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Jennifer Hudak

@jenniferhudak.bsky.social

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Nebula-nominated writer of SFF, drinker of tea. Aging mermaid far from her natural habitat. SFWA/Codex/VP2022. She/her

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · Jun 5

Wanna read some stories?

Here's a 🧵 of my 2025 publications so far...

1) "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social : resistance in the face of systemic oppression, from the pov of the old Erie Canal bed in Rochester NY

www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...

Written on the Subway Walls

For February, The Sunday Morning Transport brings you stories by Jennifer Hudak, John Chu, Carrie Vaughn, and Marie Brennan.

www.sundaymorningtransport.com

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 14h

"This is America" by Childish Gambino
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOj...

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 7d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 1d

Sour Cherry by @nassos.bsky.social

Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 1d

What is best in life, reader edition.

Post from Angelica Chong saying "There is something incredibly satisfying about reading the first page of a book, and immediately something in your brain sits up and goes 'oh, I'm going to like this'-- and then every subsequent page proves you right."

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 2d

HIGHER MAGIC is out ✨tomorrow✨

In this snippet, Bartleby reflects about magic and how it shaped her relationship with her parents.

www.harpercollins.com/products/hig...

A quote graphic with a decorative moon and skull featuring text that reads: HIGHER MAGIC
I'd been born on a new moon, an emergency C-section that shattered my parents' world. My life was always going to be different than theirs, though the one time they'd acknowledged that and taken me to the local diviner, they'd been so shaken by the results it was worse than if they'd never acknowledged my difference at all.
OUT IN DAY.

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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 3d

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

Sam grinning and holding up a huge board version of the Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 3d

Idk whose job this is but: do tag me into any discussions surrounding writing Expedition IP pls thx

www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/margeaux-p...

Margeaux Poppins, Monster Hunter

November has arrived and, with it, today’s magnificent story by LD Lewis, followed by more chills, thrills, and wonder from Michelle Muenzler, Christina Rosso, and Mary Robinette Kowal, each Sunday, r...

www.sundaymorningtransport.com

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 5d

Peacemaker is so unrealistic.

I mean he’s a dude in his late 40s, and you want me to believe that he can still make new friendships?

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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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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 6d

It's a new story day! "In the Void Behind My Deaths" is free to read at @factorfourmagazine.com

See what happens between death and rebirth...and what it means for the whole universe

share.google/SYcRA61Zkrz7...

In the Void Behind My Deaths by Effie Seiberg

In my first death I died alone, pierced through the belly with a velociraptor talon. I bled out before I felt much of anything, floating into a black void. It was quiet and and peaceful and still, …

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Edward Ashton @edashtonwriting.bsky.social · 6d

WNY friends: I'll be signing books this Saturday (10/4) from 10:30 - 2:00 at Lock City Books in Lockport. If you're in the area, please stop by and say hello!

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 6d

My story “Pools of Light at the Center of the World,” a 2800-word sentence about a shipwrecked Andalusian merchant losing his mind in a field, is now free to read in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social! Check it out. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/pool...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Pools of Light at the Center of the World by Will McMahon

...and he now wandered alone through the green and bright land of his desire, its air thick with the heady buzz of life, of unseen life, and he paused again and crouched, the joints of his body creaki...

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 7d

Double pub day for me!

Check out “Instructions for Self-Reflection”, now available in Radon’s Issue 11

Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 7d

Issue 11 is live!

www.RadonJournal.com

This October issue features scifi body horror, AIs fighting to prevent execution, government-forced rebirth, underground rebellion, reclaiming your sexuality and name, critiques of Saudi Arabia, and much more.

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, look, it's time for me to plug my newsletter again. Click below to subscribe! This month's exclusive content will be weird celebrity encounters from when I worked as a housekeeper at an upscale boutique hotel in the Berkshires in the early 90's. www.kmveohongs.com/newsletter

Newsletter — K.M. Veohongs

www.kmveohongs.com

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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 8d

My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and--
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/09/shor...

Short fiction recs! July and August 2025

It’s the last day of September, and this round-up is way overdue. Some things I read and loved in July and August. Strange Tales o...

itsajumble.blogspot.com

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 9d

This. Do something cool for someone and then move on.

Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, I will also add:

Promote other people's work without expectation of anything in return. Community building is found in sharing things you find interesting, and building connections through mutual enjoyment of things. Transactional marketing gives the ick right quick, and people will remember.

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 9d

I'm just so happy that the anthology got such a great review!

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M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 9d

WE FUNDED YEAR ONE! Now let’s smash some stretch goals and fund year two so we can stick around!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 9d

It's that day again. Make the most of it. ✨😈✨

Mondays are better with arts & crafts! [Image of the 3 witches in The Witches of Eastwick holding a voodoo doll, about to stick pins in it]

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José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social · 9d

Gonna rescue this from being lost in the replies of a bot's post.

José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social · 10d

We don't know what the jobs or technology of the future will look like, which is why education should not be job-prep, it should be learning how to be critical thinkers.

Teaching students to use AI is the opposite of teaching them to think critically.

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 10d

Tomorrow is Kickstarter launch daaaay! Tomorrow!! TOMORROW!!! We appreciate everyone who has signed up for the pre-launch campaign—there are 248 of you! Could we get to 250 in the next 24 hours? 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

The dawn of the final day - 24 hours remain - Legend of Zelda meme text over the OTHERSIDE banner art, with purple shattered sword and hand in the background on a floating pink and purple backdrop.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10d

Important content.

Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 12d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 10d

Going right back where we started from. Overjoyed to kick off tour at @colorado.edu @cubouldercha.bsky.social w/ cohortmate Candace R. Nunag. Will be readings from Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine & A Solar Flare, plus current students sharing work, plus author convo. Open to the public. Drop by?

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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · 11d

Security personnel,

There is to be no more use of the nickname Broccoli.

Worf

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Abigail Kemske 👻🎃🦇 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 13d

My sci-fi flash “The earth will not consume our bones” published in @naturefutures.bsky.social made it on Myna’s round up! Check it out!! 💙

Link to story ⬇️

Thanks so much Myna. 🙏

Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 13d

September MicroVerse roundup is out!

Flash Roundup * September 2025

A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

mynachang.com

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 13d

We are ALL hot messes is what I’m saying!