Margaux/emspace

Sunny Winter Day, Bracebridge, Ontario
Isabel McLaughlin
n.d.

Cover for Speculative Insight December 2025. Lots of purple, with a path winding between trees, leading to a star in the distance.

If you want to try Speculative Insight out, you could buy the July-Dec 2025 collection in ebook, for AUD20 - or a paperback for AUD35 (inc shipping!). Of course, subscribing for the year gets you two ebooks, and only costs AUD30... (~GBP15, or USD19).

www.speculativeinsight.com/buy-collections

Friendly reminder that you have until March 7 to submit your reverse evaluations to @midlvlmag.bsky.social.

It may be poetry, short fiction, or creative nonfiction.

Remuneration for accepted pieces: $25 (USD).

Please refer to these guidelines:

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#AmWriting

Player Elimination She loves to play games, but not when it comes to murder. Wren Winters is a businesswoman on a mission, juggling an alumni event for a rising game designer while keeping her late husband’s retail stor...

My spouse @shellyjones.bsky.social has a three book cozy mystery series about a board game group that just came out, and I'm gonna brag, the first one, Player Elimination, was just nominated for an Agatha award! tulepublishingshop.com/products/pla...

Illustration of an albatross pressing its weight down on a curled-up person, its huge wings closing in on them. The person has long dark hair that curls around them, around the albatross' feet, and tangles around the albatross' body. The person is surrounded by corals, seashells, and forget-me-not flowers.

Comic page from my short horror comic, The Hue of Heaven. Cassandra, a disabled Black teenager housed in the Cardinal's supposedly-altruistic home for sick and disabled youth, anxiously wonders where her friend Antonio has been taken after the surgery that would cure him. She encounters the Cardinal on a walk and asks him if Antonio is walking. The page is tense and chilly, emphasizing the distrust Cassandra has for the Cardinal.

Illustration in limited color showing various vignettes of people engaging in fun summer activities, like going to a concert, but they are all unmasked. A figure in the center is isolated in a dark void, ignored by the other figures. The central figure is the only one masking

Photo of three needle felted little mushroom creatures in a line. The first has a square green cap and a surprised face. The second has a golden round cap and a smiling face. The third has a pink gilled cap and a blushing face. What you don't see in the photo is that all three have big booty cheeks.

Hi! I'm Ashanti Fortson, a queer Afrolatine multidisciplinary artist working as a graphic novelist & illustrator. I also embroider and needle-felt. I'm interested in color, texture, evocation, and emotion.

Available for freelance!
Check out my shop! 💜

🎨 ashantifortson.com
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A graphic showing the cover for The Library of Memories, featuring a number of comments pointing towards the cover including: "omg it's real!" "look how pretty!" "it's me! Mom, I made it!" as well as a travel stamp with the release date of August 25th, 2026

The cover of The Library of Memories has been revealed and @lazyfishy.bsky.social and I can't WAIT to welcome you to the world we created!✨

You can pre-order the book and join the newsletter to get any upcoming news first here: www.thelibraryofmemories.com

OUT AUGUST 25TH, 2026!📚

Welcome to WildStar Press

WildStar Press is an indie publishing company uplifting the voices of diverse creatives through comics and prose.

Where to find us:
🌟 Here!
🌟 wildstarpress.com
🌟 instagram.com/wildstarpress
🌟 wildstarpress.tumblr.com

You can also support me by hiring me to edit your comics and stories (film scripts even!) Or tell other people to hire me because I'm well worth the time~

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The text "Read Black Comics" on an inky almost-grey textured background.

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS!

Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

One day left to submit your work to Nightmare Magazine! We close at 11 pm tomorrow night.
As ever, we're looking for short stories under 7500 words, flash stories 0-1500 words long, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Tusk
Elyse Dodge
n.d.

And of those who attended, how many were doing so of their own free will and not because they were assigned to write a review?

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

Call for Entries for 2026 Hillman Prizes Now Open * ATTENTION JOURNALISTS, EDITORS AND AWARDS COORDINATORS * CALL FOR ENTRIES 2026 Hillman Prizes for Journalism Annual prizes honor excellence in journalism in service of the common good Deadline to en...

The Call for Entries for the 2026 Hillman Prizes in Journalism is on now through Jan 30:

I’ve been involved in lots of extracurricular activities for decades and even the sports ones skew more women involvement.
My question: Are more men less willing to be told what to do (potentially by women) in unfamiliar places or areas they’re not expert in? They definitely don’t like cleaning up

Wow! What a great opportunity! Thanks for offering this and I’m definitely going to apply

Beige graphic with soft botanical illustrations in the corners. Centered brown text reads: “Introducing… RevPit’s BIPOC Editor Mentorship.” Smaller text at the bottom says, “See caption for details.” The overall design is minimal, warm, and elegant.

RevPit is excited to introduce our new BIPOC Editor Mentorship! ✨

This mentorship is open only to BIPOC editors and provides one-on-one guidance throughout the #RevPit annual contest.

Applications open February 1.

Visit reviseresub.com to learn more.

#booksky #writersky #amediting #amquerying

YES! I actually didn’t read these until I was in University and they were WONDERFUL. Short but dense, full of fun times and very serious unfun times. A great coming-of-age arc that also speaks to the responsibilities of a great leader, not simply a battle of good vs evil.

Seems to me someone who would put down “olive oil” under hobbies on their resumé is exactly the type of person suited to work for a bank

The Feeling You Haven't Had in a Long Time
Steve Driscoll
2021

A calico lies comfortably unbothered on the back of her human’s legs as human is laying on their stomach on the couch. From the weird angle, the photo was clearly taken under one arm seen raised up on the left edge of frame.

same but worse for me. I’m lying on my stomach and the cat is asleep on the backs of my legs (she always wakes when I try to get a photo of her)

"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".

Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd

you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices.

... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.

I’m wondering about a correlation between reactionary asshat fascist thinking and likelihood of passing the marshmallow test. If we’d tested these people when they were 3yo, how many would’ve eaten the marshmallow before the monitor could explain the options?

Untitled - Banff
H.G. Glyde
1942

Kananaskis Bear
Jane Ash Poitras ~ Cree
n.d.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Movement is medicine 🏃

They don't exist any more, so there's no danger of giving them money. But if you buy any of the remaining Unbound books by ex-Unbound authors, the authors get nothing. A company called OOINYA is selling them on Amazon, and should be avoided.

Struggling to build a stable editing business? "The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors" by Erin Brenner shows simple steps to grow your business sustainably. Buy it now on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42JaLMI

Building a freelance editing business doesn't have to mean constant hustle and guesswork. My "Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors" shares practical steps to grow sustainably. zurl.co/2G7Or
#LaunchYourEditingBiz #Freelancing