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A list of active, regularly published fiction markets, including stories by today's best science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.
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We promote short fiction! Keep an eye on us for reposts of free fiction, AND calls for funding. Give short venues your love and support!
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We promote short fiction! Keep an eye on us for reposts of free fiction, AND calls for funding. Give short venues your love and support!
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Lift up your voices and sing so even the stones join in. "Songbook for the Jovian Resistance" by @prioryruins.bsky.social is a shout into the darkness for dark times
Songbook for the Jovian Resistance - Small Wonders
That first night, after the massacre of the helium-3 miners’ union at Mare Placidus, there were only a dozen of us.
smallwondersmag.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Lift up your voices and sing so even the stones join in. "Songbook for the Jovian Resistance" by @prioryruins.bsky.social is a shout into the darkness for dark times
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I did not speak until I was six.
-from "The Prison-House of Language" by Elana Gomel, in #Penumbric's Dec issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #scifi #language
-from "The Prison-House of Language" by Elana Gomel, in #Penumbric's Dec issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #scifi #language
January 6, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I did not speak until I was six.
-from "The Prison-House of Language" by Elana Gomel, in #Penumbric's Dec issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #scifi #language
-from "The Prison-House of Language" by Elana Gomel, in #Penumbric's Dec issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #scifi #language
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The History of the Playa Michigan Lake Mining Company
by Steve Wheat
"The sunlight came through dust mist,
reflecting the porcelain white sparkles
of lithium mounds like hives of glass ants."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Welcome to 2026!
by Steve Wheat
"The sunlight came through dust mist,
reflecting the porcelain white sparkles
of lithium mounds like hives of glass ants."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Welcome to 2026!
January 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM
The History of the Playa Michigan Lake Mining Company
by Steve Wheat
"The sunlight came through dust mist,
reflecting the porcelain white sparkles
of lithium mounds like hives of glass ants."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Welcome to 2026!
by Steve Wheat
"The sunlight came through dust mist,
reflecting the porcelain white sparkles
of lithium mounds like hives of glass ants."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Welcome to 2026!
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January 6, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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g.a. costa's poem "On the Factory Floor" depicts industrial accidents and their disturbing consequences.
We take a deep dive into the poem/author, including her inspiration from The Jungle and Billie Holiday. Plus, a mini-set of 1920s industrial/futurist music:
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We take a deep dive into the poem/author, including her inspiration from The Jungle and Billie Holiday. Plus, a mini-set of 1920s industrial/futurist music:
open.substack.com/pub/radonjou...
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
g.a. costa's poem "On the Factory Floor" depicts industrial accidents and their disturbing consequences.
We take a deep dive into the poem/author, including her inspiration from The Jungle and Billie Holiday. Plus, a mini-set of 1920s industrial/futurist music:
open.substack.com/pub/radonjou...
We take a deep dive into the poem/author, including her inspiration from The Jungle and Billie Holiday. Plus, a mini-set of 1920s industrial/futurist music:
open.substack.com/pub/radonjou...
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Finding myself near the cutting edge of treatment for advanced macular degeneration was not on my bucket list, but here we are. In any previous decade, the outlook may have been grim. Today, progressive vision loss has turned a corner to measurable improvement.
go.dfstory.com/macular
go.dfstory.com/macular
January 5, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Finding myself near the cutting edge of treatment for advanced macular degeneration was not on my bucket list, but here we are. In any previous decade, the outlook may have been grim. Today, progressive vision loss has turned a corner to measurable improvement.
go.dfstory.com/macular
go.dfstory.com/macular
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January 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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PseudoPod 1010: A Rose For Emily
“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral”
A Rose For Emily, by William Faulkner
Narrator: Ben Phillips
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
CW: racial slurs (see website for more)
pseudopod.org/2026/01/02/p...
“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral”
A Rose For Emily, by William Faulkner
Narrator: Ben Phillips
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
CW: racial slurs (see website for more)
pseudopod.org/2026/01/02/p...
PseudoPod 1010: A Rose For Emily
I When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her…
pseudopod.org
January 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
PseudoPod 1010: A Rose For Emily
“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral”
A Rose For Emily, by William Faulkner
Narrator: Ben Phillips
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
CW: racial slurs (see website for more)
pseudopod.org/2026/01/02/p...
“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral”
A Rose For Emily, by William Faulkner
Narrator: Ben Phillips
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
CW: racial slurs (see website for more)
pseudopod.org/2026/01/02/p...
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Kicking Jan ‘26 off with Jay McKenzie’s “What to buy your husband of thirty-seven years for his birthday.” And you thought gift guides were only for December 😏
#literary #flashfiction #amreading #writingcommunity #litfic #regret
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/what...
#literary #flashfiction #amreading #writingcommunity #litfic #regret
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/what...
What to buy your husband of thirty seven-years for his birthday
Buy him a shirt: pale, pressed crisp, avoid a relaxed fit, get him something plain and ordinary like his face, not paisley, never stripes, definitely not checked because I’m no cowboy, Annie, certa…
www.flashfictiononline.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Kicking Jan ‘26 off with Jay McKenzie’s “What to buy your husband of thirty-seven years for his birthday.” And you thought gift guides were only for December 😏
#literary #flashfiction #amreading #writingcommunity #litfic #regret
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/what...
#literary #flashfiction #amreading #writingcommunity #litfic #regret
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/what...
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Greetings, sapients, and welcome to 2026! No Y2K compliance bugs have been reported, so please enjoy part one of three (3!) of "What Any Dead Thing Wants" by @aimeeogdenwrites.com.
Escape Pod 1026: What Any Dead Thing Wants (Part 1 of 3)
The third week of a planetary exorcism is the hardest—at least if the planet in question has megafauna to deal with. Enthusiasm wanes even faster on worlds that never evolved past microbes.
escapepod.org
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Greetings, sapients, and welcome to 2026! No Y2K compliance bugs have been reported, so please enjoy part one of three (3!) of "What Any Dead Thing Wants" by @aimeeogdenwrites.com.
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Happy New Year and welcome to episode 727. We have one tale for you this week, about a young woman who seeks comfort in the embrace of her deceased grandmother’s house (read by @nikolledoolin.bsky.social).
talestoterrify.com/episodes/727-j-a-w-mccarthy
talestoterrify.com/episodes/727-j-a-w-mccarthy
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Happy New Year and welcome to episode 727. We have one tale for you this week, about a young woman who seeks comfort in the embrace of her deceased grandmother’s house (read by @nikolledoolin.bsky.social).
talestoterrify.com/episodes/727-j-a-w-mccarthy
talestoterrify.com/episodes/727-j-a-w-mccarthy
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Welcome to another Free Fiction Friday!
The first story to emerge from behind the paywall in 2026 is a haunting tale of the cute things children say, mythology, and the coming of a deep and harsh winter...
@jonathanhelland.bsky.social
magazine.trollbreath.com/drink-poetry...
The first story to emerge from behind the paywall in 2026 is a haunting tale of the cute things children say, mythology, and the coming of a deep and harsh winter...
@jonathanhelland.bsky.social
magazine.trollbreath.com/drink-poetry...
January 2, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Welcome to another Free Fiction Friday!
The first story to emerge from behind the paywall in 2026 is a haunting tale of the cute things children say, mythology, and the coming of a deep and harsh winter...
@jonathanhelland.bsky.social
magazine.trollbreath.com/drink-poetry...
The first story to emerge from behind the paywall in 2026 is a haunting tale of the cute things children say, mythology, and the coming of a deep and harsh winter...
@jonathanhelland.bsky.social
magazine.trollbreath.com/drink-poetry...
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Thanks to advancements in the metaverse, the rich and poor need no longer be equal in death!👩⚕️💉🔌
@miahomalley 's "SLEEPHOLDER" is a thought-provoking imagining of hospice in a dystopian future.
Read it here:
www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/sle...
@miahomalley 's "SLEEPHOLDER" is a thought-provoking imagining of hospice in a dystopian future.
Read it here:
www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/sle...
December 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Thanks to advancements in the metaverse, the rich and poor need no longer be equal in death!👩⚕️💉🔌
@miahomalley 's "SLEEPHOLDER" is a thought-provoking imagining of hospice in a dystopian future.
Read it here:
www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/sle...
@miahomalley 's "SLEEPHOLDER" is a thought-provoking imagining of hospice in a dystopian future.
Read it here:
www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/sle...
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“It seemed as if the Mackenzies were under a spell”
Christmas Eve In Beach House, by E Lynn Linton
Narrator: Lewis Davies
Host: Kat Day
Audio Producer: Graeme Dunlop
CW: murder, intimate partner violence
Christmas Eve at Beach House was first published in Routledge’s Christmas Annual, 1870
Christmas Eve In Beach House, by E Lynn Linton
Narrator: Lewis Davies
Host: Kat Day
Audio Producer: Graeme Dunlop
CW: murder, intimate partner violence
Christmas Eve at Beach House was first published in Routledge’s Christmas Annual, 1870
PseudoPod 1009: Christmas Eve at Beach House
It seemed as if the Mackenzies were under a spell, and that none of the men were ever destined to die in their beds. We sometimes see this strange law of persistent accident run through a family…
pseudopod.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“It seemed as if the Mackenzies were under a spell”
Christmas Eve In Beach House, by E Lynn Linton
Narrator: Lewis Davies
Host: Kat Day
Audio Producer: Graeme Dunlop
CW: murder, intimate partner violence
Christmas Eve at Beach House was first published in Routledge’s Christmas Annual, 1870
Christmas Eve In Beach House, by E Lynn Linton
Narrator: Lewis Davies
Host: Kat Day
Audio Producer: Graeme Dunlop
CW: murder, intimate partner violence
Christmas Eve at Beach House was first published in Routledge’s Christmas Annual, 1870
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New on the Fantasy Magazine site!
When You Hit The Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far, by Corey Farrenkopf aka @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Marked for Destruction: A Conversation with Moniquill Blackgoose
Read them here!👻
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
When You Hit The Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far, by Corey Farrenkopf aka @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Marked for Destruction: A Conversation with Moniquill Blackgoose
Read them here!👻
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Fantasy Magazine - issue 99 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 features work by: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan
psychopomp.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New on the Fantasy Magazine site!
When You Hit The Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far, by Corey Farrenkopf aka @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Marked for Destruction: A Conversation with Moniquill Blackgoose
Read them here!👻
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
When You Hit The Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far, by Corey Farrenkopf aka @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Marked for Destruction: A Conversation with Moniquill Blackgoose
Read them here!👻
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
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we haven't forgotten! it's a whole Fantasy weekend ✨
up first:
"The Wandering Woman of 95 paced in slow circles across the four-lane highway, translucent dress billowing."
When You Hit the Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
up first:
"The Wandering Woman of 95 paced in slow circles across the four-lane highway, translucent dress billowing."
When You Hit the Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
When You Hit the Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The Wandering Woman of 95 paced in slow circles across the four-lane highway, translucent dress billowing about her, long hair a mess of twigs and leaves, also translucent, also dead.
psychopomp.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
we haven't forgotten! it's a whole Fantasy weekend ✨
up first:
"The Wandering Woman of 95 paced in slow circles across the four-lane highway, translucent dress billowing."
When You Hit the Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
up first:
"The Wandering Woman of 95 paced in slow circles across the four-lane highway, translucent dress billowing."
When You Hit the Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
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Merry greetings, sophonts! This year our publication schedule fell on the Earth holiday known as Christmas, so please enjoy the relevant story "Samantha’s Diary" by Diana Wynne Jones.
Escape Pod 1025: Samantha’s Diary (Flashback Friday)
Recorded on BSQ SpeekEasi Series 2/89887BQ and discovered in a skip in London’s Regent Street. December 25th 2233 Tired today and having a lazy time. Got back late from Paris last night from Mother’s…
escapepod.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Merry greetings, sophonts! This year our publication schedule fell on the Earth holiday known as Christmas, so please enjoy the relevant story "Samantha’s Diary" by Diana Wynne Jones.
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O ASHY WINGS STILL FLUTTERING
by Joemario Umana
"O ashy wings still fluttering, what do you seek
in the ruin of light, what prayer stirs from the dust
of yourself?"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
by Joemario Umana
"O ashy wings still fluttering, what do you seek
in the ruin of light, what prayer stirs from the dust
of yourself?"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
December 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
O ASHY WINGS STILL FLUTTERING
by Joemario Umana
"O ashy wings still fluttering, what do you seek
in the ruin of light, what prayer stirs from the dust
of yourself?"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
by Joemario Umana
"O ashy wings still fluttering, what do you seek
in the ruin of light, what prayer stirs from the dust
of yourself?"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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Our last Free Fiction Friday of 2025 brings two spectacular poems about the moon and time! Enjoy these offerings from Mir Rainbird and Nico Martinez Nocito as the clock winds forward and drags us into 2026.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Our last Free Fiction Friday of 2025 brings two spectacular poems about the moon and time! Enjoy these offerings from Mir Rainbird and Nico Martinez Nocito as the clock winds forward and drags us into 2026.
magazine.trollbreath.com/strange-topo...
magazine.trollbreath.com/whittled-and...
magazine.trollbreath.com/strange-topo...
magazine.trollbreath.com/whittled-and...
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Morning Shed
by Namita Krishnamurthy
"Every few years, my face erupts in a frenzy of eyes."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
by Namita Krishnamurthy
"Every few years, my face erupts in a frenzy of eyes."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Morning Shed
by Namita Krishnamurthy
"Every few years, my face erupts in a frenzy of eyes."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
by Namita Krishnamurthy
"Every few years, my face erupts in a frenzy of eyes."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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Our midweek release is a rather surreal little tale about a frog named Peg-Peg. Check out “Growing House” by Madison Ellingsworth. Now free to read at FFO! 🐸
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #menagerie #litfic
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/grow...
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #menagerie #litfic
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/grow...
Growing House
On a chaise longue in the shadow of our fountain, Mother popped peanuts into her mouth and gave herself a pedicure.“Peg-Peg is getting very fat,” she said. “He just stares at his stone girlfriend.”…
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December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Our midweek release is a rather surreal little tale about a frog named Peg-Peg. Check out “Growing House” by Madison Ellingsworth. Now free to read at FFO! 🐸
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #menagerie #litfic
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/grow...
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #menagerie #litfic
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/grow...
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Issue 44 of Mythaxis Magazine is live!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-44/
Six new crime stories in text & audio, plus long and short form fiction reviews!
Many thanks to Ayame, Mark H. Harris, Devin James Leonard, Shamus Maxwell, Donald McCarthy, Angus McIntyre, and Bill Ryan, with Micah Hyatt on voice!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-44/
Six new crime stories in text & audio, plus long and short form fiction reviews!
Many thanks to Ayame, Mark H. Harris, Devin James Leonard, Shamus Maxwell, Donald McCarthy, Angus McIntyre, and Bill Ryan, with Micah Hyatt on voice!
December 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Issue 44 of Mythaxis Magazine is live!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-44/
Six new crime stories in text & audio, plus long and short form fiction reviews!
Many thanks to Ayame, Mark H. Harris, Devin James Leonard, Shamus Maxwell, Donald McCarthy, Angus McIntyre, and Bill Ryan, with Micah Hyatt on voice!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-44/
Six new crime stories in text & audio, plus long and short form fiction reviews!
Many thanks to Ayame, Mark H. Harris, Devin James Leonard, Shamus Maxwell, Donald McCarthy, Angus McIntyre, and Bill Ryan, with Micah Hyatt on voice!
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It's a Christmas miracle! FF#1 has re-launched is now available in an e-reader friendly EPUB format and our new PDF format, along with some fresh cover art from @carlydraws.bsky.social!
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-1/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-1/
December 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It's a Christmas miracle! FF#1 has re-launched is now available in an e-reader friendly EPUB format and our new PDF format, along with some fresh cover art from @carlydraws.bsky.social!
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-1/
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-1/
Happy day of Christmas for those of you who celebrate. May it be a day of warmth and cheer, and one where the new wool socks your grandma gave you don't itch.
Oh, and may your war moose be well armored...
Oh, and may your war moose be well armored...
December 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Happy day of Christmas for those of you who celebrate. May it be a day of warmth and cheer, and one where the new wool socks your grandma gave you don't itch.
Oh, and may your war moose be well armored...
Oh, and may your war moose be well armored...
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Cast of Wonders 669: The Cat that went to Uranus by Dan Peacock narrated by Rish Outfield produced by Jeremy Carter
CW: allergies
www.castofwonders.org/2025/12/cast...
CW: allergies
www.castofwonders.org/2025/12/cast...
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Cast of Wonders 669: The Cat that went to Uranus by Dan Peacock narrated by Rish Outfield produced by Jeremy Carter
CW: allergies
www.castofwonders.org/2025/12/cast...
CW: allergies
www.castofwonders.org/2025/12/cast...