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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 4h

Today you all have a chance to meet the team Grimoire Ink Reviews and the books they will be judging for round one of SFINCS4! #booksky #authors #writing #SFINCS www.sfincscompetition.com/post/sfincs4...

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SFINCS4 Meet the Team: Grimoire Ink Reviews

Meet the SFINCS 4 Team Grimoire Ink Reviews and what they will be reading in round 1!

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This year we will be introducing the teams and what they will be reading in our blog! Once all the posts have been released we will update our round one page! #booksky #authors #writing #SFINCS www.sfincscompetition.com/post/sfincs4...

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SFINCS4 Meet the Team: TBR Strikes Back

Meet the SFINCS 4 Team TBR Strikes Back and what they will be reading in round 1!

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 30/09/2026

Last year I entered with Living Sword, which I wrote 13 years ago. This year, I've entered my new novella Unsaved. I want to see if I can go any further, and maybe get past the first round this time. books2read.com/u/4A9nxq

The cover of Unsaved by Pemry Janes.

A weary robot sits on a head while mechanical limbs pile up behind them. Just a scrapheap, or the ghosts of regrets past reaching for the one who couldn't make good on their promises?

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E. H. Lupton @pretensesoup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I dropped The Alignments into this contest!

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again, thank you!! If anyone's curious, you can go ahead and read "The Protector's memory of them under the sunlight." for free here on Itch dot Io: flowerymoon.itch.io/the-protecto...

The Protector's memory of them under the sunlight cover. Part of Blue Horizon series.

Characters upon picnic blanket. Antonio Chandrani-Rivera is thrown onto his old friend and flame Alejandro Altaha with immense blushes and shock between them, and it is due to Raj Rivera, Antonio's fraternal twin, accidentally falling on his butt against said brother and tile-slamming him.

Antonio description: Brown skin, red eyes, blue hair like waves, shocked and blushing expression, blue hair like waves, blue panjabi.
Alejandro: Orange-pink tunic, eyes pattern along shirt collar, immensely shocked, vulnerable expression, red eyes, light bronze skin.
Raj: Dark brown skin, shocked wide silver eyes, anime silver hair that has a flipped undercut, lilac sherwani.

Layla Chandrani and Alia Akinyemi are essentially looking at each other flirting-like.

Alia: A soft smile, pushing her blue curls away, dark blue captain-like garbs, dark blue curls.
Layla: A knowing smile, red eye, black eyepatch with silver esoteric moon-and-stars threading, wavy anime silver hair, brown skin, white European-style suit, green shirt, red tie.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had so much fun in last years' SFINCS that this year, I entered Between the Blood and the Sun! it's a novella about vampires, and terminal illness, and the choices you make at the end of things. books2read.com/BetweentheBl... jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...

The cover for BETWEEN THE BLOOD AND THE SUN: a female figure, face shadowed, the sun rising or setting behind her. She's wearing a smallish cowboy hat (i.e. not ten gallon), and has two guns.

cover by Elyon from thebookcoverdesigner.com

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Mason @masonhawthorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The White Ribband is competing! 🥳 My first time entering, I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes 😊

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Emma L. Adams @emmaladams12.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I entered this with The Scribe's Vault, my Forest of Stone prequel! First time I've had something I could enter since 2023. 😁

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Need even more to read? Check out the all the @thesfincs.bsky.social lists, past and present! www.sfincscompetition.com/sfincs-champ...

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SFINCS Championships | The Speculative Fict

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Philip Harris @solitarymindset.com · 28/09/2026

I'm happy to say that Serial Killer Z: Infection is part of this year's Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship, alongside a whole host of great authors. Good luck, everyone.

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BE NOT AFRAID is part of this with a bunch of cool novellas! Wish us all luck, and definitely check them all out! There could be a new favorite hiding in that list!

A trope map graphic for Be Not Afraid by S. Jean. In the center is the cover featuring Seth, an angel with translucent red wings, white hair, and bright eyes with his back to the viewer as he holds a bloodied lead pipe over his shoulder. Along the top is a tagline and it reads: "a fast-paced blaze through Hell..." To the sides are the tropes. They are: coy angel wielding a lead pipe, deadbeat guitarist having a bad night, survival horror, gay gory chaos, silent hill x sorry we're closed, rotting seraphs hellbent on your death, finding a reason to live, and a pair of eyes you used to know. Along the bottom proclaims ebooks + paperbacks are out now and gives the url, books.earlronove.com/benotafraid.

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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let’s go mechanical lesbians & fuckable planets!!!

TERRA FLUX
a planetary adventure
dani Finn

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Helping to sort through the #SFINCS entries and wow are there some cool books. o.o

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's happeninnnnnnng!!!

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 28/09/2026

Announcement 1 of several coming soon! So Opus is part of this...and I hope it wins. But also I see a few friends in this that I hope win if I cannot

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It begins. :) The River Devours the Moon made it in, alongside so much cool stuff. Going to be great to watch this progress. :D

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Savage Daughters of the Secret Isle is in SFINCS this year 🥰

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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monitored Activity is on here. Holy smokes. But I also see a FANTASTIC selection of titles by friends and colleagues! Honored to be among such excellent company.

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So excited to have Seven Years' Love in SFINCS4!!!

Seven Years Love cover in the center: oil pastel of a ship silhouetted against the sky, riding the waves. A slightly transparent written list overlays the ship and sky, tilted to the right, with only some of the words visible against the blue, including 'Thrice stolen sailor's gem, a mermaid's treasure', 'the scarecly avoided', 'grave', 'dust', 'curse', and 'a whole'. On the waves, below the ship, reads Seven Years' Love, following the shape of the waves and the bottom of the ship and, below that, Ellie Lieberman. The words are in JTC Blackadder font, black with light blue shadow
Red sky sunrise/sunset in the background
Arrows forming a heart pointing to the cover reads
Sapphic
Star-crossed lovers
Long time established relationship
No spice
Arrows with dotted lines reads
Crow familiar
Skeleton phantom crew
Witch
Curses
Small straight arrows pointed up and down at the top and bottom of the cover read
Pirates
Maritime Superstitions

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 28/09/2026

i see @cjlavigne.com !!!!!

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 28/09/2026

I submitted 𝘐𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬? this year 😅🤞

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Is This What You Really Want, Adelaide Black? by RJ Martin

Adelaide Black had never been to space before. Yet here she is, a thousand light-years from home, riding shotgun with an independent space trucker. She didn’t even bring a toothbrush. All to find a…

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 28/09/2026

Some good names on this list!

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So many excellent books and authors on this list!

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 28/09/2026

Stoked that Unsaved made it into this year's SFINCS!

Unsaved cover on a phone, with arrows saying betrayal, a dying earth, novella, tech like magic, ancient android, and out of time around it.

Behind it, a pale sun burns on nothing but a command engraved into the fabric of the Membrance.

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Jake Theriault @jaketheriault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Any readers want to get a head start on The New Patriots, official selection of SFINCS4, can do so here: a.co/d/0ao0q5sJ

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I entered The Dead Man into this. We shall see if anyone likes it!

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congratulations to all of the authors who will be part of SFINCS4!!!! We wish you all the best of luck! Next steps are for us to sort the novellas into teams for judging which we will announce later this week! #booksky #authors #writers #publishers www.sfincscompetition.com/post/accepte...

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Accepted SFINCS4 Submissions!

Here you can find the accepted SFINCS4 author submissions!

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Submissions are being verified for qualification! Stay tuned for the announcement of our SFINCS4 novellas this evening! Those who have submitted will receive an email for qualification/disqualification notification! #booksky #authors #writers #publishers

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last call for novella submissions! We have three spots left! Submissions will be closing tomorrow (September 26th) at 11am EST. #authors #writers #booksky forms.gle/DBM6MPYwQd6e...

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We officially only have three spots left. Hurry and submit your novella! #writers #writing #authors

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Less than twenty left now 👀👀👀👀👀

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spec fic novellas please enter! 🥰

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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you have a sci-fi, fantasy, or horror novella, this contest is lovely! It’s free exposure & takes about 2 minutes to apply if you have your files handy. I entered Terra Flux this year and I’d love to see more 🏳️‍⚧️ books in the mix! Get in there. www.sfincscompetition.com

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship | SFINCS

The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (SFINCS, pronounced “sphinx”) is a yearly competition to recognize, honor, and celebrate the talent and creativity present in the indie community.

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We still have 30 spots open! Hurry before you run out of time to submit! #authors #booksky #writing

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have you submitted to SFINCS4 yet? Do you have a speculative fiction novella at 15,000 to 40,000 words? Submit it now! #writers #authors #publishers docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#SFINCS4 is still open for submissions! If you're worried about your book's length but are very close to the cut-off (e.g. you're 100 words over or under, you're good to enter). #SFINCS #Indiebooks #novellas #fantasybooks #horrorbooks #scifibooks

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KnC Books - Used and Vintage Bookstore @kncbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

PSA - Call for submissions ... (no affiliation)

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Tim Carter 🇨🇦 @tbcart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This contest is awesome and you should enter it now. Unless you are a reader, in which case you should use it to find Novella‘s you will love.

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Noel Cober @noelcober.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sharing this again just because I didn't say anything earlier when I shared it; this is a great contest for writers and readers to share and find new novellas, and it's a really fun space to be in as well, so if you've got an indie novella, consider throwing it in the ring!

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adawia.bsky.social @adawia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Authored a novella? Go here ⬇️

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Coastal Kate @gabbrogirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Do you have a novella to enter into this year’s SFINCS? Now’s your chance!

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship is a yearly competition to recognize, honor, and celebrate the talent and creativity present in the indie community. If you are an indie author with a novella, our free competition is open now! #booksky💙📚🪐#writing docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 19/09/2026

We're now accepting entries into the SFINCS competition! Come enter your Spec-Fic novella! I'm a judge and I WANT TO READ SOME NOVELLAS. FEED ME

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