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New artwork!

#abstractart

There’s a new poem up on the magazine website! Link below

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A new story is online! It’s a hallucinatory piece of flash fiction.

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Had fun disentangling the twisty circles author Freddy Durbin wove together in his short story, "Intrusions" in @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social

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New logos! #abstractart

And there’s a new poem!

When I first read Nicholas’ submission, I knew I’d be picking a poem from it. And when I read “Never Level” I knew I had to publish it. Few pieces of art have spoken to me as much as this poem does.

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There’s a new story up on the magazine website!

It’s a fresh, fun, and propulsive tale that - perhaps best of all - pokes fun at our corporate overlords, especially the ‘zon

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Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominees!

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There’s a new story and a new poem up on our website!

I didn’t really sleep last night so I can’t really summarize / sell them very well right now tbh but the other editors and I are super excited to have them online!

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We now have merch!

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New blog post is online… it’s about the intersection of R.A. Lafferty and Weird fiction!

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

AHHHHH!!! I am so over the moon. The vote to create a #PoetryHugo passed!! Because of the nature of Worldcon, there still will be another vote at 2026's business meeting, that must ALSO pass to enshrine this permanently. So our activism isn't over, but we are one step closer.

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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

Great work! One aspect of the argument I was just thinking about is how there’s a Hugo category that an album like clipping.’s Splendor & Misery (a rap LP that is explicitly sci-fi) can win, but there’s nothing that a speculative poem or poetry collection can win.

Speculative Poetry and the Hugos A guest editorial in support of adding a permanent Hugo award for poetry

And here's the editorial on the SPI. Thanks again so much to @strangehorizons.bsky.social for their support. If you have a Worldcon membership, please come to the virtual meeting this Friday @9am PST/12pm EST to support this initiative when it comes to a vote!

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This week's free spec rec is the unsettling poem "Road Trip to Analena East" by @lynnesargent.bsky.social in @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social
"All worlds are mirror ones / when seen through the rear-view."
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#dcrecs #writingcommunity #specfic ✍️ 🔱

Does anyone else constantly feel like they are constantly screaming into an uncaring void… or is it just me?

There’s also a new poem up! The poem explores space colonization from an alien perspective.

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A new story is up on the website! It’s a chilling and surrealistic piece of horror writing by JS Sherwood.

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There is only 4 days left of the HyphenPunk Kickstarter, and we're still 80$ shy of our goal to get things going.

Please help out, even if it's just by sharing this.

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@zaryfekete.bsky.social has a new story up on our website! It is haunting and chilling piece of writing that I’m super happy to be publishing! Link below.

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There’s a new poem up on our website. It’s a short, incisive, haunting piece.

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"A hesitant voice breaks through the laughter. “We should help Them.”"

Sinister bit of social commentary wound up in this brilliant little flash.

@mmschreier.bsky.social in @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social

i wasn’t gonna drink tonight but man…im missin mapping the zone like a MF

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A delectable new story and a really fucking good new poem are up on the website! Links below.

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