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My story "Remembrance" is live today on ergot. It's about being trapped in someone else's memory, kind of!

#SpecLit #FlashFiction

Text from an image: 1) Request The Nightmare Box and Other Stories at your local library; 2) Reply to this post with a screenshot/receipt of the request; 3) On 7/1 we'll enter you into a drawing for a free copy of the book

Reminder that I am running a promotion to get The Nightmare Box into libraries! 📚 See below ...

I have published more than 400 of my stories and poems across 6 years, read/edit for several journals, and have worked with clients who went on to publish in many pro venues (from unthemed magazines to themed anthologies).

Give my editing services a try!

Finally feeling slightly better than hot-boiled shit, so a very belated update: Happy Pride, congrats to all the Stoker and Nebula winners, billionaires shouldn't exist, fuck the police, and have a great weekend!

Oh hey, I have another story out today!

My return to StP is a queer horror tale of revenge, of making and unmaking.

Read my little story of unbirthdays here and find about the vivisected shape of the world once it refuses to accommodate you:

One More Call for Support | Reckoning I hate asking for money. We asked for money in 2022 and it was rough: a lot of work, a lot of feeling sorry for pressuring people in those ridiculously hard times. But we managed, and it let us raise ...

Support for Reckoning has flagged a bit since our 2022 fundraiser. We don't want to roll back payrates--we want to pay more, so more marginalized folks can have room to write about environmental justice and teach us how to be better! Please help if you can? reckoning.press/one-more-cal...

It's THAT time of the year again! The annual STRANGE HORIZONS FUND DRIVE is now live. To donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str... Over the next 36 days, we're looking to raise $13,500 to stay alive through 2025, and beyond for some very special special issues!

Everything You Need to Know About the Coming Fascism But Were Afraid to Ask!

avra.margariti@gmail.com

New month, new slots available!

Developmental edits with a focus on characterization, interiority, and symbolism.

Lit or spec 🌌💜

A graphic featuring the cover art for all the year 1 issues of Small Wonders magazine. In the center is a black square that says "year 2 Small wonders, now live on kickstarter" with the magazine's URL at the bottom. Starting at the upper left is a green and brown forest creature with a moth for eyes and an open mouth, a black looming robotic figure over a cracked open world with a swan in it, a gray troll bathing, a woman repairing a robotic cat, a turtle with geometric patterns on its back, a feathered fox with a golden eye turned toward the viewer, a huge swan in front of a tiny castle, a woman in a green dress looking up while holding a universe in her lap, an art noveau style piece with a figure in an orange circle and a skull and bones beneath, a three headed golden tree creature, a giant sulking child above a city, and a figure asleep on a train with fish outside the windows.

Good morning! This is your reminder that we are open to late pledges, and they still totally count for stretch goals and such. We will be closing to pledges sometime next week, so now is a good time to get in if you've been thinking about it...

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Love libraries? Love free books?

Cynthia and I are running a challenge to get The Nightmare Box and Other Stories in as many libraries as possible--and give away a free book to one lovely person who makes a library request!

Want to enter? See Cynthia's post for details and reply there.

The Thirteen Scorned Wives of La Nuit by avra margariti A poetic degeneration

Queer, dark, surreal, my chapbook features 13 connected poems of lunar lunacy 💃🏻🌔

avramargariti.itch.io/the-thirteen...

85% there: gofundme.com/a-small-press-a-big-boost kisses to kisses to Lalita, Cislyn, Tanouska, Karen, and four mystery lovers

Our gratitude for each one of you is immense. We feel this. We know we can get there. This 15 is a real number, it's the lowest goal we could set and not have to cancel projects.

If we can get to that 15 today, the weight lifted would be immense.

Here's the thing: www.gofundme.com/f/a-small-pr...

My story 'Sleeping Arrangements' is listed here alongside other incredible recommendations from Reactor.

Thank you, Alex Brown, for the story's inclusion and the wonderful review!

Ahhhhh! Been holding this news in! I am beyond stoked to be a part of this! Huge thanks to @lindzmcleod.bsky.social for including me in this lineup! 🙌 🎉 ✨

A black border surrounds a white and grey photograph of a Chinese-Canadian woman's lower face.

I'm thrilled to announce that our first finalist for 'An Honour and a Privilege' is the effervescent
@melisfluous.bsky.social!
Melissa Ren is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazine's

A few copies of Clarkesworld Magazine with buttons that read "Repeat After Me Short Fiction is Not Dead" with a hypnochicken at the center.

Feel like this needs to be said this morning.

Short fiction is not dead.

We pay 12 cents/word for stories and that will increase as our subscriber base increases. Want better pay for short story authors? Subscribe to magazines. Want better pay for magazine staff? Subscribe to magazines. Simple

Text reads Value Human Art and Writing. Subscribe. Includes the current cover of Clarkesworld. The art by by Ed Laag features a rust-colored circular waterfront building on stilts. A figure in the foreground is approaching the building in a red tripod vehicle. They are looking towards the building from the hatch on the roof.

We're still rebuilding subscriptions (since Amazon abandoned them) and pushing back against the generated submissions on a daily basis. We'd like to keep doing so. The path forward requires us to keep shouting from the rooftops, so...
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Thank you!

An infographic with a purple and teal gradient background. On the left are lines with little locks by them, except the first. The lines are: $11k - funded; $11,500 - guest edited issue, sticker unlock; $12k - best of year 1 e-book for all subscriber tiers, sticker unlock; $12,500 - more mini-issue pieces, sticker unlock; $13k - art fees raised to $150; $14k - print best of year 1 unlocked as $10 add-on for all tiers; $15,500 - extra issue! 13 months of small wonders instead of 12; $17k - another week of stories and poems every month! On the right: Small Wonders Year 2, with a sparkly gold line under it. An arrow pointing to the space between $13k and $14k labeled "Cislyn Gets a Nap". Beneath that is "Let's stop her from making more graphics while there's still time!" At the bottom is a button that says "Pledge NOW on Kickstarter". You can't actually press the button and have it do anything, but it looks neat down there at the bottom of the page. Yes, I'm tired.

Happy Sunday! We’ve got less than two days left on our Kickstarter! We’re about $200 away from unlocking our guest edited issue and another sticker, and slowly closing in on @cislyn.bsky.social getting a nap!

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Submissions We are now looking for poetry as well as fiction! See separate guidelines below: Fiction Guidelines Please submit only one story at a time, and please wait at least a month after receiving a respon…

We are currently reading for Issue 125! Send us your weird, your slimy, your mutant critters yearning to scuttle free. www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=71

An illustration of multi-coloured tentacle-like appendages sprouting from a central stalk on the cover of Hexagon Issue 17. Features work by James Cato, André Geleynse, Mari Haab, Christopher R. Muscato, and John Eric Vona. Edited by JW Stebner.

Hexagon Issue 17 is now available on our website! 🌱⛴️

The issue features eco-rebellion short stories from James Cato, André Geleynse, Madi Haab, Christopher R. Muscato, and John Eric Vona.

Cover art by @willtempest.bsky.social. Edited by JW Stebner. 🧡

Man holding a copy of The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, featuring hands opening a box with eyes inside.

The Nightmare Box and Other Stories technically doesn't come out until July, but we're selling them at StokerCon! If you like stories with quiet dread, dark magic, and dead cops, you'll dig this one.

Small Wonders Magazine: Year 2 A second year of monthly speculative flash fiction and narrative poetry that packs a punch!

There are single digit days left in the kickstarter! If you’ve been thinking of pledging, now would be a great time. Help us out more Small Wonders into the world!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cis...

Seize The Press Magazine cover showing a person with a skeletal nervous system lying in bed while an ominous animal floats and looks through a background window pane.

Issue #10 is out! Weird sci-fi, queer horror (shocking I know), our first hopeful story!, a dark 'Your Grandma Might Be A Vampire' tale, and Sierra Leonian cosmic horror.

Plus reviews, an interview with Carson Winter, and essays on murder kink and meat horror. Enjoy!

Art by @semaalo.bsky.social

Call for Submissions!
We are looking for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, and visual art 🎨
Starting TODAY and ending Wednesday May 29th:
-Quick response time
-FREE comments from the Eic & Managing Editor

Spread the word! 🌠🌌

Also, they have to pay for the house and the food out of their own pay from their shifty service job.

Get some excellent books in your life. You absolutely cannot go wrong with any title from Malarkey's catalog.

A graphic featuring the cover art for all the year 1 issues of Small Wonders magazine. In the center is a black square that says "year 2 Small wonders, now live on kickstarter" with the magazine's URL at the bottom. Starting at the upper left is a green and brown forest creature with a moth for eyes and an open mouth, a black looming robotic figure over a cracked open world with a swan in it, a gray troll bathing, a woman repairing a robotic cat, a turtle with geometric patterns on its back, a feathered fox with a golden eye turned toward the viewer, a huge swan in front of a tiny castle, a woman in a green dress looking up while holding a universe in her lap, an art noveau style piece with a figure in an orange circle and a skull and bones beneath, a three headed golden tree creature, a giant sulking child above a city, and a figure asleep on a train with fish outside the windows.

This weekend is your last chance to get the discounted rate on a one year subscription! Sign up now for a year of Small Wonders right in your inbox!

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