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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Check out the featured story, “Buried in Brumewood” by Micah Giddens, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=142445

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Check out the featured story, “Tilt” by Faye Wikner, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=142435

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Check out the featured story, “No Entry” by Stephen Mirabito, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=142422

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Check out the featured story, “Junie and the Whale” by Tuesday Pil, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=142394

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Check out the featured story, "To a Dead Road’s End" by Will Gwaun, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=142391

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The Colored Lens is looking for a First Reader to join our team. If you are interested, first send us an email at dawn@thecoloredlens.com giving a short overview of your writing experience and attach a writing sample. If you have submitted to us previously, you can direct us to your submission.

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

My weird flash piece about an Italian reincarnated as a glob of old hair conditioner is out today in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social. It’s the first time my names appeared on a cover so I’m absolutely chuffed. Check it out here: www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...

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The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025

Amazon.com: The Colored Lens: Autumn 2025 eBook : Brinegar, Rachael, Newkirk, David, Hoyt, Ellie, McIntosh, Parker, Klass, Judy, Vance, Michael, Clairval, Gio, Morrey, Josh, Apsley, JS, Docherty, Stuart: Kindle Store

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “World Hunger” by Mark Manifesto, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140483

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “The Poisoner” by Amber Velez, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140401

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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 24/08/2025

Contract signed! 🥳 My short story "How to Reset the Timeline in Three Easy Steps" will appear in the winter issue of The Colored Lens. ( @thecoloredlens.bsky.social ) Can't wait to share it with you all. :) #WritingCommunity

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Check out our latest featured story, “Fish, Fog and the Sea” by Nora Schinnerl, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140392

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “The Meaning of Baskets” by Katie Gray, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140390

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “Tick” by Mark Manifesto, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140385

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “The Conspirators” by Travis Lee, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140382

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Check out our latest featured story, “Give the Algorithm What it Wants” by J. R. Dewitt, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140378

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “Paradox Lost” by Hec Lampert-Bates, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140375

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “Spoons” by Adria Bailton, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140366

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “Parlor Tricks” by Laine Perez, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140364

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Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Exciting news!! I'm going to be published in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Colored Lens! This is the first time I'll have been published in an actual print magazine (if they keep doing physical zines by then!) Thanks @thecoloredlens.bsky.social for choosing my story. #writingcommunity #writersky

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “Always by Your Side” by Anthony Regolino, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140359

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, La Cumparsita by Aster Loxley, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140357

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “Dog Catching” by Samantha Balliet, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140355

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “Dial Tone” by Shiloh Miller, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140353

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, “Thanks, Nostradamus” by Scott Colby, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140351

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, She Came Down From the Sky, by J.E. Schleicher, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140348

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Check out “Paper Brush Stick Stone” by Sophia Zhao, in our newest issue, available here! www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1TV54JL

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Check out our newest story, The Rules of Divining Lentils with Tweezers, by DLC Hanson, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140346

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Rick Danforth @rickandwrite.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

My story The Ghost Merchant is out this week in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social If you want a dark fantasy story about a shop that sells ghosts to haunt mansions, and an apprentices first day as he realises what that entails, then this is the story for you!

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Check out this snippet from “BEWARE OF THE GOBLIN GIRLS” by Tunvey Mou, featured in our spring issue! Available here! www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, Paradise Found by David Whitmarsh, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140344

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It's out! Our Spring 2025 issue of The Colored Lens is now available exclusively on Amazon. Do you have your copy? Get it now! www.amazon.com/Colored-Lens...

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The Colored Lens: Spring 2025

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Check out this week’s featured story, Maybe We Can Be Just Two People Talking, by Salena Casha, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140342

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S.L.Johnson @sljohnson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My short story "The Ace of Rules" which may or may not (ahem) be based on real life experiences is free to read on @thecoloredlens.bsky.social at thecoloredlens.com . (If you want to know more about what really happened... well too bad... :-P

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The Colored Lens – Speculative Fiction

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Check out "The Ace of Rules" by S.L. Johnson, on our website! thecoloredlens.com?p=140340

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

First Readers – TCL is looking for volunteers The Colored Lens is looking for a First Reader to join our team. Working as a First Reader gives you excellent insights into the editorial process. For further information on how to apply, visit thecoloredlens.com?p=137374

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First Readers – TCL is looking for volunteers – The Colored Lens

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Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Check it out! My story, Openminded, about how one-way thought sharing affects a relationship, is in the latest issue of The Colored Lens. Thank you to The Colored Lens for sharing this story with the world!

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My physical copy of the latest issue of @thecoloredlens.bsky.social has come in, with my story "The Buried House" in print! Ridiculously pleased that my name is on the cover right next to a dragon. And above a viking with sled dogs. Sick as hell

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Very honored for my story "The Buried House" to be in this issue with a group of great writers!

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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Beyond excited for the first TCL of 2025 and also the first issue I got to vote on all the stories :) #booksky #writingcommunity #bookrecs #sff #scifi #fantasy

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Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

a 2024 #AwardsEligibility post -or- an excuse to post about stories that got published before I was on bsky "Crop Circles in the Carpet" is in @fusionfragment.bsky.social 21: www.fusionfragment.com/issue-21/ "La Cumparsita" is in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social summer '24: www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9GLX5M8

2024 Awards Eligibility

"Crop Circles in the Carpet"
reality-hopping wristwatches, post-apocalyptic Barcelona
Fusion Fragment, issue 21

"La Cumparsita"
how to help a friend whose neural implant is stuck in a loop
The Colored Lens, summer '24

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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

White House NPR correspondent Scott Detrow interviews our friend Ted, the "newest recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story" for All Things Considered: www.npr.org/2024/12/07/n...

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Science fiction writer Ted Chiang wins PEN/Malamud Prize

Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the short story that became the movie "Arrival." He talks with host Scott Detrow.

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The Colored Lens @thecoloredlens.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

We’re in the final stages of reading for the Spring 2025 issue. If you’ve been sitting on an epic space opera story, now is the time to submit! thecoloredlens.com?page_id=137752 #sff #writingcommunity #scifi #spaceopera #sffwriters

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Submission Guidelines – The Colored Lens

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DLC Hanson @dlchanson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Massive thanks to @thecoloredlens.bsky.social for nominating my kooky story for the @pushcartprize.bsky.social - much appreciated! And big congrats to the other nominees. #writingcommunity

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A.P. Golub / Andrea Tatjana @andtatcat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The fluffiest (in multiple ways!) story I have ever written 👇👇👇

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