No beginnings. No middles. Just endings. Air and Nothingness Press wants fantasy and science fiction stories that capture only the final act. 💵 8¢/word 📖 Up to 2,000 words 📅 Sept. 1-30 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @aanpress.bsky.social #SubmissionCall #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Some context, for anyone who (like me) somehow missed this: locusmag.com/2026/08/aure...

Aurealis Awards Changes - Locus

The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has updated the entry guidelines for the 2026 Aurealis Awards, established to recognize the best in Australian speculative fiction, making changes including expande...

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Alan Baxter@alanbaxter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Regarding the open letter to QWC on proposed changes to the Aurealis Awards: Matt Tighe and myself met with QWC representatives today to discuss the concerns surrounding the Aurealis Awards. 1/4

Make art. Even if it's shitty, creation is an act of defiance in a time of destruction. Build instead of destroying.

It's important to understand the distinction between plot and story. I put it like this: Plot is what happens, story is why you care about what happens. And story is always explored through characters. If all you do is get a summary of the plot you've missed the entire point of the book.

I'll have a couple of free spots in September & October for novel Read & Reports. If you're interested, email on me@angelaslatter.com. I know stuff, my mentees might even agree! I can always fit in Ask Me Anything zooms. Details & prices are on my website. www.angelaslatter.com/story-doctor/

Same reason targeted marketing is effective. Women will read things targeted to men, because that is cross-identifying to a higher status. Everyone resists cross-identitying down. It’s the same reason for the “I’m not like other girls” phenomenon.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · last wk.

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

The Ones Who Walk the Fuck Away from Salem O If They Know What's Good for Them, That's Right, Keep Walking

Ahhh, Oregon

Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.

Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents - and a guillotine - pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.

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Anna Smith Spark's magnificent Bronze Age fantasy, A Woman of the Sword, is part of this year's Best of British Storybundle. Being a legendary warrior is hard. Being a legendary warrior with kids in tow... storybundle.com/bestof

Another chance to be a slush reader, folks!

Tasavvur Magazine@tasavvurnama.bsky.social · 2w ago

Love reading South Asian speculative fiction? Join our team as a slush reading volunteer! We're looking for passionate, committed readers, and experience in writing or editing is a plus. Send your pitch to hello.tasavvur@gmail.com to apply. #tasavvur #speculativefiction #southasian #slushreading

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Open Book Collective@openbookcollective.bsky.social · 2w ago

We’re hiring! Come and work with us to make the open access book landscape successful, sustainable and scalable. The role is part-time and fully remote.

Occasionally (example: today) I'll start writing a story that forces me to ask myself: is this really as stupidly funny as I think it is or am I just delusional?

Just finished updating my Writers Resources Page, linking resources covering; -Writing Marginalised Characters -Plotting Methods & Editing Tips -Sensitivity Readers & Editors -World Building -Querying -Small Presses & Self Publishing -Author; Website, Newsletter & Social Media -Marketing

Our general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/

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).

📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

Horned Lark Press is looking for original anti-authoritarian science fiction and fantasy novellas of 20,000 to 40,000 words.

Horned Lark Press@hornedlarkpress.com · 3w ago

*takes deep breath* *ululates* WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS hornedlarkpress.moksha.io/publication/...

The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? 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).

Every time I asked a more advanced writer how to write a novel, they would say some version of, "You just have to do it to learn how to do it." But I wanted a solution, something that would take me from "I can't do it" to "oh I'm doing it." visyap.mymagic.page/do-i-know-en...

Do I know enough? (Or, how to stop stalling and start drafting)

Touch the project as regularly as you can, and accept that it'll feel, often, simply like work.

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Thank you to everyone who reported abuse of this publication that was publishing many many many people's work without their permission after scraping Daily Science Fiction's archives. The site appears to be taken down now, and may it stay that way forever.

Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

Announcing Ichor Magazine, an amateur magazine of sword and sorcery touched by the sublime. A home for new authors dipping their pen into the violet ink of unknown horror. Not ready for a NESS submission yet? We may be your perfect intro market. Opening for subs September 1st 2026

No story written is a waste of time. Each one makes you just a little bit better.

I used to be able to vomit out a 60k or 80k first draft no problem. What happened to me.

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

A quick Portals #1 submissions cap report! We are at: 🌖 102 / 150 fiction submissions (68% full) 🌘 36 / 100 poetry submissions (36% full) You still have time to submit, if you’re eligible! Send Angel and Jess your strangest, darkest, weirdest horror. Details: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)

Where did half the month go already?? Subs remain open for this issue! Check those guidelines and don't self reject!

FIYAH Literary Magazine@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Submissions for FIYAH #40 are OPEN! Deadline July 31. Get more info about "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars" at the link! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

HELLO AUTHORS. The Deadlands will open to short story submissions (up to 5,000 words) for the entire month of October. but wait there's MORE For the first time everrr we are opening to NOVELETTE SUBMISSIONS (1/3)

Open calls for "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings" are posted - aanpress.com/submissions.... - Please do note we will need to launch a KS campaign in August to fund these two books. Feel free to post question in thread or on DMs. Both these books are up to our usual quirky standards.

FYI today is your last day to submit work for our consideration for our Solarpunk Horror issue coming out in November!

Submissions

Solarpunk Magazine is an online publication imagining a better world through speculative literature.

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Hi! Don't forget that Diabolical Plots opens for submissions at midnight tonight (at the location of our server). If you want to know how much there is in your time zone you can visit the submissions page and by the future window it will say how much time is left submissions.diabolicalplots.com