khōréō magazine

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Alright. As is now tradition, here are my 10 favorite African SFF stories from 2025 📖 📚

Featuring tales from: @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omenanamag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @zamashort.com @khoreo.bsky.social @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social + more!

khōrėō 5.3: Review by A.C. Wise khōrėō 5.3 ‘‘Symbiote’’ by T. Chiu-Chu in khōrėō 5.3 parallels the narrator’s relationship with their friend Eli and their increasing conviction that there’s a parasite living in their water bottle…

My review of @khoreo.bsky.social issue 5.3 for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!

locusmag.com/review/khore...

Woot! Both my novella from @neonhemlock.bsky.social THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS, and my short story in @khoreo.bsky.social TOOTHPASTE FEELINGS, made it to the Locus Magazine Recommended reading list!!

excited that "möbius loop"—my @khoreo.bsky.social short story about hard-won healing in a retrofuturist time travel nightmare—is on this list! i'm happy that one of my thorniest pieces of 2025 is apparently resonating with people

now that the contract's signed I can announce I have a flash about revolutionaries and ancestral hauntings forthcoming in @khoreo.bsky.social later this year!! this will be my second time in the magazine and I'm so excited to be back 🥳

Thank you so much for reading and reviewing! 🙏🧡

Umeboshi When I get the first email I think it’s some sort of role-play, a scavenger hunt set up by the conference organizers for participants between presentations. I had only arrived that morning, a day afte...

I’m going to share something beautiful everyday to combat The Endless Horrors, because my head is a glass jar filled with angry wasps, and I need something to keep me tethered to the here and now, that it’s still all worth it. Today’s pick is a short story by Rebecca Nakaba called “Umeboshi.”

So thrilled to see our editor @danaiwrites.bsky.social's essay on the BSFA Longlist! 🧡

I am so beyond emotional right now, because my @khoreo.bsky.social non-fiction essay about the importance of Greek and BIPOC voices in Greek myth adaptations, the angriest thing I’ve ever written, has been longlisted in the Best Short Non Fiction category in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards.

khōréō: Awards Eligibility 2025 Introduction   This year, khōréō celebrates our fifth anniversary and we are blessed to continue to have our stories be so loved and well-received! As a magazine dedicated to diversity and elevating t...

Just wanted to put this out there: if you’re reading and voting for awards, here's our incredible slate of stories (and essays 🙌) from this past year! We’re so proud of our authors and artists and we hope you consider their stellar work 🧡✨

I'm a bit late to the party but my short with @khoreo.bsky.social has been nominated and is available to read or listen to here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-... - congrats to all Brave New Weird authors this year 🎉

Your regular reminder that @khoreo.bsky.social does NOT accept AI-generated submissions. Our team works on an entirely voluntary basis and I despise that they have to waste their time on pointless AI slop. Do NOT send them to us, it will only piss me off and get you banned from future submissions

Fox illustration with khoreo logo. Text reading: Five-Year Anniversary Series. Tales of Tails: Fox Spirits in Stories by Asian Diaspora Writers. Written by Tina S. Zhu. Edited by Kanika Agrawal.

Fox spirits have inspired @tinazhu.bsky.social writing in many ways. As part of our anniversary series, she journeys in Tales of Tails: Fox Spirits in Story, through the fox spirits of other Asian diaspora authors to better understand their allure.

Read her essay: www.khoreomag.com/issues/year-...

Text reading: The Peculiarities of Hunger. Written by Woody Dismukes, edited by Isabella Kestermann, narrated by Sam Cavalcanti, and produced by Grayson Norman. The full audio story is on the website: https://www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-peculiarities-of-hunger/

The full audio story of The Peculiarities of Hunger by Woody Dismukes is out now!

The story was edited by Isabella Kestermann, narrated by Sam Cavalcanti, and produced by Grayson Norman.

You can read or listen to the full story on our website: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

Text reading a quote from the short story The Body is a Cage Opened Only By Fire: "How could my mother explain to them that to free the soul the body must be burned, even in pieces? That if one is haunted, like my grandmother and mother were, she must carve away The Darkness, even if that includes carving away her own flesh?"

In "The Body is a Cage Opened Only By Fire" by @jawmccarthy.bsky.social, a woman returns to burn the last of her mother’s body, in the wake of her mother’s death. An effort to escape a dark entity that has sealed itself to the bones of three generations of Thai women.

Text reading a quote from the short story Skin and Hide: "Animals, tens of thousands of them, lifted their heads like they’d been called, a divine summons, it drove them mad in an instant, they threw themselves to the ground, writhing as they tried to shed themselves of the skins that itched them. And shed they did. Within hours, they’d cocooned up, only to emerge the next day as part-human, part-animal freaks."

In "Skin and Hide" by Author: Anita Moskát and translated by Austin Wagner. Deerbreed blogger Kirill wants to tell the story of worldwide human-animal transformations, but the Flock is calling to him.

Text reading a quote from the short story Her Right Arm: "He wakes up with the arm nestling next to his body like a cat. He’s surprised the arm retains a certain warmth; he’s no student of the medical sciences, but he’d have expected a severed limb to be cold, no matter how preternaturally alive. The discrepancy pleases him; after all, he’s always been proud of his capacity to be happy about being proven wrong."

In "Her Right Arm" by @nassos.bsky.social, a man sets out on a voyage accompanied by his fiancée's right arm.

Text reading a quote from the short story The North: "Here’s what we know about the Northerners. They came in tall black ships that moved against the wind. They were pale and furless and spoke a language that sounded like breaking glass. They came when our cities were at their mightiest and plundered them and razed them to the ground."

In "The North" by Subodhana Wijeyeratne, a young scribe joins a voyage to hunt sea creatures in waters that once belonged to the feared Northerners, but the truth behind the Northern myths is more complex than they first believed.

Text reading a quote from the short story The Trick to Taking Over the World: "You’re not a bona fide prophet yet, but somewhere, in the back of their mind, somehow . . . there’s that little tingle."

In "The Trick to Taking Over the World" by @klynn.bsky.social a mother accidentally becomes a leader and a god, in a post-apocalyptic world.

Image of the cover of khoreo magazine issue 5.4. The cover of the magazine is an illustration of a person cocooning and turning into a moth.

Issue 5.4 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A wintry, gothic issue underpinned by disasters and dark transformations. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com

This incredible cover is by Mary Ainza 🧡

Home Grown by Madeleine Vigneron Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

And last but certainly not least!! Congrats to our khōréō team member Madeleine Vigneron for publishing “Home Grown”! 🖤🧡 clarkesworldmagazine.com/vigneron_12_...

How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl - Lightspeed Magazine We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement. Her mom was one of those chill Asian moms who liked having an artsy-fartsy daughter she could brag about at Bible study. She was already pushing ...

This has been a great month of publishing fantastic stories by our khōréō team! Round of applause for Tina S. Zhu publishing “How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl” 🧡🖤 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...

Captain’s Lay Back I am minding my own flight path

Congrats to our khōréō team member @jdridges.bsky.social on publishing “Captain’s Lay Back”! 🧡 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

You’ll also be helping support our ability to continue publishing speculative fiction that pushes the boundaries of the genre! 🖤

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Look, it’s me!

I‘ll be reading „Island Getaway“ from the current issue of khōréō @khoreo.bsky.social !

(Which, btw, is getting an AWESOME narrator for its official audio version! Squee!)

Cartoon illustration of a megaphone with text reading: Submission open from November 1 to 30th, under the theme of Revolutions.

Our submissions are open to fiction exploring the theme of "Revolutions" 📣

Visit our website to read the full submission guidelines: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Audio clip of the story, Wax and Full Circles. The background is a moving blue and green gradient, an illustration of spheres, and on the foreground is an image of the cover of khoreo magazine issue 5.2. Title text reads: Wax and Full Circles. Written by Stefani Cox, story edited by Isabella Kestermann, narrated by Xperience J, and audio produced by Lian Xia Rose.

The full audio story of Wax and Full Circles by @stefanicox.bsky.social is out now!

The story was edited by Isabella Kestermann, narrated by Xperience J, and produced by @lianxiarose.bsky.social.

You can read or listen to the full story here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/wax-...

Thank you @acwise.bsky.social for reviewing our 5.2 issue!