Heather
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(she/her) | 🖤 | ace | writes SFF and lit fic | words @lunastation.bsky.social, @aftermidnightmag.bsky.social and @edinburghawards.bsky.social | first reader at @translunartl.bsky.social | https://writteninmoss.blogspot.com/
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · yesterday"His palindrome smile reveals everything." Per Olvmyr puts us in a warm, safe space between a father and his young son in this healing essay titled "In Swedish, the Word for Trust is a Palindrome." Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
Monster Of The Week 341 is Fogwick, a bit hazy on the details, eventually they'll clear things up, kind of damp, but in a way you only notice when they've gone.
Our first readers are working through the backlog of submissions, though we ask you to be patient. Every story gets read by two different people before a decision is made - and the editors then have to make hard decisions to cut down to a shortlist.
I just found out there's no grass emoji. But anyway, grass stories anyone?
Amman Sabet@ammansabet.bsky.social · 4d agoYou 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
If you did, you'd get to read my story 'Hillock' about a rock being finding a way to process their trauma through creating art. 🪨 #writesky #readsky #fiction #fantasy #litmag #authors #sff
After Midnight Lit Mag@aftermidnightmag.bsky.social · 5d agoHave you downloaded your FREE copy of After Midinight Literary Magazine's first issue: "Until Midnight?" 👀👀 #booksky #litmag #writesky #readsky #poetrysky aftermidnightlitmag.com/issue-1/
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Translunar Travelers Lounge@translunartl.bsky.social · 7d agoWelcome to October! Translunar Travelers Lounge is open to submissions. We're looking for science fiction, fantasy and similar stories, 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines before submitting. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
I have been to the postbox and sent copies of this zine, this month's postcard story, and some monster of the week cards to $5 and above patrons. If you want a monthly postcard plus a weird envelope of stuff every now and again, sign up at the link.
Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective@neilwillcox.bsky.social · 7d agoSubscribers to my Patreon have access to my Halloween Zine John Wizard Occult Detective. It unlocks for non-subscirbers on the 31st! www.patreon.com/neilwillcox/...
Our inaugural issue dropped today!! Check it out at www.aftermidnightlitmag.com! #writesky #booksky #litmag #poetrysky
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Writers, we are officially OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS today! Oct 1-Nov 1, please send us your #bookreviews, #poetry, #shortstories, #pedagogy, creative nonfiction, and #flashfiction about "letting go & new beginnings." Check our site for more information and submission guidelines. aftermidnightlitmag.com
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What our After Midnight team especially wants to see during the open submissions period, coming up on Oct. 1! #writesky #booksky #poetrysky #shortstory #litmag www.threads.com/@aftermidnig...
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A few members of our editing team chimed in with specific requests! Our next reading period is Oct. 1 - Nov. 1 and we can’t wait to read your work! 🌙 #paranormal #romance #sapphic #cozy #unreliablena...
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Radon Journal Issue 14 is live! Read online or buy a print copy: www.radonjournal.com/issue14 Start your October off right with some of the best all-new science fiction in the industry
Just found this mag, and I'm over the moon. 💚 It's such a treat when something you love in one part of your life crosses over into another part of your life. #writing #reading #namjooning
Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's finally the 12th! Which means, Issue 3 is LIVE, folx! 23 fabulous pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Come on in, grab a beanbag, your beverage of choice, and read! And if any of the pieces speak to you, let the author know! And so, here we go! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
My short story 'Hillock' about a giant rock being processing their trauma through art is out in the first ever issue of @aftermidnightmag.bsky.social 💜 aftermidnightlitmag.com/2026/09/29/h... #writing #fiction #fantasy #writesky #shortstory 🪨
Hillock
I am alive. Touching my solid head with one giant sandstone hand, I press my chest with the other. I am nothing…
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*ahem* 1,911 posts. 1,342 writers. 5 years. Issue #100 live now. Give your grandma her lucky number before she heads to the bingo hall, yes? www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity
Good morning, writers! What are you working on today? Can we interest in you in our themed subs opening October 1st?! The theme is "New beginnings & letting go." Poems, book reviews, flash fiction, short fiction, creative nonfiction, pedagogy... we take it all! #writesky #poetrysky #booksky
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After Midnight Lit Mag@aftermidnightmag.bsky.social · last mo.Subs opening soon for Issue II. This is not a drill! THEMED SUBMISSIONS open 10/1-11/1. Theme: "new beginnings & letting go" Short fic, flash fic, CNF, poetry, pedagogy, & book reviews! See more info on our Instagram! www.instagram.com/aftermidnigh... #writesky #booksky #shortstory #poetrysky
This thread discusses "fun" which is our guiding light - but what we consider fun covers an enormous amount of ground. Tragedy can be entertaining, gloom amusing, and dark scenarios offer the chance for great triumphs.
Translunar Travelers Lounge@translunartl.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt's never too early to prepare for submissions (scheduled for September) so here's a few notes. Our key word is fun, in a broad sense. A serious story about overcoming the odds can be fun. As can a joke that's about something grim. Adventure, romance, or something contemplative are all good.
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Translunar Travelers Lounge@translunartl.bsky.social · 2w agoSubmissions are open for writers of color and that submission portal will remain open until the end of submissions (October 15) From tomorrow, 22 September, general submissions open for speculative fiction, 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
This is beautifully written and devastating and so fucking important. Please, please find some time in your day to read it.
ALOCASIA@alocasiamag.bsky.social · 2w ago"if i did anything right, it was trusting what i remember. their desire was water—one tracing smoking rocks for direction, the other burning the direction in their head." —B.B.P. Hosmillo alocasia.org/2026/08/11/b...
✨ 10 more days left to submit your fantasy or sci-fi story/poem WITH a long-term relationship to @heartlines-spec.com until the end of the month! ✨ Don't be afraid to dive deep into that fantasy 🧚 or sci-fi 👽setting with characters 🫂 who have known each other for a long time already.
Please people, help me. I need a rec for sapphic or lesbian gaslamp fantasy-hopepunk, cyberpunk, steampunk, paranormal, I care not. Any heat level. Trad or indie, couldn't care less. I can't find anything. Where are our sapphic authors who can be comped with Gail Carriger? #booksky
Hey writers!! Thinking of Submitting to our “HUMAN-SHAPED” themed call? Here are some thoughts from our guest editor Ashlee Lhamon on what we’ve seen so far & what she’d love to see more of ✍️ #writingcommunity #flashfiction substack.com/@ashleelhamo...
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Hey all, we’ve hit 400/1000 submissions my Flash Fiction Online guest editor call for the theme “human shaped” (closing at the end of the month; submit here: http://ffo.submittable.com/submit) and I’v...
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Our first readers are working their way through the stories we've received - and we want more. And, I'm sorry to stress this again, please read the guidelines. Several stories have already come in that are ineligible!
Translunar Travelers Lounge@translunartl.bsky.social · 3w agoTranslunar 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/
And there's going to be a Season 2 💕 (But if it doesn't have Mackenzie Crook's manager character in it I will be very sad! Are you on your break?)
Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective@neilwillcox.bsky.social · 3w agoI watched Small Prophets a very funny, quietly magical TV show. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/09/i-wa...
PSA. Our website has been hacked. Please don't click on any of the ads in the posts. We did not add them. We're waking up our webmaster right now.
wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: walruses, pluralities, the singularity, singles (people), singles (dollars), lingering, fingers, fish, the sun, slant rhymes, Y2K, Slay the Princess, To-do lists, Listerine, Yuri on Ice, Antarctica, and pink
