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Derek Wagner
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"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
Words @factorfourmagazine.com
@realneondystopia.bsky.social
Odyssey Writing Workshop '23.
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thx.bsky.social
Image of a horse on a roof. Caption: I will always succeed because I am insane
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026!

It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!
A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
dmwagner.bsky.social
So excited to have my weird little story accepted to Diabolical Plots! Congrats to everyone else who made it this year!
diabolicalplots.com Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 25d
July 2025 acceptances (cont'd):

"We Grow in the Light"
by Riley Neither

"She Buries You on Tuesday"
by AM Sutter
@amsutter.com

"Dourglamis"
by Derek Wagner
@dmwagner.bsky.social

"Afterimage"
by Anna Zumbro

And that's all of them!!
Looking forward to sharing these all with you!
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
There's just 4 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we're SO CLOSE to hitting our 20k goal!

Our full catalogue of critiques, ebooks, merch and more will all be gone on Halloween. Don't miss out on these limited edition items and donate TODAY! 💜👽🎃

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Cow getting sucked into UFO tractor beam. "Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 4 DAYS Needed for Liftoff: $2,182 $17,818/$20,000 Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!" Story/Excerpt Critiques E. Catherine Tobler (up to 5,000 words) Spencer Nitkey (up to 7,500 words) A.C. Wise (up to 8,000 words) Aimee Ogden (up to 6,000 words) A.V. Greene (up to 10,000 words) Ivy Grimes (up to 5,000 words) Lindz McLeod (up to 5,000 words) Risa Wolf (7,500 words) Sam Fleming (7,500 words Slush Reader Critique Cool Offerings Tarot card affirmation by Los Mei-en Kwa Marie Vibbert Tuckerization Apex Appreciation Online Workshop "World-building from the Inside Out" New EBooks and trade paperbacks available now! Available only on the Apex Magazine Kickstarter! Shadows of Glass and Other Stories by Jamie Lackey Tiny Planet Filled with Liars by Stephen M.A. Chlorophilia by Cristina Jurado The FULL DIGITAL CATALOGUE from Jennifer R. Donahue! PLUS! Become immortalized in a short story by Science Fiction Author Marie Vibbert! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/apexpublications/apex-magazine-2026 Stickers and hoodie now available worldwide!
October 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
dmwagner.bsky.social
My contributors copy of The Kindread Coast finally arrived! Very excited to be a part of this anthology of writers from Western Canada! Thanks to @shanonsinn.bsky.social and @lavoiecwrites.bsky.social for inviting me to take part in this!
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
We're 8 DAYS AWAY from the end of our Kickstarter! ⏰❗❗

These final days will decide whether we can publish in 2026. YOUR support is what keeps us going, AND what keeps the great stories coming to your inbox!

Help Apex thrive and join our Kickstarter TODAY! 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Cow getting sucked into UFO tractor beam. "Kickstarter Countdown: T-Minus 8 DAYS Needed for Liftoff: $6,364 $13,636/$20,000 Click the link in our bio to help us fund the next year of Alex Magazine!"
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
(pssst, bigger announcement about this coming on Monday, but get a sneak peek of our swanky new banner! 🎨)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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apexmag.bsky.social
WE'RE OVER HALFWAY TO OUR GOAL!! 🎉🎉🎉 THANK YOU for all your support! 💜👽

We're celebrating with a TON of amazing new rewards (check the 🧵 to see them all!) including signed books, author critiques, WORLDWIDE SHIPPING and more!

🪦 Join the monster mash here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
New Kickstarter rewards are here!! Author critiques, discounted ebooks from your favorite speculative fiction authors, and more! Stickers and hoodie now available worldwide! SHORT STORY CRITIQUES FROM: Spencer Nitkey, Risa Wolf, E. Catherine Tobler, Jordan Kurella Plague Birds & We Who Hunt Alexanders SIGNED copies of Plague Birds and We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford.
October 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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retreasure.bsky.social
Hello! If you haven't backed the Apex Kickstarter and you're a regular reader and can, we could really use the support. We just added some physical rewards, there are crits and classes available, plus books and of course a year of Apex!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this
October 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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3lobedmag.com
Late pledges are open for one week. If we reach our first stretch goal +$1326, we get to add more stories and another issue next year! The stories of monsters and heartbreak are waiting for us… kck.st/4mIkEm1
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026
A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
kck.st
September 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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uncannymagazine.bsky.social
MONDAY is the last day!!! 😁🦄
uncannymagazine.bsky.social Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 25
PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX
Space Unicorn!
September 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Gift from a friend
A sticker with a black background and red circle with a line through it. In the foreground is a hand giving the middle finger but it has too many extra fingers in the fist. The text reads: FUCK A.I.
August 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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comicscovers.bsky.social
Transformers The Movie 3 (6398)
August 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
May 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will.
April 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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bcsmagazine.bsky.social
Glad you enjoyed @mollytanzer.bsky.social's story! All fiction at BCS is free. :) Over 900 stories in 17 years. We're a 501c3 nonprofit; our mission is to promote F/SF. You can support us publishing great stories by buying our ebooks or through the BCS Patreon: www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...
April 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?
April 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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mnateshyamalan.bsky.social
i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.
April 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
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)
The OTHERSIDE logo with a hazy purple-tinted fairyland, painted by Gustave Doré, as the background. Text: OTHERSIDE. Queer. Fantastic. Coming 2026. http://othersidespec.com, http://patreon.com/othersidespec. Background art is public domain, courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
March 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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odysseyworkshop.bsky.social
APP DEADLINE 4/1! If you want customized guidance to make major progress in your writing, Odyssey can help. Choose your schedule: 6, 12, 18 wks. Learn what you want & need to learn to become the writer you want to be!
odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...
#writingworkshop #writersworkshop #amwriting
March 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
dmwagner.bsky.social
One definite advantage of this platform over Twitter is the distinct lack of AI Ghibli slop infesting my eyeballs…
March 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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aliettedebodard.com
AI disruption: "programmers and writers: occupations where the job from start to finish is as close as possible to what AI excels at: nice, clean, linear and sequential tasks, exam-style questions and essay assignments. both jobs also have high rates of contracting or freelancing."
My thoughts below
March 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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fusionfragment.bsky.social
OK Bluesky, time to try to recreate a hit thread from the bad place, wherein I give you all of the tips for how to get your story published in Fusion Fragment. 1 Like = 1 Tip or until I run out of ideas or until I finish my drink.
Text says: 1 Like = 1 Tip for getting published in FF. Overlaid on the background of various pieces of FF cover art.
March 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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bobbylewis.bsky.social
petition to outlaw every website on the internet asking you to sign in with google
March 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM