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Y.M. Pang @ympang.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My story "Endless Requiem" (ft. a fisherman who regains his lost childhood & abundant amounts of murder by everyone except said fisherman) is now available to read for free on @strangehorizons.bsky.social! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... #shortstories #magicrealism #fantasystories #amwriting

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Endless Requiem

He had a second life, one spent in the river in laughter and play.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

fantasy is what you write when it's cold outside. SF is what you write when it's hot outside. everything else is year round. glad i got that sorted.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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.

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So excited that my poem will be in here! >:D

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

will it ever come to mac 🫪

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Karma is me salting my gmail 20+ times in 2020 to try to pull a genshin 5 star (WHICH DIDNT EVEN HAPPEN) and now having my gmail spammed 20+ times every update happens

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Godotmaxxing (this is my third black coffee this morning someone break me out of the office—)

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Nicole Munro (is writing; on hiatus) @nmunrowrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Submit your stories and poems to @heartlines-spec.com until the end of Sept. 30! ✍️ ‼️ Your story or poem MUST be SFF/spec WITH a long-term relationship (familial, platonic, romantic) at the core of the work. ‼️ Read the submission guidelines here ➡️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

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Submission Guidelines

Learn all about our submissions guidelines, what we're looking for, and our payment details

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

actually u know what upon further reflection maybe there is merit in not giving up in the meanwhile 🤡

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(if anyone in the bluesky ether is going to be at cancon i wanna say hiii)

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

in 2023 i went to when worlds collide in calgary as some rando cs major who can't finish a novel and now in the year 2026 im gonna go to can con in ottawa as some rando cs wagie who can't finish a novel (but toss in a few short story pubs in the meanwhile lol)

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Caleb Draper - Slash-Out out now! @caleb-draper-games.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ITS OUT! ⚔️ Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling ⚔ OUT NOW ⚔️ Battle 10 Unique Bosses KICK THEIR ASS, OR THEYLL KICK YOURS 🛡️ Journey across a diverse landscape on a quest to defeat an ancient evil Fight a DJ Wizard, get eaten by a whale, all this and more! 🥩 FUCK AI, THIS IS MADE BY FLESH AND BLOOD

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions open on the 1st of October, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC! The max word count per story will be 5,000 words. There will be a 1,000 story cap. Once we reach that number of submissions, the window will close. Link to more information ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Solaire 🔜 GATEway FATE 🐏 @solairelunaire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i must not fear The Project

tumblr post by gailynovelry:
"The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project."

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And it looks like my @clarionucsd.bsky.social student Micah Giddens has a story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social !

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"You want to be a universal language. You want to be the scent of a dream slipping through cracks in the stars." This story has me in a chokehold!! Everyone read MR_MR_CENTICORE

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

With the KS campaign reaching its base funding goal, a reminder that open calls are now posted for "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings" - info here: aanpress.com/submissions.... These books will be a go, so please consider sending something when the submission period begins September 1, 2026.

Cover image: All gray and red tones, a figure stands bleeding in the middle of a road of red swirls in a busy city of traffic. Text blocks isolated in black.

Cover layout with the title horizontally spread across both french flaps, both sides of the cover and the spine. The image is of a medusa snake headed techno god with their arms spread wide and torso dissolving into pixels, floating over a lone hero standing on a rock outcropping.

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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Orion’s Belt is now open for submissions until October 31!🎃 We are accepting flash fiction, micro fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews! For more information on submitting, please see the link below! We can't wait to read your work! 🔅 www.orions-belt.net/submissions

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Submissions — Orion's Belt

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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 01/09/2026

Good news, sophonts: Escape Pod is once more open to submissions! {{}}< And as soon as we deal with >{{}} all these trilobites, the website will say as much. For now, the submission link to Moksha does work!

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Short Fiction | Escape Pod

Escape Pod is open to submissions of science fiction short stories from September 1 - May 31.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Time for submission tetris, friends! (We allow sim-subs, btw, so take that into consideration with your spreadsheets)

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JuliNuoFooly @julinofooly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

He just like me fr fr

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Im gonna cry there is another one 😭

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 26/08/2026

Guess who's opening to Original Flash Fiction on September 1st?! This magazine! We'll be open for the month of September, and once the portals to slushlandia have opened, you'll be able to submit here: smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

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Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders

Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Congrats!! This story was SO GOOD

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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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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

5am. Using my Aurora award as a bulwark against the 2 inch spider that has crawled into my room. I am so sorry science fiction 😭

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Looks like we are about $1.5k away from meeting our second stretch goal, and the crowdfund ends tomorrow! If you would like for us to publish two novelettes instead of just one, consider backing now 💸

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey pals, come follow my next BackerKit campaign and help me bring a TIME LOOP ANTHOLOGY to life next month!! (It will have an open submission period for writers in October.) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

<alt>opportunity window: a time loop anthology, with artwork by Mildred McMillen edited to be framed within multiple smaller frames; it shows a person in a painting studio by an attic window</alt>

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

sometimes its just u, your matcha powder, and a parasitic worm inside your head that whispers to you to keep going vs. the world

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bee hyland @wellsforboys.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

hi! fundraising for my web fiction project! it's good i promise! ko-fi.com/beecils!

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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com · 21/08/2026

Hey, guess who's got two thumbs and is opening to submissions on Aug 24? It's THIS MAG. Actually, I guess the magazine doesn't have any thumbs, but I—JJA—do, and I'm eager to get them all over dem horror stories after 6 years out of the editorial chair. I guess it will mostly be my other fingers.

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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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Caleb Draper - Slash-Out out now! @caleb-draper-games.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who's wishlisted Slash-Out! If you haven't yet, please do! It's free, and helps support the game! We're so, so close to 1000!!!

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Submissions are now open for speculative novelettes and/or tiny short story collection chapbooks. Word limit: 7,500 to 12,000 words. Limited print run. Will pay $100 and 25 copies. Deadline: October 15th. More info here: neonhemlock.submittable.com/submit/36598...

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Neon Hemlock - Speculative Chapbook/Novelette

Neon Hemlock Press is open to submissions of speculative chapbook manuscripts from August 20 to October 15, 2026. We expect to publish at least one chapbook next year; if the stretch goal in our curre...

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bee hyland @wellsforboys.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

am so so so grateful and honored to have "the long, weeping arms of the parasitic horde" recommended by @locusmag.bsky.social and @mariahaskins.com! my fun fact about that story is that it contains my favorite paragraph i've ever written. but you have to guess which one! locusmag.com/review/gigan...

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GigaNotoSaurus, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed: Review by Maria Haskins - Locus

GigaNotoSaurus 4/1/26 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/16/26 Lightspeed 4/26 The April story in GigaNotoSaurus is House of Honeyed Soil by Natalie Wollenweber. Amelia lives on a farm full of beehives, bees, ...

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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Opening tomorrow! Please read the guidelines & submit one poem at a time. ( I know literary journals do the opposite, but our way actually forces a closer read of each poem)... see link in skeet for other guidelines.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 14/08/2026

⚡️ COMING SOON! ⚡️ The Rumpus is pleased to announce a new category for submissions, Flash Fridays. We will be accepting fiction and nonfiction, up to 1,000 words, to be included in our weekly newsletter on Fridays. Payment for this work is $200. Keep an eye our for when subs open: buff.ly/l4g69vI

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