Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos
@sophiamweaves.bsky.social
🇬🇷She/her. SFFH writer of whimsical, uncanny terrors. Fiction and Non-Fiction by the Deadlands, Penumbric, Inner Worlds, Brilliant Flash Fiction et all. Slush reader for Apex.
Read my work below:
https://shorturl.at/tPRU1
Read my work below:
https://shorturl.at/tPRU1
This COVER is so pretty I could just look at it for years! Give me all the lady knights, please 🥹🥹
✨Cover reveal!✨
I'm thrilled to present you the cover of my upcoming novel, LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE
It will be released in April 2026 by Dark Matter Ink
Cover art by Mona Finden.
I'm thrilled to present you the cover of my upcoming novel, LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE
It will be released in April 2026 by Dark Matter Ink
Cover art by Mona Finden.
September 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This COVER is so pretty I could just look at it for years! Give me all the lady knights, please 🥹🥹
Excited to announce that I'm part of @jelenawrites.bsky.social 's street team for her upcoming novel LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE which releases on April 7th, 2026 by Dark Matter Ink! Can't wait to read this one! 🗡️🪄🤍
#lovelethaldeathdivine #thediviners #2026releases #darkfantasy #slavicfolklore
#lovelethaldeathdivine #thediviners #2026releases #darkfantasy #slavicfolklore
September 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Excited to announce that I'm part of @jelenawrites.bsky.social 's street team for her upcoming novel LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE which releases on April 7th, 2026 by Dark Matter Ink! Can't wait to read this one! 🗡️🪄🤍
#lovelethaldeathdivine #thediviners #2026releases #darkfantasy #slavicfolklore
#lovelethaldeathdivine #thediviners #2026releases #darkfantasy #slavicfolklore
Two more femicides in Greece this week. How many more?!
We suffer and we bleed in this country because we happened to be born outside the dominant class. Please remember that Greece is not a monolith and that writing about my culture isn't only about Zeus or Pandora or Odysseus.
We suffer and we bleed in this country because we happened to be born outside the dominant class. Please remember that Greece is not a monolith and that writing about my culture isn't only about Zeus or Pandora or Odysseus.
August 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Two more femicides in Greece this week. How many more?!
We suffer and we bleed in this country because we happened to be born outside the dominant class. Please remember that Greece is not a monolith and that writing about my culture isn't only about Zeus or Pandora or Odysseus.
We suffer and we bleed in this country because we happened to be born outside the dominant class. Please remember that Greece is not a monolith and that writing about my culture isn't only about Zeus or Pandora or Odysseus.
Looking for web design services aka having my own blog re-designed! Since I come from a low-income background, any discounts are appreciated ♥️ in exchange, I could also offer some free editing (if you're a writer too!)
August 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Looking for web design services aka having my own blog re-designed! Since I come from a low-income background, any discounts are appreciated ♥️ in exchange, I could also offer some free editing (if you're a writer too!)
Worst OCD episode I've had post-COVID yesterday. My parents met my future in-laws and insulted me the first 5 minutes. Relationship fights before that point. Job crisis three days ago. I completely retreated into my mind, had an anxiety attack almost twice and cried the whole day. 💔
August 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Worst OCD episode I've had post-COVID yesterday. My parents met my future in-laws and insulted me the first 5 minutes. Relationship fights before that point. Job crisis three days ago. I completely retreated into my mind, had an anxiety attack almost twice and cried the whole day. 💔
Congrats to nominees and winners 🤍🩵💕🌌
Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!
Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Winners
The winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced on August 16, 2025 by Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World…
locusmag.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Congrats to nominees and winners 🤍🩵💕🌌
I have decided to spend more time here, sharing and promoting works of other writers and my own reading/writing progress! Do drop links to what short stories you've read recently or published below 👇🏻🌻
August 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I have decided to spend more time here, sharing and promoting works of other writers and my own reading/writing progress! Do drop links to what short stories you've read recently or published below 👇🏻🌻
Reposted by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos
"What had happened, she wasn’t sure. A big explosion. Or was it an implosion? Her father surely would have known. She wished she could ask him." 🏵️📻
New fiction today by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social: "A Final Song for the Ages"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
New fiction today by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social: "A Final Song for the Ages"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
August 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"What had happened, she wasn’t sure. A big explosion. Or was it an implosion? Her father surely would have known. She wished she could ask him." 🏵️📻
New fiction today by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social: "A Final Song for the Ages"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
New fiction today by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social: "A Final Song for the Ages"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Loved the stories included, read them in a sitting! Congrats to all ☁️🌌
The new issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge is live, issue number lucky 13 for August 2025 with 14 brand new stories
August 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Loved the stories included, read them in a sitting! Congrats to all ☁️🌌
Reposted by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos
I'm going on tour in a few weeks!
My new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster is about a young witch who teaches her mother how to do magic. It's about loss and healing, queer family and unconditional love.
Tues: Green Apple, SF
Weds: Powell's, Portland
Thurs: Women & Children First, Chicago
My new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster is about a young witch who teaches her mother how to do magic. It's about loss and healing, queer family and unconditional love.
Tues: Green Apple, SF
Weds: Powell's, Portland
Thurs: Women & Children First, Chicago
July 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm going on tour in a few weeks!
My new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster is about a young witch who teaches her mother how to do magic. It's about loss and healing, queer family and unconditional love.
Tues: Green Apple, SF
Weds: Powell's, Portland
Thurs: Women & Children First, Chicago
My new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster is about a young witch who teaches her mother how to do magic. It's about loss and healing, queer family and unconditional love.
Tues: Green Apple, SF
Weds: Powell's, Portland
Thurs: Women & Children First, Chicago
There's something inspiring and sentimental when you read your friend's work! Don't miss out on THE CASTAWAY AND THE WITCH, a harrowing mythic fantasy inspired by Greek myth and dealing with memory, grief, love and the fights women have to give against invisible systems. ✨
@ioannapauthor.bsky.social
@ioannapauthor.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There's something inspiring and sentimental when you read your friend's work! Don't miss out on THE CASTAWAY AND THE WITCH, a harrowing mythic fantasy inspired by Greek myth and dealing with memory, grief, love and the fights women have to give against invisible systems. ✨
@ioannapauthor.bsky.social
@ioannapauthor.bsky.social
Reposted by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos
The Castaway and the Witch is the new novella from Ioanna Papadopoulou, author of Winter Harvest. Coming September 2025.
Preorder now from our store: bit.ly/4mTp7mJ
Or your preferred retailer: buff.ly/NfmdIfK
Preorder now from our store: bit.ly/4mTp7mJ
Or your preferred retailer: buff.ly/NfmdIfK
August 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Castaway and the Witch is the new novella from Ioanna Papadopoulou, author of Winter Harvest. Coming September 2025.
Preorder now from our store: bit.ly/4mTp7mJ
Or your preferred retailer: buff.ly/NfmdIfK
Preorder now from our store: bit.ly/4mTp7mJ
Or your preferred retailer: buff.ly/NfmdIfK
Reposted by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos
I don't know what to tell ya, fam!
Our open submission period closes in two days. Two whole days!! (Aug 11th)
So if you got something good, get that good gotten to us while the getting is good. (This sentence somehow makes sense because English is the true horror.)
pseudopod.org/submissions/
Our open submission period closes in two days. Two whole days!! (Aug 11th)
So if you got something good, get that good gotten to us while the getting is good. (This sentence somehow makes sense because English is the true horror.)
pseudopod.org/submissions/
Submissions | PseudoPod
PseudoPod is always looking for quality fiction to feed our listeners. If you’re a writer with a short horror story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our talented performers, we’d like to see...
pseudopod.org
August 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I don't know what to tell ya, fam!
Our open submission period closes in two days. Two whole days!! (Aug 11th)
So if you got something good, get that good gotten to us while the getting is good. (This sentence somehow makes sense because English is the true horror.)
pseudopod.org/submissions/
Our open submission period closes in two days. Two whole days!! (Aug 11th)
So if you got something good, get that good gotten to us while the getting is good. (This sentence somehow makes sense because English is the true horror.)
pseudopod.org/submissions/
SPOTTING PIPPIN THE COSMONAUT IN MY HOMEPAGE IS WILD!! 💗 Good luck, Lyndsey! have fun with your next project!
Now I've handed in deep sea book, may return to hijinks space opera to rewrite👀 Ft. princess on the run, MC has to rescue her in space, and she takes her cat (secretly an alien) with her...There's also an alien artefact hunter, pursuit by space pirates, a heist, & a cowboy with a talking horse...✨🚀
July 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
SPOTTING PIPPIN THE COSMONAUT IN MY HOMEPAGE IS WILD!! 💗 Good luck, Lyndsey! have fun with your next project!
Pulled my back during deadlifts because I didn't listen to my body 🫠 Have to abstain from all sorts of lifting for 10 days+then slowly re-introduce functional movements with no weights and/or bands. Second strain I get within a year of my powerlifting journey. Bummed but happy it wasn't sth worse.
July 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Pulled my back during deadlifts because I didn't listen to my body 🫠 Have to abstain from all sorts of lifting for 10 days+then slowly re-introduce functional movements with no weights and/or bands. Second strain I get within a year of my powerlifting journey. Bummed but happy it wasn't sth worse.
I've got a poetry collection about grief and death. If any of you have heard of any press calls I could send this to, let me know 👀
July 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I've got a poetry collection about grief and death. If any of you have heard of any press calls I could send this to, let me know 👀
Pretty hard to put down words these days since work has been too demanding and the current heatwave doesn't make it fun enough to sit and type. But I did complete 2 poems and 1 story so far in July, and I am trying to show up for my book. Hoping the rest of you are having a better writing month! 🦭
July 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Pretty hard to put down words these days since work has been too demanding and the current heatwave doesn't make it fun enough to sit and type. But I did complete 2 poems and 1 story so far in July, and I am trying to show up for my book. Hoping the rest of you are having a better writing month! 🦭
After so many years, lingering and thinking about this reading nook, IT'S FINALLY DONE!! And with a shelf filled with my printed publications 🥰 this corner is everything I ever wanted growing up as a reader and so much more ♥️
July 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
After so many years, lingering and thinking about this reading nook, IT'S FINALLY DONE!! And with a shelf filled with my printed publications 🥰 this corner is everything I ever wanted growing up as a reader and so much more ♥️
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😱Submissions are OPEN for the Disability in Dystopia anthology! If you're disabled and/or chronically ill, we want to hear your stories and pay you for them!
Submissions Guide: shorturl.at/jges6
Deadline: June 20th 2025.
Submissions Guide: shorturl.at/jges6
Deadline: June 20th 2025.
May 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
😱Submissions are OPEN for the Disability in Dystopia anthology! If you're disabled and/or chronically ill, we want to hear your stories and pay you for them!
Submissions Guide: shorturl.at/jges6
Deadline: June 20th 2025.
Submissions Guide: shorturl.at/jges6
Deadline: June 20th 2025.
If you missed my latest work, dive right in! This is a fictionalized account of the last days of a relative and it features a Grim Reaper society, writing to your apprentice and falling in love with mortality. ✨
Three days, thirty-five minutes, and thirty-three seconds. This is when her clock will cease.
-from "When the Reaper Arrives, Do Not Mourn for Her" by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos (@sophiamweaves.bsky.social), in June's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #horror #fantasy
-from "When the Reaper Arrives, Do Not Mourn for Her" by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos (@sophiamweaves.bsky.social), in June's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #horror #fantasy
June 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If you missed my latest work, dive right in! This is a fictionalized account of the last days of a relative and it features a Grim Reaper society, writing to your apprentice and falling in love with mortality. ✨
Reposted by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos
hey, we're always looking for new artists and illustrators to work with.
please, if you are/know someone who is a great HUMAN artist, drop a link to your/their portolio.
no promises, but we'd love to browse some portfolios today!!
also pls share for visibility!!!
💀🖤💀
please, if you are/know someone who is a great HUMAN artist, drop a link to your/their portolio.
no promises, but we'd love to browse some portfolios today!!
also pls share for visibility!!!
💀🖤💀
June 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
hey, we're always looking for new artists and illustrators to work with.
please, if you are/know someone who is a great HUMAN artist, drop a link to your/their portolio.
no promises, but we'd love to browse some portfolios today!!
also pls share for visibility!!!
💀🖤💀
please, if you are/know someone who is a great HUMAN artist, drop a link to your/their portolio.
no promises, but we'd love to browse some portfolios today!!
also pls share for visibility!!!
💀🖤💀
Reposted by Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos
🚀 December issue submissions are OPEN! We want your sci-fi & fantasy stories. Women-identified authors welcome - new writers especially encouraged! Deadline: Aug 15th
duotrope.com/duosuma... #ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
duotrope.com/duosuma... #ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
June 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🚀 December issue submissions are OPEN! We want your sci-fi & fantasy stories. Women-identified authors welcome - new writers especially encouraged! Deadline: Aug 15th
duotrope.com/duosuma... #ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
duotrope.com/duosuma... #ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
My very Greek, very bleak, very hopeful story "When the Reaper Arrives, Do not Mourn for Her" that was inspired by the passing of a close relative. You can read it here:
www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
ToC buddies with Ray Daley, this feels so bittersweet.
@penumbricmag.bsky.social
www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
ToC buddies with Ray Daley, this feels so bittersweet.
@penumbricmag.bsky.social
Penumbric June 2k25, When the Reaper Arrives, Do Not Mourn for Her
Edgy speculative fiction magazine
www.penumbric.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My very Greek, very bleak, very hopeful story "When the Reaper Arrives, Do not Mourn for Her" that was inspired by the passing of a close relative. You can read it here:
www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
ToC buddies with Ray Daley, this feels so bittersweet.
@penumbricmag.bsky.social
www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
ToC buddies with Ray Daley, this feels so bittersweet.
@penumbricmag.bsky.social
Found this amazing collection at @argonautbooks.bsky.social at Leith, Edinburgh that was edited by the talented @soniasulaiman.bsky.social (they have a space dedicated to Palestinian voices, please make sure you visit if you're around!) and I can't wait to dive in! 🇵🇸
June 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Found this amazing collection at @argonautbooks.bsky.social at Leith, Edinburgh that was edited by the talented @soniasulaiman.bsky.social (they have a space dedicated to Palestinian voices, please make sure you visit if you're around!) and I can't wait to dive in! 🇵🇸
Can't wait to read this! 👀👀👀
An omen of spirits dance across the sky. A lonely woman befriends a sea witch as the world ends. The last whale in the world travels north in search of hope. A grandmother seeks revenge on the sea monster that took her family.
Dark Crescent, out now, @lunapress.bsky.social! ✨️ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
Dark Crescent, out now, @lunapress.bsky.social! ✨️ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
June 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Can't wait to read this! 👀👀👀