Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚
@galenbunting.bsky.social
querying my speculative coming-of-rage novel WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN | HWA member|Postdoc at Georgia Tech | 2026 Lambda Literary Fellow | words in Black Warrior Review, Minnesota Review, Fabulist, Pushcart Prize Nominee https://galenbunting.substack.com/
does anyone else feel sad when you know you're about to finish writing a book? it's like the sadness of being about to finish reading a book and you really enjoyed it and you check and you're like, oh no, we only have fifty pages left... but I wanted it to continue
Trying to find a home for 2 weird short stories. One is a queer Arthur tale of Sir Perceval and a seriously fungal holy grail. The other is a slasher revenge tale of a trans man who comes back from the dead to avenge his own murder. #writingcommunity
www.patreon.com/CLP/posts/ma... You can read my Mad Magic story here: www.patreon.com/CLP/posts/it... To vote: subscribe to Crystal Lake Publishing, select the reader tier and start your FREE TRIAL, and VOTE for your favorite 4! Mine is under the name The Last Phantasmagoria!
Mad Magic Horror Entry 11 of 20: “The Last Phantasmagoria; or The Spirit Camera” by Galen David Bunting | Crystal Lake's House of Shadows & Ink
Mad Magic Horror Entry 11 of 20: “The Last Phantasmagoria; or The Spirit Camera” by Galen David Bunting by Crystal Lake's House of Shadows & Ink on Patreon. Join Crystal Lake's House of Shadows & Ink...
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trying to be normal in this day and age with friends who are writers but aren't querying
I'm at 180/600 dollars! I have been selected for the Speculative Fiction Young Adult Workshop at the McCormack Writing Center with Tehlor Kay Mejia, and am fundraising for tuition. I so appreciate the donations, and appreciate shares too! #writingcommunity www.gofundme.com/f/galens-spe...
I have been selected for the Speculative Fiction Young Adult Workshop at the McCormack Writing Center, to revise my novel, Elia In Isola, with Tehlor Kay Mejia! I am fundraising for tuition: no pressure to donate, I appreciate shares too! #writingcommunity www.gofundme.com/f/galens-spe...
Donate to Send Galen to the Speculative McCormack Writing Workshop!, organized by Galen Bunting
When I started writing my speculative young adult novel, Elia … Galen Bunting needs your support for Send Galen to the Speculative McCormack Writing Workshop!
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oops- I got the details wrong! Still waiting for 9 more stories to be posted, then once they’re all up voting begins!! However you can still read the short story below!
Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · 4w agomy short story is up for voting on the crystal lake publisher patreon as a finalist for their contest, Mad Magic, small caveat: in order to vote, you need to sign up for a reader profile, but you can sign up for a 7 day free trial and see how you like it! #writingcommunity #shortstory
my short story is up for voting on the crystal lake publisher patreon as a finalist for their contest, Mad Magic, small caveat: in order to vote, you need to sign up for a reader profile, but you can sign up for a 7 day free trial and see how you like it! #writingcommunity #shortstory
Mad Magic Horror Entry 11 of 20: “The Last Phantasmagoria; or The Spirit Camera” by Galen David Bunting | Crystal Lake's House of Shadows & Ink
Mad Magic Horror Entry 11 of 20: “The Last Phantasmagoria; or The Spirit Camera” by Galen David Bunting by Crystal Lake's House of Shadows & Ink on Patreon. Join Crystal Lake's House of Shadows & Ink...
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PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
ALSO. SFINCS4 is looking for judges! If you'd like to throw your hat in the ring, read the Code of Conduct and fill out the form! (: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Thank you for wanting to judge for the fourth year of SFINCS! Please know that as a judge you will be reading books from all speculative fiction genres. Authors who are submitting a novella cannot be ...
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Let me tell you what I’ve fallen for three times now. There’s a prompt in Google Docs that says something like match the original text style. me, a gen-xer, keeps thinking they’ve finally made it easy to paste formatted text into a document style. SIKE! it prompts ai to rewrite the copied text
📣 Tomorrow is the start of the BIPOC Author Summit! It’s a FREE 3-day, virtual summit to help you plan, write, and publish your book! It runs August 13–15 📅 I'm super excited to be a part of this! Hope to see you there ✨ #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying www.bipocauthorsummit.com
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A free virtual event to help BIPOC authors plan, write, and publish their books. With an all-BIPOC speaker lineup, this summit will provide both quality writing education and community for writers of ...
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This short-story anthology releases tomorrow on the 13th- and you can pre-order it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBXW8QPX?
Southern Monsters
Amazon.com: Southern Monsters eBook : Phillips, D.C., Frank, Marlena, Grizzle, Darrell, Quinn, Matthew, Riley, Leanna, Reid, Vanessa, Bunting, Galen, Major, Dawn, Sarrecchia, Tony, Sterling, William: Kindle Store
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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo you like horror! Do you like monsters? What about a bug-horror story with cicadas which I wrote? You can now pre-order Southern Monsters for release on the 13th of August. I can't wait for you to meet Eli! #horrorwriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #horror www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBXW8QP...
I’ll start. February carries a meteorite.
Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · last mo.“As a kid, I was convinced that my mom and her friends had to carry around all sorts of magical items…in case they needed to save the world." What does your character carry in their bag in case they need to save the world? #writingcommunity #writingprompts stroitelev.visura.co/russian-wome...
“As a kid, I was convinced that my mom and her friends had to carry around all sorts of magical items…in case they needed to save the world." What does your character carry in their bag in case they need to save the world? #writingcommunity #writingprompts stroitelev.visura.co/russian-wome...
Russian Women's Bags from the Inside - Sergei Stroitelev, photographer
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Please don’t write in the newspaper 700 years from now that I got absolutely smoked.
Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · last mo.The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
Choose Your Own Adventure is hiring 👀 They're looking for an editorial and marketing assistant. It's full-time, entry-level, remote, and pays $48–52K/yr. #PublishingJobs #InteractiveFiction www.publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cg...
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I made an in-character website for February Purdue, the second protagonist of my novel-in-querying, WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN for anyone who likes web nostalgia :) witnessersoftheunknown.straw.page
I keep staring at these pages from Octavia Butler's notes. Feels like a good thing to do some writing practice with.
I'm out of this world to be attending the fall speculative writing workshop at @mccormackwc.bsky.social! I'll be in the YA Fiction Cohort with @tehlormejia.bsky.social! #writingcommunity #mccormackwritingworkshop
Just in case some other writer out there today needs to know exactly what time of day their character might hear a specific animal cry at a specific location xeno-canto.org
And with that, the 2026 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat comes to an end! It was a pleasure to work with Anna Marie McLemore in the YA cohort. I am so excited to dig into my editing notes for my gothic nun horror YA novel! #llwritingretreat #lambdaliteraryfellow @lambdaliterary.org
"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries
Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...
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Heads up: one of the films we programmed on the Criterion Channel is leaving at the end of the month. Try to check out WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR this month if you can 💜
Willow Catelyn Maclay@willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt appears that the news has broken that Caden Mark Gardner and I have programmed a series on Trans Filmmakers for the Criterion Channel. These films will be available in April www.criterion.com/current/post...
turning off my ac so that the data centers can be nice and cold :) tech optimism :)
My ecological decay, bug-horror Appalachian story, "Teneral Stage," is forthcoming in the anthology Southern Monsters from Frightful Fables Press! You can pre-order it on Kindle now! #horrorwriterschat bsky.app/profile/did:...
Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo you like horror! Do you like monsters? What about a bug-horror story with cicadas which I wrote? You can now pre-order Southern Monsters for release on the 13th of August. I can't wait for you to meet Eli! #horrorwriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #horror www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBXW8QP...
