Thrilled to say that my poem “Who?” and my prose poem “A Letter to Forgotten Irish Miners” have both been published in this incredible issue! #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

Hello my friends, I am Sahar from Gaza. I have a son named Ayham. We completed the second year of the war
and the situation is catastrophic. I ask for your support🙏🙏
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This happened just now.

Pre-orders up!!! Deeply grateful to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and all my teachers at UCD and the kind writers who wrote the blurbs including @gagebybell.bsky.social and @martinadalton.bsky.social and so many others …

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A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are open until 31 October! Submission guidelines are at the link below. We're looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays! ✨

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Remembering Seamus Heaney who died 12 years ago today.

Happy #InternationalDogDay from Clarke and Bacon!

There are only 2 Days until submissions close for our next issue! You can submit via our website or the link in bio! We are accepting submissions of short stories, flash fiction and poetry.

Do you like coffee and/or robots? Then you'll love my flash fiction piece "STR1K3BR34K3R" that's just been published by Androids and Dragons! #writing #scifi #sciencefiction #coffee

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The Irish Beekeepers' Association has warned that Asian hornets could "wreck havoc" on Ireland's bee population

Happy #InternationalWolfDay! To celebrate, you can read my poem "Wolf Sonnet" in Issue 6 of Drawn to the Light! #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

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PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

A fine loaf of sourdough, fresh from the oven 🍞

I think this is the first time in a long time that all of my finished but unpublished stories are under consideration somewhere or other. Literally can't remember the last time I looked at the folder where I keep them and found it empty.

Ursula K Le Guin, Cormac McCarthy, Frank Herbert, Philip K Dick, HG Wells and Oscar Wilde.

180y ago, the Great Hunger killed over a million people in Ireland as the Great Powers stood by & ignored the horrific suffering of children.

Famine stalks Gaza, babies are arriving at the makeshift triage & dying. The death toll from genocide will grow as famine & disease murder more. Donate:

Nineteen years ago this week, an unexpected conversation at Readercon led to the creation of Clarkesworld. The day before, I had no interest in working in publishing. As hard as it is sometimes, I can't imagine not doing it now.

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The reality is that Interzone were harassed off this site by “writers” who didn’t like being reminded that they have a responsibility to take a proactive stance against AI. They just want to sit back and hope someone else solves the problem, and they can’t stand anyone calling out that apathy.

letter are AI free. Editors shouldn’t want to work with writers who approve of AI use, and writers should want editors to know that they don’t approve of AI. Simply put, we need to be more vigilant about the publications we associate ourselves with. 4/4.

of submissions and readership. Unfortunately, the time for sitting back and saying “I don’t use AI so I’m fine” has passed. We all need to be taking a more proactive stance against the use of AI. Even something as small as making sure the two or three prior publications you mention in your cover 3/?

“Well what if I didn’t know about the AI use?” You should have. As writers, we’re supposed to read the publications we submit to and get published in. We don’t always, I’m guilty of it too, but we need to start being better for the sake of catching out the use of AI and starving those publishers 2/?

My 2 cents on the current AI discourse: if you mention a publication that’s used AI for artwork in your cover letter to another publication, the editor has no way of knowing your views on that use of AI. You’ve left open the possibility that you’re pro-AI. 1/?