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Audrey Zhou

@audreyzhou.bsky.social

SFFH writer | she/her | Shirley Jackson Award Finalist | Brave New Weird, Best Weird Fiction | Clarion 25 | short fiction in Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, Lightspeed, etc https://audreyzhouwrites.com/

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Sara S. Messenger サラ@smessenger.bsky.social · yesterday

For this year's SFF novelette awards, please consider my horror novelette in @nightmare-magazine.com (rarely pubs novelettes) — Jennifer's Daughter! Sad teens, first crush, Florida gators, mom furtively dripping blood in the hallway. & Jennifer's Body. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/jenn...

Jennifer’s Daughter - Nightmare Magazine

My mom was sixteen when a band of boys took her out to the woods and bound her to a tree and tortured her to death, like in Jennifer’s Body, so you see her womb was kinda already out of commish by the...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 23h ago

Completely stunned. @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons is a World Fantasy Award finalist in Collection, and Long Fiction. Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 is a finalist in Anthology, and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece's St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls is a finalist! bit.ly/4fS9xoP

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Thomas Ha@thomasha.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh wow. Congrats to the finalists. Honored to be included with these authors. Thanks to World Fantasy Con, the judges, @clarkesworldmagazine.com, and @undertow.bsky.social. And thanks to readers who enjoyed and talked about these stories. Really means a lot.

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Chloe Smith@chloehsmith.bsky.social · 3d ago

My story "Potential Energy," about a witch who lives at the top of the Tejon Pass and distributes mixed blessings to the hungry ambitious, is out in Covens, Cauldrons, and Curses Gone Right, alongside many other fine stories! eternalhauntedsummer.com/gorgons-gaze...

Gorgon’s Gaze Press

Welcome to Gorgon’s Gaze Press, the home of collaborative storytelling. Beginning in Autumn 2025, Gorgon’s Gaze Press will release one new themed anthology every year: vampires, witches…

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Rebecca Buchanan@lyradora.bsky.social · 4d ago

Witches Save the World is here! #witchsky #booksky #magic #fantasy #magic #witch

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 2d ago

Don't forget to pre-order this beauty, if you haven't. Dropping October. We're not crowd-funding this. The only way it keeps going is through your generosity. Plus, it's pretty good. Shoot me a line if you're unsure if you've pre-ordered. Thx!! undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 — Undertow Publications

Pre-Order. Shipping October 2026. Cover art by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR “Momentous... an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in ...

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PseudoPod 🎙️@pseudopod.org · 3d ago

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).

tina s. zhu@tinazhu.bsky.social · 4d ago

hello friends I have a story in The Dark this month!! it’s a reprint from an anthology that I hope is spooky heheh (cw toxic relationship, racist character) www.thedarkmagazine.com/portrait-of-...

Portrait of a Woman in a Red Qipao - The Dark Magazine

Most everyone has heard the Ben Franklin saying that death and taxes are the only constants in life. But there’s one more. I call it the Law of the Door. If someone tells you not to open a door, you a...

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Angela Liu@angelaliu.bsky.social · 7d ago

“An effective piece of flash fiction that explores the way relationships transform over time, as well as the fragility and discomfort of human bodies.” @acwise.bsky.social always gives such thoughtful reviews. Really appreciate this one for my story “The Doll Problem” in @nightmare-magazine.com

A.C. Wise@acwise.bsky.social · last wk.

My latest Words for Thought column for @apexmag.bsky.social is now available to read online! Discussing stories of transformation by Suzan Palumbo, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @bogiperson.bsky.social and @bethgoder.bsky.social. Happy reading! www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

Esther Alter@esther-alter.bsky.social · 2w ago

I WROTE A NOVELLA AND IT'S GETTING PUBLISHED. Quiet Hours is queer housing horror. Have you ever had a bad roommate? If so, you know how bad it can get. This is a novella that (I hope) we need and deserve: we're all trying to defend each other from the enemy, but sometimes the enemy is in the house

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 2w ago

The finalfinalfinalforreal.doc title is @esther-alter.bsky.social's QUIET HOURS, a truly disturbing and keenly rendered literary queer housing horror. Esther's book will be added to this novella series as our first STRETCH GOAL, so please help us fund!

QUIET HOURS Esther Alter Neon Hemlock
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 2w ago

Buzzing after sending promo copies of Issue Four to reviewers. Always where it begins to feel REAL. Subscribe to make sure you get it August 1st. This issue has 15 (count em'!) stories, including new work from Nebula finalists P.A. Cornell and Aimee Ogden. www.adventitious.net/subscribe/

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Corey Farrenkopf@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wicked pumped to read @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social’s kind words about my latest story, Grave Bells ( @fusionfragment.bsky.social ) over in @reactorsff.bsky.social’s Must Read Speculative Fiction of June 2026!!!!!!!!!

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dystopian puppet shows, speculative email threads, and TEETH. and TEETH. and more TEETH. @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social rounds up the SFF short stories you need to check out from June!

Angela Liu@angelaliu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hugo voting closes on 8/8 at 12PM PST! Don't forget to vote for your favorites + check out all the awesome work included in the voter packet! I wrote a bit about my nominated poem "The Mourning Robot" (in case you were wondering if it was about a dystopian future where only robots attend funerals)

A Story About A Poem: “The Mourning Robot”

In one of my favorite books, “On Earth We’re Briefly Beautiful” by Ocean Vuong, there is a surreal scene toward the end of the book where after a heartbreaking experience with his schizophrenic, ca…

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Megan Chee@megancheewrites.bsky.social · 3w ago

Absolutely delighted to reveal the US cover of my upcoming science-fantasy debut novel The Archaeology of Falling Worlds! The cover illustration is by Shan Jiang, with cover design by Charlotte Strick. Coming 23rd Feb 2027 from Bindery Books (US) and Daphne Press (UK)!

Text: "THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FALLING WORLDS by MEGAN CHEE" Image: A yellow/gold-toned depiction of a cyberpunk/biopunk city, with giant mushrooms, neon signs and flying manta rays. People and debris fall from the sky. A winged girl stands with her back to us, shielding her face from the falling debris as she looks up at the sky.
Audrey Zhou@audreyzhou.bsky.social · 3w ago

my story “Two’s Company, Three Might Be A Sign of Demonic Possession” (first pubbed in @pseudopod.org💚) is in this volume of BRAVE NEW WEIRD! So excited that it’s out

Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trust us: we know the Good Weird Stuff when we see it🖤☠️ BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Volume Four, is OUT NOW. 23 of the best slabs of Weird Fiction published in 2025, all in one convenient volume! Get it from your preferred bookseller, or here: store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by Matt Blairstone: a human form seated, one hand on a book emblazoned with the Tenebrous skull & laurel. Where the screen cuts from red to black, the flesh is stripped from the human, exposing its skeleton. It thrusts one arm into the air, the arm becoming a death's head moth. It looks cool.