Lightly-wrinkled textile portrait: color-blocked fabrics pieced together with zigzag-stitch line work. A dark green figure with red nails carefully threads the thick brows of a redhead with voluminous hair. A quilt-like pattern fills the background.

April showers bring: our fresh APRIL ISSUE. 🌼

WORDS by: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen.

ART by: Ainaz Alipour.

PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social. buff.ly/cyFupU7

AAAAAAAA OMG DIVAS I JUST WOKE UP BUT NEW EPISODE OF @splitlipthemag.bsky.social IS OUT TODAY! 🫦✨

friends, this issue’s a stunner. I hope you peep it, especially the review of @megpillow.bsky.social’s gorgeous essay in @literaryhub.bsky.social. It wouldn’t leave me, so I figured I’d write about it.

Photo of a laundry mat.

Need a story for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Senior Assistant Flash Editor @translunarytree.bsky.social's story “Permanent Press” is in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. You're gonna love this laundry-mat owner story 💕: buff.ly/RN1WL1F

Permanent Press - Uncanny Magazine LA  NDRY or L  UNDRY. Those were the two choices. You never knew which one you were gonna get. The letters took turns to be fickle, blinking and spluttering in a game of chance. Mr. Lee, the laundry-mat owner, was stingy with the upkeep. He let his storefront waver, caught between two versions of itself. […]

I have a new story out in issue sixty-nine of Uncanny magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social !!
“Permanent Press” is about bubbles, cosmic counterparts, hard choices, and a mysterious laundromat!

You can read it here!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/perm...

Permanent Press - Uncanny Magazine LA  NDRY or L  UNDRY. Those were the two choices. You never knew which one you were gonna get. The letters took turns to be fickle, blinking and spluttering in a game of chance. Mr. Lee, the laundry-mat owner, was stingy with the upkeep. He let his storefront waver, caught between two versions of itself. […]

I have a new story out in issue sixty-nine of Uncanny magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social !!
“Permanent Press” is about bubbles, cosmic counterparts, hard choices, and a mysterious laundromat!

You can read it here!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/perm...

“The what-ifs. They cling to your clothes. Then, when the time’s right, they split off.”

Incredibly cool story, please read this

Sunwoo Jeong

New novelette! "Permanent Press" by Sunwoo Jeong! buff.ly/J27SVhl

Interview: Sunwoo Jeong - Uncanny Magazine Sunwoo Jeong is a Korean writer living in NYC and Seoul in alternation. She is an academic linguist by day and an author by night. Her work has appeared in Split Lip, Fantasy, Lightspeed, and Uncanny ...

In the current @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, I interview @translunarytree.bsky.social about "Permanent Press," a dreamlike tale of family, hard choices, and an unusual laundromat.

Read the story:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/perm...

And the interview:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/inte...

So good & riveting it may also be for good vibes ppl too 🤓🐴 🔥

This dragon gif is so cuuute! 😍 Thank you! 🐉💕

"The bog speaks to me in burps.
I stand on its edge and hold out my palm.
A plum—blood red and dewy—falls into my hand from the sky."

Assistant Flash Editor @translunarytree.bsky.social has a little dragon story out in Fantasy Magazine! Give it a read: buff.ly/lj0k50r

K-Book Trends - Book-Stay, a Romantic Night with Books K-Book Trends offers Korea’s highly informative publishing content to those in the global publishing industry.

My new obsession is Korean bookstays. www.kbook-eng.or.kr/sub/trend.ph...

My new story is out in Fantasy Magazine! If you need a smol dragon in your life, please take a gander! 🐉💕 Grateful to be a part of this lovely issue!🦔💜

in case you missed it!

Issue 98 is in your inbox, subscribers! and begins it's free roll-out on the 26th.

Click the subscriber link if you, too, want to support Fantasy ✨ ✨

"For a long time, I thought I had failed when I left academia, but I discovered that I am a librarian, not a professor."

This time last year, we published Kasey Butcher Santana's CONTRABAND MARGINALIA. Find this memoir on being a jail librarian here: buff.ly/7GEJcNM

The Fan by David Marino In his youth, The Fan experienced joy. This was his first mistake. Now, The Fan anticipates the arrival of the newest incarnation of The IP. The new incarnation is a Bold New Direction for The IP a...

"In his youth, The Fan experienced joy. This was his first mistake."

Absolutely SMITTEN to feature a new @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social story this week! If you've ever been The Fan (I've been The Fan), then you won't want to miss this incredible look at the cult of IP and fandom! Go get it!

The cover for Fantasy Issue 98! A brown-haired, light-skinned figure kneels next to a giant white bird, tending to an arrow wound. The cover is awash in autumnal shades of orange, cream, and brown.

And now for our Issue 98 COVER 🎉 🎉 🎉

Wound, by Zi Xu

Fantasy Issue 98 Short Stories:

The Dragon and the Bog, by @translunarytree.bsky.social

They Return, by @ecastroianni.bsky.social

Flash:

The Memory Breach, by @wunderkind100.bsky.social

Knife Plus, by @teemcbee.bsky.social ‬

🎉 🎉 🎉

Abstract painting. Jewel-toned waves of color—black, blue, red, green, and white—band and blend together in streaks against an orange background. The effect is like a jagged puddle made of melting agates.

Psst. Our JUNE ISSUE is out and we'd love for you to check out the awesome work from our contributors — including this amazing cover art by Jasper Glen: buff.ly/t7X4ey3

Hexagon, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Reviews by Charles Payseur Hexagon Spring ’25 Lightspeed 3/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/6/25 I’m sad to report that the Spring issue of Hexa­gon is their last, at least for now. And the final issue opens with a reminder of t…

“To m’Pa, Between Two Planets” by Uchechukwu Nwaka from @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social, “The Lexicon of Lethe” by @translunarytree.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fic recs from @ClowderofTwo - locusmag.com/2025/06...

Abstract painting. Jewel-toned waves of color—black, blue, red, green, and white—band and blend together in streaks against an orange background. The effect is like a jagged puddle made of melting agates.

We're enjoying Summer with our brilliant new JUNE ISSUE 😎 Enjoy it at our website: buff.ly/M9YTorb

All the love to our contributors!
WORDS: Amelia Valasek, Jack Barrie, Ella Harrigan, Alex Bortell
ART: Jasper Glen
PLUS: @taniamalik.bsky.social interviews Esinam Bediako

My new "What to Read" column also features fiction by @ecastroianni.bsky.social @avgreenewrites.bsky.social @ravenjake.bsky.social @derrickboden.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @translunarytree.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social & more.

Special thanks to the Lightspeed editors and to Stefan Rudnicki for the wonderful performance in the podcast. Much gratitude also to those who provided feedbacks on earlier versions of this piece, esp. Jess R and friends from Clarion and TinHouse💜

The Lexicon of Lethe - Lightspeed Magazine We called it the monster because we could, though none of us found the label to be particularly satisfying. After a certain point, Yerim started calling it the Logos Pilgrim. Which was understandable,...

My story, The Lexicon of Lethe, is out in Lightspeed @lightspeedmagazine.com⚡️It’s about a French-Korean restaurant and a word-eating monster✍️💜 Link to the story provided below — there’s both a text and a podcast version!

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

The Perfect Fuss by Sunwoo Jeong It’s cards night. Ms. Mouse flings in her final stake. Chittery gasps. Isn’t that the girl’s scrunchie?⁠—Midnight purple with golden threads, velvet soft with a perfect grip? …

A smol piece of mine about mice is up now on Lit Nerds! Link to story provided below!🐭🐭🐭💜

thelitnerds.com/2025/03/31/t...

Thank you for the kind words!💜

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

👻👻🔥🔥🥞🥞 🕳️💜

Composite photo: a girl dressed all in blue appears cloned, captured twirling in sundry positions. Her skirt billows and she smiles radiantly. Her brown hair and shadows dance with her in the sunlight.

Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro
ART: Daisuke Takakura
PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

A jewel-toned collage: warm retro colors against an emerald background. A buttoned, blue maxi skirt in the center “opens” near the top, with a black triangle thrusting out. Small flowers and snippets of large, black-and-white texts form accents.

The holiday season brings the gift of our DECEMBER ISSUE!! 💝

A big thank you to our contributors🥰:
WORDS: Vanessa Blakeslee, Nini Berndt, Brooke Randel, & Kaitlyn Airy
ART: Vónbjørt Vang
PLUS: Jamey Baumgardt interviews Richard Mirabella

Start reading here: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR