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Myna Chang

@mynachang.bsky.social

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

Nadia Radovich

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social

Reeeeead thiiiiiiis <3

RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 11d

New flash piece out in manywor(l)ds today about the severe and lasting trauma healthcare workers experience on a daily basis. What if there was a way to compartmentalize those experiences digitally? Nothing bad could come of that, right?

November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM

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Heartlines Spec

@heartlines-spec.com

Don't drop your stitches! Looped by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social sticks with you, even if you just want to reset.

Coming to paid subscribers November 30th!

November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽

@romiesays.bsky.social

Props to Benjamin for sharing the details of his contract. Unfortunately no props to MRM because there's a lot of extremely outre stuff in here that I'd refuse to sign. Let's run it down. (Context: If you're negotiating a contract with Strange Horizons, I'm the person you're negotiating with.)

Benjamin C. Kinney @benjaminckinney.com · Oct 13

New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher.

Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.

benjaminckinney.com/analog-negot...

Analog Negotiations & Short Story Sale: Recognition, Memory » Benjamin C. Kinney - still pruning...

Successful negotiations with Must Read Magazines & Analog SF, who will publish my science fiction short story "Recognition, Memory."

benjaminckinney.com

October 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM

Nadia Radovich

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social

SO excited to be in Heartlines soon! 🥰

Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 29d

It's Issue 9 and we're feeling fine! It might even be our first nature-y issue, there's zombies, sheep, all types of flora, and the slow decay of time.

Issue 9 releases on November 30, $18CAD/year or join for free and get everything sent to your inbox 📬

Thank you to our newest contributors! 🫀

October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM

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Apex Magazine and Book Company

@apexmag.bsky.social

WE DID IT!!! 🎉🎉🎉

over $20,000 raised with 3 days still left to go! Thank you all so much to everyone who shared and supported our Kickstarter; we truly, TRULY couldn't have done it without you! 💜👽

Bask in the warm glow of a fully funded Kickstarter with us 🌟
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October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM

Nadia Radovich

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social

Let's bring it home!!!

Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 26

There's just 4 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we're SO CLOSE to hitting our 20k goal!

Our full catalogue of critiques, ebooks, merch and more will all be gone on Halloween. Don't miss out on these limited edition items and donate TODAY! 💜👽🎃

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Story/Excerpt Critiques

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A.V. Greene (up to 10,000 words)
Ivy Grimes (up to 5,000 words)
Lindz McLeod (up to 5,000 words)
Risa Wolf (7,500 words)
Sam Fleming (7,500 words
Slush Reader Critique

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New EBooks and trade paperbacks available now!
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October 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM

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Apex Magazine and Book Company

@apexmag.bsky.social

We're SIX DAYS AWAY from the end of our Kickstarter and 75% FUNDED 🚀✨

Remember, it's YOUR donations keeping us a proudly pro-rate magazine, which financially compensates the skilled authors who bring Apex to life. Help artists thrive in 2026 and donate TODAY 💜👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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"Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 6 DAYS
Needed for Liftoff: $4,760
$15,240/$20,000
Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!"

October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD)

@rsagarcia.bsky.social

This Oct, as a breast cancer survivor in treatment since 2021, I'm doing a thread on stuff I wish I'd been told.

I'll update as I go, but the first thing I'll share is every person's body & treatment is different. Some fear symptoms or side effects they might never get. Don't be afraid to fight 1/3

October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM

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OTHERSIDE

@othersidespec.bsky.social

Want a short story critique from an amazing writer of short stories? Snag a subscription + a short story critique from @nadiaradovich.bsky.social, whose brilliant short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Apex, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere!

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October 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Nadia Radovich

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social

New story day! My retelling of Atalanta and the Calydonian Boar Hunt <3

Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Oct 14

"You draw first blood, and you survive—until the day you fail the gods, and they transform you into a lion." 🏛️🩸🦁

New flash fiction today by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social: "The Fate You Choose"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"The Fate You Choose By Nadia Radovich. Apex Magazine Issue 151."

October 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM

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OTHERSIDE

@othersidespec.bsky.social

We’re $436 away from unlocking nonfiction! That means we’ll open to submissions of everything from moving personal essays to excavations of queer SFF history to incisive literary criticism.

PLUS we’re only 8 backers from our final backer goal—help us get there!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

October 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM

Nadia Radovich

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social

Keep going!! Do you know how many think-pieces are currently bottled up inside me?? I need nonfiction!!

OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · Oct 10

YOU DID IIIIT! NOW WE HAVE MORE ART!! This means pretty interior illustrations, small divider details, the little flourishes that will allow us to hire more queer artists per issue! Thank you so much.

Our NEXT stretch goal is NONFICTION 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

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October 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Nadia Radovich

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social

Backers for the Short Story Critique tier can get feedback from different short story authors, including me! 🥰 Support Otherside! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

September 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM

Nadia Radovich

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social

I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

September 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM

Nadia Radovich

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social

Support Otherside! Now is the time!!

OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · Sep 29

Our co-founders made the mistake of taking a quick break after we funded... only to come back and find out WE ALREADY HIT OUR FIRST STRETCH GOAL?! ISSUE 5 IS NOW FUNDED! We are one step closer to funding Year TWO! Thank you so much, everyone!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." The first goal, of $6900, is now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to it. The remaining goals of $8300, $9700, and $11000 show a closed lock next to them.

September 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM

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Flash Fiction Online

@flashfictiononline.bsky.social

TUESDAY RELEASE: “The Things You Bought for the Robot” by Stefan Alcalá Slater is LIVE and free to read! This story gave me feelings about a pair of robot slippers of all things… 🥹
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #sciencefiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

The Things You Bought for the Robot

Extension Cord.The robot was secondhand. Because its solar unit was too complicated to fix, it was just easier to plug it in and forget about it.Cleaning supplies.It had a job to do, you needed the…

www.flashfictiononline.com

September 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM

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OTHERSIDE

@othersidespec.bsky.social

Our Kickstarter launches in TEN DAYS! September 29 is in fact SOMEHOW ten days away!!! We’re nervous and excited and SO ready. We're only screaming intermittently.

Sign up to be notified when it launches. We have a lot of fun rewards and goals planned… you won’t want to miss this 👀

www.kickstarter.com

September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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Gabino Iglesias

@gabino.bsky.social

Reminder because of this month and spooky season (October is looking busy already): Need me for anything? Book event? Library thing? Workshop? Class on diversity in publishing? I also do weddings, bar mitzvahs, birthdays, and interventions. Email Jayme Boucher or DM me.

September 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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Angela Liu

@angelaliu.bsky.social

Richard Siken, speaking on poetry better than I ever could. His collection, Crush, was life-changing.

(Read the whole interview on @adroitjournal.bsky.social: theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-...)

"The fundamental power of poetry is the friction between the sentence and the line. The sentence is a unit of meaning. When you break it, you get two or more units of meaning that exist simultaneously with the original meaning. No other form of writing has this quality. Since we’re not really writing in traditional forms anymore, it’s even more important to find ways of saying and writing that make shapes, support voice and music and rhythm, and help build architectures."

https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-seven/a-conversation-with-richard-siken/

September 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM

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Jay

@tarvolon.bsky.social

Hey y’all, this short story collection came out today, and it is great! www.tarvolon.com/2025/07/14/s...

Sci-fi/Horror Review: Uncertain Sons by Thomas Ha

Review of debut sci-fi horror collection Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, by Hugo and Nebula nominated rising star Thomas Ha.

www.tarvolon.com

September 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM

Nadia Radovich

@nadiaradovich.bsky.social

I loved this one!

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Sep 16

Auto-cannibalism, transformation, messy family relationships and more: "Erysichthon’s Daughter" is a story that has it all and holds it all together wonderfully. Read this story by M.R. Robinson in our issue 21 today:

Erysichthon’s Daughter - Small Wonders

Daddy, I know you didn’t mean to fell the sacred oak. I know you wouldn’t lie to me. You swore you’d never lie to me.

smallwondersmag.com

September 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf

@queermedieval.bsky.social

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Martha Wells

@marthawells.com

This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...