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arda mori 🌻

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📝Malaysian writer, mostly fantasy/horror ✦ she/her ✦ words in: OTHERSIDE, Flame Tree Press, The Deadlands, All Worlds Wayfarer, Apparition Lit, and elsewhere ✦ ardamori.wordpress.com

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 3h
this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 10h
Happy Banned Books Week AND Anti-Prime Day! We've spent this week fighting with Amazon, who blocked Issue 3... because a stylized illustration of a statue = porn, at least if you're a queer publication. The best way to support us is directly. Code ANTIPRIME gets you 15% off subscriptions this week.
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OTHERSIDE — a magazine of the queer fantastic.
Get more from OTHERSIDE on Patreon. a magazine of the queer fantastic.. Support OTHERSIDE and get exclusive access to their work.
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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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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are now OPEN to submissions of speculative fiction + poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors! Submissions are limited to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors from October 1-7. If that's you, send us your work! This issue's theme is exploration. We'll be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from October 8-21!
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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"If only they knew I have counted the raindrops which dented you" Stoked to have my poem, "The Clay King" out in this beautiful issue! 👑🌾☀️ othersidespec.com/pieces/the-c...
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/
White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Issue 3 is OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🧡 If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today! Patreon: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpe... Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe...
White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW CALLOUT ALERT! We are seeking Indonesian speculative fiction in Bahasa Indonesia and English for publication in khōréō’s Volume 7 in 2027. The callout is open from now until November 5, 2026, details on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Open call for Indonesian Speculative Fiction in Translation
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
shares appreciated! offering my sensitivity reader services for authors who need them! i’ve worked with all big 5 publishing houses! i read for: • filipino and filipino-chinese representation • bisexual, nonbinary, and lesbian representation • fat/body positivity representation (1/2)
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Our Issue 3 TOC is HERE and it is AMAZING 🪐 🗡️ Seven pieces of original fiction, four poems, two reprints, and a special guest essay come together in an issue full of desperation and longing. We can't wait for you to read it in September! More details in the 🧵(1/7)
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Issue 3, September 2026

Original Fiction

One Floor, One Phoenix - Crystal Koo
Wine-Dark - Cyrus Amelia Fisher
His Face, in the End, Inches From Mine - Elijah J. Mears
Ivan Ivanovich - Kristina Ten
Field Notes on Liturgical Rites, Co-Authored Li and Albrecht - Mina Yeh
The Illuminated World - Rebecca Schneider
This Is Not a Place of Honor - RJ Aurand

Nonfiction
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Issue 3, September 2026

Original Poetry
The Clay King - Arda Mori
Tiktaalik Rosae, or, If We Were the Earliest Example of a Link Between Fish and Tetrapods Would You Climb onto the Mudflats with Me? - Kym Deyn
Feral thing in a lightbox - Madeleine Poole
trans/formative - Nico Martinez Nocito

Reprint Fiction
The Monster at the End of This Film - Algae Ross
BLIGHT - Samir Sirk Morató
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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Excited to have a bittersweet, Mesopotamian myth-inspired poem coming soon in OTHERSIDE #3!! 👑🌾☀️
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
SFF, we need to talk. I'm not here to rag specifically on Bona, who did the right thing by going public. No, I'm looking at all of you. Or at least, 15 of you. Because this right here? This is buckwild.
Once we’d picked our hearts off the floor, we started digging: Bella had minimal online presence, first appearing in May 2025. Since then, she’d accumulated a remarkable publication record (we counted 15 published stories in 12 months), across name publishers and small or community-minded outlets, including several paying SFWA rates (like us).
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
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Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Please spread the word! I’m still open to submissions for the second volume of Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction! Professional pay rate for short stories. Deadline is the end of August. Here are the details: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
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Thyme Travellers 2 – Call for Submissions
Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…
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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...
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Anathema: Spec from the Margins
Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!
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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The floodgates are OPEN! BRING IT!
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Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The best part of the Poetry Nebula Award is that you can read the entire slate of nominees with only five minutes of your time. Poets are like late-night robbers, coming to beat your heart with emotions, and then fleeing before your nervous system alarms go off. Links below
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is the second time I've seen an issue with the publisher of Hedone books not paying authors. The first time it wasn't under the name Hedone. And to see that was an all BIPOC antho? I'm upset on behalf of these writers.
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
As the other Otherside poetry editor, I can't stress this enough. "Please fuck us up. Please make it gayer and more trans and stranger and more unabashedly you than you think would usually be accepted. WE want that kind of shit. We want the othered queer pieces that take forever to find a home 💜
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 05/01/2026
we are so proud of all we did in 2025! and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀 give this post a look!! find something amazing to read and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤 psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
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2025 - For Your Consideration: Psychopomp Award Eligibility - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
2025 was a year of big changes around here, and we can't imagine where 2026 will take us. Before we do, let's look back at what we did in 2025. We did some
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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It's almost time for our magazine issues to leave their hiatus! An open call for issues 19 and 20(!) will open on December 21st, 2025. Any speculative short story that centers characters or themes could be a fit. Are you ready to share your story? Guidelines: www.allworldswayfarer.com/submissions/
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Submissions – All Worlds Wayfarer
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 21/11/2025
a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much
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what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hey hey hey, SH has a call for Indigenous submissions. And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers! If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit! Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous: Taiwanese aborigines. Ainu. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Indigenous Author Submissions
On November 3rd, we will be opening for speculative fiction stories written by Indigenous authors. We will be capping submissions at 500.
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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The Into the Dark anthology is now available for pre-order in hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions ahead of it's 12/21/25 release date! Find out where you can claim a copy, or new themed merch, at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in... We can't wait to delve Into the Dark with you!
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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list! acwise.net/what-have-yo...
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What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Over the moon to share that my story, "Mercury of the Night Queen" will appear in one of Flame Tree Press's #romantasy anthologies! 🐉👻🌋 This is my first pro-rate story acceptance and I can't wait for this gorgeous collection to be out in the world. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
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Romantic Fantasy | Contents Announcement | Of Love & Dragons
We’re very pleased to present the list of stories selected for one of the first two titles in our new Romantic Fantasy series: Of Love & Dragons!
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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Now down to just $1,500- to reach our goal by tomorrow morning! We have a ton of great rewards including our entire AWW Library, plus your name in the book as a backer! If you like supporting writers, small publishers and genre fiction please consider backing us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
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Into the Dark
A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology
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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Stoked to have my story about a seaside cave-dwelling goddess, "The Girls in the Cave" joining 30+ darkly fantastical tales in Into the Dark - upcoming from indie, queer-run mag @awwlitmag.bsky.social ! If you can, consider backing their Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
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Into the Dark
A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology
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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The anthology is alive, but it needs more voices to grow stronger. 🌑 Can we reach 50% funded this week? Join us, and help unlock the darkness: 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Funding Goals!
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
it's about that time!! 🥩 in October, please send us writing with transcendance through obliteration, emotional / physical splash zones, experimental prose, compassion, cruelty, kink, brand new man-made horrors of the viscera, & excruciating earnesty. get weird with it.
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 10/09/2025
we made a thing for you it's the @fantasymagazine.bsky.social back issues--those that we have online, anyway. acquiring an older property like Fantasy reveals... quirks. starts with issue 48... 🤷🤷🏼‍♀️🤷‍♂️ we're working on 1 - getting the older issues online, and 2 - making all the URLs prettier njoy
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Fantasy Magazine Back Issues - Psychopomp
This is a temporary arrangement, we're working on a nicer solution, but here is the entirety of the Fantasy Magazine back issues that we have available and online.
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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
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Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
updated September 2, 2025
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 31/07/2025
new fiction today, beloveds!! and it's a stunner "Moments before Death comes for me, I contemplate my body like a stranger. I feel a sloppy mixture of numbness and self-pity. My gaunt frame sinks deeper into the hospital bed." Everlasting by Daniel Oluremi ‬ psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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Everlasting - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
In more ways than one, Death looks like my mother.
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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We're still not quite where we want to be with funding, and every little bit helps! Tell your friends, signal boost, share awesome reads with folks who love to read💞 Help us support some amazing creatives and bring their work to you! fantasy.kit.com/products/fan...
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Fantasy Magazine Subscription
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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Thrilled to have my underworldly poem out in @thedeadlands.com #39 about one who makes clothes for the dead 💀🪡🧶🌌
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Time to bring back the summoning circle for writers! 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 That email 🕯 or acceptance 🕯 you've been 🕯 waiting for 🕯 🕯 🕯️
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢 Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues! Donate at the link ⬇️
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Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
plugging this again, and hard, because we are (overall) low on subs this period. unsure if death of hellsite or what, but please please please, if you've considered sending work, do it! if you send it by midnight tonight, you'll get a response tomorrow, too!
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Chey Rivera @criverawrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This Valentine’s Day you might enjoy reading the melancholic musings of a pirate who fell in love with a fearsome captain 🏴‍☠️ 🌊 @elegantliterature.bsky.social
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
1st awards eligibility post here 😳 I’ve 4 poems published in 2024 and would be so honored if you would consider them! 🌸 (Links ⬇️) 1 - “A Record of My Emperor After the Elixir of Life” in @apparitionlit.com: t.co/m4orQ1KoWz 2 - “Two Waters and a Beast” in ETTT: eyetothetelescope.com/archives/053...
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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 03/02/2025
I don't like giving advice but I would have liked to hear this when I started submitting work. Writers, you should never pay to submit to a magazine. Its insulting, devalues your work and reinforces the starving artist rhetoric. You deserve to be paid for your art.
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Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Hexagon has been my most incredible creative venture thus far, but it’s time to say goodbye (for now). Read the full announcement of Hexagon’s hiatus on our website or Patreon. 🧡
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Hexagon Hiatus
I have edited 19 (soon to be 20) issues of my favourite magazine of all time, but it’s time to say goodbye (for now). I started Hexagon as a project to gain editing experience and to improve my own…
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
pssssst. we are EXTENDING our call for ace/aro-spectrum creators, guest edited by @esichr.bsky.social! you now have an extra few weeks to get those subs in! oleada.io/publication/...
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
NEW STORY DAY! My second-ever story is free to read today at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social—and, much like my first story, it’s about an old lady going for a walk! But it’s also about hope, connection, and the way love helps us survive impossible times. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
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The Hag of Beinn Nibheis
In the Dead Month, Brigid goes to the mountain to speak with the hag. She does not know what else to do.Beinn Nibheis towers black and rimeslick over the Narrows, taller than any peak of Nature’s m…
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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Battle cry for 2025.
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 15/01/2025
Announcement: Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine WELCOME BACK, FANTASY! full details here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
the promo cover of Fantasy Magazine shows a women in the grass with a glowing sky behind her. The text says Returning June 2025 Fantasy Magazine
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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It was your eyes that saw the colour, your brain that interpreted it, your heart that felt its beauty. You didn't love it because they're the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. 4/
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