I think this might be the first time I’ve ever won anything other than undeserved childhood softball participation trophies. I’m honored and grateful to be in such excellent company here!

InkFoundry@inkfoundry.bsky.social · 18h ago

The Individual story InkMark winners are! “Small Prayers for the God of Sow Thistle Hill” by Kate Francia In Flash Fiction Online “What It Means to Love a City” by Morris Hinkle In Reckoning “Lucinda Espinosa’s Twenty-Seventh Death” by M.R. Robinson In Fusion Fragment

The Winner of the very FIRST InkMarK..... Is.....BAFFLING MAGAZINE inkfoundry.net/inkmark-2026/

⚔️ COVER REVEAL ⚔️ The end of the world is coming. But the crew of the Kopek won't let it go down without a fight. Introducing Worldsend, the explosive final installment in Sascha Stronach’s brilliantly imagined Endsong trilogy!

You can read part of my short fiction review column from the October issue of LOCUS in Locus Online. Featuring stories from FIYAH, Small Wonders, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Flash Fiction Online. locusmag.com/review/fiyah...

Stardust & Verse's October poetry reviews included Radon's Issue 13. Full collection of poetry thoughts open to read at this link: www.patreon.com/StardustAndV...

October 2026 Poetry Reviews (Part 1) | Stardust & Verse | SFF Poetry Reviews

Featuring recent poems from OTHERSIDE, Heartlines Spec, Radon Journal, and Small Wonders Magazine! As a reminder, only paid patrons can acce

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Hey all Possible Weird Flash Contributors, we will reopen tomorrow and be open until January 15th (unless we fill up)! We are also accepting reprints at our regular rate, but you can only have one submission at a time, so the choice is yours.

Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · 4d ago

Thank you to everyone who submitted for our weird flash special issue call edited by @andrewkozma.net! We are going to REOPEN so more people can submit for our weird flash special issue call edited by @andrewkozma.net! And we're going to open up to reprints; details forthcoming.

Thank you to everyone who submitted for our weird flash special issue call edited by @andrewkozma.net! We are going to REOPEN so more people can submit for our weird flash special issue call edited by @andrewkozma.net! And we're going to open up to reprints; details forthcoming.

Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · last wk.

Submissions for our weird environmental justice flash fiction special issue close on Halloween! Still time to write something to blow @andrewkozma.net's mind....

For every rejection I receive this year I’m rolling RNG to see who is the pokemon that rejected me! hoppip is forgettable anyways *flips hair*

Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu@larkmorganlu.bsky.social · last wk.

For every random rejection I receive this year I’m rolling a random number generator to see who is the pokemon that rejected me! PHANPY… WHATEVERRR… ur mid. MID!!! *MID*!!!!!

BIG NEWS! We are only $41/month in Patreon support away from 4000 MORE WORDS in every issue! So we're running a sub drive this month to get there! And if we hit our goal by December 1st, we'll be able to raise our word limit for submitters to 5000 words 💥 (1/3) www.patreon.com/cw/Otherside...

New MicroVerse spec flash rec list is up!

Flash Roundup * Sept/October 2026

A gathering of recent speculative flash & poetry, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. Including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the spaces in between. *** Origami Ex Machina By …

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BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION MONTH bends time. Pre-order now, get it in the future.

Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · 6d ago

THE COVER REVEAL FOR ME AND WAYNE BRADY'S UPCOMING BOOK, HARD TIMES!!!

🦇 Looking to be scared this Halloween season? What's more terrifying than complicity in the face of systemic societal injustice? Check out my poem 'The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub', pub'd by @strangehorizons.bsky.social! 🧜‍♀️🏳️‍⚧️✨️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub

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I've signed up to be part of the @itch.io Halloween Sale! 🎃 In honor of the many scares of Halloween, I've put No Dream Like Forever on sale for 66% off. (I couldn't resist being almost 666.) norashear.itch.io/no-dream-lik...

No Dream Like Forever by Nora Shear, Author

An orphan's bloody past. An immortal's secret vow. When the two collide, it will destroy both their worlds.

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Happy Halloween! It's the FaRo Society's Fantasy Romance Book Blast today. You can snap up my cozy-spooky rom-com Good Neighbors for just 99c/99p, as well as a whole bunch of other spooky romantasies, including... farosociety.com/bookblast #romancelandia

figured out the incremental thing and have updated the goal. full transparency: the amount due for the remaining room & board is $1898 while the plane ticket is about $900 (coming from Florida). I also need warmer clothes. I know things are tight, but if you can share, it'd be a huge help!

✨️intelligentwat✨️ looking for work@zinrock.bsky.social · last wk.

hey, y'all, hey! I got into Banff's Futurisms Intensive Writing Residency and I need your help getting there. any and everything helps! please do share if you can't donate (I totally understand; groceries alone are $100 per square foot). #writingsky #BlackSky #authorsky gofund.me/e1d1f2d31

Keep an eye on this set… they’re kinda stacked @viableparadise.bsky.social class of 2026 go.bsky.app/2WzjfG7

This was one of those "get an idea and then write it down as fast as possible" stories. I don't have them often. I was so thrilled that SMT picked it up!

The Sunday Morning Transport@morningtransport.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Sunday Morning Transport has a timetable to keep with a story from Mur Lafferty (@mightymur.bsky.social) about a diary that just might contain a reliable method of time travel. Read a sample or subscribe for the whole story!

Very thrilled to have my story “How to Come Back to Yourself” in @podcastle.org today! It’s a love story in several respects about a prophet and a shapeshifter + has a lot of my feelings about self-doubt in it💓huge thanks to Pine Gonzalez for the wonderful narration! podcastle.org/2026/10/27/p...

THINK WEIRDER 2 IS OUT The best book I've ever edited, with stories by @aptshadow.bsky.social, @gregegansf.bsky.social, @isabel.kim, Peter Watts, @tiatashiro.bsky.social, Nancy Kress, @thomasha.bsky.social, @daviddlevine.com, @lynnesargent.bsky.social,@kojiadae.bsky.social, @aviburton.bsky.social

THREE DAYS UNTIL PORTALS #1! We can't wait for you to read this killer collection of trans horror, feat. Moss Cronin, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @horrorsong.blog, @pvvamsidhar.bsky.social, @esther-alter.bsky.social, jd hegarty, @chideraoffor.bsky.social... AND art from @spicycloaca.bsky.social! 🔪🩸

Read my starred Kirkus review to Morty. He was unimpressed.

Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · last wk.

A SECOND STARRED REVIEW HAS HIT, I REPEAT, A SECOND STARRED REVIEW HAS HIT MY FORTHCOMING YA HORROR NOVEL www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT is here! 🛸 Rabbit wanted her boyfriend to know aliens will be taking her a 3rd time. Now she's alone, her body's changing, and nothing makes sense. Heartbreak meets alien abduction in my weird girl lit book, out today from Saga! www.simonandschuster.com/books/She-Is...

WE DID IT!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to your support, Apex Magazine will be releasing four new issues in 2027, along with TWO flash winners from our October flash series! Now we're just $600 away from our first stretch goal: a STRANGE OCEANS anthology edited by @marissavu.bsky.social! 🌊🫧 Check it out below!

Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Very simple, you're in luck. Next week, go to reactor dot com, read "The Next Closest Thing" by Guan Un.

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · last wk.

A dying woman in hospital opts to have a clone made to comfort her adult child. But there's something not quite right about the clone: it doesn't even get the joke about Pagliacci. Next week. "The Next Closest Thing" by @thisisguan.bsky.social Art by Matt Dorfman Edited by @malf.bsky.social

For every random rejection I receive this year I’m rolling a random number generator to see who is the pokemon that rejected me! PHANPY… WHATEVERRR… ur mid. MID!!! *MID*!!!!!

Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu@larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 2w ago

For every rejection I receive this year I’m rolling a random number generator to see who is the pokemon that rejected me! TOTODILE??! Cmon bro… bro not like this man you were so goated

Tired: wine moms book club, classics book club, poc book club Wired: be gay do crime book club, online degenerates only book club, covers you would be embarrassed to be caught in public with book club

This Friday! For free on the internet! Two authors with professional headshots and one author who seemingly waved at a passing satellite will talk about their love of scary stories! It's all to support The Braille Institute! Register online for free at bit.ly/4yGl56m.

@apexmag.bsky.social is close to funding for next year! If you'd like to help, this is your chance to grab the Strange Microfiction anthologies (exclusive to the KS!). And if it hits the $22K stretch goal, there will be a new volume: STRANGE OCEANS 👀🐋🦀🪸 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Personality quiz: what do you see in the patterns of the moon

There's just 8 DAYS LEFT before our flash contest deadline, and incidentally, only ONE WEEK LEFT to secure the funding we need to publish two short stories from this contest! We'd love the opportunity to select two October winners this year - please consider helping us make it happen! ⬇️

Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 4w ago

Your attention has been hijacked for this important news announcement 💥🚙🐦 The Apex Magazine flash fiction contest theme for October is HIJACK! You have until the end of the month to submit. Guidelines and submission portal below ⬇️ www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...