My story "Remembrance" is live today on ergot. It's about being trapped in someone else's memory, kind of! #SpecLit #FlashFiction

Reminder that I am running a promotion to get The Nightmare Box into libraries! 📚 See below ...

I have published more than 400 of my stories and poems across 6 years, read/edit for several journals, and have worked with clients who went on to publish in many pro venues (from unthemed magazines to themed anthologies). Give my editing services a try!

Avra Margariti@avramargariti.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have a couple of June slots left! Developmental edits with a focus on characterization, interiority, and symbolism. Lit or spec 🌌💜

Finally feeling slightly better than hot-boiled shit, so a very belated update: Happy Pride, congrats to all the Stoker and Nebula winners, billionaires shouldn't exist, fuck the police, and have a great weekend!

Oh hey, I have another story out today! My return to StP is a queer horror tale of revenge, of making and unmaking. Read my little story of unbirthdays here and find about the vivisected shape of the world once it refuses to accommodate you:

Seize The Press Magazine@seizethepress.bsky.social · 2y ago

"For years we were as inseparable as flesh fused together by wound-welding time." @avramargariti.bsky.social returns to STP with another sicko horror story "Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn". That opening line got me, and it's gonna get you too.

Support for Reckoning has flagged a bit since our 2022 fundraiser. We don't want to roll back payrates--we want to pay more, so more marginalized folks can have room to write about environmental justice and teach us how to be better! Please help if you can? reckoning.press/one-more-cal...

One More Call for Support | Reckoning

I hate asking for money. We asked for money in 2022 and it was rough: a lot of work, a lot of feeling sorry for pressuring people in those ridiculously hard times. But we managed, and it let us raise ...

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It's THAT time of the year again! The annual STRANGE HORIZONS FUND DRIVE is now live. To donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str... Over the next 36 days, we're looking to raise $13,500 to stay alive through 2025, and beyond for some very special special issues!

Everything You Need to Know About the Coming Fascism But Were Afraid to Ask!

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

Donald Trump and his allies are preparing for his potential return to power. If he is elected president for a second term, here are some of his plans for immigration, the Justice Department, presidential authority, trade policies and the military. nyti.ms/4aSUBT0

New month, new slots available! Developmental edits with a focus on characterization, interiority, and symbolism. Lit or spec 🌌💜

Good morning! This is your reminder that we are open to late pledges, and they still totally count for stretch goals and such. We will be closing to pledges sometime next week, so now is a good time to get in if you've been thinking about it... www.kickstarter.com/...

Love libraries? Love free books? Cynthia and I are running a challenge to get The Nightmare Box and Other Stories in as many libraries as possible--and give away a free book to one lovely person who makes a library request! Want to enter? See Cynthia's post for details and reply there.

Cynthia Gómez@cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 2y ago

I cannot possibly express how much I love libraries. So I'm running a promotion for The Nightmare Box And Other Stories (TNBAOS), designed to get it into libraries. Details in next post (1 of 2) www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Queer, dark, surreal, my chapbook features 13 connected poems of lunar lunacy 💃🏻🌔 avramargariti.itch.io/the-thirteen...

The Thirteen Scorned Wives of La Nuit by avra margariti

A poetic degeneration

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Our gratitude for each one of you is immense. We feel this. We know we can get there. This 15 is a real number, it's the lowest goal we could set and not have to cancel projects. If we can get to that 15 today, the weight lifted would be immense. Here's the thing: www.gofundme.com/f/a-small-pr...

My story 'Sleeping Arrangements' is listed here alongside other incredible recommendations from Reactor. Thank you, Alex Brown, for the story's inclusion and the wonderful review!

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm back with my very belated April short spec fic spotlight! reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Ahhhhh! Been holding this news in! I am beyond stoked to be a part of this! Huge thanks to @lindzmcleod.bsky.social for including me in this lineup! 🙌 🎉 ✨

Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now!@lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm thrilled to announce that our first finalist for 'An Honour and a Privilege' is the effervescent @melisfluous.bsky.social! Melissa Ren is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazine's

I'm thrilled to announce that our first finalist for 'An Honour and a Privilege' is the effervescent @melisfluous.bsky.social! Melissa Ren is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazine's

Feel like this needs to be said this morning. Short fiction is not dead. We pay 12 cents/word for stories and that will increase as our subscriber base increases. Want better pay for short story authors? Subscribe to magazines. Want better pay for magazine staff? Subscribe to magazines. Simple

We're still rebuilding subscriptions (since Amazon abandoned them) and pushing back against the generated submissions on a daily basis. We'd like to keep doing so. The path forward requires us to keep shouting from the rooftops, so... clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ Thank you!

Happy Sunday! We’ve got less than two days left on our Kickstarter! We’re about $200 away from unlocking our guest edited issue and another sticker, and slowly closing in on @cislyn.bsky.social getting a nap! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cis...

We are currently reading for Issue 125! Send us your weird, your slimy, your mutant critters yearning to scuttle free. www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=71

Submissions

We are now looking for poetry as well as fiction! See separate guidelines below: Fiction Guidelines Please submit only one story at a time, and please wait at least a month after receiving a respon…

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Hexagon Issue 17 is now available on our website! 🌱⛴️ The issue features eco-rebellion short stories from James Cato, André Geleynse, Madi Haab, Christopher R. Muscato, and John Eric Vona. Cover art by @willtempest.bsky.social. Edited by JW Stebner. 🧡

The Nightmare Box and Other Stories technically doesn't come out until July, but we're selling them at StokerCon! If you like stories with quiet dread, dark magic, and dead cops, you'll dig this one.

There are single digit days left in the kickstarter! If you’ve been thinking of pledging, now would be a great time. Help us out more Small Wonders into the world! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cis...

Small Wonders Magazine: Year 2

A second year of monthly speculative flash fiction and narrative poetry that packs a punch!

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Issue #10 is out! Weird sci-fi, queer horror (shocking I know), our first hopeful story!, a dark 'Your Grandma Might Be A Vampire' tale, and Sierra Leonian cosmic horror. Plus reviews, an interview with Carson Winter, and essays on murder kink and meat horror. Enjoy! Art by @semaalo.bsky.social

Call for Submissions! We are looking for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, and visual art 🎨 Starting TODAY and ending Wednesday May 29th: -Quick response time -FREE comments from the Eic & Managing Editor Spread the word! 🌠🌌

Also, they have to pay for the house and the food out of their own pay from their shifty service job.

Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2y ago

New reality show - The Guillotine. Twelve billionaires are forced to live in one house with no outside assistance. Every week, they have to put in a full 40 hours in a service industry. The one who does best that week gets to leave. Last one left demonstrates why the show’s called what it is.

Get some excellent books in your life. You absolutely cannot go wrong with any title from Malarkey's catalog.

Malarkey@malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 2y ago

Over at the Malarkey site we are running a huge fake sale. Most books are not on sale but we need to sell them for money! You actually can save money on shipping by ordering more than one book! malarkeybooks.com/store

This weekend is your last chance to get the discounted rate on a one year subscription! Sign up now for a year of Small Wonders right in your inbox! www.kickstarter.com/...