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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 3h

When you got a story you really like coming out late in the year … man awards season starts as soon as the last season ends, huh.

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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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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026

hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

my story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 17/09/2026

Private prisons are bad, but they’re a small part of the system. Mass incarceration is driven by public policy & spending — choices made by your elected officials.

Pie chart showing that less than 9% of confined people are held in private prisons: 13,000 held for local jail systems, 6,000 held for youth systems, 43,000 held of ICE & Office of Refugee Resettlement, 33,000 held for BoP & USMS, and 75,000 held for state prison systems.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

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Boycott The New York Times

For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...

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Erik Ostrom @erikostrom.com · 18/09/2026

I just stopped putting this off, and took about ten minutes to gather my thoughts about what I want Minneapolis to be like in 2050. I'm an amateur; you can be an amateur too!

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I need to emphasize how close the memorial is to a school, one which (among other things) does a lot of early childhood education and early intervention programs for the district, just to make the picture a little bleaker.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Under a Malevolent Eye is perhaps our darkest release yet. If you like stories about how our lives fall apart under inescapable surveillance, this one is for you. www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/unde...

Someone is always watching
...a soulless immigration agent...
...a sinister period-tracking app...
...a boss with impossible demands...
...a deceptively cutesy AI “assistant”...
Read Under a Malevolent EYe
an anthology of surveillance horrors:
https://www.cursedmorelspress.com

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026

"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 14/09/2026

The time is NOW, friends. The 2027 Lambda Literary Awards season is officially open. ✨ lambdaliteraryawards.submittable.com/submit #lammys2027

A starry dark background with the Lambda Literary Awards seal and the text “The 2027 Lammy Awards now accepting submissions 9.14.26 - 11.22.26 in the following categories:
Bisexual Fiction
Bisexual Nonfiction
Bisexual Poetry
Gay Fiction
Gay Memoir/Biography
Gay Poetry
Gay Romance
Lesbian Fiction
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
Lesbian Poetry
Lesbian Romance
LGBTQ+ Anthology
LGBTQ+ Children’s Books
LGBTQ+ Comics
LGBTQ+ Drama
LGBTQ+ Middle Grade
LGBTQ+ Mystery
LGBTQ+ Nonfiction
LGBTQ+ Poetry
LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica
LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
LGBTQ+ Studies
LGBTQ+ Young Adult
Transgender Fiction
Transgender Nonfiction
Transgender Poetry

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/09/2026

“but the candidates have been decided already!” The election hasn’t. It’s in two months. They can change their stance TODAY. They can stand up today and say “I was wrong and I’m going to support trans folk now”. They can just do that.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/09/2026

"why won't you vote for the left candidate who just doesn't support trans folk?" because a person who doesn't support trans folk isn't on the left. next question

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026

also: campaigns will stop calling and texting if you’ve already voted. so there’s that.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026

minnesota: we’re the first in the nation to early vote, let’s show the rest of the country that this is another way we show up and stop the onslaught of violence against our neighbors. let’s get these fascists out of power. join people this friday, 10AM at the hennepin county government center.

THEY TAKE OUR NEIGHBORS, WE TAKE THEIR POWER.
Rally+Vote 10AM
Friday the 18th
Hennepin County
Government Center
I
Voted
Minnesota is the first state to early vote. Let's show up in record numbers make the fascists afraid.
We protect our neighbors.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

god, i wish more people bought depressing stuff. shout out to the handful of people buying depressing stuff.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our open call for horror and Weird fiction collections ends on Monday. If you have something that fits our guidelines (please read them!), send it in: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN Until September 14th) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideal…

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 11/09/2026

narrative podcasts that purports to be a husband-and-wife hobby podcast but really is a fictional story about their marriage slowly unraveling over the course of a 24 episode season. the "real" narrative is told through agonizingly sparse clues buried in two hour episodes about lego or something

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

SO! If you back the project in the first 24hrs, you can get the ebook and paperback at a discount! (I almost made it $24 but forgot lmao so look! extra dollars off!) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

graphic showing an ebook and paperback mockup for OPPORTUNITY WINDOW; if you back the project at "professional time traveler" tier in the first 24 hours, it comes out to $22USD (shipping not included)

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

Please don't make me do a canva graphic, but FORGED IN FIYAH is part of that recurring Barnes & Noble quarterly preorder thing they do. Members get 25% off with code PREORDER25. Again. As it ever was. www.barnesandnoble.com/search?q=For...

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Search results for "Forged in fiyah"

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Book friends! I am a freelance proofreader looking for more work. I have done a bunch of work with Tor, but I will happily also do nonfiction. Are you a publisher or self-pub author who needs a proofreader, or know one? Please DM. (Please boost for visibility, if you don't mind)

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Boosting this again! If you live in NYC and want to get involved in anti-deportation/ anti-ICE efforts, immigration court accompaniment is one of the most helpful things you can do.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

randomly qt'ing this because I was seized with the memory of how good this book was when I saw the cover. Horror thriller/supernatural lesbian threesome, full of ghosts both literal & figurative. My friend told me i better read it, and as usual, She Was Right.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ilhan has finally acquired the materials for the Labor Gundam

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A rainbow stack for all seasons! Featuring all Neon Hemlock titles. Neon Hemlock is THEE premier queer SFFH indie press. Top notch fiction chosen with the very best eye! Everything they put out is a must read for me and something I highly recommend to you!!

[A stack of books (bottom to top): SHATTER THE SUN ed. dave ring, CALL AND RESPONSE by Cadwell Turnbull, A NECESSARY CHAOS by Brent C. Lambert, THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan, REDUNDANCIES AND POTENTIALS by Dom Dickey, UNCOMMON CHARM by Emily Bergslien and Kat Weaver, THE SECRET SKIN by Wendy Wagner, NO SUCH THING AS DUTY by Lara Elena Donnelly, STONE AND STEEL by Eboni Dunbar]

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also if you have a drink with activated charcoal mixed in (or I suspect food with it while drinking) you might think you’re not that tipsy. And you won’t feel that tipsy. Until, suddenly, and without warning—

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Also I know (from living w a Floridian) that the people crave more swamps in fantasy. More wetlands. More tropics and subtropics. Why four seasons (boring, unrealistic) when there could be just a wet and dry season (normal, sensible). Actually if anyone has recs, I’d take them.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This perhaps seems contrary to wanting weirder, less tidy stories, but I want so badly for there to be thought about cause/effect, resource collection/allocation, and (if there’s a “this is like medieval [x] or European renaissance [y]” vibe) more engagement w/ what symbols/systems are borrowed.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 05/09/2026

i need all of you to see this amazing project (MAGAZINE!!!!!!) by @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app this is exactly my thing, and if you follow me? it might be exactly your thing too! clicky link!!! soundandcolormag.com

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Sound & Color

A digital interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sometimes I wish the general SFFH industry at large would admit, and when I say at large I include everyone writers, publishers, and other entities, that there has been a big turn against Black and brown writers and then also within that group queer, women, disabled people

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Honestly honestly honestly would love if every publisher and mag listed word count along with page count/up by the byline/somewhere in the front matter. Others have noted it would probably help more works get nommed for novella/novelette categories in different awards—and I just want the number!

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very grateful to see such a kind review and a recommendation for this bleak/weird/ugly story: “Lightspeed’s June issue kicks off in grand style with ‘Ghost in the Tank’ … It’s a vividly told story about a world, and a relationship where every good moment feels stolen, broken, and, eventually, lost.”

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Ghost in the Tank - Lightspeed Magazine

The first time you killed me, I cried like a baby. Stupid, stupid, to cry over something make-believe—stupid and ugly and pathetic, too, when already the only thing I wanted in the world was for you ...

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Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I sent more than 40 data requests and called more people than I could keep count of to figure out what Operation Metro Surge did to Minnesota school enrollment and what happened to the kids who disappeared. Our story is out today — please give it a read.

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When the story of Metro Surge is told in media, don't for a moment, through the outpouring of solidarity and community building, despite the heroism, forget that it sucked ass every single day and some days it was like the sun had been blocked from the world

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Since I've received a decent amount of new followers lately, I should really do a pinned thread of my 2026 publications.

Collage of covers and logos for magazines my work has appeared in. Text in right hand corner says "meagan kane 2026."

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thanks Scott! If you liked "Saul & Noah's Hot Bouleutophagy Summer" by @elijah.mea.rs in the latest issue of Adventitious, I suspect you will also like Under a Malevolent Eye! Or you won't. But how will you know, unless you try???

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Willy Lee (they/them) @advicepig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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Mutual aid group in Mpls getting basic necessities to our houseless neighbors

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This thread is so important because yes, we actually did anarchy and it won literal awards, and we cannot and should not kick any piece of that movement out. Every single tactic mattered and they all need to be on the bus to a better future.

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Reskeeting this again with a link to the ebook which is really, actually, shockingly cheap. www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/unde...

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Under a Malevolent Eye ebook | Cursed Morsels Press

Under a Malevolent Eye ebook

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

usually right around now i'm getting close to a million words for the year. this year--

Screenshot of spreadsheet. Total: 652,524. Total Average: 2776.697872.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The answer is yes, and submissions for the food systems anthology are open NOW through September 14th (the same end date as before--don't worry!) Read submission guidelines here and submit something awesome: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN NOW UNTIL FILLED) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideally, …

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Neon Hemlock Kickstarter ends in ONE HOUR. Go go support them, these novellas look AMAZING. AND they're closing in on their next stretch goal 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

i cannot sound serious about self promo if i'm writing it past like seven at night, it's all "this story is my beautiful adult son" or "I think if Dashiell Hammett was alive today, he would maybe forgive me for this story, but probably think I was a loser."

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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"i should make a little collage for each published work as a fun treat/creative palette cleanser/handy visual for my stories," i said to myself, foolishly, on jan 1st. sometimes you say shit and later on you go, "that guy has not had a kid that long, huh." i still think it would be cool! but man.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 24/08/2026

Heba Gowayed is totally right, and there is a robust literature for it. Bureaucratic violence is harm administered without overt force, through decision-making, paperwork, inaction, and exclusion. It reads as separate stories because responsibility is distributed in ways that avoid accountability.

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Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com · 22/08/2026

ATTENTION INDIE PUB FOLKS: If you publish anything with Ingram, you have to SUBMIT THIS FORM to Opt Out of Physical Sales to AI Companies. It takes 2 minutes. www.ingramcontent.com/page/ai-opt-... #BookSky

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AI Opt Out

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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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Katie @katiestp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Guys I volunteered to donate skymiles to get folks home after they’re released from detention. My first person got home last night and I am just over here like 🥹😭 One way flights are often under 50k miles. They don’t need to be skymiles either. Please consider. www.standwithminnesota.com/skymiles

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Donate Your Miles — Stand With Minnesota

Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

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Kat Weaver @anoteinpink.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Faye's & my fantasy story "The Light Her Shadows Cast" is in this issue! 💎 Teen heroine Edda saved the world, but she couldn't save her best friend...unless she gets another chance (or several)

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