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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Donate if you can, share either way. Keep Apex putting out great stories!

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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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 2d

This Wednesday, join us with guests @leannareneehieber.bsky.social & @shvetathakrar.com, for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, October 8, 7pm at the KGB Bar. @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social will be impersonating @datlow.bsky.social! Come one, come all!

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 1d

Tomorrow!

Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 2d

This Wednesday, join us with guests @leannareneehieber.bsky.social & @shvetathakrar.com, for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, October 8, 7pm at the KGB Bar. @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social will be impersonating @datlow.bsky.social! Come one, come all!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 1d

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions.

My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

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Rob Cameron @brklyndragon.bsky.social · 3d

@bsfwriters.bsky.social hosts its final WDS of the series: DEATH REIMAGINED w/ @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social @smartinez-conde.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social and @csecooney.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/1712374200...
#Halloween #stories #brooklyn

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 6d

WE DID IT!! WE HIT OUR $11K STRETCH GOAL—we are officially funded for TWO YEARS! You all did that in FOUR DAYS. We're emotional at the resounding support for queer stories, poems, and art. Thank you 💜

AND we revealed a further stretch goal as well! 👀

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

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." The first three goals, of $6900, $8300, $9700 and $11000 are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $12000 (Reprints!) and $13000 (More Art!) and $14000 (Nonfiction!) show a closed lock next to them.

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Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com · 7d

LAUNCH EVENT! Join me at the Strand as we usher into the world my gothic horror child, with one of my horror idols @claymcleod.bsky.social (Jsyk, his delicious new book Acquired Taste pairs well with mine, so go pick it up).

More book tour stops coming soon but if you’re in NY, grab your tix now ⬇️

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 8d

UM WHAT our campaign is officially a Kickstarter "Project We Love"! Now more than ever supporting queer speculative art, poetry, and stories is so important—it means a lot that our want to create space for queer artists, poets, and writers resonates so strongly!

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

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 9d

Guard your valuables and keep your eyes peeled! There are THIEVES about!

The Canarviers have arrived and I’ll be at Little District books with Venessa Vida Kelley tonight to celebrate! See you there, DC!

A stack of A PHILOSOPHY of Thieves and gold mask

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17d

So:

Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime

And also:

It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 20d

I had a blast at last night's launch party for A Ruin, Great and Free.

Thank you @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social for being an amazing, hilarious conversation partner (I don't know how you do all that you do!).

Thank you so much @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social for hosting us!

Second Flight Books @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social · 20d

I've never laughed so hard during a book event at the shop. @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social and @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social were hilarious in conversation tonight and we've got some signed copies from them both you can snag!

Cadwell Turnbull (laughing) and Maurice Broaddus in conversation at Second Flight Books

Cadwell Turnbull and Maurice Broaddus sign books at Second Flight Books

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Second Flight Books @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social · 20d

I've never laughed so hard during a book event at the shop. @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social and @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social were hilarious in conversation tonight and we've got some signed copies from them both you can snag!

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to have a story coming later this week in Manawaker's Flash Fiction Podcast!

@cbdroege.bsky.social

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A.M. Lomuscio @lomush.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you!! :)

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 27d

I have to be a little self-indulgent here. "Apeiron" is one of my favorite stories. It is the clearest expression of an idea I've been obsessing about for decades. I'm so honored @lightspeedmagazine.com accepted it for their September issue.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/apei...

Apeiron - Lightspeed Magazine

Outside the cabin, there was snow. There had always been snow, far as the eye could see, and further still. It might be true that the snow extended forever in every direction, sitting heavy on mountai...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social · 27d

$17,523 raised so far: tinyurl.com/mvdtydvb

Donate to Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar, organized by Matthew Kressel

Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly speculative-fiction reading seri… Matthew Kressel needs your support for Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 29d

Look ting! 👀

I'll be doing a Masterclass in speculative fiction and poetry in October as part of @bocaslitfest.bsky.social's Bocas Academy!

Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 29d

📣#BocasAcademy’s Sept-Nov offerings:
✍ Workshop: Writing From the Archive
🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Writin...
✍ Masterclass: Reimagining the Future through Speculative Writing
🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Reimag...
🎙Performance Workshop: Page to Stage
🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Perfor...
#bocas2025

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · Sep 3

And just when you thought our great news was over 👀👀👀...

We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽

Full details in the link below! ⬇️

www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...

Submissions

2025 has been a standout year in terms of the amazing projects we've been able to publish at Apex Book Company. We've had the pleasure of giving homes to titles such as ChloroPhilia, The Map of Lost P...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've been told the Authors Guild and plaintiffs in the Anthropic AI class action had no choice but to use a narrow definition of affected works. That if the group of writers hurt by Anthropic were too wide & diverse, the class action would've failed.

Bullshit! 1/
www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

Genre Grapevine on the Anthropic AI Settlement | Jason Sanford

Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · Sep 7

What a great day!

Jonathan Janz @jonathanjanz.bsky.social · Sep 7

Beyond the Book 3 was a blast, but my favorite part was spending the day with my pal, the amazing @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social. I also had no idea that he wrote a Captain America story, so I had to grab it.

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Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com · Sep 5

OUT 11/25/25

🔗⬇️

Reddish brown background showing detail of an ornate wood carving. Foreground is text that reads:

"Lush, richly imagined, and utterly entrancing as it builds a deeply unsettling dread, The Villa, Once Beloved is set within a historical context that gives the horror the heft it deserves.
Step through the doors of this Filipino villa and you won't even dream of escaping."
- Emily Carpenter
Author of Gothictown and Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

Below the text is an image of the hardcover for
THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED by Victor Manibo

On the lower left and lower right hand corners are the logos of Erewhon Books and Kensington books respectively

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · Sep 3

In case you missed this morning's announcement. I'm very excited to fund 2026 and reopen submissions.

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Apex Magazine team is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter for 2026 begins OCTOBER 1ST!! 🎃🍁

We're keeping all the rewards you love, adding exciting new rewards for readers and writers alike, AND reopening submissions! Mark your calendars, and we'll see you at the graveyard smash! 👻🌙🐈‍⬛📅

"Apex Magazine Submissions OPENING! October 1st!"

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our Kickstarter campaign is now coming September 29th! Turns out Halloween is busy (who knew)—and with our co-founders' schedules, it makes more sense to end the campaign on October 29th instead of the 31st! That’s VERY SOON! We are VERY EXCITED!

In the meantime: follow our pre-launch campaign? 👀

Coming soon: OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’ve been asked many times if I would ever write a follow up to my novella, “Buffalo Soldier.” Well, I finally did. It’s called “Soul Rebel” and it is coming out in the next issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION (edited by the legendary Sheree Renee Thomas)!

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · Sep 1

My story, “Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine,” is in this issue! Gracie has to save the camp bully from being eaten alive by forest gods, which is NOT as fun as making friendship bracelets would have been

Now I am become Jeff, the destroyer of Whorls @trollbreath.com · Sep 1

The Fall Issue is now Live!

magazine.trollbreath.com

Issue 5, Fall 2025 - Trollbreath Magazine

Issue 5, Fall 2025 Fiction La Forêt de Fontainebleu, Les Chasseurs, Le Renard by Aimee Ogden The Water Dragons of Harney County by B. Morris Allen The Machines are Hungry by Maressa Voss Gracie ...

magazine.trollbreath.com

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