Angel L🏳️⚧️
@angelvleal.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️| Mexican | They/She | ✍️ in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, The Deadlands, Heartlines Spec, & others| Clarion West '25 | Poetry editor @Otherside | http://angel-leal.com
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hi! I'm sooo excited to share a new story, 2 new poems, & an amazing new magazine called Twisted Tongue Press!! Everything is free to read & my flash "Bug Girl Fits in Jar" is about a trans insect girl & her confusing memories of boyhood...
twistedtonguepress.com/fiction/bugg...
twistedtonguepress.com/fiction/bugg...
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Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
Flash Roundup * October-November 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
mynachang.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
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two poems today from Kara Knickerbocker, with kinda too many amazing lines to excerpt!!
how about just a tease of the two amazing titles?
"Upon Learning They Will Stop Production of the Penny"
&
"All The Reasons Why I Am Buying a Cemetery Plot in My 30’s"
https://www.havehashad.com/0lpc9
how about just a tease of the two amazing titles?
"Upon Learning They Will Stop Production of the Penny"
&
"All The Reasons Why I Am Buying a Cemetery Plot in My 30’s"
https://www.havehashad.com/0lpc9
2 Poems by Kara Knickerbocker
Upon Learning They Will Stop Production of the Penny What I can’t stop thinking about is how, when I was growing up, we kept a large glass jar of them behind the couch— our way of saving for a…
www.havehashad.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
two poems today from Kara Knickerbocker, with kinda too many amazing lines to excerpt!!
how about just a tease of the two amazing titles?
"Upon Learning They Will Stop Production of the Penny"
&
"All The Reasons Why I Am Buying a Cemetery Plot in My 30’s"
https://www.havehashad.com/0lpc9
how about just a tease of the two amazing titles?
"Upon Learning They Will Stop Production of the Penny"
&
"All The Reasons Why I Am Buying a Cemetery Plot in My 30’s"
https://www.havehashad.com/0lpc9
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I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
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A bit behind time, but Bound by Blood and Bone is now live!
In which Aoife wanders lost, subject to the whims of a sinister forest's mistress. And a traitor's work bears pernicious fruit.
WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD from:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
In which Aoife wanders lost, subject to the whims of a sinister forest's mistress. And a traitor's work bears pernicious fruit.
WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD from:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A bit behind time, but Bound by Blood and Bone is now live!
In which Aoife wanders lost, subject to the whims of a sinister forest's mistress. And a traitor's work bears pernicious fruit.
WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD from:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
In which Aoife wanders lost, subject to the whims of a sinister forest's mistress. And a traitor's work bears pernicious fruit.
WLW horrorotica for just $1 USD from:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/bound...
huldrahouse.itch.io/bound-by-blo...
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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
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Yes!!! Read my story about a mud familiar here 🍃
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Yes!!! Read my story about a mud familiar here 🍃
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aksdhaskjhdkj so grateful that my bug story will be reprinted in Inner Worlds!!!! 🥰🐛🦋
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
aksdhaskjhdkj so grateful that my bug story will be reprinted in Inner Worlds!!!! 🥰🐛🦋
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Eeeee this is such a good TOC!!
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Eeeee this is such a good TOC!!
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
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💥 Issue 9 TOC!!! 💥
Feat:
@crystalkoo.bsky.social
@jyzh.bsky.social
@nomonbooks.bsky.social
@sylviaheike.bsky.social
@angelvleal.bsky.social
@mythopoetica.bsky.social
@camdenscorner.bsky.social
@jamielnathan.bsky.social
@rjaurand.bsky.social
@yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social
@yoakeim.bsky.social
Feat:
@crystalkoo.bsky.social
@jyzh.bsky.social
@nomonbooks.bsky.social
@sylviaheike.bsky.social
@angelvleal.bsky.social
@mythopoetica.bsky.social
@camdenscorner.bsky.social
@jamielnathan.bsky.social
@rjaurand.bsky.social
@yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social
@yoakeim.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
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"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
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Did you know you can nominate up to five magazines???? Five!
Please consider including us 😊
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Please consider including us 😊
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
www.chillsubs.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Did you know you can nominate up to five magazines???? Five!
Please consider including us 😊
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Please consider including us 😊
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
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OMG, @angelvleal.bsky.social , we're going to be TOC buddies! Great to see you in the poets section!
Introducing: the #poets of Issue 7: Integrity!
Lee Fraser
Melanie Hall
Amanda Trout
Rick Kempa
@vignettes.bsky.social
@francesca-laura.bsky.social
@angelvleal.bsky.social
@drsharisa.bsky.social
@onewheeloneil.bsky.social
Allison Phillips
Lee Fraser
Melanie Hall
Amanda Trout
Rick Kempa
@vignettes.bsky.social
@francesca-laura.bsky.social
@angelvleal.bsky.social
@drsharisa.bsky.social
@onewheeloneil.bsky.social
Allison Phillips
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
OMG, @angelvleal.bsky.social , we're going to be TOC buddies! Great to see you in the poets section!
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Reminder to editors and publishers that I'm accepting epubs of mags, collections, and anthos that have original 2025 short fiction for consideration in Best Weird Fiction of the Year 2. Writers — you'll have an opportunity to submit in the new year.
Editor/Publisher friends (only): I'm happy to receive ePubs of your 2025 short fiction projects for the 2026 volume. DM for deets. Or send direct to: bestspecfic (at) gmail(dot)com
Writer friends (only): Subs will open next year. (You can let your editor know I can receive their projects now.)
Writer friends (only): Subs will open next year. (You can let your editor know I can receive their projects now.)
I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reminder to editors and publishers that I'm accepting epubs of mags, collections, and anthos that have original 2025 short fiction for consideration in Best Weird Fiction of the Year 2. Writers — you'll have an opportunity to submit in the new year.
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Again for the morning crowd: Cover and pre-order link for Muñeca, out next June!
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: 9798217047574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Nat...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Again for the morning crowd: Cover and pre-order link for Muñeca, out next June!
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
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On the back of this, you should really check out this one from our back catalog as a great example of LGBTQIA & STEM ^^ www.castofwonders.org/2023/02/cast...
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
On the back of this, you should really check out this one from our back catalog as a great example of LGBTQIA & STEM ^^ www.castofwonders.org/2023/02/cast...
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My reading fell off a cliff these last 2 months, so this list is shorter than usual. But here are recent stories I loved, from @renanbernardo.com @isabel.kim @wiswell.bsky.social Testimony Odey @kristinaten.bsky.social and @champwongs.bsky.social
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/11/shor...
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/11/shor...
Short fiction recs! Sept-Oct 2025
This reading round-up is shorter than usual, as I admit that my short fiction reading fell off a cliff these last two months, due to trave...
itsajumble.blogspot.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
My reading fell off a cliff these last 2 months, so this list is shorter than usual. But here are recent stories I loved, from @renanbernardo.com @isabel.kim @wiswell.bsky.social Testimony Odey @kristinaten.bsky.social and @champwongs.bsky.social
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/11/shor...
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/11/shor...
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🌈#TODAY: Nov. 18 is the International Day of #LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, celebrating and highlighting the work and barriers of LGBTQIA+ people in #science, #technology, #engineering, and #mathematics (#STEM).
prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/
🏳️🌈#PrideinSTEM #diversity #PRIDE
prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/
🏳️🌈#PrideinSTEM #diversity #PRIDE
prideinstem.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🌈#TODAY: Nov. 18 is the International Day of #LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, celebrating and highlighting the work and barriers of LGBTQIA+ people in #science, #technology, #engineering, and #mathematics (#STEM).
prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/
🏳️🌈#PrideinSTEM #diversity #PRIDE
prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/
🏳️🌈#PrideinSTEM #diversity #PRIDE
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It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
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How Much It Costs to Run a Literary Journal – 2025
Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
How Much It Costs to Run a Literary Journal – 2025
Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
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Everyone else is doing their awards nomination posts, so I guess I should do mine before I forget what I even wrote this year... 😅
Poetry has been a big deal for me, so considering any of my @seattlein2025.org poems for a Rhysling, or Con-Verse for a Best Related Work Hugo, would rock my world!
Poetry has been a big deal for me, so considering any of my @seattlein2025.org poems for a Rhysling, or Con-Verse for a Best Related Work Hugo, would rock my world!
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Everyone else is doing their awards nomination posts, so I guess I should do mine before I forget what I even wrote this year... 😅
Poetry has been a big deal for me, so considering any of my @seattlein2025.org poems for a Rhysling, or Con-Verse for a Best Related Work Hugo, would rock my world!
Poetry has been a big deal for me, so considering any of my @seattlein2025.org poems for a Rhysling, or Con-Verse for a Best Related Work Hugo, would rock my world!
omg, this story is so beautiful and haunting...it takes the idea of we all have a story to tell...to a mysterious annnnd dark place. "Tell me, girl, what are stories? What are they made of?” (Highly recommend this classic!!) 💖
Maybe you, like the protagonist of Megan Chee's "Incense", have a story you no longer need. If so, the storyteller can do something with that story, though you may not like the results.
Incense - Small Wonders
When he speaks, the universe shifts to listen. The city holds its breath. He tells of lady pirates and sea battles, fox spirits and unwary men, monkey kings and jade rabbits.
smallwondersmag.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
omg, this story is so beautiful and haunting...it takes the idea of we all have a story to tell...to a mysterious annnnd dark place. "Tell me, girl, what are stories? What are they made of?” (Highly recommend this classic!!) 💖
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Barbershops of the Floating City" by Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/876Alpa
Try the short story "Barbershops of the Floating City" by Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/876Alpa
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Barbershops of the Floating City" by Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/876Alpa
Try the short story "Barbershops of the Floating City" by Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/876Alpa
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A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social
Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social
Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥