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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN AUGUST 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's July's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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A. P. Howell - Buy my book! @aphowell.com · 08/09/2026

Who has two thumbs and a book that officially dropped at midnight? That's right, this girl. Get it from Cryptic Plumage Press or my Fourthwall shop or wherever you like getting ebooks and paperbacks. crypticplumage.com shop.aphowell.com books2read.com/u/mBDN8v?red...

Cover of Corners of the Deep Dark, featuring a spaceship zooming over a planetary surface. Art by Addison Smith.

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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just posted a review of @cornellwriter.bsky.social's excellent debut collection, The Astronaut Among the Flowers. acwise.net/review-the-a...

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Review: The Astronaut Among the Flowers – acwise.net

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

last call. post going up tomorrow

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

THRILLED to have won the Aurora Award for Best Related Work for Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3! Such a stacked category this year and a sign of the great SFF work being done by Canadians. Congrats to the other finalists in this and all the other categories #PrixAuroraAwards #AuroraAward #CSFFA

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Ramez Yoakeim @yoakeim.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In an alternate, pre-industrial Egypt, following an accidental discovery, Mourad can either safeguard the dead, or enrich a few beyond their wildest dreams, but never both. "Ethereal Vibrations" is coming Summer 2028 to @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, thanks to @unrealfred.bsky.social. I can't wait!

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

icymi, latest story dropped in Bourbon Penn last month. highway roadhouse where things are not what they seem. this story brought to you by promo. www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/mid...

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Thomas Ha > Middle Song > Bourbon Penn

People usually pass through the gray silence of the desert. Beyond charred sumps and refinery towers, oil fields and dust walls, they drive without an intent to tarry. Most know this for a middle plac...

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JUNE 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's May's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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Some Queer Short SFF - May 2026 | Charles Payseur

Pride Month might be wrapping up for many people, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop paying attention to awesome queer short SFF. Now,

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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

From IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on environmental justice in war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "Life According to Tabeeb", a story about a decidedly humanist medical AI assigned to a hospital in Cairo, by @yoakeim.bsky.social: reckoning.press/life-accordi...

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Life According to Tabeeb | Reckoning

It may take a decade or longer to train a human clinician, but it took a team of Ministry of Health technicians only seven days to certify me a Clinically Adept Machine Sentience (CAMS) and hand me co...

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter!!! buff.ly/Gab1zWu

Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Covers by Paul Lewin, Katy Shuttleworth, and Galen Dara

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We hit our base goal, but there's still 33 hours left to go, and your continued support means the world to us! With our first stretch goal, we can pay our ultra-talented human artists more, we can increase our average story length to 4000+ words, and expand to author interviews 🧡

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I haven't seen the official announcement yet, but I was just told that I was allowed to announce it: My book Power to Yield and Other Stories has been selected as the 2025 fiction winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award for best book by a Kansas author!!! (Just linking the book page for now)

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Power to Yield and Other Stories — BROKEN EYE BOOKS

Power to Yield is a collection of speculative tales exploring gender identity, neurodivergence, and religion from author Bogi Takács, who deftly blends sci-fi, fantasy, and weird fiction.

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Utopia Science Fiction Magazine @utopiascifi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The reviews are in on our latest issue and we're thrilled to say that "Past" by @engel-cox.com and “Pomegranates for Kangaroos" @yoakeim.bsky.social have not only been recommended but received Tangent's second highest rating. tangentonline.com/e-market-qua...

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN MAY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's April's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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Some Queer Short SFF - April 2026 | Charles Payseur

And I’ve made it to installment #100 of Some Queer Short SFF! Given how thoroughly I’ve fallen apart this year, I am proud at least that I c

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Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hi. I am launching my first short story collection, APARTMENT WARS AND OTHER STORIES, on #Kickstarter. ✨✍️✨ It’s my first ever KS campaign, and it would make my day if you checked it out. 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver... #Booksky #Books #ShortStories #IndieAuthor #ApartmentWars

A smiling Vera Brook posing with the first paperback copy of her short story collection Apartment Wars and Other Stories. With additional images of the interior of the book, including the table of contents, author’s story notes, and a black & white illustration. All on a warm yellow background.

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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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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works (2/5): Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity: ED. @leemandelo.bsky.social

Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity: ED. Lee Mandelo . CONTRIBUTORS: Esther Alter, Bendi Barrett, Ta-wei Chi translated by Ariel Chu, Colin Dean, Maya Deane, Dominique Dickey, Katharine Duckett, Meg Elison, Paul Evanby, Aysha U. Farah, Sarah Gailey, Ash Huang, Margaret Killjoy, Wen-yi Lee, Ewen Ma, Jamie McGhee, Sam J. Miller, Aiki Mira, translated by CD Covington, Sunny Moraine, Nat X Ray, Neon Yang, Ramez Yoakeim (Erewhon Books)

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Cover Reveal! The Bad Romance cover is complete. Art by Grace Vibbert, layout by Brian Crick. www.kickstarter.com/projects/parsec…

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's the last day of the Bad Romance Kickstarter!! Last chance to get the fancy limited edition boutique-printed volume (it will remain available via print-on-demand after) and last chance to push us up to 5 cents a word for our authors! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

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Bad Romance: An Anthology of Trash Couples

The 23rd annual Triangulation Anthology: fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories and poems.

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

One premium that's still available is a professional edit of your work by ME. I literally never agree to do these for non-workshop-mates. Six hours to go! www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

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Bad Romance: An Anthology of Trash Couples

The 23rd annual Triangulation Anthology: fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories and poems.

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Out today from Space Cowboy Books - @jamesmachell.bsky.social's Human Voices, Alien Conversations - a collection of interviews with SF authors, editors, and artists bookshop.org/a/197/978196...

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Human Voices, Alien Conversations

Check out Human Voices, Alien Conversations - <em>Human Voices, Alien Conversations</em> is a tour through the modern world of speculative fiction, featuring a variety of perspectives. Authors, critic...

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Ramez Yoakeim @yoakeim.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I have a new story in this issue! My cosy kid-POV "Pomegranates for Kangaroos" shares a TOC with some really good stories and poems, check them out.

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Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I am launching my short story collection on Kickstarter this September! Ten character-driven stories that span from gritty dystopia to upbeat solarpunk. If you enjoy science fiction, check it out. 🙂 @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver...

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Coming soon: Apartment Wars: A Speculative Short Story Collection

Vera Brook's exciting debut collection of short fiction with hand-drawn illustrations and author's story notes.

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Bad Romance is just $500 away from Interior Art! Our cover artist, Grace Vibbert, has been busily drawing! We'd love to pay her and use these! Here is a sneak peak! Shakchunni from "Stories Our Parents Told Us" www.kickstarter.com/projects/parsec…

Sketch of an Indian bride with extra long arms and backward-facing feet.

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are Live on Kickstarter! Please help us launch Bad Romance: An Anthology of Trash Couples! www.kickstarter.com/projects/parsec…

Image of two books with cover of a raccoon and possum meeting next to a burning dumpster with the words "Bad Romance" on the side

An anthology of trash couples edited by Marie Vibbert

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Looking for a novelette to read? I have two out so far this year. Both are getting great reviews. “The Soundtrack of My Afterlife” is fantasy and free-to-read here: www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...

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The Soundtrack of My Afterlife

A soul reincarnated as a car narrates this haunting, music-soaked speculative short story by P. A. Cornell.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Contract signed! My Nebula, Hugo, and Rhysling Finalist poem "The Mourning Robot" (in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social) will be translated into Chinese and published at Science Fiction World! This has been one of my top writer bucket list items for a long, long time. Can’t wait to show my parents 😭

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Super psyched to have two poems selected as Rhysling Award Finalists! “The Language of Fireflies” (in @thedeadlands.com) and “The Mourning Robot” (in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social). Thanks so much to everyone who nominated and congrats to all the wonderful finalists!

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Nebula short story #1: "Because I Held His Name Like a Key" by @aimeeogdenwrites.com. A story about Alan Turing, about brilliance & curiosity, about love that we can't (or won't) quite recognize and about the gaps that can't quite be bridged. Beautiful & heartbreaking. I really enjoyed this story.

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Because I Held His Name Like a Key

When I met the young Mr Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King. Nowadays it has become fashionable for the sons and daughters of the lesser fey gentry to improve their position in the shif…

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Really excited to be joining this virtual spec poetry open mic session! Come read some of your poems or listen to me read some of mine ☕️ 📖

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Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Here's the text from my latest horror story "Classifieds," which was just published by Nerd Horror Stories in audio format on YouTube. Much love! www.nerdhorror.com/nerdhorror-s...

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Classifieds, by Pedro Iniguez — Nerd Horror

A man finds strange messages in the classifieds section of the daily newspaper, leading him to question the world outside his home, and ultimately, himself.

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joseph-hope63.bsky.social @joseph-hope63.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I may be new here. But this right here is worth your time and money. Order a copy please

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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

IT WAS PARADISE, our long-awaited special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, is out today in ebook form, and the print edition is up for preorder! Edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social and with (terrifying) war monster art by @monarobot.bsky.social! reckoning.press/it-was-parad...

Cover for RECKONING: IT WAS PARADISE, featuring an illustration by Moníca Robles Corzo of a monstrous face with multiple sets of curving horns, exposed brain matter, serpents encircling and gorging the eyes, two sets of fanged mouths, and a warhead emerging in place of a tongue.

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This war-themed issue of Reckoning, IT WAS PARADISE, was a long time in the making, but sadly evergreen in its relevance. I'm honored have a science fiction story here that keeps the focus on the human beings, struggling to survive a war machine that seems to have no face, ideology, or objectives.

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

My science fiction story is about a father trying to give his young daughter her heart's desire, in a landscape of desperation and mechanized horrors. "In the Foothills" will be free to read on April 20th, and the entire IT WAS PARADISE ebook is available now! rajivmote.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/i...

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“In the Foothills”

Science Fiction, 3100 words, published March 23, 2026. “Until a few days ago, Ayula shared Dozan’s understanding of the word “safe.” Safe was a word for the moment—a rocket barrage ending, pa…

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Ramez Yoakeim @yoakeim.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Release Day! The long-awaited "It was Paradise" from @reckoningmag.bsky.social is out today. I'm humbled "Life According to Tabeeb" is included in the stellar TOC. Come for the robots, stay for an impoverished Cairo community finally having enough. weightlessbooks.com/reckoning-it...

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Reckoning: It Was Paradise

A special issue on the intersection of war, conflict, and environmental justice, edited by Sonia Sulaiman and featuring essays, poetry, fiction, and art by Mónica Robles Corzo, Bahar Davoudi, Caroline...

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

oh damn it's been 6 months. a lot of dark things happening, but this is one of the better things drawing my focus. appreciate all the folks who went out their way for it. blurbs. reviews. recs to friends. every short fic editor, fellow writer, reader from over the years. grateful for the support.

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

A week to go on those Hugo noms. If you’re reading for this award, I’d be honored if you’d consider this short story.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Hugo nominations close on March 28th! Would love if you considered my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social short story “Barbershops of the Floating City“! It was tied for 1st in the Uncanny Reader Poll, and is a story very close to my heart. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...

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Barbershops of the Floating City - Uncanny Magazine

Content note: child abuse You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks u...

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN FEBRUARY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's January's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

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Some Queer Short SFF - January 2026 | Charles Payseur

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 11/10/2024

I write speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror & points in-between), and I also write reviews & essays. My short fiction is available in two short story collections: 🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a... 🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...

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Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories

Available now! Buy Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories: Paperback & ebook from JournalStone Paperback & ebook from Amazon Paperback & ebook from Indiebound / B&N…

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 21/03/2026

ONE WEEK for Hugo noms! I'd love if anyone could consider my novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! Or any of my work, really. Thank you! ❤️

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Aimee Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com · 21/03/2026

I remain incredibly proud of my work here! With a week left in the Hugo nom period, I'd be honored if you'd consider this work about connection, power, identity, and the erosion of all those things: "Because I Held His Name Like a Key".

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Because I Held His Name Like a Key

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