Hey, that’s me! Lolo’s Last Run will be available in print in ECO25 on Nov 17th, 2026!! It was also a finalist for @asimovssfmag.bsky.social’s reader’s choice awards! So so honored to have been chosen for this anthology alongside such excellent writers. I can’t wait to read the whole thing!!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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#ICFA47 recap up on my blog! Featuring a video of me reading from my award winning short story “KINESIS”. Check it out! And subscribe to my newsletter if you want my news straight to your inbox! emkerkman.com/2026/04/08/i...

ICFA 47 recap: readings, lava cake, and book hauls

Hello everyone! About two weeks ago I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the 47th international conference for the fantastic in the arts, and it was so lovely to see old faces and meet new fac…

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More exciting news! I am officially a nominee for this year’s Astounding Award! Read more about it here: astoundingaward.info #astoundingaward #writingcommunity #sciencefiction

ALPHA was one of the most influential workshops I attended as a teenager that helped form me into the writer I am today! If anyone knows/mentors young spec fic writers, please encourage them to apply!

Alpha Writers Workshop@alphaworkshop.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Applications for the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers are open until March 1! Apply here: alphawritersworkshop.org

Here is a beautiful flyer our lovely publicity people (it was me) made for applications this year! It’s so cool and easy to print out and post in libraries or send to your friends wow!

Hi everyone! Sorry for the radio silence—I’m back with exciting news! This year, I am once again First Runner-Up for the Must Read Books (formerly Dell) Award, for my short story KINESIS. I will be at ICFA in Orlando again this year, and hope to see some familiar faces there! #MustReadBooksAward

Hey look, it’s me holding up a copy of my story in this month’s issue of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social! My first publication ever available in a brick and mortar store, too! Check my blog/newsletter for more info :)

#SFFchat A1: aside from my usual plethora of short stories, my current project is De Terra Ad Infinitum, a dieselpunk alt-earth sci-fi novel about illegal plane racing, flying cities in an apocalyptic world, government conspiracies, and the unavoidably cyclical nature of human history!

Oh this is so cool! I’m totally going to do this—I’ll make a thread and then backdate the first few posts :) what a fun idea!

SFFChat@sffchat.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#SFFChat is BACK for what should be an uninterrupted month! Apologies for the wait on the monthly prompts, but here's September's list (with alt-text that you can copy/paste as needed).

Also also, as a fun little extra, a friend of mine did fan art for Black Gold a while back—here’s her interpretation of the MC! (Also, please go support her art if you like what you see! You can find her on KoFi here: ko-fi.com/cat_psychic)

The Apex Magazine team is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter for 2026 begins OCTOBER 1ST!! 🎃🍁 We're keeping all the rewards you love, adding exciting new rewards for readers and writers alike, AND reopening submissions! Mark your calendars, and we'll see you at the graveyard smash! 👻🌙🐈‍⬛📅

Black Gold is out today!! I’m so excited for everyone to get to read it—thank you to Apex Magazine for making that possible!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"He dies in a hiss of air and a trickle of oil drips from his severed esophagus to the ground. I see some of the other men eye it like they’d lick it out of the sand. I would, too." 🤖🏜️ New fiction today by @emkerkman.bsky.social: "Black Gold" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Dear friends, writers, #agents, interstellar travelers, interdimensional aliens, and otherwise paradoxical time hoppers! We would like to invite you to set your favorite time-traveling device to October 21st, 2025, for the pitch event dedicated to Science Fiction, #SFPit! 🧵

Hi #weeknightwriters! I coach a HS sports team this time on Thursdays so alas I can only pop in right at the end—I have two upcoming short story publications! One is Black Gold, out with Apex Magazine on 9/2. My other, Lolo’s Last Run, is currently out in the Sept/Oct edition of Asimov’s!

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Q5: Share your stories! Tell us about what you’re working on OR something you’ve had published recently & share links if you have them! #WeeknightWriters

hi y’all!! I’m absolutely blown away by all the amazing #PosterPit posters, and the love you’ve shown my projects #PlanesWIP and #PiratesWIP! I’ll introduce myself properly for all the new folks soon, but for now I just want to thank y’all 🥹 what a wonderful #WritingCommunity

#PosterPit #W #SF #SPF #A #NA #PlanesWIP Racing planes for a living, and newly accepted to the airforce academy, Terrah's living the dream when disaster strikes. Explosions on a flying city always mean trouble. Especially when you live under it.

WARCROSS x ONE OF US IS LYING DEADLY ARCHETYPES is a fast paced, grounded YA sci-fi that features: - a high-tech, high stakes VR competition game - an unlikely group of allies - the ticking clock of a mind control glitch - hero x villain archetypes #PosterPit #AG #SF #YA

#PosterPit #W #NA #F #R #PiratesWIP During her world tour, Captain Holloway is captured by pirates. After encountering an assassination plot, a magical curse, an unlikely romance, and an imminent war, she finally takes a side. The wrong side. It's all Captain Falcon's fault.

📖🐦‍⬛Mark of a Magpie🐦‍⬛📖 When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #PosterPit #PosterPitOS #PosterPitA #AG #OS #A #F #R #DIS #onsub #editors

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP How far would you go to make sure your loved ones survive? For a retired explorer, that burning question never ceases to exist. When he overhears a rumour about a mysterious forest, he ventures back into the wild, desperation overwhelming every other emotion. #PosterPit #Q #T #A

🌊OF GEMSTONES AND DIVINITY🌊 Kiana robs the wealthy to give to those in need. Emeralda left her noble life behind to be a seafaring vigilante. The unlikely duo must cooperate long enough to take down a bloodthirsty pirate. They get along better than they expected. ~96k #QueerPit #NA #F #FR #HF

Think: A forest that gives birth. The paper-thin layer of skin between life and death. The sacrifices we make to ensure our lineage. Pairs well with: sandalwood, cedar, bonfire, freshly laid mulch, and pinot noir. #HuntingSeason #PosterPit #PosterPitA #AG #H #LIT #SPF

🗡️Murdered in cold blood &resurrected through forbidden powers, Quill becomes a legendary assassin. 🥷When her latest mission sparks the higher power’s wrath, Quill must avenge the death of her people and her own murder. 💀Failure will cost more than just her life.🪶 #PosterPit #P #F 🪐📚 📚💙 🌈📚

A CURSE SO DARK & LONELY X THE INHERITANCE GAMES When a ballerina is kidnapped by fantasy fugitives desperate to recover their leader’s magic trapped inside her, she unearths their secrets to facilitate freedom, but bonds w/ them & falls for 1 instead #PosterPit #Q #YA #F #M #R #FT

#PosterPit #W #SF #SPF #A #NA #PlanesWIP On the floating city she calls home, Terrah just wants to race planes and join the air force to make a better future for her family. Then things start exploding.

⚔️OF GEMSTONES AND DIVINITY⚔️ An honorable thief and a noblewoman vigilante must work together to end a pirate’s reign of terror. 🌊 ~96k 🌊 Slow burn rivals to lovers 🌊 Second world historical fantasy 🌊 Pirates and sea adventures 🌊 Rebellion and self discovery #Queerpit #NA #F #FR #HF

IRON WIDOW x THE CLONE WARS When her squadmate is murdered, Ahrin will risk anything for revenge, even her chance at knighthood. But this murder is the key to a tangle of secrets spanning star systems and centuries: ‘anything’ is a much higher price than she could imagine. #QueerPit #SF #YA

THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST❌UNDEAD FOLK What is an aging witch to do when two newcomers upend the age-old agreements between her world and the Other People? Well, there's magic to turn to, the forest, your community ...and your dead wife, of course. #A #F #H #MYTH #N #QueerPit

When an accident turns Chess into a reaper, she must learn to control her power, manage a ghost dog with boundary issues, help her ex-friend's spirit, try not to fall for her annoying Grim, & save the thin veil between the living & the dead all before her chem test on Friday. #QueerPit #YA #SN #F