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Avra Margariti
@avramargariti.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈🇬🇷 writer, poet, editor /any pronouns

words: Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov's, Vastarien, Baffling, Nature, Gamut, FFO, Dark Matter, Best Microfiction

📧 [email protected]

https://ko-fi.com/avramargariti
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97.3% funded, 70 hours left! For the love of speculative fiction, weird fiction, horror stories, dark fantasy, fantastique, magical realism, slipstream, gothic, science fiction, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2025! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2025
A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
www.kickstarter.com
September 11, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Starter pack!!!
Just created a starter pack for writers who want to find out other SFF authors who are in Bluesky and engange with the community.

This is far from complete and I intend to make other packs!

go.bsky.app/RYcLDpc
September 11, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Lots of specfic writers migrating here again huh. Maybe I should try being more active on this site 🙈
September 11, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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This one blew my socks clean off! I used it as an example in a short story class I did a few weeks ago. :)

strangehorizons.com/fiction/cica...
Cicadas, and Their Skins
I spent my first summer as an orphan watching cicadas fuck, scream, and molt.
strangehorizons.com
September 4, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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I don’t read in order, but so far @seanbirnie.bsky.social’s Black Water (one of his best yet, IMO), @sashabrown.bsky.social’s To the Wolves, and @avramargariti.bsky.social’s Fragments (From a Film) are worth the price of admission alone. An incredibly strong issue from @undertow.bsky.social.
Just arrived! I'll start mailing subscriber copies next week. You can susbscribe right now at the link below and get both our 2024 issues next week!

undertowpublications.com/shop/2024-we...
September 1, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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One new August slot available! ✍🌌
I have a couple of June slots left!

Developmental edits with a focus on characterization, interiority, and symbolism.

Lit or spec 🌌💜
August 21, 2024 at 4:46 PM
One new August slot available! ✍🌌
I have a couple of June slots left!

Developmental edits with a focus on characterization, interiority, and symbolism.

Lit or spec 🌌💜
August 21, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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I'm opening one more slot for developmental edits this month! Lit or spec, up to novelette length.

Stories I've worked on have been published in Apex, Apparition, Gamut, and Dark Matter, among other venues.

Query if interested 🌌✍
I have one last open slot for developmental edits (after which I'll be going on a brief hiatus for a chunk of August). Let me know if anyone needs a story critique!
August 19, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Another great roundup! Includes recent work by FFer @avramargariti.bsky.social!
August 20, 2024 at 7:48 PM
I'm opening one more slot for developmental edits this month! Lit or spec, up to novelette length.

Stories I've worked on have been published in Apex, Apparition, Gamut, and Dark Matter, among other venues.

Query if interested 🌌✍
I have one last open slot for developmental edits (after which I'll be going on a brief hiatus for a chunk of August). Let me know if anyone needs a story critique!
August 19, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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My August hiatus is over! I would love to take on a short editing project over the remainder of the month. If you're looking for a developmental editor with an eye for symbolism, emotionality, and characterization, query me! 🌌🧝‍♀️👻✍
I have one last open slot for developmental edits (after which I'll be going on a brief hiatus for a chunk of August). Let me know if anyone needs a story critique!
August 15, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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This little e-chapbook of aloof moons, gloomy gays & poetic degeneration has turned 6 months old 🎉🌚 It's sold 87 copies since release. If it reaches 100 copies in its first year, I'll be happy. Thank you everyone who downloaded!

ko-fi.com/s/0b8398bb1d

avramargariti.itch.io/the-thirteen...
The Thirteen Scorned Wives of La Nuit (verse chapbook PDF) - Avra Margariti's Ko-fi Shop
A poetic dive into decline and degeneration as La Nuit, aloof and lunar, lets her consorts sink into loveless despair. Dark, surrealist, and queer, t...
ko-fi.com
August 16, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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Oh look! My moon poem "Lunarist Girl" is up in @heartlines-spec.com !
Lunarist Girl by @epapasoulioti.bsky.social is now free-to-read!

"Do you think if I kiss her, we’ll start a heatwave or a hurricane?"

www.heartlines-spec.com/lunarist-gir...
Lunarist Girl
Lunarist Girl by Eva Papasoulioti
www.heartlines-spec.com
August 16, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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I'm back and have 2 August slots available! 🌌✍💜
I have one last open slot for developmental edits (after which I'll be going on a brief hiatus for a chunk of August). Let me know if anyone needs a story critique!
August 16, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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We're looking for a story for one of our 2025 issues of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine. Submissions close 8am EST, September 16th, 2024. Further details on our website: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/
August 16, 2024 at 11:18 AM
I'm back and have 2 August slots available! 🌌✍💜
I have one last open slot for developmental edits (after which I'll be going on a brief hiatus for a chunk of August). Let me know if anyone needs a story critique!
August 16, 2024 at 12:09 PM
This little e-chapbook of aloof moons, gloomy gays & poetic degeneration has turned 6 months old 🎉🌚 It's sold 87 copies since release. If it reaches 100 copies in its first year, I'll be happy. Thank you everyone who downloaded!

ko-fi.com/s/0b8398bb1d

avramargariti.itch.io/the-thirteen...
The Thirteen Scorned Wives of La Nuit (verse chapbook PDF) - Avra Margariti's Ko-fi Shop
A poetic dive into decline and degeneration as La Nuit, aloof and lunar, lets her consorts sink into loveless despair. Dark, surrealist, and queer, t...
ko-fi.com
August 16, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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Have you read my queer body horror cicadas story yet? 👀🪲🌳

t.co/1PDqDO7yev
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/cicadas-and-their-skins/
t.co
August 15, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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🍀 Little gay shooting star dog
February 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Spending this week helping my mate move out of their mouldy house got me thinking about how good this story is by @gaycannibalism.bsky.social

www.seizethepress.com/2023/04/15/m...

#Horror 🌈📚😱
"MYCOPHILIA" by C.B. Blanchard - Seize The Press
Asher lives in a shithole. It wasn’t always a shithole. A couple of centuries back it would have been a nice townhouse for a respectable family of means. Since then it’s been chopped into two flats, t...
www.seizethepress.com
August 15, 2024 at 6:11 PM
My August hiatus is over! I would love to take on a short editing project over the remainder of the month. If you're looking for a developmental editor with an eye for symbolism, emotionality, and characterization, query me! 🌌🧝‍♀️👻✍
I have one last open slot for developmental edits (after which I'll be going on a brief hiatus for a chunk of August). Let me know if anyone needs a story critique!
August 15, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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**slides this toward you like a cat**

New poem! New poem!
August 15, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Have you read my queer body horror cicadas story yet? 👀🪲🌳

t.co/1PDqDO7yev
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/cicadas-and-their-skins/
t.co
August 15, 2024 at 5:44 PM