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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to announce that "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" is available in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue 443!

This was my first pro sale, and in one of my favorite mags to boot. Still doesn't feel entirely real.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

BCS #443 ebook out early today @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social and @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #443

Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward nd cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 2d

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by @librariangoblin.bsky.social and Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social and cover art by @brucedraws.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #443

Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Adrian Ward nd cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

weightlessbooks.com

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 3d

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

www.kickstarter.com/.../apexpu.....

30% UNLOCKED!

For the first time, Apex will open to nonfiction pitches. We are expanding our nonfiction editorial team! ZZ Claybourne has been our nonfiction editor for the past couple of years, and is doing a fantastic job. His editorial eye has elevated Apex’s nonfiction and has helped us discover many new voices. Rodney Carlstrom will be joining the Apex team as an associate nonfiction editor to help ZZ manage submitted nonfiction pitches.

cow floating in space with some astronauts next to the current Kickstarter number, "$6,000!"

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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 8d

Early Career Hugo Nominations -- Yes, They Definitely Happen
a quantitative analysis [link in thread]
Almost half of Hugo nominations go to early-career authors: 51/112 (46%)

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 9d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · 14d

Are there any trends you're seeing in submissions that you're excited and/or worried about?

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · 16d

I'll build it in eventually, just haven't gotten around to doing so

Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · 24d

Wouldn't miss it for the worlds!

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · 24d

@thomasha.bsky.social's short story collection has arrived! Absolutely terrific stories, in both senses of the word.

A copy of Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · Sep 6

Every once in a while the Muses smile upon me, but mostly they just look vaguely disappointed

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · Aug 27

Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · Aug 14

Gotta love writing horror while home alone, with an AC unit that's learned to creak at the most dramatic of times

Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · Aug 14

Writing something absolutely batshit insane (in terms of content, not quality)
Weirdness give me strength

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · Aug 1

Clawing back bits of quality. By force.

Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · Aug 1

Doing edits on an old, old piece tonight
Plus side: I'm matching the prose fairly easily
Downside: Said prose is over a year behind my current capabilities

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · Jul 22

Two thou... yeah. I feel like if I can make this work, I will be able to take a step forward. But I'm not confident.

Also, "Half A World Away" by R.E.M. is a truly incredible song. This is unrelated to the story, I was just reminded that it exists and have had it on loop.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 21

The BCS Patreon is (by just $1!) up to the monthly amt we'd need to hire a 6th First Reader. (BCS First Readers get paid an honorarium for their work reading subs & writing all rejections personalized. We've always paid them; since 2010. It's now $125/mo.) 1/x www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...

creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · Jul 19

Broke a thousand words on a new story tonight.
Not sure if I'll be doing first or second person. Starting off with second, but the prose is going in weird directions I'm not trying to evolve into.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Jul 10

Submission Grinder Delists Analog locusmag.com/2025/07...

Submission Grinder Delists Analog

Analog Science Fiction & Fact has been disqualified from a full listing on The Submission Grinder due to new terms in the magazine’s recent contracts. Steven Salpeter of parent company Mu…

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thank you to all who have supported BCS this past week! The BCS Patreon is back above the monthly amount we need to pay writers a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium. Note: we are not struggling or need funding to continue to operate, as some have called it. We have a budget, 1/X

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · Jun 8

📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢

Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!

Donate at the link ⬇️

Strange Horizons 2026

A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

www.kickstarter.com

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · Jul 3

Excited to be here! Thank you to all at Apex who believed in this weird little piece!

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Adrian Ward @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social · Jul 3

Excited to announce that my speculative debut, "All That I Am, A Failed Dream", is now available to read on the Apex blog!
Fun little drabble about Courbet and art and also hell.

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · Jul 3

"In the museum closet, I am again compelled to create." 🏛️🎨

Introducing the second winner of our Pocket Hell microfiction contest: "All That I Am, A Failed Dream" by Adrian Ward!!

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

Pocket Hell Microfiction Contest - Second Place! - "All That I Am, A F

In honor of Jason Sanford's upcoming novella, We Who Hunt Alexanders, out on July 22nd, we at Apex hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to describe your own blood-maw pocket hell. We got some am...

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