Spencer Nitkey

Of course I'll recommend @eveninghouse.bsky.social, the fledgling bookstore my partner and I run, with our beautiful website and great selection of high-quality literature, focusing on small presses, books in translation and bangers new and old (which ship anywhere in the US:)
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30% UNLOCKED! For the first time, Apex will open to nonfiction pitches. We are expanding our nonfiction editorial team! ZZ Claybourne has been our nonfiction editor for the past couple of years, and is doing a fantastic job. His editorial eye has elevated Apex’s nonfiction and has helped us discover many new voices. Rodney Carlstrom will be joining the Apex team as an associate nonfiction editor to help ZZ manage submitted nonfiction pitches.

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WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

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So happy to see my poem, “The Final Trick,” get an honorable mention in the Rhysling Awards! Thanks to everyone who read and voted! Eternally grateful to @ajodasso.bsky.social who gave this poem the perfect home at @strangehorizons.bsky.social.

Congrats to all the winners and nominees!

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HAPPY KICKSTARTER DAY!! 🎉🎉🎉

Kick(start) the first day of Spooky Month with us and come check out the cool stuff we've got planned for you!! 🎃✨

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Starstruck, by Aimee Ogden | Psychopomp a radish, a fox, and a boulder walk into the world... check out the cover for Aimee's amazing novella STARSTRUCK, and preorder your copy today.

Our guest this week is Aimee Ogden! Excited to talk about several of Aimee’s short stories, as well as her fantastic new novelette, STARSTRUCK!

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thanks for giving my specialist and slime mold such a lovely home/incubator

Excited to see @spencerwriting.bsky.social's Sentient Slime Mold included among all this other great writing!

Ahh! What stellar company to be keeping. Thank you so much!!

My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and--
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The following weird fictioneers will appear in Weird Horror 12 early next year. @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @grayhaem.bsky.social @noirbettie.bsky.social @rajivmote.bsky.social @russellnichols.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @breathinghead.bsky.social

This was such a nice message to start my weekend with. Thanks for reading and the high praise! Very much appreciated and super happy you enjoyed the story.

image of bart simpsons and his dog saying "my own dog bit me!"

this etymological shitpost is for not liking the changeling!!! (i kid i kid).

Weird comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "wert" which means to "turn/bend". The PIE root of climate is "klei-" "to lean" (a zone's inclination toward the sun). In the Anthropocene, this postural stance no longer holds. Climate is bent by our actions. Ergo, weird fiction = cli-fi *runs away*

promo graphic for my books text says: "for your consideration in the categories of literary awards, reviews, readership & general good vibes: up and coming underground artist and general societal burden John Chrostek's 2025 releases, offering never-before-seen literary adventures of the strange and sincere variety" all in retro 70's font, then the covers of boxcutters and feast of the pale leviathan

boxcutters malarkey books for those adventurous souls who enjoy the variety of short stories, Boxcutters promises a diverse set of tales, spanning the shocking, sad, hilarious and odd. find tales of cosmic horror, dystopic science fiction and mythic fantasy tied together with simpler tales of small town fight clubs, a possessed Richard Nixon and much more. Boxcutters is there to help cut through the boundaries and get you to the open air." available at evening house books, asterism, malarkey books, Powell's, and at your local library and indie bookstore if you ask nicely

FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN Deep Overstock Books A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found & devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what Owen finds inside is a community of fellow survivors carving out a life amidst the flotsam and flesh of the impossible Leviathan. There seems to be no hope of escape until a chain of events reveals to the survivors that their damnable fates are tied to a mysterious cult that lives in deathless splendor in the ivory halls of New Atlantis. So begins a war between dimensions, culminating in the awakening of the Leviathan and its march to the shore... available at evening house books, little ghost books, bookshop.org, powell's and at your local library & indie bookstore if you ask nicely

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION!!!
for literary awards, reviews, readership & general good vibes:
my 2025 books!

If you liked Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, please feel free to let the world know. Please, specifically, let my enemies and childhood bullies know. Every rating and review and post will reach them somehow, I know it.

behold!!! the sperm whale's mighty orphic return from it's bloody katabasis.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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You were so right to be concerned, haha!! And omg thank you for reading and for the super kind words about this one.

Really, really excited about this piece of very small fiction out today w/ @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social. It's about high school wrestling, heart attacks, heaven, and close calls.

If you want to read more about the Concepción Sisters' latest case (as well as stories by @thelincoln.bsky.social and @meganflchee.bsky.social), please consider supporting this anthology!

Gregor, the Saint of Close Calls | matchbook

"Gregor does not believe in an afterlife, though he has more proof than most that one exists."

New fiction: "Gregor, the Saint of Close Calls" by Spencer Nitkey aka @spencerwriting.bsky.social

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Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon by Angela Liu Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

And if you’ve never seen my very dark Nebula Award-nominated novelette about the commoditization of art and the artists themselves (with a cyberpunk anime-taste), you can check it out on @clarkesworldmagazine.com here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_06_23/

That story is SO good. I'm glad people are teaching it and using it and exposing as many people as possible to it!

Abstracted oil painting of a humanoid creature holding a glowing white ball. The four arms behind him move in a circular pattern with multiple magic circles flowing in front.

Latest oil painting: "Anticipation" 18 x 24 oil on canvas #darkart #creepy #horror #nightmare #magic

Kandinsky is my favorite SF artist etc. etc.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Green Accent by Vasily Kandinsky, 1935
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