New Publisher Listing: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity

New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity

Whoa! We've already hit our cap of 100 fiction subs for Tales from the Cryptids, but @brigittewinter.bsky.social is so delighted by what she’s read that we're keeping the portal open until we hit 200 or reach our May 15th deadline. Keep 'em coming, and get us your #ttrpg and #poetry submissions too!

Love being in such excellent company. 🐀 ❤️

This is tomorrow! Space is still open. If you're in NYC and want to design something new, come join us. We'll playstorm #ttrpg concepts using Legos and you'll leave with new game ideas + maybe the beginnings of a first draft.

Hey, NYC cryptids, come out! This is going to be a great class, and Session 1 will be exploring @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's Lego-based #ttrpg Space Goblins! 🎉

Tales from the Cryptids is open to submissions! Send us your weirdest fiction, poetry, and TTRPGs. 10 cents/word. Open until May 15. Let us peek into what might be—at the edge of what is known. Don't solve the mystery. Be the mystery. #callforsubmissions

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An absolutely amazing recap of our #AWP26 panel "Poetry, Prose, and Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice" from @amandatien.bsky.social!

Make Short Games with Nat Mesnard A Zoom workshop taking inspiration from short TTRPGs to playstorm new games.

I'm teaching a 2.5 hour Zoom workshop on March 29 called MAKE SHORT GAMES. We'll discuss tiny #ttrpgs and one-pagers, and playstorm games of our own. A great opportunity to design your first game, or (for experienced folks) make something new: www.eventbrite.com/e/make-short...

A total delight to play bass in this band of game-writing rock stars. 🎸

This panel was so joyful. Love the energy at @awpwriter.org around game design as a literary practice!

We had a really lively panel, with lots of back-and-forth! Woot!

Our panel Prose, Poetry, and Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice at #AWP26 was amazing yesterday, with brilliant insights from @natmesnard.bsky.social @sharangbiswas.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social @davering.bsky.social! If you attended, let us know your takeaways ✨

Great reading happening during #AWP26 w/ our "Prose, Poetry, and Play" panelists @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @davering.bsky.social!

So excited for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 this week, where I'll be moderating my panel "Prose, Poetry, and Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice" with some incredible designers/writers: @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @davering.bsky.social, @nirele.bsky.social, and
@brigittewinter.bsky.social! Join us 🎲

We're bound for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 in Baltimore, MD this week! If you'll be around, come by the panels @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social are running on games/writing, and visit us at Booth #T425 on the showroom floor.

This is going to be delightful. My two spookiest friends, Will and @brigittewinter.bsky.social, in one livestream! Come watch us ~~~scare~~~ each other w/ how much we all love to read and write creepy queer fiction 💕

Creatures & Cryptids w/ Will Roth, Brigitte Winter & Nat Mesnard YouTube video by Scryptid Games

Last liveSCREAM of our Tales from the Cryptids campaign is tonight at 7PM ET / 4PM PT / 12AM GMT. 👻 Join @natmesnard.bsky.social, @brigittewinter.bsky.social and Will Roth of Creature Publishing to chat about scary fiction, spooky games, queer books, and more!

youtube.com/live/cuFN88E...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera Project Update: Vote to send Brigitte to a haunted Maryland location! Hi there, creeps! We are officially only FOUR DAYS away from the end of this campaign and over 70% of the way to our $10K stretch goal, which will add 20 more pages of conte...

Vote to send @brigittewinter.bsky.social on a haunted photo shoot for Tales from the Cryptids! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera A book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be ...

Tales from the Cryptids limited rewards are running low! Only 2 spots left for the Scryptid Scholar and Batboy's Bargain tiers, which both come with written feedback on a complete TTRPG, short story, or poem to help you prepare your submission for our open call: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera A book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be ...

Of potential interest to fans of 2025's "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology from Middle West Press: Baltimore-based @scryptidgames.bsky.social is crowd-funding an anthology comprising story-telling TTRPG, fiction, and poetry! Campaign ends Feb. 27, 2026!

Info:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Zinetopia Designers Chat with Sharang Biswas, Dillin Apelyan and Nat Mesnard YouTube video by Scryptid Games

This was suuuuuch a dynamic conversation with @superdillin.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social last night! People in the chat were...taking notes?! Tons of good stuff on subversive game design, erotic TTRPGs, and "emancipatory bleed."

www.youtube.com/live/qtx5mX6...

VERY excited for this chat I think you should come by and hear it!!!

Zinetopia Designers Chat with Sharang Biswas, Dillin Apelyan and Nat Mesnard YouTube video by Scryptid Games

New livestream! Join Scryptid Games Co-Founder @natmesnard.bsky.social tonight, 2/17, at 7pm ET for a chat with @backerkit.com #ZineTopia designers @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social on their new games & the thriving New York City tabletop scene!

youtube.com/live/qtx5mX6...

My friends at @scryptidgames.bsky.social are running a crowdfunding campaign for #TalesFromTheCryptids

Back it!

BUT ALSO: you can submit & be a part of it! Poems, games, art, short stories!!

This project is rad.

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SUBMIT WITH ME!

#JoyfulPromo #ScryptidGames

Positive that @neversaydustin.bsky.social has thoughts on this.

Great work @tabletopbookshelf.com! @luluinwa.bsky.social, let us know how it plays...and if you like, share your playlist so we can listen in to your game 🎵🤘

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Already funded, but always great to support @scryptidgames.bsky.social - check out their latest anthology project, with contributions from wonderful authors!

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Pursuant to @natmesnard.bsky.social's comment at 18:10 in the video and suggestions from our viewers (They Might Be Giants is cryptid; ICE is *not* cryptid) we'd love to hear more takes, y'all, the question of WHAT'S CRYPTID 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

Nat & Brigitte Talk Tales from the Cryptids YouTube video by Scryptid Games

In case you missed last night's livestream with @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social, you can still watch our two Tales from the Cryptids campaign producers + editors chatting about this awesome anthology project over on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/lY0bhXl...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Hey, Tales from the Cryptids is a featured project on the @backerkit.com main page today! What an absolute honor to be featured. Thank you to everyone at BackerKit who believes in the weird and wonderful stuff that we're making. 💕

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