Kim Harbridge
@kharb.bsky.social
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Stories in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction vol. 2, Strange Horizons, Ellery Queen, and more.
Stories in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction vol. 2, Strange Horizons, Ellery Queen, and more.
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I checked out my Abandoned Video Store Wrapped where they showed me a montage of all the times I ended up in there, wandering the labyrinthine shelves, trying to find my way out. Here and there, I played moldy VHS tapes, watching people in Jeremy masks acting out mundane scenes of my life.
December 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I checked out my Abandoned Video Store Wrapped where they showed me a montage of all the times I ended up in there, wandering the labyrinthine shelves, trying to find my way out. Here and there, I played moldy VHS tapes, watching people in Jeremy masks acting out mundane scenes of my life.
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If you're looking to keep writing through this busy month, check out my December Writing Challenge. Never too late to start and all the words count. Just a nice, easy nudge to keep your creativity flowing through the holidays. nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
Working Through the Chaos
Welcome to the 2025 December Writing Challenge
nepheletempest.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you're looking to keep writing through this busy month, check out my December Writing Challenge. Never too late to start and all the words count. Just a nice, easy nudge to keep your creativity flowing through the holidays. nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...
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Our silent auction closes this Saturday! Get your bids in now on items like this package of The Hour Stories cards by Dale Adams Segal, with an additional online Hour Stories session with editors Mel Anastasiou and Jen Landels! app.galabid.com/kpr2025/item...
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Our silent auction closes this Saturday! Get your bids in now on items like this package of The Hour Stories cards by Dale Adams Segal, with an additional online Hour Stories session with editors Mel Anastasiou and Jen Landels! app.galabid.com/kpr2025/item...
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The plan for 2026 is to be open to submissions these three times:
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
Do you have a specific date for opening back up for submissions in 2026? If you care to share...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The plan for 2026 is to be open to submissions these three times:
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
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Five days left to take advantage of our donor bonus, a 90-minute Zoom with agent Sara Megibow on December 4 (thanks, Sara!). www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Five days left to take advantage of our donor bonus, a 90-minute Zoom with agent Sara Megibow on December 4 (thanks, Sara!). www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc
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just use the fucking library.
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
just use the fucking library.
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I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
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It is fascinating to me how many different kinds of scams aimed at authors exist these days, given that most of us are broke. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Lost in the plot: how would-be authors were fooled by AI staff and virtual offices in suspected global publishing scam
Book publishing websites in Australia, the UK and New Zealand appear to be using fake testimonials and AI staff pages to lure aspiring writers into handing over their money
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It is fascinating to me how many different kinds of scams aimed at authors exist these days, given that most of us are broke. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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We're thrilled to offer a 90-minute Zoom session with agent Sara Megibow as a donor bonus for our GoFundMe. Donate $250CAD or more Nov 15 - 30 inclusive to get an invite to the Dec 4 Zoom. We're incredibly grateful to Sara for her generosity! www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We're thrilled to offer a 90-minute Zoom session with agent Sara Megibow as a donor bonus for our GoFundMe. Donate $250CAD or more Nov 15 - 30 inclusive to get an invite to the Dec 4 Zoom. We're incredibly grateful to Sara for her generosity! www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc
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but what *really* makes me incandescent is that Must Read is preying on newer authors. people who aren't yet plugged in to networks, who don't have much experience with short fiction contracts, who might overlook a dogshit contract because of the magazine's prestige.
because prestige *is* a thing.
because prestige *is* a thing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
but what *really* makes me incandescent is that Must Read is preying on newer authors. people who aren't yet plugged in to networks, who don't have much experience with short fiction contracts, who might overlook a dogshit contract because of the magazine's prestige.
because prestige *is* a thing.
because prestige *is* a thing.
Recommended reading for short fic writers of any genre. The spec fic community has established very good, author focused publication standards over recent decades—other genres can learn from them, and from the tenacity of the experienced authors now holding the line against MRM’s awful boilerplate.
This is worth reading for many reasons, but especially the detailed discussion of indemnification clauses - something I know I knew ZILCH about when I was just starting out in the speculative short fiction scene.
I knew about OTHER issues, but not that one.
I knew about OTHER issues, but not that one.
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Recommended reading for short fic writers of any genre. The spec fic community has established very good, author focused publication standards over recent decades—other genres can learn from them, and from the tenacity of the experienced authors now holding the line against MRM’s awful boilerplate.
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We are so very grateful to our community. More than 100 people have given to our GoFundMe. Thank you for your support! We're closing in on a 15k miletone. Let's try to get there this week! www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc
Donate to Support the Surrey International Writers' Conference!, organized by Jenn Striemer
For thirty-two years, the Surrey International Writers’ Conference… Jenn Striemer needs your support for Support the Surrey International Writers' Conference!
www.gofundme.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We are so very grateful to our community. More than 100 people have given to our GoFundMe. Thank you for your support! We're closing in on a 15k miletone. Let's try to get there this week! www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc
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Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC!
The window will close after 500 submissions are received.
More information:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.
The window will close after 500 submissions are received.
More information:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC!
The window will close after 500 submissions are received.
More information:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.
The window will close after 500 submissions are received.
More information:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.
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🎸Open Call
Cursed Morsels wants your weirdest work for its Dec 1–7 window
💋 Cunty Horrors
🎤 Cursed Concerts
💘 Monstrous Dating Profiles
💼 Batshit LinkedIn Posts
💰 Nightmare Grifters
10¢/word+5 copies
@cursedmorsels.bsky.social
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-cursed-morsels-december-2025-window/
Cursed Morsels wants your weirdest work for its Dec 1–7 window
💋 Cunty Horrors
🎤 Cursed Concerts
💘 Monstrous Dating Profiles
💼 Batshit LinkedIn Posts
💰 Nightmare Grifters
10¢/word+5 copies
@cursedmorsels.bsky.social
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-cursed-morsels-december-2025-window/
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🎸Open Call
Cursed Morsels wants your weirdest work for its Dec 1–7 window
💋 Cunty Horrors
🎤 Cursed Concerts
💘 Monstrous Dating Profiles
💼 Batshit LinkedIn Posts
💰 Nightmare Grifters
10¢/word+5 copies
@cursedmorsels.bsky.social
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-cursed-morsels-december-2025-window/
Cursed Morsels wants your weirdest work for its Dec 1–7 window
💋 Cunty Horrors
🎤 Cursed Concerts
💘 Monstrous Dating Profiles
💼 Batshit LinkedIn Posts
💰 Nightmare Grifters
10¢/word+5 copies
@cursedmorsels.bsky.social
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-cursed-morsels-december-2025-window/
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The Surrey International Writers Conference has been my favorite conference for over a decade. This year, it's not happening, because the hotel is in a labor disputed.
SiWC had already purchased plane tickets, etc, for all the presenters. Can you help ensure its future?
gofund.me/19c353dac
SiWC had already purchased plane tickets, etc, for all the presenters. Can you help ensure its future?
gofund.me/19c353dac
Donate to Support the Surrey International Writers' Conference!, organized by Jenn Striemer
For thirty-two years, the Surrey International Writers’ Conference… Jenn Striemer needs your support for Support the Surrey International Writers' Conference!
gofund.me
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The Surrey International Writers Conference has been my favorite conference for over a decade. This year, it's not happening, because the hotel is in a labor disputed.
SiWC had already purchased plane tickets, etc, for all the presenters. Can you help ensure its future?
gofund.me/19c353dac
SiWC had already purchased plane tickets, etc, for all the presenters. Can you help ensure its future?
gofund.me/19c353dac
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I really enjoyed @kharb.bsky.social's short story A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2. It was witty, clever, and very enjoyable. Guess i should be tagging @ourmankoto.bsky.social in these for his selections.
October 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I really enjoyed @kharb.bsky.social's short story A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2. It was witty, clever, and very enjoyable. Guess i should be tagging @ourmankoto.bsky.social in these for his selections.
SiWC has been the beating heart of my local writing community for over thirty years—please consider donating to keep this not for profit conference going after a financially brutal year.
We were heartbroken to have to cancel this year’s SiWC. We want to continue to provide an inclusive, welcoming & career-expanding experience for years to come. We're running a GoFundMe to help secure the future of SiWC. Please help if you can by boosting or donating. Thank you! gofund.me/5b4760382
Donate to Support the Surrey International Writers' Conference!, organized by Jenn Striemer
For thirty-two years, the Surrey International Writers’ Conference… Jenn Striemer needs your support for Support the Surrey International Writers' Conference!
gofund.me
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
SiWC has been the beating heart of my local writing community for over thirty years—please consider donating to keep this not for profit conference going after a financially brutal year.
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RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
📣 Romance writers, editors, marketers! The Federation of BC Writers is still seeking presentation proposals for the November romance writing intensive. Get paid to teach a 1 hour class about your favourite sub genre, tropes, structural tips, etc! fbcwadmin.com/presentation...
Presentation Proposal Form – Federation of BC Writers Administrative Framework
fbcwadmin.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
📣 Romance writers, editors, marketers! The Federation of BC Writers is still seeking presentation proposals for the November romance writing intensive. Get paid to teach a 1 hour class about your favourite sub genre, tropes, structural tips, etc! fbcwadmin.com/presentation...
Seriously, DON’T SELF REJECT! I self-submitted my story “Summer Soup” a couple years ago, and it was included in volume 2! Shoot your shot, be your own biggest cheerleader, you’ve got nothing to lose, etc etc!!!
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
kotowych.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Seriously, DON’T SELF REJECT! I self-submitted my story “Summer Soup” a couple years ago, and it was included in volume 2! Shoot your shot, be your own biggest cheerleader, you’ve got nothing to lose, etc etc!!!
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October should be conference month. We're all missing our friends, so we thought it might be fun to swap some anonymous words of writerly encouragement to support each other & SiWC
Send a message: forms.gle/1GRHKDBJz4Ai...
Receive a message & support SiWC at the same time: square.link/u/P7tmMvzh
Send a message: forms.gle/1GRHKDBJz4Ai...
Receive a message & support SiWC at the same time: square.link/u/P7tmMvzh
SiWC Brave Words
October is “conference month” and we’re all feeling a little blue. Cheer up a fellow writer by writing an anonymous note of encouragement in the box below.
forms.gle
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
October should be conference month. We're all missing our friends, so we thought it might be fun to swap some anonymous words of writerly encouragement to support each other & SiWC
Send a message: forms.gle/1GRHKDBJz4Ai...
Receive a message & support SiWC at the same time: square.link/u/P7tmMvzh
Send a message: forms.gle/1GRHKDBJz4Ai...
Receive a message & support SiWC at the same time: square.link/u/P7tmMvzh
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Welcome to our Fall submissions window! Open until 10/31
flashpointsf.com/submissions/
flashpointsf.com/submissions/
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…
flashpointsf.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Welcome to our Fall submissions window! Open until 10/31
flashpointsf.com/submissions/
flashpointsf.com/submissions/
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hey, it's Fantasy Friday 🦄 💖 and general subs are currently OPEN!!
send us your stories and poems that play with the limitations of borders and be a part of issue 100! ✨
more details on theme and how to submit here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
send us your stories and poems that play with the limitations of borders and be a part of issue 100! ✨
more details on theme and how to submit here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
updated September 10, 2025
psychopomp.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
hey, it's Fantasy Friday 🦄 💖 and general subs are currently OPEN!!
send us your stories and poems that play with the limitations of borders and be a part of issue 100! ✨
more details on theme and how to submit here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
send us your stories and poems that play with the limitations of borders and be a part of issue 100! ✨
more details on theme and how to submit here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
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Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
September 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
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Details in … well: in the reply to what I’m reposting/quoting:
The Stephen Graham Jones Horror Novella Competition opens August 31st. @sgj.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Details in … well: in the reply to what I’m reposting/quoting: