Anna Madden
@brokenswanquill.bsky.social
She/her | Codex | Rhsyling Award-nom poet | ✍️ in Haven Spec, Star*Line, Orion's Belt, Apex, PodCastle, Metaphorosis, PseudoPod, Small Wonders, Plott Hound, & more
Can you outrun your own death, winging close, even as it sings out to you?
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November 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Can you outrun your own death, winging close, even as it sings out to you?
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This is Old Baldy. A bald cypress tree that's estimated to be over 500 years old 🌳
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is Old Baldy. A bald cypress tree that's estimated to be over 500 years old 🌳
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Taking Submissions: Stone’s Throw - Dec 2025
🗓 Dec 1–3, 2025 | 💰 $25
Theme: Noir on the theme of dreams
Send 1–2K word dark fiction or crime noir to RHP Press. One story wins publication + $25, later featured in an annual anthology.
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#WritingCommunity #Noir
🗓 Dec 1–3, 2025 | 💰 $25
Theme: Noir on the theme of dreams
Send 1–2K word dark fiction or crime noir to RHP Press. One story wins publication + $25, later featured in an annual anthology.
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#WritingCommunity #Noir
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Taking Submissions: Stone’s Throw - Dec 2025
🗓 Dec 1–3, 2025 | 💰 $25
Theme: Noir on the theme of dreams
Send 1–2K word dark fiction or crime noir to RHP Press. One story wins publication + $25, later featured in an annual anthology.
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#WritingCommunity #Noir
🗓 Dec 1–3, 2025 | 💰 $25
Theme: Noir on the theme of dreams
Send 1–2K word dark fiction or crime noir to RHP Press. One story wins publication + $25, later featured in an annual anthology.
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#WritingCommunity #Noir
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Writers, the age-old question:
Do you spell it GRAY or GREY?
Do you spell it GRAY or GREY?
November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Writers, the age-old question:
Do you spell it GRAY or GREY?
Do you spell it GRAY or GREY?
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ICYMI 🔮 Violet Lichen's first fiction novella, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, is available for preorder at a 30% discount! A surreal folk horror inspired by Russian fairytales, solar storms, and the secrets we keep buried underground 🌌☀️ Cover reveal coming soon!
We're thrilled to announce that preorders for Violet Lichen's first novella are LIVE! Welcome to the world of @ivygrimes.bsky.social folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR 🔮🪆🌌
Full Announcement HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Full Announcement HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ICYMI 🔮 Violet Lichen's first fiction novella, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, is available for preorder at a 30% discount! A surreal folk horror inspired by Russian fairytales, solar storms, and the secrets we keep buried underground 🌌☀️ Cover reveal coming soon!
"Grown From an Alder-Wolf's Skull" is a story about sisterhood, magic, green thumbs, and a wolf’s skull capable of hunting love as if it were prey.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Grown From an Alder-Wolf's Skull" is a story about sisterhood, magic, green thumbs, and a wolf’s skull capable of hunting love as if it were prey.
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I was still in bed
when Monday Morning said
"Wake up, sleepyhead."
when Monday Morning said
"Wake up, sleepyhead."
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I was still in bed
when Monday Morning said
"Wake up, sleepyhead."
when Monday Morning said
"Wake up, sleepyhead."
My walks haven't been this green in awhile. Here's to memories of the spring 🌿💚
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
My walks haven't been this green in awhile. Here's to memories of the spring 🌿💚
Nature-y issues are my vibe!! I have a little poem included called "Missing You, No Matter Where I Am" 🐦⬛🌒🌳🕯️ It's about how you can feel homesick and lost even if you're somewhere magical.
It's Issue 9 and we're feeling fine! It might even be our first nature-y issue, there's zombies, sheep, all types of flora, and the slow decay of time.
Issue 9 releases on November 30, $18CAD/year or join for free and get everything sent to your inbox 📬
Thank you to our newest contributors! 🫀
Issue 9 releases on November 30, $18CAD/year or join for free and get everything sent to your inbox 📬
Thank you to our newest contributors! 🫀
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Nature-y issues are my vibe!! I have a little poem included called "Missing You, No Matter Where I Am" 🐦⬛🌒🌳🕯️ It's about how you can feel homesick and lost even if you're somewhere magical.
This was an interesting looking read. Had some real weight to it too 📖
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This was an interesting looking read. Had some real weight to it too 📖
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there should also be a couple copies of this at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is now out!
Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
there should also be a couple copies of this at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
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And the issue is officially out! Stories will start to go online from tomorrow onwards, but this is a good moment for you to subscribe to a truly excellent magazine and read the whole thing right now psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
And the issue is officially out! Stories will start to go online from tomorrow onwards, but this is a good moment for you to subscribe to a truly excellent magazine and read the whole thing right now psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Print copies of Short Fantasy Stories @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social are available on Amazon! ✨
October 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Print copies of Short Fantasy Stories @shackleboundbooks.bsky.social are available on Amazon! ✨
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There are tiny ghost stories and urban legends caught between the chapters of HONEYEATER. I wanted them to fit on single pages, title and all. So between first and final versions, "Moon" was halved in length.
October 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
There are tiny ghost stories and urban legends caught between the chapters of HONEYEATER. I wanted them to fit on single pages, title and all. So between first and final versions, "Moon" was halved in length.
Main Barn and Attic Antiques in Azle, TX. I spent 85% of my time there sitting on the floor, looking through those books 📚
October 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Main Barn and Attic Antiques in Azle, TX. I spent 85% of my time there sitting on the floor, looking through those books 📚
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We’re $436 away from unlocking nonfiction! That means we’ll open to submissions of everything from moving personal essays to excavations of queer SFF history to incisive literary criticism.
PLUS we’re only 8 backers from our final backer goal—help us get there!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
PLUS we’re only 8 backers from our final backer goal—help us get there!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
www.kickstarter.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We’re $436 away from unlocking nonfiction! That means we’ll open to submissions of everything from moving personal essays to excavations of queer SFF history to incisive literary criticism.
PLUS we’re only 8 backers from our final backer goal—help us get there!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
PLUS we’re only 8 backers from our final backer goal—help us get there!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
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Translunar Travelers Lounge welcomes submissions of speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Full details are at the link.https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
October 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Translunar Travelers Lounge welcomes submissions of speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Full details are at the link.https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.
Here's my contributor's copy of Saros, Issue 3! Isn't it vibrant? I have a set of three drabbles included within.
Feed your heart to a demon met in a digital-forest. Listen to the trees' music played through fungal threads. Find what waits beneath the moon of the forest-city.
Feed your heart to a demon met in a digital-forest. Listen to the trees' music played through fungal threads. Find what waits beneath the moon of the forest-city.
October 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Here's my contributor's copy of Saros, Issue 3! Isn't it vibrant? I have a set of three drabbles included within.
Feed your heart to a demon met in a digital-forest. Listen to the trees' music played through fungal threads. Find what waits beneath the moon of the forest-city.
Feed your heart to a demon met in a digital-forest. Listen to the trees' music played through fungal threads. Find what waits beneath the moon of the forest-city.
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MetaStellar Year Four anthology is available, full of singing forests, cybernetic parents, diamond chokers full of shadows, visits by Death and demons a plenty, and more!
Available at your favorite retailers like
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o...
#metastellar #speculativefiction
Available at your favorite retailers like
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o...
#metastellar #speculativefiction
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
MetaStellar Year Four anthology is available, full of singing forests, cybernetic parents, diamond chokers full of shadows, visits by Death and demons a plenty, and more!
Available at your favorite retailers like
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o...
#metastellar #speculativefiction
Available at your favorite retailers like
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-o...
#metastellar #speculativefiction
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You all voted for spooky vibes this month, and we heard you loud and clear! 🎃🌒
Gather round the campfire, because October's flash fiction theme is FOLKLORE! You have until October 31st to submit!
www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
Gather round the campfire, because October's flash fiction theme is FOLKLORE! You have until October 31st to submit!
www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
a silhouette of a person riding a horse holding a pumpkin
Alt: black and white image of the headless horseman riding a black horse
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October 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
You all voted for spooky vibes this month, and we heard you loud and clear! 🎃🌒
Gather round the campfire, because October's flash fiction theme is FOLKLORE! You have until October 31st to submit!
www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
Gather round the campfire, because October's flash fiction theme is FOLKLORE! You have until October 31st to submit!
www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
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We are a work in progress, but loving the support!
Explore as @paulaguran reviews short fiction from @thedeadlands.com, @apexmag.bsky.social, @3lobedmag.com, @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -
The Deadlands, Apex, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Trollbreath: Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran
The Deadlands Summer ’25 Apex 6/25 Three-Lobed Burning Eye #45 Trollbreath Spring ’25 Of the seven stories in The Deadlands #39, I’d like to mention four. Interestingly, the aforementioned Yoruba f…
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October 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We are a work in progress, but loving the support!