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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 2d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

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behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 5d

Reading for FPSF is always unbelievably fun, and it's because of the fantastic work that YOU send in. Don't miss our last unthemed submission window of the year!

Flash Point SF @flashpointsf.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to our Fall submissions window! Open until 10/31
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Submissions

UPDATE: We are open to submissions through October 31.We are open to submissions:Feb. 1 – Mar. 31Jun. 1 – Jul. 31Oct. 1 – Oct. 31Nov. 1 – Nov. 30 (Drabbles only)Before submi…

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 7d

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 8d

reading that poem again 💖

All of Our Mothers are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social

find it here ⬇️

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp

Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 9d

So honored to have a poem about grief, motherhood, and necromancy in this issue 🖤

Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 10d

Now: Issue 98!

Work by Eleanna Castroianni, Tracie McBride, Mateo Perez Lara, Sunwoo Jeong, Christian Emecheta, Eleanor Ball❤️‍🔥

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Soon: Issue 100! Celebrate with us💖

Transition, Migration, & Borders: Movement in, and of the Body

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 9d

This beautiful poem from @tinywrenlit.bsky.social www.tinywrenlit.com/9/evening-ch...

Evening Chores on the Farm | Tiny Wren Lit

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you for reading ❤️

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M Frost @mfrostwords.bsky.social · 12d

Beautiful and heart-wrenching poem by @eleanorball.bsky.social

Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 12d

it's Fantasy Friday! ✨🦄⚔️

and our first poem of issue 98 is here!!

"All of our mothers are dead. All of our mothers
reach for me, bones dancing,
skulls bouncing down the hill."

All of Our Mothers Are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social

read it here:

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All of Our Mothers Are Dead - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Bones ring the garden like a wedding band.

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 12d

it's Fantasy Friday! ✨🦄⚔️

and our first poem of issue 98 is here!!

"All of our mothers are dead. All of our mothers
reach for me, bones dancing,
skulls bouncing down the hill."

All of Our Mothers Are Dead by @eleanorball.bsky.social

read it here:

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All of Our Mothers Are Dead - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Bones ring the garden like a wedding band.

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 18d

LOVE this one

Flash Point SF @flashpointsf.bsky.social · 18d

NEW FICTION:
"Bury the Lede" by @catouttawater.bsky.social
#SFF #flashfiction
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Bury the Lede

The Diamond Valley Sheriff’s office hereby announces the death of one William A. Gautier, male, age undetermined.

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 20

I forgot to share in the whirlwind of starting a new job, but I have a hybrid flash thing(?) (what even is genre anyway) up on the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog this week about migraines, tarot, and the way illness disiorients us from our bodies 🖤 fifthwheelpress.com/blogarchive/...

Feature: hybrid flash by Eleanor Ball — fifth wheel press

Eleanor Ball is a new librarian, a bad cook, an occasional writer, and a haver and causer of many headaches. Come say hi @eleanorball.bsky.social.

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Sep 5

Love this one 🤩🤩🤩

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · Sep 5

"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."

"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee

Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Sep 1

It was my pleasure! ❤️ Such a beautiful book, and I'm so grateful it came into my life.

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Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay · Sep 1

The Monarch Queer Literary Awards are now open for nominations until November 30, 2025!

Visit our website (monarch.gay) to learn more about us and how editors can nominate work. 🦋

We're open! Monarch Queer Literary Awards, September 1 to November 20, 2025, monarch.gay

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’m so thrilled to have a book review of Larks by Han VanderHart in this issue! 🕊️💕

Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy official release day for Issue 36 Fall 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine!
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-...

It's our 10-year anniversary issue. Thank you to everyone who has helped us grow and thrive over this past decade!
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · Sep 1

Our September newsletter is out now!

This month, OKD Fiction Reader @eleanorball.bsky.social offers some encouragement and tips on getting back into a writing routine when it feels like your 2025 goals are long past attainable:

Get back into a writing routine 🍂

Don't abandon your 2025 writing goals — change them! Plus, news and updates from around the OKD-verse.

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 31

Nominations open TOMORROW!

Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay · Aug 6

Lit mag editors, would you like to submit work for consideration for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards? Check out our submission guidelines so you know what's eligible (and what isn't).

Submissions open September 1:

Submission Guidelines - Monarch Queer Literary Awards

When to submit We will accept submissions from September 1, 2025 through November 30, 2025. All decisions will be sent within a month after the reading period closes. We aim to publish an anthology of...

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 31

Day 31: "Ode to the Maggot" by Yusef Komunyakaa, featured in @poetrydaily.bsky.social. What a surprising, incredible poem to end an incredible month of poetry!

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Ode to the Maggot

Brother of the blowfly & godhead, you work magic Over battlefields, In slabs of bad pork & flophouses. Yes, you Go to the root of all things.

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 30

Day 30: “South Pasadena” by Michael Juliani in @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social. Wow. The end of this poem hit me like a ton of bricks. frozensea.org/michael-juli...

Michael Juliani — Frozen Sea

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 29

Day 29: “inherit death like a birthright” by @whoastanderson.bsky.social in @bruisermag.com. This poem stuns in its stark simplicity. Equal parts brutal and tender. www.bruisermag.com/anderson_thr...

Three Poems by Stephanie Anderson - BRUISER

THE PRIZE, COUNTING ROADSIDE SCENES & INHERIT DEATH LIKE A BIRTHRIGHT

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 28

Day 28: “When is a dining table not a table?” by Betsy Mars in @oneart.bsky.social. This poem has such rich atmosphere and compelling detail. oneartpoetry.com/2025/08/27/w...

When is a dining table not a table? by Betsy Mars

When is a dining table not a table? Around the kitchen table all the chairs are tucked in, unused, except for the cat resting there. The surface is buried under this and that: unopened mail, remnan…

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 27

Day 27: “we were never born” by Angelica Esquival in @barrelhouse.bsky.social. I love the repetition and rhythm in this piece. www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/f...

Four Poems by Angelica Esquivel — Barrelhouse

we were never born we were never born, a fellow c-section baby tells me, we were cut out of our mothers. she laughs because it’s sci-fi body horror and we love sci-fi body horror becaus...

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · Aug 27

COMING SOON 🤩 My poem “All of Our Mothers Are Dead,” a Gothic story of necromancy, grief, and mothers & daughters, will be out soon with Fantasy Magazine! I could not be more excited!

Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

And now for our Issue 98 COVER 🎉 🎉 🎉

Wound, by Zi Xu

The cover for Fantasy Issue 98! A brown-haired, light-skinned figure kneels next to a giant white bird, tending to an arrow wound. The cover is awash in autumnal shades of orange, cream, and brown.

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