c. c. rayne (is writing)
@ccraynewrites.bsky.social
author of all things weird, wonderful, & queer ✨️ words in The Deeps, The Razor, Strange Horizons, and more 🌊 ccraynewrites.carrd.co
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Time for a 2025 writing wrapup! This has been a busy year for me, with a lot of that busyness being behind the scenes. But I’ve had the chance to share some really wonderful pieces that I’m proud of, and I think you’ll love them too. Let’s dive in:
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Subterranean monstrosities from space, or fire n' brimstone apocalyptic prophesies coming true? Why not a bit of both?
We've got a pair of preorders for you!
KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social out Feb. 17th;
OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out Mar. 24th:
Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com
🖤☠️
We've got a pair of preorders for you!
KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social out Feb. 17th;
OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out Mar. 24th:
Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com
🖤☠️
January 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Subterranean monstrosities from space, or fire n' brimstone apocalyptic prophesies coming true? Why not a bit of both?
We've got a pair of preorders for you!
KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social out Feb. 17th;
OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out Mar. 24th:
Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com
🖤☠️
We've got a pair of preorders for you!
KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social out Feb. 17th;
OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out Mar. 24th:
Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com
🖤☠️
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Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday!
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
January 12, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday!
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
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I'm looking for books with transmasculine protagonists that might help me understand myself. I recently read Rules for Ghosting and found it relatable on so many levels. What's your top rec? I especially like romance, mystery, and sff. No sad endings please! 🌈📚💙
Special love to those who boost!
Special love to those who boost!
January 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I'm looking for books with transmasculine protagonists that might help me understand myself. I recently read Rules for Ghosting and found it relatable on so many levels. What's your top rec? I especially like romance, mystery, and sff. No sad endings please! 🌈📚💙
Special love to those who boost!
Special love to those who boost!
Time for a 2025 writing wrapup! This has been a busy year for me, with a lot of that busyness being behind the scenes. But I’ve had the chance to share some really wonderful pieces that I’m proud of, and I think you’ll love them too. Let’s dive in:
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Time for a 2025 writing wrapup! This has been a busy year for me, with a lot of that busyness being behind the scenes. But I’ve had the chance to share some really wonderful pieces that I’m proud of, and I think you’ll love them too. Let’s dive in:
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Agita is a new triannual online magazine for flash horror and sci-fi. Each issue will contain three flash stories around a theme. The first issue, coming in May and co-edited by Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social), is "Bad Science." Subs open March 1. Details at agitamag.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Agita is a new triannual online magazine for flash horror and sci-fi. Each issue will contain three flash stories around a theme. The first issue, coming in May and co-edited by Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social), is "Bad Science." Subs open March 1. Details at agitamag.com
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We published three issues in 2025, with stunning (all original) flash fiction, short fiction, and poetry!🧚🏽
PLUS several interviews and a book review!
THANK YOU everyone for reading, and a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make Fantasy Magazine happen!❤️🔥
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
PLUS several interviews and a book review!
THANK YOU everyone for reading, and a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make Fantasy Magazine happen!❤️🔥
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
Fantasy Homepage - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
FANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy-dark fantasy, contemporary
psychopomp.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
We published three issues in 2025, with stunning (all original) flash fiction, short fiction, and poetry!🧚🏽
PLUS several interviews and a book review!
THANK YOU everyone for reading, and a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make Fantasy Magazine happen!❤️🔥
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
PLUS several interviews and a book review!
THANK YOU everyone for reading, and a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make Fantasy Magazine happen!❤️🔥
psychopomp.com/fantasy/
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🐕 Not only have Dog Eared Books re-stocked Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery, they now carry paperbacks of Sometime Lofty Towers! Hit up 900 Valencia Street in San Francisco, open 10am-10pm every day. 📚
You can place in-store pick-up or mail orders here 👉 www.dogearedbooks.com/order-a-book-2 👈
You can place in-store pick-up or mail orders here 👉 www.dogearedbooks.com/order-a-book-2 👈
January 6, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🐕 Not only have Dog Eared Books re-stocked Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery, they now carry paperbacks of Sometime Lofty Towers! Hit up 900 Valencia Street in San Francisco, open 10am-10pm every day. 📚
You can place in-store pick-up or mail orders here 👉 www.dogearedbooks.com/order-a-book-2 👈
You can place in-store pick-up or mail orders here 👉 www.dogearedbooks.com/order-a-book-2 👈
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Please go give them love. This game deserves it so, so much. The first one was an amazingly written political intrigue story was so much queer energy. I know the second will be the same if it can get funded
Sorry, folks. Seven days to go and 50% funded. We'll need a modern internet miracle to see these lovely ladies get their sequel. I was always worried that the visuals were not appealing to most VN gamers, but... ouch
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pro...
#indiegame #Kickstarter #Gaming #pcgame #free
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pro...
#indiegame #Kickstarter #Gaming #pcgame #free
Women of Xal II
Original Game Free! The revolution begins. Can Xjena survive rising violence and The Great Silence— Xal's final extinction event?
www.kickstarter.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Please go give them love. This game deserves it so, so much. The first one was an amazingly written political intrigue story was so much queer energy. I know the second will be the same if it can get funded
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We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
December 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
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The revised and expanded second edition of SMOKE AND STEEL is live and to celebrate, I'm hosting a paperback giveaway! Repost this post and comment w your favorite mythical creature! Winners will be announced next week!
(International welcome!)
🌈📚🌈🚀💫
#QueerAdultSFF #LesFic #SapphicBooks
(International welcome!)
🌈📚🌈🚀💫
#QueerAdultSFF #LesFic #SapphicBooks
January 8, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The revised and expanded second edition of SMOKE AND STEEL is live and to celebrate, I'm hosting a paperback giveaway! Repost this post and comment w your favorite mythical creature! Winners will be announced next week!
(International welcome!)
🌈📚🌈🚀💫
#QueerAdultSFF #LesFic #SapphicBooks
(International welcome!)
🌈📚🌈🚀💫
#QueerAdultSFF #LesFic #SapphicBooks
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god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page
January 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page
Just ten more days to get your poetry in!
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! I am delighted to be the guest editor for the 59th issue of Eye to the Telescope, which is seeking speculative poetry (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc) on the theme of "Immortality." This is a paid call, open from today through January 15th, 2026. Submissions link below.
January 6, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Just ten more days to get your poetry in!
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they're gonna keep making us fight for it, so this issue we're asking: fact, fantasy, or fiction, what expressions of gender make you feel fierce?*
[email protected]
[email protected]
January 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
they're gonna keep making us fight for it, so this issue we're asking: fact, fantasy, or fiction, what expressions of gender make you feel fierce?*
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Always worth a post
December 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Always worth a post
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Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...!
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Black Horror | Call for Submissions
We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!
blog.flametreepublishing.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...!
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
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Opening up for subs at midnight tonight assuming that I have set up Submittable correctly....
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Opening up for subs at midnight tonight assuming that I have set up Submittable correctly....
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At the end of each year I publish a community roundup of awards-eligible work for folks to check out! Go add your information so I can put you on the list for 2026.
2026 Community Awards Eligibility Roundup
It's the time of year when I ask folks to share their awards eligibility with me! Send us your information using this form. We'll round up all the eligibility information people chose to share and wil...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
At the end of each year I publish a community roundup of awards-eligible work for folks to check out! Go add your information so I can put you on the list for 2026.
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📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
I had the pleasure of writing about one of my all-time favorite video games for Sidequest - a game that shaped how I view narratives, characters, and consequences, and taught me quite a bit about myself in the process to boot. Please enjoy! ☄️👽💉
"But [the past] is out of your hands; it happens before the gameplay ever starts. The only thing you actually control is what you will do moving forwards—and these choices set up who you want your Morgan Yu to be." — C. C. Rayne
Read more: sidequest.zone/2025/11/03/w...
Read more: sidequest.zone/2025/11/03/w...
Who Are Yu?: Prey and The Power of Self-Determination - Sidequest
C. C. Rayne examines themes of monstrosity, identity, and gender in Prey, and the impact of their relationship with protagonist Morgan Yu.
sidequest.zone
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I had the pleasure of writing about one of my all-time favorite video games for Sidequest - a game that shaped how I view narratives, characters, and consequences, and taught me quite a bit about myself in the process to boot. Please enjoy! ☄️👽💉
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Since it's #Halloween, trick-or-treat yourself to this story about a haunted house, co-authored by the fantastically creative @ccrayne.bsky.social. 👻
www.icebreakerslit.com/held-barely-...
www.icebreakerslit.com/held-barely-...
Held Barely at Bay — Icebreakers Lit
www.icebreakerslit.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Since it's #Halloween, trick-or-treat yourself to this story about a haunted house, co-authored by the fantastically creative @ccrayne.bsky.social. 👻
www.icebreakerslit.com/held-barely-...
www.icebreakerslit.com/held-barely-...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! I am delighted to be the guest editor for the 59th issue of Eye to the Telescope, which is seeking speculative poetry (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc) on the theme of "Immortality." This is a paid call, open from today through January 15th, 2026. Submissions link below.
September 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! I am delighted to be the guest editor for the 59th issue of Eye to the Telescope, which is seeking speculative poetry (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc) on the theme of "Immortality." This is a paid call, open from today through January 15th, 2026. Submissions link below.
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Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Finalists!
The Rhysling jury has selected 50 short poems and 25 long poems from the longlist of nominees, each of which will appear this year's Rhysling Anthology.
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The Rhysling jury has selected 50 short poems and 25 long poems from the longlist of nominees, each of which will appear this year's Rhysling Anthology.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Finalists!
The Rhysling jury has selected 50 short poems and 25 long poems from the longlist of nominees, each of which will appear this year's Rhysling Anthology.
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The Rhysling jury has selected 50 short poems and 25 long poems from the longlist of nominees, each of which will appear this year's Rhysling Anthology.
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My new baby kittens have a pricy vet follow-up in a few weeks, my old-man cat still needs his various prescriptions, AND my rent is going up in November, so book revenue is increasingly important nowadays! Please consider ordering a copy or leaving a review somewhere online 🤞
R E M I N D E R that my debut horror/dark SFF/weird fiction collection Spiritus Ex Machina is available in ebook and paperback versions via Grimscribe Press (there was also a sold-out hardcover). Proceeds are mostly going towards my elderly cat's medical needs
September 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My new baby kittens have a pricy vet follow-up in a few weeks, my old-man cat still needs his various prescriptions, AND my rent is going up in November, so book revenue is increasingly important nowadays! Please consider ordering a copy or leaving a review somewhere online 🤞
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is my birthday!🎉
this year around the sun has been awful in many ways, but wonderful in others. i wrote the equivalent of three books, had surgery for my PMDD, finished my degree, got obsessed with tennis, and realised i’m trans and started hormones!
would love for y’all to check out my books!👇🏻
this year around the sun has been awful in many ways, but wonderful in others. i wrote the equivalent of three books, had surgery for my PMDD, finished my degree, got obsessed with tennis, and realised i’m trans and started hormones!
would love for y’all to check out my books!👇🏻
September 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
is my birthday!🎉
this year around the sun has been awful in many ways, but wonderful in others. i wrote the equivalent of three books, had surgery for my PMDD, finished my degree, got obsessed with tennis, and realised i’m trans and started hormones!
would love for y’all to check out my books!👇🏻
this year around the sun has been awful in many ways, but wonderful in others. i wrote the equivalent of three books, had surgery for my PMDD, finished my degree, got obsessed with tennis, and realised i’m trans and started hormones!
would love for y’all to check out my books!👇🏻
This is just so incredibly good. Entrancing, emotional, bittersweet and beautiful with prose that cuts like a knife. Amazing.
“It’s Charli’s Body, You’re Just Living In It” is my ode to fraught queer friendships, portal fantasies, and trying to mend what you can in a wounded world.
Now free to read in @heartlines-spec.com:
www.heartlines-spec.com/its-charlis-...
Now free to read in @heartlines-spec.com:
www.heartlines-spec.com/its-charlis-...
It's Charli's Body, You're Just Living In It
It's Charli's Body, You're Just Living In It by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks
www.heartlines-spec.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is just so incredibly good. Entrancing, emotional, bittersweet and beautiful with prose that cuts like a knife. Amazing.