Our ✨July 2026 issue✨ is now free to read online! Here is a thread of everything inside it. Please read it and please spread the word! havenspec.com/issues/issue... 🧵

JUST ONE WEEK!!! Uncanny Magazine still isn’t funded for Year 13! Help us get there again, Space Unicorns!!!

Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 11h ago

That’s right Space Unicorns - ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 Kickstarter!! So, SEAS THE DAY and check out all the amazing backer rewards still available!!! We need YOUR KELP to make Year 13 happen!!! buff.ly/nuCWVxG

Hey folks! I'm going to have a little medical downtime in early September (cataract surgery) so I'm taking advantage of that enforced rest to offer 4 writing mentoring sessions at $750/each.

Welcome to August! Only one month to go until our 9th issue drops. Edits will be going out to authors soon (probably today). In the meantime, we can finally reveal the absolutely gorgeous cover, slightly revamped from our previous style, with original art by Tobias Roetsch. Ain't it beautiful?

Uncanny Magazine Issue 71 Part 2 also features essays by Hana Lee, and Marissa Lingen; poetry by Laura Cranehill and E. A. Bourland; Caroline M. Yoachim interviewing Rida Altaf; and Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Flower Crown as the cover! buff.ly/AgxrCZe

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Work has been... interesting lately. So, unrelated: if we get 5,000 new subscribers, one of us can make this a full time job and the other one can run like hell from a day job that is descending into utter chaos... ahem... $5/issue, $20/year magazine.trollbreath.com/membership-a...

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Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

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The portal is open! 🕳️ We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).

With that Atlantic article swimming around, I'm just going to drop this here: pottern.substack.com/p/ai-dressed...

A.I. Dressed Up As Fiction + short stories, literary hoaxes, & great aggregations

Gen AI has come for short fiction; bookish deceptions; book banning author guide; small press data; omelas inspired-fiction; speculative short fiction database; inspiring game deck; cold brew tea

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Ink sketch of a waffle yaga. Seagull feet bc dumpstercore. Sketch w inks

Our general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/

Look at this gorgeous cover! Yes that’s my name tiny at the bottom! @trollbreathmag.bsky.social is publishing my debut spec fic *poem* “Why I Divorced the Chosen One” (Spoiler: many reasons, including his guitar playing). Stay tuned for its Sept release along side this other awesome authors!

Trollbreath Magazine@trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 5d ago

Welcome to August! Only one month to go until our 9th issue drops. Edits will be going out to authors soon (probably today). In the meantime, we can finally reveal the absolutely gorgeous cover, slightly revamped from our previous style, with original art by Tobias Roetsch. Ain't it beautiful?

The sooner we fund, the sooner we can reopen to submissions and achieve our awesome stretch goals!!!!

Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 5d ago

Breaking News, Space Unicorns! Highly detailed analysis of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 KICKSTARTER has revealed that having made VERY GOOD progress it is IMPORTANT to KEEP GOING!! LETS MAKE ANOTHER YEAR OF UNCANNY HAPPEN!! (Also, even this graphic beats AI!!) buff.ly/9vsnOnl

Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.

*takes deep breath* *ululates* WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS hornedlarkpress.moksha.io/publication/...

ZYZZYVA submissions open August 5! We can’t wait to see your latest work… Plus, to explore what we’ve been loving, grab a recent issue or subscribe: 3 issues for $35 zyzzyva.org/subscribe + code SAVE7

With that Atlantic article swimming around, I'm just going to drop this here: pottern.substack.com/p/ai-dressed...

A.I. Dressed Up As Fiction + short stories, literary hoaxes, & great aggregations

Gen AI has come for short fiction; bookish deceptions; book banning author guide; small press data; omelas inspired-fiction; speculative short fiction database; inspiring game deck; cold brew tea

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😬 literally the only thing I'd heard about this book was that it was written by genAI. If I hadn't happen to see this post, I wouldn't have seen this pushback. We gotta be more cautious with our accusations around this.

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · last wk.

This is all it takes to ruin someone's career before it even really gets started. Nevermind that the "technology" hasn't been vetted, the research hasn't been peer reviewed. They say it is, so now it is. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

You guys!!!! @viableparadise.bsky.social 2023 alum and my dear friend @sciencegeekmel.bsky.social has sold this amazing, heart wrenching dystopian book about a world where women are controlled and one struggles against the rules men have made for her. Keep an eye out for this one!

Melinda A. Lanya@sciencegeekmel.bsky.social · last wk.

It's official! SING THE DOWNED BIRDS has been announced!

Y'all are in for something else. This novel is beautiful and lyrical and gripping and devastating. Keep your eye on @sciencegeekmel.bsky.social so you can grab this book when it releases next year. You will come away changed.

Melinda A. Lanya@sciencegeekmel.bsky.social · last wk.

It's official! SING THE DOWNED BIRDS has been announced!

Gorgeous cover! @trollbreathmag.bsky.social is a delight y'all. Their 1st anthology will contain "Cryptid Car Rental" which you may remember is told in the form of a perfectly normal travel forum comments about a definitely-not-demonic car rental agency. 🤣 magazine.trollbreath.com/cryptid-car-...

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Trollbreath Magazine@trollbreathmag.bsky.social · last wk.

Cover reveal! No release date set, but we're drawing closer to finalizing our first anthology! 60 stories and 24 poems published in Trollbreath Magazine over the course of our first two years. It will be available in ebook & print. Cover art: Betidraws Trollbreath Magazine: Volume One (2024-2025)

This story is fabulous, Allison! Just read it for the first time. Absolutely hysterical.

My annual “here’s a ton of free publishing advice” post. You can access: TWENTY successful query letters. Six book proposals that sold. A guide to research agents. And a guide to writing I.P. All for free, right here. www.ericsmithrocks.com/perfect-pitch

Perfect Pitch — ERIC SMITH

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Gorgeous cover! @trollbreathmag.bsky.social is a delight y'all. Their 1st anthology will contain "Cryptid Car Rental" which you may remember is told in the form of a perfectly normal travel forum comments about a definitely-not-demonic car rental agency. 🤣 magazine.trollbreath.com/cryptid-car-...

Cryptid Car Rental - Trollbreath Magazine

by Allison Pottern

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Trollbreath Magazine@trollbreathmag.bsky.social · last wk.

Cover reveal! No release date set, but we're drawing closer to finalizing our first anthology! 60 stories and 24 poems published in Trollbreath Magazine over the course of our first two years. It will be available in ebook & print. Cover art: Betidraws Trollbreath Magazine: Volume One (2024-2025)

COMING THIS SUMMER GET READY FOR THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE JUST BECAUSE YOU COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH DOESN'T MEAN HE COULD NOT STOP FOR YOU

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Been working on this post for over a week, trying to get my thoughts in line. Its about Bella Chacha and gen a.i. and speculative fiction and literary hoaxes. And why stories are more important now than ever. pottern.substack.com/p/ai-dressed...

A.I. Dressed Up As Fiction + short fiction, literary hoaxes, & great aggregations

Gen AI has come for short fiction; literary hoaxes; book banning author guide; small press data; omelas inspired-fiction; speculative short fiction database; inspiring game deck; cold brew tea

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Been working on this post for over a week, trying to get my thoughts in line. Its about Bella Chacha and gen a.i. and speculative fiction and literary hoaxes. And why stories are more important now than ever. pottern.substack.com/p/ai-dressed...

A.I. Dressed Up As Fiction + short fiction, literary hoaxes, & great aggregations

Gen AI has come for short fiction; literary hoaxes; book banning author guide; small press data; omelas inspired-fiction; speculative short fiction database; inspiring game deck; cold brew tea

pottern.substack.com

Wanna support queer writers? Back the project here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven

Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly

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T-minus 9 days until we are open for general submissions. August 1st! Mark it! pseudopod.org/submissions/

Submissions | PseudoPod

PseudoPod wants to find quality fiction to feed our listeners. If you’re a writer with a short horror story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our talented performers, we’d like to see it.

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