Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 6hSuper stoked “Ellen’s Final Foster Child” squeaked in with an honorable mention 🎉❤️ great company all around with these long and short listers 💪 042
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 17hFrog Girl Fall, Frog Girl FOREVER 🐸💚 this was so fun to write and I’m over the moon the fine folks at Jerboa got it 🎉 030
Reposted by JaneRat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Did we miss your brilliance but some other, less rat infested magazine accepted your awesome story? Name them and your story! Share a link! #LITMAGWEEK #RatBagLit #RatBag 1114
Reposted by JaneOaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well 362662516
Reposted by JaneGlen Creed @theglencreed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Rendered" is out in @smokelong.bsky.social Issue 93. A knife, some candles, a kitchen table. Free to read, with an audio version if you'd rather listen, and a short interview where I try to explain myself.smokelong.comRendered - SmokeLong QuarterlyFirst, the knife. I pare flesh from above my left hip into the dented peppermint tin and render the fat from it. The scent rises, honey-bitter. In the corners of the room, the shadows ease back from t... 231
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you ever wondered what I sound like great news I recorded all of Kevin Chesser's poems for @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social and you can hear my dramatic readings of classics like "Asexual Bigfoot" and "You Cannot Stop Me" (the latter is basically me threatening you, enjoy) onlypoems.com/poems/kevin-...onlypoems.comPoems by Kevin Chesser | ONLY POEMSRead Kevin Chesser, featured poet published on ONLY POEMS. Explore their portfolio of poems, and get insight into their work via an extensive interview. 010
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Stoked to see 1000 Women in Horror at the Atlantic Film Fest next week and delighted to learn about everything else you’ve done and can do 👇👇👇 wow this lady knows horror and cinema folks 110
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Kyle and I disagree on generative AI and its comedy value (don't worry, I'm sending a poisoned edible arrangement to his house) but otherwise love his smart takes and POV on the thing that we are all forced to hear about and think about 👀 011
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Celebrating 10 pubs today (and if journals can define pubs as "if we can find it on the internet" then goddamn it, so can I) 🤩 020
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I made the shortlist for the Redstone/Observer postcard prize 2026! Hell to the yes. Let’s win this one honeylamb. redstonepress.substack.com/p/shortlist-... 010
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I have a reputation in my writing group for disliking anthropomorphized object stories. Which I do, okay? But only because they are so often NOT GOOD. But this? Sublime. Divine. Wonderful. I love you, little tea kettle. Rest easy. ❤️ 021
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I knew JJ before* she was cool! 😎 *ok she was always cool 270
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What a delight to see that one of the most direct and stringent anti-AI directives re: submissions is coming from Chicken Soup for the Soul. Boomers, you may love your AI slop on Facebook but you're not going to get it in your Chicken Soup anthologies, ya hear???? 010
Reposted by JaneNight Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026🛸 jump scare, night shades is OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 🛸 gotta keep yall on your toes 🛸 send me your stories! 🛸 closing october 11 www.nightshadesmag.comnightshadesmag.comNight ShadesNight Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine. 14433
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026the kind of genius piece that makes you go "fuck, we can do that?!" from Ellen Kombiyil in @offbeatlit.bsky.social thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/08/20/p...thedisappointedhousewife.comPostpartum Intake Pop Quiz ~ questionnaire by Ellen KombiyilEllen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist and author of two books and two chapbooks, most recently The American Journal of Insanity’s Diagnostic on the Plumbing & Wiring of Females (Visual Po… 011
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Delightful, disturbing, de-lovely. ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/lake-of-th...ashortstorylong.substack.com“Lake of the Gulfs” by Nathan Holic"It's a story that's been told a thousand times. Daddy leaves early morning, goes out to the pier. Spends the day fishing with his buddies..." 010
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ok so generally love Annie Jacobsen’s books. Nuclear War is the scariest horror story I’ve ever read. But why is Biological War peppered with these AI gen images done by her 20 something son @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social you couldn’t find a photo or you know…pay for one? 🥴🥴🥴 001
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hemingway fans I will meet you in the parking lot behind the Wendy’s at 8 pm to throw down 130
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So good, goddamn 🙇 open.substack.com/pub/strangep...open.substack.comThe Keeper of the Last Bird Eggs by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska“The eggs here are our last reminder.” | Flash Fiction #9 000
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The phrase “I Haunt The Nordic Spa” was stuck in my head for 6 months and I am very pleased it found a home 😱 110
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My fantasy short story “Sisters of the Holy Wild”, was just published in Elegant Literature issue #058. If you’re craving a dragon story that has no dragon riding, mind-melding, or 🫣 f#%*ing…this one’s for you babe 😘 🐉🐉 www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/elegantliterature.comMagazineAmazing stories by upcoming talent. No query letters. Guaranteed acceptance/rejection timeline. Above-professional pay. 070
Reposted by JaneRat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Today's story is "What Feu Follet Want" by Frederick Charles Melancon. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabblesratbaglit.substack.comWhat Feu Follet WantBy Frederick Charles Melancon 011
Reposted by JaneSilly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 30/08/2026LAST CALL🪿🪿🪿 sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit 064
Reposted by JaneNot Quite Write @notquitewrite.com · 28/08/2026The July 2026 Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction longlist is here! Congrats to our talented Top 40 authors! Can’t wait to see who takes home that pointy trophy 👀 ☀️ 🌙 3257
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026FINALLY cracked @notquitewrite.com LL 🥹 - lady getting flung into space? ❌ - guy stealing a lobster and losing a toe? ❌ - Elvis possessing a disco ball? ❌ - a book-loving monk getting shipwrecked with a donkey? ✅ 5211
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026some lovely stuff in @sillygoosepress.bsky.social 's sturgeon moon edition 🌚 — digging this poem by Isabel Flick sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moo...sillygoosepress.coman ode to buddy guy & his well-worn blues — SillyGoosePresson mobile? turn phone sideways! 161
Reposted by JaneSilly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026🐟🌙Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon🌙🐟 OUT NOW! Give it a gander: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon 153
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026fantastic rabbit hole on medieval recipes: medievalcookery.com/recipes/reci... May I interest you in some "Bukkenade" 🫢, "Balls or Skinless Sausages" 🙃, "Grave of Small Birds" 😱, or perhaps the deliciously named "Garbage" or "Compost" 😊medievalcookery.comMedieval Cookery 010
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Most excellent ominous funny poem nice job Kevin Chesser I am amused (and scared) open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...open.substack.comYou Cannot Stop Me by Kevin Chesser"I am making soup and I am stirring my soup with a bone." 000
Reposted by JaneFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026wow who could have anticipated Meta’s pervert glasses would be used to ruthlessly harass women and girls, except for literally everyone smarter than paste 22755218
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Fantastic list and I didn't have to take on a student loan to get it; 10/10 Thank you for sharing @carolinebeuley.bsky.social fairytalesbycaroline.substack.com/p/i-just-com...fairytalesbycaroline.substack.comI just completed my MFA in fiction writing. Here are the ten most important things I learned.Consider this your ten-minute MFA! 001
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 13/08/202617 is my lucky number so I'm not mad at it. Glad my alt-history tale of a drug-addled cosmonaut got some play. Thank you @tldrpress.bsky.social ! 070
Reposted by Janechickenblue @chickenblue.com · 11/08/2026Deadline for The Coop is less than 3 days a way. Enter at www.chickenblue.comchickenblue.comchickenblueThe Coop, a flash fiction contest. 1000 words*. €88 prize. Free to enter. Submissions for the August round are now open. 001
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Still finding my voice for this comp and realizing my dislike of puns and anthropomorphic animals may hamper me 😅 but @whimsyfiction.bsky.social there’s so much more to whimsy, right? RIGHT?! 110
Reposted by JaneLisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-... 16431350
Reposted by JaneBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better 431124491644
Reposted by JaneDiachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Hear ye, hear ye all weirdos: Diachroneity Books' submissions open again *Sept 1–Nov 30 2026*. Send us your fiction oddities, with a special call this year for genre-bending smutty camp diachroneitybooks.com/Submitdiachroneitybooks.comSubmit — Diachroneity BooksSUBMIT ︎ We need to publish your weird shit, your uncanny valleys, the fiction that doesn’t fit in ✦ Diachro’s next submission window is... 032
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026More of a day job thing vs. a writing thing but I did gather up a little publication history if you scroll past the rest! Feast yer eyesapp.notion.com👋🏼 Hi, I’m Jane Stecyk | NotionSome numbers I’m proud of 131
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I want to read all the booker longlisters but I still haven't forgiven Douglas Stuart for putting my heart in a blender with Shuggie Bain. What to do, what to do 🤔 000
Reposted by JaneRat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Today's story is "What if Mick Jagger Grabbed My Arm at This High School Dance" by Nicole J. Brogdon. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #microsratbaglit.substack.comWhat if Mick Jagger Grabbed My Arm at This High School DanceBy Nicole J Brogdon 021
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Done. In it for the vague tweets. Don't let me down @akscotland.bsky.social 140
Reposted by Janesky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Finally dug up my favorite Odyssey tweet ever 2379871641