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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...

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · 7d

Fantastic! Congratulations!

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Basile Lebret writes The Void After You @evoripclaw.bsky.social · 11d

My first work ever published was titled the Loneliness of Malabron. It was published by @sliceduppress.bsky.social in 2022.

It has now been translated to French, my own language, in Malpertuis XVI. 🥰

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Basile Lebret writes The Void After You @evoripclaw.bsky.social · 13d

HV and me crossed path on my first publication EVER! Monstroddities by @sliceduppress.bsky.social edited by @bensnotwriting.bsky.social

Within which you can find The Loneliness of Malabron and HV's poem Mother:Microbe

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · 14d

Only a couple more weeks until we find out for sure whether we can crack on with SATURDAY MOURNING TV this year or not. Watch this space!

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The Weird Writer @thewriterofweird.bsky.social · 15d

This story was originally written for @sliceduppress.bsky.social 's "Saturday Mourning" anthology. It didn't get in, but I put it up anyway because I think horror stories need more deformed PROtagonists.

The Weird Writer @thewriterofweird.bsky.social · 16d

myweirdwriting.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/t... A pair of conjoined twins create an effigy of their cartoon hero, though it may be more real then they think (includes foul language, violence and references to ableism) #story #stories #shortstory #shortstories

The Creation of Robotic Raymond

The following story contains foul language, violence and references to ableism. Robotic Raymond had been brought into three-dimensions. Once merely a series of drawings on paper, Olga and Geri had …

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · 26d

And Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes from SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! is on the shortlist along with many more brilliant poems - the Rhysling anthology is stacked with great stuff!

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 28d

SFPA Members, don't forget that VOTING closes for both the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award on Sept. 15!

Just five more days to those votes in!!

Thanks so much in advance for celebrating speculative poetry with us. We can't do this without you 💜

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Sep 8

In Mexico:

dealva.com.mx/copyright-re...

Europe works kind of like the UK as well, see:

europa.eu/youreurope/b...

This isn't an exhaustive list and you might want to use different links, but we hope this is useful for anyone concerned about protecting their works from genAI and theft in general.

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you're in the USA or elsewhere, you may want to register your copyrighted work to gain extra protections (like joining class lawsuits). You can find info on how to register your work in the USA here:

legalclarity.org/how-to-offic...

In Canada:

ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadia...

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Sep 8

In the wake of the Anthropic suit, here's a bit about copyright in our publications.

Copyrights for all stories & poems we publish remain with the writer, this is a standard clause in all our contracts.

We're based in the UK so works don't have to be registered here to be copyrighted.

BUT!

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · Sep 5

a reminder that you can still sign up for the settlement if they stole your work www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Sep 1

OK, it's going to be more like middle of October now until we can say for sure what'll happen with Saturday Mourning TV. There was some semi-good news today, but now it's back to waiting.

homer simpson from the simpsons is adjusting his tie in a doorway .

Alt: nervous homer twiddling his fingers nervously GIF

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · Sep 1

Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there.

Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Aug 29

We're not 100% out of the woods yet but there is light at the end of the tunnel!

also don't mix your metaphors kids

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hoping to have some news re. the future of our SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION anthology over the next 3-4 weeks.

a woman in a purple sweater is saying fingers crossed

Alt: GIF from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with Kimmy saying "fingers crossed!" with her fingers, y'know - crossed

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Aug 20

Received the 2025 Rhysling Anthology in the post today.

Reading through it this evening and there's some stellar poetry in there - including of course Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes, which we were proud to publish in SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! alongside many more brilliant queer horror poems & stories. 💀🌈

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Jul 26

On a different note we figured out the whole ID thing, so the UK ain't keeping us from talking about our books on here for now!

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks for all your kind words everyone, and your understanding. This will mean I can't run the yearly LGBT+ writers grant either unless things turn around, but watch this space, I hope to not let all *waves hand* this keep me down for too long.

- Ben

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Jul 23

Due to an unforeseen change in my personal circumstances I'm not going to be able to publish SATURDAY MOURNING TV this year.

Once things are back to normal I'll make a further announcement.

The affected authors have been emailed and I'm really, really sorry to have let anyone down.

- Ben

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Jul 20

Moving submissions back and forth between the MAYBE and ACCEPTED piles for Saturday Mourning Television like

a man with a beard is wearing headphones while reading a book .

Alt: a guy clumsily (?) shuffling an oversized deck of cards

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just over 70 more submissions to go through for SATURDAY MOURNING TV, this is a very long shortlist! Thanks everyone for your patience so far, we will get back to you by the end of the month. 💀📺

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Jul 10

Please keep your eyes on our website for updates, as on 25th July the UK is mandating that users of social media provide a face scan, ID verification or a payment card and we might not be able to do that.

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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Jul 9

People are free to publish on the 'zon if they want, just as we are free not to publish on there any more.

If you ever need help or advice on publishing through other vendors, please reach out.

Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · Jul 8

Many people have said this far more eloquently than me today but fuck the 'zon, if you need to shop online, do it elsewhere on "prime day" and ANY day.

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