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Nichole L. Lightner
@nicholeon.bsky.social
weird writer and managing editor at Violet Lichen

https://nichole-l-lightner.neocities.org/
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My 9-yo and I wrote the cover story for Interzone #303, and we've created this handy synopsis using legos. Pictured: shark wearing a mech suit made of pirate shipwrecks, attacking a surfer on a chainsaw board. Oh, it gets weirder.

Check it out: shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw
October 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Butter Thief pictured has not harmed any butter in 2026.
Do you write short fiction? Eat a stick of butter immediately! And read @nicholeon.bsky.social's rules for submitting genre fiction.

It's a tough gig, so you better believe it's worth it.

Read now:
📖 links.ruadanbooks.com/lightner

#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #WriterSky #shortstories
January 2, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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Writers! Vol. 2 of 'The Best Weird Fiction of the Year' is open to your submissions. Please adhere to the guidelines.

undertowpublications.com/best-weird-f...
January 2, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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By the way, Kaleidotrope is open again to cover art submissions. As with everything, nothing AI-generated or assisted, but reprints are more than acceptable. You'll find the full guidelines, along with where to email me links to your portfolios or galleries, here:
Guidelines
kaleidotrope.net
January 2, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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♥️SUBMISSIONS OPEN♥️

We are opening up our Call for Submissions for our next issue! 🖋️✒️📚

This issue is all about reinventing the romance genre, taking ideas around love and sex and hatred to a whole new dimension.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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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
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Vincent Chong, cover art for the Polish version of Wizard and Glass, 1997/2000’s
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...!
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Black Horror | Call for Submissions
We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!
blog.flametreepublishing.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Speaking, you know, *as a market*, writing to what you think my tastes are as an editor is a bad idea. What I want most are the stories I don’t yet know that I want.
December 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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AI writing is people expecting readers to spend more time reading it than they put into making it, which is the opposite of the way value was created by an author putting in thought, organizing, research and editing that benefitted each reader in less time than it'd take for them to do it themselves
The frequency with which this is happening is so bleak and depressing. Knowing a book has no AI before beginning it, and paying for it, and spending time on it, shouldn’t be a guessing game.
December 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
These are STUNNING.
Enjoy a celestial take on a vintage paper garland 🎄 our paper chain templates feature artists' depictions of the Northern lights across history, From 19th century Arctic expeditions to Medieval atmospheric phenomena 🪢🌙✂️

Download the templates and instructions here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ahFZ...
a group of sheep wearing party hats are sitting at a table
Alt: An assembly line of sheep in green Santa hats assemble a pile of colorful paper chain garlands
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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timeless banger one of the profound mysteries of human culture is that people continued to compose more new songs after music was fully solved
DuckTales The Moon Theme NES ( 1 Hour)
YouTube video by PowerLooper
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We can do even more.
December 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Look what’s arrived! A beautiul volume of @fraidycatpress.bsky.social Fraidy Cat Quarterly, featuring stories by me and others including @nicholeon.bsky.social and @abigailkemske.bsky.social. Pick up a copy at fraidycatpress.com/shop/
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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🏰Will you dare to enter THE GLASS CASTLE?🏰
Just one of the gorgeous illustrations @carlydraws.bsky.social drew for a new story from sorcerous @saracentury.bsky.social.

⚔️ Find all this and more in issue six of New Edge Sword & Sorcery: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 📖
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that 💅🍓🫙✨

Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!

🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The call for ice cream hid a descent into a chilling, secret world. Ivy Grimes explores the horror in her grandmother’s basement & the fiction it inspired. A masterclass in eerie memory.

gnofhorror.com/ivy-grimes-t...

#Horror #IvyGrimes
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze Of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept In The Dark - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept in the Dark
gnofhorror.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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"I loved both of my grandmothers, but I never fully knew them. [...] I was the one who was afraid to look in the dark places. Of them, of myself, of everyone." 🌌

Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze Of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept In The Dark - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept in the Dark
gnofhorror.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Many thanks to @gnofhorror.com for featuring this little essay o mine about grandmothers and cellars!
"I loved both of my grandmothers, but I never fully knew them. [...] I was the one who was afraid to look in the dark places. Of them, of myself, of everyone." 🌌

Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze Of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept In The Dark - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept in the Dark
gnofhorror.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction!

Get the full details in our blog post announcement below ⬇️

Full guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Nominations for ECO25 Now Open!
ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction is an annual showcase of some of the most compelling and thought-provoking ecofiction published every year. If you published speculative ecofiction in 2025 ...
www.apexbookcompany.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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It is that time of year again fam! We are in the end-of-year festive and gifting season :D (We love getting presents!!!!) Have you considered gifting a subscription to one of your loved ones?

It’s the best kind of gift because it keeps on giving throughout the year XD escapeartists.net/support-ea/
escapeartists.net
December 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Svend Rasmussen Svendsen
(Norwegian/American, 1864–1945)
"Tree Trunks in Snow", 1920.
Oil on Canvas, 81 × 61 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
OMG thank you for this compliment!!! 📚📺🎒
And @nicholeon.bsky.social brings you a Very Special Episode - picture an episode of Saved by the Bell directed by David Lynch.
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM