After a very long very wet day, it was nice to come home to the latest print version of @thedeadlands.com on my doorstep. Thankfully the magazine didn’t get wet. Soggy paper is hard to read.

Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st!

If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈

My writing has always been an on-and-off thing. I just moved back to “on” again, but putting words together into a coherent story is still a struggle. I’m pushing through the hard parts so I can eventually make something good. And I’d rather not write at all than let the plagiarism bot do it for me.

Anathema: Spec from the Margins Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world!

Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

Cover art by Helen Whistberry for my book Time Travel Is Easy. An Archaeopteryx skeleton dances in a rain of feathers in front of black tree trunks and a blue background.

It’s poetry month! And I have a poetry book!

TIME TRAVEL IS EASY examines Deep Time, queerness, childhood traumas, dinosaurs, and the dread of the late Anthropocene. It includes my Rhysling-nominated poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings.” Available here:

mimulus.weebly.com/books.html

Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

Issue 2 submissions are OPEN NOW! We are looking for speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors! Submissions are limited to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors from April 1-7. If that's you, send us your work 👀

General submissions will be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from April 8-21!

cover art, a swan alights on a swirling cosmic sea; behind it, the sky is the colors of the trans flag.

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is available to preorder now: store.tenebrouspress.com

cover art by @mxmorgan.com

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

A collage of 40-ish badasses

Both of us at Tenebrous are deeply honored to present the 40+ badass 🏳️‍⚧️creators🏳️‍⚧️ who will comprise the Table of Contents for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, a New Weird Cosmic Horror anthology due out 10.06.26!

Full deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/3/...

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

Free Horror eBooks Written By Trans Authors (Trans Rights Readathon 2026) I know I'm a bit late with getting this organized and posted, but in my defense, I forgot. Anyway! Better late than never, right? So, starting right now and...

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!

buttondown.com/ghoulish/arc...

it's #transdayofvisibility and i have a short story collection coming out about the beautiful, horrible parameters of a body (and, depending on who you are, how the world treats it). if that speaks to you, consider pre-ordering

As of today, I don't know any trans person in KS who received direct help from a relocation org. If you are such a person, I would appreciate hearing from you.

Lots of trans people in KS who are in need and/or trying to leave, rely on mutual aid and QT orgs operating in KS. List below.

Aphid is almost to goal - hope we can make one more push!

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COVER REVEAL IS HERE!! 👀‼️🤍

🌊🪷🎭An Empire in the Clouds🎭🪷🌊 forthcoming in September!

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now! www.othersidespec.com

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE!

Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️

othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

I haven’t done anything creative in a long time, but I finally started reading (very) short fiction again. Life has been lifing and I’m so exhausted. I trust that I can use that to create new stories and infuse new life into older pieces that I perhaps lacked sufficient life experience to finish.

The author holding her book like it's the lion king

A hardcover in oranges and reds, truck on the cover, title is The Night Ship, Alex Woodroe

The same book open to chapter three, called "the land of lonesomeness"

Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...

2026 is the year to get UNHINGED 😈

We're open to subs for the wildest, weirdest speculative erotica you've got: make it queer, make it unexpected, make it HOT 🥵🐙💦

www.nygelmag.com/submissions

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.

Beginning of the year plea: I am always on the lookout for collections of weird fiction by nonwhite authors, especially those that will be published in 2026. If you wrote one or are publishing one or just know of one, please get in touch. doomsdayer.wordpress.com/contact

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/

Today’s the day! My second published short story “Second Love” is officially out in the anthology Into the Dark from All Worlds Wayfarer! Check out the link for table of contents and links if you would like to order a copy. www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...

I have a story in this one! "Imperfect Monsters" is a YA horror story that blends time, space, and fairytales. I'm so excited for it to be out in the world tomorrow!

Out today!! Includes my story, "Phalanges and Flames."

👀

Belated congratulations, Alex!

"When the world goes dark in 1980s Romania, Rosi is trapped on the truck she uses as a smuggling vessel along with the driver, Gigi, her arranged-marriage fiancé. The mood of the novel perfectly matches the grim and oppressive descriptions of this newly changed world. As cosmic horrors erupt around them, Rosi gathers the other survivors together to make their way to a hoped-for safety, led only by the radio signals they pick up. Woodroe’s writing is tight and clean, emphasizing the desperation and also the real fear that people would experience in this apocalyptic setting. The novel skillfully mixes celestial terror and off-the-wall weirdness while making good use of tweaked and twisted science, the Communist Romania setting, and believable characters. The ending hopefully paves the way for a sequel. VERDICT: Woodroe (Whisperwood) offers a haunting and propulsive treat in this survival horror story, whose read-alikes include The Mist and The Langoliers, both by Stephen King, and God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines."

I might need to be pinched because I can't quite believe this Library Journal review is really real and really mine

❤️❤️❤️❤️😅 Who over there needs an alibi? I'm great in a crisis and you were with me all day that day I swear

2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.

There will be no cap.

See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:

strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

My short story “Second Love” is officially out in the anthology Into the Dark on December 21st! This will be my second published story and my only piece published in 2025. Click the link in the quoted post for preorder options.

The Into the Dark anthology is now available for pre-order in hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions ahead of it's 12/21/25 release date!

Find out where you can claim a copy, or new themed merch, at: www.allworldswayfarer.com/anthology-in...

We can't wait to delve Into the Dark with you!