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David Jón Fuller 🇨🇦 @davidjonfuller.bsky.social · 1d

You can read my horror tale set in Iceland, "Two Voices, One Song," in the latest issue of On Spec magazine, among many other great stories! @onspecmag.bsky.social

Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 3d

New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...

On Spec Magazine #133 VOL 35 No 3

Volume 35 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine. This issue features short stories by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm ("The Bag of Holding"), Gillian Secord ("the love song of house and lake"), John Park ("When the S...

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 3d

New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...

On Spec Magazine #133 VOL 35 No 3

Volume 35 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine. This issue features short stories by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm ("The Bag of Holding"), Gillian Secord ("the love song of house and lake"), John Park ("When the S...

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Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · 3d

Check out my story, "An Unsparing Harvest," in the latest issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social! It's perfect for the spooky season. weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 25d

Issue #133 is at the proofing stage now. But you can buy and read #132 while you wait!

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Lisobel Tang @lisobeltang.bsky.social · Aug 29

So excited for my piece to be featured in the latest issue of @trampset.bsky.social. Do check it out & the amazing work of fellow writers <3

trampset @trampset.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison."

@lisobeltang.bsky.social's "China Dog"

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China Dog

by Lisobel Tang

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Tyche BoooOOOoooks 👻🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today is the LAST DAY to submit stories to Fascination, a new anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish!

Details: tychebooks.com/submissions

Book promo post. A submissions call for an anthology. Background image is misty woods, some trees have leaves, some are bare branched. They arch over a leaf-strewn path in the woods. Overall colour tone is blue, gray, and black. Text says: Fascination, edited by Rhonda Parrish. Accepting Submissions 5 August through 3 September.

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · Aug 13

Almost ready to send On Spec Issue #133 to the designer for a mid-September release. Please support us by making a small donation or purchasing a copy of issue #132 from our Ko-fi page.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · Jul 14

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Illustration of a squirrel carrying a pile of books, walking towards a tree hollow full of books.

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Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · Jul 10

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · Jun 23

New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...

Cover art for On Spec #132, featuring the surface of a moon with domed craters, a lander taking off, stars and a habitable world in the sky

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Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · Jun 5

I have a new story in Orion's Beau! Witches? ✅ Mermaids? ✅ Heartbreak ✅ What do you do when your time has come, and you have no soul left to barter for passage into the afterlife? www.orionsbeau.com/fantasy-quar...

Summer 2025, The Broken Bargain of Songs for Legs

Orion's Beau is a free digital arts & literary journal specializing in LGBTQ+ works of fantasy and speculative fiction. By publishing short stories, poems, and illustrations by LGBTQ+ authors and crea...

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Tyche BoooOOOoooks 👻🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · Feb 3

Wait… does this mean I have to be a nickleback fan now

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Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · Jan 31

If you see this, post a GIF from your favorite Studio Ghibli film.

a cartoon of a woman and a monster with wings

ALT: a cartoon of a woman and a monster with wings

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Jan 23

for the evening crowd - Fantasy is BACK!🐉
Subscribe so we can stick around - maybe even grow & bring you lots of awesome things!

psychopomp.com/fantasy/

💖WRITERS💖 - Submissions are open!

Jan 22-25 open to work by BIPOC authors
Jan 26-29 general subs for everyone

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Fantasy Homepage - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Our next issue features amazing short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. Issue drops June 1st, 2025!

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · Jan 15

Announcement:

Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine

WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!

full details here:

psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

the promo cover of Fantasy Magazine shows a women in the grass with a glowing sky behind her. The text says Returning June 2025 Fantasy Magazine

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Stefani Cooke @stefthescribbler.bsky.social · Dec 31

2024 was a beautifully chaotic year! Writing-wise, two more publications under my belt (a micro in @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social Drabble Dark III, and an upcoming pub in @penumbricmag.bsky.social), and in December, my greatest composition: my newborn son 😊. Wishing everyone a wonderful 2025!

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · Dec 15

Not that I even need to say this, judging from my mailbox lol, but our #fiction and #poetry submissions window is now open! It will be open through 15 March.

The #art submissions window of course continues to be open.

See our submissions guidelines at www.penumbric.com/subs.html

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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · Dec 14

Ah, that’s all right then

POPULAR MECHANICS

If Humans Die Out, Octopuses Already Have the Chops to Build the Next Civilization, Scientist Claims

With brains that process information almost like a computer, the sea creatures already use tools and can be social. But they need to make a few changes before they can take over the world.

BY SARAH WELLS DEC 13, 2024

[photo of a reddish-pink octopus underwater]

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · Dec 13

People ask when we will open to submissions. Probably early in 2025. With a slight change. This round of submissions will consider stories and poems written by Canadians only. While we’ve found wonderful work by non-Canadians, we need to return to our roots.

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · Dec 10

Oh, and how about a link lol ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Penumbric December 2k24, ToC

Edgy speculative fiction magazine

www.penumbric.com

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · Dec 10

And still more thank-yous! @lynnesargent.bsky.social, @artbyfirestar.bsky.social, and Maureen Bowden. And to @umbra-ludus.bsky.social for the cover art!

I could never do this without you all! 🥰

#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

Table of contents for December 2024's Penumbric

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · Dec 10

Thank you to all the contributors in December's #Penumbric! Yuliia Vereta, Mike Morgan, Tim Hildebrandt, Ritiksha Sharma, Zary Fekete, Denny E. Marshall, @simonchris.bsky.social, Kasia Runté, Meg O’Connor, Adele Gardner, Sonali Roy ...

#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · Oct 13

Using AI doesn’t make writing easier, it just robs you of everything that makes the hard part worthwhile.

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · Nov 29

Congratulations to @marisca.bsky.social and @christinasng.bsky.social for making @datlow.bsky.social's recommendation list, Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen (2023) for work in #Penumbric! 🥰

Partial image of Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen Recommendations (2023) Part Two

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Mely @coffeeandink.bsky.social · Jul 30

Pouring one out for Francine Pascal, best known for the Sweet Valley High books (I read at least two dozen) and the pre-franchise Victoria Martin trilogy, starting with timeslip fantasy Hangin' Out with Cici, and ending with Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo, still an all-time great title.

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Francine Pascal, Creator of ‘Sweet Valley High’ Book Series, Dies at 92

The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.

www.nytimes.com

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