C.H. Pearce

I wanted to name this episode “The Derek Zoolander Center for Agents Who Can’t Read Good” but Erik wouldn’t let me

The August issue shipped out a little late this month but I've heard straight from the boss that it should be in your mailbox soon!

All of you non-subscribers can pick it up here: https://bit.ly/4l6fOxT

every fucking time.

"It was possible I had dreamed the way she smiled, eager as a baby bird, when I painted her nails for the first time."

Oh, Jamie. You're not even in this story & yet it revolves entirely around you. Still one of my favourite stories and definitely top 3 in terms of heartache. Give it a read, folks.

I love everything about this

Flash Science Fiction Night flier with author headshots of the featured readers

Coming up on August 5th - Flash Science Fiction Night with featured authors @elianeboey.bsky.social @sillysyntax.bsky.social and @pedroiniguez.bsky.social

Register for free at www.eventbrite.com/e/flash-scie...

*taps mic*. Okay, the mub is back. Check out the audio here. Great narration, voice acting, effects, and the rest. Thanks to the Drabblecast team for looking into things quickly and reissuing as needed.

A photo of a dark space with an open orange door, light glowing beyond. Text to the right of the door reads “We’re still open: manuscript call, novels | novellas. Closes 8.31.25.” The text is bracketed top and bottom with orange lines. The Ruadán Books logo appears above the text in the upper right of the image.

4 WEEKS LEFT: You have until the end of August to submit your novels and novellas!

We're looking for or dark speculative fiction, horror, dark thrillers, crime noir, and genre-bending tales that explore the darkness in all of us.

Guidelines: links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs

#WriterSky #writingcommunity

Submissions | PseudoPod PseudoPod is always looking for quality fiction to feed our listeners. If you’re a writer with a short horror story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our talented performers, we’d like to see...

I'm hitting the submissions tonight! I'm so happy to see the enthusiastic flood of horror stories already.

If you'd like to submit a horror short story, up to 6000 words, our short submission window closes on Aug 11th.

Please read submission guidelines closely first ❤️
pseudopod.org/submissions/

Absolutely! This account helped me catch up on several classics I’d somehow missed reading and all were excellent. 📚 Plus some new books from authors I am a fan of but for some reason hadn’t heard about their latest. I am a bit of a lurker who likes without commenting but your posts are appreciated!

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

(If it was the actors I’m sure that would be fine, if it was the characters not so much!)

Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!

Our general submission window is open for the entire month of August!

We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!

Guidelines:
www.havenspec.com/submit/

This is a great reminder to send us your regret story if you didn’t get a chance to last month!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction

If you'd like to run a workshop at Flights of Foundry this year, now is the time to register and get those program suggestions in! I'm going to be working on workshops this coming week!

thanks again to @emotion-engine.bsky.social for the threads

Thanks so much Scott! The editors wanted it to tie to the title so I thought I am going to make this SO rainbow. 🌈 🦾 It’s inspired by Eugen Bacon’s “Memories of the Old Sun” which is a wonderful story!

Thank you eds. Austin P. Sheehan and Leanbh Pearson for the commission! More info and ebook purchase links for REBELS & RAINBOWS anthology (Deadset Press):

books2read.com/RebelRainbows

www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FG1Q2K8Y

A colourful greeting card of a bird in a starscape. Artist’s signature reads C.H. Pearce

A colourful sticker of a bird in a starscape. Artist’s signature reads C.H. Pearce

A colourful art print of a bird in a starscape titled Rebels & Rainbows book cover illustration. Artist’s signature reads C.H. Pearce

From The Artist Cover art commission for REBELS & RAINBOWS anthology (Deadset Press, eds. Austin P. Sheehan and Leanbh Pearson, 2025) ebook purchase links: https://books2read.com/RebelRainbows https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FG1Q2K8Y

New lorge birb art prints etc up in my INPRNT shop! Really pleased with how the cards and stickers turned out. This quetzal is from the REBELS & RAINBOWS antho. Unsurprisingly INPRNT are currently having a sale (it’s like every time I used to walk into EB Games)! 🌈 🎨

inprnt.com/profile/chpearce

You are allowed to be proud of your creative work and feel good about it. You don’t need to cringe or apologise for making art. This is true regardless of skill level and especially true if you want to make better art next time.

A Shaky Bridge by Marissa Lingen Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

New story out today in @clarkesworldmagazine.com ! clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_08_25/ Desperate times, desperate measures, desperate families....

The background is an illustration of three fire glowing celestial characters in robes with an overlay of purple. One of them in the middle holding their hand and behind it are flowers. At the corners of the illustration are the two characters with a book in one hand and a pencil in the other. At the top of the image is the augur logo and below it reads: "Magic. Futures. Dreams" in white text. In the middle, it reads: "Submissions Open Now" in white text. Underneath reads: "$100 CAD per poem. $0.14 CAD per word (fiction, 800+ words). $112 CAD per flash fic (<800 words)" in white text. There is a purple banner that reads submit now and next to it is a graphic of an email. At the bottom of the image is the submissions link: augursociety.org/submissions

📣 Calling all SFF writers...

We're now OPEN for submissions of
🌟 Short fiction
🌟 Flash fiction
🌟 Poetry

for Augur Issues 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3, AND @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 5!

Got a sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, slipstream, or a slice of life story that feels like a warm hug? We want it! 🐉🧚

Cover of The Dark. A swimmer plunges limbs up through water in shades of blue, what looks to be an empty swimming pool.

Hello, it’s happened, one of my long time writer goals has been achieved: my story “The Ocean Vomits What We Discard” (orig published in The Off-Season) is in the August issue of The Dark!

And The Planet Loved Him by L Chan Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

I am always such a sucker for mycelial networks, as in this @clarkesworldmagazine.com story by @lchanwrites.bsky.social : clarkesworldmagazine.com/chan_08_25/

Aurealis Awards 2025 – Changes implemented this year We live in an ever-evolving world, and this year the Aurealis Awards have some changes occuring to help us stay abreast of things and able to continue to deliver Australia’s premier speculati…

Changes afoot for the #AurealisAwards: aurealisawards.org/2025/08/01/a...

Drop some SPACECRAFT

(Adore the retrofuturistic 70s? look + love the choice to only show the interior of the Tulpar freighter in MOUTHWASHING, it really adds to the claustrophobia!) ❤️ 🧡

Upcoming Title & Cover Reveal: Loki: Untangling a Tale by Leanbh Pearson IFWG Publishing International is very pleased to announce the upcoming release of Leanbh Pearson’s viking mythology retelling fantasy, Loki: Untangling a Tale, and reveal its evocative cover.…

ifwgpublishing.com/2025/08/01/u...
A wonderful Viking mythology retelling - out in October!

With "writers" embracing the mediocrity of AI-produced slop, it's on us to fight back.

And by fight back I mean be feral in your writing, be deeply weird and vulnerable and obsessive and human.

Let the predictive text write its anodyne MoR bs.

Spill your wild and your strange onto the page.

Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish.

Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each.

Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.

Cover of 3LBE Volume X with a large monster surprising travelers, alongside a list of contributors Lauren Ring · Steve Toase · L.M. Guay · Christi Nogle · Neal Auch · J. L. Jones · Koji A. Dae · Amelia Gorman · A. Y. Lu · Ashley Stokes · Laila Amado · Avra Margariti · Richard Thomas · Ann LeBlanc · Erica Clashe · Steve Rasnic Tem · Nick Mamatas · Nkone Chaka · Jordan Kurella · Timothy Granville · E. Catherine Tobler · Jonathan Olfert · Shelley Lavigne

There is always more to fear than what you perceive nearby, here is the wraparound cover for 3LBE VOLUME X print anthology. This book contains 24 stories of weird, wonder, and horror, and 42 new illustrations. Order now from our store. 📕🐙💀🤘https://www.3lobedmag.com

Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de...

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.

If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.