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Louis Inglis Hall @louisinglishall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very very (very) proud to have a story in Clarkesworld’s 20th anniversary issue! ‘Five Bottles’ is a story about families and death but mostly it’s about the world’s worst wine tasting and i apologise for that in advance

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Five Bottles in Memory of the Winemaker Petronius Finch by Louis Inglis Hall

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🍂 Let's fall into the cozy season with our new SEPTEMBER ISSUE 🍂 buff.ly/JmXKHQ1 All the love to our Contributors⬇️ WORDS: Sarah Chin, Alice Markham-Cantor, Chen Chen, & Lisa K. Harris ART: Joe Karlovec PLUS: Jood AlThukair interviews leena aboutaleb

Cover art for Split Lip Magazine's September 2026 issue by Joe Karlovec featuring a section of his “Eviction Notice.” Jacquard textile, 5-part installation, 78″ x 104″, 2020.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing! soundandcolormag.com

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Sound & Color

A digital interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Move Fast and Don’t Ask Permission: Techno-Optimism in R.U.R. and Arcane by Claire Jia-Wen Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"I saw a leech had attached itself to my elbow. I plucked it with repulsion. . . 'Put it back,' you said from the doorway. 'It’s hungry.'" 🪱🍖🍽️ New fiction today by @ammaris.bsky.social: "Dispatch From My Ex-Girlfriend's Lower Intestine" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"Dispatch From My Ex-Girlfriend's Lower Intestine" By A.M. Maris. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.

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s. m. hallow @smhallow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Halls of the Dead is a USA Today bestseller. I’m USA Today bestselling author S. M. Hallow. I can’t even believe this. Thank you to everyone buying, reading, loving, and supporting this book. I never imagined this. I’m completely blown away. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

A screenshot of my debut novel The Halls of the Dead on the USA Today bestseller list at #139.

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My first sci-fi pub! I wasn’t very good at the material in my models of language and computation class until it occurred to me that an NFA was like a built-in multiverse story (I was still kind of bad after but I could at least also think about vending machines, soulmates, + space)

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

got to get to the level where i say things like the key to writing is the heart of the mind then get paid $10,000.

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VL-ADventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If she knows who she is, she doesn't know where she is. If she knows where, she doesn't know when. If she knows when... "A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Multiverse" by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social. A gorgeous tangle of realities. www.adventitious.net/stories/a-ho...

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A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Multiverse by Ruth Joffre

A woman lost in a house of infinite possibilities searches for the version of herself who’s been brazenly altering histories. By Ruth Joffre.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If they are making unlimited money self-publishing AI-generated books, why are they wasting time selling classes on how to self-publish AI-generated books?

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

As the world fills with extruded, non-human content, I want more that’s real, handmade. Tell me the artists and handcrafters you love, sky friends.

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

will never not be in awe of Tina’s power to make me laugh one sentence and shudder the next + what an incredible last sentence, which made me do both❤️go read this story!!

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Isabel Yap @visyap.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have a new story out on Reactor today, my first since my collection came out in 2021. It's about a teenage poet, friend breakups, and wrestling with inherited faith. There are spaceships that are massive libraries. It would make me very happy if you read and shared it! 😊

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

maggie cheung and tony leung chiu wai in the mood for love

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Absolutely loved this new story from Parker, and not just because I have recently been learning more about Paul Meadows than I ever wished to learn. So good. 🪳

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📚 Our seventh novella series crowdfund is now live 📚 Boosts appreciated!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Never ever apologize for getting someone's book from the library. A lot of them were written by authors who themselves first read a lot of other books in a library

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’ve been keeping this secret for MONTHS and now I can finally scream about it: I’VE GOT A FLASH CHAPBOOK COMING OUT!!!! it’s called Lies I Tell My Children and it has an amazing cover!! order it from Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/lie...

The front and back covers of the chapbook Lies I Tell My Children by Ruth Joffre. The front cover is bright red and features the silhouette of a condor surrounded by iridescent blue bubbles. The back cover has the following text:

Almost a decade in the making, Lies I Tell My Children is a collection of surreal and fanciful falsehoods dreamed up by a single mom just doing her best. Originally inspired by the things parents say to get kids to do their homework or clean their rooms, this series of flash fictions expanded into an intimate portrait of one woman’s mind: her fears, her desires, and the secrets she keeps from her children.

Built around a series of hypotheticals (e.g. “if they don’t stop growing up so fast…”), the stories in this chapbook often veer into fantasy and fabulism, depicting a world where nightmares come to life, ghosts haunt the backyard, and slime molds creep out of the air conditioner. Everything in this chapbook is a lie, and yet every word of it is true.

Ruth Joffre is a Bolivian American writer and the author of the story collection Night Beast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in more than 100 publications, including Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, TriQuarterly, Fractured Lit, Pleiades, hex literary, and the anthologies Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions. She does not have children.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/07/2026

Tonight we all dine at 10 PM

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 15/07/2026

HELLO AUTHORS. The Deadlands will open to short story submissions (up to 5,000 words) for the entire month of October. but wait there's MORE For the first time everrr we are opening to NOVELETTE SUBMISSIONS (1/3)

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Ola | Aleksandra Hill @aleksandrahill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We’re close to the end of our fundraiser and still haven’t met our goal — we need ~$4k in four days. Frankly: I’ve used… a lot of personal funds to keep us afloat over the years between Kickstarters. I now have a child who’ll need daycare. I won’t have enough left over to bridge khōréō’s gaps.

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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

All right, I’ve kept quiet for a bit because of real life crap, but come on guys. Our KS is moving at a snail's pace, and we can do better. And I’m not just saying this because I’m the marketing director of @khoreo.bsky.social, or because khōréō is my ride or die fam (which they are, ALWAYS)

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Four khoreo magazine covers over an orange background.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

ABOUT AI:
Anyone who uses AI to write something they submit to us is a loser, and we want nothing to do with them.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Sneaking this announcement out before the weekend: We are pleased to announce the ToC and share the cover for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...

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Cover Reveal & ToC: We're Here 2025 — neon hemlock

We’re delighted to announce, along with editor Bogi Takács and series editor Charles Payseur, the full table of contents for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 : “Magical Girl A...

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So thrilled that my story “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award!! huge congrats to the other finalists, and an extra shoutout to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and the other SILK & SINEW authors💗💗

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Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@anathemamagazine.bsky.social has a little under 20 days to go and is over 80% funded! Come and support a magazine paying pro rates for queer voices of color, no submission fees! Spread the word for the upcoming opening for submissions in June too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

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Anathema: Spec from the Margins

Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My bachelor’s degree in a nutshell. 😆

Picture of various authors from different countries and what their books are mainly about.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 16/05/2026

If you've thought about the insidious violence of the coloniser's tongue, of how something you can love so much could gut your heart from the inside out, if you've ever loved a borrowed tongue enough that your mother slipped away, I wrote this for you www.khoreomag.com/fiction/tree...

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Trees Can Have My Soul; in Return, Let Me Have My Grief

The Sen had a curious saying in their musical language they fluted out using their tongue pipes. Ahsa an nira. The land knows you. As Mhyrsa stepped outside Kannari’s only landing pad, she smelled th...

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Our MAY ISSUE is finally here. 🌼 WORDS by: E.P. Tuazon, Renny Gong, Mary Liza Hartong, & Despy Boutris. ART by: Christopher Dunlap. PLUS: @crsantastic.bsky.social interviews Kate Broad. ✨️ Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/pUBKe7b

A dizzying painting: crooked, tessellating cubes in red, orange, yellow, olive, sky blue, and lavender — a bold red imprimatura energizing every surface. The cubes’ white faces recede and flatten at once, the canvas pulsing with geometric tension.

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

interesting...my most 2 recently published pop star flashes ("The Pop Star's Mother Dreams of Bugs" and "The Pop Star's First Solo Concert") are the only two in this series following my Pop Star over many years and many adventures about parents and kids and Expectations...funny how that works

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Hey hey! I'm in here with a flash fiction from my pop star series, "The Pop Star’s Mother Dreams About Bugs." check it out! and check out the other cool stories in here 😎

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Tiny Molecules @tinymolecules.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Spring is here and so is Issue Twenty-Seven. Read and enjoy these 13 wonderful stories! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 21/04/2026

In some non sublimation news, very sick ballot for “wire mother” to be included on :)

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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 13/04/2026

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

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Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done

You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

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Anathema: Spec from the Margins

Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!

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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This beautiful little story. So much in so few words.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 11/03/2026

This week's story is "The Pop Star’s First Solo Concert" by @tinazhu.bsky.social, selected by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/the-...

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tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Catch me in Necessary Fiction with another flash piece from my pop star series! In this one, our pop star gives her first concert :D 🎹

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

ICYMI: ISSUE 1 IS HERE FOR SUBSCRIBERS! If you'd like to support the magazine and read these incredible pieces, here are a few ways: ✨ Become a paid patron: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec OR find Issue 1 on... 🪐 Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe... 🗡️ Patreon Shop: www.patreon.com/othersidespe...

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com

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