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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are so thrilled to announce that Jess Cho will be joining the OTHERSIDE team as a Poetry Editor! Jess is a Rhysling Award-winning author with work in khōréō, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Fiction, Apparition, Nightmare, and elsewhere. They can't wait to read your work when we open in January!

Banner text of image says Jess Cho: Poetry Editor. Image of Jess Cho on the left, with short hair and glasses in a black shirt. Text to the right of Jess’s photo: Jess Cho is a Rhysling Award-winning author of short fiction and poetry. Their work can be found in khōréō, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Fiction, Apparition, Nightmare, and elsewhere. They like their fiction dark and their poetry with teeth.

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · Aug 11

'Brooks and boulders' - the third piece of my aerial embroidery series incorporating pine bark chip 'rocks'! The contrasts between the hard rocks and soft embroidery, dark and pale shades and terrain makes this landscape my favourite 😊 will be available Friday with all the others! 1/2

An embroidery landscape in a hoop frame - it depicts an embroidered aerial-view landscape of wild moorland, which includes a soft stream/brook, shrubs, scrubland and 'rocks' made from painted pine bark chips.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Aug 18

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae.

Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

The photo was taken underwater. It shows a partially uncovered mosaic on the ground of the sea and a fish swimming above it.

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Aug 7

Love it!!!! So glad Heartlines got this poem 💜

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Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 7

My poem What the Birds Taught Me is now free to read from Heartlines Spec!

🌿 A small glimpse into a peaceful future in harmony with nature
🪶 Caring for and learning from birds

I loved writing this poem and I'm so happy that it found a home with Heartlines!

Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · Aug 7

Friendship and knowledge springs from all places -- even between creatures great and small 🪹

What the Birds Taught Me by @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social is now free-to-read!

www.heartlines-spec.com/what-the-bir...

What the Birds Taught Me

What the Birds Taught Me by Nico Martinez Nocito

www.heartlines-spec.com

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · Aug 5

My new fantasy fiction magazine now has a website. We're still very fledgling, much baby. So please consider supporting us!

www.nightmarketmag.com

A woman in red holds a lantern. "Welcome to the Night Market. The Market opens soon."

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Aug 4

Failed to find salsify. Ate sassafras though!

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · Jun 5

Wanna read some stories?

Here's a 🧵 of my 2025 publications so far...

1) "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social : resistance in the face of systemic oppression, from the pov of the old Erie Canal bed in Rochester NY

www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...

Written on the Subway Walls

For February, The Sunday Morning Transport brings you stories by Jennifer Hudak, John Chu, Carrie Vaughn, and Marie Brennan.

www.sundaymorningtransport.com

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · Aug 1

Louder for the people in the back!!

Issue 8 released yesterday and is a labyrinth of delicious words: 8 short stories, 5 poems, 1 Horizon Zero Dawn essay, 1 review on spec-fic books

Not to mention the delightful @angelvleal.bsky.social acting as Guest Poetry Editor

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · Jul 31

Issue 8 has stepped through the portals! Our summer issue is always special because it's powered by a birthday wish, BUT this issue is EXTRA POWERFUL because it's powered by TWO BIRTHDAYS.

You should subscribe (or buy online!) -- can't let a birthday wish down 🎂

www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-8/

Issue 8

Issue 8 features portals, aliens, and metamorphoses. These stories and poems are about growing up, growing apart, and growing together. As much as our characters wish they could stay locked in their f...

www.heartlines-spec.com

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · Aug 1

horny Roman augurs be like “omina omina omina”

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hypermobility

Honey I can't open this jar I say. My hand keeps turning with the lid but it never loosens. My wrist bones crackle as they make a hard 90° turn, then another. My fingertips graze the inside of my elbow. The other wrist bends backwards like rubberhose instead of bracing the base.

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Aug 1

I love that!! 💜

Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Aug 1

LOVE IT, see echoes of one of my favorite Scottish folk songs, Cruel Sister

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Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · Aug 1

ICYMI: "A Single Song", my dark fairytale retelling twisting together possession, music, revenge, and corruption, has been out for a month!

Read it free from @factorfourmagazine.com!

"A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song..."

factorfourmag.com/a-single-son...

A Single Song by Nico Martinez Nocito

A harp made of bones, they say, will only ever play a single song. Haunting, my listeners called my melody, and beautiful. My fingers glided over the sinuous strings and my voice, the harp’s voice,…

factorfourmag.com

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Aug 1

Going on my 2nd tomorrow 👀 hoping to find salsify

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Aug 1

In my first foraging mission I brought my guidebooks and compared leaf shapes as carefully as threading a needle

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Aug 1

Being SOOOO good not eating random city dandelions. Horrible part about learning foraging is I see snacks everywhere. Hey is that wild carrot or hemlock -

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · Aug 1

Kudos to editor @mariaschrater.bsky.social for her Birds issue of Eye To The Telescope, which gets a nice review here!

therevelator.org/environmenta...

Earth Versed: 10 New Poetry Books About Our Relationship With Nature • The Revelator

From a collection set in a landfill to an author’s cultural exploration of a critically endangered species, these books celebrate Earth and mourn its destruction.

therevelator.org

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Jul 31

Heckraiser #mildhorror

Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · Jul 31

I Spit On York Grave

And it's just a story in the YEP with a dude looking sad and pointing at the grave he was caught spitting on.

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You actually go full on balls to the wall Drag Me To Hell and someone spits on one of the plague graves and

SHIT

KICKS

OFF

Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · Jul 31

DRAG ME TO HULL

#MildHorror

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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · Jul 30

Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...

A circular embroidery in a wooden hoop of the White Horse using various stitches including hundreds of French knots for the main grass, long and short for the folds of the hill below the horse, and turkey tail for a field and scattered trees.

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Maria Schrater @mariaschrater.bsky.social · Jul 31

Not sure if this counts - I guest edited an issue of Eye to the Telescope (Birds theme) and would love more eyes on these amazing poets!! eyetothetelescope.com/archives/057...

Eye to the Telescope

Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.

eyetothetelescope.com

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