unspeakably honored to be included on the Brave New Weird Vol. 4 shortlist, alongside some seriously great writers!! thanks to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @cold-signal.com for giving That Red Hot Beat a home ❤️🖤 tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/1/...

Hey pals, CS update: Novelettes are still in consideration. Sorry for the delay. Novelette summer will be novelette fall and winter as I got way more than I expected. But once this is done, CS will be going into stasis for a time.

FFer Read of the Day: "Toxic Positivity" by @joellekillian.bsky.social in @cold-signal.com cold-signal.com/toxic-positi...

Just as an update to all interested parties, I’ve been extremely busy the past few weeks and as such it’s been slow going through the novelettes. I don’t want to reject anyone just bc I’m not in peak submission reading condition so please don’t be discouraged by radio silence!

Extremely, deeply pleased to see Karlo Yeager Rodriguez (@kjy1066.bsky.social) on the Nebula Reading List for his wonderful story "A Line of Ink, Stretching Back Like a Shadow" in the latest issue of Cold Signal. A wonderful testament to Karlo's craft and the quality of the story itself

Happy to have a story on this year’s @wigleaf.bsky.social longlist. Thank you @laughingyeti.bsky.social and the Wigleaf readers and series editors for selecting it. And thank you, always, @johnchrostek.com for publishing the piece in @cold-signal.com

shome dasgupta@shomedasgupta.bsky.social · last yr.

The @Wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 & the Longlist are up! A sincere thank you to our Guest Selecting Editor @samanito.bsky.social‬ & to our Readers & Associate Series Editors! Let’s celebrate the writers, readers, & journals in our literary community—all for the love: wigleaf.com!

FFer Read of the Day: "The Problem of Evil" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social in @cold-signal.com cold-signal.com/the-problem-...

The Problem of Evil – Spencer Nitkey

The Problem of Evilby Spencer Nitkey I am Mother and Father’s final test. The fluorescent moon, that diadem of Heaven Industries, smiles a crooked, asteroid ridden smile. It is so close I feel I co…

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Psyched to see @pdforan.bsky.social’s story from Issue 2 of Cold Signal in the @wigleaf.bsky.social 2025 long list alongside so many other wonderful names of friends and talents! Wigleaf has always done a wonderful job championing short fiction + it’s lovely to see Pat’s work + CS make the list

Today’s the last call for novelette submissions! As a reminder, it’s novelettes only at this time :)

Cold Signal Magazine@cold-signal.com · last yr.

Novelette Week is here! Until Friday, I'll be accepting submissions for strange, singular + surreal novelettes between 7k-18k in length. To best understand Cold Signal's house style, reading prior issues is recommended. More info about submitting can be found here: cold-signal.com/submissions/

Quick note: I've gone in and made a change to the Submissions page to reflect that previous inclusion in a Cold Signal issue is not disqualifying for the novelette calls. Novelette Summer is a block party and I'd love a mix of new and familiar voices getting funky with the format

Novelette Week is here! Until Friday, I'll be accepting submissions for strange, singular + surreal novelettes between 7k-18k in length. To best understand Cold Signal's house style, reading prior issues is recommended. More info about submitting can be found here: cold-signal.com/submissions/

SUBMISSIONS

SUBMISSIONS NOVELETTE SUBMISSION WINDOW:JUNE 16-20th 2025 7K- 18k WORD COUNTNo ThemeSee Fiction Submission Guidelines Below MAIN ISSUE SUBMISSIONS CLOSEDUNTIL LATER THIS YEAR (Will be a Themed Issu…

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ONE WEEK UNTIL NOVELETTE WEEK!!! cold-signal.com/submissions/ SEND ME SOME WEIRD NOVELETTES!

Novelette Summer is here and it's happening! Love to see it & love Strange Horizons! As a reminder, Cold Signal will also be open for novelettes from the 16th-20th. CS's tastes skew towards the weird and genre-agnostic. Check out our backlog for a taste of the house style. Long live the novelette!

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · last yr.

The novelette window is now OPEN! Send us your fiction between 10,000 and 18,000 words. The cap will be 300 stories. Happy submitting! NOTE: In order to allow more writers to submit to us and widen our pool of submissions, writers may only send one story across all three 2025 submission windows.

The way this piece in @cold-signal.com had me transfixed.

The Existential Game of Tarot – Camille Gazoul

The Existential Game of Tarotby Camille Gazoul Guidance  We may be reluctant to trust our inner guide when it appears, because we are so used to taking cues from the outside.¹ Should I move? S…

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COLD SiGNAL UPDATES: Novelette submission window: June 16th-20th. No theme. Aiming to publish a handful throughout the summer, spaced out. 7k-18k length. Issue Four later this year. Themed. Haven't officially settled on a theme yet, but leaning towards THE CREATURE. Demons, beasts, oddities & us.

Bumping this up! Sharpen them novelettes, people :)

Cold Signal Magazine@cold-signal.com · last yr.

COLD SiGNAL UPDATES: Novelette submission window: June 16th-20th. No theme. Aiming to publish a handful throughout the summer, spaced out. 7k-18k length. Issue Four later this year. Themed. Haven't officially settled on a theme yet, but leaning towards THE CREATURE. Demons, beasts, oddities & us.

COLD SiGNAL UPDATES: Novelette submission window: June 16th-20th. No theme. Aiming to publish a handful throughout the summer, spaced out. 7k-18k length. Issue Four later this year. Themed. Haven't officially settled on a theme yet, but leaning towards THE CREATURE. Demons, beasts, oddities & us.

very dizzying piece of contemporary weird horror, twists structure in some very chewy, evocative ways

Cold Signal Magazine@cold-signal.com · 2y ago

Perry Ruhland brings us a weird horror meditation on trauma, love and spinal catastrophism in "Nerves" exploring the way we grow like roots into ourselves & into the world. "The more closely one inhabits a body, the more that body grows strange." cold-signal.com/nerves-perry...

National Short Story Month means you should read great short stories, like A Ways Off by @addisonzeller.bsky.social in @cold-signal.com Issue 3: Underworld. A hotel and a house and all kinds of weird happenings. Oh and a brass button. cold-signal.com/a-ways-off-a...

A Ways Off – Addison Zeller

A Ways Offby Addison Zeller The hotel restaurant was closed. Beetles had eaten the carpets. “We used to sell oysters,” the manager told me when I handed in my references. “These don’t matter,” she …

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Beegshotdeentcha@amityvandal.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s National Short Story Month and I’ll try to recommend at least one a day. First up is Three Plagues by @ivygrimes.bsky.social in @ninthletter.bsky.social. Mother on the roof, grandmother somewhere. A mystery man. Loved it. ninthletter.com/feature/ivy-...

Reminder: my oldest, most recent story's free to read! Many thanks to @cold-signal.com for giving this oldie (but goodie) a home at last cold-signal.com/a-line-of-in...

A Line of Ink, Stretching Back Like A Shadow – Karlo Yeager Rodriguez

A Line of Ink, Stretching Back Like A Shadowby Karlo Yeager Rodriguez Mamán loved words; this, Gre-mamán told me. Mamán had covered her belly with writing, painted words on it in great loops and wh…

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Been thinking about making a direct transfer Cold Signal shirt in the next few months, once Evening House is hopefully secure and I can get a transfer machine. Mainly to have one for myself, but maybe make a few extra too for those interested. Trying out some designs that might look cool on a shirt

people are finding singular, electric weird fiction, poetry and cnf on cold signal

Only a few left to add to the thread that’ll all be posted this weekend! It’s never been easier to pick out some Cold Signal work that speaks to you. The collages are designed to mirror the work, so walk through the collage + description trail and get rocked by the good shit

Cold Signal Magazine@cold-signal.com · 2y ago

Starting up the official Issue Three megathread that I'll build out over the next two weeks, spotlighting the fantastic fiction, poetry and cnf in UNDERWORLD. The pieces will be shared in collage order (so, first name alphabetical) on the TOC page. Thanks in advance for reading!

The clock is ticking, publishers

Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bending my will to make manifest in 2025: collections by JF Gleeson, Siobhan Carroll, Donyae Coles, Kai Ashante Wilson (anything at all by Kai Ashante Wilson). I believe Vajra Chandrasekera is also shopping a collection around and it’s preposterous that no one has signed that yet (that I know of)

Once the megathread is done, CS goes back into hibernation, but in early summer submissions will open for a brief window for novelettes! Looking to publish 3-4 novelettes over the course of the summer like we did with the wonderful J.F. Gleeson's "Blood Craft" cold-signal.com/blood-craft-...

Blood Craft – J.F. Gleeson

1 There was a ruddy star in the sky. It is how all stories imaginable end. The ruddy star was not beautiful and it did not shine, but you could see it up there, as one man did, from up on the ragge…

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Drew Broussard@drewsof.bsky.social · 2y ago

Publishing this story, one of my nearest-dearest and also oldest, with @coldsignal.bsky.social has been such a dream. And to be in such company!! This issue is nothing but frickin stunners!! I truly love every piece in the batch!!

Tonight’s a great night to read Cold Signal! So is every other night but I thought of this post today so here it is