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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 2027 Apex Magazine Kickstarter kicks off TOMORROW! ⏰⏰⏰ If you want to be notified when our page goes live and snag some early bird swag, sign up to follow the campaign below. Thank you for supporting another year of strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff! 💜👽

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Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fyi: You can keep a pretty tight eye on some of the current best sff writers and stories out there by just following the @fusionfragment.bsky.social FFer Read of the Day posts.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You'll wanna check this one out! I swear, M.R.'s been publishing one banger after another the past couple years.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you an editor or publisher with an original short fiction project of weird fiction out this year? Anthology? Magazine? Collection? Get it in for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Blessed Autumn to all those who celebrate and rejoice in its splendour.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spotted in the wild.

The best Weird Fiction of the Year 2 on a library shelf

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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A lovely, quiet, and subtly eerie story about the power of art to shift perspective and open up new worlds made literal - Cosmic Passage by @sbfeldman.bsky.social www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/cosmic-passage

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Cosmic Passage — Weird Horror Magazine

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 15/09/2026

The 2026 LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE Kickstarter is NOW LIVE! Check out our star-studded lineup of authors & peruse our rewards: subscriptions, signed books, rare magazine collectibles, t-shirts, mugs, and other fun stuff. Thank you in advance if you're able to offer your support.💖 bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A reminder that my collection Glass Stories is available from Grimscribe Press! Here's one of the stories in this collection, featured in @ergot.bsky.social : www.ergot.press/authors/Ivy_...

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ergot. innovative horror

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 08/09/2026

We’ve published dark fiction for 27 years, and don’t want to stop any time soon. We believe stories can inspire growth, change perspectives, and are essential components of every culture. If you agree, support our Kickstarter for another year of great tales. kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You too can experience this disquieting tome.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i hear we're celebrating Canada today. what better way to do that than by supporting one of the coolest Canadian weird fiction indie publishers around (who also happens to be having an incredible sale on eBooks).

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey pals, come follow my next BackerKit campaign and help me bring a TIME LOOP ANTHOLOGY to life next month!! (It will have an open submission period for writers in October.) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

<alt>opportunity window: a time loop anthology, with artwork by Mildred McMillen edited to be framed within multiple smaller frames; it shows a person in a painting studio by an attic window</alt>

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you haven't read the short story "We Whose Fathers Have Transformed into Wild Animals of the Land, Sea, and Sky" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social from our 🌟June 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! It's about what we inherit from our fathers, and you can read it here: havenspec.com/fiction/we-w...

An excerpt of the short story "We Whose Fathers Have Transformed into Wild Animals of the Land, Sea, and Sky" by Spencer Nitkey, in Issue 23 of Haven Spec Magazine (June 2026). The text reads:

Kaye dreams of killing his father. When I am not terrified of this dream, I am so jealous that I wish I could steal it through his lips. I don’t know what I’d do if I ever saw my father again. Kaye’s certainty calms me, violent as it is. Now, as Kaye stares down the sight of his rifle and the tremendous buck we’ve been tracking for three days comes up from the brush, he is closer than ever to achieving it. In the Sierra Nevada, mosquito-bitten and muddy, I am not jealous. My tongue tastes of pennies, and more than anything, I am sorry. I want to take Kaye in my hands, run his calloused fingers across my beard, and ground him in something, anything, other than the circle of his scope and his father’s beating heart.

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Red and Gold, by Carly A-F. It shows a skeletal figure with fire and branches for hair as they loom over a solitary human figure in the foreground.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Completely stunned. @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons is a World Fantasy Award finalist in Collection, and Long Fiction. Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 is a finalist in Anthology, and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece's St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls is a finalist! bit.ly/4fS9xoP

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2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

zombie Ray Bradbury be like there will come soft brains

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh wow. Congrats to the finalists. Honored to be included with these authors. Thanks to World Fantasy Con, the judges, @clarkesworldmagazine.com, and @undertow.bsky.social. And thanks to readers who enjoyed and talked about these stories. Really means a lot.

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2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

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L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day! users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 24/07/2026

We're still pushing away at our goal of giving our entire team a raise in celebration of our 20th anniversary issue in October. Each subscription takes us one step closer. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ There isn't a better way to thank them for their part in the last 20 and the next 20.

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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Obsessed with this cover!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Weird Horror 12 is free on line! 4 stories recommended by Locus. They're all killer. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/issue-12

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ISSUE 12 — Weird Horror Magazine

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Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A little outside my usual style and genre, I have a literary fiction story (about baseball — kind of) out in the Twin Bill’s All-Star issue. Really love the original art by Dominick Porto that accompanies the story, too. Captures its feeling really well. thetwinbill.com/what-happens...

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What Happens Next - The Twin Bill

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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Final Chronicle of Yeneh is out today! A genre-bender full of sentient alien plants & portal fantasy adventure. A duke’s granddaughter rushes to discover the truth about her planet’s native life before her family's terraforming wipes it out. www.jomiles.com/yeneh #booksky #newrelease

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The Final Chronicle of Yeneh - Jo Miles

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S.L. Harris @slharris.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New story up at ergot. What if an insular patriarchal cargo cult founded on the New Testament epistles and a few soggy bits of Peter Pan were sacrificing its children to endless war with the birds? What if not all the middle kids and archaeopteryxes follow the script? www.ergot.press/authors/S.L....

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I always love Maria's reviews & I love it even more when one of my stories is included! Thanks to @mariahaskins.com for reading & @flashfictiononline.bsky.social for publishing!

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

And, hey, not to be all “it’s my birthday, buy my book” but… it’s my birthday, subscribe to my magazine? OTHERSIDE has defined this year for me. I’m really proud of the work we’re doing. You can access back issues via Patreon, too! Treat yourself to 60,000 words of queer SFF for as little as $2!

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OTHERSIDE — a magazine of the queer fantastic.

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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

More weird fiction! ALL THE WEIRD FICTION!!!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Thrilled to see Locus's 'Year's Best' fund in a day. Reminder that our little 'Best Of' could use some pre-order love, as well. If you're able and inclined. We think it's pretty good. You might, as well. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

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

Pre-Order. Shipping October 2026. 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 ...

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "What Is A Lake Beyond An Extinct Word?" is a short story by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social about drought and the broken promises of a not-too-distant future, and you can read it now! havenspec.com/fiction/what...

An excerpt of the short story "What Is A Lake Beyond An Extinct Word?" by Corey Farrenkopf, in Issue 23 of Haven Spec Magazine (June 2026). The text reads:

The cabin is cool compared to the elements outside. It holds some ghost scent of fresh water, the whisper of times not so hard, times when people could still float a house across a lake to better lands, to a future not so hollowed-out and ravaged by their past decisions. She wonders what it was like to truly believe in better. How it was a reality for her grandfather when he was her age.

Mattie gives a little laugh.

What even is a lake anymore beyond an extinct word?

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Red and Gold, by Carly A-F. It shows a skeletal figure with fire and branches for hair as they loom over a solitary human figure in the foreground.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "We Whose Fathers Have Transformed into Wild Animals of the Land, Sea, and Sky" is a short story by @spencerwriting.bsky.social about the pain and trauma we inherit from our fathers, and you can read it now! buff.ly/bWOUiVI

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Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yes you can!

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

STP Issue #14 is out! With stories about eating children; guys turning into telephones; malignant grimoires; 'The Connoisseur'; and resurrecting the 9/11 hijackers in order to publicly execute them.

Cover of Seize The Press Magazine Issue 14, showing a fanged person with their head through the bottom of an alligator's jaw, while multiple eyeballs hang from their eye socket.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Writing tip: Give your protagonist a pet cat. In the final pages, shift to the cat's point of view. Follow the cat outside, through moonlit woods, to a pasture where cows kneel in worship around a glowing spacecraft. As the cat trots up its gangway, we glimpse in the windows an all-cat crew.

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Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My story---We Whose Fathers Have Transformed into Wild Animals of the Land, Sea, and Sky---is free to read now. You should read it. It's about masculinity and queerness and anger and grief, and what we inherit from our fathers. and there's a bunch of animals in it havenspec.com/fiction/we-w...

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We Whose Fathers Have Transformed into Wild Animals of the Land, Sea, and Sky, Haven Spec Magazine

"We Whose Fathers Have Transformed into Wild Animals of the Land, Sea, and Sky" by Spencer Nitkey

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Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is such a cool thing to do, and, man, what an artist! Also, this story, like usual, is phenomenal. Everyone should read it ASAP.

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 02/07/2026

It was an honor to make this piece for ‘Our Revels Are Now Ended’ (and as you can probably tell I had a ton of fun working on it). It’s a brilliant short story and I can’t recommend you read it highly enough!

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Very glad to have a new story "In a God's Hand" up in the ever potent KEEP PLANNING

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 29/06/2026

Are you a reviewer on Insta or Tiktok (where I dare not tread) interested in an ARC of DEAD BOYS DONT CRY when it's available? Let me know!

Announcement for Dead Boys Don't Cry by Joe Koch, coming out in June 2027, described as a cosmic-erotic slasher and queer anti-murder mystery told through interlocking stories, pitched as Cruising meets Robbe-Grillet's The Erasers.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "We Whose Fathers Have Transformed into Wild Animals of the Land, Sea, and Sky" is a short story by @spencerwriting.bsky.social about the pain we pass through each generation (and also therapy). Subscribers can read it now! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

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