The Colored Lens

The Colored Lens is looking for a First Reader to join our team.
If you are interested, first send us an email at dawn@thecoloredlens.com giving a short overview of your writing experience and attach a writing sample. If you have submitted to us previously, you can direct us to your submission.

The Colored Lens is looking for a First Reader to join our team.
If you are interested, first send us an email at dawn@thecoloredlens.com giving a short overview of your writing experience and attach a writing sample. If you have submitted to us previously, you can direct us to your submission.

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My weird flash piece about an Italian reincarnated as a glob of old hair conditioner is out today in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social. It’s the first time my names appeared on a cover so I’m absolutely chuffed. Check it out here:

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Check out this week’s featured story, “World Hunger” by Mark Manifesto, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “The Poisoner” by Amber Velez, on our website!
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Contract signed! 🥳 My short story "How to Reset the Timeline in Three Easy Steps" will appear in the winter issue of The Colored Lens. ( @thecoloredlens.bsky.social ) Can't wait to share it with you all. :)

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Check out our latest featured story, “Fish, Fog and the Sea” by Nora Schinnerl, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “The Meaning of Baskets” by Katie Gray, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “Tick” by Mark Manifesto, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “The Conspirators” by Travis Lee, on our website!
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Listing of the Day Today's listing of the day is: The Colored Lens: Speculative Fiction Magazine @thecoloredlens.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Today's listing of the day is: The Colored Lens: Speculative Fiction Magazine @thecoloredlens.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Check out our latest featured story, “Give the Algorithm What it Wants” by J. R. Dewitt, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “Paradox Lost” by Hec Lampert-Bates, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “Spoons” by Adria Bailton, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “Parlor Tricks” by Laine Perez, on our website!
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Exciting news!! I'm going to be published in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Colored Lens! This is the first time I'll have been published in an actual print magazine (if they keep doing physical zines by then!) Thanks @thecoloredlens.bsky.social for choosing my story.

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Check out this week’s featured story, “Always by Your Side” by Anthony Regolino, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, La Cumparsita by Aster Loxley, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “Dog Catching” by Samantha Balliet, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “Dial Tone” by Shiloh Miller, on our website!
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Check out this week’s featured story, “Thanks, Nostradamus” by Scott Colby, on our website!

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Check out this week’s featured story, She Came Down From the Sky, by J.E. Schleicher, on our website!
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Check out “Paper Brush Stick Stone” by Sophia Zhao, in our newest issue, available here!
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Check out our newest story, The Rules of Divining Lentils with Tweezers, by DLC Hanson, on our website!
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My story The Ghost Merchant is out this week in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social

If you want a dark fantasy story about a shop that sells ghosts to haunt mansions, and an apprentices first day as he realises what that entails, then this is the story for you!

Check out this snippet from “BEWARE OF THE GOBLIN GIRLS” by Tunvey Mou, featured in our spring issue! Available here!
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Check out this week’s featured story, Paradise Found by David Whitmarsh, on our website!
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The Colored Lens: Spring 2025

It's out!

Our Spring 2025 issue of The Colored Lens is now available exclusively on Amazon.

Do you have your copy?

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Check out this week’s featured story, Maybe We Can Be Just Two People Talking, by Salena Casha, on our website!
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My short story "The Ace of Rules" which may or may not (ahem) be based on real life experiences is free to read on @thecoloredlens.bsky.social at thecoloredlens.com . (If you want to know more about what really happened... well too bad... :-P