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!

Also if you want to see all the stories (and poetry!) I published this year with links, here's a thread: bsky.app/profile/jenn...

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

Trying here first: Are any of you geologists, rock nerds, or very knowledgable about natural gas? I am eventually looking for someone to occasionally consult with (yes, paid) for a project I'm working on.

🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼 ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤 Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

Are you ready for the ECO Equinox? 🌿✨ ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION releases TOMORROW, November 18th! Today is your last chance to preorder these 23 stellar tales from our all-star lineup of sci-fi/fantasy authors for 30% off! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

It's nearly time to nominate your best speculative ecofiction for ECO25! Full guidelines here: www.violetlichen.com/ecofiction-guidelines 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 🚨 And don't miss your 30% preorder discount on ECO4. Only a couple days left to preorder - release day is Nov 18! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

These are so fun to see in real life, as is @erincairns.bsky.social!

Only a few more days to grab your preorder of ECO24 at discount! Counting down to release day on the 18ths 👀🌿🤲

I was lucky enough to read an early copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's The Cellar Below the Cellar, which I absolutely loved! Link to my review here!

This is, I suppose, the one award-worthy thing I have for your consideration this year. A mystical, grief-laden, yet imminently hopeful poem in collage form

For AaN it would be our "Mmeory" memory manipulation anthology. A lot of first time professional rate authors in this one from around the world.

I think "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social is most dear to me, because it's a love letter to my adopted city, and it's about the power of community in the fact of systemic oppression and violence www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...

I'm still so proud of my story "Whalesong", published in Deadlands this year: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

starting an initiative on ig where i post pics of my dog for engagement. i will mirror here. my dog's name is puddles and she's 9. i'm moderating a panel called "in defense of romance" at b&n perimeter 11/22 @ 2pm w/ @runwithskizzers.bsky.social and others AND Y'ALL BETTER SHOW UP BC IT'LL BE FUN

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾 Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social

It’s official! I have a short story collection coming out Nov 3! Pre-orders open now! And look at the gorgeous cover designed in-house by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...

It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...

My name's O.Z. and I'm here to say, You can despair at my works from far away

did you know that right now, we're only a partial skeleton? we're not fully funded, and so we're missing some critical bones. this is truth and sadly not sustainable help us be a full skeleton? patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla... our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

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Honoured to be a Pushcart nominee for "A Parable of Slow Songs"! Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for all that he does. You can read the micro here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

On a mission to get subscribers to my free newsletter up to an arbitrary number. If you're interested in the workings of a historical fantasy novelist's career, you can read the archives here. Stuff like what my editing process looks like, what I'm reading, craft/career things I'm working through.

A wonderful review of ECO24! "The diversity of stories reflects the diversity of the authors and also showcases the indefinable quality of eco-fiction." Ben highlights stories by K-Ming Chang, Guillermo G. Mendoza, @hironennes.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @kayv.bsky.social & Mathew Freeman 💚

Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! 🖤🎃🌿 We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF. Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...

Today's newsletter, discussing a sentence courtesy of Rebecca Solnit: "For mothers, some mothers, my mother, daughters are division and sons are multiplication; the former reduce them, fracture them, take from them, the latter augment and enhance."

I've been enjoying writing my newsletter again, and I think other people have enjoyed it too? If you'd like some short thoughts about sentences and writing, you can sign up at my website to be in time for the next one: guanun.com

YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉 Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...

Aurealis Awards entries close on November 30, 2025 - this is by necessity a couple of weeks earlier than in past years to facilitate our exciting Awards Ceremony at GenreCon on the weekend of 20-22nd February! #AurealisAwards

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today! This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic. In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook Available wherever books are sold. #booksky #Blackbooksky

I'll have some prints and this original, pencil piece at SLICE Vancouver's collective art show this week! Along with awesome art, prints, and other goodies from 20+ local artists. Trust me, it'll look a lot better in real life. ;) #shoplocal #artgallery #artshow #traditionalart #womenartists