Straith - currently querying EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚔️

Keanu reeves cowboy Western when

A black and white line drawing. The image shows a giant snake with a swastika for an eye. The snake is being killed by two medieval style knights, there are three downward facing arrows piercing the snakes neck. The caption reads: Teamwork.

Always a good day to make new friends

You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

hell even the hot Shakespearian gargoyles were telling you to read:

the way I sent this to my group chat

submissions — neon hemlock

We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

SECRET GOOD NEWS CATAPULTS LOCAL WRITER OUT OF WALLOWING STATUS, NEWS LATER THIS YEAR

okay my allotted wallowing time is done! now I shall propagate my zz plant, do my day job, listen to my audiobook of REBECCA, and have a good day

Dyke Knights! Now in colour!

I’m listening to an audiobook of Rebecca!!! It’s so atmospheric and tense I feel the need to lie down a little like it’s so GOOD

Oooo! I shall have to catch the highlights tomorrow!!

Daphne du Maurier’s prose is so good it’s unreal… wow I love reading

It definitely doesn’t have the file storage capabilities of a full drive or anything, it’s a dedicated writing app, but they’re actively in development and adding new features all the time so I’m always curious to know what’s coming out next

late to replying, but I really love it for drafting! Lots of options for screen tint (including a deep forest green that I used to draft my last book), fun features for sharing, an onscreen timer for sprints if you’re into that, a focus view that puts away all the menus etc

gonna eat a churro and Wallow a bit

The say “I am alive” comic

I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

being a carless american is awesome. financial harm caused by rising oil prices won't directly effect me, and secondary effects aren't something we are trained to think about. when the time comes i'll just blame the rising prices i do experience on supernatural causes. maybe goblins

Cover of my poetry collection Time Travel Is Easy. Cover art by Helen Whistberry. The cover depicts the skeleton of an Archaeopteryx against a background of stylized black trees.

It’s World Book Day? Why not take a trip back in time! TIME TRAVEL IS EASY is my full-length poetry collection, examining Deep Time, queer embodiment, and the trauma of life in the late Anthropocene. It’s available through the links on my page: mimulus.weebly.com/books.html

Author of THE MARIGOLD and coauthor of THE HANDYMAN METHOD Andrew F. Sullivan's EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD, pitched as Nosferatu meets Succession and drawing on Irish folklore, about territorial, supernatural beings desperate to thrive in the modern world and the ramshackle attempt to halt their domination, to Ed Schlesinger at Gallery, by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid (world English)

we out here.

moody black & white image of an empty hallway with the text: fall 2026 submission call submission period: feb l-mar 15 seeking: horror short stories and poetry by Igtqia+, neurodivergent, bipoc, disabled, women, and gender-diverse writers we pay our writers and never charge sub fees SCRAWLMAG.COM

SUBMISSION CALL!

submissions are open for (s)crawl magazine's fall 2026 issue (issue no. 02)

see submission guidelines and submit your work on our website: scrawlmag.com

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A skilled knight is in the middle of destroying you with her deadliest guitar riff 🎸🔥 Prepare your elixirs

Bard Knight 02🛡️
‘Tis a Critical Hit! 🎸

Screenshot of a Publishers Marketplace announcement: Crawford Award-winning author Jared Pechacek's WHERE FIRE REIGNS, pitched as Firefly with firebenders, in which a crew of fugitives must keep a feral goddess safe from the church who believes her death will bring water back to their dry world, to Carl Engle-Laird at Tor, for publication in winter 2027, by Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency (NA). Translation: alba@mushens-entertainment.com Film/TV: film@azantianlitagency.com

you wanna hear some good news

🚨🚨🚨ELLIPSUS HAS DOCX IMPORT/EXPORT NOW!!!!!!!!!

& by running most emotional expression *and* self-understanding through an anger filter. I don't know that it's even conscious for most guys. Sad? anger! Confused? Anger! Hurt? Anger! Vulnerable? Anger! It's teal and orange but for feelings

really I just need to reread IRON WIDOW

something something giant statue as terror x the inheritance drama of THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO... princesses battling over who gets to inherit the cool mecha...

A white-speckled green leaf on a monstera Thai constellation, previously curled into a tight tube, now slowly opening up over the course of days. The photo has been taken down the “barrel” of the leaf, revealing its spiral curvature

monstera leaf unfurling. like my current novel concept: slowly spiralling outward growing more expansive, taking in more sun.
#monsterathaiconstellation
#monstera

I love this book, I'm so excited for more work from the author!!

Please help Abo Jameel's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving & homeless under renewed siege & bombardment: