In the first of these workshops on 7th May, we'll be looking at work from @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social Yara Zgheib & @thisisguan.bsky.social to create microfiction in which time, place, emotion & scenario are juxtaposed in interesting ways www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...

Need work for the months ahead! Prioritizing cover art and book/publication illustrations. Please share with networks, more info at the links below ⛵🌊 Portfolio: bydhiyanah.carrd.co Bookings: forms.gle/xbdSuuQRwwfA... 💚 #art #artists #SFFart #CoverArt #illustration #DisabledArtist #SupportArtists

A story that carries wonder and sadness, all rolled into one by @thisisguan.bsky.social Read it to taste your coffee! www.astrolabe.ooo/un-sorrow-fo... #speculative #shortstories #flashfiction

⏳️CROWDFUND ENDS AT 12pm EST, SATURDAY MARCH 14TH📅 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 🪓 Do we have your axe?

This one is a gut punch, in the best possible way.

New episode! In which I foolishly share my controversial dog opinions and Ash is concerned about knitting terminology. Listen to Thanks but Not for Me on @rss.com thanksbutnotforme.com (You can also find it on Apple and Spotify and those places)

Has anyone read my newsletter/stories/heard the podcast and been like: hey can Katie teach me to be as HILARIOUS as she is? The answer is no, that's just who I am. But I am teaching a virtual writing class this weekend about how to make any writing advice work for your process! (Link in replies)

I love this ask & I added some folks I think don't get enough love, so I think this is worth a THREAD of my fave stories from the folks I posted. 1/11

For those new to AaN , an introduction to our newspaper side project - AaNX (Annex) - and a rare sales offer at the end of the thread. AaNX is an 8 page full color side project of ours in a newspaper format

Adding on: practicing creating your art and finishing it will gradually improve the starting quality of the things you make. You need to play and create enough to figure out your process and hone your skills. You improve your basics. Preoccupation with immediate quality hinders your growth.

⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️ Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story... The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues! Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Please listen for all the times I whisper “oh my god” in horror when listening to Ash’s writing process

IT IS MY BIRTHDAY, as a present plz deposit your favorite space opera short fiction!

just read this and im going insane. multiple moments in here that made me react out loud. this story capitalizes on its premise in every way possible (especially the ones that explore the traumas and complexes and existential fears of it all, inescapable emotion)

My story came out in Worlds of Possibility, and the ever-amazing @omgjulia.bsky.social put all the 2025 stories in a FREE ebook, because that's just how they roll 💙 You can get it here: www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...

Wanna read an excellent story? @sarahpauling.bsky.social's new story is out in Clarkesworld: it's about universal cloud memory in every brain, memory cultists, and an assassin who can go underneath it all. I was lucky enough to beta-read it and haven't stopped thinking about it.

Heyyyy I'm raffling off a couple of tiny knitted creatures--hand-knit by yours truly--to raise funds for community aid organizations. That's right: you can own your very own wee knit beastie and help your community at the same time! Deets are in my latest newsletter: buttondown.com/JenniferHuda...

Since people are asking if they can do something for me, here is a short thread. I'm clearly going to be laid up for a lot longer. Here are a few simple links. Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

WELCOME GUAN UN! @thisisguan.bsky.social will have a brand new story in one of this year's issues. See cool art, crowdfund exclusives, and other exciting details here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

In the mood for a space opera adventure reviewers have affectionately called “tear-apart-the-empire-with-your-bare-hands wish fulfillment”? THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY eBook is currently 1.99 *again*! ✨ bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ✨ www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

I have a reprint out today with the wonderful folks at Small Wonders! Heed the warning, and don't read it out loud.

Hi #PortfolioDay 👋🏽 Queer disabled artist in Southeast Asia open for work on cover art & illustrations for adult, YA, kidlit SFFH & literary projects. I specialize in hand-drawn 2D with nature-centric, whimsical themes. Folio & commission bookings: bydhiyanah.carrd.co 💖 #SupportArtists #art #artists

Art-making is immersive for the body-mind. It's important to take time understanding what accommodations you need to show up for sustained practice. Let routines vary. Get ergonomic tools. Keep your fave art supplies stocked. Make time for rest & activities that counter physical/mental strain 🌸

Thanks for the outpouring of kindness, folks. If you want to do something to perk me up? Well, you could pre-order my dragon book! www.amazon.com/Dragon-Has-S...

DRUM ROLL!!!! 🥁🥁🥁 It gives me great pleasure to announce the SPARKLING longlist for the Welkin Writing Prize 2026. Congratulations to all the writers on this list. And commiserations to everyone else. The standard was incredibly high: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Sigh, particularly bummed about the world today; sending you all strength. Here's latest newsletter, though I'm sure like me, you're probs sad, too buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc...

we are so proud of all we did in 2025! and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀 give this post a look!! find something amazing to read and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤 psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...

god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page

Without further ado, here are my favorite stories of 2025, to give you something to read today. Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order. My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...

It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...

Thanks, John! The ebook and audiobook of Mercutio can be pre-ordered now for their May 7 release (not sure yet what the print release date in the US will be). One cool thing is that it opens with a battle scene where Mercutio meets Dante Alighieri, and Dante actually did fight in that battle.

For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...

It's awards eligibility season and we at ConCurrent are definitely eligible for one award: the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. However, if you think we're a good fit for other awards, please do consider us! Short fact thread incoming. 1/

this perfect piece of spec fic in @astrolabe.ooo by @thisisguan.bsky.social in honour of his birthday. One of my favourite pieces this year. And by an Aussie too 🇦🇺🧡🧡🧡 ”It’s hard to see her in the dark but you can still hear her song like a hook in your spine.” www.astrolabe.ooo/un-sorrow-fo...

It's my birthday today! If you'd like to do something for my birthday, I'd love you to support SFF short fic in some way—subscribe to a mag (probably cheaper than you think), leave a review, tell a friend about a story you loved, tell a writer you loved their story. <3

Ahem One of my short stories was published this year--a thread by the worst person in your high school. I am exceedingly proud of this. You can buy/read it here, in the fifth issue of Archive of the Odd, with a bunch of other amazing found fiction: archiveoftheodd.bigcartel.com/product/preo...

Also here is a pep talk for you. “Get thee a hobby that can’t be monetized” buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc... bonus content includes straight up bragging about my knits

One day left on this ridiculous sale! Get the audiobook of the Nebula-winning Someone You Can Build A Nest In narrated by the amazing Carmen Rose for just $2.41!

My eligibility list this year! HONEYEATER (novel — variously described as fantasy, gothic, folk horror, horror) bsky.app/profile/tana... & “In Connorville” (short story) reactormag.com/in-connorvil...

Publishers, editors, authors, send us your favorite speculative ecofiction published this year. This is going to be another bouquet of truly stellar ecofiction ✨🌿🦋

An eligibility post for 2025! I was lucky enough to have five things published this year. 🧵 - I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Accepting project and commission proposals for 2026! Early bookings required 🌈🌸🦋 For: Cover art, paid collabs, kid lit, adult/YA SFFH themes, lit fic, non-fic. Would love to do more animal/nature/hybrid illos. Also open for private art/gifts. #artists #art #SupportArtists #SupportBipoc

THE KING MUST DIE has been out for a whole month! To celebrate, I’m giving away 3 signed + personalized author copies. To enter, repost this and comment below with the last great story you read!

An eligibility post for 2025! I was lucky enough to have five things published this year. 🧵 - I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

This week for #WelkinWindbackWednesday, "A Parable of Slow Songs" by @thisisguan.bsky.social :

Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help: vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...

Looking for your next Black Friday preorder? 👀‼️

Just a few days left to get your 2025 Aurealis Awards entries in! The Aurealis Awards close to 2025 entries this Sunday, November 30. Check out the updated entries list and make sure you get all your eligible work entered before the deadline!

Here it is! The gorgeous cover of Book 2 of The Invoker Trilogy, A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES Out 7th April 2026 (UK) June 9th 2026 (US/Can) Artwork by Richard Anderson. Cover design by Ben Prior. Preorders open now!