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They/Them ๐ŸŒˆ Autistic writer of kidlit and short fiction Repped by @joycekay.bsky.social

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Quindrie Comic Fund

As part of Quindrie Press closing down, we will be opening the Quindrie Comic Fund in Spring 2026.

This fund will be open to comic creators across the UK, with priority given to Scottish creators, to go towards their creative practice. The totalpot will be ยฃ3,000 to be split between successful applicants. Applications will be reviewed by Eve Greenwood, Hari Conner, and Nyla Ahmad.

More details will be released when applications open in Spring 2026.

If youโ€™d like to hear when applications open, follow Quindrie Press on Bluesky or Instagram, or sign up to the newsletter.

If you would like to donate to the fund to increase the pot, please contact Eve at quindriepress@gmail.com. We will be taking donations starting in April 2026.

Quindrie Comic Fund As part of Quindrie Press closing down, we will be opening the Quindrie Comic Fund in Spring 2026. This fund will be open to comic creators across the UK, with priority given to Scottish creators, to go towards their creative practice. The totalpot will be ยฃ3,000 to be split between successful applicants. Applications will be reviewed by Eve Greenwood, Hari Conner, and Nyla Ahmad. More details will be released when applications open in Spring 2026. If youโ€™d like to hear when applications open, follow Quindrie Press on Bluesky or Instagram, or sign up to the newsletter. If you would like to donate to the fund to increase the pot, please contact Eve at quindriepress@gmail.com. We will be taking donations starting in April 2026.

Following from our announcement that Quindrie Press will be closing at the end of 2026, I want to make people aware that in Spring 2026 we will be opening a one-off comic fund for UK creators. More details will be released next year.

Sign up to our newsletter: quindriepress.com/newsletter

12.11.2025 12:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Graphic on light grey and pastel purple background featuring six Trans+ creatives. Text that reads: Trans+ History Week 04-10 May 2026. Paid opportunities for Trans+ Creatives.

Graphic on light grey and pastel purple background featuring six Trans+ creatives. Text that reads: Trans+ History Week 04-10 May 2026. Paid opportunities for Trans+ Creatives.

๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ Weโ€™re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!

Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.

With @transhistoryweek.com weโ€™re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.

Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ
๐Ÿงต Details ๐Ÿ‘‡

11.11.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 475    ๐Ÿ” 501    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

Really enjoying this so far!!

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Need some seasonal ghost stories for yourself? Good news, I have a webcomic: sablecomic.com

10.11.2025 23:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Keeper of ghost stories.

10.11.2025 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 675    ๐Ÿ” 166    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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We Build a Home - call for submissions We Build a Home - call for submissions Call for submissions for illustrations and short comics of max. 3 pages* about stories of what a home might mean to someone in the context of being queer. > SU...

๐ŸŒฑ WE BUILD A HOME: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan.

More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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a red squirrel knight, with body armor and a cape, holding a lance in one hand and standing on its hind legs, with a golden halo aroung its upper torso and head

a red squirrel knight, with body armor and a cape, holding a lance in one hand and standing on its hind legs, with a golden halo aroung its upper torso and head

oak warden

-{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-

27.08.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1401    ๐Ÿ” 431    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

This is lovely!!

07.11.2025 13:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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About to miss their bus

06.11.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2688    ๐Ÿ” 659    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The colours!! ๐Ÿ’ซ

04.11.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pixel art of a magical little house with purple bricks, dark purple and orange mortar between them, a pointed tiled roof and three windows and a doorway giving out yellow light. The pink crescent moon and stars cast light down through the fog and light up the reddish purple grass around the house, as well as the white cat sat on the roof.

Pixel art of a magical little house with purple bricks, dark purple and orange mortar between them, a pointed tiled roof and three windows and a doorway giving out yellow light. The pink crescent moon and stars cast light down through the fog and light up the reddish purple grass around the house, as well as the white cat sat on the roof.

Little magical house
#pixelart #aseprite #fantasyart

02.11.2025 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
illustration of four of my animal characters โ€“ Rikki the raccoon, Phib the bear, Mo the seagull and Rubi the fox โ€“ as a fantasy adventure party in a dark forest

illustration of four of my animal characters โ€“ Rikki the raccoon, Phib the bear, Mo the seagull and Rubi the fox โ€“ as a fantasy adventure party in a dark forest

adventure in the Dark Woods

#art #cuteart

24.10.2025 10:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1149    ๐Ÿ” 311    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Indigenous Author Submissions On November 3rd, we will be opening for speculative fiction stories written by Indigenous authors. We will be capping submissions at 500.

The sub call for Indigenous writers is now open! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

03.11.2025 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 66    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats!! That's always a great feeling ๐Ÿ˜„

03.11.2025 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We're not going to be able to offer out our annual LGBTQIA+ Writer's Grant this year as it stands, but we hope to offer it out again in 2026.

We will be opening up free short story editing for LGBTQIA+ writers again after Xmas though, details here:

sliceduppress.com/editing-serv...

02.11.2025 20:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It looks lovely!

02.11.2025 18:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exciting news! I've been working all year on a vertigo arts project in collaboration with others in academia, physical therapy, puppetry, and dance. Now the first part is out: I'm running a creative writing workshop for people who are directly or indirectly affected by vertigo. >

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Silhouette drawing in black ink of a cat sitting in the fork of a leafless tree branch, its head turned towards the viewer.

Silhouette drawing in black ink of a cat sitting in the fork of a leafless tree branch, its head turned towards the viewer.

Familiar.
Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, 100 ร— 150 mm. From 2019.

27.10.2023 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 883    ๐Ÿ” 257    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Fiction Submissions 
Opening
Indigenous Authors 
November 3rd at 9 am UTC

Fiction Submissions Opening Indigenous Authors November 3rd at 9 am UTC

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC!

The window will close after 500 submissions are received.

More information:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

27.10.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 122    ๐Ÿ” 146    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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2026 Mentors | WriteHive Mentorship Program - WriteHive We have organized our mentors alphabetically to help users navigate the page. If you need to do a quick search of a mentorโ€™s industry

๐Ÿ“ขANNOUNCING the Mentors for the upcoming #HiveMentor program! We have 20 talented mentors from Traditional Publishing, Small/Independent Press, Self-publishing, Cooperative Publishing, Multi-Author Series, Serials & Web Novels and Kickstarter!

Take a look ๐Ÿ writehive.org/writehive-me...

27.10.2025 14:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

So cute! I love the textures!

23.10.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

These are lovely!

20.10.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Four small silhouette drawings in black ink, each about the size of a business card, of a hen encountering another small animal in each one: a dragonfly, a frog, a wren, and a squirrel.

Four small silhouette drawings in black ink, each about the size of a business card, of a hen encountering another small animal in each one: a dragonfly, a frog, a wren, and a squirrel.

Some recent hens. They do look good together like this. ๐Ÿ”

Friendly reminder that I have a Ko-fi by way of a tip jar, if you enjoy my work and would like to send a little material support. Thank you so much to everyone who contributes. โ˜บ๏ธ๐Ÿฅฒ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ’™

Link also in profile.
ko-fi.com/himmapaan

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Welcome to Wit's End. SABLE: A GHOST STORY is an ongoing webcomic, you can start reading for free now! Sablecomic.com

16.10.2025 21:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 352    ๐Ÿ” 89    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks so much!!

16.10.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazing job, I recognised it instantly! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜ฑ

10.10.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow, this sounds great!

08.10.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This sounds like such a great concept!

08.10.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This sounds great! ๐Ÿ˜„

08.10.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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