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Devin Martin
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Co-Editor for @PodCastle.org

VA with narrations at Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Far-Fetched Fables

Had post-viral fatigue since before it got 'popular' #MECFS
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Devin Martin @quietandscreaming.bsky.social · Jul 31
And closing out PodCastle #DisabilityPride & Magic is @bethkesh.bsky.social's incredible "Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike" read by @elizachanwrites.bsky.social.

I hosted this episode, so you can find some of my thoughts about the story, and the event as a whole, there:
podcastle.org PodCastle @podcastle.org · Jul 31
#PC902: Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike by E. M. Faulds read by Eliza Chan.
A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG-13 - Content warning for ableist attitudes.

podcastle.org/2025/07/29/p...
#PC902: Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike by E. M. Faulds read by Eliza Chan. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG-13 - Content warning for ableist attitudes.
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castofwonders.org
It's our 15th birthday this summer, and to help us celebrate it we're opening the stage doors to birthday-themed stories!

We'll be open from the 15-21st March.

What we're looking for:
www.castofwonders.org/2026/02/cast...
Cast of Wonders turns 15 - Submissions Call | Cast of Wonders
It’s our 15th birthday this summer, and to help us celebrate it we’re opening the stage doors to birthday-themed stories! We’ll be open from the 15-21st March. What we’re looking for: We have a number...
www.castofwonders.org
February 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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stewarthotston.com
Like, I get there are lots of arguments why AI is bad. I don't need lots of arguments. Racism is enough. Sexism is enough. Each argument by itself is enough.
February 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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zutsuit.bsky.social
My Rapunzel retelling "Parsley Girl, Parsley Girl, Let Down Your Trichobezoar" is out @podcastle.org today! Inspired by pondering how Rapunzel's mother could so easily give up her firstborn to the enchantress, reframed by infertility (bc I've been there) and plant lore. podcastle.org/2026/02/10/p...
PodCastle 930: Parsley Girl, Parsley Girl, Let Down Your Trichobezoar - PodCastle
Parsley Girl, Parsley Girl, Let Down Your Trichobezoar by Natalie Zutter   If I were your mother, I would share with you this cautionary tale: Once there was a couple who yearned for a child. When the...
podcastle.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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podcastle.org
Reminder! PodCastle is open for submissions through April! SUBMIT (your stories) TO THE DRAGON!!🐉🐉🐉
February 2, 2026 at 9:59 PM
quietandscreaming.bsky.social
Congratulations to everyone who made the Locus list!

I'm especially thrilled to see a couple of stories we published on PodCastle there: "The Magnolia Returns" by @edenroyce.bsky.social and "Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush" by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social
locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 18d
2025 Recommended Reading List locusmag.com/2026/02...
Collage of covers with Recommended Reading List text
February 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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ruthjoffre.bsky.social
I was just looking through the Locus Recommended Reading List to add things to my TBR and had to stop and say WAIT A MINUTE, THAT'S ME!!! I MADE THE LIST!!! big thank you to @locusmag.bsky.social for including me and @podcastle.org for publishing my story "Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush"
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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marissavu.bsky.social
tell your friends, your frenemies, your favorite writers & publishers... only a couple days left to send us the best nature-based speculative fiction you published last year!

We're reading 2025's ecohorror, clifi, solarpunk, anthropomorphic, ecoweird, dystopian, utopian, anti-utopian, ecofuturism!
Graphic with the following text: CALLING ALL AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS OF SCIFI, FANTASY & HORROR THAT ENGAGES WITH NATURE & ECOLOGY, ANIMALS (INCLUDING PETS!), CLIMATE, THE ENVIRONMENT. Nominations close SATURDAY, JAN 31 for ECO25: THE YEAR’S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. For more info, visit www.VioletLichen.com/Ecofiction-Guidelines
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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vanessafogg.bsky.social
Very late, but here are my short fiction recs from Nov-Dec 2025! A mix of old and new, with stories by @acwise.bsky.social @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @teajaysee.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social 1/2
Short fiction recs! November-December 2025
Very late, but here are some stories I read and loved in the last months of 2025—a mix of older stories and new.   “Wolf Moon, Antler ...
itsajumble.blogspot.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:43 PM
quietandscreaming.bsky.social
Welcome back @catscast.org!
catscast.org CatsCast @catscast.org · Jan 19
If you're an Escape Artists patron, you might have noticed something fluffy in your email or podcast feed.

www.patreon.com/posts/catsca...

(Patrons get early, ad-free access to episodes; the same episode will be available with ads for everyone else next week).
CatsCast 27: Lost in Translation by Y.M. Resnik | Escape Artists Foundation
Get more from Escape Artists Foundation on Patreon
www.patreon.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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audriserat.bsky.social
psst, did you know there's a chinese gay god that protects the gays? here's a short story abt him!!

thanks to @podcastle.org for being a wonderful host. the show notes are especially touching!

podcastle.org/2026/01/06/p...
PodCastle 925: The Immortal Rabbit - PodCastle
The Immortal Rabbit By Audris Candra   Your most painful death fell upon you when your soulmate had forgotten who you were. You’d shared a kiss in a previous life, under the lush grape vines on the cu...
podcastle.org
January 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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thedailytism.com
Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.
Disabled friend doesn’t particularly want your Not-Covid either
Your disabled friend isn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of getting whatever horrible lurgy you’ve reassured them isn’t Covid, it has been revealed.  In a statement released today, your disabled…
thedailytism.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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wiswell.bsky.social
Hey. Make that story weirder.
December 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
Afternoon bump!

This narration of my story is very very good!
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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bcsmagazine.bsky.social
Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!)

BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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summerfletcher.com
Hey I made a game in twine you should play it, it's very silly.

thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...
Barbarian Bestie by Summer Fletcher
A twine game -- replete with nonsense!
thesummerfletcher.itch.io
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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anthonymoser.com
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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khoreo.bsky.social
🚨 November submissions are OPEN! We're seeking bold, subversive fiction on:

🔁 Cycles of revolution

💥 Revolution as a starting point

🌿 Quiet revolutions & resistance

📢 Disability, class & revolution

Submit now! www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Image of hand holding a megaphone. Overlayed text reading: Submissions open on November 1st to 30th, under the theme of Revolutions.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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ruthjoffre.bsky.social
here for your listening and reading pleasure!

my story “Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush” is out now at PodCastle! it’s about a woman with a strange power: whenever a species goes extinct, she transforms into it for a day. it has magic, queerness, climate grief, and so many birds. enjoy!
podcastle.org PodCastle @podcastle.org · Nov 4
#PC916: Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush by Ruth Joffre read by Julia Rios. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated G

podcastle.org/2025/11/04/p...
#PC916: Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush by by Ruth Joffre read by Julia Rios. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated G Yesterday, I was a bird. A slender-billed curlew, to be exact. My girlfriend helped me ID the bird. Took photographs of my decurved bill, the flash of white under my tail, the small brown speckles on my cream-white breast. “Some of these spots look like hearts,” I said this morning, once I was human again and able to compare her pictures to the one in an article I found: “The Slender-Billed Curlew Is Declared Extinct.” It always happens like this: a species disappears once and for all, and I transform into a replica of it for one day. Thirteen hours, at least, maybe more if I wake up especially early. It takes about an hour each way for the metamorphosis to be complete — long enough, in theory, for me to prepare. To lock the doors, rush to the bathtub if I feel gills opening in my throat. I often track the process in the mirror as it unfolds. Watch scales harden over my flesh, feathers push through my pores. It never stops feeling like magic.
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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leahning.bsky.social
It's new (ish) story day!!! PodCastle made a delightful production of "The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been", originally published in Monster Lairs (edited by Anna Madden). Hope y'all enjoy!! There might be a fresh story coming out with PodCastle in the future, too... 👀
podcastle.org PodCastle @podcastle.org · Oct 28
#PC915: The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been by Leah Ning, read by Amanda Ching. Previously published in Monster Lairs (Dark Matter INK, October 2023). Rated PG-13

podcastle.org/2025/10/28/p...
#PC915: The Hunter, the Monster, and the Things That Could Have Been by Leah Ning, read by Amanda Ching. Previously published in Monster Lairs (Dark Matter INK, October 2023). Rated PG-13 You find the dying woman-thing in an alley, breathing her final wet, rasping breaths in a heap of white trash bags that seems more like a throne. Everything tells you to run: twenty-four years of instinct, the government monster information pamphlets, the hard, practical voice at the back of your head that sounds a lot like your monster hunter girlfriend. And then the woman-thing looks up. Her dark, scaled cheek drags on the distended belly of plastic that makes her pillow. Her chapped lips part and she says, in a voice like acid and smoke: “Eiko.” That should make you run, too. Things that know your name and shouldn’t are firmly in “get the hell out and don’t look back” territory. But something in her voice hooks into the bottom of your soul and tugs.
October 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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edenroyce.bsky.social
Thrilled my story "The Magnolia Returns" is up at @podcastle.org! It's a tale of a lonely, traveling butcher shop serving its community and finally finding companionship.

The audio is narrated by the incredible Laurice White, who always nails the dialect.

podcastle.org/2025/10/21/p...

#booksky
A background of a green, hilly city on a rock suspended in the clouds. In the lower left corner, the PodCastle logo sits, a teal dragon circling a multi-turreted castle with a gold flag flying above it. Text reads: The Magnolia Returns Written by Eden Royce Read by Laurice White PodCastle Episode 914 "The Magnolia blooms out of nowhere at any time of year it chooses, bringing its dilapidated wooden slats and rickety front steps to a neighborhood that somehow believes it has always been there. The butcher shop itself is well-worn, looking like it has seen better days: peeling seafoam green paint on salt-blasted boards, the once-vivid red front door now a faded smear like lipstick after an ardent lover’s attention."
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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podcastle.org
Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window!! We will open in November and close in April. See our announcement on the website for details. All our usual Submissions Guidelines still apply.

podcastle.org/2025/10/17/a...
Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window - PodCastle
Greetings, writers of fantasy fiction! We at PodCastle are due to open back up to general submissions in November. When we do, instead of our usual one month open period, we plan to open for six month...
podcastle.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
I feel like the LLM era is the perfect time for someone to relaunch the text-a-librarian reference service. It doesn't have to just be text, we can do email. But you can submit a question and a reference librarian working remotely will respond to it within an hour with verifiable resources.
October 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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erwrites.bsky.social
Aaaaahhhhhhh this is such an honour!! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! 😭🎉🎉🎉😭
October 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM