Anneke

Please consider nominating Kaleidotrope in the annual Pretty Nice Zine You Might Consider Maybe Nominating for Some Kind of Award if There’s Room Left on the Ballot Someday Award!

hey that one’s mine

This is how I feel after this last January too

Little Ghosts Books Workshop Space Little Ghosts Books horror bookstore & community hub is looking to expand its space by renovating our back garage into a studio to host our workshops, book clubs, and author events.

Hey friends, can I ask you all to give our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Crowdfundr a look? Any amount helps us with our workspace renovation plans, if you're not able (which I understand!), if you could share the link that would be amazing. Love you all! 🤗🧡 👻📚
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it’s physically paining me that you don’t drop the cite for this, the need to know is causing multi-organ shutdown

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

well I remember when the Luddites said “let us not smash the stocking frames, let us merely embark on a milquetoast campaign of public education”

you absolute weapon

Before the Bog God by Infinite Citadel, andrewbeauman A duet ritual game of cunning, corruption, and cosmic bargains.

Who wants to come over and supplicate the old gods

We're putting together a mailing list for short fiction reviewers and critics to get review copies of the magazine.

So if you're a short fiction reviewer - first off you're doing the lord's work - but also email me at jonny@seizethepress.com and I'll add you to our shiny new reviewers list.

well, we had a bad run, time to pack it in

VERY excited for this

god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page

Sounds like you’re all filled up on this round, but I’d be super interested in working with you in the future

self-promotion breaks me out in hives but if this sounds as good 2 u as it does to me, you may like “the mixling mare” recently published by me in kaleidotrope ! ! !

So good & riveting it may also be for good vibes ppl too 🤓🐴 🔥

Guys you CANNOT miss this impeccably crafted, heartbreaking, freaky weird story. One of my all time favs!

If your approach to the New Year is much more “bad vibes only,” then “The Mixling Mare” is for you!!

Start your year off wrong with my weird, epistolary, gothic novelette about a very slimy anatomist with a centaur fixation

FICTION “Confessions of the Little Seer” by Emily Linstrom “Water Softener People” by EC Dorgan “Bearing the Good Fruit” by R.K. Duncan “More Than Feathers” by Phoebe Barton “Take Flight” by Dan Peacock “Magie Vol, Ogies Toe” by CL Hellisen “Full Fathom Five” by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks “Anything Not Impossible” by Jayde Holmes “Rewilding the Many Tethered Winds” by Allison Mulder “You Visit a Witch” by Jay Kang Romanus “The Savior of the Three Lands” by K.M. Veohongs “The Mixling Mare” by Anneke Schwob POETRY “Demons in Glass” by Jennifer Crow “the visitor” by Marisca Pichette “From Water” by Michelle Koubek “It Could Worm Inside Your Ear” by Akis Linardos “The Palms that Tear Through Human Thought” by Daniel Ausema “Face to Face” by Brian Hugenbruch “Dali Dancing” by Gretchen Tessmer

What's this?! A message tossed backward in time, from the far-flung future worlds of literally tomorrow—it's the table of contents from Kaleidotrope's upcoming Winter 2026 issue!

in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake

Airrelle of the Maroon Witches by Sumayyah Beck: 9780823460472 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Kiki’s Delivery Service meets Black Panther in this middle grade fantasy set in a richly imagined world where once-enslaved people have built an enchanted network of hidden witch communities. Anyone....

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814213... Maya, one of my wildly talented Clarion-mates, is making her spec MG debut in 2026

Dear bluskeeters!

I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.

Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Clarity around the different kinds of AI circulating through the publishing ecosystem (and at large, frankly!) is desperately needed at this point, but I’m screamingly unconvinced by the “generative AI as essential marketing tool for small publishers” angle being presented here

Keep your eyes peeled—I have a novelette in this one!

An email starting with “for your consideration: Nuremberg”

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

When I’m trying to pack my suitcase and my cats climb inside

We’re going to have to mount the best talent show this town has ever seen

Announcing a Scholarship for Trans Writers We are delighted to announce the Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for our flagship Six-Week Workshop, offered by an anonymous donor, which will be awarded each year to one…

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“unfortunately”