Matt Ivy

Oooo you really really wanna hire an aurealis award winning editor for your anthology, novella or novel

I have slots open and an award to brag about lmao

Photos as promised! I can't believe I can call myself an award winning editor on my second ever major editorial project. A massive thank you to every editor and author I worked with on this. Here's to the next one!!

You can buy AUSTRAL 2025 for yourself here: meridianaustralis.au/product/aust...

Photos as promised! I can't believe I can call myself an award winning editor on my second ever major editorial project. A massive thank you to every editor and author I worked with on this. Here's to the next one!!

Congratulations!!!

Thank you!!

We won!!

Now I just gotta email myself the pics from my work phone to my personal one to prove it. Thank you phone camera dying at the least convenient time

But we won!!

Congrats!!

already this is the year for good writing/editing news. I still can't say a whole lot but I've got some cool shit coming up

Neon Hemlock WHAT ELEGANT FUNCTION Now on Kickstarter Vibes like… Pattern Recognition Swordspoint Star Wars Devil Wears Prada Ninefox Gambit An Unkindness of Ghosts

Open to submissions of short stories for What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style until April 15th, 2026.

8¢/word. <6,000 words. Simsub ok, no multiple submissions, original stories only.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Even happier to announce that AUSTRAL 2025 has been shortlisted for best anthology in the Aurealis Awards!!
Congrats to everyone else who has been shortlisted this year!

Congrats!!

Cover for Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell: Two women fighting on a dramatic background of mountains and clouds

COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

ten month wait on a story with no sim sub just for a rejection is fucking rough. I'll send it somewhere else and try again but ugh

Working on a new editorial project!! Hopefully I can share more news soon!

A book cover for Bodies of Magic by Freya Markse. A deep blue building with a quadrangle, spires and cloisters fills the lower half of the cover with the title text in gold across it. Behind that, the upper background is grey and stormy with a prominent twisting white design that could be a bare tree rising up from the main tower OR an anatomical diagram of the lungs. Centered above the lung-tree are the words DO NO HARM in stark white. Honestly: a complete banger of a cover. Doesn't it make you want to preorder? Yes, yes it does.

BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.)

Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.

Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

Second submission for the year done! Still waiting on some subs from last year so fingers crossed!

Happy new year!! If anyone is looking for a line/copy editor for their SFF novel, novella or short fiction anthology, I still have some slots open for the next couple of months!

Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...

We're open for fiction submissions!

We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.

No closing date, open indefinitely.

White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "FICTION: We are looking for unpublished speculative fiction (up to 4000 words) by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror: we love it all! Simultaneous submissions are welcome! We pay 8 cents/word (USD). OPEN NOW! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines"

White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "POETRY: We are looking for unpublished speculative poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. You can submit up to three poems at a time, and simultaneous submissions are always welcome. We pay $50 per poem (USD). OPEN NOW! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines"

OTHERSIDE is officially OPEN for fiction and poetry submissions 🪐🗡️

If you’re part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, send us your speculative fiction and poetry: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and everything in between!

📚 Open window: Jan 1-14
📑 See guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Our apologies that the submission opening did not go as scheduled, but we are now open until mid-day Jan 16. We look forward to reading all your strange frightening unexpected stories!

Baffling Issue XXII December 2025 Bogi Takács J.D. Harlock Yeonsoo Julian Kim Ayida Shonibar Meagan Kane U.M. Agoawike Callín Frankland Marc Ruvolo Xauri'EL Zwaan Ellis Saxey Chris Clemens Phoenix Alexander

Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

A young man, Micah, kneels in a field of purple flowers. He holds a bundle of purple flowers in one hand while reaching to gather more with his other hand. He has peach skin, golden hair, and brown eyes. He wears a white shirt, brown pants, and a wide-brimmed straw hat with flowers woven through. Behind him, there is a verdant forest of trees. Bees buzz around the man as he looks down towards his work. The title, Sweet & Wild, is above him and the author’s name, Alex Larkspur, is below him.

💛🐝GIVEAWAY🐝💛

I'll pick a winner on January 3rd!
The winner will receive a signed physical copy of Sweet & Wild, my MM Fantasy Romance, and a few other goodies!

Second place will get a digital copy!

To enter:
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💛For an extra entry, comment below!

yet another year of trying to read all the unread books on my shelf while also buying more books. I fear I will never get passed the second shelf

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:

www.radonjournal.com/submit

Somehow forgot to mention that I also spoke at two conferences on supporting queer youth/understanding queer culture, and one of those was in Vancouver!! Two of my biggest achievements tbh

White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "POETRY: We are looking for unpublished speculative poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. You can submit up to three poems at a time, and simultaneous submissions are always welcome. We pay $50 per poem (USD). Open January 1, 2026! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."

White text atop a purple illustrated background. The OTHERSIDE logo is at the top. Below that, it reads: "FICTION: We are looking for unpublished speculative fiction (up to 4000 words) by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror: we love it all! Simultaneous submissions are welcome! We pay 8 cents/word (USD). Open January 1, 2026! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."

Reminder, original fiction/poetry submissions open TOMORROW NIGHT, at 12:01am Eastern Time on January 1st 👀

Reprint submissions will temporarily close at the same time. Nonfiction will remain open! We can't wait to read your work. We're so excited for 2026 🪐🗡️

othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Very submission heavy year this year but I'm still very proud of what I've done.
65 submissions
1 publication, 1 story held

One SFF short fiction anthology edited and my website set up, a novella drafted/edited and with beta readers

Fingers crossed I get some new short stories out next year!!

It is genuinely one of my favourite books, it's so damn good

god I hate the it's so over we're so back of liking your work