We're thrilled to reveal the cover of Apex Magazine Issue 154, featuring the beautiful "Dark Thoughts" by @jeleynai.bsky.social, with cover design by Justin Stewart! 🌕🐦⬛🌿 For the full list of contributors and other updates, check out "Apex in August 2026" on Patreon: www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...
Bailey Thomas
@baileythomas92.bsky.social
Avid coffee consumer and sometimes writer. Healthcare worker living with MS.
If you missed our submission window, this swirling hell-portal of dark delights is still open!
The portal is open! 🕳️ We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).
We're still pushing away at our goal of giving our entire team a raise in celebration of our 20th anniversary issue in October. Each subscription takes us one step closer. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ There isn't a better way to thank them for their part in the last 20 and the next 20.
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Our general submission window will open on the first of the month! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! Guidelines & schedule: www.havenspec.com/submit/
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Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
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Publication day! Come on, don't be afraid, the house on top of the hill will open its doors wide for you 👻 It was so much fun to write, huge thanks to @blackharepress.bsky.social for giving my house a home!!!
A PATREON story. Enjoy! THE HOUSE ON TOP OF THE HILL IS HAUNTED by HANNYA KAY https://www.patreon.com/blackharepress/posts/161944007 #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #bookblogger #bookpromo #amreading #tbrpile #patreon #drabble #shortstory
As someone who isn’t “well known” in the writing community, doesn’t have the most publications, and probably doesn’t come off as a very strong writer, I am always terrified magazines might view what I send as poor AI writing and easily dismiss it. I trust every place I send my writing to +
The subscription drive (to increase staff and contributor pay) is running until the anniversary of the magazine. We're about halfway to the goal. Thank you to everyone that has subscribed so far! clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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Reading @clarkesworldmagazine.com through the years and eventually working up the nerve to send my first submission ever to your magazine has fundamentally changed my life. I’m so glad you followed through and did it.
Twenty years ago today, I was talked into starting a magazine. The anniversary of the first issue is October 1st, but this is when it began for me. Time flies.
Massive power outage due to storms where I live. Might be days before it’s fixed. Definitely can’t do something like stay in a hotel or something until resolve. Very not great situation for a lot of reasons :/
New story up on @blackharepress.bsky.social patreon. You can join now to read my story and many others!
STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "Horseland" is a short story by EC Dorgan about authenticity and the monsters that haunt our hearts and histories. As a special preview of the issue, you can read it NOW! havenspec.com/fiction/hors...
🔥SALE🔥 Prime Day is now thru the 26th? COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY, ALL OUR E-BOOKS & MAGAZINES ARE 50% OFF THRU THE 26TH. Buy from our webstore, get your books & mags delivered INSTANTLY, + you own them outright! (Sorry, not applicable to preorders) 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
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apparently Prime day is tomorrow and it's not just a day anymore it's like a wholeass week If you want some cool wall art, coloring books, novellas, kid's books, pins, stickers, or apparel, you can put $ into my pocket instead of Bezos' next yacht :D
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At the Nebulas, @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social, the founder of Strange Horizons, spoke about the origins of the magazine and how it started at a time where there were few opportunities for short story writers, particularly new writers, to have their work published. (1/3)
The cover of my collection, "After You Were Lost," has been revealed. 🥳😁🙌 watgpress.substack.com/p/kai-delmas...
Kai Delmas Newsletter by WATG Press — Cover Reveal
After You Were Lost by Kai Delmas.
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It’s pub day for the WOMEN OF THE WEIRD WEST Anthology, an imaginative, multicultural collection of weird wild west stories! My story “How To Kill A Yaoguai” is in here, inspired by Chinese immigrants in the 1800s and the women who were often trafficked to the so-called “new world."
Thankfully caught an extremely wrong science thing in the first draft before another human being had to see that lmao
✨COVER REVEAL✨ for my fiction collection forthcoming April 2027 with @shortwavebooks.bsky.social 👀🤍‼️ design by @alandistro.bsky.social 💫 preorder direct here— shop.shortwavepublishing.com/products/mem... 🙆🏻♀️
Check out my poem “A Sweet Summer Melody Courtesy of Planet XR-23A” in this issue www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
Penumbric June 2k26, A Sweet Summer Melody Courtesy of Planet XR-23A
Edgy speculative fiction magazine
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It's here!!! Check out the June issue of #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
Check out my poem “A Sweet Summer Melody Courtesy of Planet XR-23A” in this issue www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
Penumbric June 2k26, A Sweet Summer Melody Courtesy of Planet XR-23A
Edgy speculative fiction magazine
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It's here!!! Check out the June issue of #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror
So thrilled to have a poem in this issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And more thanks! Brian Malachy Quinn, Andrew Fraknoi, @baileythomas92.bsky.social, Carl Scharwath, Olga Vruble, @spires.bsky.social, @arcanepixels744.bsky.social, Corinne Engber, @christinasng.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine
We Begin Where Infinity Ends is an Ignyte Award Finalist!!! Deeply honored and grateful to the judges and everyone who has read, reviewed, and supported this little firefly story ✨🪲🫶🏽
The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Novelette are: Human Voices – @isabel.kim Never Eaten Vegetables – @hhpak.bsky.social Uncertain Sons – @thomasha.bsky.social We Begin Where Infinity Ends – @somtoihezue.bsky.social What I Saw Before the War – Alaya Dawn Johnson
Contract signed, I’ll have a science fiction horror flash piece forthcoming in @blackharepress.bsky.social patreon 🎉
My new short story is out in Uncanny! I wrote a newsletter about how this piece started - it's been an unusually long process from first draft to publication 👀 letters-from-hannah-yang.beehiiv.com/p/my-new-sho...
My new short story is out in Uncanny!
On time travel and Tamagotchis
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An interesting warning for writers: There have been ads, making their rounds on social media, advertising writing contests with large prizes. Beware-- some of these contests are tricks to get you to submit files that will then be used to train AI models (LLMs). READ THE FINE PRINT!
Man, this poem by @marissalingen.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social feels so relevant for writing. You can be a novelist, short story writer, poet. You can write sci-fi, romance, horror, anything you want. Don't let anyone ever tell you what you can write or what kind of writer you are.
The Truth About Wolves - Uncanny Magazine
They will tell you lies about wolves, My darling: that you contain just two And can feed only one, and this shapes you. No. Not you. You are full of wolves, The whole pack, tumbling pups, Grizzled eld...
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