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cover of issue 58, titled "Stasis" by Zara Alfonso depicts a brown gray background and a femme-presenting person with long dark hair staring up into space. Her eyes are glazed over white and her lips (and overall complexion) is a gray-blue-white. Moths of a pale-gray-blue-white rest on her face and shoulder

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 56, “Resurrecting Venus" by Galen Dara: In the background, two planets overlap. A large red one is eclipsed by a blue one, the surface is decorated with waves. At the forefront, a woman's face is split in three pieces that are slowly coming together. Spread throughout the motif of sea waves are present in shades of light blue, dark blue, and purple. The outline of koi are spread throughout too, accompanying the woman. 

cover for Issue 60, La Musica by John Picacio. A femme person with eyeliner and red lipstick smiles directly at the reader. On her head is a swirling headpiece made of brass instruments, the sides of her face framed by two halves of a cello, earrings of brass instrument parts. Her shoulder pads are made of the black, white, and shaded brown keys of a piano and the body of the dress the curling row of piano keys. Behind her are circular swirls of color

Congratulations to Zara Alfonso, Galen Dara, and John Picacio! Their 2024 Uncanny Magazine covers are all finalists for 2025 Frank R. Paul Best Magazine Cover Art Awards! buff.ly/qvJxWdL

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

Forwarded to Galen. :)

Hi Frank. Go ahead and email me, and I will forward that to Galen. Thanks!

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Pale Serpent, Green Serpent - Uncanny Magazine We play this game every time we meet, and I’ve never lost yet. Our meetings have become ritual by now: me and Tsing, once every few seasons, or years, or decades, or however long it takes for one of u...

FFer Read of the Day: "Pale Serpent, Green Serpent" by @ewenmaer.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pale...

You Perfect, Broken Thing - Uncanny Magazine When I leave the kill floor, my legs are wasted. I shuffle to the women’s locker room. I can’t stand anymore, but I know if I sit, I’ll never get back up. At least, not for another hour. I prop myself...

And here's one of my favorite of C.L.'s stories, in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

Thanks again, @clclark.bsky.social ☺️

RIP Jon Lasser.

Yeah, we quiet over here, but we love y'all. These publishing streets are rough these days. October marks Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we're thrilled to drop TWO issues on you in the coming weeks. Updates soon come. Anyway support some Black creators: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p Follow, share, BUY 🔥

Contract signed! So excited my poem, “Butterfly Effect," will be in a future issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

This one was inspired by my fear of the phrase "every end is a new beginning."

Really loved this story that won this year's Hugo for best short story. Unique magic powers, family, revenge, a helluva fight.

一个雨果奖前管理者的工作笔记

My article in the latest Zero Gravity News (translated from the one that appeared earlier this year in Uncanny Magazine).

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Can highly recommend. Check out @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

You can always support Uncanny Magazine on Patreon, and we are still taking late Kickstarter pledges! www.uncannymagazine.com/support-unca...

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2025 - Reactor As someone who works in a school in Southern California, August and September are chaotic months with too much to do competing with weeks of baking heat and an overwhelming desire to be back on summer...

@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social is recommending a body horror summer camp, a Carmilla retelling, and a cursed postman (and many more). Which of August's must-read SFF short stories will you pick up first?

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With all of the things burning around me, I often worry about not doing enough. Years ago, some dear friends reminded me about how important Uncanny Magazine is to people during one of my laments about this. They’re right. Creating art and getting it to folks who need it is always so fucking vital.

The Lure of Stone - Uncanny Magazine They saw the men when they were close to reaching Elmesak; they rode two by two and all six of them were decked in crimson. Yalxi set the bedroll and the pack with their supplies down by the side of t...

Attention! Attention! Free Silvia Moreno-Garcia work from Uncanny Magazine! Woooo hoooooo! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Happy Birthday!!!

Finished cover and copy for Audition for the Fox, on a table.

The Fox is free! Today my debut, Audition For The Fox, is officially out in the world. Magic. Fables. Time travel. And the many ways even a goofball can resist oppression & fight tyranny.

Thank you to everyone who had a paw in bringing this into the world & supporting it. Forever grateful, I am 🦊💜

contract is signed! I sold an essay to Uncanny Magazine!! Bucket list checked! 🖤🥳🤯💃

This is how I know about the AI submissions. Uncanny Magazine doesn't use an AI detector. I also want to clarify again that I am not banning anybody unless there is *proof* AI was used. Mostly, this is just annoying and adds time to processing the submission pile.

If a Digitized Tree Falls - Reactor As humanity moves to the stars, a young woman attempts to preserve the magical forest she fell in love with as a child.

New story day! "If a Digitized Tree Falls" is my latest collaboration with @kyliu99.bsky.social, an exploration of technologies that bridge the divide between digital and physical, with a focus on environmental themes.

Now up at @reactorsff.bsky.social!

reactormag.com/if-a-digitiz...

Uncanny Magazine received 2800 short story submissions. It does seem that we are still getting AI subs. (Sadly, no shock there.) I can buy 15-20 stories for Year 12.

Cover of Gnomes of Lychford.

My midweek blog leads on the release today of Gnomes of Lychford! (And the many Nessie signings coming up!) www.paulcornell.com/2025/09/gnom...

A cover illustrated by James Fenner. A woman with long red hair and padded clothing sits on the ground, petting the head of a smiling serpentine dragon. But the dragon has more than one head! On the left, a second giant dragon head emerges, frowning, looking at her while wearing a monocle. On the right, a third giant dragon head emerges, jaws wide, screaming in anger. The text is teal, contrasting sharply against the red and maroon of the creatures. The text on the cover reads "THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS. JOHN WISWELL, author of the Nebula and Locus Award-winning SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN."

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS!

Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot.

Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

New @sharonshinnauthor.bsky.social book!

The unicorn has been unleashed! 🦄
House of Idyll is available today!
All buy links here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790197...
Signed edition at @booksamillion.bsky.social www.booksamillion.com/p/House-Idyl...
Or ask your local indie bookstore!

My readings didn't end up on the channel, but I've since recorded video of BOTH my nominated poems.

I'd be honored if you'd watch and consider them!

Long poem ( @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ) : www.instagram.com/reel/DNQc-ZR...

Short poem ( @thedeadlands.com): www.instagram.com/reel/DOYkGPh...

FIYAH magazine cover art

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Six - Uncanny Magazine Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Six! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on September 2, 2025. The free online content will be released in two stage...

I have a new essay, “Solace in Fantasy Monster Romances and My Trans Body,” in the newest @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/issues/uncan...

My essay will be free in October, but you can purchase the entire issue now!