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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · 3d

Stoked to have my story about a seaside cave-dwelling goddess, "The Girls in the Cave" joining 30+ darkly fantastical tales in Into the Dark - upcoming from indie, queer-run mag @awwlitmag.bsky.social !
If you can, consider backing their Kickstarter here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Into the Dark

A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology

www.kickstarter.com

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 12d

The anthology is alive, but it needs more voices to grow stronger. 🌑
Can we reach 50% funded this week? Join us, and help unlock the darkness:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 19d

it's about that time!! 🥩 in October, please send us writing with transcendance through obliteration, emotional / physical splash zones, experimental prose, compassion, cruelty, kink, brand new man-made horrors of the viscera, & excruciating earnesty. get weird with it.

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19d

Our FLESH zine submission call is now on our website. We're open October 1st through 7th. Send your best FLESH-themed piece under 500 words! Samir and I can't wait to read them.
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Submission Calls

Open for submissions October 1st – 7th FLESH ZineFor this submission call, we’re looking for pieces (500 words or fewer) connected to the broad theme of FLESH. This zine will be include…

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · Sep 10

we made a thing for you

it's the @fantasymagazine.bsky.social back issues--those that we have online, anyway.

acquiring an older property like Fantasy reveals... quirks.

starts with issue 48... 🤷🤷🏼‍♀️🤷‍♂️

we're working on
1 - getting the older issues online, and
2 - making all the URLs prettier

njoy

Fantasy Magazine Back Issues - Psychopomp

This is a temporary arrangement, we're working on a nicer solution, but here is the entirety of the Fantasy Magazine back issues that we have available and online.

psychopomp.com

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Sep 2

are you ready for some big news?

WE ARE OPEN

for BIPOC subs for issue 100!

and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body

💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖

find out more here:

psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

updated September 2, 2025

psychopomp.com

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · Jul 31

new fiction today, beloveds!!

and it's a stunner

"Moments before Death comes for me, I contemplate my body like a stranger. I feel a sloppy mixture of numbness and self-pity. My gaunt frame sinks deeper into the hospital bed."

Everlasting by Daniel Oluremi ‬

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Everlasting - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

In more ways than one, Death looks like my mother.

psychopomp.com

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Jul 23

We're still not quite where we want to be with funding, and every little bit helps!

Tell your friends, signal boost, share awesome reads with folks who love to read💞

Help us support some amazing creatives and bring their work to you!

fantasy.kit.com/products/fan...

Fantasy Magazine Subscription

fantasy.kit.com

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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · Jul 22

😭😭Thank youu, this piece couldn’t have found a better home!! 🖤

arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thrilled to have my underworldly poem out in @thedeadlands.com #39 about one who makes clothes for the dead 💀🪡🧶🌌

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · Jul 21

our rollout of issue 39 BEGINS, beloveds 🥀

"In this black-lanterned valley, only wraiths
blossom in lotus-white, bemoaning
their wind-shaped cloaks, which bind them
to the eternal ensemble of the bloodless."

The Clothier of the Sunless by @armori.bsky.social

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

The Clothier of the Sunless - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

In this black-lanterned valley, only wraiths blossom in lotus-white, bemoaningtheir wind-shaped cloaks, which bind them to the eternal ensemble of the bloodless. […]

psychopomp.com

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Jul 9

Time to bring back the summoning circle for writers!
🕯 🕯
🕯 🕯
That email
🕯 or acceptance 🕯
you've been
🕯 waiting for 🕯
🕯 🕯️

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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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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · Apr 26

plugging this again, and hard, because we are (overall) low on subs this period. unsure if death of hellsite or what, but please please please, if you've considered sending work, do it!

if you send it by midnight tonight, you'll get a response tomorrow, too!

fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · Apr 17

it's that tiiiiiiime! ALL brainrot subs sent from 12AM EST on 4/26 to 12AM EST 4/27 will receive 24 hour replies!

duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

brainrot Digital Anthology Submission Manager

Submit to brainrot Digital Anthology (a project of fifth wheel press). Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

duotrope.com

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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · Feb 26

Hi there, I’d like to be added too! Thanks for compiling this list 🌸

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Chey Rivera @criverawrites.bsky.social · Feb 14

This Valentine’s Day you might enjoy reading the melancholic musings of a pirate who fell in love with a fearsome captain 🏴‍☠️ 🌊

@elegantliterature.bsky.social

Chey Rivera @criverawrites.bsky.social · Oct 4

My favorite story I have written so far, “Ten Rules to Survive as a Pirate,” is out now in @elegantliterature.bsky.social’s latest issue, Paradise Plundered! 🏴‍☠️🧡

Read now for free! elegantliterature.com/magazine/

#writingcommunity

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · Feb 4

NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.

www.404media.co

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arda mori 🌻 @armori.bsky.social · Jan 7

1st awards eligibility post here 😳
I’ve 4 poems published in 2024 and would be so honored if you would consider them! 🌸
(Links ⬇️)

1 - “A Record of My Emperor After the Elixir of Life” in @apparitionlit.com: t.co/m4orQ1KoWz

2 - “Two Waters and a Beast” in ETTT: eyetothetelescope.com/archives/053...

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · Jan 4

Just a reminder that nominations for the 2025 Rhysling Awards are currently underway!!

This year's chair is @pixieb.bsky.social ✨

Any SFPA member in good standing may nominate. Check your email for more details!

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Rukman Ragas (hiatus) @rukman.bsky.social · Feb 3

I don't like giving advice but I would have liked to hear this when I started submitting work.

Writers, you should never pay to submit to a magazine. Its insulting, devalues your work and reinforces the starving artist rhetoric.

You deserve to be paid for your art.

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Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hexagon has been my most incredible creative venture thus far, but it’s time to say goodbye (for now).

Read the full announcement of Hexagon’s hiatus on our website or Patreon. 🧡

Hexagon Hiatus

I have edited 19 (soon to be 20) issues of my favourite magazine of all time, but it’s time to say goodbye (for now). I started Hexagon as a project to gain editing experience and to improve my own…

hexagonmagazine.ca

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · Jan 24

pssssst. we are EXTENDING our call for ace/aro-spectrum creators, guest edited by @esichr.bsky.social! you now have an extra few weeks to get those subs in!

oleada.io/publication/...

Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

oleada.io

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M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · Jan 21

NEW STORY DAY! My second-ever story is free to read today at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social—and, much like my first story, it’s about an old lady going for a walk! But it’s also about hope, connection, and the way love helps us survive impossible times.

www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

The Hag of Beinn Nibheis

In the Dead Month, Brigid goes to the mountain to speak with the hag. She does not know what else to do.Beinn Nibheis towers black and rimeslick over the Narrows, taller than any peak of Nature’s m…

www.flashfictiononline.com

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · Jan 16

Battle cry for 2025.

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · Jan 15

Announcement:

Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine

WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!

full details here:

psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

the promo cover of Fantasy Magazine shows a women in the grass with a glowing sky behind her. The text says Returning June 2025 Fantasy Magazine

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · Jan 13

It was your eyes that saw the colour, your brain that interpreted it, your heart that felt its beauty.

You didn't love it because they're the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. 4/

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · Jan 13

inexhaustive list to keep in mind, if youre a young person (esp. a young woman) breaking into a creative field / interacting with a creative professional w/ a lot of clout & $$ (or when interacting w/ fans):

1. there are always whisper networks. they are not exhaustive. dont expect them to be.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · Jan 6

Rhysling Award nominations are open @sfpoetry.bsky.social! Please consider these incredible 2024 poems when you're reading/nominating 🌌

In @smallwondersmag.com:
"Abstain from Spinning, beauty" by @dyanisabin.bsky.social
"In a Cradle of Antlers" by @avramargariti.bsky.social

⬇️more & links⬇️

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