We're looking for another editor (or two) to help with reading and making selections, but *most importantly*, giving our socials some life. We need to shine more light on the work we publish, but the three of us floating around here so far are not suited for it. Email us at editors@astrolabe.ooo!

We're looking for another editor (or two) to help with reading and making selections, but *most importantly*, giving our socials some life. We need to shine more light on the work we publish, but the three of us floating around here so far are not suited for it. Email us at editors@astrolabe.ooo!

Day 104! I read The Waiting Room at the End of the Universe by Veronica Tucker published in @astrolabe.ooo. Who knows what comes to those who wait? Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/s...

S/D/Y Apr 14 – The Waiting Room at the End of the Universe by Veronica Tucker – Astrolabe

With a title like that, I was expecting a Hitch-Hiker’s Guide pastiche, something quirky and funny and irreverent. That is not what I got. What I got instead was an all too familiar experienc…

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It's surreal seeing my poem "Light of My Life" (originally published in @astrolabe.ooo) featured on the Toronto subway, truly a dream come true! Thank you to Poems in Passage for bringing poetry to the TTC, and thank you to Astrolabe for believing in my work.

Check out Astrolabe! This is a great concept for a magazine & they've published so many award-winning stories! Scroll around the landing page & check out all the gorgeous work! EIC @joelhans.com & @astrolabe.ooo

I recently gave @astrolabe.ooo a visual overhaul I'm pretty proud of. I wanted to take nothing away from the universe viz but make it more grounded and better match the aesthetics of everything we've published over the last 3(!) years. And hopefully show we're in it for the long haul.

So thrilled to see Veronica Tucker's “The Waiting Room At The End of the Universe” selected for the 2026 edition of Best Microfiction! You can read the story, part of the Whale asterism we published this fall, here: www.astrolabe.ooo/tucker-the-w...

The Waiting Room At The End of the Universe • fiction from Veronica Tucker

Children here sometimes age in reverse. I once saw a toddler fold into an old man between triage and discharge.

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Best Microfiction@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hey everyone. Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been posted! We congratulate all the winners. Thank you so much to our brilliant Guest Editor for 2026, @dseuss.bsky.social ! www.bestmicrofiction.com? #FlashFiction #Microfiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

Hey everyone. Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been posted! We congratulate all the winners. Thank you so much to our brilliant Guest Editor for 2026, @dseuss.bsky.social ! www.bestmicrofiction.com? #FlashFiction #Microfiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

Best Microfiction

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

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i wrote and submitted this in the bathroom of a party. 2025, what a year: moving out, playing tennis for the first time in years, witnessing djokovic still play legendary tennis, watching my parents separate, seeing a viet kid named learner tien winning left and right ... phew for @havehashad.com

HAD@havehashad.com · 7mo ago

today from Binh Do! 🎾 🎾 "4. Your grandfather and I started playing tennis after the War. There were old, rundown courts a block away from the Americans resettled us. They’re still there, I believe. 5. Plant your feet, and swing." https://www.havehashad.com/hpzt7

Starting the year with a complicated one - featured today on Poetry Pause @canadianpoets.bsky.social : poets.ca/a-bell-is-a-...

"A bell is a bell" by Shana Ross - League of Canadian Poets

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "A bell is a bell" by Shana Ross.

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I'm excited to have a new story with @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social

Sunday Stories: “We Buy Houses”

We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c…

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A brilliant new eco-cosmic poem from our Ice Floe guest editor and author Vikki. C. in @astrolabe.ooo (a new cool journal). "butterflies loiter in a cold spell, confused between fall and the next life" @vikkicwrites.bsky.social

Vikki C.@vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Honoured to have a new poem out with the cosmic and beautiful @astrolabe.ooo! Huge thank you to editors Joel, Jae and Astrid for including my poem 'Elegy for a Grown World' in the Winter 2025 materialisation 'The Clepsydra' alongside so many luminous works 🌌 www.astrolabe.ooo/c-elegy-for-...

The Clepsydra is live! As the year runs out, we hope you'll thieve away some time to spend with this wonderful group of prose, poetry, and artwork. astrolabe.ooo featuring... @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @binhdaur.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social Nnadi Samuel Lisa Dailey Didem Arslanoglu

Astrolabe @astrolabe.ooo (Fiction Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Re-opening: Astrolabe

Astrolabe @astrolabe.ooo (Fiction Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/astrolabe-35081 #amwriting

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Honoured to have a new poem out with the cosmic and beautiful @astrolabe.ooo! Huge thank you to editors Joel, Jae and Astrid for including my poem 'Elegy for a Grown World' in the Winter 2025 materialisation 'The Clepsydra' alongside so many luminous works 🌌 www.astrolabe.ooo/c-elegy-for-...

a piece i wrote this summer. a final act of forgiveness. one step in a lifetime journey of healing. for @astrolabe.ooo

The Angel of History • non-fiction from Binh Do

This time, we have lunch in Menlo Park, we chase after the morning Caltrain and make it by the last second, and we end up all the way in San Francisco where the sunshine’s the same but the wind feels ...

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The Clepsydra is live! As the year runs out, we hope you'll thieve away some time to spend with this wonderful group of prose, poetry, and artwork. astrolabe.ooo featuring... @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @binhdaur.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social Nnadi Samuel Lisa Dailey Didem Arslanoglu

Taking a moment to treasure our Best Microfiction nominees! Congratulations to: Devan Murphy @shanaross.bsky.social Carter Lappin Veronica Tucker @susanllin.bsky.social

this perfect piece of spec fic in @astrolabe.ooo by @thisisguan.bsky.social in honour of his birthday. One of my favourite pieces this year. And by an Aussie too 🇦🇺🧡🧡🧡 ”It’s hard to see her in the dark but you can still hear her song like a hook in your spine.” www.astrolabe.ooo/un-sorrow-fo...

Sorrow for Youth • fiction from Guan Un

There’s no one else in the beach parking lot. You turn off the engine and the silence rushes in but for the hum in her throat, the tick of the engine cooling.

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Guan Un@thisisguan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's my birthday today! If you'd like to do something for my birthday, I'd love you to support SFF short fic in some way—subscribe to a mag (probably cheaper than you think), leave a review, tell a friend about a story you loved, tell a writer you loved their story. <3

A gorgeous anthology of Canadian works from last year, and I'm very lucky to have my bittersweet prose poem "Light of My Life" (originally published by @astrolabe.ooo) included alongside this incredible lineup of Canadian writers

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦@ourmankoto.bsky.social · 10mo ago

RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐

We just hit our submission cap, so we’ll keep things open until the end of the day if you have something you’d like to sneak our way. Friendly reminder that we’re friendly and always pay for the work we publish! astrolabe.ooo/submissions

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A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

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Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!

Astrolabe@astrolabe.ooo · 11mo ago

With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning. Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker. astrolabe.ooo

With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning. Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker. astrolabe.ooo

With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning. Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker. astrolabe.ooo

I’m still pinching myself that my small story is in this year’s Best of the Net alongside so many amazing pieces. Many thanks to the good folks at COMP for nominating it. bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...

Great list of stories I need to search out - and litmags! @grist.org @orionmagazine.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com @apexmag.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

One week from today! Free / zoom / mid-day break

Strong Women, Strange Worlds@swsworlds.bsky.social · last yr.

Our next one is coming at you next week, but you have time to register for this FREE lunch time reading with 6 women & nonbinary speculative fiction authors! www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

New micros up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social!! Thank you for giving these micros a home! 🥰❤️

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · last yr.

"Jean jacket layered in pins, anarchy & misfits & sonic youth, red bangs sprayed in a bouffant wave, red lips smacking hubba bubba. Mom didn’t like it but who can say no to a goddess who at any slight could destroy our whole neighborhood." @lumchanmfa.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Each day this week, I’m sharing why I loved one of the pieces we published last week on @astrolabe.ooo as part of the Retrograde.

ICYMI, I have a new flash story out at @astrolabe.ooo. It's about leaving a party with someone you just met, driving on highways at 1 am, the music up so loud you could sink into it forever.

Sorrow for Youth • fiction from Guan Un

There’s no one else in the beach parking lot. You turn off the engine and the silence rushes in but for the hum in her throat, the tick of the engine cooling.

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