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Chris Campbell

@chriscampbell.bsky.social

Words in FIYAH, Asimov’s, Escape Pod and more. VP2023 CW2024. Rep Sara Megibow. 45% goblin proof 65% decidedly not. clundycampbell.com Editor of NewYearNewYou.

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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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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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claire jia-wen@clairejiawen.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have a story out today! "The Plague Comes From Chinatown" is about the 1900 San Francisco bubonic plague outbreak, and the insidious ways a community comes to understand it -- check it out! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

The Plague Comes from Chinatown - Nightmare Magazine

Your companions drag the coolie girl to her feet. Some two-cent girl with rags for clothes and hair hanging across her face in tangled strings. Her eyelids flutter but do not open, revealing only the ...

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Chris Campbell@chriscampbell.bsky.social · last wk.

Dyslexia was waiting for me by the time I swung the reinforced door to its cell open. When our eyes met, it began to cackle, the silver manacles on its wrists clinking. "I knew you would come begging one day,” it spat at my feet before drawing out the next word slowly and sarcastically, “writer.”

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

Now I am become Jeff, the destroyer of Whorls@trollbreath.com · last wk.

Did I mention we have our first anthology coming this fall? No? Well, it's now mentioned. With lovely cover art by Betidraws, it captures all 60 stories and 24 poems published in our first six issues. More information coming soon! (right after we finish getting issue 9 ready for 9/1 release).

The cover for our upcoming anthology, Trollbreath Magazine Volume One (2024-2025). The art, "Little Red Riding Hood," is by Betidraws and shows a small red figure walking away from the viewer through a forest filled with huge, fantastically tall trees. Several small mushrooms mirror the look and shape of her cloak. Colors are predominantly a gray-green for the trees, and yellow for the background, with her cloak and mushrooms a faded rusty red.
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
Lesley Conner@lesleyconner.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you're a new writer and wanting to level up your skills, please don't turn to AI as a beta reader. Join a writers group - either locally or online. Swap stories with other new writers. Get into those deep conversations about craft. You'll learn so much more that way.

Usman T. Malik@usmantm.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is what Salam Award has accomplished in 9 years: 700+stories submitted and reviewed 60%+participants are female every year $4000+award money distributed Multiple Salam award winners published in Pro or Semi-Pro Magazines

Usman T. Malik@usmantm.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friends: 3rd iteration of SalamAward workshop has been scheduled for March 2027 Elizabeth Bear and Saad Z Hussain will be traveling to Pakistan to teach students If you’d like to support the future of the field, esp for South Asian SF, here’s your chance www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

Chris Campbell@chriscampbell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have I mentioned how much I love to see this story out in the world for everyone to see? I think it's maybe the 6th story from the New Year New You Anthology to get a reprint. Which, by the numbers, seems like a pretty awesome statistic. www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation

“That’s the thing, baby, life’s full of conundrums,” is the way Ada decided to say she was leaving forever right after she told me she loved me. She broke my heart with a smile bright enough to light ...

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Allison Pottern@apottern.bsky.social · 3w ago

Logan's raising money to be able to attend @viableparadise.bsky.social. This workshop changed my life, I'm not even joking, so I know what kind of impact it can have on a spec fic writer's confidence and career. Let's support them a/o signal boost! 🚀 gofund.me/c6ded66a9

Donate to Help Send Logan to Viable Paradise!, organized by Logan Hoffman-Smith

Hello!! I’m Logan (they/them) a queer Hong Kong-born adoptee SF/F writer from … Logan Hoffman-Smith needs your support for Help Send Logan to Viable Paradise!

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Marie Vibbert@reasie.bsky.social · 3w ago

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Allison Pottern@apottern.bsky.social · 3w ago

I gave out way more marketing business cards than I was expecting at #Readercon so for those who missed it, yes! In addition to writing spec fic, I also coach writers on book marketing. That means I help writers pick the best strategies to promote their work and learn the jargon to self-advocate!

A dark teal business card with the word Marketing in orange script down the left side. At the top of the card is a dense, tiny paragraph full of the different kind of marketing strategies we could discuss if you decided to work with me! Things like publicity, promotions, author events, social media, etc. Below that are the words "You've spend years crafting your book ot get it out into the world— and I've spent years helping authors market and sell theirs. Now let me help you..." and a bright yellow QR code that links to my website.
The Deadlands@thedeadlands.com · 3w ago

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)