Bree Wernicke
@breewernicke.bsky.social
actor, writer, SAG-AFTRA, Codex. words in: Fusion Fragment, Baffling, Strange Horizons, & more! she/her
ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/
The cover for FF#29 by @caitlinxfowler.bsky.social has arrived! Official release date coming soon, when you can read work by @louisinglishall.bsky.social, Sarah M. Saif, Escher McDonell-Maulsby, Natasha Ali, @breewernicke.bsky.social, @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, and @elliottgish.bsky.social!
Today we opened for our themed, all spec-fic call: “HUMAN-SHAPED,” guest edited by author Ashlee Lhamon. Selected stories will be featured in our March 2027 issue. Happy writing!! 🤓 #writingcommunity ffo.submittable.com/submit
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Update 9/1/2026: We are OPEN for submissions on the theme "human-shaped"Our next General Submission period will begin Oct 1, 2026.For the latest in our submission schedule, you can follow us on Patreo...
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Duotrope@duotrope.com · last mo.Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social (Fiction; Open, General, Fantasy, Horror, SF; pays) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
ICYMI, "last psalm" is a poem in our 🌟January 2026 issue🌟 by @ph-low.com about skeletons and harpists and how systems of power sanctify cruelty. Read this one for its strong voice and spooky ambience havenspec.com/poetry/last-...
My latest story is available to Orion's Belt subscribers now! Grief, connection and some special candles.
Orion's Belt magazine@orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 2mo ago🌞 OB summer issue #36 is now live for our subscribers, & also available to buy (link below). This issue was made possible by powerful, transformative stories, poems, & interviews that invite us to look inside ourselves, into our past, and at the world around us. Join the read & the journey! 🌞
FF#28 has arrived! Stories by @estrubbe.bsky.social @awritingwall.bsky.social @sophiecasarico.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social Francis Van Ganson @audreyzhou.bsky.social @tuesdaywrites.bsky.social! Get your copy (for free!) at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-28/
The second reprinted story in Issue 2 is surreal, strange, totally horrifying, and startlingly tender. In other words, "Spider Kiss" by @breewernicke.bsky.social is the most fun you'll ever have reading about a musty old house full of spiders. 🕷️Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/spide...
5th story! "Spider Kiss" by @breewernicke.bsky.social ! Pitch perfect vibes for such a creepy crawly story. I love the hyper specificity of the cataloguing and the spider naming conventions. The spider yuri was also chef's kiss (this pun is funnier after the story, I promise!) 🕷️
This month's #Mondettes picked by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social is on the theme of games as a way of telling a story slant ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/june-2026
June 2026
Ten stories picked by Cole Beauchamp
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NEW STORY DAY! “Ghost in the Tank” is out now at @lightspeedmagazine.com! It’s about giant mechs and censorship by tech companies and getting punched in the face and desperate queer shame and all the ugliest intersections of technology and culture. I think it’s my best work. I hope you love it.
Ghost in the Tank - Lightspeed Magazine
The first time you killed me, I cried like a baby. Stupid, stupid, to cry over something make-believe—stupid and ugly and pathetic, too, when already the only thing I wanted in the world was for you ...
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The Strange Horizons Kickstarter to fund 2027 will begin on Sunday, 7 June, 2026! This is a critical time for SFF publications when the existence of venues publishing short speculative fiction, poetry and non-fiction is sometimes uncertain. We hope that you will keep us publishing for another year!
Fans of FF (FFans?), here's one mag issue in particular you'll probably want to check out. It features (FFeatures?) five (FFive!) FFers: @jyzh.bsky.social @sydneyficant137.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @thelialao.bsky.social and @pvvamsidhar.bsky.social!!!
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 4mo agoHAPPY PRIDE, ISSUE 2 IS OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS!!! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🌈 Issue 2 will be free online on June 15th—but if you'd like to support a queer magazine AND read Issue 2 without waiting, you can snag a copy now! Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/s/3e872a158d Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/others... (1/2)
Submissions are now open 🪶 Holler if you have questions!
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 5mo agoSubmissions to @bafflingmag.bsky.social will open up again on June 1st. We'll be reading for unthemed stories as well as on the theme of "gossip" for the upcoming issue edited by @bendibarrett.bsky.social. 🪶 queer speculative stories 🪶 <1200 words 🪶 8¢/word
life's too short to spend your time working on stories that don't make you so excited you want to be the cow that jumped over the moon.
How’s your garden doing? Is it screaming…? 😱 “The Screaming Garden” by Em Starr was originally published in Flame Tree’s newsletter, and has now been reprinted in our May issue. #writingcommunity #fantasy #flashfiction flashfictiononline.com/issues/may-2...
May 2026 - Flash Fiction Online
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Congratulations to OTHERSIDE authors @mimulus.bsky.social, @tobymacnutt.bsky.social, @breewernicke.bsky.social, and Gospel Chinedu—and all the finalists! Look at all these incredible poems 🤩💜
SF & F Poetry Assn@sfpoetry.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnnouncing the 2026 Rhysling Award Finalists! The Rhysling juries have made their decisions, and the 2026 Rhysling Award finalists have been chosen. Find the 50 Short Poem and 25 Long Poem finalists threaded below! /
I have some stories for you on this fine Wednesday! This time I've pulled things from @breewernicke.bsky.social and @rfdwrites.bsky.social Both have excellent themes on bodies and what we choose (or not choose) to do with them, which is what had me pair these two with each other.
Two Fic Tuesday for May 5th
Hi, hello and welcome! This week we're talking about bodies. About the body you have, and the one you could have, and about what will happen for you to get one you like better, or perhaps one that you didn't get to choose. This topic is one I feel close
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Last but certainly not least: two reprinted stories and one essay! 🌊 "Two People" - @benfrancisco.bsky.social 🕷️ "Spider Kiss" - @breewernicke.bsky.social ☀️ "A Noose of Purple Silk" - Sidney Grady (6/7)
Our Issue 2 TOC is officially here! 🪐🗡️ We are so excited to reveal this stellar lineup of nine stories, six poems, and one essay by sixteen incredible authors—and we absolutely cannot WAIT for you to read this dreamy, gorgeous, magical issue in June. More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/7)
absolutely surreal to say, but- I have a poem out in @nightmare-magazine.com !! consumed is cannibal trans dysphoria horror that ponders what it might be like if your girlfriend just ate the parts of you that cause distress 😁 free to read 5/27, available for purchase now!
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 164 (May 2026) - Nightmare Magazine
We're offering up original short fiction from Sarah Grey (“Hollow Cast”), plus an unusual treat---a creative nonfiction piece that reads like a short story: “Art the Clown attends the Jane Hirschfield...
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My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"
"At the bodyhouse, no one ever asks you what you want." Stop what you're doing right now and read the rest.
Bree Wernicke@breewernicke.bsky.social · 6mo agohelloooo my story "The Bodyhouse" is now out in the latest issue of Baffling!! give it a read: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
helloooo my story "The Bodyhouse" is now out in the latest issue of Baffling!! give it a read: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
The Bodyhouse — Baffling Magazine
by Bree Wernicke “At the bodyhouse, no one ever asks you what you want.”
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With just under a week left in our Issue 2 submissions window, our co-founders put together a wishlist for all the last-minute submitters! Send us space opera, cyberpunk, monsters and messiness, trans joy and euphoria, and more 🪐🗡️ Full submission guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines?u...
The Anthropic book theft settlement is essentially done, but many more battles remain. I also agree with Catherynne M. Valente's recent essay calling the settlement "blood money." 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/155693...
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