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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 23h

It's October🎃 which means, SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5! **This is our yearly Best-Of Weird Fiction anthology, only eligible REPRINTS will be considered** Get the full submissions details here, and check out the full cover reveal! tinyurl.com/4474xej6

THE CALL OF THE WEIRD
All October, Tenebrous Press is accepting submissions for the Fifth Volume of our Weird Fiction Award anthology, BRAVE NEW WEIRD.
This is a reprint anthology. Only works published between 10/31/25-10/31/26 will be considered.
Full details at www.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by Matt Blairstone.
Beneath a swirling tile mosaic sea filled with fish and squid, two mountain giants surround a rural village who are burning a wicker man in their honor.
One of the giants eats the worshippers, while the other digs what they're throwin' down.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey there. Latest story now available to read online! "Jempo." A maquinista out to advance her career encounters someone with a different approach to competition. A (relatively?) light story in terms of tone, for me. Hope you enjoy!

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Jempo - Lightspeed Magazine

Jempo took a deep bow on the iron platform. His body flopped forward, limbs like thick braided wire. No obvious weapons in his large and rubbery hands. Little digital eyes and a bright smile that lit ...

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So thrilled to have this story reprinted in Small Wonders… and in such an incredible issue! This one is for everyone who loves SOUP and FEELINGS and EPILOGUES (three of my favorite things!)

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026

Welcome to my wizard book. It’s about playing one million games with Death and also lying. Shoutout to @ardyce.bsky.social for giving [REDACTED] a home :’) Everyone else: read my wizard book next march or else (you won’t have read my wizard book)

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

some news!

Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report, Sons of Nod by Thomas Ha Imprint: Tordotcom, Imprint: Tordotcom. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Thomas Ha's SONS OF NOD, a novella about a group of boys laboring to build machinery for a reckless corporation on a strange and desolate island, to Avery Davis at Tordotcom, with Ann VanderMeer editing, for publication in fall 2027, by Michael Curry at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

thank you Austin!! and thank you also to @tiatashiro.bsky.social for enjoying it💓

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 15/09/2026

The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I jumped out of my seat and had to take a lap around the house when I first saw FOUR recommendations for @othersidespec.bsky.social stories in this issue of Locus. If you haven’t yet, give these stories a read! They’re “devastating,” “luminescent,” “heartbreaking.” othersidespec.com/issues/issue...

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Recommended Stories
"Before She Knew About Magic", Joshua Geller Schwartz (Otherside 6/26)
"First To Rot", J.N. Howell (Otherside 6/26)
"Remade, Reshaped, Remembered", Sydney Paige Guerrero (Otherside 6/26)
"This Is C(lone)-Pop", Lia Lao (Otherside 6/26)
"Fletcher's Flights", Jonathan Olfert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/26)

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh, hi! Cover reveal for The Secret Lives of Immortals today ~ I'm beyond thrilled!!!! As a fortuitous bonus, B&N is also running a 25% off preorder sale if you're a member. Link and info in 🧵

The cover for The Secret Lives of Immortals by me, Ash Huang, featuring a dark blue backdrop with white text and a golden bottle and stars, on a gilded background

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Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

IT'S HERE. Preorder YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM so you can read good trans horror, including my story TRIANGLE SIMULACRUM

Me, excitedly holding my copy of Your Body is a Fever Dream

TRIANGLE SIMULACRUM
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Esther Alter

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A fucked up centaur thing with tentacles and a beard pries open your door slaps its feet into your house slams you to the floor holds you down looks around the room wide eyes swiveling separately finds a pen uncaps it brings it down to your shoulder presses too hard this is when you scream you can feel a trickle of blood.
And then it’s over.
All the centaur’s eyes look at you. From those eyes down to what passes for its torso, it’s all teeth and esophaguses. The torso is long lines of muscular tissue merging and branching out again: vertices, lines, and just air in between.
The centaur stares at you a tentacle slaps your face another one presses your skin where the pen was, and the pain is a lot. You try wriggling away and the centaur lets you and you curl up into a ball and you assess the damage. On your shoulder the word “ACCEPT” has been written in precise, crisp lines that have been smudged by seeping blood.
Your boyfriend is screaming and then there’s a loud wet crunch and he has stopped screaming.
You look up. The centaur’s long neck is wrapped around your boyfriend’s body and it’s gnawing on his body and blood is leaking out of his body. You consider saying something and then you remember the word on your shoulder so you just watch.
The centaur finishes off everything above the neck line moves one of its gross feet over you and you have an overwhelming sense that a question has been asked that requires a yes/no answer.

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Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON! October 16th (EST evening time TBD) A fundraiser in support of refugee services provided by the International Institute of Akron Enjoy a cult classic film alongside some of some your favorite horror creatives Stay tuned for guest announcements! (Registration opens soon)

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very grateful to see such a kind review and a recommendation for this bleak/weird/ugly story: “Lightspeed’s June issue kicks off in grand style with ‘Ghost in the Tank’ … It’s a vividly told story about a world, and a relationship where every good moment feels stolen, broken, and, eventually, lost.”

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Ghost in the Tank - Lightspeed Magazine

The first time you killed me, I cried like a baby. Stupid, stupid, to cry over something make-believe—stupid and ugly and pathetic, too, when already the only thing I wanted in the world was for you ...

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Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I read "Missing Helen" by @tiatashiro.bsky.social this week for Feeding the Muse, and, wow. What a delicious premise: a woman whose husband runs away with her own younger clone. Highly recommend this one 🥹 hannahyangwrites.substack.com/p/week-2-on-...

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Week 2: on respecting yoursel(ves)

Reading Tia Tashiro, Joan Didion, and Ellen Bass

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Have you ever wanted to look like a page of OTHERSIDE? The incredible artist behind our interior illustrations, @demonography.bsky.social, has designed a t-shirt just for you! These shirts are awesome and super comfy. Available in white/black/purple! Get yours here: otherside-shop.fourthwall.com 💜

A white t-shirt held up in front of blue skies and a fence. The design, in shades of orange and purple, reads "OTHERSIDE" with little illustrated creatures crawling around; the design is then reflected underneath, the letters squiggly like a reflection in water.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Very surreal. Thanks to Lacon and volunteers for their care this week. Thanks to readers and Clarkesworld again. Congrats to the finalists. I admire you and am proud to be in the sub trenches w/you. And thanks to my childhood friend Bobby who babysat last minute so we could go(!). Owe you big time.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

CONGRATULATIONS @hhpak.bsky.social! YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST-EVER WINNER OF A HUGO AWARD IN A PROSE CATEGORY! YOU BEAT THE RECORD HELD BY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN WHO WAS 26 YEARS AND 10 MONTHS OLD WHEN HE WON FOR "A SONG FOR LYA" IN 1975!

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novella goes to The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia UK).

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novelette goes to “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld, Issue 220).

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Short Story goes to “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, Issue 223).

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🔥On Sale Now🔥 Read the Best New Weird Horror (+ More) of the year! Our latest volume of BRAVE NEW WEIRD—featuring 23 of the Best & most innovative Weird stories of the year—is on sale now for 33% off (& 50% on eBooks)! Only through our webstore: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra...

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BRAVE NEW WEIRD Volume Four (print + eBook)

Twenty-three creators converge to deliver the Bravest, Newest, and Weirdest fiction of 2025! You are the nexus of evolution. You have reached the ideal. A grateful humanity gazes upon you in admiratio...

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Louis Inglis Hall @louisinglishall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’ve just finished The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 (disclaimer: I’m in it) from @undertow.bsky.social and all the stories — all the ideas — rub up against each other in such interesting, uneasy ways. Skin, and decay, and parenthood. Inaccessible times and spaces. Highways. Revelation.

A copy of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A story about being so gay you kill god (and about some other things, too).

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Neon Genesis Xu-vangelion 🤖 @hellotherexu.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to see us! I had such a blast playing DnD live at @laworldcon.bsky.social ! Special thanks to our fearless leader @gregoryawilson.com, and the amazing cast @amalelmohtar.com, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, @cxorlando.bsky.social, @benjaminrosenbaum.com and SPAWN 💕

DnD group w woman holding up fan art pic

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Neon Genesis Xu-vangelion 🤖 @hellotherexu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

LOOK AT ALL THESE AMAZING PEOPLE + me eh ill be there too

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

genuinely one of my favorite things I’ve read this year + a story that I will be thinking about for a while

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

so delighted to be in this, still wrapping my head around it :^)

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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Two great tastes that taste great together! Go support these amazing anthologies.

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

and my contributor copy of Best New Weird is here! what a beautiful cover

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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For the night crowd: The Shirley Jackson Award nominee “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” by the fantastic @audreyzhou.bsky.social. The sacrifices of parenthood made literal + witchcraft and the weight of a better life. www.adventitious.net/stories/moth...

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Mother's Mother's Daughter by Audrey Zhou

When her mother begins to die, giving up her body so her daughters will survive the winter, Yulan must decide if she can bear to take what’s being offered.

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Super excited that this story is finally free to read online!! this is my story that was nominated for the Shirley Jackson, and probably the most personal thing I’ve had published❤️really glad it found a home here

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My first sci-fi pub! I wasn’t very good at the material in my models of language and computation class until it occurred to me that an NFA was like a built-in multiverse story (I was still kind of bad after but I could at least also think about vending machines, soulmates, + space)

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Laine Perez @laineelise.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dude. DUDE. Y’all gotta read this one from @mruthrobinson.bsky.social in @giganotosaurus.bsky.social. I’m absolutely shattered emotionally - but, you know, in a good way. (Also, I was just blown away by the language - so delicate and lovely.) giganotosaurus.org/2026/01/01/t...

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The Last God of Talam Dor - GigaNotoSaurus

Content Warning: religiously motivated ableism and homophobia, both internalized and external; self-harm; and depictions of ritual sacrifice including drowning, hanging, and burning, not very graphic....

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

!! Thank you @acwise.bsky.social for the lovely review of “Underneath the Underneath”💓this story is very dear to me (maybe because of its bittersweetness) and I’m grateful that it resonates!

The prose is gorgeous and the story suffused with longing. It explores the limited choices often available to women, while allowing Mina to take control over her own body and destiny via an act of transformation, even if it does require sacrifices of a different nature. There’s a bittersweetness to Mina’s decision that keeps the story from feeling like it’s offering up an easy, magical solution. Her body will still change beyond her control, but at least she is able to choose the shape and time of the changing, rather than having it forced upon her.

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Sara S. Messenger サラ @smessenger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NEW SARA AND SIMO STORY IN @diabolicalplots.com!!! My first cowritten short story... grotesque chatter between a car and a cougar and roadkill. hazardous POVs. If you like your prose kaleidoscopic, you should read 🤑🤑 we did it @srinivassimo.bsky.social! www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

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DP FICTION #138B: “We Burst Across the Theoretical Gore” by Sara S. Messenger and Simo Srinivas – Diabolical Plots

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

have been thinking about this one for a week. its so peak. fascinating take on classic cyberpunk diving and really just pushing the metaphor as far as it can go (into weird unspoken tension with the archive itself)

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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have doth made un starter park with thyne fauvourite Adventitious writers, and I dost though not understand olde tyme Englishe. Please follow them anyway (yes, thou). go.bsky.app/P6ETCHR

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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"That Summer at Aunt Jackie’s Alpaca Farm" was written at Viable Paradise with the prompt of cottage core and alpacas. I added eldest sibling angst and magical wool. Enjoy!

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Seeing lots of talk today about the importance of paying for creative work. It’s true! You have to support the things you love, or they vanish. It’s that simple. If you love queer SFF, consider joining us before our next issue drops in September! Find all the ways to subscribe or buy copies here:

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Support OTHERSIDE - OTHERSIDE

OTHERSIDE is a queer-led, volunteer-run nonprofit publishing speculative literature by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. Your support keeps us going.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

With the Hugos closing, I think this is the last time this story gets voted on for anything before it goes off to wherever old stories go. Thanks for reading, sharing, discussing, thinking about this one over the last year and change.

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In My Country by Thomas Ha

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Btw did you guys hear that @undertow.bsky.social got a World Fantasy nod for their newly revived project Best Weird Vol. 1? Did you hear one cool way to congratulate them is to pre-order the forthcoming Volume 2? New crop of stories, authors, weird stuff. Bet you heard that!

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The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 — Undertow Publications

Pre-Order. Shipping October 2026. Cover art by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR “Momentous... an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in ...

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