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Nadia Amatullah King

@nadiaaking.bsky.social
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Writes Spec-Fic, Dark SF, & Horror Multiethnic of the African Diaspora is probably an alien 👾 linktr.ee/nadiaaking

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026
It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.
Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Kids, gather round and hear a tale of the olden times.
Screenshot of what Google used to look like. "Google is a pure search engine--no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit."
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I swear it's like every solution to creative block for me is to jump in media res. Yes, even 2/3 of the way into the story. Why write intros & transitions when I can skip straight to the good parts? As Jordan Peele says, follow the fun
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NECKSNAP MAGAZINE @necksnapmag.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
free contest subs for BIPOC and/or historically marginalized writers will be closing May 22 at 11:59pm ET! get those subs in 🖤 general subs are open until june 15! $5 to submit, $300 grand prize!
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Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The big thing I regret about the decline of arts criticism is that everyone still dislikes things, but in boring, unthoughtful ways. We’ve sucked all the fun out of being a hater by pretending it’s not an intellectual exercise!
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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
📣 Details for Lark Morgan Lu’s upcoming call for stories, themed “Aftermath,” are now available via our Patreon page. ✔️ Submissions open JULY 1st! ✔️ All genres ✔️ 500-1000 words as per usual This issue will release in January 2027 #writingcommunity #flashfiction
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM opens for submissions in nine days! Send us your horror and dark sci-fi stories about the extra work we do to stay afloat. Regular call = May 15 to June 14 Extended period for marginalized authors: June 15 to June 21 agitapublishing.com/submissions/
A photo of three masked figures holding bloody food delivery bags, accompanied by the title of the book.
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Words are producing again, for the first time in months. I'm hoping to get the ball rolling and actually finish it this time! Story idea is about 3 yrs old (and long overdue!) Is there still room for AI horror? 👀
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Got my 2nd short story acceptance! Smaller mag, smaller story, equally unhinged protagonist. Stay tuned!
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My front yard 💚
Large tree budding in early spring
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The true secret to my long career: As a midlist writer hanging on to my career one book at a time, I can only control the work I do, not outcomes. So I work: Drafting Novel W while waiting for edit notes on Novel F. When edits & draft are done, I'll return to the half finished & overdue Novel L.
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.
Tortie cat sitting in an empty suitcase. 2+ weeks ago before I traveled for the holiday
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Just subbed a piece for the first time in three-ish months. Really hoping this is the one! 🙏
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Wait till they find out that Palestinians are Semites
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Okay so this is the most I've ever harvested! So happy!! Not sure if I'm gonna make a jam or just splurge on them like candy 😋🌱
A basket full of persimmon fruit in the sunsetBasket of persimmon fruit filled to the brim
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Okay this is cool 📌📌📌
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I've become such a digital minimalist that I decided to code my own website! In HTML!! Very surprised since my tech skills are almost non-existent, but it's easier than expected. Right now it looks exactly as my Ghost/Carrd did, so I'm definitely calling this one a win! 😁
Home page is a minimalist dark-blue, gray-toned background with a circular pfp in the center. Beneath it is my name (Nadia Amatullah King) and a tagline that says "author of speculative fiction and dark sci-fi." The navigation consists of only three, minimal icons with no words. The first is a crescent moon and star highlighted for the home page. The second is an open book, and the third is an artsy geometric symbol.Screenshot of the second page, showing my one fiction publication, The Black Refinery. Contains one paragraph of text and a stock image of a beach in black-and-white.
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Escapist fiction is an art too.
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Morning reading 💕
Tortie cat with a deadpan face, sitting comfortably on my Inkheart book on my bed
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My good friend got her first story published!! It's beautiful and sad and so sweet ❤
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Sometimes, you just have to curl up with your childhood fave and a cup of chamomile tea before bed 😌
Photo of the book Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, sitting on my lap while in bed
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I never thought I’d see the day when I’d have to warn writers against submitting to Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, Alfred Hitchcock’s, or Ellery Queen’s.
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Weird?
A stack of a lot of books of/on weird fiction
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Persimmom season is approaching! Hopefully I can get to them before the birds and the goats this time 😋🌱
Photo of persimmon fruit hanging in a tree, most of them red as they start to ripen
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
TIL the MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
From a forthcoming essay by our beloved contributor & workshop participant & friend, Alaa Alqaisi. An incredibly gifted writer, translator, & scholar. Being starved.
Beneath the Howl of Hunger

By Alaa Alqaisi

Long before hunger lays claim to the body, it loosens the scaffolding of language, erasing clarity, dismantling rhythm, and leaving behind the fragile debris of thought. What begins as a coherent paragraph soon dissolves into fragments, until all that remains is the involuntary tremor of a mind too starved to hold meaning. And so, before my language deserts me entirely, I write this, less to be understood than to remain traceable, to leave behind the shape of thought before it slips into silence.
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This was PERFECT in every way. I feel so seen
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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Our #OpenCall for Issue 3 submissions is closing July 21st! 🚜🛸🌿💫✏️ We are looking for original works that have actionable soil-based technologies as their premise. Tractor Beam pays $1,000 for all accepted submissions. We prefer stories under 6,000 words or graphic novellas at 16 panels.
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Yess!! This is what I'm here for!! So excited for you, and congratulations!!! 🎉
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Deeply cathartic. Love it!
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 08/07/2025
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
"Is there a secret for creating a world that feels eerie, or ever-so-slightly off?" "The quickest way is probably to be a slightly off person." I feel this in my soul. And this book is fantastic. Great interview @ivygrimes.bsky.social!!
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
What movie did you see way too young? The Exorcist. I had nightmares of it well into my teen years 🙃
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a person is doing a handstand on a set of stairs with pictures on the wall behind them
Alt: a person is doing a handstand on a set of stairs with pictures on the wall behind them
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
This just stirred a ton of ideas in 0.009 seconds 🤔
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A. P. Howell - Buy my book! @aphowell.com · 03/07/2025
FYI, the Must Read Media digests are Analog, Asimov's, F&SF, Alfred Hitchcock's, and Ellery Queen. I have heard very Not Good things about the contracts and, for that matter, the negotiation process. Approach these legacy print magazines with extra caution.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 03/07/2025
If you want to stop funding everything Amazon does and stands for, you’ve come to the right place. We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative for buying books online. Every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores, allowing them to continue serving their communities.
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My June reading goal was to read a book's worth of short stories from various magazines. I aimed for 40k minimum and ended with about 50k!! 🎉 Gonna share my favorite pieces soon!
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I'm SUPER excited to read this special issue. Thank you SH for making this possible! 🙏
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Pitched as black Robocop meets Gremlins, The Black Refinery is out on Strange Horizons! It's my first publication!! And a pretty good show of the dark sci-fi, dark humor I enjoy so much 🖤💜 Available here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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The Black Refinery
Obee Carter. The man who ends the world, and the man who saves it. He wears the name on his uniform, though no one reads it. There’s a badge on his uniform, at the place that once held his heart.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We're heading on vacation for July, FAM. Subs close tonight at midnight! But we'll be back open for submissions on August 15! If you're wondering what we're looking for: ⭐ Voice-driven writing ⭐ Pop culture twist ⭐ The kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Yess!! I am SO excited! Really gonna flex my creative muscles on this one! 😁
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Look at those covers! 😍
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Waubgeshig Rice @waub.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This summer look for these two great anthologies featuring Indigenous voices from across Turtle Island. I contributed a piece of writing to the one called A Steady Brightness of Being. It's a letter of love and hope to my future great-great-grandchildren ✊🏽❤️
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
ICYMI, "High Performer" by Jason Pangilinan is live on our website! This story was edited by @witchywonderer.bsky.social. The audio edition was narrated by Angelita Esperanza and produced by @xjenuine.bsky.social. Listen to or read it now: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/high...
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High Performer
Leon was a rock. Sometimes. Other times, he was a horse. At times, a cloud. Never an idea, like the economy. Never a feeling.   Leon was a lot of things, sometimes.   This time, he was a rock, in a sm...
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New fave! I also read another piece from this author on Fractured Lit. The poignant emotions in such short pieces, and while being dialogue focused. It's great writing. I love it! ❤
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
And 1 week left till I'm officially published!! Let's goo
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Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Yess!! I'm here for it! Super excited to sub something outside of this dark-scifi trip I've been on
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15/05/2025
Okay I got death on the mind but I gotta get back to work Everybody read IMAGINE YOURSELF HAPPY and I will get back to work smallwondersmag.com/piece/imagin...
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Imagine Yourself Happy - Small Wonders
Isn't that interesting? I will die in perhaps two minutes because of something I couldn't even see.
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Browned Butter ♎️🍁🍂✨ @brownedbutter.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025
Breaking News: Juneteenth Eve has been invented
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