Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Congratulations to Casey Aimer, whose poem "They Said Robots Are" (published in #Penumbric's June 2025 issue, www.penumbric.com/archives/Jun...) is a finalist for the first-ever Nebula Poetry Award! 🥰 #poem #poet #poetry #scifi 0131
Reposted by Stefani CookeElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 08/03/2026It's International Women's Day, and thus it makes sense that today is 4.17% shorter than your typical day but you still have to do as much work in it. 429075
Reposted by Stefani CookeRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 22/02/2026in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle 2373427455
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Check out my story, "The Dregs of a Fiftul Hour" in the latest issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social ! This one's for the tired out people pleasers: www.penumbric.com/currentissue...penumbric.comPenumbric February 2k26, The Dregs of a Fitful HourEdgy speculative fiction magazine 021
Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 11/02/2026And still more thanks! Rachel Rodman, @pixieb.bsky.social, and Joshua Kepfer. And to Joel Bisaillon for the cover art! 🥰🥰🥰 www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine 061
Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 11/02/2026And more thanks! @karinasteffens.bsky.social, @christinasng.bsky.social, @lisacai.bsky.social, Brian Malachy Quinn, @kitharding.bsky.social, Alison McBain, @postupak.bsky.social, Garth Upshaw ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine 162
Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Thank you to all the contributors in February's #Penumbric! Kathryn Ptacek, Vekhan Sametyaza, @nershwood.bsky.social, Carl Scharwath, @kaidelmas.bsky.social, Viviana De Cecco, @ianli.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine 1135
Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 11/02/2026And yet more thanks! @sherry-xy.bsky.social, Sydnie Beaupré, @mahailasmith.ca, @stefthescribbler.bsky.social, Irina Tall (Novikova), Alexandra Haverská, @bethcato.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine 181
Reposted by Stefani CookeGCL Boisset @gcl-boisset.bsky.social · 30/10/20259) An Unsparing Harvest by @stefthescribbler.bsky.social: people-eating tree kindly allies with human to get more food. Gentle start, chilling end, very smooth throughout 011
Reposted by Stefani CookeEdmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Candy alternatives to hand out on Halloween: - moss balls - imp eggs - banned books - unknown bones - forest gravy - slightly cursed nickels 59127
Reposted by Stefani CookeTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets. 27977186
Reposted by Stefani CookeStephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.kotowych.com Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych 3120122
Reposted by Stefani CookeDavid Jón Fuller 🇨🇦 @davidjonfuller.bsky.social · 10/10/2025You can read my horror tale set in Iceland, "Two Voices, One Song," in the latest issue of On Spec magazine, among many other great stories! @onspecmag.bsky.social 063
Reposted by Stefani CookeWeightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...weightlessbooks.comOn Spec Magazine #133 VOL 35 No 3Volume 35 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine. This issue features short stories by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm ("The Bag of Holding"), Gillian Secord ("the love song of house and lake"), John Park ("When the S... 025
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Check out my story, "An Unsparing Harvest," in the latest issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social! It's perfect for the spooky season. weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga... 032
Reposted by Stefani CookeOn Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Issue #133 is at the proofing stage now. But you can buy and read #132 while you wait! 061
Reposted by Stefani CookeLisobel Tang @lisobeltang.bsky.social · 29/08/2025So excited for my piece to be featured in the latest issue of @trampset.bsky.social. Do check it out & the amazing work of fellow writers <3 042
Reposted by Stefani CookeTyche Books 🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Today is the LAST DAY to submit stories to Fascination, a new anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish! Details: tychebooks.com/submissions 0179
Reposted by Stefani CookeOn Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Almost ready to send On Spec Issue #133 to the designer for a mid-September release. Please support us by making a small donation or purchasing a copy of issue #132 from our Ko-fi page. 083
Reposted by Stefani CookeTitania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while 410152472152
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 10/07/2025If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.media.tenor.coma blue cartoon robot with red eyes and a white collarALT: a blue cartoon robot with red eyes and a white collar 020
Reposted by Stefani CookeWeightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2025New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga... 0135
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I have a new story in Orion's Beau! Witches? ✅ Mermaids? ✅ Heartbreak ✅ What do you do when your time has come, and you have no soul left to barter for passage into the afterlife? www.orionsbeau.com/fantasy-quar...orionsbeau.comSummer 2025, The Broken Bargain of Songs for LegsOrion's Beau is a free digital arts & literary journal specializing in LGBTQ+ works of fantasy and speculative fiction. By publishing short stories, poems, and illustrations by LGBTQ+ authors and crea... 020
Reposted by Stefani CookeTyche Books 🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Wait… does this mean I have to be a nickleback fan now 494
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025If you see this, post a GIF from your favorite Studio Ghibli film.media.tenor.coma cartoon of a woman and a monster with wingsALT: a cartoon of a woman and a monster with wings 000
Reposted by Stefani CookeFantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 23/01/2025for the evening crowd - Fantasy is BACK!🐉 Subscribe so we can stick around - maybe even grow & bring you lots of awesome things! psychopomp.com/fantasy/ 💖WRITERS💖 - Submissions are open! Jan 22-25 open to work by BIPOC authors Jan 26-29 general subs for everyone psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...psychopomp.comFantasy Homepage - PSYCHOPOMP.COMOur next issue features amazing short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. Issue drops June 1st, 2025! 04925
Reposted by Stefani CookePsychopomp @psychopomp.com · 15/01/2025Announcement: Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine WELCOME BACK, FANTASY! full details here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga... 45643313
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 31/12/20242024 was a beautifully chaotic year! Writing-wise, two more publications under my belt (a micro in @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social Drabble Dark III, and an upcoming pub in @penumbricmag.bsky.social), and in December, my greatest composition: my newborn son 😊. Wishing everyone a wonderful 2025! 010
Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Not that I even need to say this, judging from my mailbox lol, but our #fiction and #poetry submissions window is now open! It will be open through 15 March. The #art submissions window of course continues to be open. See our submissions guidelines at www.penumbric.com/subs.html 0205
Reposted by Stefani CookeOn Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 13/12/2024People ask when we will open to submissions. Probably early in 2025. With a slight change. This round of submissions will consider stories and poems written by Canadians only. While we’ve found wonderful work by non-Canadians, we need to return to our roots. 1306
Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Oh, and how about a link lol ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue...penumbric.comPenumbric December 2k24, ToCEdgy speculative fiction magazine 065
Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10/12/2024And still more thank-yous! @lynnesargent.bsky.social, @artbyfirestar.bsky.social, and Maureen Bowden. And to @umbra-ludus.bsky.social for the cover art! I could never do this without you all! 🥰 #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror 273
Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Thank you to all the contributors in December's #Penumbric! Yuliia Vereta, Mike Morgan, Tim Hildebrandt, Ritiksha Sharma, Zary Fekete, Denny E. Marshall, @simonchris.bsky.social, Kasia Runté, Meg O’Connor, Adele Gardner, Sonali Roy ... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror 184
Reposted by Stefani CookeKaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 13/10/2024Using AI doesn’t make writing easier, it just robs you of everything that makes the hard part worthwhile. 06021
Reposted by Stefani CookePenumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Congratulations to @marisca.bsky.social and @christinasng.bsky.social for making @datlow.bsky.social's recommendation list, Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen (2023) for work in #Penumbric! 🥰 173
Reposted by Stefani CookeMely @coffeeandink.bsky.social · 30/07/2024Pouring one out for Francine Pascal, best known for the Sweet Valley High books (I read at least two dozen) and the pre-franchise Victoria Martin trilogy, starting with timeslip fantasy Hangin' Out with Cici, and ending with Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo, still an all-time great title. 🎁🔗nytimes.comFrancine Pascal, Creator of ‘Sweet Valley High’ Book Series, Dies at 92The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing. 14244118
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 29/03/2024So excited to be in @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social 's Drabbledark III with such awesome company! www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWM6FN6... 000
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 31/12/2023Pieces in Ryga: www.rygajournal.ca/current-issu... Piece in Hearth and Coffin: www.hearthandcoffin.com/post/i-can-b... 000
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 31/12/2023As 2023 closes, I have learned to not give up on my dreams. It was the year I achieved 5(!) publications through Ryga Journal, Hearth and Coffin, and a piece in an upcoming drabble collection. Cheers to more in 2024! 🥂 000
Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 09/12/2023Finally got an invite for Bluesky and happy to be here! 040
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With brains that process information almost like a computer, the sea creatures already use tools and can be social. But they need to make a few changes before they can take over the world.
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