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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 12h

Anybody have a spare $1000 in their couch cushions for two anthologies which have received great submissions but have only so much budget to go around? If so, please send the couch crevice money and a SASE to …

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 22h

Pain. PAIIIIIN, I say. (This is something I'm in ongoing communication with, so it has not be forgotten about, but...for real...)

The Submission Grinder Screenshot

Date Sent: Jul 24, 2024
Date Held: Jan 5, 2025
Date Res'd
Response* Pending Response
Days/Avg/Est 801/158/60

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...

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Quotidian Bagatelle @quotatelle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are going to temporarily close submissions starting tomorrow so get em in while you can. Will reopen in December.

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just figured out how to make an already horrible story more horrible. 😈

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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here are our nominations for Best of the Net 2027

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OMG I just got a rejection from Roxane Gay. I'm not even the least bit sad. Wow. A note in the rejection: "I wanted you to know that we love your voice and I hope you'll submit to us again in the future." 🤯

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just got the most ridiculously poofy, completley impractical, almost fantasy dress for a costume and now I’m trying to figure out how to wear it every day. OMG. I did not know how much I needed this.

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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📮 October Zine foofaraw.press/october-zine

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Squee!! C’mon and get your trading cards! How cool to see one for my story. 💖

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Give these mags some love including foofaraw!!

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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's my birthday! My birthday wish is for you to share your favorite work from this year and I'll boost it. Here's mine, "The Metamorphosis". Becoming disabled might feel like Kafkaesque horror, but there's a beautiful path to acceptance and a good life. Also there's sloths. gavagai.com/posts/3894

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Awe yeah, look at my name there on the back cover. 🥳 Coming VERY soon!!

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just took a five-minute nap next to an open window while it rained outside and I feel like I have been reborn.

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Mark Peters @markpeters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is an excellent story, and absolutely worth your time! Support good stories by good people! 😁

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me: walks into kitchen. Husband: So, I’ll put the meatloaf in the oven… Me (singing, dramatically): 🎵 I would do anything thing to love.🎵 Husband: How many coffees have you had today? Me: 🤣

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reposting because recent news has me feeling this all over again.

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watched The Matrix with the youngest for her first time, and it’s so refreshing to see people with faces that move, skin with folds and wrinkles and marks, and for people to have real teeth and not veneers! I wasn’t distracted by how weird and similar people look and could just enjoy the film.

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ooh, love a list story. This one is great!!

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nothing like a bunch of nacho cheese to fix the rejected woes, amirite?

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm so emotional that this story is out now, in the wonderful Tiny Gods issue of FFO. So many amazing stories, so many great authors. Read, cheer, share, subscribe. FFO is a wonderful place to lose yourself in, for a few minutes or many, many hours. I'm honored to join them on their journey ❤️

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Drafted a story I've been trying to tell for a long time. It's personal, about something during my teen years, but I think this iteration is going to be a good one. But now all I want to do is curl up in my childhood basement and play the original FFVII all day, as was how I coped back then. 😭

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Damn, it sure feels so good to get paid for your own writing.

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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quick reminder: we open for our regular site submissions on Oct 1st, the Annual Drabble on Oct 15th, and nominations for The Foofs on Nov 15th!

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ahhh! Beautiful cover. So excited to have a story in this. Yes I actually wrote something cozy and I can't wait for you to read it! Gonna be a rad anthology. 💖

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another day, another author spam email. This time though, it was just some vague "we want to promote your book." which was easy to ignore because I have no book, but was very specific to some of my short stories. I'm 99.99999999999999% sure they used AI to read my online stuff and put it together. 🤮

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Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anonymous donors have sponsored three additional scholarships, so five out of the ten slots are completely free. The other five are $100 for a one-month course. If you're a newish horror writer on a budget, this opportunity is great for you!

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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cover reveal for Cozy in the Apocalypse! angrygablepress.com/2026/09/23/c...

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Cozy in the Apocalypse: Front Cover Reveal

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To the two barred owls hooting to each other out my window last night, I hope you had a good time. 😴🥱

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rejections come in, submissions go out rejections come in, submissions go out, rejections come in, submissions go out, rejections come in, submissions go out, rejections come in, submissions go out, rejections come in, submissions go out, rejections come in, submissions go out, rejections come in…

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Publishers and Editors! I'm taking subs for Vol. 3 of the award-nominated "Best Weird Fiction of the Year" til end of the year. Writers! You'll get a chance to submit your 2026 stories in January. bestspecfic(at)gmail.com

Esteemed Editors and Publishers,

I am now taking submissions of original 2026 short fiction projects — magazines, anthologies, single-author collections — for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 3. (Publishing Sept. 2027). Vol. 1 is a World fantasy Award Finalist.

I am seeking material first published this year, in 2026. To be clear, only weird fiction FIRST published in 2026 is eligible for inclusion in this volume. I will accept translated work as long as the first English-language publication was 2026.

Stories should be between 500 and 17,499 words. Audio only stories are also ineligible, unless they also appeared as text.

Publishers and editors are encouraged to send electronic or digital copies, via the email address below. (I am not accepting hard copy submissions.) ePubs are preferred, but I will also accept text files (Word), Mobi, or PDF. Please do not cherry-pick selections. Send the entire book, journal, or magazine to:

bestspecfic@gmail.com

Thank you for your time and kind consideration.

Warm Wishes,

Michael
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Michael Kelly / Publisher / Editor-in-Chief
undertowbooks@gmail.com

Undertow Publications
https://undertowpublications.com/

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🍁Happy Autumnal Equinox! 🍁 Here is my most seasonally appropriate #horror from earlier this year for your reading pleasure today. 🍂 Maybe be careful when you're hanging out with the trees. 👁️

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Daniel Ausema @danielausema.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've been quiet about this one until I had some definite news, but this book is available now!! It's a book that's both taken a long time to come to fruition and a whirlwind of a rush at the same time. Published by Island of Wak-Wak, the same as my poetry chapbook from two years ago.

cover art, text reads "Daniel Ausema, The Fall of the City of Bells"; images from the public domain shows monks pulling the ropes on a line of bells in an old building

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My experience with perimenopause in US health system. Me: goes to DR with scary new symptom. DR: Runs tests. “Sorry no explanation for your scary new symptom. Must be perimenopause.” Me: Lives with scary new symptom appearing forever at random. Rinse, repeat.

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Elis Montgomery @elismontgomery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[ᵛᶦᵈᵉᵒ ᵍᵃᵐᵉ ʷᵃˡᵏᵗʰʳᵒᵘᵍʰ ʷᶦᵏᶦ ʰᵒʳʳᵒʳ] Press X to enter the Unmarked Castle Press [ʳᵉᵈᵃᶜᵗᵉᵈ, ⁿᵒᵗ ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ] to make it out alive

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H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

about to get freaky with a centaur that fills you up with triangles (?!), horror fishing rpgs, and sexy sexy cannibals, of course! (my story, “Devotional for the Starved”, may feature one of these) preorder @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ‘s “Your Body is a Fever Dream”, you absolutely won’t regret it

me displaying Tenebrous Press’s print anthology “Your Body is a Fever Dream”.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Our Storygraph giveaways have begun! Enter for a chance to win one of 250 free ebook copies of Gore Poetics, featuring horror and Weird fiction for people who like their stories queer, literary, horrific, intense, and unbearably sensory. app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/56...

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cursedmorsels's giveaway for Gore Poetics on The StoryGraph

Gore Poetics is a horror and Weird fiction collection for readers who seek out both the grote...

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Elis Montgomery @elismontgomery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦, 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴, 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘭𝘦. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦. New flash story out in Wyldblood!

Black and white photo of a young woman's face, obscured by her hair. Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy on Pexels.

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Made a new banner for my social accounts featuring many of the covers for books and mags I have stories in!! 🤩 Sometimes I still can’t believe that I’m a published writer. 😭

Covers for Harvest the Night, Tea or Coffee, Stars & Gravity, The Dark, Apex Magazine, Adventitious. f(r)iction, Extrasensory Overload. In Another Time, Foofaraw, Flame Tree Press, Stanchion.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Part of my day job, not connected to AaN, is to design books for authors, poets, and organizations. After 30+ years I know a few things. If you are looking to have a cover or book designed, I can help. No AI slop ever. 100% human designer. DM or email me.

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's FOLK HORROR season!! May I rec "Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror" (pub on 10/2025)?? Awesome horror in here including one by me! 💖 Stories by: @f-shep.bsky.social @hvpatterson.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @dextermcleod.bsky.social & more! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXPG791...

Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror

> Order Paperback, Hardcover , or ePub via Publisher
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Table of Contents:
“And in the Firelight I Will Find You” — Luke F. Shepherd
“Our Lady of the Grain” — H.V. Patterson
“Barren” — Tracy Fahey
“Harmless Pretty Things” — Renae Rhoads
“The Bone Maiden” — Douglas Ford
“Like They Look at Stars” — K. Wallace King
“Feathers” — Shannon Scott
“By The Witchroot, By The Dawn” — Joe Koch
“The Skid-Steer” — EC Dorgan
“Haint-Blue and Weresnake Green” — Lisa Moore-Smith
“Unburnt Offerings” — Dexter McLeod
“The Darkness Inside Her” — Abigail Kemske
“Tall Philip’s House” — Katherine Traylor
“The Last Straw” — Sam Dawson

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey I’m a judge for this! I am usually super supicious of any sort of writing “competition” but I know the peeps at story engine and they just want to do a fun thing for the sake of itself

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

WHY is writing about failing technology so fun???

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you’re local to the Twin Cities, go to Marissa’s book launch tonight!!

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