@victorianations.bsky.social
Florida horror writer & biologist. Gothic horror & monsters with emotional baggage. 📚🩸📚🏳️🌈 💙@Mdnight_Society & #Netherworld 4ever. HWA/SFPA/SFWA. She/her. https://linktr.ee/VictoriaNations
Baby brittle stars dislodged from their sponge home.
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TONIGHT! The Creative Expression Club and the Library invite you to Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word Night! Students, faculty, staff and community are welcome! Read your own work or share something that you love, or just come listen and cheer folks on. Food and drinks will served. Free parking is available next to the Viking Center. February 23 5:30-7PM St. Johns River StateCollege, Viking Center (V Building) 2990 College Dr, St. Augustine, FL
TONIGHT! The Creative Expression Club and the Library invite you to
Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word Night!
Food and drinks will be served. Free parking is next to the Viking Center.
February 23
5:30-7PM
St. Johns River State College
Viking Center (V Building)
2990 College Dr, St. Augustine, FL
Manatee coming up for air in a clear, spring fed river
Florida gar in a clear, spring fed rive
Anhingas sunning themselves by a clear, spring fed river
Twisted pine in a flatwood forest
Hanging by a spring, ogling wildlife, never gets old.
A wonderful camping weekend with my sweetie.
If you are a self-published / indie SFFH writer or reviewer, I have exciting news. We’ve just soft launched our new site, BookMatch, a matchmaking site for reviewers and books. We’re currently recruiting reviewers to our community. Want to be part of it? Come sign up! bookmatch.co.uk
04.01.2026 19:19 — 👍 135 🔁 96 💬 18 📌 5March Mammal Madness is nearly here! @mammalssuck.bsky.social (who had one of the best biology handles ever) has shared the #2026MMM teaser trailer below!
13.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
09.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 20666 🔁 5285 💬 107 📌 179
OUT TODAY @titanbooks.bsky.social ! So grateful to tell the stories those who came before me couldn’t or were not permitted to. I do believe we are here for ourselves and for our ancestors. Writing is more than a book for me.
THANK YOU READERS!
Grab a copy
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/maria-the-...
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
Photo of a white and gray tabby cat sitting on top of a shelf with a skull wearing a hair band, a spinner with a skeleton girl in the middle, a lamp with a tree branch shade, a piranha, and various other spooky knickknacks
Photo of a brown tabby cat sitting on a black bookshelf filled with the best of horror anthologies, with a shelf above him with a pink skull and other horror books
That peaceful time of the morning in the writing chair, trying to ignore cat shenanigans.
09.02.2026 11:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Look at the lineup at @nighttidemag.bsky.social !
02.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Submissions are now open🚨
Between Feb 1–July 31, Slashic Horror Press will be accepting submissions for novels and novellas in any horror sub-genre. The only pre-requisite? It has to be QUEER.
Slashic has always, and will always, only publish queer horror.
You inspire me AND you're hilarious. I'm so glad to know you, poison toad warrior!
31.01.2026 18:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Photo through a microscope ocular of diatoms in a star pattern
Photo through a microscope ocular of a chain of diatoms with setae
Photo through a microscope ocular of a singular, sharp diatom
Photo through a microscope ocular of planktonic material
Lost in the beauty of diatoms and other plankton this morning.
29.01.2026 17:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some fabulous #horror folks are part of Read for Pixels 2026, fighting violence against women worldwide. Check out the link for panels, readings, AMA's, and other goodies. 📚🩸
28.01.2026 11:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I'm heartened today by the exceptional resistance by Twin City folks, reported by @margaret.bsky.social.
22.01.2026 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Who's sending us their story? We had a huge slew on Monday and Tuesday but a bit crickets today. Now is the perfect time to be weird and decadent 🖤💚
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/now-ope...
The #SmallPitch submission window is now OPEN for 48 hours!
Reminders:
- Underrep writers only
- Finished manuscripts only
- One pitch per manuscript
- Up to 3 manuscripts per writer
- No hashtags in your pitch
- Comps & emojis are ok
Once submitted, check your pitch here: database.smallpitch.org
👀 Can't wait. Love the anthologies!
15.01.2026 01:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0That plastic star had us spooked!
16.01.2026 20:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Your story, "In the Pines," was deliciously creepy!
16.01.2026 01:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hell yeah! Just yesterday, I had another convo at my college on the themes, music, and historical references in SINNERS. There is so much!
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A photo is a large brown tabby cat sleeping next to a computer on a fuzzy purple blanket
Sleepy editor cat this morning
13.01.2026 12:24 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in the Women's Writing Symposium, but concerned about cost?
#writingcommunity
White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "FICTION: We are looking for unpublished speculative fiction (up to 4000 words) by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror: we love it all! Simultaneous submissions are welcome! We pay 8 cents/word (USD). OPEN NOW! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines"
White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "POETRY: We are looking for unpublished speculative poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. You can submit up to three poems at a time, and simultaneous submissions are always welcome. We pay $50 per poem (USD). OPEN NOW! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines"
OTHERSIDE is officially OPEN for fiction and poetry submissions 🪐🗡️
If you’re part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, send us your speculative fiction and poetry: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and everything in between!
📚 Open window: Jan 1-14
📑 See guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21
Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday!
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
a skeleton with a thorny staff and disheveled robe holding a book
me still trying to sell books as the world crumbles
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A graphic featuring all of S.H. Cooper's book covers below bullet points outlining a few of her most common tropes.
The fact that I have to market my books after writing my books feels like a personal attack.
Anyway, #horror #books! Strong lady leads, creepy monsters, stories that will haunt, with an average of 4.2⭐ across 1,400+ ratings on Goodreads. C'mon, take a look!
www.goodreads.com/author/list/...
the time has come
the final GLORIOUS story ✨
"When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea."
Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
We're open for fiction submissions!
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
