Marie Croke
@mariecroke.bsky.social
SFFH Writer (she/her)
Stories in BCS, Apex, Diabolical Plots, Fireside, FFO, Best Horror of the Year, others
Rep: @redpenkaitlyn.bsky.social
SFWA | Odyssey '20 | Codex
Website: mariecroke.com
Newsletter: https://marie-croke.kit.com/9933797d42
Stories in BCS, Apex, Diabolical Plots, Fireside, FFO, Best Horror of the Year, others
Rep: @redpenkaitlyn.bsky.social
SFWA | Odyssey '20 | Codex
Website: mariecroke.com
Newsletter: https://marie-croke.kit.com/9933797d42
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Marie Croke
@mariecroke.bsky.social
· Jan 10
New story publication!! "Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh" is out in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social for their first 2025 issue, #423!
A novelette about driftwood statues that burst free from a burial ground and whisper memories in the wind (Link in reply!)
A novelette about driftwood statues that burst free from a burial ground and whisper memories in the wind (Link in reply!)
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🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤
Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
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short fic folks should read this post -
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
short fic folks should read this post -
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We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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A fantastic read of the Twelve Dancing Princesses by @mariecroke.bsky.social in The Orange & Bee. I just love how this story comes together from 12 different views. It's one for the #fairytale lovers!
theorangebee.substack.com/p/but-do-you...
#fantasy #princesses #shortstory #happilyeverafter
theorangebee.substack.com/p/but-do-you...
#fantasy #princesses #shortstory #happilyeverafter
But do you know our names?
Issue six: short fiction by Marie Croke
theorangebee.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A fantastic read of the Twelve Dancing Princesses by @mariecroke.bsky.social in The Orange & Bee. I just love how this story comes together from 12 different views. It's one for the #fairytale lovers!
theorangebee.substack.com/p/but-do-you...
#fantasy #princesses #shortstory #happilyeverafter
theorangebee.substack.com/p/but-do-you...
#fantasy #princesses #shortstory #happilyeverafter
I dont care what anyone says, i LOVE that movie :)
August 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I dont care what anyone says, i LOVE that movie :)
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My story "Trial by Fire" in the Zombies Need Brains antho Solar Flare (ed by @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social & @patriciabray.bsky.social) features a family making solar lanterns with bioluminescent plants! Love it when my ideas come true! zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site/product/sola...
Solar Flare (Trade paperback) | Zombies Need Brains LLC
SOLAR FLARE is an anthology originally funded by a Kickstarter. This is the trade paperback of the anthology. Since this is a preorder, you will be charged now and the book will be sent as soon as it ...
zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
August 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My story "Trial by Fire" in the Zombies Need Brains antho Solar Flare (ed by @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social & @patriciabray.bsky.social) features a family making solar lanterns with bioluminescent plants! Love it when my ideas come true! zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site/product/sola...
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It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year.
Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it.
gofund.me/ca0c2b7d
Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it.
gofund.me/ca0c2b7d
Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher
For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices
gofund.me
August 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year.
Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it.
gofund.me/ca0c2b7d
Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it.
gofund.me/ca0c2b7d
I subscribe to the bathtub model of skill aggregation, only my bathtub is filled with a strange concoction of lattes, rum, and pomegranate smoothies since i want my writing to be spicy, sweet, and maybe a little fucked up
August 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I subscribe to the bathtub model of skill aggregation, only my bathtub is filled with a strange concoction of lattes, rum, and pomegranate smoothies since i want my writing to be spicy, sweet, and maybe a little fucked up
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Today is THE DAY. You can now actually order for-real copies of my adult fantasy debut HOUSE OF DUSK in hardback, ebook and audio format pretty much anywhere books are sold! Lots of links and blurbs here: devafagan.com/house-of-dusk/
August 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Today is THE DAY. You can now actually order for-real copies of my adult fantasy debut HOUSE OF DUSK in hardback, ebook and audio format pretty much anywhere books are sold! Lots of links and blurbs here: devafagan.com/house-of-dusk/
Just a reminder that i have a story in this upcoming Best Of Anthology!
"A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life
"A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life
Here's the cover of THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOLUME SEVENTEEN
Art by Asya Yordanova
Art by Asya Yordanova
August 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just a reminder that i have a story in this upcoming Best Of Anthology!
"A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life
"A Lullaby of Anguish," about our obsession with buying and selling and displaying anguish, and two sisters who were caught in that life
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August Spec Flash Roundup!
With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
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With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
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Flash Roundup * August 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
August 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Got some crit/beta feedback today that is going to elevate this book 💀🌱
August 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Got some crit/beta feedback today that is going to elevate this book 💀🌱
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Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
August 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
My writing process is some hunger games shit where i add words to a dozen different novels while eagerly anticipating finding out which ones will survive to the end
August 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
My writing process is some hunger games shit where i add words to a dozen different novels while eagerly anticipating finding out which ones will survive to the end
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your intermittent reminder of my existing newsletter where i rant about writing, publishing, and my childhood trauma!
in the next newsletter, i'll be getting super real about having a debut novel come out in 6 months 🥲
in the next newsletter, i'll be getting super real about having a debut novel come out in 6 months 🥲
Facts For Fiction
Get a monthly update on all my writing shenanigans including a summary of whatever outlandish thing I am researching at the moment or have researched in the past for a piece of fiction. <3
thesuiway.beehiiv.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
your intermittent reminder of my existing newsletter where i rant about writing, publishing, and my childhood trauma!
in the next newsletter, i'll be getting super real about having a debut novel come out in 6 months 🥲
in the next newsletter, i'll be getting super real about having a debut novel come out in 6 months 🥲
Quiet date yestereve
August 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Quiet date yestereve
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just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
August 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
Cons are amazing! You get to hang out with old writer friends and meet other like-minded ppl (and give hugs!!)
But cons aren't necessary for your career, just your finished words are. So if you can't go for whatever reasons, no worries, for you always have your next story!
But cons aren't necessary for your career, just your finished words are. So if you can't go for whatever reasons, no worries, for you always have your next story!
August 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Cons are amazing! You get to hang out with old writer friends and meet other like-minded ppl (and give hugs!!)
But cons aren't necessary for your career, just your finished words are. So if you can't go for whatever reasons, no worries, for you always have your next story!
But cons aren't necessary for your career, just your finished words are. So if you can't go for whatever reasons, no worries, for you always have your next story!
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I love @mariecroke.bsky.social's story about changing yourself, when being yourself is enough. Read this gorgeous story in @metastellar.bsky.social
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory
Yet Deep Below We Writhe - MetaStellar
A woman comes to potion-maker Ellie continuously seeking ways to help her fit into the corporate, patriarchal world of her career, constantly striving to change herself.
www.metastellar.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I love @mariecroke.bsky.social's story about changing yourself, when being yourself is enough. Read this gorgeous story in @metastellar.bsky.social
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory
I'm super excited and grateful to get to be a part of this anthology coming next year! With a lot of badass feminist energy, these stories are going to be 🔥
Officially announcing the first book for 2026 - "Tall Tales of the Holy Terror Tomboy" with stories by @mariecroke.bsky.social @bextraterrestrial.bsky.social M.L.D. Curelas, and Kara-Race Moore. The cover artist is @carolinejamhour.bsky.social. This anthology is planned for the spring of 2026.
August 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm super excited and grateful to get to be a part of this anthology coming next year! With a lot of badass feminist energy, these stories are going to be 🔥
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Out today 🤗
Hey! I have a new story out tomorrow! "Let Heavens Be Joined As Worlds Are Not" in Issue 22 of @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social
This is my first original in almost 2 years! It was worth the wait. This is my favorite story so far, and possibly my best. Excited for folks to read it!
This is my first original in almost 2 years! It was worth the wait. This is my favorite story so far, and possibly my best. Excited for folks to read it!
August 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Out today 🤗
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I have a poem in this that is also a piece of *artwork*!! Check out my collage poem "After" -- and all the other amazing work -- in this FREE collection!!
The second Worlds of Possibility Anthology is alllllll poetry, and you can get the ebook free through August 20th! www.juliarios.com/worlds-of-po...
Worlds of Possibility —Poetry is free until the 20th of August!
Get your free ebook before August 21st!
www.juliarios.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I have a poem in this that is also a piece of *artwork*!! Check out my collage poem "After" -- and all the other amazing work -- in this FREE collection!!
One of the best ways to break yourself out of a reading slump is to read a subgenre you don't normally read
August 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One of the best ways to break yourself out of a reading slump is to read a subgenre you don't normally read
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A fabulous opportunity for young authors. I love Cast of Wonders and if you're under 20 and have story, check out these guidelines and submit!
Are you a young author? We will be open to submissions throughout August to all writers aged under 20. Standard submissions guidelines apply.
www.castofwonders.org/submissions/
www.castofwonders.org/submissions/
Submissions | Cast of Wonders
Please check our schedule for detailed submission window timing. We do not accept submissions year-round. Cast of Wonders is a young adult speculative short fiction market, open to stories up to 6,000...
www.castofwonders.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A fabulous opportunity for young authors. I love Cast of Wonders and if you're under 20 and have story, check out these guidelines and submit!