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Promotional graphic of the Surviving Humanity cover and the words Now Available: Humanity can be beautiful and resilient, but it can also be violent and cruel. In this collection of fifteen insightful and inventive tales, discover characters—both human and otherwise—who have the determination and grit to find a path to a life beyond the cruelty brought on by humanity’s failures.

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A promotional image depicting the Surviving Humanity cover with the words Excerpt: The lucky one by h.m. Joinsville “Miranda,” her father once told her, “you have it in you to draw right down to the soul of a person. That’s a gift. You’re lucky. Most people float through life never knowing why they’re even here.”

NOW AVAILABLE: Get your copy of Surviving Humanity, a WriteHive anthology of 15 stories with Inked in Gray! The world is changing, we must find the strength and the will to survive.

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Submissions Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes two speculative stories per month. Night Shades is OPEN I'll let you know when we're closing! Night Shades opens sporadically and for in...

🛸🛸 big news 🛸🛸

just updated the guidelines. for a lot of reasons i can get into later, NS is switching to 2 stories a month (instead of 4) but that means

🛸🛸 rates are going up 🛸🛸

NS now pays $75 flat for a max of 500 words. that’s min. $0.15/w

NS IS 🛸OPEN🛸

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OTHERSIDE is looking for 1-2 first readers! We got SO many amazing submissions that it's time to expand our team!

Interested? This is a great opportunity to learn about the editorial process 👀 We offer an honorarium and first readers can still submit to us!

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All I Could See (And All I Couldn't) by Susan L. Lin In real life, lights were flickering all over the house. Outside, businessmen in sharp suits fainted in succession, until all I could see were the soles of their dress shoes. A detect...

🛸🛸 new one by @susanllin.bsky.social is so short and sharp that i can’t use a different pull quote or i’d give the whole thing away

🛸🛸 take a scrolling break and read this right now

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All I Could See (And All I Couldn't) by Susan L. Lin In real life, lights were flickering all over the house. Outside, businessmen in sharp suits fainted in succession, until all I could see were the soles of their dress shoes. A detect...

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Read @susanllin.bsky.social’s short, sharp little mystery. New this week!
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All I Could See (And All I Couldn't) by Susan L. Lin In real life, lights were flickering all over the house. Outside, businessmen in sharp suits fainted in succession, until all I could see were the soles of their dress shoes. A detect...

New story today from @susanllin.bsky.social

“A detective bearing a shovel rang my doorbell, hoping to dig up whatever I knew.”

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Call for Submissions: After the End “Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas   For this quarterly issue of Isele Magazine, we ask you…

Submissions are now open for our next quarterly!

We are especially interested in submissions that explore survival as a collective practice and a duty of care. Send us stories, poems, essays, photography, art, and hybrid works that explore this theme.

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Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity A Hard SF anthology of stories involving tea or coffee, stars, and gravity.

2 hours into the KS campaign and the "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" anthology (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...) is 52% base funded. Great to see the support for us for 2026. Thank you all. Stretch goals, when reached, have the potential to add an additional 12 authors to the book.

BRAVE NEW WEIRD Volume Three (softcover; includes eBook) The Most Important Meal of the Day…is Weird. Why so glum, friend? Are you feeling fatigued? Logy? Knackered? Do you require sustenance? A boost of energy to reinvigorate your existence? We have good n...

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Alex & I have 1 last cage match before we announce the final BRAVE NEW WEIRD ToC later this week.

As usual the hard part’s the fun part: there’s SO MUCH AMAZING WEIRD to choose from. This scene’s amazing.

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Open for submissions! Prose / poetry / hybrid / art / photos. 1st Jan - 17th Jan.

Submissions are officially open again! Please read the guidelines in full, and I can't wait to read your work.

Any questions, just let me know! x

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King Ludd’s Rag submissions are open for the next two weeks! Short stories 4,000 words and up. oleada.io/publication/...

Getting kissed on NYE? Neither are we.

BUT there's still time to submit your fiction, poems, and flash! Get a head start on your 2026 submission goals:

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Annual Anthology - WriteHive In collaboration with Inked in Gray, we seek to publish powerful, authentic stories from members of our community. All profits from Rescuing

BREAKING
Submissions are OPEN for our next annual anthology:

✍️Defying Death✍️

Tell us your creative and unique stories about all the ways we overcome demise! Submissions close January 31, 2026.

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Susan L. Lin | When We Are Young, We Think We Are Invisible

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CNF by Susan L. Lin! @susanllin.bsky.social

“Still, the unmeasurable ingredients of homecooked meals remained shrouded in silence within the walls of our home, unspoken sentiments displaced by harsh criticisms that left me vulnerable, never invincible.”

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Astrolabe Winter 2025 -- Nnadi Samuel - "Honeysuckle; From Lugard's white, scented Hands" & "The Field of my Person, A Thing to be Conquered" Vikki C. - "Elegy for a Grown World" Susan L. Lin - "She Had Her Head in the Attic" Lisa Dailey - "Under the Sea" Binh Do - "The Angel of History" Didem Arslanoglu - "Nine"

The Clepsydra is live! As the year runs out, we hope you'll thieve away some time to spend with this wonderful group of prose, poetry, and artwork.

astrolabe.ooo

featuring...
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
@binhdaur.bsky.social
@susanllin.bsky.social
Nnadi Samuel
Lisa Dailey
Didem Arslanoglu

Astrolabe Best Microfiction Nominees --- Devan Murphy "Goatboy" Shana Ross "Annual Review" Carter Lappin "Sometimes You Can’t Help but Feel Like He Does These Things on Purpose" Veronica Tucker "The Waiting Room At The End of the Universe" Susan L Lin "She Had Her Head in the Attic"

Taking a moment to treasure our Best Microfiction nominees! Congratulations to:

Devan Murphy
@shanaross.bsky.social
Carter Lappin
Veronica Tucker
@susanllin.bsky.social

Our Outdoors-themed writing competition stories are now live!

Come read the winners in the link below and be sure to share your comments 🥳
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Guidelines and the form to submit ⬇️⭐⬇️
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cover art for BNW Vol. 3, featuring a very deranged breakfast table

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Susan L. Lin | When We Are Young, We Think We Are Invisible

“My father meant “invincible,” of course, but for once I failed to correct his imprecise English because I believed he had, entirely by chance, stumbled across a hidden truth of my childhood.”

@susanllin.bsky.social

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Surviving Humanity (Paperback) About Surviving Humanity Humanity can be beautiful and resilient, but it can also be violent and cruel. In this collection of fifteen insightful and inventive tales, discover characters—both human and...

⏳Cover Release! Take a look at the beautiful cover for our new anthology, Surviving Humanity, which releases in February. Pre-order your copy today for 15% off! All proceeds benefit WriteHive🧡🐝 Take a look: www.wordsmakeart.com/collections/...

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Enticing you this week with a look at our AaN Press covers over the years. Orders for the holiday season are appreciated - aanpress.com/aanorder.html

One week from today!

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Cover art, a swan alights on a cosmic celestial sea, the sky in the colors of the trans rights flag

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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices

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2025 so far:

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💀Indigenous Supernatural Chiller
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💀Eco-Body-Coral Horror
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Cover for the story "Revenge Dress" by Susan J. Lin. It shows the title of thew work and the author name along with other metadata and an artistically framed background of a woman wearing a dress from just below the shoulders to above the waist. The arms are crossed in a way that is difficult to interpret.

With today’s Editor Pick we move from the swamp to seamstress with Revenge Dress, a poignant quiet horror tale by Susan J. Lin where existential threads spiral downward to an inevitable end. Read it here for free: www.gavagai.com

BRAVE NEW WEIRD Volume Three (softcover; includes eBook) The Most Important Meal of the Day…is Weird. Why so glum, friend? Are you feeling fatigued? Logy? Knackered? Do you require sustenance? A boost of energy to reinvigorate your existence? We have good n...

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