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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Launch Month to #Haverin, our new anthology! Come celebrate #GSFWC40 with some splendid stories and tasty tablet at these fab events: Fantasycon, Glasgow, 9/10 (5pm) britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan... Waterstones Sauchiehall ST, Glasgow, 21/10 (7pm) www.waterstones.com/events/celeb...

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The cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.

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Matt @academicfabe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you PAC #AEWDynamite

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

‼️ It's the final 10 hours of the Strange Horizons Fund Drive! ‼️ Help us with this final push! You can still support a poem, review or short story as a pledge or as an add-on! Link ⬇️ 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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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

📣📣LAST 24 HOURS of the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive! 📣📣 We have passed our first stretch goal, and can pay authors at 9c/word for 2027. Our next stretch goal - $4.3K away - will let us raise this to 10c/word (our present rates). 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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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The Strange Horizons Kickstarter to fund 2027 will begin on Sunday, 7 June, 2026! This is a critical time for SFF publications when the existence of venues publishing short speculative fiction, poetry and non-fiction is sometimes uncertain. We hope that you will keep us publishing for another year!

Strange Horizons annual Kickstarter
7 June 2026

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 29/03/2026

I'm political. My writing is political. All art is political.

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if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor

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Michael Ireland @mickallister.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Off to Eastercon we go 🎉 Schedule: Saturday 4th - 12pm Balmoral The Joys and Pains of Audiobooks Monday 6th - 12pm Gladstone-Churchill The Joys of Podcasts Feel free to say hello and chat!

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Follow us and comment on the original post for a chance to win a $25 @sistahscifi.bsky.social gift card! They ship internationally! #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #speculativefiction

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Michael Ireland @mickallister.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The Hugo Award Nominations are now open! Eligible in the Best Fancast category with @darthj.uno for our 'Strange Horizons @ 25' project. also eligible as part of 'Strange Horizons' in the Best Semiprozine category. Please consider us with your nominations.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 25/03/2026

Unboxing the 'Call of the Black Wing Audiobook' hardback editions youtu.be/J8CvO4UaWRE

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Unboxing the Call of the Black Wing Hardback Editions

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It's the 2026 awards season and time for Hugo nominations! Once again we hope that you'll consider Strange Horizons and the works we published throughout 2025. You can find all the content we published last year in this very handy post: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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For Your Consideration: Strange Horizons 2025 Award Eligibility

For your consideration: a complete list of Strange Horizons works and staff eligible for various awards in 2026. Happy reading and listening!

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Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The moment we've waiting for is here - programme is live! The Programme team have been working incredibly hard to bring you this wonderful celebration of our fandoms. It is utterly brimming with delights to keep you chatting and thinking long after the convention is over. guide.eastercon2026.org

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ConClár Program Guide

Glasgow 2024 Programme Guide

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🚀 NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!🚀 We're absolutely over the bloody moon to be making the Children of Time RPG! Mina, Grant and Elaine have been sequestered away with author Adrian Tchaikovsky, building a new Ark to take you to the far reaches of space. But what (or who) is waiting for you out there?

a graphic showing the mock up CHILDREN OF TIME The roleplaying game book against a background of a planet and a long tubular ark spaceship.

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Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

DEADLINE TOMORROW Programme Participants complete your responses on PlanZ by 9pm UTC 10th March. PlanZ may display the error message: "You are not currently registered for Iridescence. If you believe this to be in error, please contact Programming." This is a bug. Ignore it. We are working on it.

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

With a Kickstarter currently running to fund an audiobook, indie creator @eidyngray.scot shares how everything he does is not a solo project—it’s always a team effort, from supplementary support to building a network. britishfantasysociety.org/why-indie-pu...

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 02/02/2026

The @kickstarter.com has launched! For fans of Scotland, dark fantasy, folklore and mythology, haunted swords, talking cats, old cats, audiobooks, and indie productions. Open to pledges big and small. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

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Call of the Black Wing - An Audiobook

Bringing the tale of Fiadh and her quest for revenge though Scottish folklore and mythology to your ears

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 11/02/2026

The first stretch goal has been hit! So I get to show off the reward, fantastic character art by artist Cristiana Leone that will be added to the pages of the Special Edition of 'Call of the Black Wing', available only through kickstarter. Back the campaign - www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

Character art for Fiadh and Annis for the Call of the Black Wing Audiobook kickstarter campaign by Cristiana Leone

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Lisa M. Bradley @cafenowhere.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm reading poetry subs at Strange Horizons this month. You can submit up to 6 speculative poems in a single file or separate files. I recommend separate files, because we allow simultaneous submissions and it's easier to withdraw individual poems. Guidelines: strangehorizons.com/submit/poetr...

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Poetry Submission Guidelines

How to submit poetry.

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Michael Ireland @mickallister.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 11/02/2026

I'm only £30 from the second stretch goal, two more pledges would get the campaign over the line 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

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Call of the Black Wing - An Audiobook

Bringing the tale of Fiadh and her quest for revenge though Scottish folklore and mythology to your ears

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Michael Ireland @mickallister.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We are live! So happy to be working with @eidyngray.scot and @mhairi-bee.bsky.social on this audiobook! Please help support if you can. LETS RIDE!

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 03/02/2026

On to the stretch goals! Now the future of the project is secure we can start pushing to the extras that make everything even shinier! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

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Dr Jasmin Kirkbride @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

📘❤️ IT'S PUBLICATION DAY! ❤️📘 The Forest on the Edge of Time published with Tor Books! It's an absolute dream come true, and I'm enormously grateful to everyone at Tor who's supported my book. 🌟

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 02/02/2026

What. A. Day.

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EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

100℅ backed on day one! Way to go Tristan!

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Michael Ireland @mickallister.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We are live! So happy to be working with @eidyngray.scot and @mhairi-bee.bsky.social on this audiobook! Please help support if you can. LETS RIDE!

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Fiction submissions are open now! The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

2026 Fiction Submissions
Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday! The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026. There will be no cap. More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

2026 Fiction Submissions
Strange Horizons
January 19 to 21

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 18/12/2025

Early next year I will be launching the kickstarter for my very first audiobook! Read by @mhairi-bee.bsky.social. You can sign up to stay updated by clicking "Notify me on launch" on the preview page today - www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

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Coming soon: Call of the Black Wing - An Audiobook

Bringing the tale of Fiadh and her quest for revenge though Scottish folklore and mythology to your ears

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

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Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno · 04/12/2025

I spent three days last week putting together an eligibility MEGA POST for @strangehorizons.bsky.social, with all the people and work within it that's eligible for awards in 2026. I hope you'll check it out, click on some things, and consider putting your faves forward 🥹 Thank you, and here's to 26!

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For Your Consideration: Strange Horizons 2025 Award Eligibility

For your consideration: a complete list of Strange Horizons works and staff eligible for various awards in 2026. Happy reading and listening!

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 07/12/2025

This week I was able to announce the launch of the Call of the Black Wing Audiobook kickstarter. Join me on the journey! The Kickstarter - www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri... www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7g1...

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Bringing Call of the Black Wing to Audiobook

YouTube video by Tristan Gray

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Maya Evan MacGregor / Eamhair MacGriogair @maigheach.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It’s awards eligibility season in publishing, and I’d be honoured if you would consider All the Stars in the Daylight Sky in your reading for YA novels (Andre Norton Nebula, Lodestar, Locus). I’m immensely proud of this book: a love letter to my Gaelic culture and our intergenerational bridges.

Maya MacGregor Awards Eligibility 2025

All the Stars in the Daylight Sky
Novel (YA)
Astra Young Readers
October 2025

“MacGregor represents Gaelic lore well while thoughtfully integrating the nuance of neurodivergence and grief throughout. A welcome, cosy queer romantasy with a uniquely informed twist on the popular fae subgenre.” Booklist, Starred review

“The characters and sparkling queer romance at the heart of the story are enchanting. A magical and romantic fantasy steeped in Gaelic culture.” Kirkus Reviews

“This atmospheric, otherworldly fantasy by MacGregor (The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will) deploys Scottish mythology to touch on themes of grief and trauma brought about by past experiences with mass shootings and Covid-19…[An] empathic and accessible tale of belonging.” Publishers Weekly

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 01/12/2025

The big reveal! What I've been up to for the past month is getting this project ready to go and now I'm finally ready to announce it. Coming February 2026 - the Kickstarter for the Call of the Black Wing audiobook read by @mhairi-bee.bsky.social launches! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

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Coming soon: Call of the Black Wing - An Audiobook

Bringing the tale of Fiadh and her quest for revenge though Scottish folklore and mythology to your ears

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Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno · 29/10/2025

This weekend the World Fantasy Convention takes place in Brighton, and I can confirm I'll be there with bells on, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Strange Horizons and talking about how music fuels my writing. Come say hi!

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My World Fantasy Con schedule

Here are my panel items for World Fantasy Con 2025 in Brighton.

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Michael Ireland @mickallister.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My #WorldFantasyConvention2025 schedule: Thursday 30th October: 5pm - Multimedia Writing - Edinburgh Panel Room 3 Sunday 2nd November: 11am - Strange Horizons Tea Party - Osborne Reading Room 1 See you there!

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Vanessa Jae @vanessajae.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Sunday, 11 AM, Osborne Reading Room 1. Come talk about speculative poetry for an hour #WorldFantasyConvention2025

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✨️naomithinksit✨️ @naomithinksit.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Incredibly silly job to have that I couldn't do with out @mickallister.bsky.social and the boys

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