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Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social · 2d

This week I'm on

Tales to Terrify: talestoterrify.com/episodes/714...
Plott Hound: plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf...
and Kaleidotrope: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Pick your poison 🖤

“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos

kaleidotrope.net

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you 😊❤️🫂

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Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 4d

It's here! It's here! The TOC for Issue 5 of Die Laughing is HERE!

We could not be more excited to bring you these 6 hilarifying tales, available as a PDF download 10/31/25, with stories posting for free every week after! Join us for stories so funny they'll kill you! #horrorsky
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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 2d

Why "play" is so important for #writing -- and updates!

Newsletter time!

cjsubko.beehiiv.com/p/the-import...

The importance of "play"

Yep, I'm baaack

cjsubko.beehiiv.com

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 2d

("shitty" = abusive, just to be clear)

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 2d

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places”

Fiction
“Singularities” by Cressida Roe
“The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice
“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos
“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman
“The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris
“Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti
“My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity
“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen
“The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen
“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed

Poetry
“Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens
“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon
“Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
“Atomic” by Jennifer Crow
“Bedazzled” by Robert Borski
“Bestla” by James Joseph Brown

Artwork by Carly A-F

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 2d

We're just $36 away from our goal for the year!! Thank you so much!!!

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 2d

beestung is hoping to raise just $136 more to keep us going for another year 🖤💛

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy non-binary day and week!

We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers.

If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year.

Shares are very much appreciated, too!

www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 2d

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 2d

I don't share my own stuff on this account very often because that's not what it's for, but I was sadly reminded of my shitty ex today so here is my poem about him, in honour of everyone who got away from their own version

*laser eye blast* 👁👁💥💥

moondaymag.com/dr-x-by-sara...

Moonday Mag - Dr X

Sarah Jackson

moondaymag.com

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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 7d

The B'K Volume 16, Issue 4 is here! Check out "Lilac Bruise" by Aicha Benali! This gorgeous digitized sketch is the cover art for The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4. Be sure to read the full issue here: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch

Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal.

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Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 5d

This year's RSM is October 4 & 5, and is about writing with resistance, Imagining a better future. Don't forget to register on rainbowspacemagic.org.
#LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 5d

We're up to 70 submissions so far!! Keep em comin 💖

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 8d

Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉

(general submission window 15-31 October)

Seeking speculative stories about our inner lives:

💙 500 - 2,500 words
💚 £0.02 per word, min £20
💛 Sim subs welcome!
🧡 Reprints welcome!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

#SubmissionCall

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 5d

As ever: THANK YOU from my deep heart's core to everyone who has supported us in ANY way over the last two years. You are superstars 🌟 When I started Inner Worlds I gambled that we would find people who liked what we are trying to do and WE DID! Now I just want to find the rest 😄

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 5d

Could you spare a few bob to help a weird little litmag keep going?

Here's 3 ways you can support us:

1) Become a subscriber! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

2) Make a one-off donation! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

3) Buy past issues as EPUB & PDF! innerworlds.gumroad.com

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder: anyone can found and edit a SFF magazine.

There’s no regulatory body or hoops. You create the position for yourself.

Many of these people are amazing—

But mag Editors are just guys who decided to spend a lot of time on something they love.

Just people.

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 5d

We're up to 70 submissions so far!! Keep em comin 💖

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 8d

Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉

(general submission window 15-31 October)

Seeking speculative stories about our inner lives:

💙 500 - 2,500 words
💚 £0.02 per word, min £20
💛 Sim subs welcome!
🧡 Reprints welcome!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

#SubmissionCall

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 5d

As ever: THANK YOU from my deep heart's core to everyone who has supported us in ANY way over the last two years. You are superstars 🌟 When I started Inner Worlds I gambled that we would find people who liked what we are trying to do and WE DID! Now I just want to find the rest 😄

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 5d

We're ok, we're not in trouble. But when people stop subscribing (understandable! I've had to cancel quite a few subscriptions myself 😞) we need to bring a few more people in to keep ticking along.

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 5d

Every penny goes into the magazine, either as author or artist payments, or to cover web hosting and software. We don't quite make enough from current subscriptions to cover everything, so I top things up from my own pocket as needed, but that has got a lot harder since we launched

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EmmyKtz 🐙 The Pink Hydra @thepinkhydra.com · 5d

The Pink Hydra #5 is out today, with fiction & poetry by @hexthervvv.bsky.social, @deeholloway.bsky.social, @jasterwrites.bsky.social, @maryjorabe.bsky.social, @slashnburnett.bsky.social, @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social, @pixieb.bsky.social & @reasie.bsky.social

www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/0202202510

Cover of The Pink Hydra vol. 2.2, a new magazine of unreality. Cover art is "Corn Fire" by Barbara Candiotti. A black-and-white digital artwork featuring a ghostly figure with slanted glowing eyes waving at the viewer, while standing amongst tall corn stalks. Ghostly flames burn in the foreground.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 5d

The kickstarter is up for an anthology I'm in. My story "The Menopause Chrysalis" is featured within. It's a weird tale about a Two Spirit person dealing with menopause, the medical system, and the dream world.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ink...

Yay! an LGBTQ+ anthology

Yay! all queer Free and Queer is an LGBTQ+ anthology, second in the series!

www.kickstarter.com

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · 5d

Could you spare a few bob to help a weird little litmag keep going?

Here's 3 ways you can support us:

1) Become a subscriber! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

2) Make a one-off donation! inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

3) Buy past issues as EPUB & PDF! innerworlds.gumroad.com

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E.M. Faulds / Beth @bethkesh.bsky.social · 7d

Me wanging on about ADHD again, but yeah, if you are yourself ND or you know someone who is, here's a metaphorical house for you to explore. Let me know if you recognise anything in here!
emfaulds.com/a-writers-jo...

Writing with intrusive / distractive thoughts, a journal

A blog article about British science fiction and fantasy author E.M. Faulds' take on dealing with neurodivergence / ADHD when writing.

emfaulds.com

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 7d

not only is it time for FLESH, but fun fact - i'll be making a custom illustration / collage for every piece in this zine! 🥩🖊

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 7d

The time for FLESH has arrived. Send us your fleshiest pieces under 500 words between now and October 7th.
cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Submission Calls

Open for submissions October 1st – 7th FLESH ZineFor this submission call, we’re looking for pieces (500 words or fewer) connected to the broad theme of FLESH. This zine will be include…

cursedmorsels.com

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