Happy BNW release day to all authors @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and thanks to @seizethepress.bsky.social for originally publishing “Avila Beach,” my story of a town awash in severed limbs & teenagers with no future. If you take your fiction with a tablespoon (gallon?) of weird this is for you!

It's my great pleasure to announce the authors and their works selected for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Thank you to all the writers, editors, and publishers who sent in work for consideration. The print edition is now up for pre-order. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

Love being part of the Seize the Press team! Jonny has worked so hard to make the magazine what it is today and long may it continue

jonny@misterbloat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Big shout out to the STP team James, Rebecca, and Karlo by the way. I started this thing solo four years ago with no expectation it would go anywhere and it somehow found an audience. Now there are four of us keeping the ship steady and I'm so grateful for everything they do to keep the mag going ❤️

Pleased to see @rlsummerling.bsky.social on the list! Such a talented writer.

Decided to lay it out.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friends, in a couple days I'll announce the table of contents for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Meanwhile, here are the very notable stories that garnered much consideration and will be listed in the book. As always, great stuff.

Very happy to see Whalesong on this list alongside so many wonderful writers.

Whalesong - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

The whalesong hits when she’s on the highway. Up until that point, Hailey had just been driving, foot tensed on the pedal, hoping velocity would turn into an answer for a question that she didn’t know...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friends, in a couple days I'll announce the table of contents for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Meanwhile, here are the very notable stories that garnered much consideration and will be listed in the book. As always, great stuff.

Think this is awesome? Of course you do. If you want something equally amazing, or, well, slightly unhinged, you can read my short story about this exact hole in the ground. www.patreon.com/sadtale/post...

Taco Hell | Emma Burnett

Set a problem on fire. Then cook tacos over it. What could go wrong?

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Cara Giovanetti@idontevencara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This pit of fire has been burning for 55 years. And there’s something ALIVE at the bottom of it! 1/7 ⚛️🧪

So happy to see my story His Most Feared Constellation on this list! ICYMI, I'm posting a link to the story again! www.thedarkmagazine.com/his-most-fea...

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friends, in a couple days I'll announce the table of contents for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Meanwhile, here are the very notable stories that garnered much consideration and will be listed in the book. As always, great stuff.

So happy to see my story His Most Feared Constellation on this list! ICYMI, I'm posting a link to the story again! www.thedarkmagazine.com/his-most-fea...

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friends, in a couple days I'll announce the table of contents for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Meanwhile, here are the very notable stories that garnered much consideration and will be listed in the book. As always, great stuff.

I get so nostalgic thinking about friendships I've made online! Verity is one of my oldest friends and I'm glad we're still weirdos together decades later!

Verity Holloway@verityholloway.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come to think of it, me and @rlsummerling.bsky.social met on MSN Messenger when we were wee teenagers. Our parents came along to our first meeting at the National Portrait Gallery.

Absolutely pick up the ebook of this novella. THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR navigates a delicate balance between the numinous and the mundane, the magical and the myths families create for themselves. You need to read this. Trust me

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really sad news, they've always done excellent work. Will always be grateful to Bill Schafer & everyone else at Subterranean for first publishing THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR. I don't know how this'll affect the availability of the ebook in the future, but you can still get it for now:

The ebooks of Old Moon Quarterly Volumes 9 and 10 have been sent to our backers on BackerKit! This means they will go live to the general public in one month's time. Extraordinarily excited to see these stories out in the world!

Sneak peak at the cover art for Issue #14, by Ana Luna. With fiction from Nelson Stanley, Kay Vaindal, Steven Cline, Frederick Samuel, and Sylvia Warren. Plus essays and reviews from Gwen C. Katz, Daniel Lukes, and Zach Gillan. Subscribe and support our work while you're there, now is a good time!

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Such a fantastic display of the breadth of eco fiction published last year!! It was delight to read for this and Marissa has done a fantastic job of curating the final line up!

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

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

gofund.me/f8ac5c365 if anyone is able to share, or even donate, please help us. Leo is such a gentle baby. New to the universe, curious and so loving, Leo would boop your nose if you were sad, would hang on your back if you needed a hug. He's not my baby but I'm lucky enough to think he is.

Donate to Help Save the Bravest Boy, Leo Williams, organized by Richard Snowden-Leak

From the moment we set eyes on Leo, we knew he was going to be a goober. … Richard Snowden-Leak needs your support for Help Save the Bravest Boy, Leo Williams

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Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Ella Baron@ellabaron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Satuday's @theguardian.com cartoon #transrights #EHRC #LGBTQ

Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology

Emma Burnett

Writer of stories

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I actually cackled out loud when I read this. Brilliant and strange new piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social!

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"On Christmas Eve, I picked up a book called The Butter Did It, the first in a series called Mashed Potato Mysteries. I fell asleep when I got to the part where a rich woman fell down her marble stairs..." @ivygrimes.bsky.social offers a treat today, hilarious and horrid, just how we like it! 🍊🥃👇

They’re* saying I have a weird new parenting story in the super rad @somewordslit.bsky.social today! *I am

Looks like I may have the kickoff story of Brave New Weird 2026 with 'Avila Beach' and its teenagers dealing with a beach full of severed limbs. I've read a bunch of the others, so you are in for some wild, unsettling stuff. Preorders are live! Release Bastille Day. @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey, our friends @tenebrouspress.bsky.social have made vol. 4 of their Brave New Weird series available for pre-order. There are some killer stories here. Check it out f you want what's really new and vibrant in weird horror. Not your same-old antho. store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra...

We published Ian's "Blue Movies" a little while ago, a strange, horrid little story about drug addiction, friendship(?), shady digitised VHS tapes, and unpleasant creatures in water tanks. If you want to read more Kappos, we've got you.

“Blue Movies” by Ian Kappos - Seize The Press

Before the whole thing with the ovum, Kekoa and I volunteered at the food kitchen. His parents back in Hawaii told him he needed a job. If it didn’t pay, they’d compensate him for hours put in. This w...

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jonny@misterbloat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ergot. is firing on all cylinders, this Ian Kappos story is one of the best things I've read this year. Ian is one of the most under-hyped writers of strange, irreal, genre-melding speculative fiction. Read Ian Kappos, people.

This little bitch has been out for a month! She can lift her head up without assistance now. Read it for: the underground, fairy tale labors, grandmas, depression, psychopomps, creepy ragdolls, fratricide, slow plotting, water filtration, the guardian of the threshold, musings about community...

And on this indie bookstore day, you can get it at the amazing @eveninghouse.bsky.social and other great indie sellers! eveninghousebooks.com/product/the-...

The Cellar Below The Cellar - Evening House Books

A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless auroras. When a wild […]

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Ivy Grimes@ivygrimes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This little bitch has been out for a month! She can lift her head up without assistance now. Read it for: the underground, fairy tale labors, grandmas, depression, psychopomps, creepy ragdolls, fratricide, slow plotting, water filtration, the guardian of the threshold, musings about community...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Friends the final story from Weird Horror 12 is now up for your reading, @grayhaem.bsky.social 's phenomenal "The ______ Eater." In my view, a perfect example of how weird fiction intersects with multiple genres. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/eater

I saw Joe’s writing recently described as ‘transcendental, baroque, lyrical alchemy’. Wingspan was my first encounter with it and it altered my brain chemistry. Love seeing this book still getting traction and now an audiobook years later.

Joe Koch@horrorsong.blog · 4mo ago

ICYMI pre-orders are LIVE for the audiobook of The Wingspan of Severed Hands!

Today I get to join the coolest club in flash: people published in Had! A flash about a memory of a family reunion of a recording of a

HAD@havehashad.com · 4mo ago

new today from Guan Un!! love a piece that uses its title like this, love a short little snippet that also encapsulates such a large whole https://www.havehashad.com/m09qu

new today from Guan Un!! love a piece that uses its title like this, love a short little snippet that also encapsulates such a large whole https://www.havehashad.com/m09qu

Bluesky was fucked up when this was posted, so if you missed it and want to read a story about alien sex, this one’s for you.

Seize The Press Magazine@seizethepress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

First and foremost this is a great story about sex work, misogyny, and patriarchy, but it also just has some really fucked up alien sex and guys being absolute freaks. "Tabula Rasa" by Amy Kitcher is now free to read!