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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d
📢Typebar Magazine is now open to pitches!📢

Read our guidelines in the images below. We can't wait to work with you. Aso, we pay! $75 for a finished essay.

www.typebarmagazine.com
HOW DO I PITCH TYPEBAR MAGAZINE? Pitches to Typebar Magazine are currently OPEN. Our guidelines are below… Send pitches to matt@typebarmagazine.com. Please begin your subject line with “PITCH” (without the quotation marks) so that it gets picked up by our filtering system. Otherwise you risk your pitch not being read! We do not accept pitches written in whole or in part by AI nor do we knowingly publish essays that were compiled with AI. Regarding the actual email, keep it short and specific. Good: “The Etched City by KJ Bishop was an esoteric and bizarre literary fantasy novel published 20 years ago. I’d like to write a piece for Typebar Magazine discussing how both market forces and cultural changes within the SFF sphere have made it more difficult for The Etched City’s mode of creating fantasy literature to exist, to the detriment of the genre. I’ve reviewed books for Awesome Book Website and have also published stories on Cool Website Dot Com. Here is a link to my work…” Less Good: “I want to review The Etched City because it’s a forgotten novel that I think is really cool.” Some Other Tips: Start off with your pitch, and also include a brief bio (particularly highlighting what makes you qualified to be writing the article you’re pitching). Please include writing samples of similar work you’ve done, even if it’s a personal blog or newsletter. The important thing is to have an ANGLE, a unique perspective. We want something fresh. Ask yourself “so what?” and if you don’t have a good answer, refine the pitch. Right now our interests include, but are not limited to: The mid-late aughts internet, critical reevaluations of cultural artifacts (ephemera or mainstays) from the 90s and aughts, and typewriters. We don’t have much interest in contemporary film or television and even less in earnest discussion of contemporary mega IPs. More broadly, we like academic-minded but accessible literary criticism and analysis regardless of genre or era. To help get our sense of taste and what we like to publish, read prior issues of the magazine in our archives!
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✨Issue 8 cover reveal!✨
Typebar Magazine Issue 8 cover. It's a bunch of vintage fridge magnets with a photo of a lighthouse and a photo of a woman in the 1930s or 1940s at a train station. She is the editor's grandmother. The lighthouse photo was taken by the editor's sister. There are drawings of typewriters and the typebar logo, done by the editor's partner. The promoted essay titles read... The Rebirth of Sci-Fi: Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Science Fiction by Matthew Claxton Not So Classic: How Super Mario 64 Ultimately Changed the Mario Franchise for the Worse by Ernie Smith And MORE! Eight other essays plus FICTION.
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
I have a 🌶️ take in this.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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✨Issue 8 cover reveal!✨
Typebar Magazine Issue 8 cover. It's a bunch of vintage fridge magnets with a photo of a lighthouse and a photo of a woman in the 1930s or 1940s at a train station. She is the editor's grandmother. The lighthouse photo was taken by the editor's sister. There are drawings of typewriters and the typebar logo, done by the editor's partner. The promoted essay titles read... The Rebirth of Sci-Fi: Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Science Fiction by Matthew Claxton Not So Classic: How Super Mario 64 Ultimately Changed the Mario Franchise for the Worse by Ernie Smith And MORE! Eight other essays plus FICTION.
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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wolfbridge.bsky.social
Might I humbly request all treats and no tricks?
typebarmagazine.bsky.social Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d
📢Typebar Magazine is now open to pitches!📢

Read our guidelines in the images below. We can't wait to work with you. Aso, we pay! $75 for a finished essay.

www.typebarmagazine.com
HOW DO I PITCH TYPEBAR MAGAZINE? Pitches to Typebar Magazine are currently OPEN. Our guidelines are below… Send pitches to matt@typebarmagazine.com. Please begin your subject line with “PITCH” (without the quotation marks) so that it gets picked up by our filtering system. Otherwise you risk your pitch not being read! We do not accept pitches written in whole or in part by AI nor do we knowingly publish essays that were compiled with AI. Regarding the actual email, keep it short and specific. Good: “The Etched City by KJ Bishop was an esoteric and bizarre literary fantasy novel published 20 years ago. I’d like to write a piece for Typebar Magazine discussing how both market forces and cultural changes within the SFF sphere have made it more difficult for The Etched City’s mode of creating fantasy literature to exist, to the detriment of the genre. I’ve reviewed books for Awesome Book Website and have also published stories on Cool Website Dot Com. Here is a link to my work…” Less Good: “I want to review The Etched City because it’s a forgotten novel that I think is really cool.” Some Other Tips: Start off with your pitch, and also include a brief bio (particularly highlighting what makes you qualified to be writing the article you’re pitching). Please include writing samples of similar work you’ve done, even if it’s a personal blog or newsletter. The important thing is to have an ANGLE, a unique perspective. We want something fresh. Ask yourself “so what?” and if you don’t have a good answer, refine the pitch. Right now our interests include, but are not limited to: The mid-late aughts internet, critical reevaluations of cultural artifacts (ephemera or mainstays) from the 90s and aughts, and typewriters. We don’t have much interest in contemporary film or television and even less in earnest discussion of contemporary mega IPs. More broadly, we like academic-minded but accessible literary criticism and analysis regardless of genre or era. To help get our sense of taste and what we like to publish, read prior issues of the magazine in our archives!
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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annacwebs.bsky.social
Typebar is a wonderful publication who are great to work with. Pitch to them!!!!!!
typebarmagazine.bsky.social Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d
📢Typebar Magazine is now open to pitches!📢

Read our guidelines in the images below. We can't wait to work with you. Aso, we pay! $75 for a finished essay.

www.typebarmagazine.com
HOW DO I PITCH TYPEBAR MAGAZINE? Pitches to Typebar Magazine are currently OPEN. Our guidelines are below… Send pitches to matt@typebarmagazine.com. Please begin your subject line with “PITCH” (without the quotation marks) so that it gets picked up by our filtering system. Otherwise you risk your pitch not being read! We do not accept pitches written in whole or in part by AI nor do we knowingly publish essays that were compiled with AI. Regarding the actual email, keep it short and specific. Good: “The Etched City by KJ Bishop was an esoteric and bizarre literary fantasy novel published 20 years ago. I’d like to write a piece for Typebar Magazine discussing how both market forces and cultural changes within the SFF sphere have made it more difficult for The Etched City’s mode of creating fantasy literature to exist, to the detriment of the genre. I’ve reviewed books for Awesome Book Website and have also published stories on Cool Website Dot Com. Here is a link to my work…” Less Good: “I want to review The Etched City because it’s a forgotten novel that I think is really cool.” Some Other Tips: Start off with your pitch, and also include a brief bio (particularly highlighting what makes you qualified to be writing the article you’re pitching). Please include writing samples of similar work you’ve done, even if it’s a personal blog or newsletter. The important thing is to have an ANGLE, a unique perspective. We want something fresh. Ask yourself “so what?” and if you don’t have a good answer, refine the pitch. Right now our interests include, but are not limited to: The mid-late aughts internet, critical reevaluations of cultural artifacts (ephemera or mainstays) from the 90s and aughts, and typewriters. We don’t have much interest in contemporary film or television and even less in earnest discussion of contemporary mega IPs. More broadly, we like academic-minded but accessible literary criticism and analysis regardless of genre or era. To help get our sense of taste and what we like to publish, read prior issues of the magazine in our archives!
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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gwenckatz.bsky.social
Pitch to Typebar, folks!
typebarmagazine.bsky.social Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d
📢Typebar Magazine is now open to pitches!📢

Read our guidelines in the images below. We can't wait to work with you. Aso, we pay! $75 for a finished essay.

www.typebarmagazine.com
HOW DO I PITCH TYPEBAR MAGAZINE? Pitches to Typebar Magazine are currently OPEN. Our guidelines are below… Send pitches to matt@typebarmagazine.com. Please begin your subject line with “PITCH” (without the quotation marks) so that it gets picked up by our filtering system. Otherwise you risk your pitch not being read! We do not accept pitches written in whole or in part by AI nor do we knowingly publish essays that were compiled with AI. Regarding the actual email, keep it short and specific. Good: “The Etched City by KJ Bishop was an esoteric and bizarre literary fantasy novel published 20 years ago. I’d like to write a piece for Typebar Magazine discussing how both market forces and cultural changes within the SFF sphere have made it more difficult for The Etched City’s mode of creating fantasy literature to exist, to the detriment of the genre. I’ve reviewed books for Awesome Book Website and have also published stories on Cool Website Dot Com. Here is a link to my work…” Less Good: “I want to review The Etched City because it’s a forgotten novel that I think is really cool.” Some Other Tips: Start off with your pitch, and also include a brief bio (particularly highlighting what makes you qualified to be writing the article you’re pitching). Please include writing samples of similar work you’ve done, even if it’s a personal blog or newsletter. The important thing is to have an ANGLE, a unique perspective. We want something fresh. Ask yourself “so what?” and if you don’t have a good answer, refine the pitch. Right now our interests include, but are not limited to: The mid-late aughts internet, critical reevaluations of cultural artifacts (ephemera or mainstays) from the 90s and aughts, and typewriters. We don’t have much interest in contemporary film or television and even less in earnest discussion of contemporary mega IPs. More broadly, we like academic-minded but accessible literary criticism and analysis regardless of genre or era. To help get our sense of taste and what we like to publish, read prior issues of the magazine in our archives!
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
📢Typebar Magazine is now open to pitches!📢

Read our guidelines in the images below. We can't wait to work with you. Aso, we pay! $75 for a finished essay.

www.typebarmagazine.com
HOW DO I PITCH TYPEBAR MAGAZINE? Pitches to Typebar Magazine are currently OPEN. Our guidelines are below… Send pitches to matt@typebarmagazine.com. Please begin your subject line with “PITCH” (without the quotation marks) so that it gets picked up by our filtering system. Otherwise you risk your pitch not being read! We do not accept pitches written in whole or in part by AI nor do we knowingly publish essays that were compiled with AI. Regarding the actual email, keep it short and specific. Good: “The Etched City by KJ Bishop was an esoteric and bizarre literary fantasy novel published 20 years ago. I’d like to write a piece for Typebar Magazine discussing how both market forces and cultural changes within the SFF sphere have made it more difficult for The Etched City’s mode of creating fantasy literature to exist, to the detriment of the genre. I’ve reviewed books for Awesome Book Website and have also published stories on Cool Website Dot Com. Here is a link to my work…” Less Good: “I want to review The Etched City because it’s a forgotten novel that I think is really cool.” Some Other Tips: Start off with your pitch, and also include a brief bio (particularly highlighting what makes you qualified to be writing the article you’re pitching). Please include writing samples of similar work you’ve done, even if it’s a personal blog or newsletter. The important thing is to have an ANGLE, a unique perspective. We want something fresh. Ask yourself “so what?” and if you don’t have a good answer, refine the pitch. Right now our interests include, but are not limited to: The mid-late aughts internet, critical reevaluations of cultural artifacts (ephemera or mainstays) from the 90s and aughts, and typewriters. We don’t have much interest in contemporary film or television and even less in earnest discussion of contemporary mega IPs. More broadly, we like academic-minded but accessible literary criticism and analysis regardless of genre or era. To help get our sense of taste and what we like to publish, read prior issues of the magazine in our archives!
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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wolfbridge.bsky.social
This was a really stunning, tragic story and I was very proud we were able to publish it!
rsbenedict.bsky.social RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 14d
I liberated my latest short story from Typebar's paywall and put it up on my website for free. Enjoy, weirdos! rs-benedict.com/2025/10/28/t...
Tiddies
a story about tits
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October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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rsbenedict.bsky.social
I liberated my latest short story from Typebar's paywall and put it up on my website for free. Enjoy, weirdos! rs-benedict.com/2025/10/28/t...
Tiddies
a story about tits
rs-benedict.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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wolfbridge.bsky.social
In a prior issue of Typebar Magazine, @theworldsgreatestwriter.com wrote an excellent essay about the domestic horror of Shirley Jackson’s novel Hangsaman

www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/11/28/s...
October 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
Earlier this year Seann made a compelling case for 4E being the best iteration of D&D!

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/02/23/d...
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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gwenckatz.bsky.social
By popular demand: I've opened a Kickstarter for a HOP T-shirt!

If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
HOP Shirt
A T-shirt with the legendary Portland frog rendered in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama HOPE image
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October 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
On some ways in which sexual power dynamics are addressed through sci-fi world-building and characterization, there's this particularly thouhtgful piece by @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social:
Sadomasochism in Space: Lost Worlds of Gender Representation in 1980s Science-fiction Romance - Typebar Magazine
The obscure 1980s novel that unlocks the key to emotionally and psychologically sophisticated science fiction.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
Citing the fomer is "The Death of the F*ck" (ttile censored ironically, I assume) by @emilylynell.bsky.social, focusing more on the market and social forces underlying the current moment:
The Death of The F*ck: Neopuritanism and Commercial Fiction - Typebar Magazine
How readers with presumably progressive politics are increasingly aligning with the far right on the moralization of sex.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
Digging at the problem of sex and sex appeal as something sanitized for marketability, "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny" by @rsbenedict.bsky.social should be required reading:
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife
The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.
bloodknife.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
On this topic, a quick thread of other good reads about this whole sex-in-literature thing 🧵
eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · 27d
I probably first linked to this essay during some accursed past discourse, but this is a marvelous piece by @clclark.bsky.social on sexuality, sexual tension, and what recent literature broadly lacks due to neglecting these:
Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny - Reactor
C.L. Clark discusses writing sex, desire, and queerness in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite
reactormag.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
An ode to Jenny Hval and cross-medium artistic curiosity

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/a...
A Celebration of the Abject, the Queer, and the Arcane: The Work of Writer-Musician Jenny Hval - Typebar Magazine
Hval’s work, both in written and musical form, shows an artist willing to explore the limits of genres.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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kjy1066.bsky.social
Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up!

Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho!

kyr-1066.itch.io/a-series-of-...
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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sambrambling.bsky.social
Drawn in by the LL Cool J reference, stayed for some knowledge.
wolfbridge.bsky.social Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 27d
Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/07/14/d...
October 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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wolfbridge.bsky.social
When businesses trusted Facebook, Facebook turned around and charged everbody money to reach their own audience. Substack will inevitably do the same. It's baked into the model!
wolfbridge.bsky.social Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 27d
Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/07/14/d...
October 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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wolfbridge.bsky.social
Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/07/14/d...
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
The first literary thriller? Homer's Odyssey.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/h...
Homer's Odyssey: The First Literary Thriller - Typebar Magazine
Literary thrillers are about the journey, not the destination.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
"The best dystopian fiction, and the best cyberpunk fiction by extension, trades on this human element. Rather than chain itself to paltry political metaphors, these genres examine how people choose to confront a horrifying and inescapable situation."

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...
Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine
There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.
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October 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
"To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist. It flatters our desire to be special and also our desire to be absolved for our failures."

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/w...
White Noise, Talk Radio, and Our Unexceptional Present - Typebar Magazine
To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist.
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October 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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blinkkittylove.bsky.social
to read for @upstartarts.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM