Lady knight mech jousts, you say? I spy @scmillsbooks.bsky.social's excellent flash story...!

Song for the Once-Dead Earth — Part One By C.M. Sullivan

my debut short story, "Song for the Once-Dead Earth," is posting all week long at @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social!!

check out part 1 here and follow along throughout the week: dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/song-for-t...

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Visions of Vines and Verdancy VEGETAL Approacheth

VEGETAL begins! Our first themed issue begins serialization today, only at The Daily Tomorrow.

Don’t miss our first story, “Song for the Once-Dead Earth” by debut author C.M. Sullivan (@cmsullivan.bsky.social).

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

When we asked poetry editors Jess Cho and Angel Leal what they wanted to see in Issue 2, they immediately said things like "VISCERAL VERSE" and "weird queer monsters" and "joy and euphoria" and "MORE POEMS, PLEASE." Poets, you know what to do! Send us your work + spread the word! We pay $50/poem!

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 🗡️🪐🌈

THERE'S CHOLULA IN SPACE

"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves

OTHERSIDE'S ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! if you're a queer writer or poet, please submit your original fiction and/or poetry to us 👀

AND if you are sci-fi writing inclined? do give me some cool gay fucky space stories. epic or strange stories of planets, moons, spaceships etc. thank youuu ✨

Despite seemingly making one big change to Margaret Atwood's novel, The Testaments is a promising new series because of how it explores familiar teen girl coming-of-age tropes in a post-Handmaid's Tale Gilead. Come talk spoilers and predictions with me!

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GO YOU can't wait to reaaaaad

This is so, so well-articulated.

Summer Query Workshop: Let's Work on those Query Letters and First Pages! — ERIC SMITH Well, my workshops at the beginning of the year sold out pretty quick, and were a total blast. And as summer gets closer, I thought I’d do another. Especially with the Philadelphia Bookstore Crawl l...

Hey friends! I’m gonna run another query and first page workshop, as I plan for our summer of events.

These help fund those endeavors.

Details here! Help me help you! ☺️ www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2026/4/...

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ARTEMIS FROM SAILOR MOON WAS AT THE ARTEMIS 2 LAUNCH AND IM VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT

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Yup. And by the way, if you think that someone could’ve optimized writing like Stephen King or any other best selling authors, we would’ve seen that by now. Not possible! You have to flail, you have to master structure, you have to write to entertain yourself & there’s no formula for that.

Excited to share Tasavvur's Spring 2026 issue. Huge shout-out to the writers, contributors, and team Tasavvur. Hope you all enjoy what we've put together.

The cover for the original volume of Thyme Travellers.

This is not a joke.

Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series!

And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

Adventitious | A Speculative Short Fiction Magazine - Adventitious. Adventitious is a speculative short fiction magazine publishing boundary-defying stories, novellas, and unclassifiable work.

Issue Two is live.

Three stories are free to read.

The other monsters are behind the door.

Start here: adventitious.net

A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now." The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

Back in 2013 (!) I got to be part of the Sex With Robots Festival with @dannybowes.bsky.social @macrogers.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social + so many incredible artists. My play was the seed of this story, about a pleasure bot who discovers his human owner is awfully good at compartmentalizing.

Slide 1: Text reads “For your Hugos consideration: Mark As Read, Best Related Work, A Reactor Magazine columns on the culture of reading by Molly Templeton” in large yellow font over a picture of a library

We would like to submit Molly Templeton's column Mark As Read for consideration within the "Best Related Work" category.

@mollytempleton.com writes on the culture of reading – covering everything from what we read and why to the ways we organize our bookshelves.

this is such a good post, & while I read it I thought a lot about how the "waiting to be let down" mode of engaging with things relates to everyone's constant insistence that we are "not surprised" by anything. be surprised! for better or worse! it's okay to be wrong about things!!!!!

Sat. May 2, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Judson Memorial Church – Memorial Hall 55 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012 https://worldvoices.pen.org/event/in-the-shadow-of-ivory-towers-the-enduring-appeal-of-dark-academia/ In the Shadow of Ivory Towers: The Enduring Appeal of Dark Academia The hallowed halls of academia have long captured the imaginations of writers. With their exclusivity, insularity, and at times cultish devotion to knowledge, they lend themselves to richly drawn atmospheres of darkness and mystery and incisive explorations of access, adolescence, and power. In Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series, magically gifted students fight not to become prey to the monsters that lurk in the school’s shadows. In Mónica Ojeda’s Jawbone (tr. Sarah Booker), it is the students themselves who are the monsters, and a school for the daughters of Ecuador’s elite becomes a breeding ground for cultish violence. And in Elisabeth Thomas’s Catherine House, it just might be the prestigious institution itself that poses the biggest threat. Join these authors in conversation with writer and editor Christina Orlando as they unpack what drew them, and what draws us, again and again, to the evergreen genre of dark academia.

https://worldvoices.pen.org/event/in-the-shadow-of-ivory-towers-the-enduring-appeal-of-dark-academia/

hey nyc homies what are you doing on may 2 and do you wanna hang out and talk about dark academia with me, Naomi Novik, Mónica Ojeda, and Elisabeth Thomas?

Curses, Kidnappings, and Quests: Romantasy Report for March and April 2026 - Reactor This Spring, our favorite romantasy includes kidnapped brides, devastating curses, and sweet, sweet necromancy…

March and April bring pollen, rain, and a new crop of romantasy books! @zutsuit.bsky.social highlights a spellbinding take on Phantom of the Opera, a sexy necromancer, and a dark academia novel where the students may be studying more than their books...

Friends! There is so much to celebrate on the Nebula nominees list! We are delighted for everyone, but especially for our alumni and faculty.

This cover!! Psyched to have my story "Last Edit to THE ALL BANGERS LIST Made By Your Sex Robot at 11:39 A.M." running free in this issue next month.

On the Power of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, One of the Most Banned Books of Its Era Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir Gender Queer is a coming-of-age narrative that explores gender identity, sexuality, and the long, often circular process of coming out. First published in May 201…

This is so excellent!!

The Outlander premiere did a fair amount of scene-setting for the final ten episodes, but when that involves stabbings and posthumous literary bombshells from the future, you know it's gonna be a good road to the end.