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Ariya Bandy
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author of Painted Winds (Bottlecap Press) | work in Nightmare Magazine, 100-Foot Crow, and more | IF dev | copy editor at khōréō magazine | first reader at Querencia Press |
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Ariya Bandy @storyofariya.bsky.social · Aug 18
VITALEAGUE, an interactive fiction game about a regular teen who joins a superhero team’s group chat, is now available to play on @itch.io!

Making this game with DAPHODIL for #SingleChoiceJam has been such a wonderful and rewarding (and slightly chaotic) experience!

#interactivefiction #gamejam
VITALEAGUE by Ariya Bandy, DAPHODIL
Regular teen joins superhero group chat?
storyofariya.itch.io
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danaiwrites.bsky.social
This autumn has been much tougher than expected so I’m reopening my books. Need eyes on you query package, manuscript, or someone to discuss all things publishing? Reach out!

More info and rates here: chronovoros.com?page_id=279
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
OTHERSIDE opens to submissions of nonfiction and reprints in FOUR DAYS! That means it's Q&A time! Drop any and all questions you have about nonfiction/reprint submissions below, and our cofounders will answer as we have time 👀 We're getting extremely excited to read your work!
Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines." Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. Open November 24, 2025. Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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marisca.bsky.social
Contract is signed! Thrilled to share that my story, "Twelve Facts About the Dermestid Beetle," will be coming out in a future issue of @nightmare-magazine.com 🪳🦴🪳
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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emelkrishnan.bsky.social
I have a story coming out this December in Issue 99 of @fantasymagazine.bsky.social, and it’s all the more bittersweet knowing that this beautiful magazine is going on hiatus after that. Please support the independent magazines and presses that you love, however you can. This is the only way.
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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psychopomp.com
a post about Psychopomp in 2026

please read and share

thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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marisca.bsky.social
Behold my 2025 poetry round up!! I published 24 poems this year, eligible for the Nebula, Hugo, Rhysling, & Elgin Awards 💫

Huge thanks to @penumbricmag.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social @smallwondersmag.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social ⬇️
Graphic with the following text: 2025 Awards Eligibility: Poetry by Marisca Pichette Hugo & Nebula Awards 24 poems Rhysling Award: Short Poems 18 poems Rhysling Award: Long Poems 1 poem Dwarf Stars Award 5 poems Graphic with the following text: 2025 Poems by Marisca Pichette star-bright SpecPoVerse #1 Lagomorpha Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, April 2025 When the Shadows Showed All Kaleidotrope, Spring 2025 and holes in the roof to welcome rain Star*Line 48.2 geomancy Star*Line 48.2 All the space we have left Asimov's, March/April 2025 Issue alt/main Dangerous to Go Alone 2 Last sanctuary Small Wonders #19 Where does the flame go/when we blow the candle out? Eye to the Telescope #55 Between the Waters of Phlegethon and Molloy Kaleidotrope, Winter 2025 snapshots viewed through the stasis pod window Just Keep Up fritillary frigate Radon Journal #11 Graphic with the following text: 2025 Poems by Marisca Pichette Umbrella Cloud Star*Line 48.4 elegy to a meadow This Exquisite Topology The Fin Stitch This Exquisite Topology Auragami This Exquisite Topology What the Unicorn's Horn Feels Our Dearest Devotions threnody, adrift F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue triboluminescence: a first-hand account F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue two hundred miles from Long Beach F(r)iction #24: The Oceans Issue chaos theory Merganser Magazine #6 Let the net grow far and deep Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Oct 2025 Medusa Circuit Eye to the Telescope #58: Cyberpunk coral on mars New Myths, Winter 2025 Issue
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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mrpoemguy.bsky.social
I have three poems in this beautiful anthology! My entries do a lot more genre play this time, doing science fiction sendups of T.S. Eliot and the ancient Greek Olympian ode. Thanks to @angrygablepress.bsky.social and @nsborwein.bsky.social for including me!
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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nsborwein.bsky.social
Katabatic Circus Volume 2!

a.co/d/iiZpEoB
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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leahning.bsky.social
Also got interviewed by the delightful @marissavu.bsky.social ❤️ I always appreciate the research and thoughtfulness she puts into her interview questions!
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 6d
"The biggest piece of writing advice I always keep in my brain is that anything can work if you can make it work." 🪸💬

New interview by @marissavu.bsky.social: Interview with Author @leahning.bsky.social"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Interview with Author Leah Ning, By Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine, Issue 151"
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Hails new followers & voyagers into the Weird! May we interest you in a slice of:

🚀Queer Sci-Fi Horromance?
🧠Surrealist Cronenbergian medical mind-fuckery?
❄️Indigenous Arctic supernatural survival?
🪸Coral eco-body horror?

And that's only PART of 2025. Fill your plate:
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Our 11 releases in 2025.
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
storyofariya.bsky.social
Incredibly honored to have 5 speculative poems in this anthology!
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼

ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤

Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
"ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. OUT NOW. www.apexbookcompany.com"
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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marisca.bsky.social
Awards Eligibility Post: I published a novella, 12 stories, & 5 flash in 2025!

Huge thanks to all the publishers, editors, readers, & reviewers who spent their time with my writing this year. 🖤🎈🦇
Graphic displaying cover for EVERY DARK CLOUD, 2025 novella by Marisca Pichette from Ghost Orchid Press. Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following magazines: One More Song Goblins and Galaxies #0 Upon a Vast, Velvet Veil Fusion Fragment #25 In Her Tower of Scales Worlds of Possibility, June 2025 The House of Us DreamForge Magazine #16 Naked They Cling Cosmic Horror Monthly #58 The Last Harvest Phano #2 Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following anthologies: Where Walls Once Rose Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Soft Fire BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror The Watercolor Room The Midnight Labyrinth How Not to Swallow a Dragon Behind the Revovling Door Nature Morte Hiding Under the Leaves Appleseed Spirit of the Wolf Graphic listing the 2025 flash pieces published by Marisca Pichette: Nine Acre Corner Anomaly Press Release from a Utopia on the Way Down Simultaneous Times #84 This is Not a Fiction Full House Literary, Spring 2025 One, Two, We, Our Tales & Feathers, Vol. 3 What the Boys Lost MYRIAD Digital Zines: Nocturnal
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
Contract signed! So happy one of my favorite stories finally found a home!

“Magical Girl Eater,” inspired by the growing commodification of nostalgia + fandom (and of course all my favorite magical girl series from the 90s/00s 🌙), will be in a future issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
storyofariya.bsky.social
I guess it’s that time of year already?! I’ve never done an awards eligibility post before, and I am kind of terrified, but I am incredibly grateful to everyone who published and read my work this year (links below)! Feel free to reach out for copies of any of these for consideration!
2025 Poetry Publications “in your mind, they still dance” - Nightmare Magazine “We live in a sinking capsule” - SpecPoVerse Volume 1 Issue 2 Poetry in Katabatic Circus Volume 2 (Angry Gable Press) “Pretending to Be Human” “I just want to marinate” “Hitting Snooze” “Refresh” “Glue” Fiction Publication “I Place Them to Rest” - DARK READS (Thin Veil Press)
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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natcassidy.bsky.social
Ahh! What an honor to see WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME included among Audible’s Best of 2025! I will extol to the heavens the brilliance of Helen Laser’s narration and Macmillan Audio's production any chance I get, so this happily gives me another excuse!
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
I had 4 new short stories published this year but would be honored if you checked out these two for Nebula/Hugo/Locus consideration 🙏

1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy)
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...

2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
Barbershops of the Floating City - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: child abuse   You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks u...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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angrygablepress.bsky.social
Katabatic Circus Volume 2 Out November 20th! a.co/d/gt0JNrs
Katabatic Circus (Volume 2)
Amazon.com: Katabatic Circus (Volume 2) eBook : Borwein, Naomi Simone, Arnzen, Michael A., Bruner, Pixie, Patterson, H.V., Newton, Kurt, LoSchiavo, LindaAnn, Hessel-Miel, Michael, Magee, Alan, St. Claire, Joshua, Borwein, Naomi Simone: Kindle Store
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November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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khoreo.bsky.social
Our submissions are open to fiction exploring the theme of "Revolutions" 📣

Visit our website to read the full submission guidelines: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Cartoon illustration of a megaphone with text reading: Submission open from November 1 to 30th, under the theme of Revolutions.
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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khoreo.bsky.social
The full audio story of Wax and Full Circles by @stefanicox.bsky.social is out now!

The story was edited by Isabella Kestermann, narrated by Xperience J, and produced by @lianxiarose.bsky.social.

You can read or listen to the full story here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/wax-...
Audio clip of the story, Wax and Full Circles. The background is a moving blue and green gradient, an illustration of spheres, and on the foreground is an image of the cover of khoreo magazine issue 5.2. Title text reads: Wax and Full Circles. Written by Stefani Cox, story edited by Isabella Kestermann, narrated by Xperience J, and audio produced by Lian Xia Rose.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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danaiwrites.bsky.social
It’s that time of the year again! If you’re voting for the Hugos, the Nebulas or any other SFF awards, I hope you will consider my two very Greek, very angry offerings. Both free to read!
Short story: translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/1...
Non-fiction essay: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
With the Acropolis as the background, text reads: Danai Christopoulou awards eligibility 2025 Short story: “12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being a Demigod” Translunar Travelers Lounge Non-fiction essay: “These marbles were never white” khōréō A screenshot of 12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being a Demigod, a short story by Danai Christopoulou Screenshot of “These Marbles Were Never White” a non-fiction essay by Danai Christopoulou
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
storyofariya.bsky.social
So excited and grateful to be in this anthology!
angrygablepress.bsky.social Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · Oct 21
Cover Reveal: Katabatic Circus Volume 2 !!! angrygablepress.com/2025/10/20/k...
October 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
storyofariya.bsky.social
In case you missed it! One of my favorite stories I have ever written!
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
storyofariya.bsky.social
Absolutely thrilled that my story “I Place Them to Rest” is published in Thin Veil Press’s DARK READS collection!📦👂🧸

thinveilpress.co.uk/i-place-them...
“I run my palms over my head, smooth, hairless, and… earless. Like moving joints, my ears detach from my head. No wound. No blood. I hold them together to the light outside the unit. They look like butterfly wings. I place them to rest along with my hair. I’ll deal with this mess later.”
September 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
storyofariya.bsky.social
I’m honored to share that my poem “We live in a sinking capsule” appears in the newest issue of SpecPoVerse!
Specpoverse
Join us in our mission to create a multicultural vision of speculative poetry.
specpoverse.org
August 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM