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This is the avra starter pack btw strangehorizons.com/fiction/cica... therumpus.net/2023/12/18/p... www.3lobedmag.com/issue41/3lbe...

Starter pack!!!

Lots of specfic writers migrating here again huh. Maybe I should try being more active on this site 🙈

This one blew my socks clean off! I used it as an example in a short story class I did a few weeks ago. :) strangehorizons.com/fiction/cica...

I don’t read in order, but so far @seanbirnie.bsky.social’s Black Water (one of his best yet, IMO), @sashabrown.bsky.social’s To the Wolves, and @avramargariti.bsky.social’s Fragments (From a Film) are worth the price of admission alone. An incredibly strong issue from @undertow.bsky.social.

One new August slot available! ✍🌌

One new August slot available! ✍🌌

I'm opening one more slot for developmental edits this month! Lit or spec, up to novelette length. Stories I've worked on have been published in Apex, Apparition, Gamut, and Dark Matter, among other venues. Query if interested 🌌✍

Another great roundup! Includes recent work by FFer @avramargariti.bsky.social!

I'm opening one more slot for developmental edits this month! Lit or spec, up to novelette length. Stories I've worked on have been published in Apex, Apparition, Gamut, and Dark Matter, among other venues. Query if interested 🌌✍

My August hiatus is over! I would love to take on a short editing project over the remainder of the month. If you're looking for a developmental editor with an eye for symbolism, emotionality, and characterization, query me! 🌌🧝‍♀️👻✍

This little e-chapbook of aloof moons, gloomy gays & poetic degeneration has turned 6 months old 🎉🌚 It's sold 87 copies since release. If it reaches 100 copies in its first year, I'll be happy. Thank you everyone who downloaded! ko-fi.com/s/0b8398bb1d avramargariti.itch.io/the-thirteen...

Oh look! My moon poem "Lunarist Girl" is up in @heartlines-spec.com !

I'm back and have 2 August slots available! 🌌✍💜

We're looking for a story for one of our 2025 issues of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine. Submissions close 8am EST, September 16th, 2024. Further details on our website: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

I'm back and have 2 August slots available! 🌌✍💜

This little e-chapbook of aloof moons, gloomy gays & poetic degeneration has turned 6 months old 🎉🌚 It's sold 87 copies since release. If it reaches 100 copies in its first year, I'll be happy. Thank you everyone who downloaded! ko-fi.com/s/0b8398bb1d avramargariti.itch.io/the-thirteen...

Have you read my queer body horror cicadas story yet? 👀🪲🌳 t.co/1PDqDO7yev

🍀 Little gay shooting star dog

Spending this week helping my mate move out of their mouldy house got me thinking about how good this story is by @gaycannibalism.bsky.social www.seizethepress.com/2023/04/15/m... #Horror 🌈📚😱

My August hiatus is over! I would love to take on a short editing project over the remainder of the month. If you're looking for a developmental editor with an eye for symbolism, emotionality, and characterization, query me! 🌌🧝‍♀️👻✍

Help fund @3lobedmag.bsky.social for 2025! Their 25th year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

**slides this toward you like a cat** New poem! New poem!

Have you read my queer body horror cicadas story yet? 👀🪲🌳 t.co/1PDqDO7yev

this is an excellent publication. even if you've never heard of the Weird as a genre, give it a try. I promise it's worth your time.

Countdown to the Carpe Noctem launch: Day 5! "O, Nyx/ Ὦ Νυξ" by Avra Margariti! @avramargariti.bsky.social Pre-order Carpe Noctem: tinyurl.com/5bwpv2fn

Back from Worldcon, met some lovely writer ppl, hurt both legs walking, visited some glasgow museums and gardens, airline stranded me and owes me money, ate some delicious food, didn't have time for panels, am currently home and covid-free. Tl;dr: chaos.

This is a gorgeous and bloody story of animal transformation and and a group of young people finding their freedom and true selves - Cicaidas, and Their Skins by @avramargariti.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/fiction/cica...

Special spooky delivery from @sliceduppress.bsky.social ✨ SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN is here, brimming with queer horror from @avramargariti.bsky.social @evavroslin.bsky.social @alanmarktong.bsky.social @bitterkarella.bsky.social & more 🥀

I'm taking my phone to the repair shop as soon as they open so hopefully I will have a working phone during the trip. Might have to get the battery taken out and have it replaced while in glasgow though so it doesn't blow up if it's swollen. Let's hope it's a screen problem.

Hey hey, class starts later this month. Finish your summer right with an online intensive. No zoom, no meetings--asynchronous workshopping and exercises for a month straight, so from poolside to prison, join me! reachyourapex.com/product/the-...

One paynent I was waiting on came in. But I'm still $650 light on this month's rent. So if anyone needs a freelancer for some writing or editing, hit me up.

"That night, I used Grandma’s sewing supplies to practice on my own flesh—needle and thread. I sewed my lips shut and unshut. Yet I was never good with a needle the way I was with a knife. I didn’t know how to staple Fani’s skin to her bones."

I missed this when it came out, but a waterfowl spec poem from @avramargariti.bsky.social ! I really enjoyed this :) corvidqueen.com/stories/duck...

i read this entire book in one sitting and now i can’t stop thinking of the moon. this is not a cry for help, except for maybe to get Avra’s book

Oh hey, tomorrow is August 1st! Two amazing things happen tomorrow: our August issue is available to subscribers, and we open up to original flash fiction submissions! Here's a sneak preview at the cover for August, with art by David Boyle!

And if you're a fan of my work, you can get more prose and poetry by pledging to my patreon! If we could reach 100€/month, it would honestly be a huge help! www.patreon.com/avramargariti

Writers, I'm opening a slot for developmental edits during the first week of August 🌌👻🧝‍♀️

Writers, I'm opening a slot for developmental edits during the first week of August 🌌👻🧝‍♀️

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JUNE 2024🏳️‍🌈 I round up nearly 20 stories by @davering.bsky.social @noirbettie.bsky.social @theelaineg.bsky.social Cara Masten DiGirolamo, J.C. Snow, Devin Miller, Yoon Chung, JL George, Oyedotum Damilola Muees, Endria Isa Richardson & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

I have one last open slot for developmental edits (after which I'll be going on a brief hiatus for a chunk of August). Let me know if anyone needs a story critique!

It's here!!! 🪲🌳 My return to Strange Horizons is a body horror short story about a Greek village, its pack of half-feral kids, and the shapeshifting skills the cicadas taught them. Read "Cicadas, and Their Skins" here: strangehorizons.com/fiction/cica...

"That night, I used Grandma’s sewing supplies to practice on my own flesh—needle and thread. I sewed my lips shut and unshut. Yet I was never good with a needle the way I was with a knife. I didn’t know how to staple Fani’s skin to her bones."

Please give me something to edit while I'm on bedrest!

Send some coins Avra's way!

Summer sale is now over--thanks to everyone who grabbed a copy! And if you're interested in my dark queer chapbook-in-verse, you can download your digital copy for $4! avramargariti.itch.io/the-thirteen...

If you're wondering how to break into pro short story markets, I recommend doing a stint of slush reading. It's incredibly eye-opening and a really good education on what makes a story sell (or not)