ergot.
@ergot.bsky.social
https://www.ergot.press/
: Innovative literary horror and weird fiction :
: New work each Friday :
: Submissions open :
: A paying venue :
: Merch https://www.teepublic.com/user/ergot :
: Edited by https://bsky.app/profile/perfidiousscript.bsky.social :
: Innovative literary horror and weird fiction :
: New work each Friday :
: Submissions open :
: A paying venue :
: Merch https://www.teepublic.com/user/ergot :
: Edited by https://bsky.app/profile/perfidiousscript.bsky.social :
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ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
"The fire, it began shortly after the fire. I was in the hospital, my hands and feet wrapped in bandages that smelled like bacitracin, waiting for visitors between moments of sedation and pain..."
Today on ergot.: 'Syntagmata' by Kyle E Miller
www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
Today on ergot.: 'Syntagmata' by Kyle E Miller
www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
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last call for submissions to @MinorLits ...
fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
oleada.io/publication/...
fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
January 2, 2026 at 10:32 AM
last call for submissions to @MinorLits ...
fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
oleada.io/publication/...
fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
oleada.io/publication/...
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2/1/26 - nocturn
January 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
2/1/26 - nocturn
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Beginning of the year plea: I am always on the lookout for collections of weird fiction by nonwhite authors, especially those that will be published in 2026. If you wrote one or are publishing one or just know of one, please get in touch. doomsdayer.wordpress.com/contact
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Beginning of the year plea: I am always on the lookout for collections of weird fiction by nonwhite authors, especially those that will be published in 2026. If you wrote one or are publishing one or just know of one, please get in touch. doomsdayer.wordpress.com/contact
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Some enterprising publisher could clean up* by issuing a nice clothbound set of Jeffrey Ford’s The Well-Built City trilogy, one of the great unfairly-neglected works of 21st century fantasy. It’s a crime against humanity that they aren’t currently in print.
*earn my eternal gratitude
*earn my eternal gratitude
December 21, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Some enterprising publisher could clean up* by issuing a nice clothbound set of Jeffrey Ford’s The Well-Built City trilogy, one of the great unfairly-neglected works of 21st century fantasy. It’s a crime against humanity that they aren’t currently in print.
*earn my eternal gratitude
*earn my eternal gratitude
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i can imagine the fruit of the nutmeg, headily perfumed, it's mace a sticky mesh of vermillion, the dense seed warning the teeth.
i can imagine the fruit, stiff against the tongue, but i can never know the truth of it, it's secrets laying well beyond whatever wellworn path finds me.
i can imagine the fruit, stiff against the tongue, but i can never know the truth of it, it's secrets laying well beyond whatever wellworn path finds me.
January 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
i can imagine the fruit of the nutmeg, headily perfumed, it's mace a sticky mesh of vermillion, the dense seed warning the teeth.
i can imagine the fruit, stiff against the tongue, but i can never know the truth of it, it's secrets laying well beyond whatever wellworn path finds me.
i can imagine the fruit, stiff against the tongue, but i can never know the truth of it, it's secrets laying well beyond whatever wellworn path finds me.
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For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction
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We're open for fiction submissions!
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
www.seizethepress.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM
We're open for fiction submissions!
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
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gazing at an ambient sunset >>>
January 1, 2026 at 4:10 AM
gazing at an ambient sunset >>>
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"One of my favorite pieces of craft advice is that anything you’re told you should not (or should) do should just be taken as a challenge rather than a rule."
-interview with @aaronburch.bsky.social
ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...
-interview with @aaronburch.bsky.social
ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...
Interview with Aaron Burch
fun, earnest, Tacoma!
ivygrimes.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"One of my favorite pieces of craft advice is that anything you’re told you should not (or should) do should just be taken as a challenge rather than a rule."
-interview with @aaronburch.bsky.social
ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...
-interview with @aaronburch.bsky.social
ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...
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We’re opening to submissions tonight at midnight, EST
Send us your weirdest natures, your haunted life forms, your undead landscapes
Send us your weirdest natures, your haunted life forms, your undead landscapes
December 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We’re opening to submissions tonight at midnight, EST
Send us your weirdest natures, your haunted life forms, your undead landscapes
Send us your weirdest natures, your haunted life forms, your undead landscapes
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Our next submission call is right around the corner. Check out our guidelines to learn more: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA
December 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Our next submission call is right around the corner. Check out our guidelines to learn more: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA
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Up now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about one of my favorite trilogies, Jeffrey Ford’s The Well-Built City, and what it has to say about living in a society in thrall, the fascist mindset, and the daily work of staying alive.
We Are Close, We Are Almost There | Los Angeles Review of Books
Zachary Gillan reflects on Jeffrey Ford’s ‘Well-Built City Trilogy’ in the era of resurgent fascism.
lareviewofbooks.org
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Up now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about one of my favorite trilogies, Jeffrey Ford’s The Well-Built City, and what it has to say about living in a society in thrall, the fascist mindset, and the daily work of staying alive.
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A quick publishing/writing wrap up for 2025: My story "A Haunting" was published in @ergot.bsky.social and later featured in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy's "One Great Short Story to Read Today"; you can read it here:
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
December 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A quick publishing/writing wrap up for 2025: My story "A Haunting" was published in @ergot.bsky.social and later featured in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy's "One Great Short Story to Read Today"; you can read it here:
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Some work pubbed in 25
@ergot.bsky.social @minorliteratures.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social @bruisermag.com
www.ergot.press/authors/Davi...
www.bruisermag.com/luntz_castle
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
farewelltransmission.net/2025/04/lemo...
xraylitmag.com/an-echo-is-f...
@ergot.bsky.social @minorliteratures.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social @bruisermag.com
www.ergot.press/authors/Davi...
www.bruisermag.com/luntz_castle
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
farewelltransmission.net/2025/04/lemo...
xraylitmag.com/an-echo-is-f...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
December 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Bunch of sinews just dropped. Newest you will be able to find.
new_sinews issue9 is now live ... FEATURING: @zebulonhourse.bsky.social <> Hannah Brooks-Motl +
@israelbonilla.bsky.social >< Lisa Hsiao Chen +
@brandonshimoda.bsky.social <> Zachary Gary + Gabriel Palacios >< Amelia Moriarty + Zack Darsee <>
@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
newnewsinews.com/issue9
@israelbonilla.bsky.social >< Lisa Hsiao Chen +
@brandonshimoda.bsky.social <> Zachary Gary + Gabriel Palacios >< Amelia Moriarty + Zack Darsee <>
@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
newnewsinews.com/issue9
new_sinews issue9
_newsinews issue9_Zebulon Horse+Hannah Brooks-Motl+Israel Bonilla+Lisa Hsiao Chen+Brandon Shimoda+Zachary Gary+Gabriel Palacios+Amelia Moriarty+Zack Darsee+Mandy-Suzanne Wong
newnewsinews.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Bunch of sinews just dropped. Newest you will be able to find.
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Really grateful to have a micro included in this wonderful series of winter solstice writing. Much love to @necessaryfiction.com for publishing these. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...
Day 3 of our gathering brings @tmcallister.bsky.social, @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social, @sidsibo.bsky.social, Kathleen Hellen, @philippabowe.bsky.social, Kathryn Edie, @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, Michael Colonnese, David Capps, & @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...
December 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Really grateful to have a micro included in this wonderful series of winter solstice writing. Much love to @necessaryfiction.com for publishing these. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...
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This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
www.apexbookcompany.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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It's my birthday today. I've reacted an age that a much younger Karlo could not have conceived of being, and yet here we all are
If you want to celebrate, don't worry if you've not brought a gift - just do me a favor and:
1) read something new
2) let the author know how much you liked reading it
If you want to celebrate, don't worry if you've not brought a gift - just do me a favor and:
1) read something new
2) let the author know how much you liked reading it
December 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It's my birthday today. I've reacted an age that a much younger Karlo could not have conceived of being, and yet here we all are
If you want to celebrate, don't worry if you've not brought a gift - just do me a favor and:
1) read something new
2) let the author know how much you liked reading it
If you want to celebrate, don't worry if you've not brought a gift - just do me a favor and:
1) read something new
2) let the author know how much you liked reading it
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Something to read over the holidays. Based on a true story.
"The fire, it began shortly after the fire. I was in the hospital, my hands and feet wrapped in bandages that smelled like bacitracin, waiting for visitors between moments of sedation and pain..."
Today on ergot.: 'Syntagmata' by Kyle E Miller
www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
Today on ergot.: 'Syntagmata' by Kyle E Miller
www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
December 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Something to read over the holidays. Based on a true story.
"The fire, it began shortly after the fire. I was in the hospital, my hands and feet wrapped in bandages that smelled like bacitracin, waiting for visitors between moments of sedation and pain..."
Today on ergot.: 'Syntagmata' by Kyle E Miller
www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
Today on ergot.: 'Syntagmata' by Kyle E Miller
www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
December 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"The fire, it began shortly after the fire. I was in the hospital, my hands and feet wrapped in bandages that smelled like bacitracin, waiting for visitors between moments of sedation and pain..."
Today on ergot.: 'Syntagmata' by Kyle E Miller
www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
Today on ergot.: 'Syntagmata' by Kyle E Miller
www.ergot.press/authors/Kyle...
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all X-R-A-Y subs will be open on...
friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time !
subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour.
we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !
friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time !
subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour.
we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
all X-R-A-Y subs will be open on...
friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time !
subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour.
we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !
friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time !
subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour.
we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !
Tomorrow on ergot.: a new view into some hot documents with Kyle Miller @kymiller.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Tomorrow on ergot.: a new view into some hot documents with Kyle Miller @kymiller.bsky.social
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‘Some hideous angel of technocratic death?’ Merry christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
‘Some hideous angel of technocratic death?’ Merry christmas.
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I'm photographing and writing about the bark of every tree in the eastern US. My latest: silver maple 🍁
December 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm photographing and writing about the bark of every tree in the eastern US. My latest: silver maple 🍁