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Diana Dima @dianadima.com · 23/09/2026

A beautiful, moving poem from Angel, as always. Loved the storytelling and language in this one!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re-upping—publishers and editors of weird fiction. I'd be delighted to consider your 2026 projects for Vol. 3 of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉 Put on your reading socks and join us for… 💃 catharsis & courage through dance 🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis 💗 love represented in intergenerational stories & so much more! + You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! 🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s 🧵

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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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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 09/09/2026

Several of our KS rewards feature artwork by Rew X. Perhaps there’s a space on your wall yearning for the cover of 3LBE Issue 42, or the wide print of 3LBE Volume VIII. Or maybe you long for an original painting yet to be created. Support us and get some haunted art too! kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This week, Story Hour gets spooky! Longtime Favorite Karlo Yeager Rodríguez returns, and Pamela M. Durgin makes her Story Hour debut just ahead of her first novel’s debut. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @kjy1066.bsky.social @pameladurgin.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Pamela M. Durgin, a fair-skinned woman with brown hair streaked with gray and worn pulled back, a few wisps escaping around her face. She wears glasses with retro plastic frames and a blue-and-white checked shirt. She stands between two rows of tall wooden bookshelves full of books and looks over her shoulder at the camera, smiling delightedly.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Karlo Yeager Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican man with tanned skin, brown eyes, brown hair cut short, a short beard that’s mostly gray, and a well-trimmed mustache that’s about half brown and half gray. He wears glasses with black plastic frames, a V-neck white tee, and a tan aloha shirt with a pattern of toucans. He sits in a leather-backed chair with a decorative shelf and a computer monitor behind him. With his face in three-quarters view and his chin tilted down, he looks into the camera with a faint, soft smile.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our ✨August 2026 issue✨ is now free to read online! In this thread are links to all of its poems and stories. Please read it and please spread the word! havenspec.com/issues/issue... 🧵

Cover of Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 25, August 2026.

Fiction in the issue is by E.M. Linden, Sydney Sackett, Carol Scheina, C.M. Fields, C.G. Aubrey, and J.A. Bryson.

Poetry in the issue is by Sarah Chin, Mahaila Smith, and Lesley Hart Gunn.

The cover art is titled "Quietness in Amber" and is by Caroline Jamhour. It features a contemplative woman, her eyes closed, standing in shoulder-deep water beside a crescent moon, her hair flowing on the water's surface.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

ICYMI, "A Tree is not a Home" is a short story in our 🌟January 2026 issue🌟 by @dianadima.com about seeking refuge wherever you might find it. Read it for the quiet grief and pain of its birch tree narrator havenspec.com/fiction/a-tr...

An excerpt of the short story "A Tree is not a Home" by Diana Dima, in Issue 21 of Haven Spec Magazine (January 2026). The text reads:

A tree is not a home. But you, twelve years old and bony, dragging a suitcase behind a gray mother into the gray building where you were now going to live, looked back at me as though it was all wrong. As though the building should have been me.

You came out soon afterwards, walked across the parking lot and over the low wire fence into my patch of land. (I saw you, in a manner of speaking, like an arrow rushing at me in the dark.)

I could tell that you had never seen a birch before.

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Pile, by Aimee Cozza. It shows a figure with blood around their mouth and on their neck and chest, cuddling a pack of wolves.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 19/08/2026

"Emptiness is its own language, but you and I, we have learned to speak it. " TODAY beloveds this poem this poem this poem!!! There are lonely things in the forest by @rukman.bsky.social read it here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

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There are lonely things in the forest / Rukman Ragas / Psychopomp

Read There are lonely things in the forest, by Rukman Ragas, a poem from Issue 43 of The Deadlands, summer, 2026.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Our ✨July 2026 issue✨ is now free to read online! Here is a thread of everything inside it. Please read it and please spread the word! havenspec.com/issues/issue... 🧵

Cover of Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 24, published July 2026.

Fiction in the issue is by R.L. Meza, Lora Gray, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Dan Peacock.

Poetry in the issue is by Arden Baker,
H.V. Patterson, Christopher Leigh Silverberg, and Anna Madden.

The cover art is titled "Finally, some sleep" and is by Caleb Worcester. It features an astronaut lying comfortably on a cloud high above the lights of a city.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Don't forget to pre-order this beauty, if you haven't. Dropping October. We're not crowd-funding this. The only way it keeps going is through your generosity. Plus, it's pretty good. Shoot me a line if you're unsure if you've pre-ordered. Thx!! undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

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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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Ola | Aleksandra Hill @aleksandrahill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We’re close to the end of our fundraiser and still haven’t met our goal — we need ~$4k in four days. Frankly: I’ve used… a lot of personal funds to keep us afloat over the years between Kickstarters. I now have a child who’ll need daycare. I won’t have enough left over to bridge khōréō’s gaps.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We’re just over 50% funded and there’s only 9 days left to go. Help us get across the finish line and publish another year of immigrant and diaspora speculative fiction!

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

📣📣LAST TWELVE days of the Strange Horizons fund-drive! 📣📣 Very close to our base goal (we're at $20,860/$22,000), in order to continue publishing free, weekly SFF in 2027. To help us get there: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 29/06/2026

we are speechless with joy and pride and wonder @premeemohamed.com's glorious collection One Message Remains is a finalist for the Le Guin Prize!!! AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa 🎉🎉🎉

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 30/06/2026

Hear ye, hear ye! It's time to OFFICIALLY announce our Table of Contents for Issue 11. Releasing on July 31 (iykyk), it's a summer special with stories and poetry from new and old friends!

A view of Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island. The landscape is tinted purple with "Issue 11" in white text with a watercolour heart behind the first letter

A pink flat background with watercolour flowers around the corners. The list of the contributors in Issue 11 is in white text.

The list reads: Fiction, Moh Afdhaal, Hap Aziz, Ares J. Benoit, J. A. Espersmyth, Esther Lim, Avra Margariti, Jillian Schedneck, T.R. Steele. Poetry: Chris Clemens, Wren Douglas, R. F. Hovis, Diem Okoye, Julia Sinclair

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN MAY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's April's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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Some Queer Short SFF - April 2026 | Charles Payseur

And I’ve made it to installment #100 of Some Queer Short SFF! Given how thoroughly I’ve fallen apart this year, I am proud at least that I c

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 24/06/2026

this ticket entitles you to one (1) novella next month from: THE DEADLANDS by: @amalsingh.bsky.social NEXT MONTH'S ISSUE FIRST NOVELLA FROM THE DEADLANDS IT'S HAPPENING TICKET 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️💀🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️it's so good🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️

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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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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The most recent Story Hour was so lovely! It's always a treat to hear Rati Mehrotra read, and when she recommended Kari Maaren, we knew we had a perfect pairing. You can still watch! @rati.bsky.social @angrykem.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJF2...

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June 17, 2026 Story Hour: Rati Mehrotra and Kari Maaren

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And finally, our Year 6 Kickstarter is ongoing! We're hovering at $2800, and we'd love to get over the $3000 hump! Every little bit makes a difference. With your help, we can keep funding another great year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Issue 6.2 is out! The six wondrous stories in our latest issue center memory, death, and the devouring nature of capitalism, with the cover and spot art created by Bali-based artist Gusde Sidhi. Head over to our website to buy a copy and read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com/product/volu...

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Jamie M. Boyd @jamieboyd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If you crave an all-insect SFF anthology (isn't it wonderful that's even a thing?!) I enjoyed Vol 2 of the series Year's Best Arthropod Short Fiction, and look forward to starting Vol. 1. hexagonmagazine.ca/ybasf/ 8/9

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Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction

READ VOLUME 1 HERE! READ VOLUME 2 HERE! Presenting the first ever “Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction,” edited by JW Stebner. Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 1 collects the best internati…

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Diana Dima @dianadima.com · 18/06/2026

It's hereeee! So excited to read all the beautiful weird 🤩

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Strange Horizons is moving off kickstarter and onto BackerKit. This has delayed our fundraiser launch by about a week. Won't you join us? Here's our prelaunch page: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Get Ready for Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

From Strange Horizons - Get Ready for Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's here! Feels especially nice to shout about this issue and these incredible authors today, on the first day of Pride Month. It feels like there's been lots of bad news lately: book bans, censorship, publishing turning against queer stories. But... queer art isn't going away, not now, not ever 🧡

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 28/05/2026

Send us your words! We're open until the end of the month for submissions for Issue 11! We're looking for: 🌊 deep dives into SFF (not just surface level) 💗 established relationships 🍁more Canadian/Turtle Island submissions! www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

We're looking for short fiction and poetry focused on long-term relationships: platonic, romantic, or familial. We don't want the blaze of new love or the obsession of a new friend. We want pieces that show that comfort that develops when people know each other for years.

Give us deep space, dusty frontiers, or dreamy fantasy. We want stories and poetry with strong, confident relationships amid all the sci-fi/fantasy. Stories where the character's choices, trials, and joys are all that much harder because of their existing relationships. Stories that feature dead or murdered spouses will be a hard sell. For more examples of our favoured vibes, check out this post.

We are especially interested in stories featuring queer platonic relationships, ace/aro love stories, and polycules.

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Toria 旻辰 Liao @suntorya.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Just a couple days left to fund T&F year 6!!! It would be incredible to know that we could sustain the mag for another year. We’re an all-volunteer team, so every dollar goes to the writers and artists we publish, and every share truly matters.

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

AUGURIANS! Thank you for supporting @talesfeathers.bsky.social on Kickstarter so far! We passed $8,000 & we're on the way to funding YEAR 6! 👀 We have until MAY 31 to raise the $15,500 CAD ($11.4k USD!) for 2 more years & put out our FIRST ever print edition! 📚✨ Help back us NOW! 🔗 Link in bio!

An illustration with a green overlay of a small group sitting by a campfire in the countryside woods under the blue night sky. A cloaked figure sits beside a small furry animal with a tail, and in front of them is a storyteller whose body glows yellow from the fire. A deer is lying nearby, and there are three ghost mice with wings perched on a wooden fence watching. At the top of the image reads: "Back us on Kickstarter until May 31" in white text. Below that reads: " Tales & Feathers" in white text. Underneath it reads: "Pro-Paying Slice of Life Fantasy" in white text. There are 4 covers of the tales and feathers volumes. At the bottom of the image is a green bar. Inside the bar is a white progress tracker bar from $0 to $15,500 CAD/$11,200 US. There is an orange bar inside to indicate the current amount raised.

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It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Never over this cover art by @dorywhynot.bsky.social

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Hey, would you like to hear two of this year’s Hugo-nominated stories—read by their authors? Samantha Mills and Thomas Ha are bringing us just that! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @samtasticbooks.com @thomasha.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Samantha Mills, a fair-skinned woman with brown hair parted on one side, worn long and in loose curls and waves. She wears a black embroidered top and teardrop-shaped pendant on a black cord. She pose before a blurred interior of bookshelves and looks directly into the camera, smiling warmly.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Thomas Ha, a man of mixed Korean/Irish ancestry who has fair skin, brown eyes, a five-o’clock shadow, and thick black hair worn short and swept back from his forehead. He wears a heathered charcoal tee and gold-tone wire-rimmed glasses. He stands in front of a tree and a building sided with unfinished wood; the building appears to be in near-darkness, although the light on him is bright and casts only soft shadows. He looks directly into the camera, smiling faintly.

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is a really beautiful story. Do read it!!!

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Come to the TriCon table or find @kercoby.bsky.social THIS weekend at @tricon-hfx.bsky.social! When: May 15-17 Where: Halifax, Nova Scotia We’ve got exclusive merch for you, including bookmarks & Vol. 6 printed collections! 🔖📚 See you there! Huge thanks to TriCon for inviting us! More info 👇

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Home - TriCon Halifax

TriCon is Atlantic Canada's literary conference for writers of speculative fiction. TriCon 2026 will be held May 15th-17th, 2026.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 12/05/2026

CONSUMED WHOLE BONES AND ALL cronch

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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This will be awesome! Join us!

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 12/05/2026

Setting up the database for year FOUR pieces and getting pretty emotional here, y'all. We love the work we help put out into the world. We love the act of doing it. We love Small Wonders, and hope the magazine will yet see many more years to come. 1/4

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 12/05/2026

if you've been thinking dang, i miss Psychopomp novelettes, they were *So Good* oh buddy, do we have some news for you! they're not gone, they've just been consumed whole by THE DEADLANDS NOVELETTES LIVE! CHECK OUT THIS ONE BY @dianadima.com IT'S LIVE GO READ IT then share then--oh no out of

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The City in White - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

“It snowed again,” my sister says.

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Diana Dima @dianadima.com · 11/05/2026

My novelette "The City in White" is live at The Deadlands!! It has magical snow and a weird Bucharest and sisters and grief and history, and I hope you enjoy it ❄️🖤

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 08/05/2026

P is for post, which is how we like to apocalypse A is for anything, which we publish about death T is for time. there is never enough R is for readers, which we love very much E is for eternity, the length and breadth of death O is for Osseous the only matter that matters N is for necessary ⬇️

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

Good morning friends, and great news: we've been selected as a Kickstarter #ProjectWeLove!! 💚 As of this morning, we are 70% of the way to our first goal, which also happens to be 30% of the way to funding our third goal of a PRINT EDITION! Please like and share; let's see if we can pass 5k today!

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