Ahhhh! My story, “Lotus Dew for the Emperor’s Tea,” is featured here in @lmanusos.bsky.social ‘s new roundup, alongside so many excellent stories!

A well-timed rain, the scent of gunpowder, kids reciting their lessons without a hitch
🎶 These are a few of my favorite things 🎶

Jin Shengtan's "33 Nice Things" is "a digression so powerful that it broke free of its original context [and became] beloved in its own right" (1/2)

Finally some useful writing advice.

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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♥️

Loved being part of this roundtable with these fabulous #WomenInHorror. Brilliant minds with wonderful insight and great recs too! Thank you, Gwendolyn for all that you do!!

Ask Your Doctor If Drinking Me Is Right for You - Electric Literature “Spinal Tap,” flash fiction by Angela Liu

I have a new weird flash story out today about spinal taps! 💉

Absolutely lost my mind to see my story featured on the top page of @electricliterature.com. Dream come true 😭

Delighted to have my book, The House of Illusionists, featured in @acwise.bsky.social 's column, along with so many wonderful books and stories!

Left cover of The House of Illusionists and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg featuring a East Asian style building with a tree blooming with purple flowers behind it. Right REVIEWS Quote Fogg’s focus on endings and societies declining or being destroyed may hit harder today than when these stories were originally written, which is why her consistent emphasis on the power of beauty—if not to save then at least to somehow redeem such endings—is important. reviewer: Stephen Case 23 February 2026 Strange Horizons

The House of Illusionists and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg 
reviewed by Stephen Case

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#bookreviews #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi

Scion by Thomas Ha Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Hey there. Latest story, now out, "Scion." Strangeness. Estrangement. And the history that gets lost in between. A son and father in a moving house. Deranged relatives at cross-purposes. A community fleeing a murderous intruder. A crumbling lunar colony in revolt. Hope folks enjoy. Twisty one.

Check out my flash fiction review of @pedroiniguez.bsky.social short story in @nightmare-magazine.com! It was my first time checking out the magazine . . . I'll be back for more! christirsuzanne.substack.com/p/flash-fict...

There is No Such Thing as ‘Real’ Wuxia The global popularity of Chinese historical fantasy has brought forward a new era of female writers. How did this revolution start?

Thrilled my article on the contributions of female writers to the #Wuxia genre (published recently in ArtReview's magagzine) is now on their website. The work of women writers and gender rep has been a major part of my research, which I hope to put in the upcoming book! artreview.com/there-is-no-...

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And if you haven't experienced prom night yet...

The Year in Review 2025 by A.C. Wise The Year in Review 2025 It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of another year, or at the beginning of a new one by the time this is published. Whatever else is going on in the world, reading contin…

My year end review for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online. If you're looking for recommendations of some excellent fiction published last year, I've got you covered!

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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.

6 Books with A.C Wise A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling and Hooked , along with the recent short story collection The Ghost Sequences . Her wo...

Today I'm over at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social doing one of my favorite things - talking about books!

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Instrumentalisation is making everything a means to an end | Aeon Essays From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits

In this brilliantly to-the-point Essay, the philosopher Julian Baggini laments the now-ubiquitous need to tie every human activity to some extrinsic, utilitarian value – from forest bathing to oxytocin-boosting hugs – in what he calls the ‘instrumentalisation of everything’

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...

Eeee!!!! I am absolutely thrilled and delighted to see that Wolf Moon, Antler Moon made the final Stoker Award Ballot in the long fiction category. Huge congratulations to all my fellow finalists! I don't think it's online yet, but it's in an HWA email so it's really real! 🐺🌕🦌🌕

Lightspeed, Escape Pod, and PodCastle: Review by Maria Haskins Lightspeed 11/25 Escape Pod 10/30/25 PodCastle 10/21/25, 11/4/25 Lightspeed’s November issue starts with Angela Liu’s “How to Set Up Your Mourning Robot”, an incisive science fiction story written …

“In the Zone” by Lisa M. Bradley from Lightspeed Magazine, “The Magnolia Returns” by Eden Royce from PodCastle, and more short fic recs from Maria Haskins

Six Books with A.C Wise A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling and Hooked , along with the recent short story collection The Ghost Sequences . Her wo...

Today at the Blog, @princejvstin.com asks Ballad of the Bone Road author @acwise.bsky.social about her Six Books
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/six-...

Back in McSweeney's with some Wuthering Heights red flags 🚩🚩🚩

Book Review: ECO 24 edited by Marissa Van Uden A speculative fiction anthology devoted to ecological fiction. Whether you call it ecofiction, cli-fi, climate fiction or any other of a num...

Amazing review by the wonderful @princejvstin.com for @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social!
“A strong offering from Violet Lichen that helps showcase what the press and its mission is all about. ECO24 is, in essence, a collection that is more than the sum of its parts.”
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book...

Nerds of a Feather 2026 Awards Eligibility Awards season has once again begun. We began by looking at all the works we collectively have in our sights for nominations in our Recomme...

Today at NOAF, we toot our own 2026 Award Eligibility, both as a periodical and our individual members of the Flock
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Piglet Delivers by Maria Haskins in issue 152 of Apex Magazine.

Story day! My story "Piglet Delivers" is now available to read online in Apex Magazine! I am so excited to share this strange story of my heart with the world. If you grew up with Milne's books about the Hundred Acre Wood, you might feel (somewhat) at home. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Clarkesworld 11/25: Review by A.C. Wise Clarkesworld 11/25 “The Stone Played at Tengen” by R.H. Wesley in the November issue of Clarkesworld is a lovely and meditative story. When a strange constellation appears in the sky mimicking the …

My review of the November issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!

locusmag.com/review/clark...

A photo of a bunch of short story collections

Do you want to read some beautifully weird and frequently heart breaking scifi / fantasy / horror / litfic short story collections???

Of course you do!

Any of these will do the job for you :).

Don’t sleep on them!

POETRY by Carolina Marchioro The Secret to being a Dragon Quote you’re a girl-shaped puncture wound 16 February 2026 Strange Horizons

The Secret to being a Dragon
by Carolina Marchioro

"you’re a girl-shaped puncture wound"

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An honor to see my short story "Stomata" & DARKNESS MOST FOWL listed on the Preliminary Ballot of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Awards. Thank you, Elaine Pascale, and Godmother of Horror Press. For voting HWA members, the link to the story is in the comments and good luck, everyone!

Shoveling snow & then all the phone notifications. Responding is difficult with numb fingers!

All the love to the contributors of #silkandsinewantho who made this antho so special. Your stories give me hope and life and fight.

Oh & while I have your attention: Stand up, Stand together and #RESIST

Honored to have Geneve as part of SILK & SINEW and am so happy I get to share a TOC with her in DARKNESS MOST FOWL. So many wonderful and unbelievably talented people. I am thankful I get to be here with them! And big congrats to Elaine and Kristi for the preliminary ballot listing!!!