OTHERSIDE is a new quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 1 arrives in March 2026! 🪐 🗡️ 🌈
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Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw, shorts, screenplays.
Arthur C. Clarke Award winner.
Hugo nominated.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Etcetera
Opinions mine.
He/him
Poet
Translator
Geezer socialist
Queer as a happy Monday
Dogs live with me
https://houseofconstantpop.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/reposed-in-silence-by-mateusz-j/
"I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Free to read. Help sustain our work by becoming a member. 🙏🏽
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DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
I write things. Occasionally they get published.
Also occasionally on other sites, including marikness.wordpress.com, https://medium.com/@marikness, https://www.patreon.com/mari_ness. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/mari_ness
Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Proud union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Auburn fan. Dodgers fan. I like board games & ttrpg. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
Magazine of dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, and unsettling horror. Here for a bad time.
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Upcoming novel, PEPPERLEAF, from Thirty West in 2026. Previously, a story collection, BELOW THE FALLS (Thirty West, 2024), and a novel, THE HUMMINGBIRDS (Skyhorse, 2018). Celt. PNW.
The Sauúti Collective is an Afro-centric universe rooted in African mythologies, languages, & cultures.
Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, The Dark, & more! Rep: Angeline Rodriguez, WME Books. 🏳️🌈🇨🇾
www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com
Publisher. CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS. CEO and Editor-in-Chief: @jendiagammon.bsky.social. Staff: @garethlpowell.bsky.social @authorhelengj.bsky.social @scarlettralgee.bsky.social @denniskcrosby.bsky.social @kcgrifant.bsky.social starsandsabers.com
Writer, tea drinker & Uni Lecturer | Fiction & Poetry - Cincinnati Review, Citron Review, Vestal Review, Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
International poet. Published in six continents. #catapoetics #catapoetry #catastrocene
Author
📚 Pink horror & haunting speculative stories
✒️ Editorial at Flash Fiction Online, Haven Spec & LSQ
👻 Vaguely goth but also whimsical
🍄 Tea drinker & fungi admirer
(she/her) #amquerying
Author of LOVE/AGGRESSION | Fiction Editor at New Session
We publish flash fiction and non-fiction narratives (<500 words) on self-care aka #namjooning. Editors:
@m-ixedbag.bsky.social, @lakshgiri.bsky.social, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social
https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam
literarynamjooning@gmail.com
Do you know which way to go?
www.adventitious.net
Engineer | Writer | Editor
Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses
Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist
My novel Shigidi out now: http://tinyurl.com/Shigidi
African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com
Rep: Bieke van Aggelen
DreamForge, a magazine of science and fantasy fiction, focusing on speculative stories, demonstrating enduring and indomitable parts of the human spirit.
Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com
Leading figure of the Disability Poetics movement
and academic contributor of a decidedly minor stature. I miss the Catoctin Mountains.
Every Place on the Map bit.ly/3IUmzpk
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Trans Queerdo. Nebula, Sturgeon, and L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist. Wrote I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY (Lethe Press), WHEN I WAS LOST (Trepidatio), and THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe Press). Got more stuff to read on my website. No GenAI. Fuck ICE.
Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
We're an indie press publishing SFF! Always open to submissions for our magazine on pop culture.
Find us at www.interstellarFlightPress.com
still bipolar | burialmagazine.neocities.org | thezhcorner.neocities.org | Orley Farm on xbox
"🇲🇲"⚧︎⚢☭; poet &c; work in places you can find; @ work on the cyborg cycle +// for schizopoetic robotgirls; always in translation 🎵 words & work @ trsan.neocities.org, editing poetry @sabrtoothtiger.bsky.social. on gadigal land.
Illustrator, ADHD, spoonie, lvl 37, She/They, UK.♠️
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Science fiction writer, poet, essayist. Minnesota nerd par excellence. Tisanes, leaves, Moomins, snow. She/her. Repped by Kurestin Armada.
www.marissalingen.com
tinyletter.com/MarissaLingen
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British Fantasy Award-Winning author 🏳️🌈
The Ben Garston Novels. The Dark. Book of Queer Saints.
"Mother of Night" coming spring '27 from Evil Twin @zandoprojects.bsky.social
More @: https://james-bennett.org/
'Inventive and vivid'
Publishers Weekly
Writer, editor, teacher, and jazz banjoist based in Lawrence, Kansas. Fiction, mostly speculative, appearing in Escape Pod, Small Wonders, Inner Worlds, Saros, and more. Say no to AI. 🏳️⚧️🚲🍃
sci-fi & fantasy writer • former classicist • transit nerd • gay married to @beryl.rubacky.dev • 🏳️🌈✡️ • he/him
📍 Raleigh, NC
🌐 www.elijahjmears.com
🇨🇦 canadian writer, game master, gremlin (they/them)
🏳️🌈 co-editor-in-chief @othersidespec.bsky.social
🖋 fantasy, romance, horror
📖 words at or coming from Nightmare, Heartlines, PseudoPod, and more
website: https://ash-vale.ca/
indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Movement Lawyer and Assoc. Clinical Law Prof
https://x.com/carltonwilliams
#BDS #LandBack #AbolishICE
#FreePalestine
carltonwilliams@ProtonMail.com
unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
A literary journal for the tramps in all of us. We accept poetry, CNF, flash, micro, and short fiction on a rolling basis.
All posts by @lmariharris.bsky.social
www.trampset.org
Baltimore poet/writer. Words everywhere. BOTN/Pushcart nom. Reader at Fractured Lit. Reader at Atlanta Review. My chapbook Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You is available from Alien Buddha Press. www.chrissystegman.com
poet & nyeusiphile.
poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
👠👠 + 🎣👨🏿🦳 + 👰🏿♂️
Spec Fic Author. SFWA. Voodoonaut. Words in FIYAH Mag, Nightmare Mag, Baffling, Fantasy Mag, The Deadlands, EscapePod, Haven, Skull & Laurel, Psychopomp. A watched plot never thickens. http://ebrownwrites.com
jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
SFF Author | Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon winner | Archivist | Repped by Lisa Rodgers | THE WINGS UPON HER BACK, Compton Crook winner and World Fantasy finalist, out now! (she/her) www.samtasticbooks.com
Newsletter at https://subscribepage.io/samtasticnews
Doberman owner, SFFH writer, 💀, SFWA member, library clerk.
Exit Ghost
https://books2read.com/ExitGhost
Werewolf trilogy:
https://authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/learn-to-howl-trilogy.html
Burn Up In Victory:
https://books2read.com/burnupinvictory/
Writer. Poet. Editor. Nerd. Managing Editor Interstellar Flight Press. Author of NUMINOUS STONES, THE SMALLEST OF BONES, GLIMMERGLASS GIRL. She/They
Website: www.Hlwalrath.com
🏳️⚧️| Mexican | They/She | ✍️ in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, The Deadlands, Heartlines Spec, & others| Clarion West '25 | Poetry editor @Otherside | http://angel-leal.com
Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
Flash writer ✍️ | Upcoming: 100 Word Story | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | 🌟 HC Bath Flash Award ‘23 | 🥈 Micro Madness ‘24 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean. 🇨🇦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, forthcoming 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
Poet, artist, writer. Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, Diode Editions. Lammy Poetry Finalist '25, BSF '20, Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Granta Memoir
Website: https://koss-works.com
Book: https://koss-works.com/dancing-backwards-towards-pluperfect/
Your friendly nemesis. BFA & Shirley Jackson Award Winner. BSFA, Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, WFA finalist. Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, & more. ClarionWest '19. She/Her. Rep: Jessica Friedman @SterlingLordLit
📖 THE POTENTIAL OF RADIO AND RAIN
✏️ Rhysling HM, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction
💫 MicroVerse Recommended Reading
⚡Electric Sheep
SFWA, HWA, SFPA, Codex
https://mynachang.com
Author: A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Horror writer (GIRL IN THE CREEK due out 2025, Tor Nightfire); editor-in-chief of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE, senior editor, LIGHTSPEED. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️🌈
Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them
https://linktr.ee/wendynwagner
Food Influencer of Worldcon 2024 (TM)
Reckoning staff, words, birds
priyachandwrites.wordpress.com
fatbirdpics.tumblr.com
avatar is from Clemente Susini's studio at La Specola di Firenze, profile image is a tree hyrax in Ngorongoro Crater
Mother, writer, public servant. Poetry co-editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
📚 @anothernewcalligraphy.com, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, @animalheartpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Bookish, treeish, peripatetic, frequently salt water adjacent.
Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan
https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/
Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r
Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53
Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
MOTHER KARMA NOVELLA! https://forms.gle/SN3EFQrGSg7CvUxs6
BSF 2025
Trauma writing workshops
Will probably rearrange your dishwasher.
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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sumitrasingam.squarespace.com
This machine vibrates the air
https://levinskyleo.bandcamp.com/
Author of THE WORD and various other things. She/they | hi/nhw. http://www.jl-george.com
http://www.parthianbooks.com/products/the-word
Writer, historian, cosplayer, Vermonter. Author of Cosplay: A History.
Newsletter: https://www.andrewliptak.com
Artist! Won a Hugo once! Black! I like everyday fantasy! Made a graphic novel! Drew some kids books! Estoy aprendiendo español!
Rep'd by @grahamophones.bsky.social
https://gdbee.carrd.co / https://gdbee.store
Union organizer, writer, cider-maker.
https://will-mcmahon.com
A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social
Read: https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf
Submit: https://www.briefecology.com/submissions
Publisher of short prose & poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and cyberpunk dystopia. Pays semi-pro rates. Simultaneous Times partner. CLMP member. Like Black Mirror but more political.
RadonJournal.com
Author: San Diego Stories @cowboyjamboree, A Question of Family @Stanchion
Husband. Dad. Math Prof. Mentor. Fiction Editor @thetwinbill.
francoisbereaud.com
2nd year computational neuro PhD student at Boston University (advisors Cynthia Bradham & Gabe Ocker)
Mathematically modeling embryonic neurodevelopment
I write trippy scifi & mathfiction.
Ignyte Award Finalist 2025
6 stories in Clarkesworld
(he/him) Belfast/Coleraine poet. Black Eyed Peace, is available as free eBook from Wordpress, inc. the Pushcart nominated Hunting for the Aurora. MA student at MMU - davidatkinsonpoet.wordpress.com
Poet | SENTENCE (Nine Syllables Press, 2026) | MORE FLOWERS (Trio House Press, 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, Trio House Press, 2024) + 3 📚| Mayah 🐶 | Indianapolis, IN | www.susanlleary.com
formerly didic on twitter. Writer. Editor. Translator. Blogger. Speaker. Geek. Asexual. Enby. Anti-Zionist. Tired. they/them. Science fiction and fantasy person. Former Israeli, now trying to become Canadian.
A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
your friendly neighborhood offal pile. works in Strange Horizons, ergot, The Dark, khōréō, & more 🦷 "Gore Poetics" (Cursed Morsels Press) emerges April 14th; pre-orders open now 🥩
Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers.
Editor-in-Chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social.
www.nervetowrite.com
Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Citizen of the Wildeeps! Writer Editor Podcaster TeachingArtisr of Speculative Fiction! Words in Apex, Fiyah, Anathema, Prismatic, Escape Pod, PodCastle. Ghost Class/Clarion c/o 2030-2022. Just Keep Writing co-host. Art Institute Chicago BFAW c/o 2027.
New, real account. Author, composer, keyboardist, university graduate. Author of THE HIDDEN FACE. Links below.
Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 Best Small Fictions. Lapsed scholar/ Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc.
https://mooninabucket.com
Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Reviewer for LOCUS. Editor @ Ruadán Books & Many Worlds. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, The Deadlands & more. she/her 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
Writes lots of Magical Black Girls Burning Shit Down. Midwife to Be.
Voodoonauts Fellow '22. Hurston/Wright Speculative Fellow '23. She/Her.
AuthorWinifred, no matter where you are, no matter how far.
winifredburton.com
I block AI/NFT/Crypto accounts
BSFA-nominated essayist. SFF author you’ve never heard of. SocDem. Tolkien nerd. Armchair medievalist. She/her. Header by chorischia.bsky.social.
Website: arobertswrites.com
Newsletter: buttondown.email/arobertswrites
Words in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and other Fabulous markets.
MD, Dad, Tennis player
Links to some of my stories!
rajeevwriter.com
SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. 6X Aurora Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, video games, D&D.
Publisher @augursociety — Augur Mag, Tales & Feathers Mag, Augur Books.
Contact me @ www.kerrycbyrne.com
Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of SF, fantasy & horror. And host of the Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
SFF writer and nerd! || He/Him
Stories in: Omenana, Anathema, Translunar Travelers Lounge, FIYAH, Baffling, and more.
https://plangdineple.wixsite.com/plangdi
Speculative short storyist. Codexian. Fiction in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Small Wonders, Apex's blog, forthcoming elsewhere.
https://adrianwardwrites.wordpress.com/
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. PNW. he/him
Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
