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author of all things weird, wonderful, & queer โจ๏ธ words in The Deeps, The Razor, Strange Horizons, and more ๐ ccraynewrites.carrd.co
actively SHUDDERED at the concept of wet socks. peak horror. you are correct.
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White text atop a blurry purple and blue background reads: Issue One, March 2026 Original Fiction Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur - Abigail Eliza The Homeowner's Bride - Ayida Shonibar Vitrification - Ishmael Grey This Is Not Your Extinction Event - Elena Sichrovsky Situationship - Seoung Kim The Claywife - tanadrin Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive - Nadia Radovich Reprint Fiction Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain - Sarah Pauling The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet - Simo Srinivas
White text atop a blurry purple and blue background reads: Issue One, March 2026 Original Poetry blessing for molly grue. - Elisheva Fox Eat It Out - Cypher Ignore All Previous Instructions - Ann LeBlanc Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be - Rick Hollon Electrolysis - Nico Santana Nonfiction He Is Survived by His Wife - Jackie Hedeman
IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing ๐ช๐ก๏ธ
More details in the thread! ๐งต (1/6)
The covers of five books by Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, with the Humble Bundle logo. Supporting the MIss Major/Alexander J. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center.
HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks!
Get 2 books for at least $3
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This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project!
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Huge congratulations to everyone with work on the Locus Recommended Reading List! Voting is now open for the Locus Awards. Anyone can vote, no subscription or membership required. You can also write in your favorites!
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THE SUTURE CYCLE is a sci-fi survival story about an unnamed cyborg exploring space, scavenging bodies, and growing suspicious of their smooth-talking spaceship captain. It's a love letter to Frankenstein, Star Trek, and Doctor Who, available both digitally and in print!
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you heard that right!
29.01.2026 23:27 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โThat wonโt break the curse,โ she says. โItโs scientifically unsound, but more than that, youโre thinking about this all wrong.โ
(From "Side Flash", published with @therazormag.bsky.social)
Rhysling Award nominations close on February 15th (with Nebula and Hugo noms closing soon after)!
Here's a thread of all my poetry from 2025.
1) "The Mourning Robot" (in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social)
- if you've ever wanted someone to cry for you after you died
Cover of Seize The Press Magazine issue thirteen, showing an insectoid humanoid looking up to the sky as a flaming skull comet hurtles towards impact.
STP Issue #13 is out now! A bumper issue of weird fiction, wretched vibes, queer cyberpunk, vengeful aliens, an unhinged horsegirl, and loads more.
The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.
Ooooh...go for it. Show me what you got. I do so love to share.
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It's release day for @archiveoftheodd.bsky.social's 6th issue, which I'm a part of! My story, "ANGEL BABY HONEY DARLING," is a bloody-sweet and brutal tale of talking to the creature that haunts your student housing, told through scratch marks on the walls and floors:
archiveoftheodd.bigcartel.com
Dani Carr has been writing professionally since 2017 and is represented by Claire Draper at Au Literary Management. Dani has written a myriad of featured digital media in her work at Critical Role. Dani is the writer of Vol 1 & 2 of Chronicles of Exandria: The Mighty Nein and has an upcoming short story in Mighty Nein: Stories Untold, publishing June 2026. Dani is the co-creator and writer of a monthly paranormal romance webcomic called The Witch Wolf. She currently lives in the Los Angeles area with her wife Bree and their dog Yaga. Represented by: Claire Draper Au Literary Management Webcomic: thewitchwolf.org Patreon: patreon.com/thewitchwolf
Hi! Iโm Dani Carr, a professional writer working in IP, short stories, & comics. I write about magic, fairy tales, romance, family (blood & found), horror, fantasy, the supernatural & all things witchy!
I write a webcomic called The Witch Wolf and am working on my debut romantasy novel!
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"It was as if I, too, walked atop one of those high wires, balancing above this strange and fluid crowd."
(from "Estranged", published by Spindle House / The Deeps)
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
Weโve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
Ooooh...go for it. Show me what you got. I do so love to share.
28.01.2026 01:13 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Steve writes beautifully and bountifully. If you want to read about a bunch of trans books, this article is packed wall to wall with trans goodness.
28.01.2026 00:05 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A friendly reminder that submissions CLOSE for our upcoming issue this Saturday. Keep them coming! Share with a Black SFF writer in your circle ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Guidelines here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Aspec Reading Bingo: trans aspec books. Below are six book covers Pluralities by Avi Silver Painted Flock by Claudie Arseneault The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane Power To Yield by Bogi Takรกcs Unbury the Bones by Coyote JM Edwards The Stones Stay Silent by Danny Ride
Aspec Reading Bingo: trans aspec books. Below are six book covers: Mazarin Blues by Al Hess Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault The Thread that Binds by Cedar McCloud The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy The Unbalancing by R. B. Lemberg
It's Aspec Reading Bingo Day -- in which I recommend books for the delightful prompts put together by nerdydreamer107 and queerbooksupremacy over on Instagram๐
Today's prompt is TRANS ASPEC BOOKS; ALT text will have a full list
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โจ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding โจ
satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars
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Text on a green background. It says, "Wildthorn: Wildthorn Books is a new imprint of Tor Publishing Group focused on commercial stories that are irresistable, genre-blending and genre-bending. Wildthorn's mission is to become the destination for compulsive, page-turning reads."
NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.
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They're here :) Pick up a copy at www.readeasel.com
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Poem with Attention and Fabric Shears I am watching my friend live on a remnant of love a swatch of fabric with pinked edges and all I can think is that I want the whole bolt of love clumsy and tumbling unwound in yards around my body by Han VanderHart
โฆ I want
the whole bolt
of love
// sending a love poem out today โค๏ธ
Delightful news to wake up to: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity is long-listed for the BSFA Awards!! Thank you all so much ๐ค
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social
Calling all poets: Eye to the Telescope is accepting submissions for issue 60, edited by Angela Acosta, on the theme of Paying Tribute.
Find more details and a form to submit here:
eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
Swooping back this very fine MLK Day with our first unthemed issue of 2026! Behold! Get yours! Tell a friend!
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GARLAND issue 5 sub period is over halfway through! send your ekphrasis!
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Against a backdrop of marble, a flower grows from a broken statue of a bird in a cupped pair of hands. The statue is obscured by the text, which announces: ISSUE 05: FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT sculpture garden/classical statuary The image is colored pale shades of green & pink.
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SUBMISSIONS ARE !! OPEN !! For our fifth issue now thru JAN 31
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