Dear Ghost update! I write about Hox genes, Rumi, Maurice Manning, Albert Szent-Györgyi, and what it's been like writing my dissertation. buttondown.com/dearghost/ar...

Oh you can bet I’m pre-ordering immediately. SOOO hyped for my friend Dylan’s upcoming book! 🍎

Going to start accepting more commissions. For rates and queries email or dm me.

I wrote about Iqbal Bano taking on a tyrant with a poem, and my very slow progress in trying to read and understand Urdu poetry. buttondown.com/dearghost/ar...

Bought a fresh set of Faber-Castell watercolors so I'm giving them a whirl. The more defined stuff in the foreground was done using Ohuhu alcohol markers and regular colored pencils.

no exaggeration to say that joining the augur society team has improved my life in every measurable way. it's a true privilege to work with such passionate people, and I learn every day. if you have time in your schedule and any interest in marketing or lit events, please consider applying 🌌

My story “Between the Flickers” is in this special issue along with other fabulous stories. Please give it a read! 🐜

my little joy is to make silly little uquizzes for my friends so i made one to tell you which member of a doomed spaceship crew you are, and wildly enough, 18k people have taken it 😳 uquiz.com/quiz/OYuosw?...

is it me or are there just so many good books to read? i'm maxxing myself out on all my libby app library cards

Fun sketchbook page

The past week's story/poem recs from my daily newsletter: * @palimrya.bsky.social in @prismaticapress.bsky.social * @myrcenedean.bsky.social in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social * Samantha H. Chung in F&SF * @aidandoyle.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com + a paid rec buttondown.email/bogiperson/a...

augur magazine AND tales & feathers are officially open for submissions!! we have been discouraged from doing any more work this month but i LOVE subs and i will be IN THERE READING! give me the GIFT of your words. i am one of augur's amazing team of editors & i am especially interested in: 🧵

Crapignonsaurus

i made a silly little uquiz where you get to be a traveler on a road trip encountering roadside horrors uquiz.com/D4ZGrP

Silly creatures🌿✨

Presence

We had @aijiang.bsky.social, @avramargariti.bsky.social, @mariahaskins.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, and @myrcenedean.bsky.social in @thedeadlands.com, @therumpus.bsky.social, Sunday Morning Transport, @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social, The Dark, and Dark Matter! 3/

Pre-orders go live this weekend 🖤

It's been another fantastic year of publishing at khōréō! We are incredibly proud of all the stories we published in 2023, and we hope that our authors can be recognized for their incredible writing. Our 2023 awards eligibility list can be found here: www.khoreomag.com/letter/khore...

Please consider these sheep (awards eligibility post). 🐑🐑🐑🐑 Links to stories here: msdean.carrd.co

🖼️ Yamaguchi Kayō

Please consider these sheep (awards eligibility post). 🐑🐑🐑🐑 Links to stories here: msdean.carrd.co

Time to get on this awards eligibility hype train: FF has 9 eligible novelettes, 24 eligible short stories, and 5 eligible artists. It was a great year for FF, with incredible stories, and I hope you check them out and give them some consideration.

I’m in this issue along with a bunch of really exciting stories! Give it a read! ❄️

Yes I did get briefly obsessed with mazes this year and wrote a short story about a very kind and terrifying maze and now that story is in Issue 15 of Hexagon! 🗺️

White House: You get those photos of the turkey that the president is pardoning this year? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. White House: what

from the Locus Magazine interview with Carmen Maria Machado

We're open for short fiction + art portfolio subs till December 1st for Death in the Mouth Vol 2! We pay US $0.08/word for fiction & $350 for 6x9 black/white illustration. Send us your weird, creepy, gross stories + art!! More guidelines are in the submission forms here: deathinthemouth.com#ditm2

Please consider backing us if you’re able! We need more markets out there that can pay pro rates and Haven Spec has some great plans for 2024

Subscribers just got the Hexagon Issue 15 cover art and table of contents right to their inbox! 🧡❄️ Join the Hive to get everything a week early! 🐝

Reading for 2023? Here's all BCS stories from 2023, what length category they're in, and info/links. Adventure fantasy, historical fantasy, dark fantasy; all moving stories of fascinating characters in rich settings. Thank you for reading our stories and authors!

Fresh new short fiction: "Waiting for Jonah" by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social. The first of our fairy- & fairy tale-themed issue! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/wait...

Let me be 2 I can be spooky

We are witnessing the biggest global anti-war protests since the Iraq war in 2003. (Pictures from Washington DC, London, Berlin, Jakarta)

I feel so lucky to be included in this amazing volume. 😭😭 Thank you to @neonhemlock.bsky.social @cypayseur.bsky.social and Naomi Kanakia. “Drowning Songs” was my first ever published short story so it’s surreal to have it be featured alongside all these amazing stories/authors!

this is absolutely remarkable, organized by @jvp.bsky.social they shut down NYC's Grand Central Station demanding #CeasefireNOW

'In her final tweet, written in Arabic on October 8, the author wrote: “Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.”'

SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2023 I round up over 25 works by @ladzwriting.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social @kurellian.bsky.social @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @skateellis.bsky.social @ashhowell.bsky.social & many more!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/91640044

“It doesn’t hurt them. It’s what they’ve come to do,” the man said behind me. “Just tear one free. They don’t understand pain.” “What doesn’t?” I asked. “They.” Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social. www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/31/ton...

Halloween is cruel to vultures. Last year's Halloween comic.

DMing rules. it's like playing a video game with my friends except I alone have access to console commands, and also they plug the controllers into my mouth and eyes, and instead of a computer it's my perfect wet electric brain

A moody little one page story: The Animal, 2014 🐃

oh me

“I know I'm American because when I walk into a room something dies. Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.” — Noor Hindi