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Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. Issue 7 out now! Submissions closed. https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/
Got a short story, flash fic, or poem sitting in your drafts? ππ
Submissions for Augur Magazine Issues 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3 AND @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 5 are β¨ OPEN! β¨
Visit augursociety.org/submissions/ to read our guidelines and submit!
Guidelines for Saros #5 have arrived!
We open on August 22nd for stories 500-2500 words in length centered on the theme of Sound/Silence. Payment will be $25 CAD for both originals and reprints.
The period will stay open until we've collected 111 subs.
Full details at sarossf.com/submissions/
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A woman in red holds a lantern in the night. The text reads Welcome to the Night Market. The Market opens soon.
Coming soon, a quarterly fantasy fiction magazine by Hugo and Ignyte Award nominated editor Sonia Sulaiman.
Join the Patreon to stay tuned in!
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And if you like that story, you can pick up the full collection (plus a free Solidarity Forever zine) here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...
01.08.2025 20:06 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0One of the most devastating pieces in The Nightmare Box and Other Stories is "Someone Else's to Destroy," which follows Imani's quest to keep her boys safe from racist violence at all costs.
You can read the story for free in Acentos Review: www.acentosreview.com/May2019/cynt...
Seeking a short ghost story to be produced for Sley House Presents, with publication included in the Tales of Sley House 2026 anthology. Selected short fiction will appear as an audio original for distribution through Sley House Presents podcast in winter 2025. A one-time payment of $100 will be distributed for selected fiction. Stories should be a maximum of 6000 words, submitted during the open submissions call on August 2, 2025. Any stories submitted prior to or after the submission window will be automatically rejected. Original, unpublished fiction only. Reprinted stories or stories originally published or produced by other venues, including other audio fiction or self-publication, will not be accepted. Please send stories for consideration to trevor@sleyhouse.com. Stories should include a title, but please remove all author identifications from the submitted manuscript. All author credits should be included in the e-mail body.
Open for submissions on August 2 for ONE DAY ONLY:
We're seeking a short ghost story, max. 6000 words, to be featured on Sley House Presents this winter.
$100 payment for the selected story. Additional guidelines are attached below!
My first piece of creative nonfiction! It's all about gender, sexuality, and plants, and written in a weird form, because I am incapable of writing anything Normal.
Page includes audio adaption, too!
therazormag.com/articles/a-t...
Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
For the last day of Disability Pride Month, here's my angry story about accessibility.
Come for the punny superhero lols, stay for the much-needed catharsis at the end.
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
Wet monstera leaf background, text reading: "the ALOCASIA microgrant for queer writers"
Today is the final day to apply for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers!
The recipient will receive $500 to incubate their future creative endeavors.
It's a super easy application! Don't self-reject!
Deadline: July 31, 2025.
More information: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...
SF authors of color, Under the Volcano's Imagination Unbound Fellowship is opening up again. Get after it! Winning this fellowship for 2021 changed my life, and I will never forget the experience of being in Tepoztlan, learning and working with STARS. tinyurl.com/36jkwnum
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A screenshot from Publisherβs Marketplace that states: Deena Helm's OUR CUT OF SALT, an upmarket horror in which three generations of Palestinian women converge in their ancestral haunted home and must learn what the price of the past truly is, exploring generational trauma, grief, and the horrors of the Israeli occupation, to Kristin Temple at Nightfire, in a significant deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in September 2026, by Alex Brown at Mad Woman Literary Agency (NA). Rights also to Nadia Saward at Orbit UK, by Anna Carmichael at Abner Stein, on behalf of Taryn Fagerness Agency and Mad Woman Literary. Translation: Taryn Fagerness
She's Publisher's Marketplace official! β₯οΈπ΅πΈ
If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!
Always makes me think of this! youtu.be/YuSsCRUXGOU?...
29.07.2025 18:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Last post: as a person who lives with trauma, I just want to acknowledge that "am I unsafe? or am I just uncomfortable?" is a question some people will need support to untangle. I certainly did. I feel it's still important to try and learn the difference though, for your own sake and others'.
29.07.2025 18:46 β π 28 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.
29.07.2025 12:22 β π 3226 π 1299 π¬ 18 π 17Finally got myself a proper websiteβ¨οΈ
Still bare bones, and only my publicationations are there but I'm excited and feeling Professional.
madalenadaleziou.com
Just open after being closed for a while and gradually getting better known I think!
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SUBMISSION CALL π€ POETRY AND FLASH FICTION ABOUT BEVERAGES
Submissions are open for FLOW MAGAZINE ISSUE 2 β
flowlitmag.com/submit
#litmag #newlitmag #literarymagazine #poetry #fiction #writingcommunity #submissioncall
Over 450 submissions so far this window π³
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SURPRISE! We couldn't wait until next weekβour Kickstarter pre-launch page is live right now!!! Sign up to be the first to know when it launches in October, and please spread the word and tell a friend! Every sign-up makes a huge difference. We are officially one step closer to OTHERSIDE!
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Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara
Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 77% funded with JUST TWO WEEKS LEFT!! Please help us fully fund and reach our stretch goals like STAFF RAISES and ORIGINAL COVERS! buff.ly/JkF7S7F
24.07.2025 00:00 β π 8 π 7 π¬ 0 π 3Tickets are now available for our next online workshop! Join Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com and Anne Goulard on Saturday 26th July at 2pm as we look at Writing Through Difficult Times: britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen...
17.07.2025 13:19 β π 21 π 12 π¬ 1 π 2The latest round of the SANE Creative Awards Scheme is open for entries! π¨
Applications are open until September 2025 π«
Tap the link to learn more and apply today! π
www.sane.org.uk/how-we-help/...
#SANECreativeAwardsScheme #SCAS#artists#mentalhealthart
"mΓΆbius loop" - my retrofuturist scifi short story about trauma, time traveling, and healing while being viciously unwell - is now free to read & listen to.
big thanks to @khoreo.bsky.social (and to @danaiwrites.bsky.social in particular) for fine-tuning this story & giving it a home.
Hey y'all! Unc editor here. We say "don't self reject" all the time. For some of us it's baked into the process already, but for others it might get lost in the sauce.
So lemme repeat: Get your subs out there. Treat it like building a muscle, or a callus. When/if it comes back as a pass/
After seeing multiple instances of beautiful jellyfish art projects here, I'm reminded I wrote a story for everyone who has ever wanted to turn into a jellyfish, over at @innerworlds.bsky.social
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Horror Short Stories feat. @thehorrorzine.bsky.social @creepypod.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @innerworlds.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
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