Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

We're a new literary magazine for eco-fiction. We're going to start publishing in January of 2026, with subs opening in December. - Published by @briefecology.bsky.social - Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website - $ 0.06/word - 1,500 words or less - More details at the link 👇

My toxic trait is that I pronounce bsky as "bisky", like the HxH character

24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026! It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Editing is not about rewriting, but about helping a story be the best version of itself. That can mean making things clearer for the reader, but it can also mean making them less clear.

We have 5 days left and are $800 away from our goal!!! Help us make this book a reality!

For many folks, money is tight and about to get tighter with the manufactured SNAP benefits crisis. As such, between now and the end of the month, I'm donating all Cursed Morsels store proceeds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. Buy a book and support unhoused folks: www.cursedmorselspress.com

tea and honey 🫖 🍋 #peachtober25 #peachtober25bear #patterndesign

So, so glad my little moth fairy could bring whimsy into the world

"Plastic Alternatives for Humble Seamstresses" by @awritingwren.bsky.social (Summer '25) "is vibrant and full of mischievous energy," writes @cypayseur.bsky.social, "....fun with a light touch of romance thrown in, and I absolutely adore it!" 😀

New essay! "Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures" by Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne! buff.ly/G7E5VM4

Watch this space...

My strange fleshy piece about Catholics in space is in this! So excited!! 🩸🎶

Nope. Nope. Nope. Not cool. Not here. Not ever. We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

The Hero's Journey is a scam by big structure to sell more stages

A lighter magically appeared in one of my drawers at work, but alas it almost certainly belongs to someone in the cleaning crew, not a butch wizard ready to sweep me in a mysterious adventure

Oh, hello

📈 Dream Foundry is seeking fundraising volunteers! Help us connect with donors and find the money to keep our awesome programs running. Give us a shout in ⁠our Discord under #volunteering or send an email to [email protected]

We need these kinds of magazines to publish nonfiction. It's a tough time for literary criticism, essays about ideas, creative non-fiction, and I'm thrilled to see Apex is going to take pitches. Support if you can!

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

You all voted for spooky vibes this month, and we heard you loud and clear! 🎃🌒 Gather round the campfire, because October's flash fiction theme is FOLKLORE! You have until October 31st to submit! www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

The gentle wind is beckoning!!! #otgw #overthegardenwall #b3d #art #fall

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

I have a couple announcements I'll be able to make soon and I'm so stoked about them 🙏

Just as a little reminder, depending on how much of the story is AI generated, you may not actually own the copyright. So you've wasted your time, the publisher's time, readers' time, destroyed the environment, and all for a thing you don't even own legally.

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters. If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Tweaked my old TOS to fit the even worse times we're in now vis a vis "disruptive tech"

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

I just want to add: the chances of an editor not noticing, much less thinking the story is good enough to publish, are incredibly slim, while the consequences for submitting AI to publishers who don’t want it are likely severe and lasting. You might as well try writing the story yourself.

Finally working on my website, so I decided to beef up this account as well! I'm chronically bad at social media but we shall see