We are racing the clock! Help us meet our fundraising goal by 11AM PDT today (Tues. 4/14/26)!
You can donate at locusmag.com/igg26 or via our bio! We still have a ton of cool items you can claim as a reward for donating. Catch them before they go!
Delighted that khōréō has been nominated again, and so pleased to see such a range of excellent work recognised 🙌🏼 congratulations to all the finalists!
Special guest-edited issue featuring speculative poetry recs by Marisca Pichette!
Huge thanks to @marisca.bsky.social for curating this wonderful list!
Bumping this up again for awards consideration!
Next Sunday, April 05, we’re doing a little celebration on Instagram Live to mark the launch of the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS! There will be a little reading from the book (by @darthj.uno the Klytemnestra of our audiobook!) and an AMA session.
Join us?
I don’t usually campaign for awards, but this year I’ve decided to go for broke for a Fan Writer Hugo Award. Yay me!
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Just an update that we are slowly but surely inching our way to 50% funded!
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We are currently open for reprints from Anthologies and Collections published, or due to be published, in 2026.*
Books only, not magazines or periodicals. Anything up to 6000 words (we like flash!)
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(*Strictly 2026. We’ll open for general subs in August)
Happy book birthday!
One day I'll remember how to post a newsletter at a time when people read their email but in my defence I am on a ship in the Pacific ocean & time is, among other things, a social construct from which I have been abstracted for the foreseeable future ANYWAY MY NEW BOOK IS OUT TODAY
Genuinely so cool to see what FIYAH has been doing with Black speculation and Asian structures/tropes like kishotenketsu and isekai. More please!
Hey horror fans, do you need some extra reading material for this year's #TransRightsReadathon? We got you covered! Here are some free eBooks written & edited by trans authors & published by Ghoulish Books. Please share!
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✨ UNTIL TOMORROW!
A RIVER FROM THE SKY by @aijiang.bsky.social is available to preorder from Barnes & Noble with 25% off! Just use the code PREORDER25 at checkout!
#BNPreorder https://tinyurl.com/4reyu4pf
Honored that “möbius loop” by @spicycloaca.bsky.social in Issue 5.1 was longlisted for the award. And congratulations to Silvia Park and all the finalists!
The best part of the Poetry Nebula Award is that you can read the entire slate of nominees with only five minutes of your time.
Poets are like late-night robbers, coming to beat your heart with emotions, and then fleeing before your nervous system alarms go off.
Links below
If you have printed books with Ingram Spark, please take a moment to fill in their "opt out" form, so they know not to sell your books to Big Tech companies that scan printed media to train their datasets.
www.ingramcontent.com/page/ai-opt-...
Our first issue this year is out, featuring five incredible stories and stunning cover art inspired by traditional Persian motifs. Loved working on this one 🤩
because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
Thank you for featuring our work! Hope you all had a wonderful time with these stories 🧡
新年快樂! 🧧 Happy Year of the Fire Horse. This is my story about a mechanical horse that loves arson and revolution 🔥free text and audio available @khoreo.bsky.social issue 3.4
新年快樂！there was so much beauty in this piece, what a great callback to kick off horse year 🧡
Fungi in SFF Special Issues call for non-fiction submissions
Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF!
More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Got a new research article published this month, on Choose Your Own Adventure time travel as a decolonial response to the Singapore story. It’s open-access so will be available to everyone to read!
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Reminder that ANYBODY can nominate a work for the Le Guin Prize.
Not only can you nominate your favorite books of last year. You SHOULD.
Greetings, vocal artisans! Escape Pod is looking for a Trinidadian woman narrator to narrate a story we've got on the conveyor belt. If you're interested, please see our narrator guidelines here!
TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN JANUARY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's December's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
