Inner Worlds

This week I'm on

Tales to Terrify: talestoterrify.com/episodes/714...
Plott Hound: plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf...
and Kaleidotrope: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Pick your poison 🖤

Thank you 😊❤️🫂

Issue 5 TOC announcement. Black background with a clown logo to the left, and the list of authors and stories on the right. “It Is My Circus; They Are My Monkeys; But I Have Limited Influence on the Monkeys” by Romie Stott “Davy is Floating” by Glenn Dungan “Results of groundwater formaldehyde reduction using M4501 strain of pleurotus ostreatus” by Ash Vale “The Moaning Caverns Cry for You! Yes, You!” by Mir Rainbird “Afternoon Tea Over Innsmouth” by Lena Ng “Yesforatu” by C Lenz

It's here! It's here! The TOC for Issue 5 of Die Laughing is HERE!

We could not be more excited to bring you these 6 hilarifying tales, available as a PDF download 10/31/25, with stories posting for free every week after! Join us for stories so funny they'll kill you! #horrorsky
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So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

The importance of "play" Yep, I'm baaack

Why "play" is so important for #writing -- and updates!

Newsletter time!

cjsubko.beehiiv.com/p/the-import...

("shitty" = abusive, just to be clear)

“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places” Fiction “Singularities” by Cressida Roe “The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes “The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox “Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos “What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman “The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris “Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti “My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity “What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen “The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen “Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed Poetry “Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens “Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon “Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce “I have been to the market” by Shana Ross “Atomic” by Jennifer Crow “Bedazzled” by Robert Borski “Bestla” by James Joseph Brown Artwork by Carly A-F

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

We're just $36 away from our goal for the year!! Thank you so much!!!

Apex Magazine 2026 An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Moonday Mag - Dr X Sarah Jackson

I don't share my own stuff on this account very often because that's not what it's for, but I was sadly reminded of my shitty ex today so here is my poem about him, in honour of everyone who got away from their own version

*laser eye blast* 👁👁💥💥

moondaymag.com/dr-x-by-sara...

Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal.

The B'K Volume 16, Issue 4 is here! Check out "Lilac Bruise" by Aicha Benali! This gorgeous digitized sketch is the cover art for The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4. Be sure to read the full issue here: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch

Sunday Reading Rainbow Space Magic. October 4–5. RainbowSpaceMagic.org. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the rainbow-colored letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: A starry sky with a rainbow.

This year's RSM is October 4 & 5, and is about writing with resistance, Imagining a better future. Don't forget to register on rainbowspacemagic.org.
#LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

We're up to 70 submissions so far!! Keep em comin 💖

As ever: THANK YOU from my deep heart's core to everyone who has supported us in ANY way over the last two years. You are superstars 🌟 When I started Inner Worlds I gambled that we would find people who liked what we are trying to do and WE DID! Now I just want to find the rest 😄

Could you spare a few bob to help a weird little litmag keep going?

Here's 3 ways you can support us:

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2) Make a one-off donation! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

3) Buy past issues as EPUB & PDF! innerworlds.gumroad.com

Reminder: anyone can found and edit a SFF magazine.

There’s no regulatory body or hoops. You create the position for yourself.

Many of these people are amazing—

But mag Editors are just guys who decided to spend a lot of time on something they love.

Just people.

We're up to 70 submissions so far!! Keep em comin 💖

As ever: THANK YOU from my deep heart's core to everyone who has supported us in ANY way over the last two years. You are superstars 🌟 When I started Inner Worlds I gambled that we would find people who liked what we are trying to do and WE DID! Now I just want to find the rest 😄

We're ok, we're not in trouble. But when people stop subscribing (understandable! I've had to cancel quite a few subscriptions myself 😞) we need to bring a few more people in to keep ticking along.

Every penny goes into the magazine, either as author or artist payments, or to cover web hosting and software. We don't quite make enough from current subscriptions to cover everything, so I top things up from my own pocket as needed, but that has got a lot harder since we launched

Cover of The Pink Hydra vol. 2.2, a new magazine of unreality. Cover art is "Corn Fire" by Barbara Candiotti. A black-and-white digital artwork featuring a ghostly figure with slanted glowing eyes waving at the viewer, while standing amongst tall corn stalks. Ghostly flames burn in the foreground.

The Pink Hydra #5 is out today, with fiction & poetry by @hexthervvv.bsky.social, @deeholloway.bsky.social, @jasterwrites.bsky.social, @maryjorabe.bsky.social, @slashnburnett.bsky.social, @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social, @pixieb.bsky.social & @reasie.bsky.social

www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/0202202510

Yay! an LGBTQ+ anthology Yay! all queer Free and Queer is an LGBTQ+ anthology, second in the series!

The kickstarter is up for an anthology I'm in. My story "The Menopause Chrysalis" is featured within. It's a weird tale about a Two Spirit person dealing with menopause, the medical system, and the dream world.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ink...

Could you spare a few bob to help a weird little litmag keep going?

Here's 3 ways you can support us:

1) Become a subscriber! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

2) Make a one-off donation! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

3) Buy past issues as EPUB & PDF! innerworlds.gumroad.com

Writing with intrusive / distractive thoughts, a journal A blog article about British science fiction and fantasy author E.M. Faulds' take on dealing with neurodivergence / ADHD when writing.

Me wanging on about ADHD again, but yeah, if you are yourself ND or you know someone who is, here's a metaphorical house for you to explore. Let me know if you recognise anything in here!
emfaulds.com/a-writers-jo...

not only is it time for FLESH, but fun fact - i'll be making a custom illustration / collage for every piece in this zine! 🥩🖊

My debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, is now available. Read the book @horrorsong.blog says will leave you “surprised, delighted, baffled, moved to tears.”

If you’re boycotting Amazon, I’ll have author copies for sale.

dumbopress.com/titles/38

We come bearing good news, Tasavvur's 13th Fall Issue is finally ready!

Link to read: tasavvurnama.com

🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

Aww thank you!! 😄❤️

Send your stuff to inner worlds!
Beautiful publication, great themes, and an absolute pleasure to work with!

Submissions do seem to be coming through though 🤞🏻