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Abigail Kemske 🍁
@abigailkemske.bsky.social
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🚀 Speculative fiction writer from MN

✏️ Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, Nature: Futures, The Saturday Evening Post & more

🌿 sometimes moss

✨HWA, SFWA, Codex

AbigailKemske.com 🌳 https://linktr.ee/abigailkemske
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Abigail Kemske 🍁 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 8d
It's award eligibility season! Here's a list of everything I've published in 2025. This is also my first year of eligibility for the Astounding Award! 💫

Follow the thread below for links and info on my stories. Or see my website/linktree in my bio. 🔗

DM me for copies. 👩‍💻

Thank you for reading! 🙏
Graphic with pictures of space in background that reads: Abigail Kemske 2025 Award Eligibility. Short fiction - Nebula, Hugo, Locus & Stoker. "The earth will not consume our bones" (SF / 956 w) Nature: Futures, Sept 2025. "Someone to Feed You" (H / 900 w) Apex Magazine issue #148, Jan 2025. "Still Waters" (SFF / 6500 w) Friction issue #24: Oceans, July 2025. "The Beast of Boma Road" (H / 4200 w) Fraidy Cat quarterly issue #7: Rage, Nov 2025. "The Darkness Inside Her" (h / 3500 w) Harvestt he Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror - CM Muller, Oct 2025. A graphic with stars in space in the background that reads: Abigail Kemske 2025 Award Eligibility Astounding Award. First year of eligibility.
abigailkemske.bsky.social
Ugh. Waistbands are the absolute worst.
November 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
Psst! I've added a whole bunch of new links to my eligibility and recommendation round up post with further updates to come. Keep sending your links my way!

acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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muteddragon.bsky.social
For your consideration this year, I have eight originals! Most are free to read!
In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!
Martian Wallpaper — Full Story
By Wen Wen Yang
dailytomorrow.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
abigailkemske.bsky.social
I'm gonna try to get 362 words done by lunch, so my current novel word count will be over 13k words. I'll report back soon.
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
abigailkemske.bsky.social
Both excellent stories! Check them out!!
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
If you’re looking for something to read this weekend, I’ve published 13 short pieces this year with 2 more coming soon. I figured I’d make a thread of just a few of my faves that are free-to-read. (You can still find my complete eligibility post through my link in bio) 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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mynachang.bsky.social
New story in Blood+Honey! Out of my comfort zone with this one! 😬

@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social · 2d
Flash fiction "Tough Guys" by Myna Chang

“She shoves my tie aside, taps a button mid-chest with the blade, tap tap tap. Who is this bitch? She’s grinning again, all teeth, and she smells like copper, like old pennies…”

www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/toug...
tough guys — Blood+Honey
by Myna Chang “She shoves my tie aside, taps a button mid-chest with the blade, tap tap tap . Who is this bitch? She’s grinning again, all teeth, and she smells like copper, like old pennies…”
www.bloodhoneylit.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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horrorsong.blog
In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
18.168.63.88
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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alexwoodroe.com
"...unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller. Readers will be on the edges of their seats."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BABY

www.publishersweekly.com/9781787589186
The Night Ship Alex Woodroe. Flame Tree, $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-787589-18-6 Woodroe (Whisperwood) expertly maintains suspense throughout this unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller about an apocalyptic event in 1987 Romania. Heroine Rosi has “made it a point of survival to think as little as possible about... goings-on beyond what was strictly in front of her.” She’s taken advantage of the logging truck used by her fiancé, Gigi, to facilitate her smuggling business. On a routine excursion in that vehicle, the pair pick up a hitchhiker, Sorin, who claims to be a philosophy student, though Rosi soon comes to suspect that he is a government informant, if not actually a member of the country’s notorious secret police. Before she can test this theory, darkness falls like a physical force from the sky and “swallows the world.” In this new pitch blackness, segments of once solid ground are replaced by an inky substance that drags down all objects that land in it. With the truck’s cabin one of the only safe refuges, this unlikely trio set out to make sense of what’s happened and rescue survivors. Woodroe parcels out reveals about the nature of the dark void gradually but effectively. Readers will be on the edges of their seats. (Jan.)
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
abigailkemske.bsky.social
"Ava plucked four more hairs and added them end-to-end to the others, making one long string of hair that draped over her lap and pooled on the floor. She threaded the needle with the hair." 🪡

New story published last week @satevepost.bsky.social ! 💙

www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/thre...
Threaded Lives | The Saturday Evening Post
A grandmother shares the patchwork stories of her life with her granddaughter.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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jordanshiveley.bsky.social
and this is your regular PSA to remind you that YOU can hire ME to design YOUR book cover…and logos…and shirts…and tombstones…

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November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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jordanshiveley.bsky.social
joinery like fallow earth
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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jordanshiveley.bsky.social
2025 eligibility post

just one thing published this year as I work on a few larger projects but it is a good one!

all signal boosts appreciated
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
abigailkemske.bsky.social
Oh, Jordan. Now you have me dreaming. 🤩 Someday…someday…
jordanshiveley.bsky.social Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 2d
Me: gonna do a bunch of housecleaning

Also me: **immediately gets distracted making fake book covers for @abigailkemske.bsky.social ‘s as of yet non existent collection**

🙇🏻‍♂️
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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acwise.bsky.social
It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list!

acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
abigailkemske.bsky.social
The aurora was pretty insane tonight!
Aurora borealis showing pinks and greens in the night sky. Aurora bureaus showing bright green in the sky. Aurora borealis bright green blob.
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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jordanshiveley.bsky.social
YOU are a good writer
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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mcardlejeanne.bsky.social
I've never bothered doing one of these because it felt kinda silly, but I'm trying new things.
Jennifer Jeanne McArdle Award Eligibility 2025 Half-Orc Songs Fantasy/9000w in Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 6 When to Choose the Snake God Fantasy/5000w in Luna Station Quarterly Issue 61 Sea Junk Shaped like the English Alphabet Weird horror/4500w in Fraidy Cat Quarterly Issue 5 Of Bats and Apes historical horror/5600w in In the Eyes of the Hungry Most Humans Listen when a Duck Talks to Them contemporary fantasy, humor/5000w in Madam Don’t Forget Your Sword How a Satyr becomes Real weird fantasy/920w in This Exquisite Topology Westward I Reach historical weird/6000w in Baubles from Bones Issue 6 The Money Left in My Account weird/1000w in Slugger Issue 1
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
abigailkemske.bsky.social
My agent keeping me on task…for pets.
A black smoke Maine coon cat sits on a desk behind a computer looking very cute.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
abigailkemske.bsky.social
💫 Here’s a list of my award eligible stories from this year! 💫

(Had to update/repost this because of the surprise last minute publication!)

See my website or LinkTree for more info on these stories. Contact me if you’re a voting member and need a copy.

Thanks for reading!
Graphic of 2025 award eligible stories by Abigail Kemske: Someone to Feed You (apex), The earth will not consume our bones (nature:futures), The Darkness Inside Her (Harvest the Night), Threaded Lives (Saturday evening post), Still Waters (friction), The Beast of Boma Road (Fraidy Cat Quarterly). Graphic of Abigail Kemske’s award eligibility, Astounding Award, first year of eligibility.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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hvpatterson.bsky.social
So excited that "Our Lady of the Grain" is part of Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror, ed. by C.M. Muller and out now from Chthonic Matter. I can't wait to read the other spooky stories in this anthology!
Left: Back cover of Harvest the Night with the following text: Storibes By Luke F. Shepherd, H.V. Patterson, Tracy Fahey, Renae Rhoads, Douglas Ford, K. Wallace King, Shannon Scott, Joe Koch, EC Dorgan, Lisa Moore-Smith, Dexter McLeod, Abigail Kemske, Katherine Traylor, Sam Dawson Right: front cover of Harvest the Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror edited by C.M. Muller The background is white and gray on black with two birds resembling eyes emerging from a "nest" made of twigs or straw which resembles a face
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
abigailkemske.bsky.social
✨ICYMI✨ I have a new story up on @satevepost.bsky.social ! I’m still in shock about this one. Check it out!!
satevepost.bsky.social The Saturday Evening Post @satevepost.bsky.social · 7d
Touching moments between a woman and her granddaughter, some magical realism, a big ole quilt, and a touch of horror come together in this week’s #NewFictionFriday story, Abigail Kemske’s “Threaded Lives”.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/thre...
Threaded Lives | The Saturday Evening Post
A grandmother shares the patchwork stories of her life with her granddaughter.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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danaiwrites.bsky.social
It’s that time of the year again! If you’re voting for the Hugos, the Nebulas or any other SFF awards, I hope you will consider my two very Greek, very angry offerings. Both free to read!
Short story: translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/1...
Non-fiction essay: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
With the Acropolis as the background, text reads: Danai Christopoulou awards eligibility 2025 Short story: “12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being a Demigod” Translunar Travelers Lounge Non-fiction essay: “These marbles were never white” khōréō A screenshot of 12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being a Demigod, a short story by Danai Christopoulou Screenshot of “These Marbles Were Never White” a non-fiction essay by Danai Christopoulou
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
abigailkemske.bsky.social
The definition of trapped. 😸
A black cat snuggling with owner. A black cat snuggling with owner, sleepy face. A black cat snuggling with owner.
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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markpeters.bsky.social
An amazing, emotional story definitely worth checking out!
abigailkemske.bsky.social Abigail Kemske 🍁 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 7d
My latest story is up on Saturday Evening Post! Check it out!! 💛
satevepost.bsky.social The Saturday Evening Post @satevepost.bsky.social · 7d
Touching moments between a woman and her granddaughter, some magical realism, a big ole quilt, and a touch of horror come together in this week’s #NewFictionFriday story, Abigail Kemske’s “Threaded Lives”.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/thre...
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM