Contract signed! My poem "Pictures of My Dog" is coming out in Small Wonders. It's my first work about my dog; also my first work with a conspiracy theorist as the speaker.
My good friend Luke Wildman is agented by Writers House who represent(ed) such luminaries as Tom Clancy, Nora Roberts, Neil Gaiman, etc.! He's been blogging about the process lukewildman.com/2026/06/12/t...
That Time a Literary Agent Called Me
So. A literary agent asked to speak on the phone. The first words that spring to mind are ones like, “panic attack”, “euphoria”, and “queasy bowels”.
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I have a moral opinion. I thought morality reserved for fanatics, prudes, and AI trained to be "kind." But there it is. When faced with the opportunity to eat octopus, I felt revulsion and indignation(!) that octopus would be on offer. I will eat everyone else. But octopuses--I'm there for you.
Two goodies in @pseudopod.org : speculative language (or at least phonetics?) horror in "Othertongue" by @rajivmote.bsky.social and HP Lovecraft/tourism humor in "Six Best Things to Do in Dim (and/or Lost) Carcosa" by Rich Larson pseudopod.org/2026/06/05/p...
PseudoPod 1032: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVIII (78): Terraeque urbesque recedant
“We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” “Again?” “Every damn time,” Kate said, running a hand through her hair. “Aren’t there supposed to be satellites checking the routes all day long?
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I made a language this weekend! At least if you count morphology and syntax. It's like Sanskrit, if Sanskrit were agglutinative, and what I wanted it to be, and meant for cyberspace, and not a hot mess.
My favorite story on the identity perils of telepathy, by @andydibble.bsky.social is featured today on @diabolicalplots.com The Submission Grinder: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
DP FICTION #103A: “Every Me Is Someone Else” by Andy Dibble – Diabolical Plots
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The Kickstarter for our "Missed-Fits" anthology is live! We have great rewards and add-ons for writers and readers alike, so come check them out. Plus, we have bonus rewards for anyone who backs in the first five days and our first 100 backers, so get in early to snag those! Link in the comments.
Apparently adult pandas spend 10-16 hours of the day eating. They have to because of the low nutrition content of bamboo and their size. Imagine needing to eat almost constantly just to survive. It's like the villain of a horror flick. Except these cursed villains are adorable, so we protect them.
Kickstarter for new @calendaroffools.bsky.social anthology dropping soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cal...
Coming soon: Missed-Fits: A Calendar of Fools Anthology
An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.
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Calendar of Fools@calendaroffools.bsky.social · 7mo agoThree weeks until launch for our "Missed-Fits" Kickstarter campaign, and we have an update! There will be bonus rewards for our first 100 backers and all who back within the first five days! Click the link in the commens and follow the project to be alerted on launch and lock in these bonuses!
What's the weirdest protagonist of a story you've written?
"Evil lemon" planet with carbon atmosphere! www.newscientist.com/article/2508...
Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed
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Get your flu shot! Chance of heart attack 6 times greater in confirmed flu patients and 300,000 yearly world-wide deaths due to heart disease are a result of immune response to flu www.nature.com/articles/d41...?
Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential
Influenza isn’t just a respiratory disease. Measures to stop its transmission, such as vaccination, could prevent thousands of heart-attack deaths.
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My first Omelas response story is out! www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20... So glad I could contribute to the tradition started by Ursula Le Guin and carried on in some of my favorite stories by Isabel Kim, NK Jemisin, and others.
The Ones Who Walk Away From New Jerusalem - Sci Phi Journal
A spiritual sequel to Le Guin's Omelas, by Andy Dibble.
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One of my writing groups, @calendaroffools.bsky.social, is going to be running another Kickstarter for a Missed-Fits anthology. Follow if you're interested in when it launches. If the KSer funds, there will be an open call in March or so. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cal...
My saddest poem "Cultured Methodologies" is out in Worlds of IF #179. So cool to share a table of contents with @aijiang.bsky.social, Robert Silverberg, and others! worldsofifmagazine.com/home
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Just sold my "The Ones Who Walk Away From New Jerusalem" to Sci Phi Journal. This isn't one I expected to sell because it's probably my most blasphemous story (generally in keeping with the character of the #UrsulaLeGuin story it's a response to).
This is my first issue as poetry editor and it features poetry by Michael Butterworth, @andydibble.bsky.social, Robert Frazier, @bugthewriter.bsky.social, @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, @jennahanchey.bsky.social, Howard V. Hendrix, @aijiang.bsky.social, Lauren McBride, & John Reinhart + lots more
I'm going to slush for UFO 10 (Unidentified Funny Objects), but only if the Kickstarter funds. So chip in if you can and you want to support an under-appreciated sub-genre of spec fic. Only 5 days left. It's going to be close! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...
Unidentified Funny Objects 10
After a three-year hiatus, a new volume of this iconic anthology series of humorous science fiction & fantasy is finally in the works!
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Another writing first for me: had a swear word censored by an editor!
My Bible translation into alien languages story out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social! First time that I'm #1 in a table of contents! :)
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag@penumbricmag.bsky.social · 11mo agoWhen Pius was assigned to Murk, he assumed he would be translating the Bible into the language of genius octopuses. -from "A Word That Means Everything" by @andydibble.bsky.social, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...) #scifi #shortstory
Just received an acceptance on a story I submitted 22 months ago. Interesting year of firsts for me.
My Writers of the Future winning story "A Word That Means Everything" is out in @penumbricmag.bsky.social. New achievement for me because it's the first time my work has been first in a ToC!
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag@penumbricmag.bsky.social · 12mo agoThank you to all the contributors in August's #Penumbric! @andydibble.bsky.social, @spires.bsky.social, EJ Kavounas, Ritiksha Sharma, Richard Magahiz, Carl Scharwath, @tamikathompson.bsky.social, Camellia Paul ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
My microessay "Orality and Respawn" about how oral traditions can address a problem in game storytelling is out in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social. It's one of the few works I've had two absolutely bomb titles for, the other being "Retold and Replayed" www.patreon.com/posts/microe...
Microessay: Andy Dibble | Crepuscular Magazine
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When visiting family in Cally this past week I learned that there are people who refer to themselves as "coastal elites" with a straight face.
More writing news! My "Migration" (originally in What Remains anthology by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social ) is coming out again in "Win in the End" anthology by @knightwritingpress.bsky.social!
Big writing news for me. Just signed for my poem "Why We Give" to appear in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine! Selling "Why We Give" taught me you can turn any kind of experience into saleable words, even bleeding into a bag for the @americanredcross.bsky.social! #givingblood #poetry #scifi
Best line I wrote yesterday didn't drop while I was writing: "Morality's above our paygrade, isn't it?" Also perhaps my best six word story.
Have a poem coming out in #worldsofIF ! "Cultured Methodologies" is my saddest poem. Also my first anthropological piece. Lots of impressive names in the last issue. I wonder who my neighbors will be.
