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).
Plangdi Neple
@plangdi.bsky.social
SFF writer and nerd! || He/Him Stories in: Omenana, Anathema, Translunar Travelers Lounge, FIYAH, Baffling, and more. https://plangdineple.wixsite.com/plangdi
Hey! Do you want to hear "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", which is nominated for a Hugo, read by an actual professional reader? Here you go, it's on the awesome Cast of Wonders podcast!
Cast of Wonders@castofwonders.org · 5d agoCast of Wonders 692: Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by @effies.bsky.social narrated by Jairus Durnett produced by Andrew Jack CW: ableism www.castofwonders.org/2026/07/cast...
Very honoured to be on this list 🙇🏾♂️ Thank you @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social!
Trollbreath Magazine@trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 2w agoCongrats to Plangdi Neple ( @plangdi.bsky.social ) whose story, "Somewhere Among Fallen Leaves," was among Alex Brown's notably stories for June! Issue 8 is available via subscription today, or you can wait until August 7th for Plangdi's Free Fiction Friday debut. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
This list of submission calls for climate writing from @writershq.bsky.social includes ours for Reckoning 11, ending August 31! writershq.co.uk/13-opportuni...
13 Opportunities for Climate Change and Nature Writers
Take your latest heatwave-induced existential crisis and turn it into art. Or a machine that magically saves us from ourselves WAIT THAT’S ART.
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Hey, so I finally know how much it will cost to keep me housed. If you’d like to chip in, I would really appreciate it. I know it’s short notice.I had help lined up but it fell through last week. $150/~$245 CND ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman
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Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!
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HELLO AUTHORS. The Deadlands will open to short story submissions (up to 5,000 words) for the entire month of October. but wait there's MORE For the first time everrr we are opening to NOVELETTE SUBMISSIONS (1/3)
The point of legislated dehumanization is never just the law itself but the creation of a climate in which institutions become more timid and companies more cautious. Erasure of a people under capitalism arrives first as a thousand risk calculations.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4w ago@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation GLAAD finds Hollywood continues reducing the number of LGBTQ+ characters; even worse, GLAAD found ZERO trans characters in 225 films last year and ZERO LGBTQ+ ones in animated and family films. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/holl...
i canceled my Canva Pro account six months ago cause they had AI and so this is the very 🏳️⚧️ graphic i made with free assets to talk about how all told, The Death of Mountains did a very good job.
WE ARE LIVE! Help us have a great first day? We REALLY want to make this SFF anthology work & start a new annual SFF Best Of series! Head to locusmag.com/anthology (link in bio) to get a pledge in! Be a part of something special! #BacktheBook Sharing helps us tremendously:)
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/...
Submissions cap update: lots of slots left! Fiction is 47% full (70/150), poetry is 21% full (21/100). If you haven’t sent Jess and Angel a story and/or poem yet… you still have time to write something dark + weird + messy + risky + deeply, deeply fucked up (complimentary) just for them 👀
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last mo.Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)
"Moonwife", my story where the moon is a lesbian and you should try to kill her, is out today with @tasavvurnama.bsky.social ! tasavvurnama.com/moonwife/
Moonwife - Tasavvur
Moonwife is a South Asian Speculative Fiction story written by Rukman Ragas for the Summer 2026 edition of Tasavvur magazine.
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I’m OBSESSED with this piece by @nellynkettles.bsky.social at ÀROKÒ.WORLD. If you love deep readings of Black cinema, Yoruba cosmology, Hoodoo, and the spiritual worlds that connect them, this one is for you: www.aroko.world/is-god-is-an...
"Is God Is" and "Sinners": An offering to the Ibeji Twins
What if “Sinners” and “Is God Is” belong to the same spiritual universe? Reading the films through the Yoruba Ibeji twins reveals a meditation on ancestry, protection, Hoodoo, and Black futurity, wher...
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Ahh, my debut with @therumpus.net is live! "The Body Monstrous" is about fate, autonomy, and power -- and also childbirth as body horror. This is one of those stories I've always believed deeply in, and I'm so happy it's out with The Rumpus!
The Rumpus@therumpus.net · last mo."I knew what I should do, how I ought to behave. But every time, the monster took the reins. And I let it." From "The Body Monstrous," a new short story by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social. 👹 buff.ly/hvHndpJ
Please spread the word! I’m still open to submissions for the second volume of Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction! Professional pay rate for short stories. Deadline is the end of August. Here are the details: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
Thyme Travellers 2 – Call for Submissions
Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…
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Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜
Pride reminder bump!
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 2y ago#IntersexAwarenessDay was on Shabbat... so this is me belatedly letting you know about some of my intersex book resources! Intersex books BY intersex authors: www.bogireadstheworld.com/intersex-own... All the books (any topic) by Black intersex authors: www.bogireadstheworld.com/a-list-of-bo...
HI YES ISSUE 2 OF OTHERSIDE IS FREE TO READ!! I'm really happy with how this issue turned out, it's dreamy and a little nightmarish and so full of emotions 💜 which is to saaaay HAPPY PRIDE GO READ QUEER STORIES AND POEMS THANKS 🌈🪐🗡️
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 2mo agoISSUE 2 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Tiger princesses! Cyborgs! Spacefaring scientists and sword-wielding students! Our second issue is warm, tender, hopeful, and sometimes horrifying in the best way. It was a joy to assemble, and we hope you enjoy it too🪐🗡️🌈 othersidespec.com/issues/issue-2/
so excited to announce my short story “this is c(lone)-pop” is now out in @othersidespec.bsky.social! 🥹 feat. fun normal stuff (tm) like: 🧪dissolving your celeb crush in acid ⭐️ commentary on the totally fine and not at all exploitive k-pop/c-pop industry 🎤 parasocial toxic yuri x 1000
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 2mo agoISSUE 2 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Tiger princesses! Cyborgs! Spacefaring scientists and sword-wielding students! Our second issue is warm, tender, hopeful, and sometimes horrifying in the best way. It was a joy to assemble, and we hope you enjoy it too🪐🗡️🌈 othersidespec.com/issues/issue-2/
ISSUE 2 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Tiger princesses! Cyborgs! Spacefaring scientists and sword-wielding students! Our second issue is warm, tender, hopeful, and sometimes horrifying in the best way. It was a joy to assemble, and we hope you enjoy it too🪐🗡️🌈 othersidespec.com/issues/issue-2/
✨COVER REVEAL! ✨We’re super excited our “RESIST” anthology, a collection of resistance-themed flash fiction, is coming out Monday, June 15th!! 🎉 Edited by: @wordrat.bsky.social This cover was designed for us by Andy Cotnam. All proceeds will be donated to the nonprofit Waging Nonviolence.
Have you been thinking about sending us your work? We are at 600 submissions out of our cap of 1,000, so don’t wait too long. We’d love to read what you’ve been working on! ✅ 500-1000 words ✅ Plz anonymize your doc ✅ We allow simsubs!! ✨ ✅ NO AI SLOP ❌ #writingcommunity ffo.submittable.com/submit
Flash Fiction Online Submission Manager
Update 6/1/2026: We are OPEN to general submissionsWe are looking for complete 500- to 1000-word stories with crisp prose, well-developed characters, compelling plots, and satisfying resolutions. We w...
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The finalists for the 2026 Ignyte Awards have been announced! Congratulations to the nominees! 🎉🎉🎉
Here Are the 2026 Ignyte Awards Finalists - Reactor
Congratulations to all those nominated!
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1/2 Our last submission window for our special Solarpunk Horror issue will be open from July 1-14, and our the issue will be published the first Tuesday in November. #solarpunk #horror #SolarpunkMagazine
"What Grows Back" by @aishatuado.bsky.social is one of the most important things you will read this year. And the Author Spotlight only adds to the experience and meaning of this piece www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/what...
What Grows Back - Nightmare Magazine
I have told this story before, and I will tell it again, and each telling grows more teeth. Sometimes thirty-four, thirty-six. Sometimes they multiply faster than your science allows, like every word ...
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7. The Great King's Lost Bride by R K Duncan in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social a swords and sorcery tale of Greek mercenaries in the Persian Empire www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Great King’s Lost Bride by R.K. Duncan
I prayed all the gods to steady me when the spirits came close. I would not speak of spirits while there was fighting to be done, and it would be worse to speak of them to explain a fit that looked like cowardice. Our captain already thought me unfit for the company. And now I had the chance to prove him wrong and do a man’s part in battle. The Furies take any man or shade who stood against me.
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“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”
I still remember my first experience reading this. So much pain and yearning and brilliance (and I dare you to not be brought to the crying door!). Another home run from @mruthrobinson.bsky.social !!
Lightspeed Magazine@lightspeedmagazine.com · 2mo agoThis week on LIGHTSPEED: "Ghost in the Tank" by M.R. Robinson www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ghos...