Check out my epistolary caveman flash story! It's delightful and tender! I'm so happy it's out to share 😀

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · last wk.

"Ook tired of roots and sprouts! Ook want meat!" hex love Ook! You love Ook too? Read @spencerorey.bsky.social's delightful & tender “Caveman Days of Exile and Meat,” new on hex today!

Reminder that we're open for horror and Weird fiction short story collection submissions. Don't self reject, but also, please, PLEASE read the submission guidelines fully. Details here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

aw, thanks Lindsey!!

Lindsey Godfrey Eccles@lgeccles.bsky.social · last wk.

Check out this delightful new caveman flash by my friend @spencerorey.bsky.social! hexliterary.com

I love this so much. Read it out loud. Trust me.

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · last wk.

"Ook tired of roots and sprouts! Ook want meat!" hex love Ook! You love Ook too? Read @spencerorey.bsky.social's delightful & tender “Caveman Days of Exile and Meat,” new on hex today!

Check out my epistolary caveman flash story! It's delightful and tender! I'm so happy it's out to share 😀

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · last wk.

"Ook tired of roots and sprouts! Ook want meat!" hex love Ook! You love Ook too? Read @spencerorey.bsky.social's delightful & tender “Caveman Days of Exile and Meat,” new on hex today!

I love this story! Albuquerque, magic, weird investigations, rivers...

Rath Mercury@rathmercury.com · 2w ago

My latest story, "Herkimer Inquiries", is now free to read on @reckoningmag.bsky.social! I'm super proud of this psychogeographic investigation story. But (LeVar Burton voice)...you don't have to take *my* word for it!

I'm back from Readercon with a stack of books and new ideas! I got to meet lots of cool writers and eat profoundly sugary toast. Thanks to everyone who made it an awesome time

Imma gonna start telling people "Stop doomscrolling on the Palintir" that's a really apt metaphor

Steven Lumpkin@silent0siris.bsky.social · 4w ago

Note to self

My story published in May @diabolicalplots.com got a lovely little review from @mariahaskins.com in the new issue of Locus! So cool!

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · last mo.

Issue 786 Table of Contents, July 2026 locusmag.com/2026/07...

I've loved this story for years. So cool to hear it narrated this time

Kiran Kaur Saini@kirsphere.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"New" story day! I couldn't be more moved by Kaushik Narasimhan's beautiful reading of my story, "Amrit" in the current episode of @escapepod.org. If you missed this when it was print only a few years ago, please have a listen to this wonderful reading! Thank you, Kaushik and Escape Pod!

Thanks for the pep talk, Walt Whitman

Eric Raglin@ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Writers: if you're struggling to convince bookstores and libraries to carry your books, you gotta take the absolutely audacious approach Walt Whitman uses in this poem. He really said, "Oh, you already have 1,000,000 books? Well, none that have seen the shit I've seen. Let me in!"

I had an awesome time at Copenhagen's @fantsticon.bsky.social with @foxesandroses.bsky.social and @sarahpinsker.bsky.social! Here is a cool pic of my ear, listening to the imparted wisdom

Eugenia Triantafyllou@foxesandroses.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mine is not as meme-able but @sarahpinsker.bsky.social imparts wisdom at @fantsticon.bsky.social

We're looking for another editor (or two) to help with reading and making selections, but *most importantly*, giving our socials some life. We need to shine more light on the work we publish, but the three of us floating around here so far are not suited for it. Email us at editors@astrolabe.ooo!

One of the current scams targeting writers is to send an e-mail that appears to be from a real editor, full of gushing (LLM-generated) praise for one of their books. There are a couple of very specific tells I want to flag for the vulnerable.

Friends! Thrilled to announce that my novelette "The Snatchers" is out at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!!! It's a sci-fi horror satire and a reimagining of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers". What if everyone in the world turned into one person: the Leader? Would that be enough to fix everything?

The Snatchers - Uncanny Magazine

Out in the great expanse of cosmos, little seeds float. They have been drifting for billions of years in the cold darkness of space from one planet to the other, driven by the need for survival and pr...

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Thinking #AI through its future ruins: We just published Anne Pasek’s lovely ride of a keynote from the Before Ruins #STS conference, which took place at Ruhr University in #Bochum. With hot beats by Mace. www.youtube.com/watch @apasek.bsky.social @aepa@Aepasek@scholar.social

AI in Ruins: Industry and Inquiry Before and After the Bubble. Keynote by Anne Pasek

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Locus Magazine is an essential institution for anyone who loves SFF books. They only have two days left of their fundraiser and they're still 50 percent short of their goal: www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/... Please support them if you can! Any amount helps! <3

Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2026 by Locus Publications - Indiegogo

Celebrating and uplifting authors, artists, and story -- the guide to the world's imagination.

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This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

A slightly belated International Women’s Day celebration 💜 Pioneers & Pathfinders is free for a limited time. It's an anthology full of bold, brilliant, and boundary-pushing stories by women authors.Come explore a little wonder with us ✨ zurl.co/2GeU8

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 5mo ago

BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent futurism.com/artificial-i...

🌦️ It's here! Our tenth & final issue 🌦️ Feat: @ncmaha.bsky.social @sagemustang.bsky.social @andymboyle.bsky.social @elizabethcobbe.bsky.social @madalenadaleziou.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social @joannaobviously.bsky.social & more!! inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-ten-ed... #SFF #Horror

I have a new poem out! In @smallwondersmag.com today.

Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 5mo ago

We love a good erasure poem, where the poet creates a poem by removing words from an existing text. In "tell us about doubt", Rath Mercury has gifted us with a two-stranded poem about the universe.

I recently had the honor of guest editing the solarpunk issue of Roses & Wildflowers magazine. They are a new, small SFF journal so please give them some love! societyforritualarts.com/rw/2025-autu...

Applications are now open for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2026! The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you! Choose your pace: 6wk, 12wk, or 18 wk App deadline Apr. 10 www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

Please boost! Applications for Odyssey's Online Winter Classes close on 1/18! Apply today!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...

my Diary of a High School Necromancer story is in here alongside soooo many awesome things. Check it out for free! Happy new year!

Julia Rios@omgjulia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...

I’ve been interviewed about my upcoming Odyssey Online class, All the World’s a Page, over at WOW! Women on Writing! A short read if you’d like to learn more about the class or want to procrastinate on holiday-related drudgery.

Interview With Odyssey Writing Workshops Graduate & Instructor: Barbara A. Barnett

If you're looking to invest in yourself in the new year, you may consider signing up for a course with Odyssey Writing Workshops . Their cou...

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If you want to read one of our books but can't afford it, just ask. We'll send you a free ebook.

I've learned a lot about writing from Barbara. Her class is going to be fantastic. Take it if you can!

Barbara A. Barnett@babarnett.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Odyssey's 2026 online classes have been announced & I'm excited to be teaching one of them: All the World’s a Page: Adapting Acting Techniques to Strengthen Your Fiction. Because I am a theater geek & will gladly talk your ear off about how useful acting techniques can be when applied to writing.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.