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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.

Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀

IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:

4,800 - We can pay somebody to write a regular column for the site. 4,900 - Where we're at now! 5,000 - Most of us can do this full-time, with the caveat that budgets and business structures are complicated, and we're still figuring out all the costs that go into receiving livable pay from a business. A year from now, we'll probably know if we estimated this one correctly or not (lol). 5,200 - We can bring on people to help us with more specialized tasks (a dedicated businessperson, someone to focus on our social media accounts and promotion, etc). 5,500 - More merch drops! 5,800 - We can bring on another regular contributor to keep Isaiah company. (We decided to allocate funds for this one a little earlier than planned to bring on Nicole, an excellent decision on our parts if we do say so ourselves.) 6,000 - A second party, and we can cover Luke’s travel costs (unless he decides he never wants to set foot in America again, which would be totally understandable). 6,300 - We can travel to and cover events more regularly. 6,500 - We can hire another full-time staff member!

Exciting news! Thanks to our sale, we've rocketed all the way up to over 4,900 paying subscribers. This means we can cross another goal, a regular columnist, off our list. We plan to sort out the exact specifics in our own time, but for now, who do you think would be a good fit?

And the titular story is free to read til the end of the month.

undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

I'm imagining someone going "SURPRISE I put an appointment for dyed hair in your calendar, no I didn't ask you when you'd be available" in lieu of just giving you the cash to do your own lmfao

Phantom View - Reactor A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father tries to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.

A poignant story about a father and a son and a third person who needs so badly to be acknowledged. Just as much as any person in a society that ignores systemic issues and can crush the human spirit so easily. Still, we persist.

by @wiswell.bsky.social in @reactorsff.bsky.social

Honestly straight cash would be amazing, as it can go towards stuff I'd never ask of people. I'd never ask for a 50$ bin of specialist soil from anyone. But if you give me 25$ cash I'm like oh shit I got a 50$ bin of dirt half off

Made a little vlog style video of my wandering through the PAXU expo hall (my first attempt at this format and style!) looking for solo/GMless/ general TTRPGs to stream with my chat!

I hope bsky doesn’t eat the quality but #PAXUnplugged was great this year and I met so many lovely TTRPG creators 💜

The Hidden Ones Unlock the secrets of the Hidden Ones dave ring and experience the fading myths of Eire. Come and delve into ancient tales! 🌌

looks like my novella is for sale over at Rebel Satori.

maybe check it out if you enjoy queer urban fantasy, wildly misconstrued irish mythology and/or brattish protagonists?

rebelsatori.com/product/the-...

The fact that itch posted this and not even an hour later I got a bunch of new sales proves how big it is when other people talk about your games.

It can literally be a life changing events.

When John Harper made a nice quote tweet about Breathless, hundreds of people looked at the game.

Wild

The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For - Reactor In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets her replacement.

Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...

An image with an orange plain background. There is a graphic of an open book at the bottom of the image. In the middle is a white square. Inside of the square reads: “Mission Control will go silent. Someone will drop a cup of coffee, but no one will clean it up, no one will turn away from the live feed coming from the lunar lander. But it will all begin to fall apart when one flight controller takes off his headset, turns to everybody else and says, “She took her helmet off. How is she still alive?” in black text. Beneath it reads: "Tales and Feathers Magazine — Volume 3" then there is a link symbol beside the link: https://augursociety.org/after-the-astronaut-and-the-north-star-kiss/

We've got a new T&F story for you this Monday! 👀

"After the Astronaut and the North Star Kiss" by Stefan Alcalá Slater is a tale of cosmic longing & the moment where two lonely explorers finally collide! 🌌💫

Read it NOW! 🔗 Link in bio.

P.S. every story in Vol 3 is now on our site, free to read!

Diaspora Dialogues Presents the 2025 Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase - Diaspora Dialogues The Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase is a three-day celebration of Caribbean voices and their influence on Canadian literature, art, and culture. Over the course of the showcase, audiences are inv...

GTA friends I will be at this Canadian-Caribbean showcase on Dec 14 discussing Writing Speculative Fiction with Terese Mason Pierre and Lue Palmer! All of it is free. There are workshops on poetry, self pubbing, non fiction, short stories etc!

come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...

AWARDS CONSIDERATION Jennifer Hudak "Written On the Subway Walls" in The Sunday Morning Transport "Echo Syndrome" in Small Wonders "The Last Time Gladys Howled At the Moon" in Strange Horizons "Holding Patterns" in Escape Pod links and more stories at JenniferHudakWrites.com

Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills

Lambda Literary - 2026 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Application Retreat Dates and Location The 2026 Writers Retreat will be held virtually from August 1-August 8, 2026.   Application Details Applications to attend the 2026 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ* Voice...

Applications for the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices are now open!

Apply for your chance to work with one of our 8 amazing faculty members, attend programming aimed at developing craft and demystifying the publishing industry, and build forever-community. 🥰

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My latest issue of THE WEIRD CIRCULAR is live! This one includes three writing prompts themed around the idea of liminality. Full of submission calls, music to write by, and other good writery news. newsletter.hlwalrath...

Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted “This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

"Start your collection today! The ECO series RETURNS in 2026. ECO24: Out Now! ECO25: Nominations open Dec 1st-Jan 31st"

What does the ECO series have in common with pears and plums? They all grow back stronger every spring 🍐✨

THANK YOU SO MUCH for supporting ECO24! Don't forget to grab your copy of the first in the ECO series, and watch your bookshelf grow year after year 🌱📚💚

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@lpkindred.bsky.social is a stalwart and continued community advocate with great hugs and I'm disappointed but not surprised that his literary achivements go under-rewarded in academic spaces.

Head of the Household - F(r)iction Kristina Ten presents the story of a woman preparing for her high-stakes marriage to an evil immortal lord.

New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction.

Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸

.@brandoncase101.bsky.social returns to our magazine with "Love, Falling From the Stars," a poem about Cannonball_Jellyfish_9c87.int,
a sea-cleaning robot who affectionately refers to himself as Ball, and his friend Cassiopeia the satellite.
smallwondersmag.com/...

BTW: Keep this bookmarked to show to newer authors just getting into short fiction about what they should be expecting and to negotiate accordingly otherwise.

Sample Contracts - OTHERSIDE Sample contracts for OTHERSIDE, including the language for nonfiction, reprints, original fiction and poetry.

Transparency is a core value for us at OTHERSIDE... and with that in mind, we now have sample contracts available on our website! We believe in supporting and protecting authors: no AI, no rights grabs, quick payment. Let us know if you have questions!

othersidespec.com/sample-contr...

A friend is one of the editors of this project and they take previously published work too!

Folks, an explanation why everything in our Black Friday Collection shows out of stock. We want to empower choice abd with 300-400 items, giving people more time to browse behooves everyone.

Later today we'll be working on uploading Vavia's line for the release.

Cover art for BCS Issue #446, featuring two tiny human figures standing on a fractured mountain glacier overlooked by a monolithic statue of a cloaked bearded man

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Clarkesworld was one of the first online magazines I submitted to. They eventually published one of my favourite short stories that I've written (drafted over one night, not sure I can do that anymore), 'muo-ka's Child'. Help Neil keep the lights on at one of sff's best magazines:

Sound Systems: The Future of the Orchestra - Center for Science and the Imagination A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and art reimagining orchestras as vibrant spaces for connection, shared learning, and exploration.

My story ‘Take Three’ is available for your reading pleasure in this free book about the future of the orchestra!

csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...

LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS IS!!!

OH MY GOD DO THIS, THIS IS INDECENT AMOUNTS OF SALE

On background of a starry sky with two octopuses in the corners… íde Hennessy 2025 Awards Eligibility long fiction: • "Sequoia Point" 17.000 word NOVELETTE overcoming grief on the mysterious Lost Coast of Northern California, with a little help from a doppelgänger in Split Scream 7 (Tenebrous Press) Weird/Horror/SF •idehennessy.com

My long fiction release this year is “Sequoia Point” in Split Scream 7 edited by @alexebenstein.bsky.social at @tenebrouspress.bsky.social - find it here or DM me if you’re reading for awards:

Ebook: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...

Print: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...