This week’s magazine review features some cli-fi, a couple ghost stories, a living ship, a wolf(e)ish novella, a high-concept work in translation, and two first contacts. Check it out! www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/10/t...
article is pure clickbait but it got me too—it's so difficult to resist the gift of righteous outrage lol. the weirdest thing is how the article seems to understand point of view even less than the people it's mocking allegedly do, e.g. identifying third person entirely with omniscient narrators
congrats!!
"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"
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I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
“What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...
2nd-year eligible @clairejiawen.bsky.social's "Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You" is a hell of a title for a hell of a story. Excellent piece about a designer of monsters and the pilot she does it for.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/
ahh thank you tia!!
i love it when stories that rocked me also rock with other peope. spread the love
Cover art by Pascal Blanché features a blue skinned person wearing red-orange partial armor and helmet. They are sitting on a raised red piece of machinary in front of a large yellow sun on a bright yellow background. Smoke trails in from the lower right. Their helmeted head looks forward while they hold a large round device in both hands. Cables lead from the device to the helmet. Art is titled "Long Distance Call." Also in this issue: interviews with J.M. Sidorova and Rebecca Roanhorse, article by Benjamin C. Kinney, and the final results our annual readers' poll.
Our March 2026 issue features stories by David D. Levine, R.L. Meza, Carolyn Zhao, Thomas Ha, Wanxiang Fengnian, Thoraiya Dyer, and Marissa Lingen.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_234
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i loved this story!!!! very warm and tender and it has women in love 🙂↕️
The Nebula ballot deadline is almost here! Don’t forget to vote for the work you loved most! (This is a reminder to me, I am about to go vote, I swear.)
I had nine stories out in 2025 and I don’t have the energy to do much promoting… but I hope you’ll consider this ode to the goodness of dogs. 🐾
thank you!! glad to know we all got hit by the same brainworms aha
got figure skating on the brain, and fuck this story is good: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
I finally gave in to peer pressure and made an award eligibility graphic (two months late 😂). Nebula nominations close in less than a week and Hugos in a month! Would love if you considered my poems or short stories.
New story day! My science-fantasy short story 'To Atone For Evil' is out now in the science-fantasy special issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
"We journey together across the universe, our souls shackled, our fates entwined..."
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/to-a...
oh my GOD permission to steal this please
ahh thank you!!
if the womens free skate yesterday also had you feeling like you could run through a brick wall, might i suggest: sapphic cyberpunk figure skaters?
Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/call-f...
If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!
If you want to write anything good, you cannot afford to be afraid of your reader.
“A Sleeper Ship Is Like a Game of Go” by @clairejiawen.bsky.social hazards a wildly ambitious narrative structure—featuring second person future!—and pays it off wonderfully in a tale that’s chilling yet emotionally satisfying clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_02_26
thanks so much and I'm glad the experimental part landed for you! it was such a delicate needle to thread in the writing process but very rewarding
ahh thanks!! it took over a year to write, but heres to more experimental clarkesworld fiction heheh
i def dont write hard sf. but i do think theyre pretty grounded in ml principles and i do put in effort to make them technically rigorous LOL
yes 😔
re: the gender and hard sf debate...i dont think i write suuuper hard scifi but my two of my sf pieces were deemed ineligible for a 'science in fiction' scholarship once despite very much being about machine learning and stuff like that does make me wonder if i should just put in some jargon LOL
i do feel like the public perception of fantasy has moved past tolkien in a way that sf hasn't entirely moved past asimov, if that makes sense? like fantasy gets romance but sf still gets perceived as a white boys club, even if its not actually the case
But if my work isn't quite what you're in the mood for—say, if you're more of a "toxic sapphics" fan—then your Valentine's Day definitely isn't complete without @clairejiawen.bsky.social's giant death creatures (designed just for you)!
never imagined abstraction would be on a valentines rec list. this is inspired, thank you elijiah LMFAO
and also the reception to abstraction has given me motivation to write more insane women
