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Literary Magazine From Other Dimensions || Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction & Words from Other Worlds || et cetera. outlooksprings.com

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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet.” This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
YOOOOO Are you missing Outlook Springs issues from your collection? Want the entire run for the lowest price possible outside of a cool heist? You can get them 25% with free shipping with the code EAHOLIDAYPREP26 through tomorrow (10/8). outlooksprings.com/issues/
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We love it: contributor Despy Boutris’s poem FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS, I DON'T EAT UNTIL HUNGRY was published in @outlooksprings.bsky.social! 👏 Read it right here. buff.ly/fcomKEm
Black birds sitting on a telephone line.
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This Halloween season, treat your trick to truly unexpected (even under-the-radar) horrors with my 2023 story collection The Last Vanishing Man (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social) or 2024 novella Changes in the Land (@lethepress.bsky.social). Queer and loathing for all!
Cover of The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories, with an image by photographer Julie Hamel. Entirely black and white. A naked man hangs by one arm from a wooden ladder in a hayloft. The title of the book is interwoven in the hay and gently covering most of the man's butt because our distributor thought that would be best.Cover of Changes in the Land, designed by Jeremy John Parker. Big ominous red eye above the title. A man stands with his back to us on a kind of pond of blood. Eerie branches and such circle the image. Dominant colors are red, yellow, dark brown, black.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey hey it’s the @bestofthenet.bsky.social nominations! Congrats y’all!
Graphic poster for Outlook Springs announcing its “Best of the Net Nominations.” Large hand-drawn OUTLOOK SPRINGS lettering sits above a list of nominated fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, with handwritten category labels and arrows. Black-and-white cartoon monsters and a mutant plant emerging from a radioactive barrel decorate the poster, over rough mint-green crayon-like scribbles. Nominees include Maya Beck, Lis Anna-Langston, Josh Orr, Rolli, Sarah Aziz, Gia Clark-Grillo, Vince Montague, Philip Jason, and Carlota Gamboa.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Normalize pronouncing macadamias like Ozymandias.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have started reporting ads for AI products as scams.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AI, smart enough to make dumb people feel smart but stupid enough to kill us all.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Anecdotal or data: it's increasingly difficult to find publications that take short stories longer than 4k words?
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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Victoria Hood won our 2021 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest for her story collection MY HAUNTED HOME ~ now @toriiellen.bsky.social is here to read your nonfiction ⬇️
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
We're happy to announce that Victoria Hood, most recently author of Destroy Me, Desecrate My Bones, has joined our ranks as Nonfiction Editor! Give a warm welcome to @toriiellen.bsky.social!
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We hit our submission cap like five days into May so we'll re-open for a week in June for those who'd like a shot at getting into issue 10.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
OS contributor Aimee Pokwatka has a new novel coming out! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788374...
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Accumulation by Aimee Pokwatka: 9798217047628 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A twisty, searing, conversation-starting novel about a filmmaker-turned-housewife who moves into her dream house and is forced to consider whether it's the house or herself that is haunted. When docu...
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🌊🧩Perpetua🪭☔️ @barrylarkin06.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🎯 I love John Waters..met him in San Fransico Whole Foods, we struck up a conversation; reading the same book, 'Man In A Blue Scarf' author sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud. Talked about having his portrait painted via zoom by Tilda's husband SandroK. He , John was charming. Tall, elegant.🌁 🌉
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Send us your stuff, or share this with your writer friends so they can send us their stuff, which is probably better than your stuff anyway.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We need your helping hands for Issue 10.
Poster for Outlook Springs featuring two yellow mannequin hands stacked together beneath the title. Text reads: “OUTLOOK SPRINGS — From the interdimensional press of Langston Brumbletooth.” A red sticker notes “Deadline May 15th.” The poster invites submissions: “Send us your strange stories, essays, poems — or they can be a little normal,” with the website outlooksprings.com at the bottom.
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Ah yes this is why I got into education: so I can watch 2 robots shitting into each others’ mouths
BBC news item illustrated with a female teacher working ar her desktop computer who looks like she’s staring into the abyss:

Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says

The government says Al should only be used for "low-stakes" marking

Hazel Shearing >
Education correspondent
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Mark your calendars or drop a silver dollar in the swamp so the chronotoads whisper a reminder to you while you sleep.
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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Want a creepy nostalgic story to start off your weekend? Your wish is my command (as long as your wish is this very specific wish for a creepy nostalgic story)
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Sunday Stories: “We Buy Houses”
We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c…
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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Now that you're back from AWP or recovered from your AWP fomo, remember that we're open for submissions until the 15th! We would particularly love to see more visual art and non-fiction/essay work!
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Writers with MFAs (or PhDs): The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University (where I teach!) is hiring a full-time, tenure-track, Associate Programs Director at the Assistant Professor rank. (On campus in Louisville 2-3 days/week.) www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
OS contributor @shastagrant.bsky.social has a new book coming out! Pre-order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/when...
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When We Were Feral
Check out When We Were Feral - Thirteen-year-old Maggie lives in a trailer on the edge of a rural New Hampshire town, where her brother barely speaks, her father works double shifts at the gun factory...
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
when the body is the mother tongue By Sarah Aziz From Issue No. 9
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when the body is the mother tongue
A poem by Sarah Aziz from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Outlook Springs contributor Kyle Minor has an amazing new book out! These essays explore things that disappear, like ghosts and civilizations and your career.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Most unexpected sequel. Not even the same author or genre. Weird.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
OS contributor Dave Housley has a new book out: asterismbooks.com/product/alie... Buy it and while you're waiting, read this story: www.outlooksprings.com/stories/here...
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Here All Along
A story by Dave Housley from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We need your helping hands for Issue 10.
Poster for Outlook Springs featuring two yellow mannequin hands stacked together beneath the title. Text reads: “OUTLOOK SPRINGS — From the interdimensional press of Langston Brumbletooth.” A red sticker notes “Deadline May 15th.” The poster invites submissions: “Send us your strange stories, essays, poems — or they can be a little normal,” with the website outlooksprings.com at the bottom.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
OS contributor Dave Housley has a new book out: asterismbooks.com/product/alie... Buy it and while you're waiting, read this story: www.outlooksprings.com/stories/here...
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Here All Along
A story by Dave Housley from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Hey writers: How are you finding markets and tracking your submissions? Duotrope? Chillsubs? The Submission Grinder? Good old fashioned spreadsheet?
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Most unexpected sequel. Not even the same author or genre. Weird.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Outlook Springs contributor Kyle Minor has an amazing new book out! These essays explore things that disappear, like ghosts and civilizations and your career.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Hey writers: How are you finding markets and tracking your submissions? Duotrope? Chillsubs? The Submission Grinder? Good old fashioned spreadsheet?
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
when the body is the mother tongue By Sarah Aziz From Issue No. 9
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when the body is the mother tongue
A poem by Sarah Aziz from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Many of the coloring pages in the new issue contain rare Outlook Springs history nuggets.
Black-and-white line illustration of a tall, patterned lighthouse with swirling wave and cloud designs, beams of light shining from the top. Stylized clouds float around it, and small bushes sit at the base. Text beside the lighthouse reads: “Outlook Springs’ sixth attempt at a UFO landing site. The first five were destroyed upon landing, resulting in the lowest Yelp rating for any UFO landing site.”
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
movie poems are the best poems, ask any movie
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Sorcerer (1977) Dir. William Friedkin
A poem by Gia Clark-Grillo from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
movie poems are the best poems, ask any movie
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Sorcerer (1977) Dir. William Friedkin
A poem by Gia Clark-Grillo from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Don't forget to sign up for the Speculative Fiction Salon this Saturday! 🪐🌱🏳️‍🌈 Featuring a stellar panel of authors from ECO24: Best Speculative Ecofiction and We're Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Sliding scale tickets for both in-person and virtual attendees available here! ⬇️
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ECO24: A Speculative Fiction Salon | Live Stream - Writers & Books
David DeGraff, Jennifer Hudak, Cassandra Scherr, Kristina Ten Can speculative fiction save the earth? This unique and powerful genre welcomes writers and readers to imagine new ecological possibiliti...
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Many of the coloring pages in the new issue contain rare Outlook Springs history nuggets.
Black-and-white line illustration of a tall, patterned lighthouse with swirling wave and cloud designs, beams of light shining from the top. Stylized clouds float around it, and small bushes sit at the base. Text beside the lighthouse reads: “Outlook Springs’ sixth attempt at a UFO landing site. The first five were destroyed upon landing, resulting in the lowest Yelp rating for any UFO landing site.”
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"When I was ten years old, I found a magical worm in my body."
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Bone Worms and Other Friends
A story by Tali Chais from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
One of the many coloring pages inside Issue9. Operators are waiting to take your order.
Black-and-white line drawing of a whimsical scene: a fox sits in a clawfoot bathtub floating among clouds, while below a woman in a wide-brimmed hat rides a large turtle, having tea with a loaf of bread on a small cloth.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
One of the many coloring pages inside Issue9. Operators are waiting to take your order.
Black-and-white line drawing of a whimsical scene: a fox sits in a clawfoot bathtub floating among clouds, while below a woman in a wide-brimmed hat rides a large turtle, having tea with a loaf of bread on a small cloth.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"When I was ten years old, I found a magical worm in my body."
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Bone Worms and Other Friends
A story by Tali Chais from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Outlook Springs is open for submissions! Send them weird stuff you've written! Before they published me, I thought I was just a loser dweeb. After they published me, I still thought I was a loser dweeb ... but at least I'd been published by Outlook Springs. I wish this for you.
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Bryan Harvey @bryanharvey.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Outlook Springs has published some Bigfoot stories. I don't know if that means they've met their Bigfoot quota or are looking for more, though
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Christopher Mark Rose @chrisrose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Charm City Spec alumna and spectabulous storyteller Amber Sparks had a story in Outlook Springs—how did we miss that?
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A Short and Slightly Speculative History of Lavoisier’s Wife
A story by Amber Sparks from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
We're open for your submission and your submissions and your missions and your subs, of all sorts.
The text reads "Outlook Springs, from the Interdimensional Press of Langston Brumbletooth. Submissions for Issue 10. Send us your strange Fiction, Essays, Poetry Febriary 15th through May 15th." There is an illustration of a goat-headed person in a yellow sweater, a green skirt, desert-camo leggings, and athletic shoes. Behind this creature is a cloud, some smoke, and a giant eyeball with green nerve endins straying behind it like a comet.
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Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
We're open for your submission and your submissions and your missions and your subs, of all sorts.
The text reads "Outlook Springs, from the Interdimensional Press of Langston Brumbletooth. Submissions for Issue 10. Send us your strange Fiction, Essays, Poetry Febriary 15th through May 15th." There is an illustration of a goat-headed person in a yellow sweater, a green skirt, desert-camo leggings, and athletic shoes. Behind this creature is a cloud, some smoke, and a giant eyeball with green nerve endins straying behind it like a comet.
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Jeremy John Parker @jeremyjohnparker.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
We are open for business. SEQUENTIAL WORD BUSINESS. Send us your writing or tell your friends to send us their writing. Tell strangers who look like they might write; maybe you'll make a new friend who will later inevitably betray you.
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
@outlooksprings.bsky.social is opening soon and they’re brilliant
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