jen larsen

Fiction submissions opening 3 submission windows for 2025

General April 16th Novelettes (10,000 to 18,000 words) June 4th Indigenous Authors November 3rd

Strange Horizons will have 3 FICTION SUBMISSION WINDOWS in 2025.

General
April 16th
with a 1,000 story cap

Novelette (10k to 18k words)
June 4th
with a 300 story cap

Indigenous Authors
November 3rd
with a 500 story cap

Submission windows will begin at 9am UTC and end when we reach the cap.

and art in conversation with art

stunning book, stunning art. sometimes i love the world

holy shit, that is absolutely stunning (and that kind of committment and creativity sums up my feelings about the book too? ♥️♥️♥️)

Calling it DEI Savings Time so they'll finally end this thing.

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

you are so talented and i love you (i would also totally pay you to make this sweater for me)

a photo from a vintage knitting pattern listing by pearlshore cat on etsty: In a sepia toned image, a white woman is modeling a dark colored sweater with chunky ribbing criss-crossed at the neck and a repeating pattern of skulls.

every time i try to learn how to knit i have visions like this in my head, but my efforts inevitably, eternally only lead to a lumpy wad of fraying string and a mountain of sadness

(if you want your own sweater and can knit like a champ, i salute you, and the pattern is here: tinyurl.com/3n7z95xt)

my major takeaway here is "tooth dust"

Lakota Law's 2025 Decolonized Reading List This "Top 25 for 2025" list of nonfiction books focuses on a variety of topics, including BIPOC-centered histories of Native America, resistance movements, and the decolonizing work of reconnecting us...

The Lakota People's Law Project's 2025 Decolonized Reading List. There is so much to choose from here.

lakotalaw.org/news/2025-01...

There is still beauty in this world

well he's still a man, so

(and i'm sorry you're feeling lousy!)

i say you put the teabag in your mouth and position yourself under the spigot

it was just me and another guy at yoga so the instructor just stretched us into pretzels and then sent us home cured. how do i chase this feeling (less pain)??

but then how do they get clean

science! they cry, smacking the SaniRinse button

can you put dirty potatoes in the dishwasher, no reason just wondering

Was thinking about how weird it was to grow up queer in the 80s. No role models, nowhere to buy rainbow booty shorts, didn’t know why I wanted Gillian Anderson to step on me

I have never been menaced by a goose AMA

that is a beautiful, beautiful cat

SPARKLE high five

just recorded a macro + assigned a keyboard shortcut which solved 92% of my frustration in re: an enragingly frequent work-flavored task and i would just like some applause, maybe a cookie, maybe 2 who knows let's see where the day and my dubious ability to Can in the best of circumstances takes us

my nails are same! (that color, hard to photograph) and your nails are cute!

IN THE PAST 2 DAYS, 4 applications i use all day AND my goddamn macOS all booted up their bullshit AI assistants and now i get a "would you like help with this [task]" every time i do something and i can't turn it off and i am going to smash my laptop against the wall and go die in the woods i stfg

i pretend i do not see

i'm credited as "Staff Writer" on 99% of my work articles, but occasionally my boss gives me a byline for event coverage. which is always lovely! but i only find out she's done it when i suddenly get hosed down by a blast of very hopeful, so very irrelvant emails from public relations folks

just signed my audible renewal for Stranger Here. it is a 7-11 hotdog worth of cold hard cash (maybe half a dozen and a slurpee in Canadian dollars) but it is such a joy that the book keeps on keeping on its small little way

dropped the puppy off at her new daycare this morning and met a frenchie there named Jean Claude, so that’s my day sorted