Sliced Up Press
@sliceduppress.bsky.social
Queer-run indie horror micropress, specialising in anthologies since 2020. AI = shit.
Find us at sliceduppress.com
**SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION on pause due to life stuff**
Find us at sliceduppress.com
**SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION on pause due to life stuff**
Wow, you lot sent your Saturday Mourning TV contracts back FAST! Thank you!
Working on payments from next weekend onwards, then into editing mode soon after.
Also anyone accepted for the book (or previous ones!) who we haven't followed back on here, give us a reminder and we will.
💀📺
Working on payments from next weekend onwards, then into editing mode soon after.
Also anyone accepted for the book (or previous ones!) who we haven't followed back on here, give us a reminder and we will.
💀📺
a woman is pointing at the camera in front of balloons .
Alt: Pat Sharp from the TV show "Fun House" giving a big thumbs up in front of a tunnel filled with balloons
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November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Wow, you lot sent your Saturday Mourning TV contracts back FAST! Thank you!
Working on payments from next weekend onwards, then into editing mode soon after.
Also anyone accepted for the book (or previous ones!) who we haven't followed back on here, give us a reminder and we will.
💀📺
Working on payments from next weekend onwards, then into editing mode soon after.
Also anyone accepted for the book (or previous ones!) who we haven't followed back on here, give us a reminder and we will.
💀📺
Acceptances have all been sent out for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION!
Let's do this! 💀📺
Let's do this! 💀📺
a robot with a screen that says ' io ' on it
Alt: Metal Mickey from the TV show Metal Mickey. He's a robot. Called Mickey.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Acceptances have all been sent out for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION!
Let's do this! 💀📺
Let's do this! 💀📺
We're not going to be able to offer out our annual LGBTQIA+ Writer's Grant this year as it stands, but we hope to offer it out again in 2026.
We will be opening up free short story editing for LGBTQIA+ writers again after Xmas though, details here:
sliceduppress.com/editing-serv...
We will be opening up free short story editing for LGBTQIA+ writers again after Xmas though, details here:
sliceduppress.com/editing-serv...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We're not going to be able to offer out our annual LGBTQIA+ Writer's Grant this year as it stands, but we hope to offer it out again in 2026.
We will be opening up free short story editing for LGBTQIA+ writers again after Xmas though, details here:
sliceduppress.com/editing-serv...
We will be opening up free short story editing for LGBTQIA+ writers again after Xmas though, details here:
sliceduppress.com/editing-serv...
Okay! So! It looks like we should be able to move ahead with SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION! Now comes the housekeeping part - it will take until the end of the month for us to make sure contracts and offer letters are in order. We plan on sending them out just after Hallowe'en. 1/2
October 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Okay! So! It looks like we should be able to move ahead with SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION! Now comes the housekeeping part - it will take until the end of the month for us to make sure contracts and offer letters are in order. We plan on sending them out just after Hallowe'en. 1/2
I totally missed this at the time 😳 Congrats to all the winners!
Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Winners
The Rhysling Award honors the year's best in speculative poetry ✨
Nominees were selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: Long and Short poem
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The Rhysling Award honors the year's best in speculative poetry ✨
Nominees were selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: Long and Short poem
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October 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I totally missed this at the time 😳 Congrats to all the winners!
Whether we get the good news we're hoping for next week re. the future of Saturday Mourning TV or not, I just feel the need to say thanks again to all those who submitted their writing, especially those who are bearing with me for a proper decision.
- Ben
- Ben
a red heart with the words sending hugs the gay kind written on it
Alt: GIF of a a large red heart which spins down a street with the words "Sending Hugs THE GAY Kind" in front of it, plus sparkles and rainbows of course
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October 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Whether we get the good news we're hoping for next week re. the future of Saturday Mourning TV or not, I just feel the need to say thanks again to all those who submitted their writing, especially those who are bearing with me for a proper decision.
- Ben
- Ben
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SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...
Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press
REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...
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October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...
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My first work ever published was titled the Loneliness of Malabron. It was published by @sliceduppress.bsky.social in 2022.
It has now been translated to French, my own language, in Malpertuis XVI. 🥰
It has now been translated to French, my own language, in Malpertuis XVI. 🥰
September 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
My first work ever published was titled the Loneliness of Malabron. It was published by @sliceduppress.bsky.social in 2022.
It has now been translated to French, my own language, in Malpertuis XVI. 🥰
It has now been translated to French, my own language, in Malpertuis XVI. 🥰
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HV and me crossed path on my first publication EVER! Monstroddities by @sliceduppress.bsky.social edited by @bensnotwriting.bsky.social
Within which you can find The Loneliness of Malabron and HV's poem Mother:Microbe
sliceduppress.com/monstrodditi...
Within which you can find The Loneliness of Malabron and HV's poem Mother:Microbe
sliceduppress.com/monstrodditi...
September 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
HV and me crossed path on my first publication EVER! Monstroddities by @sliceduppress.bsky.social edited by @bensnotwriting.bsky.social
Within which you can find The Loneliness of Malabron and HV's poem Mother:Microbe
sliceduppress.com/monstrodditi...
Within which you can find The Loneliness of Malabron and HV's poem Mother:Microbe
sliceduppress.com/monstrodditi...
Only a couple more weeks until we find out for sure whether we can crack on with SATURDAY MOURNING TV this year or not. Watch this space!
September 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Only a couple more weeks until we find out for sure whether we can crack on with SATURDAY MOURNING TV this year or not. Watch this space!
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This story was originally written for @sliceduppress.bsky.social 's "Saturday Mourning" anthology. It didn't get in, but I put it up anyway because I think horror stories need more deformed PROtagonists.
myweirdwriting.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/t... A pair of conjoined twins create an effigy of their cartoon hero, though it may be more real then they think (includes foul language, violence and references to ableism) #story #stories #shortstory #shortstories
The Creation of Robotic Raymond
The following story contains foul language, violence and references to ableism. Robotic Raymond had been brought into three-dimensions. Once merely a series of drawings on paper, Olga and Geri had …
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September 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This story was originally written for @sliceduppress.bsky.social 's "Saturday Mourning" anthology. It didn't get in, but I put it up anyway because I think horror stories need more deformed PROtagonists.
And Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes from SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! is on the shortlist along with many more brilliant poems - the Rhysling anthology is stacked with great stuff!
SFPA Members, don't forget that VOTING closes for both the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award on Sept. 15!
Just five more days to those votes in!!
Thanks so much in advance for celebrating speculative poetry with us. We can't do this without you 💜
Just five more days to those votes in!!
Thanks so much in advance for celebrating speculative poetry with us. We can't do this without you 💜
September 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
And Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes from SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! is on the shortlist along with many more brilliant poems - the Rhysling anthology is stacked with great stuff!
In the wake of the Anthropic suit, here's a bit about copyright in our publications.
Copyrights for all stories & poems we publish remain with the writer, this is a standard clause in all our contracts.
We're based in the UK so works don't have to be registered here to be copyrighted.
BUT!
1/3
Copyrights for all stories & poems we publish remain with the writer, this is a standard clause in all our contracts.
We're based in the UK so works don't have to be registered here to be copyrighted.
BUT!
1/3
September 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In the wake of the Anthropic suit, here's a bit about copyright in our publications.
Copyrights for all stories & poems we publish remain with the writer, this is a standard clause in all our contracts.
We're based in the UK so works don't have to be registered here to be copyrighted.
BUT!
1/3
Copyrights for all stories & poems we publish remain with the writer, this is a standard clause in all our contracts.
We're based in the UK so works don't have to be registered here to be copyrighted.
BUT!
1/3
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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a reminder that you can still sign up for the settlement if they stole your work www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact
September 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
a reminder that you can still sign up for the settlement if they stole your work www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact
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Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there.
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there.
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Hoping to have some news re. the future of our SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION anthology over the next 3-4 weeks.
a woman in a purple sweater is saying fingers crossed
Alt: GIF from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with Kimmy saying "fingers crossed!" with her fingers, y'know - crossed
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August 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hoping to have some news re. the future of our SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION anthology over the next 3-4 weeks.
Received the 2025 Rhysling Anthology in the post today.
Reading through it this evening and there's some stellar poetry in there - including of course Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes, which we were proud to publish in SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! alongside many more brilliant queer horror poems & stories. 💀🌈
Reading through it this evening and there's some stellar poetry in there - including of course Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes, which we were proud to publish in SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! alongside many more brilliant queer horror poems & stories. 💀🌈
August 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Received the 2025 Rhysling Anthology in the post today.
Reading through it this evening and there's some stellar poetry in there - including of course Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes, which we were proud to publish in SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! alongside many more brilliant queer horror poems & stories. 💀🌈
Reading through it this evening and there's some stellar poetry in there - including of course Dex Drury's Pa(i)ncakes, which we were proud to publish in SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! alongside many more brilliant queer horror poems & stories. 💀🌈
On a different note we figured out the whole ID thing, so the UK ain't keeping us from talking about our books on here for now!
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
On a different note we figured out the whole ID thing, so the UK ain't keeping us from talking about our books on here for now!
Thanks for all your kind words everyone, and your understanding. This will mean I can't run the yearly LGBT+ writers grant either unless things turn around, but watch this space, I hope to not let all *waves hand* this keep me down for too long.
- Ben
- Ben
July 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Thanks for all your kind words everyone, and your understanding. This will mean I can't run the yearly LGBT+ writers grant either unless things turn around, but watch this space, I hope to not let all *waves hand* this keep me down for too long.
- Ben
- Ben
Due to an unforeseen change in my personal circumstances I'm not going to be able to publish SATURDAY MOURNING TV this year.
Once things are back to normal I'll make a further announcement.
The affected authors have been emailed and I'm really, really sorry to have let anyone down.
- Ben
Once things are back to normal I'll make a further announcement.
The affected authors have been emailed and I'm really, really sorry to have let anyone down.
- Ben
July 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Due to an unforeseen change in my personal circumstances I'm not going to be able to publish SATURDAY MOURNING TV this year.
Once things are back to normal I'll make a further announcement.
The affected authors have been emailed and I'm really, really sorry to have let anyone down.
- Ben
Once things are back to normal I'll make a further announcement.
The affected authors have been emailed and I'm really, really sorry to have let anyone down.
- Ben
Moving submissions back and forth between the MAYBE and ACCEPTED piles for Saturday Mourning Television like
a man with a beard is wearing headphones while reading a book .
Alt: a guy clumsily (?) shuffling an oversized deck of cards
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July 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Moving submissions back and forth between the MAYBE and ACCEPTED piles for Saturday Mourning Television like
Just over 70 more submissions to go through for SATURDAY MOURNING TV, this is a very long shortlist! Thanks everyone for your patience so far, we will get back to you by the end of the month. 💀📺
July 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Just over 70 more submissions to go through for SATURDAY MOURNING TV, this is a very long shortlist! Thanks everyone for your patience so far, we will get back to you by the end of the month. 💀📺
Please keep your eyes on our website for updates, as on 25th July the UK is mandating that users of social media provide a face scan, ID verification or a payment card and we might not be able to do that.
July 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Please keep your eyes on our website for updates, as on 25th July the UK is mandating that users of social media provide a face scan, ID verification or a payment card and we might not be able to do that.
Many people have said this far more eloquently than me today but fuck the 'zon, if you need to shop online, do it elsewhere on "prime day" and ANY day.
July 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Many people have said this far more eloquently than me today but fuck the 'zon, if you need to shop online, do it elsewhere on "prime day" and ANY day.