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✍️ CALL TO SUBMIT
⚗️ 🔭 "Bad Science" 🧪 ⚛️
1,000 wds max
Deadline: 3-14-2026
💲Pays 5¢/word

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agitamag.com/submissions/

A creative life should nourish you, not drain you. That belief sits at the heart of my conversation on Making It. Sending encouragement to all the creatives showing up today. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SFFCommunity

If you're balancing art and business and wondering if you're doing it "right," you're not alone. I shared some reflections on this journey in my recent Making It interview. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SFFCommunity

Creative momentum doesn't come from hustle. It comes from trust, rhythm, and partnership. Grateful for this thoughtful conversation on creativity and sustainability. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SFFCommunity

Messy first drafts aren't something to fix; they're something to work with. I loved talking about this (and more) with Michi Lantz on Making It. Writers, be kind to yourselves. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SFFCommunity

Dragons or spaceships — which one owns your soul?” 🐉🚀 Choose wisely

#BookSky #FantasyBooks #SciFiReads #SFFCommunity #BookNerd #ReadingCommunity #FandomLife

A creative life should nourish you, not drain you. That belief sits at the heart of my conversation on Making It. Sending encouragement to all the creatives showing up today. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SFFCommunity

If you're balancing art and business and wondering if you're doing it "right," you're not alone. I shared some reflections on this journey in my recent Making It interview. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SFFCommunity

Creative momentum doesn't come from hustle. It comes from trust, rhythm, and partnership. Grateful for this thoughtful conversation on creativity and sustainability. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SFFCommunity

Messy first drafts aren't something to fix; they're something to work with. I loved talking about this (and more) with Michi Lantz on Making It. Writers, be kind to yourselves. tinyurl.com/y9dnmrxj #SFFCommunity

Submissions Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is OPEN Night Shades opens sporadically and for indeterminate periods of time. The detai...

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📢 CALL TO SUBMIT
🖤 Night Shades
✒️ FLASH – 500 wds max ✏️
⏰ open now ⏰
4 stories each month
💲$65
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www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Book cover showing offer for a free short story

For a free copy of the Nightingale prequel, Dawn of Fate, please visit my website to join my newsletter and get info on upcoming releases, deleted scenes, and bonus epilogues. melissamickelsen.com

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Roses & Wildflowers Autumn 2026 Submissions - Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theatre Le Chat Noir: Alternative Histories with Cats! Submissions are open for Roses & Wildflowers' Autumn 2026 issue.

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📢 CALL TO SUBMIT
🐈‍⬛Le Chat Noir: Alternative Histories With Cats 😼
🐈‍⬛ Fiction + Poems ✒️
⏰open 'til filled ⏰
💲$15-$20
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@dmcwriter.bsky.social @morganvl.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/ro...

ANTAGONIST (11) The Algorithm inspects me. #FiftyWords #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Programming #NarrativeWarfare — high cognitive cost — low emotional signaling — low repetition — high interpretive load It's gaze is unsettling. — Attention economy (null) — Do not promote — unsuitable for extraction Infiltration complete. Education begins.

ANTAGONIST (11)

An algorithm inspects social media content to determine how to control and manipulate it.

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#FiftyWords #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Programming #NarrativeWarfare #WritingCommunity #SFFCommunity #Amwriting #Microfiction

Wordsmiths “Born Under Saturn” Part 3 — Poets Paul Verlaine, Samuel Loveman, and Clark Ashton Smith

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🪐 ✒️ Wordsmiths “Born Under Saturn”
🖤 🐦‍⬛ Part 3 — Paul Verlaine and the Lovecraftian poets Samuel Loveman & Clark Ashton Smith
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greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/wordsmiths...

I also had a lot of support and advice from friends in #publishing and specifically in the #SFFCommunity, and while I secured a handful of exciting referrals, all the agents who ended up offering to represent me I queried without reference. Bless the friend that helped me punch up my query letter!

Weeping Mary (1) Mr. Blue and Mr. Grey assigned to a mission in Mexico. The Lightbringer manifested there a miracle, corrupting the faithful. A statue of Mary, wept tears of blood. It became a relic, venerated by all. The town and its people consumed in a freak wildfire. They retrieved a flame-kissed Mary. #FiftyWords #BlueSky #Mexico #BlueAndGrey #ReligiousHorror #Manifestation © 2025 Related short story: # Stray Thoughts of a Fallen Angel https://thaddeus.substack.com/p/stray-thoughts-of-a-fallen-angel

WEEPING MARY (1)

Two Agency operatives, Mr. Blue and Mr. Grey investigate a Mexican mission where a miracle or manifestation has been declared.

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#FiftyWords #Supernatural #FlashFiction #MicroFiction
#Amwriting #BlackSky #WritingSky #WritingCommunity #SFFCommunity

ShadowVine Book I is already live, and the first Grumble Snoot–narrated companion drops today/tomorrow.
If you like dark fantasy, strange gods, messy heroes, and rude pigs… yeah, that’s me.
Links in bio. #darkfantasy #amwritingfantasy #grimdarkfantasy #sffcommunity

ShadowVine, Seen From a Pig Who’s Too Damn Lucid by grumble snoot – survivor, observer, critic, and lover of soup-scented covers (annotated by Mama Grozma, who denies nothing)

#darkfantasy #amwritingfantasy #grimdarkfantasy #sffcommunity open.substack.com/pub/thesnoot...

THE snoot’S NOTEBOOK Foreword (or rather: Pre-Snort)** Dictated by Grumble Snoot. Written nowhere else.

#darkfantasy #amwritingfantasy #grimdarkfantasy #sffcommunity Just launched my Substack for ShadowVine.
If you enjoy dark fantasy, strange gods, and a very opinionated pig, the first post is live.
Come take a sniff.
snootscribe.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/thesnoot...

a close up of a pig 's face with its mouth open and looking at the camera . ALT: a close up of a pig 's face with its mouth open and looking at the camera .

Entering Bluesky with ShadowVine — a world of old gods, ruined magic, and one very judgmental pig. Glad to be here.
#darkfantasy #amwritingfantasy #grimdarkfantasy #sffcommunity

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.

#SFFcommunity 💣 💥 #poetrycommunity
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter & rhyme.
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @alpbeck.com
www.wired.com/story/poems-...

STL digs into how cowardice in modern scifi reflects and shapes our own fears. inkican.com/stl-hero... #scifi #SFFcommunity #ThoughtLeadership

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❓“You’re going to be dead in 24 hours. Would you like to save the world?”
✍️📕 A detailed review of "Letters from an Imaginary Country" by Theodora Goss, a member of SFPA
@swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @bookspotlight.bsky.social
www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/lett...

STL pushes back on shallow takes about what is wrong with scifi and offers real analysis instead. inkican.com/category... #sciencefiction #SFFcommunity #criticism #ThoughtLeadership

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⏰ Call to Submit: 23rd Annual Triangulation Anthology
💔 Theme: Bad Romance + 👻 speculative elements 🧟‍♀️
💲 Parsec Ink pays writers & poets 3¢ per word
⏰ Deadline: 31 Jan 2026
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www.parsecink.org/submissions

Honestly, knew I made the right decision when I felt good about it after! No regrets! It seems like I've accidentally written a second book... A lil risky for a debut. Good thing my next manuscript is JUST ABOUT ready to submit to agents who requested it after reading FB! #SFFCommunity #KeepWriting

Your head and your heart are valuable things - be with friends and family who know how to see you and feel you and stand up for you. I know you deserve it. #Thoughtful #Reality #human #SFFCommunity

Your head and your heart are valuable things - be with friends and family who know how to see you and feel you and stand up for you. I know you deserve it. #Thoughtful #Reality #human #SFFCommunity

COVER REVEAL! ‼️
We are SO excited to announce our newest issue to our collection of Studies in the Fantastic!
This is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of gaming, gender, and violence.

Coming this fall!🍁🎃🍂 Stay tuned!
#Gaming #Gender #Violence #SFF #SFFCommunity