I’m biased but I think my weird epistolary gothic novelette about a guy who would probably think Frankenstein was aspirational is pretty good!!
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Also I ate shit on hockey skates in December and I STILL can’t do a lunge properly so I guess that’s just my life now
Yeah I feel like I fought for years to reach a physical detente with my body and now the terms of surrender are being changed on me without warning
Bad!! The answer is: bad!!!
🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨
Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.”
Please send in your mycelial pitches to gautam.strangehorizons@gmail.com.
For word-count, formats, and remuneration:
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It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
Oh, this is that violence you keep banging on about
Please consider nominating Kaleidotrope in the annual Pretty Nice Zine You Might Consider Maybe Nominating for Some Kind of Award if There’s Room Left on the Ballot Someday Award!
hey that one’s mine
This is how I feel after this last January too
Hey friends, can I ask you all to give our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Crowdfundr a look? Any amount helps us with our workspace renovation plans, if you're not able (which I understand!), if you could share the link that would be amazing. Love you all! 🤗🧡 👻📚
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it’s physically paining me that you don’t drop the cite for this, the need to know is causing multi-organ shutdown
Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
well I remember when the Luddites said “let us not smash the stocking frames, let us merely embark on a milquetoast campaign of public education”
you absolute weapon
We're putting together a mailing list for short fiction reviewers and critics to get review copies of the magazine.
So if you're a short fiction reviewer - first off you're doing the lord's work - but also email me at jonny@seizethepress.com and I'll add you to our shiny new reviewers list.
well, we had a bad run, time to pack it in
VERY excited for this
god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page
Sounds like you’re all filled up on this round, but I’d be super interested in working with you in the future
self-promotion breaks me out in hives but if this sounds as good 2 u as it does to me, you may like “the mixling mare” recently published by me in kaleidotrope ! ! !
So good & riveting it may also be for good vibes ppl too 🤓🐴 🔥
Guys you CANNOT miss this impeccably crafted, heartbreaking, freaky weird story. One of my all time favs!
If your approach to the New Year is much more “bad vibes only,” then “The Mixling Mare” is for you!!
Start your year off wrong with my weird, epistolary, gothic novelette about a very slimy anatomist with a centaur fixation
FICTION “Confessions of the Little Seer” by Emily Linstrom “Water Softener People” by EC Dorgan “Bearing the Good Fruit” by R.K. Duncan “More Than Feathers” by Phoebe Barton “Take Flight” by Dan Peacock “Magie Vol, Ogies Toe” by CL Hellisen “Full Fathom Five” by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks “Anything Not Impossible” by Jayde Holmes “Rewilding the Many Tethered Winds” by Allison Mulder “You Visit a Witch” by Jay Kang Romanus “The Savior of the Three Lands” by K.M. Veohongs “The Mixling Mare” by Anneke Schwob POETRY “Demons in Glass” by Jennifer Crow “the visitor” by Marisca Pichette “From Water” by Michelle Koubek “It Could Worm Inside Your Ear” by Akis Linardos “The Palms that Tear Through Human Thought” by Daniel Ausema “Face to Face” by Brian Hugenbruch “Dali Dancing” by Gretchen Tessmer
What's this?! A message tossed backward in time, from the far-flung future worlds of literally tomorrow—it's the table of contents from Kaleidotrope's upcoming Winter 2026 issue!
in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814213... Maya, one of my wildly talented Clarion-mates, is making her spec MG debut in 2026
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
