LAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!

Happy June 1-2 for all those who celebrate. While we're at it, happy early June 7.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Already pre-ordered my copy. Super excited to read this, I love wilderness horror, and Colin is a phenomenal writer.

Colin Alexander@colincalexander.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Author copies of “Suicide Valley Trail Maintenance” arrived today, and they look BEAUTIFUL. Grab your copy before the first printing runs out: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... @stanchion.bsky.social

Author copies of “Suicide Valley Trail Maintenance” arrived today, and they look BEAUTIFUL. Grab your copy before the first printing runs out: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... @stanchion.bsky.social

Suicide Valley Trail Maintenance | Stanchion

The Jack London/Stephen King mashup you never knew you wanted! SUICIDE VALLEY TRAIL MAINTENANCE is a thrilling horror novella that follows a park ranger as they journey into a remote, ominous valley t...

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Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology

Emma Burnett

Writer of stories

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My fantasy flash piece "The Coral Witch" is available to read at The Orange & Bee! It's a little sad, a little creepy, and a lot of fun. Click below to read it! theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-coral-...

The Coral Witch

Issue nine: flash fiction by Andrew Maust

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And the moment you’ve all been waiting for… your nominees for best litmag of 2025!!! #litmag

Because I'm far too excited and have no patience, here's one more! Our nominations for our Glimmer Award in Flash Fiction up to 1,000 words.

read your literary grandparents. whatever writer inspires you and seems like a genius, check out who inspired them. it will confirm what makes them unique but also reveal how traceable their influences are. it teaches you new craft tools and relieves some pressure. no one writes in isolation.*

Lilah Sturges@lilahsturges.com · 4mo ago

Writers: what’s a solid piece of *craft* advice you wish you’d known sooner? Mine is this: when making writing decisions, always stop and ask yourself what is best for the SCENE. What are the scene’s goals? Does this sentence, this paragraph, this line of dialogue serve those goals? If not, fix it.

Watched the recent @parlorroom.dropout.tv where the group of folks play the game Pass the Pigs. And I'm now dead set on using pig dice for my next TTRPG's resolution. Double Leaning Jowlers are now critical successes. Makin' Bacon is a crit fail.

Collective action creates power. Love to see it, excited for how this protects the people who are actually creating the products we love at WOTC. Would love to see other unionizing/profit sharing/other collective models at TTRPG companies beyond WOTC/Hasbro, but this is a great sign.

Announcing United Wizards of the Coast - CWA!

MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.

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One of those kinds of days. Keep writing and submitting, everyone!

Excited to have a new solarpunk poem out at @foofarawpress.bsky.social today! I spent yesterday morning helping out @sunandsoil.bsky.social with a gardening project, so it must be a garden-y type of a weekend. You can "Our Garden Plot" here: foofaraw.press/our-garden-p...

🐌 Our Garden Plot

by Andrew Maust

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Chilling read in @foofarawpress.bsky.social by @hanmarin.bsky.social Feel like this one will stick with me for a while.

Basement Girls and Attic Gods

H. Marin

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@radonjournal.bsky.social recently raised their rates to 2.5 cents per word. Consistently publishes some of the best scifi poetry and fiction, and has cultivated the best writing communities online in their discord.

Now announcing our contributors for the Sprawl Mag 3.1. We are so excited to share this volume with you! Featuring: Pablo Andrés Palo Viviana De Cecco @francesboyle19.bsky.social @themaust.bsky.social @sidellwrites.bsky.social Ivan Ndoma-Egba @lucienrstarchild.bsky.social

Happy to have a lovely little poem, "Roots of Resistance" in the latest issue of @thesprawl.bsky.social! Check it out (along with a bunch of other great pieces) here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

friends, please share ❤️👹: everyone who follows my bsky account between now (1:08PM EST) and when i’ve crashed into bed with my yasso bar (8PM EST) will be entered into a raffle for a free full edit of 3k words or less i’m tired of being unpopular lfg

Sometimes the news is just great: Emma Burnett's "25 Peppercorns" has been shortlisted for the BSFA's Best Short Fiction award! Congratulations @slashnburnett.bsky.social from all at Mythaxis! To everyone else, it's a beautiful story, well worth a read (and your vote): bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Exciting publishing news for 2026! Short-story collection (as Maura Yzmore) and two spicy STEM romance novellas (as Fiona Embers) are all expected to come out in the first half of 2026! 🥳 Looking for books that are already out? books2read.com/fionaembers #writesky #booksky 📚💙📚🌶📚 #romancelandia

need editing? support small business, support small human (me) not too late to kick off that resolution! check out my site and contact me, I don't bite #editor #editing #speculative #literature #writing #fantasy #sciencefiction #horror

H. Marin@hanmarin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm shamelessly plugging my editorial services for anyone who has "revise manuscript" as a new year's resolution. I currently have two slots open for manuscript length, and several short fiction slots. gib me marginalized narratives pls #editor #revisions #speculative #SFFH #LGBTQIA #writers #WIPs

A friend recently asked me how I was doing. And I said "I'm doing well, just angry." Been angry a long time, friends. And ready to stay angry.

Great thoughts in Ashlee Lhamon's debut Substack post: "We’ve all read absolutely sloggy stories about alien invasions and absolutely gripping ones about gardening." Read the rest here: thepulppit.substack.com/p/what-we-ta...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Conflict

No novels were harmed in the making of this post

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Some great stories here from @mynachang.bsky.social , @kcmeadbrewer.com , and @angelaliu.bsky.social! Check out the whole list. Eugenia is one of my favorite writers, and her taste is immaculate.

Eugenia Triantafyllou@foxesandroses.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3

It's time for an awards eligibility post! This year was a pretty dry one, with most of my acceptances coming in the back end of the calendar. That said, I have two small flash pieces that I'd like you to consider (and even if you don't nominate them, give them a quick read--they're fun!)

Just sitting at my desk crying because I decided to catch up on @xkcd.com after traveling last week and got hit with Fifteen Years. Probably my favorite string of XKCD comics. xkcd.com/3172/

Fifteen Years

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I've had some writer friends with similar experiences. Reposting for visibility and also so folks who have had issues can contact Victoria.

Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 9mo ago

Alert: I've gotten several reports of non-payment by Graveside Press, from authors w/ stories in one or more anthologies. Also failing to provide author copies, & failing to respond to emails & messages. Anyone w/ similar experiences, pls contact me (Writer Beware) in confidence: beware@sfwa.org

It's publication day! You can find my flash piece "Eye of Newt" in @emberjournal.org! Huge thanks to the Ember team and to @hanmarin.bsky.social for helping me out with some much-needed edits! You can read the story here: read.emberjournal.org/andrew-maust...

Eye of Newt | Ember

“I caught one,” Maddie said triumphantly, holding a jar up. It was filled with water, and inside was a small green newt with black spots on its belly. Her shorts and shoes were muddy and soaked from…

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