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A. Katherine Black @akatherineblack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Backed! Super excited for all the loops!!

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions open on the 1st of October, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC! The max word count per story will be 5,000 words. There will be a 1,000 story cap. Once we reach that number of submissions, the window will close. Link to more information ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Booksky Day job project! DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis now has its own Bookshop storefront! Mentioned in part because our main website is down yet again (yes, I’m working on solutions). bookshop.org/shop/dreamha...

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DreamHaven Books Bookshop

DreamHaven Books & Comics, established 1977 by Greg Ketter, is a Minneapolis, Minnesota independent bookstore specializing in science fiction, fantasy and horror. DreamHaven is the oldest continuo...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 10/09/2026

hey B&N preorder sale is up! no cover yet but if that doesn't make u feel like you're buying a pig in a poke, get 25% or more off on hardcover or ebook preorders of HERO COME HOME (or anything else preorderable) if you're a B&N member. runs through Friday www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hero-come-...

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Hero Come Home

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Odyssey Salon is back from its summer hiatus! Join us on Zoom tonight at 7:30 PM EDT to share a struggle, ask a question, or participate in our discussion topic. Share your experiences and get inspired by others! www.odysseyworkshop.org/resources/sa... #writerscommunity #writingcommunity

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey pals, come follow my next BackerKit campaign and help me bring a TIME LOOP ANTHOLOGY to life next month!! (It will have an open submission period for writers in October.) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

<alt>opportunity window: a time loop anthology, with artwork by Mildred McMillen edited to be framed within multiple smaller frames; it shows a person in a painting studio by an attic window</alt>

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Astral, Alien Fiction @astral-af.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Okay! It's been a long time setting up, but we're finally ready to start accepting submission for issue 3 starting November 1st! astral-af.org Send us your strangest, most alien fiction!

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Our August Letter from the Editor. Check out the full issue here: zurl.co/C1PXV

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Full TOC for CHM #74, grab single issues here: zurl.co/hNkol

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Cover reveal! Our August issue features cover art from Katie Beardmore with stories by Anneke Schwob, Denise Dumars, Katherine Marzinsky, A. Katherine Black, and more! zurl.co/IG1Oa

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A. Katherine Black @akatherineblack.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Highly recommend - Haralambi's writing is lovely, vivid and haunting.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)

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A. Katherine Black @akatherineblack.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

WooHoo!! Super excited to read this antho! Subs are still open!!

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Are you a queer author? Could you use $100 to help you with your writing journey? Apply for our LGBT+ Writer's Grant today! Or, y'know, anytime this month. 🏳️‍🌈 Full details here: sliceduppress.com/lgbtwritingg...

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LGBT+ Writers Grant

Since 2023, Sliced Up Press have offered a small grant to encourage horror writing from queer authors & poets. There are no set requirements for what you can & can’t use the grant for…

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

And the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation goes to... 👀 MURDERBOT: SEASON ONE, by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz (Apple TV+) 🎉 Congratulations to ALL our brilliant finalists. Your work as writers inspires worlds in many forms!

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

And the winner of the first-ever Nebula Award for Poem is... 👀 “The World To Come”, by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25) 🎉 ALL our finalists have expanded possibility this year at SFWA. We are so thankful to be able to launch this new award with your potent works. Congrats, Jennifer!!!

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

And the Nebula Award for Short Story goes to... 👀 “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25) 🎉 ALL the short story finalists this year are holding the line in an important time. Congratulations, Effie - and thank you for your work!

And the Nebula Award for Short Story goes to...

"Laser Eyes Ain't Everything"

Effie Seiberg
Diabolical Plots 5/25

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This! As EiC of @apexmag.bsky.social, I will never run your story through an AI detector. First, it isn't right to do this without an author's knowledge. Second, I won't feed the machine.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We hit the 50% mark (!!!) for [RECORDED]! Thank you, everyone! 🤩🎉 I want to shout about some other awesome projects currently live on BackerKit! (if you haven't checked it out or backed it yet, you can see all the goodies here!) ➡️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m... (1/) 🧵

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Live in BCS #458: "Boxwood" by M.E. Bronstein. "She had never seen work like his and so believed his mind must be very different from most people’s. Since he had such an amazing sensitivity with small things, surely he would make a good father" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/boxw...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Boxwood by M.E. Bronstein

Bonne went on imagining some unity between his soul and his craft. She had never seen work like his and so believed his mind must be very different from most people’s. Since he had such an amazing sensitivity with small things, surely he would make a good father to any children they produced.

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Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org · 01/06/2026

We are officially OPEN for Banned Books Submissions!! 🥳

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Gay Breakfast @ Nekocon @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

happy *quiet, chill* pride

The chill otter is laying down next to a phone with rainbow beams fanning out of it. They look at the phone and see it says June 1st, and after a brief contemplation, they snuggle up under a progress pride blanket, phone plugged in farther away. It reads “It’s ok if you are tired. Happy *quiet, chill* Pride.”

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads — Harvard Gazette

"Daily Show" star and Class Day headliner is fine writing his own emails.

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GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ghoulish Books (the small press) will be relocating to Minnesota this summer, and we could use some extra $$$ help with moving costs. Anything you can spare is appreciated, thank you! ko-fi.com/interrobangb...

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Buy Max Booth a Coffee

Become a supporter of Max Booth today!

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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We're less than $30 away from $7k!! 😲 Just under two weeks left to fund year 6 of Tales & Feathers, and add our inaugural PRINT EDITION to your shelves! Back and share to help us get there! 💚

CA $6,973 pledged of CA $6,500. 110 backers, 13 days to go

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

With the #RECORDED campaign launching in just under two weeks (!!) I wanna talk a little more about weird/found media formats I love! 👀📽️ follow on BackerKit (I'd love to get to 30 followers on that!) ➡️ tiny.cc/recordedantho submission guidelines ➡️ mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho 🧵(1/)

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Get Ready for [RECORDED] — An Anthology of Found Media Fiction!

From Merc Fenn Wolfmoor - Get Ready for [RECORDED] — An Anthology of Found Media Fiction!

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It's Friday! For my writers out there, putting down words, hitting various submissions trenches, sending their hopes out into inboxes - quick reminder: rejection DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer! you got this. find your readers. keep going!❤️‍🔥

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Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

March was rough enough that I neglected to share here that THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES by Haralambi Markov, the forthcoming debut that Mythic Delirium (ie Anita’n’me) are shepherding, earned a knockout review in KIRKUS. **buffs nails, quaffs celebratory libation** www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Markov’s haunting collection of short stories features a variety of ghosts and monsters.

Many of the stories collected here have an Eastern European feel, and several take place in Bulgaria. In some of the tales, such as “Nine Tongues Tell Of” and “Convalescence,” the main character speaks with or interviews a monster or one of the dead, revealing more personal information than facts about the creature who is the ostensible subject. Other stories follow characters desperate to fulfill an unspeakable need, like the impulse to travel to a specific place (“The Mall on the Hill by the Horizon”). Some unlucky souls find their home, and eventually their own bodies, taken over by the berries that grow in their yard in “When Raspberries Bloom in August.” While the stories include frightening creatures, family curses, and monsters that emerge from under the bed, these are also narratives in which people stick together and find resilience, families reunite, and strange forms of love emerge. The endings are largely left open to interpretation, and every story will leave readers with questions, which may add to their fear or offer relief. Markov provides a wide range of stories—there’s something for almost anyone in this collection, but more squeamish readers may want to tiptoe past the darker tales to find the brighter side. The horror comes not from gruesome details but from the plain, direct prose, which allows readers to fill in the blanks with their own imaginations. The author does provide some stunning passages: “One by one around me I hear my kin all take a ghastly, long-waited inhale before dissolving into wherever spirits go next.” A perfect twilight read, this book will stick with readers as they devour story after story (just as some of Markov’s characters devour their prey).

A stunning, thrilling, and eerie collection of short stories that will delight readers of gothic fiction.

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R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

writers: APEX and THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE are back open for submissions today!

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Derek Wagner @dmwagner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My latest story, Dourglamis, is out this morning @diabolicalplots.com! Thanks to @amandaghelms.bsky.social for the great job she did editing this piece! Sentient castles meet late stage capitalism! Give it a read if you have time! www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

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DP FICTION #135A: “Dourglamis” by Derek Wagner – Diabolical Plots

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Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: excerpts from a Q&A with award-winning author & YPO grad & guest lecturer Jill Tew, who talks about finding comp titles & how she prioritizes her reading choices as a professional author

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Q&A Excerpt: Jill Tew

Jill Tew was a 2026 guest lecturer for the Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Jill is the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of dystopian romance and middle grade novels that imagine B…

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

DEADLINE 11:59 PM EDT TONIGHT! SFFH writers, this is a program like no other, with 3 instructors to choose from: Odyssey Director Jeanne Cavelos, New York Times bestselling author Carrie Vaughn, and top Odyssey critiquer Lane Robins. Scholarships galore! odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-workshop/

image of a wide path through a misty autumn forest, leading to a bright light in the distance; Header: Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop, blue image of an ancient Greek warrior standing at the bow of a ship, holding a spear and shield and wearing a decorative helmet; Quote below: I wouldn’t have been able to write any of my stories at this skill level without Odyssey! In a way, that was where the whole journey started, and I’m forever grateful for that. Please consider this life-changing writing workshop. –Nebula Award Winner Anselma Widha Prihandita, Your Personal Odyssey graduate; Application Deadline April 10th; odysseyworkshop.org

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Image in the center of the pic of a night sky with a large, bright moon above a hill, the shadowed view of a girl in pigtails and a dress dancing on the hilltop, holding a string in one extended arm that connects to the moon; Header text: Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop, header image in blue, of an ancient Greek warrior standing on the bow of a ship, holding a spear and shield, wearing a decorative helmet; Text below header: Embark on your transformative writing journey with a one-on-one, intensive, customized online workshop experience! Hone your craft with: The Renowned Odyssey Lectures, Expert Feedback, Deep Mentoring; Guest Lectures by: R.F. Kuang, P. Djélì Clark, Brandon Sanderson, Nancy Kress, Fonda Lee, Sheree Renée Thomas, Scott H. Andrews, & more! Scholarships available! Application Deadline: April 10th odysseyworkshop.org

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Only a few days left to apply! Scholarships galore!!

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

All fiction writers welcome at the Odyssey Salon tonight at 7:30 PM EDT! You can share your progress or struggles, ask a question, or weigh in on our discussion topic. TOPIC: How Do You Draft? Here's how to join: www.odysseyworkshop.org/resources/sa...

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

@aijiang.bsky.social on her Odyssey experience! SFFH writers, our YPO online workshop involves 30+ hours of 1-on-1 time with instructors and a curriculum tailored to your specific needs and goals! Scholarships galore! Apply today!! odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-workshop/

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

SFFH writers, embark on your customized writing journey! Deep mentoring, intensive practice, expert critiques, 184 hours of video lectures and Q&As, & 3 instructors to choose from. Choose your pace: 6 wks, 12 wks, or 18 wks. Scholarships galore! Apply today!! odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-workshop/

Image is a black background with an astronaut with a helmet shielding their face, all drawn in tan and white hues, who has four arms and a firey rocket in place of their legs. Header: Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop next to a blue image of an ancient Greek soldier standing atop the bow of a ship, holding a spear and shield and wearing a decorative helmet. Text: A BREAKTHROUGH Program for Writers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror customized just for you! Hone your craft with: The Renowned Odyssey Lectures, Expert Feedback, Deep Mentoring. Guest Lectures by: R.F. Kuang, P. Djélì Clark, Brandon Sanderson, Nancy Kress, Fonda Lee, Sheree Renée Thomas, Scott H. Andrews, & more! Scholarships available! Application Deadline: April 10th odysseyworkshop.org

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It’s the first Monday of the month, so here is a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter! gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. re-reading Ursula Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest, new Indian science fiction, and more. As always, subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly.

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Words for Worlds - Issue 119

Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Our auction has begun! It will run until 8pm on April 8, no fooling! We have incredible things up for bid, like these signed editions of Children of Dune & Count Zero. For first dibs on these extremely rare and beautiful titles, visit: twp.ai/9PcBJq (link in bio)

Locus 2026 Auction
FRANK HERBERT'S Children of Dune (Putnam, 1976): First Edition, Signed
WILLIAM GIBSON'S Count Zero (Easton Press, 2026): Special edition, signed and personalized TO YOU

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

App deadline April 10th! Apply today!!

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A. Katherine Black @akatherineblack.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I love Shesheshen! And Carmen Rose's narration is awesome.

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Bram Stoker, Nebula, and Ignyte Winner @aijiang.bsky.social on her YPO experience! SFFH writers, YPO online workshop involves 30+ hrs of 1-on-1 time with instructors and a curriculum tailored to your specific needs and goals! Several scholarships available!! odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-workshop/

background of misty forest with lush undergrowth including pink and blue flowers, a bright light begins in the forest floor and swirls away in the distance; Header: Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop, blue image of an ancient Greek warrior standing on the bow of a ship, holding a spear and shield, wearing a decorative helmet; Text in center: Jeanne was an absolutely amazing and encouraging and enthusiastic teacher. It was rigorous and exhausting but also inspirational and invigorating at the same time. –Nebula and Ignyte Award Winner Ai Jiang on her Your Personal Odyssey experience; Application Deadline April 10th; odysseyworkshop.org

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Odyssey Workshop @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Several scholarships are available for Your Personal Odyssey 2026!! SFFH writers, YPO online workshop involves 30+ hours of 1-on-1 time with instructors, 184 hours of video lectures, and a curriculum tailored to your specific needs and goals! Apply today!! odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-workshop/

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A. Katherine Black @akatherineblack.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

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