Good week to you, too!

The Deadlands - Issue 42 | Psychopomp Includes the work of Nosawema O., |A. E. Weisgerber, Phoenix Mendoza, R.B. Lemberg, Maya Ysabel Ng, Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr., Diana Dima, and Kelsey Dean

issue 42 of The Deadlands is RELEASED UPON THE WORLD

including many deathy fiction and poetry

INCLUDING ONE (1) NOVELETTE, our first novelette in a while it's been too long tbh.

check out the issue page below and DEFINITELY, PRETTY PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND SUPPORT US LIKE A SKELETON
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Same to you! 💕

8 Story Collections That Inspired Samantha Mills’s Stunning Speculative Fiction The Nebula Award-winning novelist shares the short fiction that informed her new collection, Rabbit Test and Other Stories.

Oh oh I had so much fun writing about 8 of my favorite short story collections for Publisher's Weekly!

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Oh my god, I’m on this amazing list, along with @mariahaskins.com Suzan Palumbo, Carmen Maria Machado, and more

Oh my GOD, amazed to be on this list with some of these greats (and a few writers who I haven’t yet read, something I’ll have to rectify). Thank you so much, Sam!! And I’m so looking forward to your own collection!

Oh WOW, thank you for alerting me to this, Myna! 💕💕

The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water by M. R. Robinson After nine years married to a poet—ten come midsummer—Rosemarie can translate every noise. The sound of poetry being born makes her feel warm, like a crackling fire on a winter night.

I've got a new story online now at @talesfeathers.bsky.social! After a couple of bleak and gruesome publications in a row from me, this one is the opposite, probably the sweetest thing I will ever write: a tender little sapphic love story set in a world where poetry is (literally) magic 🌳 🐸 ☀️ 🌊

ICYMI my latest short story recs are up! With stories from @khoreo.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social @frivolouscomma.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @undertow.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @flashfrog.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com

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Good morning, same to you!

So good, folks. Horrors you can enjoy!

Photograph of a cluster of yellow trout-lily flowers on the forest floor.

Photograph of a stalk of Dutchman’s breeches flowers rising near a mossy log. The flowers look somewhat like old fashioned bloomers drying on a line.

Photograph of a round-lobed hepatica flower low to the forest floor. Light purple petals surround the green center.

Photograph of an eastern red newt eft walking through leaf litter on the forest floor.

Early spring ephemerals in summery heat.
1. Yellow trout-lilies.
2. Dutchman’s breeches.
3. Round-lobed hepatica.
4. Eft phase of an eastern red newt.

Loved this story! (And yes, all the different breads!)

SFBC is finishing our season on our favorite post: the Short Fiction Book Club Awards!

We read many gems this year, but we've voted on our favorites. I'm happy to present our slate of awards (with very normal award names and presenter speeches).

www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Newsletter: Interview with Anathema + Updates! | OTHERSIDE Get more from OTHERSIDE on Patreon

Our April newsletter is out... and we are THRILLED to feature an interview with the incredible @anathemamagazine.bsky.social editorial team! We talked about their vision, their submissions wishlists, and all the best ways you can support them. Let's help them crush their Kickstarter goals! 🌈💜

It’s great story! :)

My short fiction recs from Jan-March are now up! With stories from @clairejiawen.bsky.social @dracopoullos.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @russellnichols.bsky.social @rajivmote.bsky.social @amfisher.bsky.social @joelhans.com @jenniferhudak.bsky.social

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Happy book birthday to my haunted houses! 🏚️🔥

I'm so thrilled The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own is available now! I can't believe I have a second collection out in the world! 😱🦇🖤

Congratulations!!🎉

Congratulations!! 🎉

Kaleidotrope re-opens to fiction and poetry submissions in one week, for one week, April 19-25.

kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

48 HOURS till the end of our fundraiser at locusmag.com/igg26 and we're only halfway to our funding goals.... Please take a moment to support what we do if you have the means! Thank you so much!

Fundraiser closes Tuesday 4/14!

Good weekend to you and yours!

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)

Lovely!

Reading Period: April 13th - May 17th Theme: Breaking the Mold Edited by Adam McPhee $33 CAD for both originals and reprints, including non-fiction 1000 to 2500 words

Less than a week away!

And for the first time ever, Saros will be taking essay pitches: Editor @chalicotherex.bsky.social is looking for one essay on any speculative-fiction related topic that aligns with the issue's theme of Breaking the Mold!

The gates open on April 13: sarossf.com/submissions/

Good day!

GigaNotoSaurus, Diabolical Plots, and Small Wonders: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...

The Subtle Art of Folding Space The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics...

My novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space comes out on Tuesday (the 7th)!

Bugs in the physics of our universe! Family drama! Status reports in the form of food!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I think you’ll really like it! And it’s a HUGE treat for linguistic/language nerds!