Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorThe Rebis 〰️ Literary Magazine @therebis.com · 05/09/2025The Devil anthology is now available for preorder! 120 pages, 38 writers + artists exploring power, rebellion, desire, shadow work & more. Ships in early Oct. Profits support social justice orgs. Get your copy: www.therebis.com/products/devil 1124
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 05/08/2025I am late to this party, but I’ve just finished Monstrilio and haven’t been this charmed and delighted by novel dialogue in I don’t know how long. Bravx and thank you @samanito.bsky.social! “Did that thing just call me Papi?” 😭😭😭 020
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorPsaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 10/02/2025FIVE DAYS left to submit! Free submissions for all genres ❤️ psalteryandlyre.org/submissions/psalteryandlyre.orgSubmissionsWelcome! We are open for submissions We are open for submission in all genres during our two annual reading periods: Jan 1-Feb 15 and June 1-July 15. We do not consider submissions outside of our r… 01611
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorAvitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Valentine’s FBOMB reading? YES PLEASE! Hosted by @francinewitte.bsky.social Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 072
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorC.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Short story submission call! Opening June 1! From the minds of me and @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social comes ENTER HERE: An Anthology of Portals. It's an adult SFFH speculative anthology celebrating marginalized authors. More info on our website! #writing #WritingCommunity cjsubko.com/enter-here-a...cjsubko.comEnter Here AnthologyEnter Here Anthology – Submission Guidelines GENRE: Speculative Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror TITLE: Enter Here: An Anthology of Portals For untold years, the door has been … 58359
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorGabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories. 11408117
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorMadeline Anthes @madelineanthes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025It's time to submit to @lostballoon.bsky.social! We're open through Feb 7! lost-balloon.com/submit/lost-balloon.comSubmitSee our submission guidelines here. 088
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral www.404media.co/declassified...404media.coDeclassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly ViralThe World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership. 7929141319
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Im really glad I read this today 🧡 Sharing so you can, too 030
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorThe Rebis 〰️ Literary Magazine @therebis.com · 31/01/2025Today is the last day to submit work to our Devil themed print anthology! We take art, fiction, non-fiction, poetry + more. Submit here: www.therebis.com/pages/submis... #SubmissionCall #TarotSky #Tarot #WritingCommunity #CallforArtists #CallforWriters #LitMag tarot card: Pagan Otherworlds 2184
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I love @okaydonkey.bsky.social and you should too! Proud to have a story published with them (4 yrs ago now??) 🧡 Free subs open back up tomorrow! 042
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorSarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 31/01/2025No surrender 🔥 021
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorSplit Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Tomorrow FREE SUBS close as January comes to an end. We're so grateful for all who submit and we're reading as quickly as we can! 💕 We'll open FREE SUBS again in March, so keep your calendars marked 📆 0164
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorThe Rebis 〰️ Literary Magazine @therebis.com · 30/01/2025"The Devil as activist knows what they want out of the world they help build, and they choose to do the work accordingly. They confront their darkest truths, the ways they perpetuate oppression through the practices they can’t seem to release." — @feminnis.bsky.social, "Tarot for the Hard Work" 1176
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Oh wow what an incredible opportunity 🧡 I’m due for a re-read. @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social want to join me? 150
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025There are so many delightful layers to this flash piece — and that ending! The descriptions! Breathtaking 😍 @emilymroth.bsky.social @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/wha...havehashad.comWhat You'll Do After I Leave You by Emily RothYou’ll tell everyone it was mutual. You’ll tell everyone it was the best thing that ever happened to you. You’ll tell Greg and Brian you’re not sad; actually, you’re ecstatic. How can you be sad when ... 082
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025“There’s an awkward silence during which you glare at Amir, sitting next to you with his bland husband smile, no help at all. When Katie comes back she’s got a baby. She’s like, God DAMN it. I knew this was gonna happen.” @sashabrown.bsky.social Woosh! Another winner for @splitlipthemag.bsky.socialsplitlipthemag.comCatching Babies — Split Lip MagazineTed and Katie sit as far away from you and Amir as they can on the sectional. Ted looks uneasily at the baby on your lap. He’s like, is it gonna…? You smile and hold the baby out. Of course not, you r... 171
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorThe Rebis 〰️ Literary Magazine @therebis.com · 28/01/2025👀 submissions close on 1/31 for our Devil themed print anthology! #tarot #callforsubmissions #submissionscall #tarotsky 0115
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorRebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Sunday, I'm doing a FREE online overview of publishing--everything writers need to know--and you should be there! It's also an intro to our monthlong Pub Crawl program (publishing education online all Feb), but you don't have to be doing Pub Crawl to come to this! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 24714
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorSplit Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Calling all fiction writers! We are looking for stories between 1000 and 3000 words! Please send them our way! 😘 We can't wait to read you.😘 06927
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Here's some reading about how to survive, and I do want us all to survive pen.org/report/build...pen.orgBuilding Resilience - PEN AmericaPeople need reliable information to participate fully in the democratic process. Particularly, they need it to choose their next elected representatives, assess policy and policy proposals both locall... 35995369
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorShort Story Comps @shortstorycomps.bsky.social · 25/01/2025A list of February 2025 writing competitions from Peter Hankins seen-and-done.com/2025/01/24/f...seen-and-done.comFebruary 2025 CompetitionsHere is a look at writing competitions I might enter which have deadlines in February. The Jim Baen Memorial prize is free to enter: the winner is published and paid commercial rates. Entries shoul… 012
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 25/01/2025@the-lee-rosen.bsky.social found you 😍 110
Reposted by Sarah Arantza Amadorhannah eve @hannaheve.com · 20/01/2025There is no better time to examine our relationship to power, or to confront our darkest truths. Submit your work to be part of The Rebis: Devil anthology by 1/31. 052
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 25/01/2025@zabalaspells.bsky.social good to see you in this corner of the 🕸️ Casey 🧡 100
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorWest Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 18/04/2024West Trade Review invites submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and hybrid work for an upcoming issue with a special section on the theme of Ecstasy in all its forms. Send us what sends you. Submissions are open now. See details at the link below: buff.ly/49Lvf9M 042
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 04/03/2024"Elizabeth Cary’s husband, Sir Henry, was a dead weight on his wife’s soaring talent as a playwright. When he left for two years to fight in Protestant wars... his mother hired someone to write letters to him in Elizabeth’s name in case her husband found her obvious intelligence repellent." 😵💫😵💫😵💫nytimes.comSome of the Best Bards Were WomenIn “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” the Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff presents an astounding group of Elizabethan women of letters. 020
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 19/01/2024"The 12th-century mystic, Hildegard von Bingen, compared cheese making to the miracle of life in the way that it forms curds (or solid matter) from something insubstantial" A fun read for a Friday! 021
Reposted by Sarah Arantza Amadorjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/01/2024[werner herzog voice] i want to see the rat hole www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/u...nytimes.comChicago’s Latest Attraction? A Rat-Shaped Hole.A decades-old hole in the sidewalk has recently drawn millions of views online and inspired Chicagoans to visit and even make offerings. No one knows where it came from. 2254357
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorUncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/01/2024Space Unicorns, do you love @uncannymagazine.bsky.social stories and ticky boxes?!? Today is your lucky day! The Uncanny Magazine 2023 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll is OPEN! Choose your favorite 3 Uncanny stories from last year! www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-cele... 11613
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 21/12/2023"There on the berm, holding the line, stood sunroots and coneflowers and tiny purple blooms I could picture on a skirt my grandmother might have worn. Or maybe my mother wore. I wanted to wear them too." @maureenlangloss.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social to close out the year:smokelong.comDeliver Us - SmokeLong QuarterlyTaylor Swift came to visit during a burst of summer rain. She tracked mud from the construction site on Route 252 in on her boots—the ones with the faux snake scales. She had walked a long way and s... 142
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 19/12/2023Xmas time is here! Grisly and spooky just how I like 'em: @michaelcarter.bsky.social in @molotovlitzine.bsky.socialthemolotovcocktail.comThe Molotov CocktailRabbit Mountain by Michael Carter The pasty-skinned widow with stringy hair fled to these mountains many years ago to escape the memories of her butchered husband. Crime and civilization were no longe... 143
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 14/12/2023I read Jezebel daily through my 20s and was really saddened when it closed earlier this year. I’m delighted to see that it’s BACK BABY:jezebel.comHey. We're Back.Sorry about that random little break. But we're good now, and we're back with sex, celebrity, and politics...With Teeth. 010
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 14/12/2023"...at her smallest, weighs the same as a sharpened No. 2 pencil and who, at her largest, weighs little more than a palmful of garlic cloves." 😍 I love these measures of weight by @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social in their @flashfrog.bsky.social flash that I've *finally* read (tab open for MONTHS):flash-frog.comPatagium by K.C. Mead-Brewer*THE BLUE FROG 3rd PLACE WINNER* Sidney stands naked and eleven before her bedroom mirror, her white arms held out in a crucified fashion. She imagines the skin of her underarms stretched down to a… 293
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 12/12/2023Reminder to anyone who needs it: Other authors are not a threat. Their success does not diminish yours. Their popularity does not affect your chance of being read. The more the author community thrives, the better your chance to do so. 3519119
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 12/12/2023This piece on Michael Stipe 😭 Everything about Stipe, in this article at least, is absolutely lovable, adorable, endearing. He's the sensitive uncle/auntie we all could only dream of being blessed to have in our corner. *And* he's like a patron saint of writer's block.nytimes.comMichael Stipe Is Writing His Next Act. Slowly.How do you reinvent yourself after being a global superstar? The former R.E.M. frontman is still figuring that out. 010
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorStorm Cellar dot org @stormcellar.bsky.social · 05/12/2023The first more-or-less 2 lines of the first poem in your submission packet is, without doubt, the most important part. #writers #writing #submissionscall #calls #tacotuesday Send us some CNF, also, folks ::: stormcellar.submittable.com/submitstormcellar.submittable.comStorm Cellar$500 Flash Contest Open Now☞ Subscribers make our ❤️ pound☞ Check out the latest issue & download the ebook ☞ Full guidelines & FAQ☛ Seeking unpublished, amazing writing and art — we'd ... 034
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 06/12/2023How do I get this kind of intro at my next lit reading? 020
Reposted by Sarah Arantza AmadorRainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 05/12/2023This event is on Wednesday, it’s virtual, and I’d love to see you there! I am so excited to get to talk to a writer I so admire, Maggie Smith, about the role ambition plays in professional and creative life, personal lives and identities, & much more. Invite a friend! Bring a snack! RSVP below: 163
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 04/12/2023Phewww I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do - it's like landing in the *real* good place! it's going to take a while to find all my lit community people, but I'm making headway! 170
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 04/12/2023@faithmerino.bsky.social oh thank goddex you're here!! ::just arrived, sweating:: 110
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 04/12/2023music automatically starts playing when I put in my ear pods + I'm working on my computer, and just now, in my office, i'm surprised and delighted by a Macarena remix (aaay!) - truly, not mad about this Monday work development 010
Sarah Arantza Amador @arantzasarah.bsky.social · 03/12/2023@kathyfish.bsky.social Kathy!! Are there any gifs in here?? ::Tom Hanks playing Forest Gump waves enthusiastically from boat:: So good to see you! 150