Nominations for the second annual The Foofs open in three days! Get your stories and poems ready and let your editors/publishers know because they can nominate the most for this prestigious award!

We're open today!!! Submit your stories from alien or strange non-human perspectives! astral-af.org/submissions....

And now for a uniquely alien perspective. Please enjoy "Beneath Soil and Sky" by S. D. Brown, a story about an alien species caring for the last humans. astral-af.org/issues/01/be...

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angel-... My bright and horrible creation, ANGEL COUNTRY, is now out in the world! If you like: -Cosmic horror -Biblically accurate angels -Alternate history -Morally dubious women This is the book for you. Please consider giving it a read!

Angel Country

“Beautifully grotesque, fantastically creative.” —Hiron Ennes, author of The Works of Vermin In an alternate early 1900s, a scientist hunts down ...

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Getting excited for Astral to open submissions on November 1st? Us too! We're also excited for you to read @moonsheen.bsky.social's amazing story, "Brightfall" from issue 2. This is one that sticks with you. I still think about it all the time. astral-af.org/issues/02/br...

Get your alienest, most otherworldly fiction ready! We've raised our pay rate, and we're ready to see what you've got starting November 1st! astral-af.org

Discover what #aliens have left behind in ALIEN ARTIFACTS, an #sff anth from ZNB ed by @patriciabray.bsky.social & Joshua Palmatier! B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/alien-artifacts-joshua-palmatier/1124600406?ean=2940156925452 #booksky #readingcommunity #alien #sciencfiction #scifi #amreadingsff

This is the last time Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions this year, and I don't yet know exactly how long it will be closed after that.

Kaleidotrope@kaleidotrope.bsky.social · last mo.

Kaleidotrope opens to fiction and poetry submissions on October 18. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

Not all of our stories are about aliens. Check out this gorgeous story from issue one, "Through Loam and Chalk We Swim" by Rosalyn Robilliard, told from the perpective of a worm. astral-af.org/issues/01/th... #SFF #story

So here we are again! Monstrously Massive March is open and closes after 100 submissions or 30 days. We want Weird Horror featuring some sort of monster or big bad

@foofarawpress.bsky.social 's Emporium now carries our issues (still for no charge) as well as those of our sibliing magazine @astral-af.bsky.social , @radonjournal.bsky.social , and their own publications. Might be your nice one stop shop for getting great fiction!

Happy Foofsgiving@foofarawpress.bsky.social · last mo.

Want some free mags from the Emporium? We've got 'em from @hearthstories.bsky.social! Want the latest and greatest from our friends at @radonjournal.bsky.social, publishing the best in anarchistic speculative fiction? We've got that too! store.foofaraw.press

Congratulations to @moonsheen.bsky.social !

Alex T Singer, Arbiter of Bagels@moonsheen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Incredibly honored that "We, the Fleet" (Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/singer_05_25/) is the 2026 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner. It's amazing to be chosen, especially among such an fantastic set of fellow nominees. Thrilled to be attending the symposium in October!

Do you like reading *about* speculative fiction? Do you like revising and offering feedback? Do you have strong but civil opinions about comma placement? ARB could use your help!

Call for Volunteer Editors!

The Ancillary Review of Books is looking to grow our editorial team!  ARB is an online magazine that publishes reviews and critical essays, centered on speculative fiction and related non-fict…

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Don't worry. We found the abyss.

Good morning. Today, I start teaching again for the next six weeks, and you know what that means: everyone gets a FREE ebook copy of Bitter Apples, our fictional teacher horror stories written by teachers anthology. These stories are dark, strange, and a little too real: dl.bookfunnel.com/aq9wzj3aql

Fictional teacher horror stories, written by teachers.

Cursed Morsels Press presents tales of teacher horror from Corey Farrenkopf, Emma E. Murray, Cynthia Gómez, Christi Nogle, D. Matthew Urban, Eric Raglin, and Aurelius Raines II. These writers have wor...

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At Astral, we love a good story of misunderstandings between species. Beth Goder delivers.

Andrea M. Pawley@ampawley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I loved this disturbing and beautiful @clarkesworldmagazine.com story by @bethgoder.bsky.social. The bargain her aliens drive isn't for the faint of heart. clarkesworldmagazine.com/goder_09_26/

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but: read Kaleidotrope.

*Incredible* mail day, if you ask me! Snag your own copy store.foofaraw.press

Ndbag Boogeyman @ndbag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's a good mail day!!! #writing #fiction

Day 238! I read Intergalactic Imperative by @pbarmby.bsky.social published in @astral-af.bsky.social. Let's take a road trip to the end of time. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/s...

S/D/Y Aug 26 – Intergalactic Imperative by Pauline Barmby – Astral Alien Fiction

In this story, it wasn’t so much as question of if, but how. When you start reading it, you’ll know exactly what I mean. You should go do that now, because it’s a good story and I…

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We're so excited for #LAConV / #WorldCon this week! We made Astral bookmarks! I'd say it was a collaboration, but Sloum is the better visual artist between us, and I mostly said yes or no until they looked as awesome as I'd pictured them in my head. #SFF #ShortStories #Aliens

Whoa! One of our authors is a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award! Congratulations, Alex T. Singer (@moonsheen.bsky.social)! Go read "We, the Fleet" in Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/singer_05_25/

We, the Fleet by Alex T. Singer

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Okay! It's been a long time setting up, but we're finally ready to start accepting submission for issue 3 starting November 1st! astral-af.org Send us your strangest, most alien fiction!