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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2w ago

Folks, this is an URGENT situation- this friend has since passed away and these cats need IMMEDIATE care. Anyone in driving distance of NYC who can take them in please get in touch with Shecky things are looking desperate.

Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · 3w ago

FRIENDS IN THE NYC AREA: Okay, this is a tough one, but please bear with me. My wife's lifelong friend has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is desperately seeking a home for his two cats when that time comes. The elder, Wally, is something like 13 years old and DELIGHTFULLY dim. The younger, Doris,

InkFoundry @inkfoundry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

LAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!

Promo material for the InkMark that says: $1000 to a specfic magazine that pays their authors, charges no fees, bans AI, is free to read. Submissions open June 15th at inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark

The InkMark Prizes: $1000 for one magazine, $100 for each of the five representing authors, $500 for one commissioned artist. Submissions open June 15th at inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark

The InkMark is made possible by sponsorships from The Pulp Pit, Foofaraw, and InkFoundry

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

3!!! More!!! Days!!

The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There‘s less than a week left to submit! We accept spec flash fiction (1500 words or under), poems, and visual art. We pay 20$ CAD per accepted piece. Head over to our website for more details and feel free to reply with any questions you have about the magazine. www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There‘s less than a week left to submit! We accept spec flash fiction (1500 words or under), poems, and visual art. We pay 20$ CAD per accepted piece. Head over to our website for more details and feel free to reply with any questions you have about the magazine. www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

Submissions — The Sprawl Mag

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The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Sprawl Mag is open for submissions! Check out our guidelines here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

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The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Sprawl Mag is open for submissions! Check out our guidelines here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We were thrilled to publish Frances Boyle’s poem Umbra in the latest volume! Correction to add that Libby’s handle is @okaylib.bsky.social! Now back to reading ancient scrolls from the deep.

Frances Boyle@francesboyle19.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'm very happy to have my poem "Umbra" in the lovely spec lit magazine Sprawl. Thanks so much to editors @mahailasmith.ca and @oklibby.bsky.social . www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1#umbra

yasmeen / ياسمين @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’ve been so excited to share this one! My flash story about two envoys each searching for a new home is out now in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social You can read the whole issue here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My poem "Apocalypse, Yesterday" is now available in issue 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social 💧🌱 It's a phenomenal issue, I'm very pleased to be included in it and I think you should all go check it out www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

Vol 3.1 — The Sprawl Mag

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Andrew Maust (He/Him)@themaust.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to have a lovely little poem, "Roots of Resistance" in the latest issue of @thesprawl.bsky.social! Check it out (along with a bunch of other great pieces) here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

Vol 3.1 — The Sprawl Mag

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T.R. Steele 🍂@authortrsteele.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'm so happy to have my springtime ghost story flash fiction piece in the latest issue of The Sprawl Mag (@thesprawl.bsky.social)! Read it here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1 🌱

Vol 3.1 — The Sprawl Mag

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What's this? A little anti-capitalist fable from yours truly in the newest issue of @thesprawl.bsky.social you say? With a little easter egg nod to one of the best Canadiana songs of all time? Read "Bought But Not Yet Paid For?" FREE at the link! www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

Vol 3.1 — The Sprawl Mag

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The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The newest volume of The Sprawl Mag is now out, read it if you dare! www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My poem “Apocalypse, yesterday” is coming soon in the lovely @thesprawl.bsky.social ! It’s got July heat, grapefruits, climate anxiety and side-eye for golf courses in times of drought! Stay tuned 👀

The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Now announcing our contributors for the Sprawl Mag 3.1. We are so excited to share this volume with you! Featuring: Pablo Andrés Palo Viviana De Cecco @francesboyle19.bsky.social @themaust.bsky.social @sidellwrites.bsky.social Ivan Ndoma-Egba @lucienrstarchild.bsky.social

Poster announcing the contributors in the upcoming Sprawl Mag volume, featuring a fairy with wings and blue hair, a rabbit and stars.

yasmeen / ياسمين @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My flash story “The Dispatches of Dr. Clara Weber and Sgt. Andres Ramírez” will be out soon in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social alongside some really stellar writers! Two envoys, two planets, one decision, told in one-way dispatches. It was fun to write and hopefully will be fun to read!

The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Now announcing our contributors for the Sprawl Mag 3.1. We are so excited to share this volume with you! Featuring: Pablo Andrés Palo Viviana De Cecco @francesboyle19.bsky.social @themaust.bsky.social @sidellwrites.bsky.social Ivan Ndoma-Egba @lucienrstarchild.bsky.social

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Now announcing our contributors for the Sprawl Mag 3.1. We are so excited to share this volume with you! Featuring: Pablo Andrés Palo Viviana De Cecco @francesboyle19.bsky.social @themaust.bsky.social @sidellwrites.bsky.social Ivan Ndoma-Egba @lucienrstarchild.bsky.social

Mary Soon Lee @marysoonlee.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'm honored and delighted that my poem "What Moon Rabbit Reads" was nominated for the Best of the Net by The Sprawl Mag :-) N.B. The poem may be read here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-2-2#moon...

The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Announcing our Best of the Net nominees! Congratulations to @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @marysoonlee.bsky.social @salempaige.bsky.social @ianli.bsky.social @ziggyschutz.bsky.social @clarissagrunwald.bsky.social

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Announcing our Best of the Net nominees! Congratulations to @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @marysoonlee.bsky.social @salempaige.bsky.social @ianli.bsky.social @ziggyschutz.bsky.social @clarissagrunwald.bsky.social

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · last yr.

So happy that the folks in Seattle got to see this excellent poem! Read The New Knights here or in our inaugural issue 🗡️🗡️🗡️

Lynne Sargent@lynnesargent.bsky.social · last yr.

So delighted to share this beautifully illustrated reprint of my poem "The New Knights," in this year's @seattlein2025.org souvenir program (originally printed in the @thesprawl.bsky.social ).

A poem "The New Knights" is to the left of a sepia-toned illustration of a knight jousting from dragonback. The text of the poem is as follows:

The New Knights
by Lynne Sargent

Chivalry didn’t die,
it just needed a little more hopepunk:

Gawain crafts fake-ids for immigrants,
implants bio-hacked RFIDs
to help them through the scanners.

Morgana white-hat hacks for the climate resistance
making sure there is still a dream of paradise
before Avalon.

Merlin is playing butler to the billionaires
biding xyr time until xe flips the switch
make the mansions go dark and the money disappear.

Gwen and Lance are still there too,
they’ve figured out their ethical sluttery
and lead a polya farming commune,
because what’s a romance without a lot love?

Galahad has gone to craft a new grail,
and I promise you he knows it isn’t on Mars.
he knows it’s in same place chivalry lives,
where it has always lived

in the hearts of those who care for others,
who know that code, love, and craft,
that service, labour, and art
all can be swords against the darkness.

"The New Knights" originally published in The Sprawl Mag October 2022.

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · last yr.

1/5 Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books mini-thread about Stasis, edited by Libby Graham @okaylib.bsky.social (@bellpressbooks.bsky.social) (who also edits @thesprawl.bsky.social), & related folks. Stasis contrib Harper Walton is also the editor of Carnival... (Buoy Press). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Book cover for Carnival at the End of the World edited by Harper Walton (Buoy Press), with a pencil drawing of lines and circles. Photo from Buoy Press's Linked-In account of several copies of the book lined up on a sales table. People metamorphose into birds, vows of silence become clown eras, hallucinogenic visions are plentiful, language and form disintegrates and evolves, drugs unlock psychogeography, sex and gender fluctuate and threaten to explode, bodies open and close, toilet queues stretch on for infinity, and streams of consciousness are polluted. In our contemporary moment of poly-apocalyptic anxiety, can we find a rugged sense of optimism? Or perhaps it is already too late, with nothing left for us to do but dance into the flaming rubble. Contributors Olly Barrett, David Dobson, Jack Houston, Nick Maynard, Alice Musgrove, Luke Reilly, Maria Robinson, Lily Steve, James Tilden, Harper Walton, and Alfie White. https://buoypress.sumupstore.com/product/carnival-at-the-end-of-the-world

Book cover for Stasis: An anthology of retrofuturisms edited by Libby Graham (Bell Press‬‬‬‬), with a person with flowing long hair floating in futuristic scuba gear in a tank filled with liquid, against a backdrop of a space ship and viewing port showing a blue planet. This collection of short stories looks to the future but is inspired by the science fiction of the past. A waitress, her lover, and a retro diner take off from Roswell, New Mexico. A storyteller uses poetry as a tool for colonial resistance. A single chess match determines the future of humanity. You’ll never know where you end up as the adventuresome tales of Stasis send you to the far reaches of time and space! Contributors: Roxane Llanque, Harper Walton, Antoinette Rydyr, Anthony Boulanger, Angela Acosta, Gregory Lawrence, Stephanie Osuji, Charles Chin, Adrienne Stevenson, Mélodie Langevin, Pauline Barmby, Mahaila Smith, and Marc Fleury. https://bellpressbooks.com/product/stasis/

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · last yr.

Ottawa folks, we will be here from 11-5 come say hi!

ottawa small press book fair@ottawasmallpress.bsky.social · last yr.

don't forget: if you are in or near Ottawa, the ottawa small press book fair : spring 2025 edition, occurs in June at Tom Brown Arena (twice a year since 1994 : with a pre-fair reading the night before at Anina's Cafe! smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · last yr.

Dear Sprawlers! We are now officially open for submissions in all genres! For the first time we are offering paid expedited submissions. For more information please check out our website: www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

Poster announcing submissions for The Sprawl Mag are open from June 14th until July 12th

Poster announcing the introduction of paid expedited submissions at the Sprawl Mag. For 2$ you can expect a response from your submission within one week. This will not effect the outcome of submissions and all funds will be put towards paying contributors and maintaining the website.

Some suggestions for what the Sprawl Mag is looking for: linguistic viruses, talking animals, Y2K tech, Cryptids and UFOs, anti-corporate screeds, and alchemy

Duotrope @duotrope.com · last yr.

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; Fantasy, Horror, SF; pays) opened to submissions. #amwriting

Open to Submissions: The Sprawl Mag

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; Fantasy, Horror, SF; pays) opened to submissions. #amwriting

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The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · last yr.

Mark your calendars! The Sprawl Mag is going to be open for submissions of speculative poetry, short fiction, nonfiction and visual art on June 14 until July 12. We are looking forward to reading your work 🪐 You can check out our submission guidelines here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

Poster with images of planets and a UFO announcing that submissions for the Sprawl Mag are opening soon from June 14-July 12 2025

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Go check out the newest book by Sprawl Mag contributor @marysoonlee.bsky.social 🐉

Mary Soon Lee@marysoonlee.bsky.social · 2y ago

Eleven and a bit years after I wrote the opening poem, and nearly five years after the first ebook edition, the first print edition of "The Sign of the Dragon" has been published!!! www.amazon.com/dp/1625674910/ It contains 40 superb illustrations by Gary McCluskey and it is a hefty tome. 📖🦙📖🀄📖🐲📖

Angel L🏳️‍⚧️@angelvleal.bsky.social · 2y ago

My first poem of the year "Hermanas de Andrómeda" is free to read today!! :') It is dedicated to my friend Angela Acosta & the impact her chicanafuturism poetry has had on me. it is also about queer sisterhood & the safer futures we wish for each other. thank u so much @thesprawl.bsky.social 💜

The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Featuring poetry by: Angel Leal, Ian Li, Atreyee Gupta, Mary Soon Lee, Megan Cartwright, Salem Paige, Bat Collazo, and Paul Vermeersch short fiction by: Clarissa Grunwald, Cait Gordon, and Ziggy Schutz and visual art by: Amuri Morris, Payton Surette, and Denny E. Marshall tinyurl.com/ynxemzvj

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Clarissa Grunwald @clarissagrunwald.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey guys, I'm in this one! Mine's the one with the space exorcist. Also, this entire issue slaps, so you should read the whole thing. My favorites were Spare Change by Ziggy Schulz and What The Moon Rabbit Reads by Mary Soon Lee.

The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Featuring poetry by: Angel Leal, Ian Li, Atreyee Gupta, Mary Soon Lee, Megan Cartwright, Salem Paige, Bat Collazo, and Paul Vermeersch short fiction by: Clarissa Grunwald, Cait Gordon, and Ziggy Schutz and visual art by: Amuri Morris, Payton Surette, and Denny E. Marshall tinyurl.com/ynxemzvj

Cait Gordon ♿️@caitgauthor.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote a thing, and these authors published that thing! You can read my flash fiction, REBIRTH, by clicking the link provided! I am so honoured to have my work be amongst all these other amazingly talented creatives!

The Sprawl Mag@thesprawl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Featuring poetry by: Angel Leal, Ian Li, Atreyee Gupta, Mary Soon Lee, Megan Cartwright, Salem Paige, Bat Collazo, and Paul Vermeersch short fiction by: Clarissa Grunwald, Cait Gordon, and Ziggy Schutz and visual art by: Amuri Morris, Payton Surette, and Denny E. Marshall tinyurl.com/ynxemzvj

The Sprawl Mag @thesprawl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Featuring poetry by: Angel Leal, Ian Li, Atreyee Gupta, Mary Soon Lee, Megan Cartwright, Salem Paige, Bat Collazo, and Paul Vermeersch short fiction by: Clarissa Grunwald, Cait Gordon, and Ziggy Schutz and visual art by: Amuri Morris, Payton Surette, and Denny E. Marshall tinyurl.com/ynxemzvj

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 2y ago

SOMETHING THAT BITES guy tries so hard to resist going out to eat

Vol 1.1 | The Sprawl Mag

Welcome to Volume 1.1 of The Sprawl Mag, a lovingly curated selection of speculative fiction, poetry, and art.

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 2y ago

First is the shortest thing I’ve ever written: “Something that Bites” from @thesprawl.bsky.social Issue 1! I giggle anytime I remember how much fun I had with this horrible story of a guy trapped in his apartment while he slowly turns into a vampire. www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-1-1