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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 17h

We’re open for general submissions as of today. This opportunity will close when we reach 400 submissions, & I expect we’ll meet that number within the first week. So submit early! ✅ 500-1,000 words ✅ anonymous subs ❌ No AI / LLM #writingcommunity #flashfiction ffo.submittable.com/submit

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Flash Fiction Online Submission Manager

Update 10/1/2026: We are OPEN for general submissionsOur Oct '26 General Submission period will be open until we receive 400 submissions. We expect that submission cap to be met within the first week,...

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 18h

We are now OPEN to submissions of speculative fiction + poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors! Submissions are limited to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors from October 1-7. If that's you, send us your work! This issue's theme is exploration. We'll be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from October 8-21!

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Plangdi Neple @plangdi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pub day! I'm so glad that Nameless Saviors is now available to read at @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social What if you could save a country that would rather kill you than admit its problems? It has government corruption, drunk shenanigans, and final year stress 😌. www.tractorbeam.earth/story/namele...

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Nameless Saviors | Tractor Beam

Uncle, why does our house always smell bad?

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*to the tune of jingle bells* SHINGLES FLARE, SHINGLES FLARE, WANT TO K*[[ MYSELF

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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Release day is here!!! Help us celebrate all of the incredible authors who contributed to the Forged in FIYAH anthology! Snatch a copy or five for yourself wherever books are sold. Shout out to Matt and the @tordotcompub.bsky.social team for seeing this project through.

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

White people who bring their dogs to work should be forced to pay for their coworkers' childcare.

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Check it out, this is where my color coded witches found a home!

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Check it out, this is where my color coded witches found a home!

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The palette on this is perfection Gorgeous art Great design And you may spot my Goatskin. Thrilled to see this so soon out!!

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Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

COVER REVEAL! The amazing @annalisejensen.bsky.social worked on this, along with @ellatholmes.bsky.social, and the result is astounding. It truly captures the essence of the book we and all the contributors created. Here is 'Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose! So proud. 📚🪐

A green background with a blue circle. Inside is the cover of a book with animated figures, titled "Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose with the title "Cover Reveal".

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Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who's calling? That would be us saying the "Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose" cover DROPS on Friday!

Picture of a green old style rotary phone with the receiver off the hook on a wooden table/ 'Who Am I?" is written on it.

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's so much LABOR happening behind the scenes of FIYAH that goes unrecognized. It's an honor to make space for and share work from the staff who've allowed us to publish Black SFF over these past ten years. Thank you, @emmaliawrites.bsky.social!

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sometimes it feels like a lot of writers have moved away from describing what their characters are wearing, and I hate that.

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Sylvia Barry @sylviabarry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're tabling at the 13th Market Book Fair in downtown Eugene OR selling our gay books! 🌈🌈🌈 #indiebooks #author #queerbooks #bookfair @mayadrocha.bsky.social

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Like Water" by @emlinden.bsky.social in Issue 25 of @havenspec.bsky.social This tale of language and sacrifice reads like a newly discovered folktale, one you might expect to hear around a campfire on a late summer evening. I'm off to read everything else by Linden. havenspec.com/fiction/like...

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Like Water, Haven Spec Magazine

"Like Water" by E.M. Linden

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"People who recognize this pattern and are either tired of it or refuse to engage must leave this world to shape a genuine struggle where differences can be held and respected in favor of common goals."

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Drafting Through Life @dtlwriters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This looks amazing! For anyone unable to afford this right now, OR who are attending and would like to see how other writer's have tackled writing with disabilities, check out some of @thesansan.bsky.social's work on the DTL blog: medium.com/@draftingwri...

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A Little Dys, A Little That: Writers Talk Dyslexia (New Series)

A group of dyslexic/-graphic writers talk the intricacies of living the life of a writer with disabilities that famously target the ability…

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Anna Catalano 🌈 @thepaintedlion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We're vending at the 13th Market Book Fair in Eugene OR this Friday! If you're near campus, we'll be selling our gay romcom books LESSONS IN TIMING and its sequel LESSONS IN BALANCE 🌈 We'll also be sharing a table with fellow author LL Mason so you'll have ✨️plenty✨️ of queer lit to choose from! 🥰

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Sylvia Barry @sylviabarry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We're vending at the 13th Market Book Fair in Eugene, OR this Friday! If you're near campus, we'll be selling our gay romcom books LESSONS IN TIMING and its sequel LESSONS IN BALANCE 🌈 We'll also be sharing a table with fellow author LL Mason so you'll have ✨️plenty✨️ of queer lit to choose from! 🥰

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Hearth Stories @hearthstories.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reminder: we are open for #submissions for the rest of the month ✍️. We are 👀 for fantasy/historical-fiction #writing about caregiving, family, romance, nature, friendship. Let's wander in the woods together 🌳🌲🍃 Simsubs, 1¢/word, gentle/cozy stories Guidelines: hearthstories.org/submissions....

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A note on FREE SUB months: They often close early when our cap w/ Submittable maxes out or we AMAZINGLY get more subs than our small team can read in a timely fashion. So get them in early & thank you for your understanding!

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Will be hanging out with @thepaintedlion.bsky.social and L.L. Mason next week

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E.M. Linden @emlinden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My story 'Like Water' is free to read now! "In exchange for two large cod, the wise-woman extracts Minke’s first language and wraps it in a piece of sailcloth...." Thank you to the @havenspec.bsky.social team for giving this one a home!

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Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We are about to embark on an extremely small, closed ARC process (with eARCs only!). ARC expressions of interest will be offered exclusively to mailing list subscribers later this week. If you’re interested, sign up to the newsletter at scyllapublishing.com/newsletter

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Sign up for the latest news from Scylla Publishing, including behind the scenes info, cover reveals, ARC and street team signups, design sneak peeks and giveaways.

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

People say typos are good cuz they prove you're not AI. Hope they're right cuz I just submitted something with: Content warning: body hory

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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Have you ever read this piece? It's a close look at Kirk's history whose thesis is that he wasn't as randy a womanizer as the legend would have it. It's worth a skim at least. It's a bit long, but it convinced me years ago. (I don't get why that's the thumbnail.)

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Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift

There is no other way to put this: essentially everything about Popular Consciousness Kirk is bullshit.

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I hope she's going somewhere nice. The rest of us just gotta pick up the slack...

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Honestly, whenever I’m asked about my influences I just want to name a bunch of children’s books because they’re what made me want to be a writer in the first place. Is there a greater influence than that?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

he is the Mars Bar of pop culture

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I went from being a person who does not read romance novels to being a person who writes romance novels and reads Alexis Hall. Re-reading 10 Things That Never Happened and it's honestly like a hug.

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Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

More story sneaks coming on our newsletter this week - and some small peeks at the cover! - which you won’t see unless you’re signed up. :) we wont be going to socials with the cover until it is 100% done! scyllapublishing.com/newsletter

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every few months or so I see or hear something that rekindles my grief over the slow inevitable degredation caused by the gameification of reading. Your pizza parties have destroyed us.

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Want to write. But must publish. Want to write. But must publish.

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Liz Levin @lizlevin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I just got my copies of this beauty. (Bought three copies because I have no shame. Guess what my sis and dad are getting for their birthdays? Don't worry! It's not the WHOLE present.) Thank you @bmorrisallen.com for his exceptional editorial advice. Acquired Tastes is out in the world!

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Have been diagnosed with Labyrinthitis which unfortunately does not mean I will be turning into a minotaur.

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

had idea. wrote it. cut words. now must choose title which does not suck.

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Had idea. Wrote it. Now must cut 500 words.

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There's a special pain that only comes from being friends with authors. Where you're reading one of the best books you've ever read, and uave no one to talk to about it because the damn thing hasn't been published yet.

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Welcome to another Free Fiction Friday! Today's story is "a beautiful exploration of queerness, homophobia, going no contact, immigration, and generational trauma," (Alex Brown, Reactor Magazine) "Somewhere Among Fallen Leaves," by @plangdi.bsky.social magazine.trollbreath.com/somewhere-am...

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Somewhere among Fallen Leaves - Trollbreath Magazine

Somewhere among Fallen Leaves

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Go read Palngdi's beautiful, beautiful story!!!

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You owe yourself to stop and read this today.

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MayaDRocha @mayadrocha.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Aqi in the 170s, you know what that means. All other poison is null. McDonald's for lunch.

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