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With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
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We just hit our submission cap, so we’ll keep things open until the end of the day if you have something you’d like to sneak our way. Friendly reminder that we’re friendly and always pay for the work we publish!
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Astrolabe
A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.
astrolabe.ooo
October 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We just hit our submission cap, so we’ll keep things open until the end of the day if you have something you’d like to sneak our way. Friendly reminder that we’re friendly and always pay for the work we publish!
astrolabe.ooo/submissions
astrolabe.ooo/submissions
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Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!
With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Thrilled to have a new little prose poem floating around over at @astrolabe.ooo (and they *happen* to be open for submissions)!
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With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
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I’m still pinching myself that my small story is in this year’s Best of the Net alongside so many amazing pieces. Many thanks to the good folks at COMP for nominating it.
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In the Waiting Room – Best of the Net
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August 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I’m still pinching myself that my small story is in this year’s Best of the Net alongside so many amazing pieces. Many thanks to the good folks at COMP for nominating it.
bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...
bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...
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Great list of stories I need to search out - and litmags! @grist.org
@orionmagazine.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com @apexmag.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo
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@orionmagazine.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com @apexmag.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo
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July 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Great list of stories I need to search out - and litmags! @grist.org
@orionmagazine.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com @apexmag.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo
www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
@orionmagazine.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com @apexmag.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo
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One week from today! Free / zoom / mid-day break
Our next one is coming at you next week, but you have time to register for this FREE lunch time reading with 6 women & nonbinary speculative fiction authors!
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July 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
One week from today! Free / zoom / mid-day break
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New micros up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social!! Thank you for giving these micros a home! 🥰❤️
"Jean jacket layered in pins, anarchy & misfits & sonic youth, red bangs sprayed in a bouffant wave, red lips smacking hubba bubba. Mom didn’t like it but who can say no to a goddess who at any slight could destroy our whole neighborhood." @lumchanmfa.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
July 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
New micros up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social!! Thank you for giving these micros a home! 🥰❤️
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Each day this week, I’m sharing why I loved one of the pieces we published last week on @astrolabe.ooo as part of the Retrograde.
July 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Each day this week, I’m sharing why I loved one of the pieces we published last week on @astrolabe.ooo as part of the Retrograde.
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ICYMI, I have a new flash story out at @astrolabe.ooo.
It's about leaving a party with someone you just met, driving on highways at 1 am, the music up so loud you could sink into it forever.
It's about leaving a party with someone you just met, driving on highways at 1 am, the music up so loud you could sink into it forever.
Sorrow for Youth • fiction from Guan Un
There’s no one else in the beach parking lot. You turn off the engine and the silence rushes in but for the hum in her throat, the tick of the engine cooling.
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July 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
ICYMI, I have a new flash story out at @astrolabe.ooo.
It's about leaving a party with someone you just met, driving on highways at 1 am, the music up so loud you could sink into it forever.
It's about leaving a party with someone you just met, driving on highways at 1 am, the music up so loud you could sink into it forever.
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Honoured to have materialized in the Astrolabe universe today: www.astrolabe.ooo/ross-annual-...
Annual Review • fiction from Shana Ross
You could have put in an escalator.
Or better yet, you could have invented an elevator.
That would have been Exceptional.
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July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Honoured to have materialized in the Astrolabe universe today: www.astrolabe.ooo/ross-annual-...
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A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around.
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
July 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around.
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
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New story day! It's not everyday I get to join a Universe, but I'm so thrilled to join the Astrolabe Universe.
A flash story about leaving the party at 1am, driving down the streets with the music up loud, and that girl beside you, whose song you want to hear the end of ...
A flash story about leaving the party at 1am, driving down the streets with the music up loud, and that girl beside you, whose song you want to hear the end of ...
July 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
New story day! It's not everyday I get to join a Universe, but I'm so thrilled to join the Astrolabe Universe.
A flash story about leaving the party at 1am, driving down the streets with the music up loud, and that girl beside you, whose song you want to hear the end of ...
A flash story about leaving the party at 1am, driving down the streets with the music up loud, and that girl beside you, whose song you want to hear the end of ...
A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around.
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
July 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around.
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo
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I’m so excited to be a part of this anthology with so many amazing writers. Many thanks to @astrolabe.ooo for originally publishing my story.
NEW BLOG POST ALERT! 🌱🍄
Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! Thank you to everyone who submitted and nominated stories this year. Check the post or keep reading for the full table of contents!
Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! Thank you to everyone who submitted and nominated stories this year. Check the post or keep reading for the full table of contents!
ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction TOC Announcement
Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction, the first ever best-of anthology series dedicated to ec...
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July 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I’m so excited to be a part of this anthology with so many amazing writers. Many thanks to @astrolabe.ooo for originally publishing my story.
We're shimmering at the sight of two Astrolabe stories on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 Longlist—congrats to @shakieranthem.bsky.social and Amelia K., whose work both live within the Errants asterism!
June 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We're shimmering at the sight of two Astrolabe stories on the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2025 Longlist—congrats to @shakieranthem.bsky.social and Amelia K., whose work both live within the Errants asterism!
For all sorts of reasons, we're pushing back our summer issue to July 17th, and our next open reading window to the autumnal equinox. We got a quite a few submissions this spring, and we want to make sure we're giving each of them attention before we open for more. Thanks for bearing with us.
June 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
For all sorts of reasons, we're pushing back our summer issue to July 17th, and our next open reading window to the autumnal equinox. We got a quite a few submissions this spring, and we want to make sure we're giving each of them attention before we open for more. Thanks for bearing with us.
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"I hear an ice cream truck ringing around the corner. Children are shouting. The seasons bleed into one another." Mr. Bear! And this issue of @astrolabe.ooo is transporting, as always!
Thrilled to be part of the @astrolabe.ooo universe with my piece “Self-hypnosis, or Dig Deep In There Until the Bottom of the Ocean of Your Childhood”
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Self-hypnosis, or Dig Deep In There Until the Bottom of the Ocean of Your Childhood • fiction from Georgia Bellas
I see her hands cup a grasshopper. I see her sweep with pine needle brooms. Can you smell the lilacs, purple and white?
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March 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"I hear an ice cream truck ringing around the corner. Children are shouting. The seasons bleed into one another." Mr. Bear! And this issue of @astrolabe.ooo is transporting, as always!
Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds by @mrbearstumpy.bsky.social, @l42r.bsky.social, @maryloubuchi.bsky.social, Robin Steve, Jessica Richardson, Devan Murphy, and Angela Mihm.
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Astrolabe
A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.
www.astrolabe.ooo
March 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds by @mrbearstumpy.bsky.social, @l42r.bsky.social, @maryloubuchi.bsky.social, Robin Steve, Jessica Richardson, Devan Murphy, and Angela Mihm.
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www.astrolabe.ooo
Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds—the wounds and the healing, the birds and the walnut shells, the tusks and the possibility of berries.
www.astrolabe.ooo
www.astrolabe.ooo
Astrolabe
A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.
www.astrolabe.ooo
March 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds—the wounds and the healing, the birds and the walnut shells, the tusks and the possibility of berries.
www.astrolabe.ooo
www.astrolabe.ooo
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New Flash CNF piece in @astrolabe.ooo. Joel Jae, and Astrid were amazing to work with and thank you to @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social for the class that brought this piece to life.
March 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New Flash CNF piece in @astrolabe.ooo. Joel Jae, and Astrid were amazing to work with and thank you to @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social for the class that brought this piece to life.
Profoundly proud of this year's nominations for Best Small Fictions—long journeys wished and real; a house or a home or a meteor; an agenda of ribbons and balls and fairies.
February 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Profoundly proud of this year's nominations for Best Small Fictions—long journeys wished and real; a house or a home or a meteor; an agenda of ribbons and balls and fairies.
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5. "Light of My Life" in @astrolabe.ooo is a prose poem that tells the entire arc of a love story with a physicist through wistful metaphors of light
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Light of My Life • fiction from Ian Li
We grab coffee. She’s a physicist. Light is a particle, etching our each encounter on speckled film.
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January 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
5. "Light of My Life" in @astrolabe.ooo is a prose poem that tells the entire arc of a love story with a physicist through wistful metaphors of light
www.astrolabe.ooo/li-light-of-...
www.astrolabe.ooo/li-light-of-...
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This story began in my notes app with a concrete uterus. I figured that was too heavy for my main character. Thank you Allison Field Bell and The Rumpus for publishing this “lighter” version.
“When she turned fifty, Darla chose a bucket uterus for herself. A plastic one. Her barren neighbor, Eloise, needed a replacement, so Darla donated hers. It was as simple as that.”
From "Organ Donor," new original fiction by Amy Cipolla Barnes.
Read the full story at https://buff.ly/4j0D28L
From "Organ Donor," new original fiction by Amy Cipolla Barnes.
Read the full story at https://buff.ly/4j0D28L
January 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This story began in my notes app with a concrete uterus. I figured that was too heavy for my main character. Thank you Allison Field Bell and The Rumpus for publishing this “lighter” version.