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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AND would you like to make a sacrificial review to the evil one? www.amazon.com/Cellar-Below...

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The Cellar Below the Cellar: A Folk Horror Novella

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm at 95 reviews on The Cellar Below the Cellar on Greads, and for wholly irrational reasons, I've got to get it up to 100. It's numbers! If you've read it and haven't rated it yet, now's your chance. For the numbers! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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The Cellar Below the Cellar

A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale…

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was just looking at that! 2 more to go! 🤲🎉

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yay, hope the reading went great!! 💜

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New STRANGE MICRO antho on the horizon! Will it reach land? You decide 🌊⚓🐋👀

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T.L. Najjar @tlnajjar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Apex Kickstarter has begun! Please consider supporting the magazine for 2027. They pay pro rates for the fiction they publish, and the kickstarter has lots of cool rewards this year, like critiques for a short story or manuscript.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"I felt a bit disoriented while I was writing the final scene, like it was happening to my own body." 🫁🔄💬 New today by @marissavu.bsky.social: "Interview with Interview with Author Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"Interview with Author Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad" by Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here’s the episode I was on! I think I talk about the Virgin Mary and witches and stuff but I don’t know it was a fever dream. Loved talking to Alan and Diane!!

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Serial Experiments Rain Corbyn @raincorbyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Holy shit I just turned in edits for my debut novella and they absolutely made it better wtf If you like rot, apocalypse, tits, and body horror I’ve got something for ya come November

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

ICYMI 🌟 treat yourself to some stellar speculative ecofiction! 🌏🌱🦋 app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/88...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yes, The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 is, in fact, out early. I'd originally planned it for October, but various circumstances—notably that it was ready—prompted me to move it up. An amazing ToC!

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

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 the twenty-first century.” -Zacha...

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

HE IS SO HANDSOME AND BEAUTIFUL AND DINOSAUR i love him

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In celebration of the upcoming ECO25 Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction release, we're running a Storygraph giveaway for the first volume. let's gooooo

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

i hope you get some rest time soon! 🌿

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

it's such a kickass piece of writing! i agree, your past-self killed it 🔥 (but i disagree on the last part, i bet could and will write more like it)

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Also, I didn’t even do this on purpose, but there are nods in this story to not one but two real-life badass women scientists: astrobiologist/physicist Sarah Imari Walker, and botanist Alice Eastwood, absolute legend whose story I got to include basically wholesale in an alternate history. So yeah

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just looked over the proof of this anthology and I’m so excited about it. What an incredible lineup, and dammit I got choked up proofreading my own story, Past Self really loves rocks the same way I do

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Íde “of March” Hennessy @ideofmarch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🐙🎹This includes my @reckoningmag.bsky.social story "The Piano Player Has Eight Arms," plus SO MANY MORE stories I can't wait to read! 30% off pre-orders is a great deal! 🤯 #newbooks #scifibooks #horrorbooks #clifi #speclit #ecohorror

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Anj Baker @anjbaker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Huge shoutout to @marissavu.bsky.social! She actually listened to my pandemic-era podcast before interviewing me haha

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm was so glad to find it! Really fun listen :D

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Preorders are now open for ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Please support our little imprint and this series by preordering -- it makes a huge difference to the success of the books. And you get 30% off the price ✨🦋🌿

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

important announcement from the Apex and Violet Lichen teams!

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Apex Book Company is excited to announce the acquisition of LET'S PLAY WHITE, TOO by @chesyaburke.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 LET'S PLAY WHITE, TOO explores the experiences of Black women in America through the dual lenses of short horror fiction and nonfiction essays. Scheduled for release June 2027!

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Press Release: Apex Book Company Acquires LET'S PLAY WHITE, TOO by Che

For Immediate Release: June 16th, 2026 Lexington, KY: Apex Book Company is excited to announce the acquisition of Let's Play White, Too by Chesya Burke. Following her trailblazing previous title, Let...

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I’m gonna be dusting off my reviewing hat over the next few weeks in the Seize The Press newsletter. I’ve read some great stuff recently and the first books I’ll be reviewing are OLYOKE by Vincent Endwell, PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements, and THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by Ivy Grimes.

Cover image for Olyoke by Vincent Endwell

Cover image for Persona by Aoife Josie Clements

Cover image for The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Samir is an excellent writer in a way that could almost feel unfair, like wait hold up where did you even pick up this dark alchemy?? From what realm?? Except we can't be mad about it bc we get all these wild Samir stories to read, so it's win/win. Anyway this is a REALLY GOOD DOLLAR to spend 🔥🔥

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Damn, Earth is such a cool planet. You can just look out the window and be fully hypnotized by what the plants did to this place

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We only run two author interviews per issue in Apex, but I would love if we could do more for the August issue. Every story is bizarre and metaphorical and twisty, and I would love see how @marissavu.bsky.social dug into each of them. Her conversations with our authors are outstanding!

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

aww thank you! 🫶 I love interviewing our Apex Mag authors, and love your taste in stories. Looking forward to reading this full issue - sounds like exactly my kinda weird jam 👀

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We'll try to keep opening at regular intervals through the year! And I love a slow-cooked novella 👀💚

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...

Violet Lichen Books OPEN TO QUERIES. We are seeking: speculative ecofiction, folk horror, weird and New Weird, literary scifi. 30-45k words. Closes June 30th, 2026.

Read the full guidelines: www.violetlichen.com/submissions
Query Portal: www.querytracker.net/query/violetlichen

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The wonderful Mary Woodbury of @dragonfly.eco & the Rewilding Our Stories community interviewed me about the Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction anthologies! Check it out here, & join the discord for group readalongs of ecofiction like ECO24. It's a great community of nature-loving readers 💚🌿🦋

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thank you for the fun interview questions! Love chatting about ecofic! 💚💚💚💚

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Cover reveal for THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by the amazing @raemariz.bsky.social!! 🖤🌿🦋🐜🍄🖤

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"As a thirtysomething bookworm who comes across as a younger adult-under-construction . . . Jane is a character after my own heart." 💜🌌 Thank you to @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy for the wonderful review of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social! Full review here ⬇️

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Review: The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes

Thoughtful book reviews

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

it's so incredibly good. One of those ones you read and then just sit with a while afterward, a little shook, a lot awed

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hi! I'm a first reader at @apexmag.bsky.social. I've read 1,668 stories for Apex. This is the best one. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

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My Suicides

I don’t know if, in the beginning, it was that they promised me anything, or if I imagined they promised me something. At the...

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 10/06/2026

This book is beautiful - I read an early draft and knew it was special. Can't wait to read a final version

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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

ICYMI, ECO25 editor Marissa Van Uden chose two stories from Reckoning 9 to include in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction: "The Piano Player Has Eight Arms" by @ideofmarch.bsky.social and "We Will Not Dream of Coral" by @mariocoelho.bsky.social! Congratulations, friends!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So hyped for this!! Best of the year anthologies are such an important part of genre history and the ECO24 was sooooooo good!

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

You never know what you'll discover in the forest...or what will discover you 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Experience a surreal new fairytale brimming with strange sisters, trickster spirits, and a primeval forest that never lets you go 🌀🌲 the full cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social drops tomorrow!

A swarm of moths cover a book lying on the forest floor. A single eye and the gold text "They Call the Place Wild - Rae Mariz" are visible through the gaps in the moths' wings.

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Rebecca Campbell @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"A Hole Cut in the Wall of the World" is in this-- it's another of my Salish Sea stories, from my 2025 collection THE OTHER SHORE. The story is creepy and allowed me to write scraps of modernist poetry, which I loved. And how cool is it that we have a Year's Best Ecofiction?

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Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm honored to have "All That Means or Mourns" alongside these great stories!

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hyped to have a story in here, and to share a ToC with so many great authors!

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Extremely honored to have a story in ECO25! Look at this ToC it’s next level!! Congrats everybody! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

i hope y'all are excited to read this sick-ass anthology & see the cover i've cooked up for this one! 👁📷🏃‍♂️

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

very excited about this issue! i love this idea of blending solarpunk & horror. It's something the judges & I talked about while reading for ECO25, that we'd love to see how hopeful solarpunk futures & settings can be blended with horror/weird storytelling & darker premises. Can't wait to read this🔥

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