𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵𝘂𝗮 𝗗. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻
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『 Author | Narrative Designer & Game Writer | Lyricist | Journalist | Retrofuturist | Eldritch Slayer 』
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Go vote for your favorite Foofaraw stories from 2025! And share the link widely with your friends, fellow writers, and readers! Winners from season five and six will be included in our Best Of Anthology along with the inaugural winners of The Foofs. tally.so/r/mK9Jyg
Foof Faves 2025
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January 1, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Go vote for your favorite Foofaraw stories from 2025! And share the link widely with your friends, fellow writers, and readers! Winners from season five and six will be included in our Best Of Anthology along with the inaugural winners of The Foofs. tally.so/r/mK9Jyg
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January issues drop tomorrow on Foofaraw and Quotidian Bagatelle (as well as on Weightless Books). These covers look pretty nice all lined up together.
January 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
January issues drop tomorrow on Foofaraw and Quotidian Bagatelle (as well as on Weightless Books). These covers look pretty nice all lined up together.
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Dark short fiction writers, this one is for you 🖤
34 Orchard is open Jan 1 to 10 2026 for intense, unsettling stories that speak to deeper truths.
📏 1k to 6k words
💸 $50 per story
Guidelines:
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#Horror="/hashtag/HorrorTree" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#HorrorTree #SubmissionCall #DarkFiction #Horror #WritingCommunity
34 Orchard is open Jan 1 to 10 2026 for intense, unsettling stories that speak to deeper truths.
📏 1k to 6k words
💸 $50 per story
Guidelines:
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#Horror="/hashtag/HorrorTree" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#HorrorTree #SubmissionCall #DarkFiction #Horror #WritingCommunity
December 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Dark short fiction writers, this one is for you 🖤
34 Orchard is open Jan 1 to 10 2026 for intense, unsettling stories that speak to deeper truths.
📏 1k to 6k words
💸 $50 per story
Guidelines:
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#Horror="/hashtag/HorrorTree" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#HorrorTree #SubmissionCall #DarkFiction #Horror #WritingCommunity
34 Orchard is open Jan 1 to 10 2026 for intense, unsettling stories that speak to deeper truths.
📏 1k to 6k words
💸 $50 per story
Guidelines:
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#Horror="/hashtag/HorrorTree" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#HorrorTree #SubmissionCall #DarkFiction #Horror #WritingCommunity
Here's a list I wrote of upcoming spec-fic TV shows I'm sure will be goated.
I'm most excited for Blade Runner 🙏
I'm most excited for Blade Runner 🙏
Fantasy and sci-fi fans are eating good next year! Here are six shows guaranteed to make 2026 a great year for genre television:
6 fantasy and sci-fi shows that are guaranteed to make 2026 great
The new year is going to be packed with new TV originals, spinoffs, and season premieres of returning shows. While I'd love to give a shout out to all the upcom
winteriscoming.net
December 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Here's a list I wrote of upcoming spec-fic TV shows I'm sure will be goated.
I'm most excited for Blade Runner 🙏
I'm most excited for Blade Runner 🙏
My dark academia fantasy short script, "DECAYER," was published in HAUNTER review. A great send-off for the year!
www.haunterreview.com/copy-4-of-tr...
www.haunterreview.com/copy-4-of-tr...
Joshua Martin | HAUNTER Review
www.haunterreview.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
My dark academia fantasy short script, "DECAYER," was published in HAUNTER review. A great send-off for the year!
www.haunterreview.com/copy-4-of-tr...
www.haunterreview.com/copy-4-of-tr...
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We're taking a look at some of the best fantasy novels that 2025 had to offer, including The Strength of the Few, Katabasis, and more.
8 best fantasy books of 2025
We've finally reached the end of 2025, and while certain events in reality might have left us feeling worn down, the fantasy worlds 2025 provided were just the
winteriscoming.net
December 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
We're taking a look at some of the best fantasy novels that 2025 had to offer, including The Strength of the Few, Katabasis, and more.
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Thinking about this lately. Seems the only way to protect things is to set the bar so high that any attempt to remake it is laughed into the ground. We're seeing that already with One Punch Man, & might see it again with Frieren Season 2. If you make something perfect it'll speak for itself forever.
December 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Thinking about this lately. Seems the only way to protect things is to set the bar so high that any attempt to remake it is laughed into the ground. We're seeing that already with One Punch Man, & might see it again with Frieren Season 2. If you make something perfect it'll speak for itself forever.
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Taking submissions: Obsidian: The Dark Space Novelette Anthology 🌌
Dark SF & horror about isolation, exploration, & the brutal void of space.
9k to 25k words
1p per word up to £100
Deadline Feb 15 2026
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#WritingCommunity
Dark SF & horror about isolation, exploration, & the brutal void of space.
9k to 25k words
1p per word up to £100
Deadline Feb 15 2026
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#WritingCommunity
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Taking submissions: Obsidian: The Dark Space Novelette Anthology 🌌
Dark SF & horror about isolation, exploration, & the brutal void of space.
9k to 25k words
1p per word up to £100
Deadline Feb 15 2026
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#WritingCommunity
Dark SF & horror about isolation, exploration, & the brutal void of space.
9k to 25k words
1p per word up to £100
Deadline Feb 15 2026
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#WritingCommunity
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Coming to an inbox near you soon. Quotidian Bagatelle Issue #1. We will be publishing everything on the web for free daily, but you can get the entire months worth of stories, essays, poems, and images on the first of every month in ePub and PDF. https://qb.foofaraw.press/#/portal/signup
December 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Coming to an inbox near you soon. Quotidian Bagatelle Issue #1. We will be publishing everything on the web for free daily, but you can get the entire months worth of stories, essays, poems, and images on the first of every month in ePub and PDF. https://qb.foofaraw.press/#/portal/signup
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70 contracts have officially been sent out for 130 pieces to run next year! Still need to countersign and pay, but I’ve got a pretty epic schedule planned for Quotidian Bagatelle.
December 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
70 contracts have officially been sent out for 130 pieces to run next year! Still need to countersign and pay, but I’ve got a pretty epic schedule planned for Quotidian Bagatelle.
Chill Subs gave me some wins to celebrate. Discovered awesome mags on their platform and made lasting connections.
What a year.
What a year.
For the next two weeks, you can find us trying to leave family functions early, staring at the wall, and feeling guilty about not writing BUT YA WON’T FIND US ON HERE.
We’re taking a holiday hiatus, see you in 2026.
Love you so very much, thank you for being here <3
We’re taking a holiday hiatus, see you in 2026.
Love you so very much, thank you for being here <3
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Chill Subs gave me some wins to celebrate. Discovered awesome mags on their platform and made lasting connections.
What a year.
What a year.
Turn those lingering words in your noggin' into a nano/micro fic!
I sat on a bunch of words I saved for short fiction or songs. Sentences and phrases I conjured up daydreaming. I know you have some 🫵. Here's a way to share it so they don't collect dust.
I sat on a bunch of words I saved for short fiction or songs. Sentences and phrases I conjured up daydreaming. I know you have some 🫵. Here's a way to share it so they don't collect dust.
Hey! We are a new micro imprint from @foofarawpress.bsky.social publihing stories, columns, and poems under 250 words. Or tiny little pieces of art! Come submit your latest micro piece here foofaraw.press/quotidian-ba... #fiction #openforsubmissions
Quotidian Bagatelle
Submissions are OPEN
Submission form
Info
Quotidian Bagatelle is an experimental micro imprint from Foofaraw Press looking to publish 365 micro stories, poems, columns, or art pieces in 2026 (and ...
foofaraw.press
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Turn those lingering words in your noggin' into a nano/micro fic!
I sat on a bunch of words I saved for short fiction or songs. Sentences and phrases I conjured up daydreaming. I know you have some 🫵. Here's a way to share it so they don't collect dust.
I sat on a bunch of words I saved for short fiction or songs. Sentences and phrases I conjured up daydreaming. I know you have some 🫵. Here's a way to share it so they don't collect dust.
Write for readers like you. Don't write for an award.
(But those are a bonus).
(But those are a bonus).
Reading over 6,000 short stories taught me this: many writers are trying to impress editors. The best ones are trying to entertain readers. Huge difference.
December 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Write for readers like you. Don't write for an award.
(But those are a bonus).
(But those are a bonus).
Shout out what you're most proud of this year! Go ahead, you deserve it for writing and getting published. Heck, represent your favorite short story. They deserve it, too.
Now feels like a good time to remind folks you can submit your most surreal, magical, strange, or weird stories for our inaugural edition of The Foofs (awards and anthology) https://foofaraw.press/the-foofs-2025/
The Foofs (2025)
an award "show" for the weird and the wonderful
foofaraw.press
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Shout out what you're most proud of this year! Go ahead, you deserve it for writing and getting published. Heck, represent your favorite short story. They deserve it, too.
I wrote a sample selection of my favorite mags and novella presses just in case you need low commitment reads.
If you're looking for something to read without a long commitment, try some speculative fiction lit mags on for size.
5 literary magazines for sci-fi and fantasy readers
There are two main types of readers: those who read so voraciously that there aren't enough stories to keep them satiated. Then there are the readers who feel t
winteriscoming.net
December 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I wrote a sample selection of my favorite mags and novella presses just in case you need low commitment reads.
I'm not the only one who recycles their high quality cardboard and aesthetically pleasing clothing tags as bookmarks, right?
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'm not the only one who recycles their high quality cardboard and aesthetically pleasing clothing tags as bookmarks, right?
The most cruel thing an artist can do is make an interlude that's the most fire beat in the album and it's only 1:30s
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The most cruel thing an artist can do is make an interlude that's the most fire beat in the album and it's only 1:30s
The S&S stories in #writingbattle that got stuck with modern prompts
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The S&S stories in #writingbattle that got stuck with modern prompts
Yeah, now they're one of my favorite lit mags.
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Yeah, now they're one of my favorite lit mags.
I don't know if I'm ready to see the sights they have to show me 😦
Nonetheless, I'm very excited.
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Nonetheless, I'm very excited.
winteriscoming.net/clive-barker...
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival gameplay trailer bleeds pain and pleasure
Saber Interactive, the developers of Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2, have finally released a haunting vision into the gameplay of their upcoming action survival
winteriscoming.net
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I don't know if I'm ready to see the sights they have to show me 😦
Nonetheless, I'm very excited.
winteriscoming.net/clive-barker...
Nonetheless, I'm very excited.
winteriscoming.net/clive-barker...
Though I remain in the longlist, it's an honor to share the same space with these talented writers and their awesome stories.
My first time as a finalist, too!
@foofarawpress.bsky.social Fun contest! The lore and characters I came up with will grow, thx for the inspo.
(I wrote The Momentonomicon)
My first time as a finalist, too!
@foofarawpress.bsky.social Fun contest! The lore and characters I came up with will grow, thx for the inspo.
(I wrote The Momentonomicon)
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Though I remain in the longlist, it's an honor to share the same space with these talented writers and their awesome stories.
My first time as a finalist, too!
@foofarawpress.bsky.social Fun contest! The lore and characters I came up with will grow, thx for the inspo.
(I wrote The Momentonomicon)
My first time as a finalist, too!
@foofarawpress.bsky.social Fun contest! The lore and characters I came up with will grow, thx for the inspo.
(I wrote The Momentonomicon)
Currently reading this (taking my sweet time savoring) and I may have to get a physical copy for my shelf. The weird mystery is superb.
My sample copy of the special edition hardcover finally arrived! Here it is next to the paperback with the dusty plum jacket and the wordless art on the cover. We have nine left! https://foofaraw.metalabel.com/the-bodies-parish?variantId=3
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Currently reading this (taking my sweet time savoring) and I may have to get a physical copy for my shelf. The weird mystery is superb.
I'll never forget when Grammarly tried to autocorrect me on "loctician" to "hair dresser."
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'll never forget when Grammarly tried to autocorrect me on "loctician" to "hair dresser."
A nice (healthy) twist on the "life path" coming-of-age ceremony often seen in fantasy and dystopian sci-fi.
The Calling by Larina Warnock https://foofaraw.press/the-calling/
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
A nice (healthy) twist on the "life path" coming-of-age ceremony often seen in fantasy and dystopian sci-fi.