Camsyn Clair (they)
@beingcam.bsky.social
Black, queer writer, artist, and horse-lover who very much believes in magic.
- 2025 Not Quite Write Artist in Residence
- Cover artist for the January 2025 issue of Small Wonders
- 2025 Not Quite Write Artist in Residence
- Cover artist for the January 2025 issue of Small Wonders
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More January 2025 issues are coming! Today it's @smallwondersmag.com #19: weightlessbooks.com/small-wonder...
The January issue of Small Wonders featuring my cover art is available now through Weightless Books and the Small Wonders store! I can’t wait to check out the awesome stories :)
My amazingly talented friend and publication buddy @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social had a beautifully unique, nostalgic piece published in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social last week—everyone should go read!!!
COZY SCI-FI: “The Last Ofutan in Orbit” by Mizuki Yamagen is available to read on FFO:
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Last Ofuton in Orbit
After my grandmother died, I was left with the ofuton and the spirit inside it.It had been hers since before lift-off, stitched by hand on Earth, brought to the orbiting colony in the old days when…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
My amazingly talented friend and publication buddy @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social had a beautifully unique, nostalgic piece published in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social last week—everyone should go read!!!
Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest
Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition with a Twist
Join Twisted Teams - A Writing Competition Balancing Individual Creativity with Team Collaboration
twistedtournament.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Ready to test my writing skills in the Twisted Teams challenge "Twisted Teams 1"! Looking forward to the creative prompts and team collaboration. Any other writers joining me? twistedtournament.com/homepageteams #TwistInTaleContest #writingcontest
“You won’t be unknown to me.”
My heart is exploding at the news that my friend @awprihandita.bsky.social WON THE NEBULA for best novelette!!!
So honored to know you, read, and listen to your words. You and your brilliant story couldn’t be more deserving of such recognition 🥹
My heart is exploding at the news that my friend @awprihandita.bsky.social WON THE NEBULA for best novelette!!!
So honored to know you, read, and listen to your words. You and your brilliant story couldn’t be more deserving of such recognition 🥹
🎊 And the Nebula for Best Novelette goes to... "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being" by @awprihandita.bsky.social (@clarkesworldmagazine.com). Congratulations!!! #Nebulas2025 🥳🥳🥳
June 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
“You won’t be unknown to me.”
My heart is exploding at the news that my friend @awprihandita.bsky.social WON THE NEBULA for best novelette!!!
So honored to know you, read, and listen to your words. You and your brilliant story couldn’t be more deserving of such recognition 🥹
My heart is exploding at the news that my friend @awprihandita.bsky.social WON THE NEBULA for best novelette!!!
So honored to know you, read, and listen to your words. You and your brilliant story couldn’t be more deserving of such recognition 🥹
Eek!! Can’t wait to be published in this with my friend @mglaz.bsky.social!!! 🥳🥳🥳
THIS IS A COVER REVEAL for DREAD MONDAYS, which releases 10/25/25.
FULL FRONTAL IMAGERY and author bios here:
whisperhousepress.com/whisper-hous...
Share widely and rejoice.
#DreadMondays #horrorsky #booksky #horroranthology #coverreveal #HWA #writing #WriterSky #WhisperHousePress
FULL FRONTAL IMAGERY and author bios here:
whisperhousepress.com/whisper-hous...
Share widely and rejoice.
#DreadMondays #horrorsky #booksky #horroranthology #coverreveal #HWA #writing #WriterSky #WhisperHousePress
June 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Eek!! Can’t wait to be published in this with my friend @mglaz.bsky.social!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Buy a $2 zine in the next 48 hours with some awesome stories, art, and photos (including mine!), and half of that will support Trans Lifeline! 🥳
Thank you @slothandenvy.com! 🏳️⚧️
Thank you @slothandenvy.com! 🏳️⚧️
We’re doing a 48-hour fundraiser for Trans Lifeline (translifline.org) in our Ko-fi shop. Please SHARE!
ko-fi.com/slothenvypre... Post 1/3
For every digital copy of Toad Shade Zine purchased, $1 will go to Trans Lifeline. TSZ is $2.00 & packed with stories & art. Available worldwide.
ko-fi.com/slothenvypre... Post 1/3
For every digital copy of Toad Shade Zine purchased, $1 will go to Trans Lifeline. TSZ is $2.00 & packed with stories & art. Available worldwide.
Visit Sloth & Envy Press's Shop!
We pay our Toad Shade Zine writers and artists what we can upon acceptance. We'd like to be able to pay them pro-rate and keep the zine going.
ko-fi.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Buy a $2 zine in the next 48 hours with some awesome stories, art, and photos (including mine!), and half of that will support Trans Lifeline! 🥳
Thank you @slothandenvy.com! 🏳️⚧️
Thank you @slothandenvy.com! 🏳️⚧️
It’s (almost) the most wonderful time of the year!!! 🤩
Pspspspsps
(wait, is that the sound you make when you're whispering secrets or when you are talking to a cat)
Diabolical Plots is tentatively planning to open for submissions from July 7-21, 2025.
PS cats are welcome to submit, we hold them to the same standards as humam writers, so no AI
(wait, is that the sound you make when you're whispering secrets or when you are talking to a cat)
Diabolical Plots is tentatively planning to open for submissions from July 7-21, 2025.
PS cats are welcome to submit, we hold them to the same standards as humam writers, so no AI
May 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It’s (almost) the most wonderful time of the year!!! 🤩
What do y’all think? 👀
(Mariah Carey voice): It's Tiⁱⁱⁱⁱⁱⁱime!
Time to drop a big fat HINT for the April #NotQuiteWritePrize for #FlashFiction prompts!
This is a snippet of the image created by @beingcam.bsky.social to accompany the prompt drop in 2 SHORT WEEKS!
What does it all mean??
Accepting your guesses below! 👇
Time to drop a big fat HINT for the April #NotQuiteWritePrize for #FlashFiction prompts!
This is a snippet of the image created by @beingcam.bsky.social to accompany the prompt drop in 2 SHORT WEEKS!
What does it all mean??
Accepting your guesses below! 👇
April 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
What do y’all think? 👀
Sent the final images for the @notquitewrite.bsky.social April prize drop, and I have to say that this is my favorite yet! I can’t wait to see what they have in store for y’all 👀
April 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Sent the final images for the @notquitewrite.bsky.social April prize drop, and I have to say that this is my favorite yet! I can’t wait to see what they have in store for y’all 👀
Reposted by Camsyn Clair (they)
Welcome to OTHERSIDE, a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! This October, we’ll be fundraising on Kickstarter. Until then, you can join us on our Patreon! We’ll open for submissions in January 2026.
See thread for details! 🪐🗡️ (1/5)
See thread for details! 🪐🗡️ (1/5)
March 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Welcome to OTHERSIDE, a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! This October, we’ll be fundraising on Kickstarter. Until then, you can join us on our Patreon! We’ll open for submissions in January 2026.
See thread for details! 🪐🗡️ (1/5)
See thread for details! 🪐🗡️ (1/5)
Ahhhh!!! I will never stop screaming about this story, go read, reread, maybe pick up a print copy (they are BEAUTIFUL) and read in print too?? Huge congrats @awprihandita.bsky.social!!! 🥳
My story's nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette!!! So happy for my dear Txyzna & Semau!!! 😭🚀🌊
[Not pictured: The way I thought Kate Ristau's call was a spam; I wasn't listening for the 1st few seconds (luckily I picked up lol), the way I ran to the toilet and dry-heaved afterwards.]
[Not pictured: The way I thought Kate Ristau's call was a spam; I wasn't listening for the 1st few seconds (luckily I picked up lol), the way I ran to the toilet and dry-heaved afterwards.]
March 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Ahhhh!!! I will never stop screaming about this story, go read, reread, maybe pick up a print copy (they are BEAUTIFUL) and read in print too?? Huge congrats @awprihandita.bsky.social!!! 🥳
Squeeing over this cover!! Counting the days until September 23rd to get my hands on the book!
So it's my *official* cover reveal day even though it's been creeping through as a preview on links lately.
LOOK AT IT. IT'S SO PRETTY.
#booksky #romancelandia
LOOK AT IT. IT'S SO PRETTY.
#booksky #romancelandia
March 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Squeeing over this cover!! Counting the days until September 23rd to get my hands on the book!
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Hey friends, I had a story come out in 101 Words. Likely one of my last ocean stories to be birthed for a while <3
101words.org/stranded/#co...
101words.org/stranded/#co...
Stranded - 101 Words
The ocean and its jagged rocks conspired to keep me stranded underneath this lighthouse. They even stole the memory of […]
101words.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hey friends, I had a story come out in 101 Words. Likely one of my last ocean stories to be birthed for a while <3
101words.org/stranded/#co...
101words.org/stranded/#co...
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Would anyone be interested in low cost book cover design? Like send me your book info and I send you a finished design for $100?
I’ve got availability to take some covers now!
#WritingCommunity #AuthorSky #IndieAuthors
forms.gle/bU4MrFXPsfmw...
I’ve got availability to take some covers now!
#WritingCommunity #AuthorSky #IndieAuthors
forms.gle/bU4MrFXPsfmw...
$100 Book Cover Interest
Fill out this form with the details of your book and any visuals you'd like to be included on your cover.
I'll let you know if I select your book within two weeks. I can't take every project, so plea...
forms.gle
March 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Would anyone be interested in low cost book cover design? Like send me your book info and I send you a finished design for $100?
I’ve got availability to take some covers now!
#WritingCommunity #AuthorSky #IndieAuthors
forms.gle/bU4MrFXPsfmw...
I’ve got availability to take some covers now!
#WritingCommunity #AuthorSky #IndieAuthors
forms.gle/bU4MrFXPsfmw...
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Reminder that I have a Clarkesworld Readers Poll-winning novelette eligible for the Hugo Awards! And I myself am eligible for the Astounding Award!
Story links and full eligibility list: carrd.co/dashboard/46...
Story links and full eligibility list: carrd.co/dashboard/46...
March 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Reminder that I have a Clarkesworld Readers Poll-winning novelette eligible for the Hugo Awards! And I myself am eligible for the Astounding Award!
Story links and full eligibility list: carrd.co/dashboard/46...
Story links and full eligibility list: carrd.co/dashboard/46...
More reasons to enter the Not Quite Write Prize—how exciting!!! 🥳
DID YOU KNOW?
If you made any of the #NotQuiteWritePrize longlists in 2023 or 2024, YOUR NAME appears in an actual book in a REAL LIFE BOOKSHOP?! 😱
With another longlist dropping soon, we’ll learn the names of the 40 authors who’ll share this privilege in 2025!
If you made any of the #NotQuiteWritePrize longlists in 2023 or 2024, YOUR NAME appears in an actual book in a REAL LIFE BOOKSHOP?! 😱
With another longlist dropping soon, we’ll learn the names of the 40 authors who’ll share this privilege in 2025!
February 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
More reasons to enter the Not Quite Write Prize—how exciting!!! 🥳
A super fun story is out from my friend @melmulrooney.bsky.social! 🥳
🍄 Theo and Jules Forever by Melanie Mulrooney https://foofaraw.press/theo-and-jules-forever-2/
🍄 Theo and Jules Forever by Melanie Mulrooney
an accident makes for quite the ballroom adventure
foofaraw.press
February 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A super fun story is out from my friend @melmulrooney.bsky.social! 🥳
Absolutely GORGEOUS cover commissions available for March if anyone has a manuscript that needs one! 🤩
Are you an indie author looking for a colourful, pulpy, hand-drawn book cover made by a human bean such as I? Like these below?
Hit me up, I have slots for March! I work fast and am reasonably priced. Traditional mediums like watercolour, acrylic, ink, or digital
gemmaamorauthor.com/illustration...
Hit me up, I have slots for March! I work fast and am reasonably priced. Traditional mediums like watercolour, acrylic, ink, or digital
gemmaamorauthor.com/illustration...
February 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Absolutely GORGEOUS cover commissions available for March if anyone has a manuscript that needs one! 🤩
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Subs open Mar 1-Apr 15 for Issue 3 of Toad Shade Zine! Website or find listings on SubGrinder & DuoTrope. Theme: Dystopian Theme Park (does not have to be literal, interpretations welcome).
Have added wee feedback feature/tip jar (for 100 subs).
toadshadezine.com/submissions/
💙📚 #writingcommunity
Have added wee feedback feature/tip jar (for 100 subs).
toadshadezine.com/submissions/
💙📚 #writingcommunity
Submissions – Toad Shade Zine
toadshadezine.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Subs open Mar 1-Apr 15 for Issue 3 of Toad Shade Zine! Website or find listings on SubGrinder & DuoTrope. Theme: Dystopian Theme Park (does not have to be literal, interpretations welcome).
Have added wee feedback feature/tip jar (for 100 subs).
toadshadezine.com/submissions/
💙📚 #writingcommunity
Have added wee feedback feature/tip jar (for 100 subs).
toadshadezine.com/submissions/
💙📚 #writingcommunity
Reposted by Camsyn Clair (they)
ALSO!
The other half of the Sloth & Envy team has a story out on The Other Stories podcast now!
Check it out here:
open.spotify.com/episode/2dUT...
📚💙 #writingcommunity
The other half of the Sloth & Envy team has a story out on The Other Stories podcast now!
Check it out here:
open.spotify.com/episode/2dUT...
📚💙 #writingcommunity
102.2 The Great Change
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
ALSO!
The other half of the Sloth & Envy team has a story out on The Other Stories podcast now!
Check it out here:
open.spotify.com/episode/2dUT...
📚💙 #writingcommunity
The other half of the Sloth & Envy team has a story out on The Other Stories podcast now!
Check it out here:
open.spotify.com/episode/2dUT...
📚💙 #writingcommunity
A great question in case anyone knows the answer—there are some truly awesome stories in this category that can feel tough to place because of fit, so it’d be really cool to share notes!
Hey, friends who publish and submit things, I have a question!
What are the best places for retellings + softer sort of romances in flash fiction?
What are the best places for retellings + softer sort of romances in flash fiction?
February 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A great question in case anyone knows the answer—there are some truly awesome stories in this category that can feel tough to place because of fit, so it’d be really cool to share notes!
Reading a great story with awesome art accompanying it? As of late, it seeks like @keelyhoneywell.bsky.social likely the one to thank! Huge congratulations on all of Keely’s recent art pubs, and this gorgeous cover! 🤩
I've been traveling and haven't had a chance to share yet that @smallwondersmag.com chose my Cherry Stag art for their latest issue! Thanks to Grace and the team! 🧡
smallwondersmag.com/issue/20/
smallwondersmag.com/issue/20/
Issue 20 - Small Wonders
smallwondersmag.com
February 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reading a great story with awesome art accompanying it? As of late, it seeks like @keelyhoneywell.bsky.social likely the one to thank! Huge congratulations on all of Keely’s recent art pubs, and this gorgeous cover! 🤩
What a great day for cozy stories! Here’s another I highly recommend 🥳🥰
If you could use a break from I have a cozy fantasy romance published at CommuterLit as part of their Valentines Week line-up. ❤️
commuterlit.com/2025/02/wedn...
commuterlit.com/2025/02/wedn...
WEDNESDAY: A Dash of Longing and a Helping of Heart
VALENTINES WEEK 2025Runner-up BY MELANIE MULROONEY Copyright is held by the author. EMILY FAIRWEATHER sat in her favourite green armchair sipping a cup of chamomile tea, the sweet aroma of the dain…
commuterlit.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What a great day for cozy stories! Here’s another I highly recommend 🥳🥰
I could definitely use more pirates and sky-wyrms in my life right about now! 🥰
Happy Valentine's Day everybody. Whether you observe or not, I hope our tales of pirates and sky-wyrms and faith will warm your heart. Pay what you want for the whole magazine!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Our 2025 Romance Special is here… and it’s PAY WHAT YOU WANT on itch and PayHip!
Download, enjoy, share, and spread the love.
wyngraf.itch.io/wyngraf-roma...
payhip.com/b/PKf1I
Download, enjoy, share, and spread the love.
wyngraf.itch.io/wyngraf-roma...
payhip.com/b/PKf1I
February 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I could definitely use more pirates and sky-wyrms in my life right about now! 🥰
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As someone on the aro & ace spectrum, I long for the day when society treats having a BFF with the same honor & respect as it does to marriage & sex. I long for the day when terms like "friend-zoned" stop being used as a taunt. Happy Valentines Day, to both the platonic & the romantic! ❤️
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
As someone on the aro & ace spectrum, I long for the day when society treats having a BFF with the same honor & respect as it does to marriage & sex. I long for the day when terms like "friend-zoned" stop being used as a taunt. Happy Valentines Day, to both the platonic & the romantic! ❤️
If there weren’t already enough reasons to deactivate your Twitter…
It might hurt my bottom line, but I’m probably going to stop posting art to Twitter entirely and I suggest you do too.
Not only is the site actively putting a “Okay, now remix this” button below art (and elevating them above the OP with a QRT) and it’s false flagging original art as made by AI.
Not only is the site actively putting a “Okay, now remix this” button below art (and elevating them above the OP with a QRT) and it’s false flagging original art as made by AI.
February 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If there weren’t already enough reasons to deactivate your Twitter…