Call it the Stoker Ballot Bump? We just had an order for 1,000 copies of Silk & Sinew come through the distributor yesterday. Congrats to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of the authors on the continued success of this title.
bookshop.org/p/books/silk...
I’m so excited to have a story in this incredible issue! “The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” is 50% insistence that queer love is magic, 50% insistence that poetry is magic too. I hope you love this one. 🌳 🐸 ☀️ 🌊
27.02.2026 00:59 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
Super Achievement in Long Fiction Ballingrude, Nathan - Cathedral of the Drowned (Tor Nightfire/Titan Books) Ha, Thomas - "Uncertain Sons" (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Undertow Publications) Langan, Sarah - "Squid Teeth" (Reactor) Langan, Sarah - Pam Kowolski is a Monster! (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Wise, A.C. - "Wolf Moon, Antler Moon" (Reactor)
Oh wow. "Uncertain Sons," the original novelette in UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, is a Stoker finalist in the Long Fic category! Congrats to the finalists! Thanks to readers who enjoyed and shared the book. And huge thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for supporting the novelette and collection!
23.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 191 🔁 29 💬 55 📌 4Thank you for all of your hard work Kristy💗so thrilled for this!
23.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
To my dear terrifyingly talented contributors--look what glorious things we have wrought together. Thank you Bad Hand for always being 1000% percent behind this project and to the HWA for this honor.
Congratulations to all the fabulous nominees. And to everyone who dares to write stories.
I'm thrilled to see Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora on the final ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards. Huge congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, all of her brilliant authors, and to all of this year's nominees.
Read it: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
congrats Wen Wen!!
23.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Contract signed! I'm going to be in @castofwonders.org again! This is a reprint of my @talesfeathers.bsky.social story from last year, "The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent". I'm so excited to hear what they'll do with the narration.
22.02.2026 22:29 — 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
2026 Fusion Fragment Lineup Natasha Ali: “Parthenogenesis” in FF#29 Sophie Casarico: “Diet Tips for the Apocalpyse” in FF#28 Jaye Case: “The Animal Years” in FF#27 Chloe N. Clark: “The Rocket Equation” in FF#29 Corey Farrenkopf: “Grave Bells” in FF#28 Elliott Gish: “The Stone Garden” in FF#29 Louis Inglis Hall: “The Children of Cadmus” in FF#29 Claire Jia-Wen: “In the Wake of Whales” in FF#28 Anya Leigh Josephs: “A Prescription for Suicide” in FF#27 Ewen Ma: “One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods” in FF#27 Escher McDonnell-Maulsby: “Giant” in FF#29 Tuesday Pil: “u last saw hana in the mageverse” in FF#28 Sarah M. Saif: “Graftage” in FF#29 Ross Showalter: “Extinction” in FF#27 Erin Strubbe: “Birdguts” in FF#28 Cate W. Tam: “Overgrowth” in FF#27 Katharine Tyndall: “Digital Love Spell - 78% Effective!” in FF#27 Francis Van Ganson: “Iso E Super” in FF#28 Allison Wall: “Chutes, Slides, and Ladders” in FF#28 Bree Wernicke: “May It Please the Profit” in FF#29 J.Y. Zhang: “The Sum of Her Parts” in FF#27 Audrey Zhou: “(Non)Deterministic Finite Automata” in FF#28
The full FF 2026 lineup is officially set and I can't tell you how excited I am for what we've got in store for you!
We've got:
-writers making their second appearances in FF!
-writers you'll likely recognize from their work in other mags!
-writers making their debuts in SFFH short fiction land!
GUYS!! I can’t believe it, but my story tied for 1st place in the Uncanny Reader Poll! I’ve never gotten 1st place in anything, nevermind for something I’ve written, nevermind alongside such insanely good writers. Thank you so much to all the readers! 🙏🏻
16.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 140 🔁 28 💬 25 📌 1Congrats!! So well deserved💗💗
16.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0thank you for reading Angela!!💗
13.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They say Hugo noms are open, so just reupping. Thanks if you previously read or enjoyed any of these. No collection category, but if you liked UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, the titular novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (sans other stories) is eligible. As are other-other stories in thread. Thanks!
12.02.2026 01:58 — 👍 29 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0Eight original short stories published last year. All at wenwenwrites.wordpress.com/publications... but a favorite was in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social "Saltwater Mother" magazine.trollbreath.com/saltwater-mo...
12.02.2026 01:27 — 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0thank you Tina!! fork found in kitchen moment for me I fear🫶
09.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0sapphic fairy tale story by audrey alert 🚨
09.02.2026 00:16 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Couldn't stop thinking about this review from #LosAngelesReviewofBooks -- it does more than just review Silk & Sinew, it digs into the heart of the book and its works. Thank you Jered Mabaquiao and #LARB. Truly, what an honor.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/silk...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
bestie I adore u🫶
08.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0new audrey story !!! what is the boundary between what is true and what we want to be true? and how do we blur that boundary? and also sapphic yearning
08.02.2026 01:18 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
Little jewel of a story from @audreyzhou.bsky.social free to read today! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
05.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Going to send out a new issue of my newsletter soon. Includes my latest short story/poetry/anime recs, and this time I’m going into the backstory of one of my oldest shorts, “The Time Traveler’s Cookbook.”
You can sign-up for my newsletter here: liu-angela.com/newsletter/
So reading this will change your life
02.02.2026 00:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I'm finally starting a newsletter! if you've ever went 'gee what does claire think about x craft thing or y industry event,' now's your chance 😄 first issue about crashing out and/or burning out is going out tomorrow 🙂↕️
clairejwen.substack.com
If you're nominating for the Rhysling, Nebula, or Hugo, I hope you'll consider some of my queer, dark, fantastical poetry!
Check out the thread for links, and feel free to DM me if you're interested in reading a work that isn't free online.
"We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement."
Assistant Fiction Editor @tinazhu.bsky.social was published in @lightspeedmagazine.com! 🔥 buff.ly/q6ir6NR
My latest piece in the Regret issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social when I thought, 'I could make the guest editor @aijiang.bsky.social cry' www.flashfictiononline.com/article/in-t...
30.01.2026 20:40 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2and also so excited to share a TOC with @muteddragon.bsky.social 😁 who was my SFWA mentor and thus has guided me through literally everything spec fic
30.01.2026 20:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0really thrilled to be apart of this! Super thankful to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and of course to @pseudopod.org, who originally pubbed “Two’s Company, Three Might Be A Sign of Demonic Possession” (the story is exactly what it sounds like)
30.01.2026 20:43 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
