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You might, uh, commemorate this event by ordering the Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories for your local library.

www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...

As a Libro.fm acolyte, it is my duty to inform you that audio that's purchased from your favorite indie bookseller sounds better and is also more emotionally fulfilling than the same audio purchased from a megacorp that's assisting the authoritarian federal regime.

Phantom View - Reactor A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father try to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.

New story day!

"Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.

Well, not your OWN skull … not unless we make some very specific arrangements

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

HEY YOU SHOULD GET THIS ITS GOT A LOT OF COOL WRITING AND STORIES IN IT

Including something I was editing on WHILE evacuated! So support this bundle and maybe read 'The Invisible Hand' if weird urban fantasy is your thing.

The cover for WE'RE HERE 2024. An earth-toned wild hunt tapestry with muted rainbow-y accents being looked at by a trio of rad queer people in a museum-esque framing.

We're delighted to share the cover (by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social) and announce the table of contents for WE'RE HERE: THE BEST QUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION 2024, selected by editor @rykaaoki.bsky.social and working with series editor @cypayseur.bsky.social!

www.neonhemlock.com/news/were-he...

We hope you're excited for Licenseathon 2025, starting tomorrow at Noon EST! We're excited to support the Transgender Law Center in their mission to empower and protect LGBTQIA+ people across the United States.

Watch and donate all weekend at www.licenseathon.live!

Camp Damascus Check out Camp Damascus - <p><b>INSTANT <i>USA TODAY</i> & INDIE BESTSELLER </b><br>A Best Book of 2023 (<i>Vulture</i>) and a Best Horror Book of 2023 (<i>Esquire, Library Journal</i>) • A Bram Stoke...

I just picked up Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus and it's intriguingggg 👀🏕️🔥

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Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death

our team's been busy this morning! we've got so much going on, and we LOVE sharing it with you!

BUT, we also can't do this without your help.

consider joining us over on Patreon?

pretty please? every patron helps 🖤

www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

Trans and queer voices need to be celebrated more than ever these days. What queer fiction have you been reading lately, or are you looking forward to? 👀

The OTHERSIDE logo with a hazy purple-tinted fairyland, painted by Gustave Doré, as the background. Text: OTHERSIDE. Queer. Fantastic. Coming 2026. http://othersidespec.com, http://patreon.com/othersidespec. Background art is public domain, courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Welcome to OTHERSIDE, a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! This October, we’ll be fundraising on Kickstarter. Until then, you can join us on our Patreon! We’ll open for submissions in January 2026.

See thread for details! 🪐🗡️ (1/5)

A simple little going live image that says spacevalkyries plays Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and celebrates five years of streaming with the Clair Obscur key art in the center over a blue to purple gradient background with my yay emotes on the side.

I am returning to streaming today! AND it's my five year streamerversary!!

And because I'm still enamored with it, we're catching up a bit and talking about what I've been up to and playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33!

www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries

a man is standing in front of a sign that says this is audrey Alt: Clip from Little Shop of Horrors - Audrey 2 (the flesh eating plant) is cajoling Seymour to feed them blood

FEED US

(It has to be human and it has to be yours!)

Our submission period closes May 31st so get those short stories and poems watered, fertilized, and...cut?

We want spec that is focused on a long-term relationships. Bonus points if Canadian 🍁

www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.

That could be very cool 👀
I have a pretty solid one - if/when you're collecting feel free to shoot me a message

Text says: 2024 Awards Eligibility. "On Lunar Magic and Gryphons: Sofia's Edition" - Nov 2024, Flame Tree's Moon Falling anthology. "Sending Signals" - Feb 2024, Translunar Travelers Lounge Issue 10. The background is gray with stars and white feathers surrounding the text, with a crescent moon in the top left corner.

I'm anxious about posting awards eligibility but here goes! Hi, yes I had two pieces come out in 2024 💜

"Sending Signals" - @translunartl.bsky.social Issue 10
"On Lunar Magic and Gryphons: Sofia's Edition" - Flame Tree's Moon Falling anthology

📚 Blog post: www.spacevalkyries.com/blog/awards-... ✨

Tell me about a short story you've read recently and loved. Links appreciated.

In one’s personal canon, what is your load bearing story?

✨ I have started a broad #CanSpec starter pack!

This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…

It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.

ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !

Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !

go.bsky.app/Q7MUTiT

GUYS CAN WE GET THIS FUNDED AND TO THE STRETCH GOAL WHERE I'M ALLOWED TO HELP GUEST-EDIT ONE ISSUE

THANK

I dropped an entire surprise novella this week at @reactorsff.bsky.social. It's the work of years of planning, recipe-testing, storybuilding, & artistic collaboration. I wrote it from home, I wrote it during a blackout, I wrote it from the back of an RV going 85mph through a sea of wild sunflowers.

Escape Pod 919: Emotional Resonance Arbor’s favorite part of a mission was always the first view of a planet. Even after seven hundred years of being a giant robot, it never got old. Green and blue clouds churned over purple seas…

hi yes would you like to read and/or listen to the amazing
@omgjulia.bsky.social narrate my short story, "Emotional Resonance," out now at @escapepod.org!

and would you like to have feelings about two queer giant robots just trying to exist together?

🌈 escapepod.org/2023/12/14/e... 🌈

Em-dashes and semi-colons are what turn your little sentence into a mile-long freight train of raw, sexual momentum and horsepower that can summit the highest peaks; none shall take them from me.

BACKLIST TIME! (It's not a thing but I'm making it a thing)

SFFH people: What's a story you've written that you are particularly proud of or want more people read? Caveats are:
- It can't have won any awards
- It has to have been published 2022 or before

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Con or Bust's fall fundraiser is in full swing! We have lots of bookish prizes, including a 1 year subscription to Apex Magazine, two $50 Weightless Books gift certificates, libro.fm credits, and more. Oh yeah, and there's a PS5, too.
go.rallyup.com/conorbust

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Free Pumpkins 🎃🌾✨

Help a good magazine stay afloat *and* get a shiny new essay about why Horror feels like home.

What's not to love?

Writing Community,

What's your opinion on flash fiction? Do you write in it? Can it ever be as impactful as longer work? Or will readers always be left wanting more?

You probably know my thoughts 😆

I love it - I love writing it and I love reading it. I think, for my writing at least, it's easier to tell when something isn't working in a flash piece. And when you read a flash that's strong and clever and impactful - UGH it's a marvel