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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So excited for my former student, Steven Caumo, to release his debut novel with JournalStone today!

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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

25 years ago Kelly & I published our first season's titles — all 2 of them: first collections from Kelly (Stranger Things Happen; art: Shelley Jackson) & Ray Vukcevich (Meet Me in the Moon Room; art Rafał Olbinski). Buy either this month, we'll send you both: smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...

Screenshot of the first two books we published:

Stranger Things Happen
Kelly Link

“A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they’re not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don’t happen.”
— Karen Joy Fowler

Meet Me in the Moon Room
Ray Vukcevich

“One of my all-time favorite collections.”
— Laird Barron, author of Blood Standard

“Uniquely, splendidly, brilliantly original, a surprise in each and every one, and brimming with wit and laugh-out-loud humor. A stunning collection.”
— Kate Wilhelm, author of Desperate Measures

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 05/07/2026

hello how are you. GREAT we want to follow more writers and editors and magazine staffs here in the literary & spec fic space if you have 11 second, pls 🙏🏻 reply with some of your favorites, we will follow and say hello let's spread love and recognition like strawberry jam (on toast or other) 💀🍓

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Jeffrey Luscombe @jeffreyluscombe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Lives as They Are Lived: Gay Men’s Literary Fiction for Pride Month jeffreyluscombe.substack.com/p/lives-as-t...

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Lives as They Are Lived: Gay Men’s Literary Fiction for Pride Month

Realist Fiction for Gay Men Who Want Depth, Not Spectacle

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Raw Dog Screaming Press @rdspress.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A VOICE CALLING by Christopher Barzak and published by Itasca Books is a gothic ghost story about the "Button House." It's just one of the excellent titles available as part of the Shirley Jackson Winners & Nominees StoryBundle. Get all 17 for only $30! storybundle.com/award

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Get yer Shirley Jackson bundle! (Including my novella, A Voice Calling).

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I need a new read, but I feel adrift in regard to what’s good and current, like last two or three years. Drop your one, you have to read this suggestion that’s come out in the last three years (and that you think might be to my taste, whatever that is) in the comments. I appreciate the help!

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

So looking forward to this. Steven was a student of mine in the Northeast Ohio MFA program and his writing hits!

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Steven Caumo @stevencwriter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Proud to announce my debut novel DRYAD will be published on July 24th by JournalStone Publishing! It's about two girls in love, a group of entitled jocks, and one bloodthirsty tree monster in small town Pennsylvania. I can't wait for you to meet them ❤️ (and Scarlet Oak can't wait to eat you 😉)

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'm so looking forward to this conversation with my dear friend and colleague @amalelmohtar.com. If you're in Glasgow, or anywhere near, please join us on Tuesday, 7 April, at Waterstones Argyle Street.

Poster: Amal El-Mohtar & Terri Windling in conversation at Waterstones Glasgow Argule Street, Tueasday, 7 Aopril, at 7 pm. Visit waterstones.com/events for details.

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Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Big thanks to Libby Flores and The Bennington Review for publishing this story of mine about a workshop gone very, very wrong…. Some readers aren’t so into stories set in workshop but I find it such a complex miniature ecosystem to explore! www.benningtonreview.org/fifteen-bender

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Aimee Bender — Bennington Review

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall. Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber. High drama and high CAMP! Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! BACK THE BOOK TODAY! #booksky bit.ly/3OIVfNs

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The Fall of the House of Valenziaga: A Special Edition Novel

It’s Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets The Chronicles of Amber in this queer post-apocalyptic science-fantasy extravaganza!

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Happy to announce I wrote a new short story at the beginning of the year, which was recently accepted. "The Last Season of Your Life" will appear in Lightspeed Magazine, probably sometime this summer. Excited to be in their pages again with a new story!

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 19/01/2026

the deadlands ISSUE 41 with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here:

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The Deadlands - Issue 41 | Psychopomp

Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Charlotte Suttee, Phoua Lee, Joe Koch, Jeremy Morris, gray lindsey, Dmitri Akers, Aliya Whiteley, Marisca Pichette, Alan M. Fisher, Sadoeuph...

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Stories from: Christopher Barzak, Jedediah Berry, Richard Bowes, Paul Di Filippo, Jeffrey Ford, Gregory Maguire, Lucius Shepard, Delia Sherman, Catherynne M. Valente, Marly Youmans, Greer Gilman, Lavie Tidhar, David Prill, Gavin Grant, Peter S. Beagle

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I’m so excited for my former student, Mary Carroll Leoson, whose short story collection, Devil’s Oak has finally released! I wrote the introduction to this gorgeous volume of supernatural and fantastical stories, and I’m happy to encourage others to pick up her book and love them as much as I do!

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Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The Coyote Road edited by Terri Windling and me is on sale now $1.99 in Canada, GB, and US via open road-spread the news please: openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-co...

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The Coyote Road

<div>Stories of the archetypal Trickster from Michael Cadnum, Charles de Lint, Patricia A. McKillip, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and others. World Fantasy Award Finalist<br

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 23/10/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT 1. Afterlives 2024 curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has been COVER REVEALED 2. the collection will be available FOR FREE to paid patrons of @thedeadlands.com 3. join now, read The Deadlands, and receive the book magically when it is released beginning of November go see! 👇

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Afterlives 2024: Cover Reveal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

One cool thing about being a psychopomp is the ability to lead people to places they haven't been before. Sure sure, the main place we lead people is the Realm of the Dead, yeah yeah, but we can take ...

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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 21/10/2025

🌈 Paying Market Alert! 🌈 @bonabooks.bsky.social is taking submissions for Fantabulosa - a celebration of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative horror from queer authors. 💰 8¢/word/fiction | $50/poetry 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30 (Dec 15 for trans authors & authors of color) 👉 horrortree.com/event/taking...

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 30/09/2025

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Jenny Magazine's 2026 submission portal for issue number 24 (!) is open! Please send us your best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It's an open themed issue. And featured visual artists, please send us your work too! jennymag.submittable.com/submit

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YSU Student Literary Arts Association Submission Manager

At Jenny, we work to publish a solid mixture of pieces and authors, from both local areas and not-so-local. We are looking for a broad range of your best polished work. We ask that if you are submitti...

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I’m honored to share that I’ve been named Graduate Alumni of the Year by Chatham University. This recognition means a lot to me and the work I’ve done as a writer since graduating with my MFA. Photo of me back when I was a student at Chatham below. It’s been a while, but I’m still smiling.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 03/09/2025

when the cold steps well into your morning and the days are noticeably shorter WE shall come into our FULL POWER and we will be raising funds not raising the dead but selling the coins that take you THERE ⏳💀🎃🪙 october 1st - october 31st

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Elad Haber @eladhaber.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

<New Story Day> My latest flash piece is now live at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social ! A dash of surrealism, a sprinkle of meta, and a cup of those swirling bubbles that transport you between scenes. www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/elad...

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Elad Haber — Does It Have Pockets

An Unfinished Sentence

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 29/08/2025

It's really book birthday month, right? seriously, this one is a DELIGHT and we really think you're gonna love it 🖤 buy at the link below ⬇️

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Christopher said: "Chloe Clark is a master of blending the everyday with the strange, the supernatural, and the sublime. In Every Galaxy A Circle, she takes us far, far away, and brings us home again, whole yet changed.” —Christopher Barzak

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I have looked up to Christopher Barzak's writing since I read One for Sorrow when it first came out. Monstrous Alterations might be my fave though, such dazzling work:

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Monstrous Alterations

Check out Monstrous Alterations - In this new collection from Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Christopher Barzak, discover stories where fairy tales, gothic narratives, and classic monster sto...

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

So happy to have blurbed Chloe's amazing new book!

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 21/08/2025

"Summer in the House of the Departed is a luminous journey into the delicate boundary between life and death. With prose that sings." @cbarzak.bsky.social author of the Shirley Jackson Award nominated A Voice Calling this one is weird and wise and ORDER HERE psychopomp.com/product/summ...

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Summer in the House of the Departed | Psychopomp

Forty-four years after his grandmother and an entire West Texas town vanished, Brady returns to his childhood home, hoping to follow in her footsteps.

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Today was my 50th (!?!) birthday. Now for something sweet—orange olive oil cake—made by my sweet man. (Thank you, Connor, you made today so special💗). Looking forward to as many more years and sweets as I’m allowed.

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Back from the Jackson Awards w/ a nomination stone. I won a Jackson for Best Collection in 2013, but you still get a stone even if you win. A few more and I’ll build a black box that no one in the village can remember where it came from, just that it’s always been part of the annual tradition.

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Elad Haber @eladhaber.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

To continue my "Posting Party" to celebrate the one year anniversary of my book's release, how about some nice comments from fellow writers? Here is my friend @cbarzak.bsky.social with some lovely praise.

Cover of the World Outside with the following text: “A cabinet of marvels and curiosities await you in Elad Haber’s debut, The World Outside. From fairy tales to fabulism, and scifi to dark fantasy, you’ll encounter a spectrum of the strange and delightful here. Haber’s vision gazes toward the world outside, but there are many worlds to explore inside these pages. You won’t regret the trip.”

—Christopher Barzak, author of Before and Afterlives.

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My first novel, One for Sorrow, is being released in translation in Poland on July 29th by Zysk i S-ka Wydawnictwo. Here’s the cover and description. I’m always surprised and grateful that my work, even my earliest writing, is still out there wending its way through the world.

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Unknown bucket list item: boyfriend winning me a teddy bear at a Pride festival. #pride2025

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 14/06/2025

hey, we're always looking for new artists and illustrators to work with. please, if you are/know someone who is a great HUMAN artist, drop a link to your/their portolio. no promises, but we'd love to browse some portfolios today!! also pls share for visibility!!! 💀🖤💀

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 15/06/2025

A Voice Calling by @cbarzak.bsky.social, Lovely Creatures by @ktbryski.bsky.social, and From These Dark Abodes by @lmanusos.bsky.social can now be found on Kobo for your reading pleasure. One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com is also there, yep yep! Happy Sunday. 💖💀💖

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Sooooooo good. And so gay, thank god.

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Christopher Barzak @cbarzak.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Heading out to read at the KGB Bar for the fantastic fiction reading series tonight!

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 11/06/2025

TONIGHT! Join us with Christopher Barzak and David Surface for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @cbarzak.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social

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