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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 2h

Some lunch time reading from @seizethepress.bsky.social that gives me Sideways Stories from Wayside school vibes but way darker: www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/a...

“Avila Beach” by Z.D. Dochterman - Seize The Press

It was a Saturday, about two weeks before I was set to graduate from high school. I went to Avila Beach to work on my last English paper, the only thing between me and graduation. As the dour tide pre...

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 2h

I dont want them to call me on the phone, either!

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 3h

why...why...why do you need my phone number or address on a submission? if you want to ask me for a general location for demographic data, fine, but in the year of 2025 there is no reason for random slush readers at multiple markets to just have my phone number and address.

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 2d

I'll be there on Friday evening and Saturday and maybe around Sunday morning if anyone is still around. Doing a reading Friday night at 5:30! Looking forward to seeing everyone!

VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 3d

THIS IS OUR FINAL SCHEDULE. PLEASE NOTE THE AFTERPARTY IS VIP ONLY

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Lynn Huggins-Cooper @hugginscooper.bsky.social · 3d

Well, it's Creative Writing I teach, rather than English - but yep, guilty as charged...

Strewing wonderful examples and seeing students gobble them up is one of the best parts of a truly *great* job :)

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 6d

congrats!!! 🌟

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 7d

I sent a story in and made some recommendations as a reader! Good luck, all!

Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 7d

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press

REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 7d

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press

REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...

tenebrouspress.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…

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AbiGHOUL Kemske 👻🎃🧟‍♀️ @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 7d

Yes please. I just subbed to a market today that I later learned uses AI art. It's really disappointing. I want my writing as far from AI as I can control and I'm tired of the investigation game.

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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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 7d

The Apex Magazine 2026 Kickstarter is LIVE!

Our initial goal is $20K to fund four issues for next year, with the opportunity to unlock issues five and six through stretch goals. I really, really want to go back to six issues a year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 7d

The anthology is alive, but it needs more voices to grow stronger. 🌑
Can we reach 50% funded this week? Join us, and help unlock the darkness:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 7d

Wanted to help this escape Reddit containment: Farscape is popular in prisons (and in my house.)

Farscape is very popular in US prisons
It is one of the few shows that are on the free movie apps we would have on our tablets that had any decent story and production. It was very popular in the prison I was in because of that.
Several times I was surprised by people who were big, gang affiliated, with a violent history and covered in tattoos and they were the biggest fans, on their 8th or 12th run of the show.
Edit: Surprised by the reaction! So here's some more info:
When I entered prison in early 2024, every single inmate was issued their own tablet. The tablet can make calls, texts to friends and family outside, play games and movies, etc. Everything on it you pay for monthly, except the games pass which lasts for a year. The tablets can differ though, in our city jail we had better tablets, those had better movies and you could buy real games like Pokémon and Final Fantasy Tactics. The tablets you get in prison have games more akin to standard mobile games. Candy Crush was one of the free games every tablet had so that was a big topic of discussion as well.
For 7.99 a month you get access to Crackle and all the stuff that comes with it, one of the things bring Farscape. Options being what they are on Crackle, Farscape definitely stands out if youre planning on spending a lot of your time on your tablet.
There are little groups that discuss it in the library and around Halloween there were some goofy fucks making costumes from the show for a laugh.

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 8d

love a good fungus story. this one is written so precisely and imaginatively.

Rain Corbyn (They/Them) @raincorbyn.bsky.social · 8d

In a change of pace, I’ve written a hopeful climate fiction piece about survival, psychedelic mushrooms, ecoterrorism, and popcorn. It’s free to read in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social ‘s latest issue!

#soilpunk #tractorbeam #clifi #sporror

tractorbeamearth.substack.com/p/joy-is-the...

Joy is the Present Tense of Survival

What are the odds of popcorn germinating?

tractorbeamearth.substack.com

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 8d

if you were to pitch a short story collection of spec fic of 75k to 120k, what would be the ratio of previously published vs new material you'd pitch or expect to see as a small publisher?

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 8d

The following weird fictioneers will appear in Weird Horror 12 early next year. @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @grayhaem.bsky.social @noirbettie.bsky.social @rajivmote.bsky.social @russellnichols.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @breathinghead.bsky.social

Blue, cyan-tinged photo of hazy, fog-topped trees with white text: Chloe N. Clark
Roy Graham
Rick Kennett
Annika Barranti Klein
Aliya Whiteley
Rajiv Moté
Russell Nichols
Rory Say
R.L. Summerling
D. Matthew Urban

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 8d

congrats, Rebecca! looks like a really strong issue

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 9d

Hey indie publishers: Brief Ecology is looking for new and upcoming eco-fiction to review! We like eco-horror, eco-gothic, eco-anti-gothic, eco-weird, eco-literary, and whatever else we're not picky. Get in touch if you've got titles that you think fit!

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Viktor Athelstan--posting in DVpit today @viktorathelstan.bsky.social · 9d

THE COMPLETELY UNEROTIC ADVENTURES OF BROTHER CELLANUS
A bisexual monk who loves his vow of chastity
A long lost sister
A transfemme viking sex worker
A lustful priest
Various supernatural creatures
An avenging angel with a penchant for spiritual castration
Lots of chaos
#preDV #A #HF #F #LGBT #TV

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 11d

Hey I think this story I wrote is good and you should read if you like mushroom people and historical horror
www.baublesfrombones.com/westward-i-r...

"Westward I Reach" by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle

Blight sends a young Irish girl to a colonial English school where an ancient tree teaches her that fungal networks run deeper than human-drawn borders. By Jennifer Jeanne McArdle. Featured in Baubl...

www.baublesfrombones.com

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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 14d

At the United Nations today, we championed a new finance mechanism to save tropical forests around the world.

The design of the #TFFF is environmentally robust and financially sound, and its proposed governance is solid, said WCS President and CEO Adam Falk.

More: bit.ly/47YqDz1

At the United Nations, WCS Champions a New Finance Mechanism to Save Tropical Forests Around the World

WCS President and CEO Adam Falk speaks at the United Nations at the “Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) Solutions Dialogue." on September 23, 2025. Credit ©WCS New York, Sept 23, 2025— The follo...

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 14d

whoa october is around the corner!

reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.

more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 14d

Trve Cvlt turns 1 today! If you asked me what my 30s would look like, I wouldn't have guessed it'd be this. Thank you @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Drums by yours truly. Guitars/vocals/production by @rynstonecowboy.bsky.social
I have the coolest friends and
I'm grateful for all of you 💀💜🤘

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 14d

ahh you must have had so much fun! congrats on Trve Cvlt's one year anniversary!

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