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The banner for The Power of Pride Bundle 2026. It depicts a black cat taking a nap amongst an assorted pile of objects associated with projects that may be submitted into the bundle, including a pink game controller, a pencil and paper, a musical note, a 6-sided die, a book, and a black power fist. A rainbow sits behind the logo and cat.

Calling all queer creators on itchio! The #PowerOfPride2026 Bundle is now open for submissions!

Digital games, physical games, books, zines, comics, assets & tools— we're accepting them all! NSFW OK! We want to work with you to share your projects.

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The British SF Association Awards shortlist is up & I’m honoured to see THE RIVER HAS ROOTS on it in Best Shorter Fiction as well as Spencer Fuller’s cover for it in Best Artwork! Tremendous company to be in. Congratulations to all the finalists!

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ICYMI, Plott Hound Magazine will now be accepting REPRINTS!

We're calling them Retold Tails.

-length: up to 10,000 words

-payment: $20 for flash, $100 for longer

For more details, check out our submission guidelines:

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If you’re a member of SFWA, it’s your last chance to nominate works for the Nebula Awards!

Suggesting my own work for the last time for the Nebulas!

Eee that's my award-shortlisted voice!!

Congratulations @taracampbell.bsky.social!

Cover art for KAYAK art by Kerisson Wemerson, plus blurbs

It’s the end of the world and the roaring rapids of Canada are calling.

KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social is out now🖤☠️

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 63, “Blessed Universe" by Galen Dara: An ethereal figure stands front and center of the frame, behind here there is a shower of stars on a violet space-landscape. She is dressed in robes that blend into her, and she holds her palms open. On each hand and the center of her chest there are three sources of light, as if she has the moon for a heart, and stars on the palm of her hands, a mist rises from her open palms. The quote reads: "What a strange world and what powerful characters Titos Pavlou has created! I can’t stop thinking about this book even though this might be for younger readers. But! It’s only the first in the series and I’ve read online that the second installment gets more grown-up, so I’ll stick it out for the battle scenes."

Congratulations to Eugenia Triantafyllou! Eugenia's “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends” is a finalist for the BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction! Read it here! buff.ly/6ZnbYnQ

I’m told that there are awards nominations happening. I published one story last year. I love it to bits. So, if you’ve read it, I kindly ask you to consider It. ❤️

Ichthyosis - PSYCHOPOMP.COM This is how it begins.

So Nebula noms close tomorrow? The day after? I didn’t make an eligibility post because lolol, what are spoons, but I did write a story with a queer throuple, a (big) fish, the sea off the Coromandel Coast, and a whole lotta body horror messiness plus yearning in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social

Ok I just finished Saint Death's Daughter by @csecooney.bsky.social and it's friggin amazing.

Do the thing. Read the book. I'm late to the party on that one.

Also whaaaa? The acknowledgements said Rhode Island? Woooooo! Hell yeah!

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #452 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 Issue #452 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, one of three special double-issues for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8, featuring a novella by Jason Sanford and a short story by J.W. Halicks, behin...

The new science-fantasy issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is available on @weightlessbooks.bsky.social. The issue contains my complete novella "Where the Dream Train Goes," a secondary world fantasy about living on the autistic spectrum and how people continually steal the dreams of others. 1/

Author of THE MARIGOLD and coauthor of THE HANDYMAN METHOD Andrew F. Sullivan's EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD, pitched as Nosferatu meets Succession and drawing on Irish folklore, about territorial, supernatural beings desperate to thrive in the modern world and the ramshackle attempt to halt their domination, to Ed Schlesinger at Gallery, by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid (world English)

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Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

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TALES & FEATHERS VOLUME 4 IS NOW LIVE! 🎊

Fantasy is full of world ending dangers. Of wars & high stakes & lives on the line. But what comes after?👀

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Congratulations to Christopher T. Fan, whose book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, is an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. tinyurl.com/4bwnz8na @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Ah Yes, the Trick by Mari Ness

So, yes, everyone, the delightful folks over at Interstellar Flight Press have just published my latest poem, "Oh yes, the trick," as part of their Queer Speculative Disability Poetry in Conversation project.

You can read it for free here:

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I love this ask & I added some folks I think don't get enough love, so I think this is worth a THREAD of my fave stories from the folks I posted. 1/11

Risa is such a generous person with excellent taste in short fiction (not just me! Read their whole thread!) and you should also read their fabulous fiction, such as a particular favorite of mine, Tigers for Sale clarkesworldmagazine.com/wolf_07_23/

That is a WILD strategic decision but I can definitely see how that can be more profitable *for Amazon* to prioritize the people who can spend that extra cash rather than good consistent sales. Although that does tell me there's room for places like Bookshop to come in and eat some lunch

It's very clearly weighted towards pushing the biggest sellers of broad categories but if I will buy every Weird Gay thing off your shelves you will get way more money from me than if you tried to sell me 1 Lovecraft and 1 Heated Rivalry. It doesn't make sense to me 🫠

The thing that continually surprises and also weirds me out is that it seems that recommendation algorithms haven't improved at all. Like what is the point of having hoovered up all consumer patterns and still cannot recommend someone an existing product that exactly fits their preferences?

So I feel (both as a reader & author) like discoverability of new books is down lately, especially for the midlist. Please tell me some recently published (past year-ish) SFF books you loved that are midlist/overlooked/deserve more hype! (And please share your recs/this list!)

My recs in reply!

And it does suck and there's a real loss there felt by each individual. The streamer has decided to stop the schedule you used to do laundry to. Now laundry is just a reminder of what you lost because no one else will perfectly fill that niche because you built that niche for them in your life.

You see that happen in the book. You see people frantically trying to get back that old time because they perceived it as a better and more secure time because that was when the god was consistently producing that content. But it's always been reliant on the agency of a person to choose to do it

because the followers are still hoping the influencer is gonna go back to doing the thing instead of moving on and sometimes the celebrity does do it, a bit of appeasing or for the easy quick money and its like THEY'RE BACK THEY'RE BACK THEY LISTENED TO US and maybe but also no

And some people when their favorite influencer isn't into doing pivoting from ASMR Roleplay Boyfriend into Dogfluencer content it's like what do you even do. You're still going to their feed 3 months, 6 months, years later. Some folks are still commenting "I miss when you used to do X"

I'm thinking a lot about @samtasticbooks.com's The Wings
Upon Her Back and the world built there that it presents as a religion but to me it's celebrity culture. It's parasocial. God is real but isn't into that content you consumed about them anymore.

The book THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD beside a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection pin

Thank you to the @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social for this honor! What a beautiful pin. It matches the lettering! @zenoagency.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social

Foundryside is a setting where magic must be physically written onto an object, but its written like a bunch of rules the object follows instead of physics and then logic issues ensue

But yknow, now devs write plaintext constraints in their codebases so LLM do good maybe so yeah FUN TIMES

Extremely wild time to read Robert Jackson Bennett's Foundryside worldbuilding while also existing in a world where engineers are writing scriptures of plaintext in the hopes of constraining the LLM from running haywire

Bourbon Penn 38 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!