Elena Sichrovsky

Obsessed with this one by @esichr.bsky.social from HAD (I forget if I’ve shared it before, but it’s so good it’s definitely worth sharing twice!)

Omg Eleanor thank you so much for sharing!!!

Thank you!

is there any guidelines for single-spaced vs double-spaced and page size for submissions?

Image ID: the words "award eligibility 2025" are transposed over a monochrome celestial illustration.

Image ID: a part 1 list of award eligible works are listed over the same monochrome celestial background. it reads as follows: Pearlescent Tickwad. Fiction. Strange Horizons, January 2025. galactic oracle eulogy. Fiction. Flash Fiction Online, February 2025. sharp house. Fiction. NIGHTMARE Magazine, March 2025.

Image ID: this is part 2 of the awards eligible works list. It reads as follows: möbius loop. Fiction. khōréō magazine, March 2025. SHRIKE. Fiction. ergot. press, April 2025. In Perfection's Shape I Writhe. Fiction. New Edge Sword and Sorcery, December 2025.

since it's that time of year, here's a list of my free-to-read award eligible works. links will be below. read and/or nominate something to please the eternal worm (or not, he's not your boss & neither am i)

I did the thing :)

Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."

Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."

We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.

🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines

🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

The Dead Languages' Cummies For the second year in the row, we are proud to announce the annual Dead Languages' Cummies award. What are the DLP Cummies? The Cummies will juicily celebrate horror authors and presses. These a...

Admit it, you want to win a Cummie.

The most important award in the horror industry is open for nominations until the end of the month. Publishers, authors—I'm going to need you to step up and tell us about your favorite books.

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle Award Eligibility 2025 Half-Orc Songs Fantasy/9000w in Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 6 When to Choose the Snake God Fantasy/5000w in Luna Station Quarterly Issue 61 Sea Junk Shaped like the English Alphabet Weird horror/4500w in Fraidy Cat Quarterly Issue 5 Of Bats and Apes historical horror/5600w in In the Eyes of the Hungry Most Humans Listen when a Duck Talks to Them contemporary fantasy, humor/5000w in Madam Don’t Forget Your Sword How a Satyr becomes Real weird fantasy/920w in This Exquisite Topology Westward I Reach historical weird/6000w in Baubles from Bones Issue 6 The Money Left in My Account weird/1000w in Slugger Issue 1

I've never bothered doing one of these because it felt kinda silly, but I'm trying new things.

A graphic with a gray, sort of cement-looking background with splatters of black ink. Text transcript: Theodore Hill, 2025 Releases. “I Think I Have Lost Someone” The Skull & Laurel, Horror (Flash), January. “Rise” Translunar Travelers Lounge, Sci Fi, February. “Pirouette in Periwinkle” The Ghastling, Horror (Flash), April. “Other Duties As Required” Cosmic Horror Monthly, Horror/Sci Fi, July. “Hammerhead” God’s Cruel Joke, Horrorotica, September. “A Taste” Whisper House Press, Horror (Flash), November. Upcoming: “More Famished Than My Means” (Poem, God’s Cruel Joke, December).

Is it an awards eligibility post? Is it a retrospective? I dunno, but here it is. I published some words this year. Check it out. (If there is anything you'd like to read and can't find, let me know and I'll get it to ya!) 🫀

11 Tenebrous titles, all in a row

Weird Year in Review:
8 books.
3 magazine issues.
2 sleep-deprived co-publishers.
Let's do it again in '26!

Missing anything from your bookshelves? Hit up our webstore🖤☠️
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They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.

Read our Pushcart nominated stories!

Deliver by @safiyacherfi.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/deliver-safi...
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by @esichr.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...
Strangler Fig by @katharinetyndall.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/strangler-fi... 2/2

Pushcart Nominations: Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju Come F*** Yourself by Sylvie Althoff Grand Mal by Mary Buchanan Deliver by Safiya Cherfi They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall

🥁 It's Pushcart time! 🥁

Almost impossible to choose again, but here are our 2025 nominees:

Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju
Come F*** Yourself by Sylvie Althoff
Grand Mal by Mary Buchanan
Deliver by Safiya Cherfi
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky
Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall

thank you sooo much for giving my story a home!!

award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction

check out my piece here: fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend...

Thank you so much for the nomination!!

They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.

I just enjoyed this awesome story by @esichr.bsky.social published in @innerworlds.bsky.social
Try out this sci-fi read... It'll leave you thinking!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

#shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #amreading #shortstories

omg thats amazing to hear thank you so much!!!

Image reads: Open call for submissions. Seeking aro/ace paranormal short stories for an upcoming anthology project! Submission period: September 15 - November 30 2025 There is a website link: paranormal-aspecs.carrdd.co/ There are three photos, one of a smoky figure, one of a hand against a pane of glass, and a foggy forest

Image reads: What we're looking for Stories that centre asexual and aromantic characters (or identities that fall under those umbrellas) in a paranormal context. Give us your ghosts and ghouls, your werewolf packs and vampire covens, the things that hide beneath the bed and between the trees.

Image reads: Submission Guidelines Word Count: 2,000-7,500 words Submission Period: Sept 15-Nov 30 Stories must feature aspec characters and contain some aspect of paranormal or speculative fiction

Submission Guidelines: Please email your submission to phenomenapress@gmail.com with '[STORY TITLE] - Aspec Paranormal Anthology' in the subject line Include: name, email address, WIP title, word count and short synopsis For more info: paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co/

Open call for submissions!

Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters

Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻

Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th

paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
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award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction

are there going to be any fee waivers this month?

Tbh i was kinda worried about publishing this story as it's so personal and im so glad i pushed through the hesitancy and did!!! ❤️❤️ Thank you for such beautiful words!

in love with my haul from @ascalaphid.com - shipping was so fast and these lil critters are my fave lil guys

They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.

When you feel a story with your whole dang heart, and realize now's as good a time as any for a cathartic cry and fist shake at the universe ...

inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

@esichr.bsky.social
@innerworlds.bsky.social

omg kate my HEART this means sooo much to me thank you so much 😭🥰💜

two new releases that i didn't expect to love but they delivered

They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.

Just finished reading They Promised This Would be Beautiful by @esichr.bsky.social

It was amazing!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

I hope to see the PDF version in the future for the proper formatting ^_^

#WritingCommunity #ReaderSky

Omg thank you so much!! And the pdf will be available on inner worlds website end of the year I think

ALL HAIL THE BLACK FLAME this book made me fall in love with novels again @scumbelievable.bsky.social