. Donate here: airtable.com/appJkEF7W6Sl...

I've been reading a lot of queer SFF stories from 2025 for the anthology, make sure to send us even more!

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

👀 We know we said we'd be open in the Fall... But Augur Magazine and @talesfeathers.bsky.social subs are opening on AUGUST 1!!! Peep the subs guidelines ✨ now ✨ 🔗 Link for more info: augursociety.org/submissions/

Hi Fam! We are currently looking for a few new associate editors to join the team - PARTICULARLY interested in people from minority groups, non western cultures(so we don’t miss those absolute bangers coming in from lack of cultural understanding ;) ) and of course young adults to keep us current!

📣 Submissions are OPEN July 1 - 31 📣 We invite immigrant and diaspora authors to submit their stories & share their unique perspective through speculative fiction✨ www.khoreomag.com/submissions-... #SubmissionCall #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction

💚 COMMON BONDS 2 is open for submissions! 💚 We are very excited to read what all of you wonderful writers have for us! We want short stories and poetry that: - are SFF - have an aromantic MC - focus on a non-romantic relationship Details here: claudiearseneault.com/call-for-sub... 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫

Hey if you're an aromantic writers writing SFF with aro characters and are thinking of self-rejecting please know that from my chunk of subs read today, only 20% had a character that had any hints of being aro and that I desperately want your voice in our inbox ty <3

she is so elegant and sans serif, a queen in the green! the book too

Happy Book Birthday to my client @cassnewbould.bsky.social’s YA dystopian, CLIMATE OF CHAOS! Out now from Peachtree Teen! The Hunger Games for the next generation, it’s a hard-hitting survival story set in a dystopian Seattle that explores the devastating effects of climate change and medical debt.

Hey y'all! My upcoming science-fantasy novel, THE KING MUST DIE, is now available for request on NetGalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...