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Neon Hemlock
@neonhemlock.bsky.social
World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
Pinned
Watch this space. 🚀🪡

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Coming soon: What Elegant Stars
Queer Tales of Impossible Style
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Humbled to have my story We Are The Feast that was published in @neonhemlock.bsky.social ‘s Crawling Moon anthology listed in @datlow.bsky.social ‘s Best Horror of the Year 17 Recommendations List

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You can find the anthology here

www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-cr...
January 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Hey, this is your reminder that @georgiacooked.bsky.social and I are making The Deepest Dark for #ZineMonth!

It's a GM-less, tragic horror ttrpg about getting trapped underground.

(If we want to get into Zinetopia, we need 400 followers in the next week.)

Please sign up for updates!
Delve into The Deepest Dark
From Ella Watts - Delve into The Deepest Dark
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January 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
In case you missed our NYE double issue drop...
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
January 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
hi if you have a castle or a secret mansion or some other sort of set up and you've been dying to host a writing residency please hit me up, i will organize one for you

bodies of water and/or turrets are key
or wine cellars and cemeteries

if you have the vibes, i will handle the bureacracy
January 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
What are your fav indie ttrpgs of 2025?
January 4, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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So I’ve seen a handful of folks put my novella in their “Favourites of 2025” lists and I’m all giggly about it.

Check it out if you’re voting in any of the speculative fiction awards!
My first book is officially out!

If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out!

Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
January 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Truly honored to have one of my flash fiction pieces featured in issue twenty-two of @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Baffling Magazine!

If you'd like to check it out, you can read it for free on their official website:

www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

#PublishingNews #WritingCommunity #SF #SFF
January 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Happy New Year!
My story "The Eidolon" is in the brand spanking new issue of Baffling Magazine from @neonhemlock.bsky.social! Check it out, there's so many great queer SF and horror tales to read in there.
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty... #queerhorror #queersff
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Can't think of a more fitting transition out of one year and into the next than with a story that transcends the barrier between personhood and bird-of-prey; I'm so honoured to be included in this issue of Baffling Magazine!

Happy new year—and may you achieve the transformations you seek in life. ✨️
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
January 1, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Slipping a bit of short fiction in before the year ends. I'm delighted to be in Baffling. This is set in the summer but it's about change and estrangement, so a decent fit for NYE.
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
✨ 2025 Eligibility ✨
December 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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What a nice way to close out the year. My story “I Think She Is Starting to Suspect Something” is in the latest issue of Baffling. This one is the result of me spending a lot of time thinking about doppelgängers (and probably honestly from playing a lot of anomaly detection games).
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Featuring my story “The Only Piece Left,” which is about rare books, dead robots, and what inevitably gets lost via the slow march of time. Also how many jokes I can fit in a thousand words.
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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We weren't fucking around with this one, y'all
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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It’s here!! I get to squeak in with a final story for 2025 in the latest double issue of Baffling, which includes ‘Doppel Doppel Gang Gang’: a weird tale about something Very Horrid infiltrating a dance class 😈
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Baffling has continued to be a brilliant magazine all year and this double issue is a delight.
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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More Baffling with a double issue from Neon Hemlock! YAy!!!!!
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.

Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
1) Please follow this project

2) Please reply with links if you know of music videos that would fit some of the vibes, I’m building a playlist
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Last day to submit! I will leave the form up until I remember to close it tomorrow just to handle any last minute submissions.

(Editors you can email them directly if you have more than a couple, shoot me a DM)
Also there are 11 more days to submit your queer speculative stories already published in 2025!

The editors love reading far and wide, so please especially consider submitting work from journals and anthologies they might not be aware of.

www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
we're here — neon hemlock
www.neonhemlock.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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hi can you go through and click “notify me on launch” or whatever on this please

only if you like gay books tho
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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If you love gay books as much as I do and want more queer everything, click the 'notify me on launch' for @neonhemlock.bsky.social forthcoming coin raiser! Neon Hemlock rules!!! 🖤
hi can you go through and click “notify me on launch” or whatever on this please

only if you like gay books tho
December 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
hi can you go through and click “notify me on launch” or whatever on this please

only if you like gay books tho
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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*ahem* to anyone still doing some holiday shopping for readers who love weird family curses where everyone is queer: hi, I wrote a novella! It's called Death Valley Blooms and goddamn just look at that cover, I'll never get over it www.neonhemlock.com/books/death-...
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM