Elis Montgomery

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Apex Magazine Issue 151 EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner"Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson "We Used ...

It's here! @apexmag.bsky.social issue 151 is out now and contains my story "Ghosts of Summer"!!! The end of summer and the beginning of spooky season collide as two witches try to beat the summer heat. But high temperatures and magic are a dangerous combination. 👻☀️

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Apex Magazine Issue 151 EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner"Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson "We Used ...

I'm absolutely thrilled that @apexmag.bsky.social Issue 151 is out - containing my drabble 'Don't Hide From the Mirror', the first piece I've published with Apex!

🏳️‍⚧️ trans euphoria
🩸body horror
✒️only 100 words!

Check out the full issue now!

And I’m stoked to tear through this absolutely stacked anthology. Congrats to all the writers! 💕💕

Big thank yous to @ourmankoto.bsky.social and to everyone else who added a little magic to this story’s cauldron along the way — all the shares and kinds words about this story mean the world to me 🪄🪄

“Grimoire” originally came out in For a Friend by Lucent Dreaming, and then was reprinted online in the awesome @wyrmholemag.bsky.social. My little story about everlasting friendship lives on!!

So excited to share that “This Grimoire Belongs to Miss Cleo Jackson” will appear in Year’s Best Canadian F&SF this year!! This is my first Year’s Best fiction selection 🥹

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I am so, so sorry. Sending so much love 🤍

Woohoo congrats!!🥳🥳

A pile of Uncertain Sons, just a lot of uncertainty and a lot of sons

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

My Nebula Finalist short story "The Witch Trap" is now free to read in The Dark! The entire issue is stunning and I'm so pleased to have a place in it!

www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-witch-tr...

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.

Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore. There are so many histories of the future. Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...

I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...

If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x

The little ghosts webpage features a sheet ghost typing on a typewriter and blowing bubbles through a pipe while a coffee ghost looks on. This type says LITTLE GHOSTS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS: Little Ghosts Books is looking for standalone Horror Novellas (40k word count). We'll be open to submissions Sept. 1- Nov.1. Little Ghosts books is a horror publishing house with a focus on stories from the LGBTQA+ community & BIPOC authors. We greatly encourage first time authors to submit work, and will consider partial manuscripts at the time of submission so long as the writer can commit to a schedule alongside our publishing timeline. Little Ghosts does not publish YA /children's lit or individual author short story collections at this time. If you have any additional questions or concerns, you can reach our inbox directly at littleghostssubmissions@gmail.com

Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions!

From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website:

www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi...

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Franca's been found but Fiasco (the grey one) is still at large, so if you're in Edmonton maybe you can share this / keep an eye out?

The cover for Small Wonders issue 27, September 2025. The cover art by Dante Luiz is of two women in an embrace and kissing, one partially submerged in water. The predominant colors of the cover are pink, maroon, and white. Authors this month are: Marika Bailey, Marie Brennan, Melanie Mulrooney, Michael Zahniser, Lydian Kind, Dawn Lloyd, Indigo Rue, Brian U. Garrison, and Jordan Hirsch. Edited by Stephen Granade and Cislyn Smith.

Our September issue is available today! If you've got a subscription, it's in your inbox right now, and if not... well, maybe you should, yeah? Every subscription helps us put more wonders into the world!

store.smallwondersmag.com/checkout

3 years ago, I had a patron come to the library and tell me they wanted to get into reading and didn’t know where to start.

We talked for a bit, figured what he liked, then found a few titles.

Now every summer he comes back and we find him a ton of books.

It’s a wonderful ritual :)

Eeee Rick!! Thanks so much!!

Frog antiques anyone? 👀🐸🧙‍♀️

Yay, so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much, Rick!

My new poem is out at Strange Horizons now!! It took me years to write and it will probably take you two minutes to read 😅😅

Thank you so much, Devan!! 🤗🤗

Just got an amazing story rec from @howsweetthewords.bsky.social for @elismontgomery.bsky.social's "This Grimoire Belongs to Miss Cleo Jackson" and now I must share it with everyone because it is SO GOOD OMG!!!

Omg I totally missed this! Thank you so much, Catherine!! And @howsweetthewords.bsky.social!! 💜💜

I did a really fun interview with @wyrmholemag.bsky.social where I got to talk about the most interesting places I’ve written, how I’ve experimented with POV, and my biggest cooking disaster among other writerly things.

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I’m in the WYRMHOLE today!! Come fall in the hole with me and find my little grimoire hanging out at the bottom 🪄📖👯‍♀️ thewyrmhole.com/this-grimoir...

The cover to Small Wonders Best of Year One anthology, with a collage of cover art from five issues.

Our “Best of Year One” anthology has gone out to our Kickstarter backers! It has 45 flash fiction stories and poems from our first year, all the way back to Issue 0. If you missed it, grab it from our store! store.smallwondersmag.com/checkout