Calling all short story writers: prepare your best dark city-focused tales for AUTUMN IN THE CITY. We're opening to short story submissions on December 1, 2026. 🍁 links.ruadanbooks.com/AutumnCFS #AuthorSky #writingcommunity #WriterSky

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our first podcast, Read Receipts, a weekly show about speculative fiction, genre, and nerd culture.

Reactor's Doing a Podcast! Introducing Read Receipts - Reactor

A unique perspective on contemporary genre fiction — launching Oct 28th!

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Baby is currently nursing ~3 times a night and last night during the midnight wake up I opened my email to a story hold! Exhausted but thriving 😂

1) I'm on the board of the Ray Bradbury Center 2) I am co-editing a new anthology (with Carrie Cooper, Assistant Director of the Ray Bradbury Center and public humanities scholar).

Today’s my first time sending something to @plotthoundmag.bsky.social! Always fun trying a new publication ✨

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Plott Hound Magazine open reading period closes on the 15th. If you have something to send our way, now's the time! Submit: plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...

LSQ has always made room for writers just starting out, and I feel the same about editors. Never done this before? If you've got good proofreading skills and excellent taste, I'd love to chat. Apply by Fri, Oct 16: forms.gle/WcYfVWHxkx... #EditorsWanted #SFF #WomenWriters

Five days until Agita Magazine opens for weird flash stories featuring ekphrasis, with guest editor Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social If we don't get any Velvet Elvis stories, I may weep. Guidelines at agitamag.com/submissions

With scam artists empowered by LLMs, writers and editors have common cause to worry about submissions. That's why Emerging Tech is gathering @bonabooks.bsky.social, @reckoningmag.bsky.social, & SFWA Publications for I SWEAR I'M NOT A ROBOT Tues, Oct 13 at 1pm PT. RSVP today! sfwa.org/events/?even...

Applications are open between now and October 31 for my next Short Story Cohort (3 months, a small group, personalized feedback). Learn more here: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-.... This is different than the Short Story Intensive I'm hosting this weekend for any paid Patreon users.

Short Story Cohort

WRITING, COACHING, CRITIQUE, and COMMUNITY Join Mary Robinette Kowal for a transformative three-month writing experience, designed to help you learn the craft of short stories while also generating…

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It's easy to see a writer's acceptances, but what you don't see are the rejections. I think it's important to normalize that all writers get rejections, and they keep coming, even after acceptances. Since that first sale at Clarkesworld, I've had 4 more acceptances and 11 more rejections there.

SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM AUTHOR INTERVIEW NUMBER TWO! Cardigan Broadmoor and A.J. Sharpe discuss telling horror stories through unconventional techniques -- Cardigan's is told in legal depositions, A.J.'s in dark web chat logs. youtu.be/7fgIdQ-TFBA

Side Hustle author interviews: Cardigan Broadmoor and A.J. Sharpe

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Now here’s a kind of book I’ve never read before: Palestinian gothic horror, set in Haifa, and explicitly about the ‘48 Nakba and its consequences.

You ever… ever just like… think about how weird grass is? You ever think about it so much that you write a story about it? Well, Phano is open for short story submissions about grass. You should send us one or three. Our inbox is pretty light at the moment… 👀 www.phano.com/submissions

'The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July.' Salma in the Vase by @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social This gorgeous #flashfiction hums with the disorientation, & overwhelming love & fear that comes with being a mother. hexliterary.com?p=3557

Salma in the Vase by Yasmeen Fahmy

The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July.  It was our thing; sitting and watching the clouds build, eating fast-melting popsicles a...

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We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

Just a reminder that Phano is opening tomorrow for submissions! www.phano.com/submissions

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Phano delivers wondrous, thought-provoking content about the future to the questioning masses—beautiful stories, essays, interviews, reviews and art to make sense of our world in constant change. We w...

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The leaves are falling. Soon they'll be rotting. Send some our way. Submissions open tonight at midnight, EST 🍂

Look who arrived on a beautiful fall day! 🐣🍁 I’ll be more offline and a little slower to respond to emails/messages for a few months. Looking forward to the cozy days ahead as a family of 4. ♥️

This story was borne of PPA and writing it helped me channel those fears into something strange and beautiful. Thank you @hexliterary.bsky.social for giving it the perfect home. ♥️

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · last mo.

"The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July." Wow. A story of loss and of reunion. Beautiful, sad, strange. We absolutely love the very special vase in @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social's "Salma in the Vase," up now on the site. Go read it!

I have a new flash piece out in Neon & Smoke today. “Light of Zahraun” follows a little girl with a strange habit and a bright destiny. Link to read: www.neonandsmoke.com/september-sm...

For my fellow parents and caretakers ♥️

Daniel Miller@danielmiller.bsky.social · last mo.

"The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July." @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social's newest, up on hex this week, hit me so damn hard. The kind of story in which surrealism is the only way to capture the heartbreaks of parenting. So beautiful.

This story was borne of PPA and writing it helped me channel those fears into something strange and beautiful. Thank you @hexliterary.bsky.social for giving it the perfect home. ♥️

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · last mo.

"The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July." Wow. A story of loss and of reunion. Beautiful, sad, strange. We absolutely love the very special vase in @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social's "Salma in the Vase," up now on the site. Go read it!

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 12 days. For the love of horror, fantasy, and science fiction—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2027! kck.st/4x4r1oz

It's September 18, which means that in exactly one month, my special call for @diabolicalplots.com, Diabolical Rot, will be opening for submissions! Check out the full details here: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-general-s...

DP General Submission Window and “Diabolical Rot” Themed Window – Diabolical Plots

If you are thinking about starting a short fiction publication and would like to discuss with someone experienced how to get started, please do contact us!

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Translunar Travelers Lounge is open for submissions from writers of color. Speculative fiction, 5000 words or under. Be sure to check the guidelines before submitting. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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From animal conscription that satirizes the surveillance state, to soft power parlayed through food, to body-hopping as survival and rebellion, our Revolution-themed issue is live! Head to our website to buy a copy and read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com/product/volu...

Translunar Travelers Lounge will be opening for submissions for Issue 16, scheduled for February 2027. We are looking for speculative fiction stories of 5000 words or fewer. Full details are on our submissions page: translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Working Class Writers Grant open for submissions Sept. 1-30! Learn more and apply at speculativeliterature.org/grants-3/the....