Damián Neri

So this happened. Today has been such a rollercoaster. Hug all your friends tight and celebrate every little joy when you can <3

Woodsong It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …

My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...

Understudies by Greg Egan Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.

My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
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Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3

Convocado XXXVII Certamen Literario Alberto Magno de Ciencia Ficción:
-Temática: ciencia ficción, castellano o euskera
-Dotación: 1º: 2.000€ + 2º: 1.000€
-Extensión: 15.000-25.000 palabras
-Publicación: en antología digital
-Plazo: 17 octubre 2025
Bases: www.ehu.eus/es/web/zient...

CANCEL a streaming service, SUBSCRIBE to a print zine. Doooooooo itttttttttttt.

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

¡Segunda convocatoria de Sofón! Será un gusto leer sus cuentos y poemas ^u^

If a Digitized Tree Falls - Reactor As humanity moves to the stars, a young woman attempts to preserve the magical forest she fell in love with as a child.

New story day! "If a Digitized Tree Falls" is my latest collaboration with @kyliu99.bsky.social, an exploration of technologies that bridge the divide between digital and physical, with a focus on environmental themes.

Now up at @reactorsff.bsky.social!

reactormag.com/if-a-digitiz...

My Nebula Finalist short story "The Witch Trap" is now free to read in The Dark! The entire issue is stunning and I'm so pleased to have a place in it!

www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-witch-tr...

Hey, I'm in this!
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Muchísimas gracias! Espero que disfrutes los cuentos y poemas de este primer número ^u^

Please read the first issue of Sofón! I can assure you: you have read nothing like it. Please read, share, and recommend. Huge congrats to Damián and every author.

Thanks a lot! 😊

If you too have read and enjoyed “Through the Machine” I’d be honored if you kept it in mind for awards. SFWA members can also upvote it on the Nebula list here (upvoting still seems to be working despite the other forum tech issues): www.sfwa.org/forum/readin...

This reminded me that for the first time ever (!!) I have a story in THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR (many thanks to Ellen Datlow for selecting it, and for @undertow.bsky.social for originally publishing it!) -- the Locus-finalist THE NIGHT BIRDS!

*no relation to the @cgolden.bsky.social novel 😳

If you can read Spanish, I hope you like Sofón, Issue 1. It includes 17 SFF short stories and poems in Spanish, which I really enjoyed reading, editing, and putting together. Sofón is the third speculative fiction magazine from Mexico that pays its authors. I also did the cover art ^u^

Muchísimas gracias por el interés, Nancy ^u^

Sofón No. 1 (Spanish Edition) Sofón No. 1 (Spanish Edition) [Autores, Varios] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Sofón No. 1 (Spanish Edition)

I launched Sofón, a speculative fiction magazine in Spanish. If you read the language and want to discover some great SFF short stories and poetry from Mexico, Spain, Cuba, and Morocco, this first issue is full of wonder. It’s available on Amazon. I hope you enjoy it! ^u^ amazon.com/dp/B0FJX3C9CJ

"It is very hard to say how much of my output I sell, because I continue marketing things for a long time - I once sold a story (I won't tell you the title, so don't ask) on the 38th submission. I have written three novels I am no longer marketing, so that is a considerable body of work which will remain unpublished. One is very bad, one fair, one, I think, good but badly dated as to content. If my present output I would say that I sell 80%. Yes, I would like to write full time, and will do it when I feel I can support myself and my family that way.

Success stories/wins are great, but you know what I enjoy? Top tier writers talking about the grind. This is Gene Wolfe in a 1973 interview w/Malcolm Edwards (reprint in Shadows of the New Sun ed. Peter Wright) when he was on the upswing after writing Fifth Head. Selling a story on a 38th sub damn 🫠

After several weeks, I just finished writing my first poem. 489 words. It’s about consciousness, the universe, dissociation, death, love, and some ideas from analytic idealism that I deeply share. I hope it resonates with people.

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

Samovar, Lightspeed and Flash Fiction Online: Reviews by Charles Payseur Samovar 4/28/25 Lightspeed 4/25 Flash Fiction Online 4/25 Samovar also released an issue in April, featuring “Zephyr” by Sofia Rhei (translated by Marian Womack). In it, Cliormina is a witch whose …

“Zephyr” by Sofia Rhei from @samovarmag.bsky.social, “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Teleporter” by M.J. Pettit from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social locusmag.com/2025/08...

Ya está a la venta el primer número de Sofón. 17 cuentos y poemas llenos de sentido de maravilla, de autores de México, España, Cuba y Marruecos. Seguro encontrarán textos que les encantarán ^u^

Speculative Poetry Initiative What Are the Hugo Awards and Who Can Participate?

The motion to add poetry to the Hugo Awards has passed. Thank you to everyone who has shown support, discussed this award, sat through business meetings, and nominated/voted in the Hugo Awards. This is a huge, huge deal to poets. I am actually a bit teary. <3 #poetryhugo poetryhugo.com

Interview where I discuss horror, pulp fiction, and my upcoming novel The Bewitching.

My short fiction recs for April-June are up. Featuring stories by T.K. Rex, @foxesandroses.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @nuzo.bsky.social @mariahaskins.com @angelaliu.bsky.social Madison Jozefiak @carrievaughnco.bsky.social and @aimeeogdenwrites.com

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Neanderthals Ran “Fat Factories” 125,000 Years Ago Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…

"At this location, researchers found that Neanderthals not only broke bones to extract marrow but also crushed large mammal bones into tens of thousands of fragments to render calorie-rich bone grease through heating them in water."