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Suz Jay

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Art-obsessed writer and editor | bookreviewer | SHUWPF graduate | she/her

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 14h
It's time! The @apexmag.bsky.social 2027 Kickstarter is live! Help us fund another year of strange, shocking, beautiful, and surreal speculative fiction! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 12h
If you buy a copy/sub through Weightless, it supports us AND a very cool hub for speculative fiction.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 12h
The Morning Monty is annoyed that the sun can’t make up its mind today; he’s not even gonna get up for a merely temporary patch of warms.
Fluffy gray tabby looking vaguely forlorn as he lies on the arm of a couch that’s covered with cat-scratch fabric. For obvious reasons. His eyes are gold, his front right gimpy paw is extended forward, and he appears to be on the cusp of a tremendous sigh.
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12h
Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now! Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... (The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
2026 Fiction Submissions
5k max word count
1000 story cap
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/
Issue 3: Ekphrasis
Between October 17 and November 17, guest editor Zachary Gillan will accept submissions of weird flash fiction that features ekphrasis.
Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art.
Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it.
We want stories that live at the intersection of the two. Pieces that emphasize the eerie power of weird art, whether fully ekphrastic or embedded within a traditional narrative. How does the weird seep in as reality is doubly estranged from these two layers of representation? Cursed paintings, uncanny statues, haunted mezzotints-send us your stories of weird art.
Publication date: February 1, 2027
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Starting to work on the edits for the December issue of Nightmare -- my final issue. Definitely feeling a little emotional about it!
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Instead of being like, lets shut down these plagiarizers, planet killers and destroyers of literacy, it's let them steal and generate that as bait. That's not a serious take. You can't delineate what the void swallows with a ivy league style fence. It'll swallow your fence.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And don't get me started on the misogyny of it all.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I come from a lit background. I started off writing literary and some of my work is often categorized as literary horror. I'm kind of side tracked writing a lit/horror book now. Which genre this year had some of the biggest controversies over AI use? Lit, iirc. So why point fingers at romance?
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am not a romance writer (yet, you never know) but I like including romance plots in my own writing and I like reading romance novels, especially queer romance and writing good romance takes tons of skill. It's tired and boring to see people continually put down this genre.
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Jeb 🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @jebdarsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
TIME LOOPS ARE A GO If you havent backed this you should
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I like a good romance book and we need humans writing romance not the slop machine. Romance is a human joy. 😘
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Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TWO WEEKS?! TWO. WEEKS.
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KM Praschak @kmpraschak.bsky.social · 16h
My poem "Takoyaki Tuesday" is out at Kaleidotrope! Thank you, Fred! kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2026/...
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'Takoyaki Tuesday' by K.M. Praschak
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 16h
Happy haunted month for us hothouse flowers who only thrive under the precise conditions of October
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 15h
every JCO take is the kind of thing your meanest, least-sober great aunt might announce at thanksgiving dinner. sometimes you're like yeah, let em have it!! and then very shortly you're like uh oh aunt joyce time for bed
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 15h
We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 15h
It's official, and time for my annual post: HAPPY 1ST DAY OF SP🎃🎃KY SEASON!
Illustration of a pumpkin person with a pumpkin head, wearing a pink robe, holding a mug of coffee with ghost smoke coming out of it, standing in front of an open window, looking out happily.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 16h
Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca
Cover for PALE GREY IDOL. Featuring black background with maori art of a tribal mask. Yelloe and grey font colors. 

Hello Undertow Family,


It's my great pleasure today to announce publication of a new journal — Pale Grey Idol.


Pale Grey Idol will be an occasional offering. The impetus behind it is to give a home to stories that don't quite fit the needs or aesthetic of Weird Horror magazine.


Some of you may recall the first journal I edited, Shadows & Tall Trees. Pale Grey Idol is very much cast in that mold. A slim journal styled after those first issues of Shadows & Tall Trees, presenting curious tales of the ineffable. Back to our roots, as it were.


An aspect of this new venture that might sadden some of you is that I am not fulfilling direct orders for the journal. I'm sorry about this but hope you'll understand and still support Pale Grey Idol.


Our most precious commodity is time. And these days life is eating away at it in unpleasant ways. I've crunched some numbers, and compared fulfilling orders through our Undertow site with sales through distribution channels. There is a modest amount more that comes in via direct sales, but when I factor in the actual time it takes to fulfill orders, well, that negates that bump. In addition, there have been a number of things that have made fulfillment of both print and eBooks...challenging and vexing.


So I've set up a dedicated website for Pale Grey Idol:


PALE GREY IDOL


There you'll find information about forthcoming issues, submissions guidelines, where to buy* the issues, the newsletter sign-up, and contact information.


I am very excited about this new venture, and I do hope that you will support it if you are able.


PURCHASE





NOTE - It appears the print edition has only propagated to Amazon, thus far. It should be up on Bookshop, and Barnes & Noble soon.


Thank you all for your continued support and good graces.
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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A sestina for the one who wrote me the most beautiful love letter of my life then promptly never spoke to me again
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Ichor Magazine @ichormagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are extending our submission window by 2 weeks! You have until 23:59 BST on the 14th October 2026 to get your incredible stories to us!
ICHOR Magazine
Stories In The Tradition Of Sword & Sorcery And Horror
Extending Submissions until 14/10/26
Send your manuscript to ichorzine@gmail.com
Make sure SUBMISSION is in the subject
1.5-2.5K Words, 1c p/w
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This month's #FromTheCoursesMouth features courses & workshops from @jmgatford.bsky.social @taniahershman.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social @sfreligh.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @stillsquirrel.bsky.social.. fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/october-no...
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October / November 26: Upcoming courses, workshops & events
Here’s what’s coming up from your your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags and awesome independents over the next couple of months.
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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 30/09/2026
Happiest of birthdays to Guest Editor, Public Domain genius and translation wiz, Shawn Garrett. Very aptly, Shawn was born on the feast day of Saint Jerome, the patron saint of archivists, scholars, librarians and translators.
The penitent Saint Jerome in his Study. Saint Jerome (c. 1635). Oil on canvas, 117 x 98 cm (46 x 38.5 in). Musee des Beaux Arts de Nantes, France. 
by Matthias Stom
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
PSA! Our free-submissions window closes today.
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girl celeste ✨️ @its.celeste.baby · 30/09/2026
she loves me as much as i love her
celeste holding lola in her arms, she actually doesn't look very distressed
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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have 100 pages left in this book. It is phenomenal. Perfection so far. Can't wait for but also dreading reaching the end. @keithrosson.bsky.social #booksky
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The peach pit in my stomach cracks open." This is a piece only @willmusgrove.bsky.social could've written! Loneliness and the need to be seen in "Bus Windows." Gorgeous, moving work. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Bus Windows by Will Musgrove
I watch as Sammy breathes on the glass, fogs it up. With a finger, he writes BEHIND YOU in the condensation. The bus parks at its next stop, and Sammy, his hoodie hood up so he resembles a ghost, slap...
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey, contract's signed, so I can say that UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES is being translated into Chinese by Science Fiction World in their book publishing division. That'll be neat. Hope it finds some new weird SF readers.
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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CATS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SOLAR POWERED
Guinness the black cat lies in a sunbeam, grooming his face.
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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WHY IS IT THAT ONLY IN LOOKING INTO THE VOID DO I FEEL TRULY SEEN
Guinness the black cat lies on the floor with a haunted stare and two fangs showing
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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HANGING OUT WITH MY HUMAN ON A BLEPPY #CATURDAY
Guinness the black cat rests in loaf formation on a cream-coloured couch, his eyes half open and the tip of his little pink tongue protruding.
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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DIVE INTO DREAMLAND
Photo taken from above: Guinness the black cat sleeps on a grey-and-white blanket, curled like an Olympic diver or a shrimp.
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are opening submissions for our fourth and final issue of the year in October! SOON! Issue 4 has a theme: EXPLORATION 🪐🗡️ Early opening for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors: October 1-7 General submissions: October 8-21 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Late, but I wanted to shout this one out. I inhaled @wnwagner.bsky.social 's Girl in the Creek over a single weekend. VanderMeer’s Annihilation meets Twin Peaks in this Pacific Northwest-set missing persons/murder mystery/sci-fi horror. Fungal horror and beauty. Mesmerizing
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sherrie Flick has now been with us for ten years! We are so very lucky to have her. Thank you for all you do, Sherrie. @sherrieflick.bsky.social
Background image of Sherrie Flick in a bright yellow cardigan with superimposed images of her book covers. Inset graphic with a black and white picture of Sherrie and text saying Sherrie Flick: 10 Year Smokeyversary. Celebrating Senior Editor Sherrie Flick: ten years at SmokeLong. 5,700 stories read. 3,650 days of insight, wisdom, and friendship. Thank you, Sherrie!
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Planning on opening up Short Story, Long submissions mid-October. (Probably the 15th? But maybe a skosh earlier. And then they'll stay open thru the end of the year.) If you’ve got a killer 3k–8k word story, get ‘er ready! (I'll also be in need of a couple submission readers; hmu if interested!)
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Short Story, Long | Aaron Burch | Substack
Longer short stories, published biweekly. Click to read Short Story, Long, by Aaron Burch, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We are REAL CLOSE... come back #OpportunityWindow, get some awesome #timeloop stories!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
screenshot from the backerkit website showing OPPORTUNITY WINDOW is at 1567/2000 with 96 backers and 4 days left to go
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Don't forget that the legendary LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE magazines have a Kickstarter right now! Let's make sure amazing horror, SF, and fantasy short stories keep getting published. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...
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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror
We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Welcome to Iceland, where it makes the news when people buy real estate.
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Hildur Knúts keypti íbúð Sveins Andra
Ætli vínkælarnir hafi fylgt með?
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hello Saturday. 🐇 A little marginalia. #InternationalRabbitDay
Rabbit sat reading, marginalia.
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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Crone’s been out since Tuesday, and I just want to thank you all-your love for this furious, heartbroken book is so appreciated.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 26/09/2026
There are two wolves inside me. One wants to write a glorious and expansive novel. The other wants to write a teeny tiny short story that says everything the novel wants to say in less than 1000 words. The third wolf, that's me, just wants to sleep and read books and dream everything into being.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 25/09/2026
This little guy is the only one still available! Thank you everyone who snatched up a bat, pumpkin, or ghost! 😁 😈🎨🦇 If time permits I will make a second batch of them but not sure how many I'll be able to squeeze in before Oct 1/hARToween
Wooden painted bat with an orange sky and bats flying around a full moon
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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 25/09/2026
We just hit 50% of our goal with 20 days remaining. Thanks again so much to everyone who backed the campaign. We also just added a new Add-On: Signed copies of The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson! Back today: bit.ly/LS-NM-26
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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror
We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
maybe my halloween costume this year will be someone who finishes writing their book
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Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lots of writing courses price out folks on a budget, but this one won't! Join my affordable Cursed Classroom this November where you'll learn how to write effective short horror fiction and submit your work to markets. Details here: ericraglin.com/classes-and-...
Now Accepting Applications for
CURSED CLASSROOM
What is it?
A month-long class taught by Eric Raglin this November.   It’s geared toward newish writers who want to improve their short horror fiction writing skills and learn how to submit work for publication.
How much does it cost?
Five of the slots cost $100, and the other five are completely FREE, thanks to anonymous donors.
I’m Interested! How do I join the course?
Check out the specific course details here:                             https://ericraglin.com/classes-and-editorial-services/

Then, email me at ericraglin1992 [at] gmail [dot] com. 
I’ll get back to you quickly!
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have a new poem about friendship and flying fish today in 4LPH4NUM3R1C2.0! "Silt Girl and Speckle Fish" Thanks to @zoeticpress.bsky.social! It's available in audio and on their YouTube page, or you can read it here:
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AN 28 Wild World — Zoetic Press
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026
New #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book. Here's a little peek at how it's done. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...
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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware
One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We live in a horrible culture where you have to pretend you aren't human and then they expect you to love your job and be loyal and give it your all.
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