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Graphic featuring text from DaVaun Sanders' "NPC (or Eight Haxploits to Maximize Your Endgame Farming: A Player's Guide)" which reads, "This isn’t a game anymore, not for us. Started from the bottom, as they say. You understand why they scared. You are the future."

Make sure you don't skip this lore drop! 🎮 "NPC (or Eight Haxploits to Maximize Your Endgame Farming: A Player's Guide)" by DaVaun Sanders launched yesterday!

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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: April 2025 - Reactor This month's stories have a little god murder, some necromancy, and some brain swapping...

@aardwyrm.bsky.social Look at my fellow Dragon Den Pen Pal!!!

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If this is “nottoway” to react to the burning of a plantation, I don’t know what is.
“Knoxmarion Burning” by Erin Brown, for the Belonging issue of FIYAH Magazine.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Nnedi Okorafor, against a physchedelic background. Featuring a short story by Tatiana Obey.

Six Best American Book covers on a tan background.

I am SO ecstatic to announce that my short story, Fuck Them Kids, originally published by
@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social, has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025!!!

I am speechless right now.

@marinerbooks.bsky.social.

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first, comes the first black, who used to be a slave?
in fact, isn’t that the second black, secondly negro,
then the third version:
pro-black, joy black, magic black, afro-black
which means: take what is given

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Goblins & Galaxies Magazine Launching a brand new sword & sorcery, dark fantasy magazine that pays homage to the old pulp magazines and amplifies new voices!

The KS for a new venue publishing S&S, GOBLINS & GALAXIES, is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/crt...

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beestung reopens for new work on april 1st for all two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers!

we're usually only open for a few days, so start getting those packets ready!

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Taking Submissions: Goblins & Galaxies Magazine May 2025 Window
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Submission Window: May 7th - 14th, 2025
Payment: 3 cents per word
Theme: Sword & sorcery, dark fantasy, and science fiction stories under 6,000 words
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a group of people with the words aint 2 proud 2 beg Alt: TLC music video: I ain't 2 proud 2 beg.

Best Magazine:
......c'mon now

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Sheree Renée Thomas | Authors | Macmillan Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and Mississippi Delta c...

Best Editor:
The beloved legend herself @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Sheree Renée Thomas. Running point at The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction plus sooooo much more 🔥🔥🔥 Her work appeared in FIYAH #7 and [REDACTED] fiyahlitmag.com/2018/06/01/i...

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ICYMI the spoiler free author interview with @wtalabi.bsky.social on Convergence Problems: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLaN...

Issue 32: Table of Contents + Cover Art FIYAH Literary Magazine presents its upcoming writers and stories for Issue 32: SPACEFARING AUNTIES. Kerine Wint serves as guest editor, while the cover art comes courtesy of Cyan Daly. Features in…

Best Short Story:
"The Carcosa Pattern" by @conradloyer.bsky.social Conrad Loyer in FIYAH #32, guest edited by Kerine Went: fiyahlitmag.com/2024/09/01/i...

Seriously. Go read this piece.

Issue 29: Table of Contents + Cover Art We are thrilled to present the cover and table of contents for the 29th issue of FIYAH Literary Magazine. Cover illustrated by Jordan Penland. Features include: “The Dump City” – …

Best Short Story:
"D.E.I. (Death, Eternity, and Inclusion)" by @nilahmagruder.com aka N. Romaine White in FIYAH #29: fiyahlitmag.com/2023/12/01/i...
Absolute 🔥🔥🔥

Issue 31: DISABILITY ToC & Cover Another issue, another cover, and more great writers!  The Issue 31: Disability cover was illustrated by Kaitlin Edwards. Features include: “Demon Slayer” – a prose work written b…

Best Short Story:
"Way Up in de Middle of de Air" by Jamie Roballo in Issue #31, imaginative and moving. Guest edited by @emmaliawrites.bsky.social
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Issue 32: Table of Contents + Cover Art FIYAH Literary Magazine presents its upcoming writers and stories for Issue 32: SPACEFARING AUNTIES. Kerine Wint serves as guest editor, while the cover art comes courtesy of Cyan Daly. Features in…

Best Short Story:
"Fuck Them Kids" by @obeytheauthor.bsky.social Tatiana Obey also in FIYAH #32 fiyahlitmag.com/2024/09/01/i...
(she said what she said) 🤣

Welcome to the Locus Awards Poll. Deadline for voting is April 15. You can return and edit or add to your ballot up until the deadline.

Awards can conjure up FEELINGS. We all work damn hard at this. So few get long listed. Nominated. Finalized. Actually win The Thing. BUT WE CELEBRATE our peers who Also Work damn hard at this. That said...we're thrilled to see FIYAH fam REPRESENTING at the 55th Locus Awards! poll.voting.locusmag.com

Announcing the 2025 watermelon grant winners — L D Lewis, Author. Editor. Sea witch apologist I am thrilled to announce the winners of the inaugural Watermelon Grant for Palestinian Speculative Creators! Introduced in 2024, the Watermelon Grant offers $2000 USD in unrestricted funds to an eme...

Morning, friends. And congratulations to Ibtisam Barakat ابتسام بركات and Monir Mtoor (Nissan Al-Jalele), winners of the Watermelon Grants for prose and poetry, respectively.

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Sundress Publications is seeking a Managing Editor to join our Best of the Net Anthology team! For more information on this volunteer position, visit www.sundresspublications.com/openings

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Don't miss it! @emmaliawrites.bsky.social is a key part of our team and ready to drop some gems for y'all! 🔥💎

If you're not following @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social, here's your chance! Massive thanks to Alex for boosting the authors out here hustling in these short fiction streets!

In honor of Women’s History Month, March's Grotto Night at the Library features Grotto writers Audrey T. Williams, @ninaschuyler.bsky.social, Jenny Bitner and Ethel Rohan discussing writing about mothers and daughters on March 25 at 6 pm. Register for the virtual event via the QR code.

first, comes the first black, who used to be a slave?
in fact, isn’t that the second black, secondly negro,
then the third version:
pro-black, joy black, magic black, afro-black
which means: take what is given

Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Fiction Roundup As the world seemed to shift and break around all of us, I found myself drawn to stories about rage, resistance, resilience, and even a bit of love. In “Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness” in…

This column includes stories from @lightspeedmagazine.com @reckoningmag.bsky.social @hexliterary.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @castofwonders.org

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Surprise!!! My matriarchal necrocosmic short story about death masks, womanhood, and dying stars is going to be published in issue 34 of the Hugo award winning @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social!

This story came to me in a dream folks, and it’s one I’m extremely proud of! Let’s GO