😭🫶🫶thank you, i hope you enjoy it!

!! so thrilled for you Angela!! Congrats💗💗

Couldn't be prouder--I'm new to staff, but a longtime fanboy of SH 💜

“It was hard to choose which story to feature, since I liked all of them” ‼️ We are HONORED (which is code for screaming in excitement) by this shout-out and thrilled to see “The Homeowner’s Bride” by @ayidashonibar.bsky.social featured in this incredible lineup! You can read this story right here:

new story day! This story about reproductive freedom, women + their networks of care, and dragons has been living in my head for a while now, and I’m so grateful to Austin and @strangehorizons.bsky.social for helping it come to fruition💗

new story day! This story about reproductive freedom, women + their networks of care, and dragons has been living in my head for a while now, and I’m so grateful to Austin and @strangehorizons.bsky.social for helping it come to fruition💗

Incredibly honored by this generous description of “The Last God of Talam Dor” (@giganotosaurus.bsky.social) as “a devastatingly powerful story about love and faith.” Means a lot to see this one recommended. You can find it here:

giganotosaurus.org/2026/01/01/t...

😍 🔥🔥🔥
CONGRATULATIONS
@geneveflynn.bsky.social & @leemurraywriter.bsky.social!
Ecstatic to see TWO of SILK & SINEW's contributors nominated for Australian Shadows Awards in the Poetry, Short Fiction, and Non-Fiction categories!
♥️AND congrats to wonderful friend & cheerleader @ledaniels.bsky.social♥️

I can't tell you how honored I feel that the Horror Writers Association has named Bad Hand Books the recipient of this year's Specialty Press Award. It's a privilege to work with so many outstanding individuals. I can't wait to see everyone this June.

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congrats Angela!! Can’t wait to read🫶

What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom - Uncanny Magazine After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never...

I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

“What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...

Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora

Call it the Stoker Ballot Bump? We just had an order for 1,000 copies of Silk & Sinew come through the distributor yesterday. Congrats to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of the authors on the continued success of this title.

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I’m so excited to have a story in this incredible issue! “The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” is 50% insistence that queer love is magic, 50% insistence that poetry is magic too. I hope you love this one. 🌳 🐸 ☀️ 🌊

Super Achievement in Long Fiction Ballingrude, Nathan - Cathedral of the Drowned (Tor Nightfire/Titan Books) Ha, Thomas - "Uncertain Sons" (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Undertow Publications) Langan, Sarah - "Squid Teeth" (Reactor) Langan, Sarah - Pam Kowolski is a Monster! (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Wise, A.C. - "Wolf Moon, Antler Moon" (Reactor)

Oh wow. "Uncertain Sons," the original novelette in UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, is a Stoker finalist in the Long Fic category! Congrats to the finalists! Thanks to readers who enjoyed and shared the book. And huge thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for supporting the novelette and collection!

Thank you for all of your hard work Kristy💗so thrilled for this!

To my dear terrifyingly talented contributors--look what glorious things we have wrought together. Thank you Bad Hand for always being 1000% percent behind this project and to the HWA for this honor.
Congratulations to all the fabulous nominees. And to everyone who dares to write stories.

Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asia… Named by the New York Public Library as one of the best…

I'm thrilled to see Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora on the final ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards. Huge congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, all of her brilliant authors, and to all of this year's nominees.

Read it: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

congrats Wen Wen!!

Contract signed! I'm going to be in @castofwonders.org again! This is a reprint of my @talesfeathers.bsky.social story from last year, "The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent". I'm so excited to hear what they'll do with the narration.

2026 Fusion Fragment Lineup Natasha Ali: “Parthenogenesis” in FF#29 Sophie Casarico: “Diet Tips for the Apocalpyse” in FF#28 Jaye Case: “The Animal Years” in FF#27 Chloe N. Clark: “The Rocket Equation” in FF#29 Corey Farrenkopf: “Grave Bells” in FF#28 Elliott Gish: “The Stone Garden” in FF#29 Louis Inglis Hall: “The Children of Cadmus” in FF#29 Claire Jia-Wen: “In the Wake of Whales” in FF#28 Anya Leigh Josephs: “A Prescription for Suicide” in FF#27 Ewen Ma: “One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods” in FF#27 Escher McDonnell-Maulsby: “Giant” in FF#29 Tuesday Pil: “u last saw hana in the mageverse” in FF#28 Sarah M. Saif: “Graftage” in FF#29 Ross Showalter: “Extinction” in FF#27 Erin Strubbe: “Birdguts” in FF#28 Cate W. Tam: “Overgrowth” in FF#27 Katharine Tyndall: “Digital Love Spell - 78% Effective!” in FF#27 Francis Van Ganson: “Iso E Super” in FF#28 Allison Wall: “Chutes, Slides, and Ladders” in FF#28 Bree Wernicke: “May It Please the Profit” in FF#29 J.Y. Zhang: “The Sum of Her Parts” in FF#27 Audrey Zhou: “(Non)Deterministic Finite Automata” in FF#28

The full FF 2026 lineup is officially set and I can't tell you how excited I am for what we've got in store for you!

We've got:
-writers making their second appearances in FF!
-writers you'll likely recognize from their work in other mags!
-writers making their debuts in SFFH short fiction land!

GUYS!! I can’t believe it, but my story tied for 1st place in the Uncanny Reader Poll! I’ve never gotten 1st place in anything, nevermind for something I’ve written, nevermind alongside such insanely good writers. Thank you so much to all the readers! 🙏🏻

Congrats!! So well deserved💗💗

thank you for reading Angela!!💗

They say Hugo noms are open, so just reupping. Thanks if you previously read or enjoyed any of these. No collection category, but if you liked UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, the titular novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (sans other stories) is eligible. As are other-other stories in thread. Thanks!

Eight original short stories published last year. All at wenwenwrites.wordpress.com/publications... but a favorite was in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social "Saltwater Mother" magazine.trollbreath.com/saltwater-mo...

thank you Tina!! fork found in kitchen moment for me I fear🫶

sapphic fairy tale story by audrey alert 🚨

What Comes First, the House or the Haunting? | Los Angeles Review of Books ‘Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora,’ a new anthology edited by Kristy Park Kulski, uses storytelling to demonstrate why ‘the ghosts of our futures cannot just be entiti...

Couldn't stop thinking about this review from #LosAngelesReviewofBooks -- it does more than just review Silk & Sinew, it digs into the heart of the book and its works. Thank you Jered Mabaquiao and #LARB. Truly, what an honor.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/silk...

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bestie I adore u🫶

new audrey story !!! what is the boundary between what is true and what we want to be true? and how do we blur that boundary? and also sapphic yearning