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(she/her) | writer of speculative fiction short stories | words in Luna Station Quarterly | member of: https://manchesterspeculativefiction.com/ | 🖤
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Heather @heatherdnorton.bsky.social · 20d
This cover is soft and magical and wintry, and I'm so very honoured to say one of my stories is inside 🥹

'Winter Finds' is my first ever short story publication, and all I want to do is write and write some more because today is truly wonderful.
Thank you so much, @lunastation.bsky.social 🤍
lunastation.bsky.social Luna Station Quarterly @lunastation.bsky.social · 20d
The new issue is out! Need a break from the holidays? We've got aging druids, adorable bee-cats, vengeful weather witches & more.

www.lunastationquart...

#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
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seizethepress.bsky.social
We're reopening to submissions on January 1st.

Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
December 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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In the world of science fiction and fantasy publishing, Uncanny Magazine is both an anomaly and beacon. It offers a space where queer and disabled voices, neurodiverse narrators, and unapologetically political stories are not just included but celebrated.
Uncanny Magazine and the punk ethic of speculative writing - Arts
In the world of science fiction and fantasy publishing, Uncanny Magazine is both an anomaly and beacon. It offers a space where queer and disabled voices, neurodiverse narrators, and unapologetically ...
www.smilepolitely.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
heatherdnorton.bsky.social
"My name is Rainbow. It’s not my fault."

The opening line of 'Magical Thinking' by J. Amanda Ferry drew me straight in!

@lunastation.bsky.social Issue 64

#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
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December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
heatherdnorton.bsky.social
"Nobody starts out by taking your skin, right? If they did, you’d know what you were dealing with."
Line I loved from 'Sunk Cost Fallacy' by @mjj-writes.bsky.social
@lunastation.bsky.social Issue 64
#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
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December 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
heatherdnorton.bsky.social
Finally getting a chance to read Issue 64 of @lunastation.bsky.social

‘Bussola’ by Teresa Koeppel is a beautifully moving tale of walking and walking and carefully choosing one's truly last words.

#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
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December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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beestung.bsky.social beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 3d
"the eye doctor fawns over my birth name yes it’s italian yes it’s so pretty for a pretty girl with pretty eyes reading the latest news that says the F on my birth certificate is now a tattoo on my body that i wasn’t numbed for"

—Izzy Peroni

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One Poem by Izzy Peroni – beestung
beestungmag.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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nightshadesmag.bsky.social
🛸🛸hey guess what

🛸🛸 Night Shades will open for submissions on December 26

🛸🛸 all speculative, pro+ pay, 500 words max, sim subs ok

🛸🛸 please read the guidelines carefully!

www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
Submissions
Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is CLOSED. Opening again December 26, 2025. Night Shades opens sporadically and for ind...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
heatherdnorton.bsky.social
It's so good! 🧡
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
heatherdnorton.bsky.social
I never knew I couldn't count until I took up crochet. Chain one, two, three... When I get to twenty-six, I take stock and count backwards. Some have vanished again. Escaped their fate of being hooked and looped into a rectangle of warmth meant for next door's impending arrival. Healing? Only just.
talesfeathers.bsky.social Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5d
It's time to rest. As snow blankets the earth, the world slows, halts, sleeps. We mutually agree to set aside what work we can and take a break. What do you allow yourself to enjoy in this time, to heal your body and mind?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.

There will be no cap.

See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:

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2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21
December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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translunartl.bsky.social
Making the magazine hasn't always been straightforward this year. When we asked for help, people volunteered to read submissions, making it easier - and a lot more fun! We learned that TTL has friends and we're grateful for all of them.

We look forward to showing you what we have in store for 2026!
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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translunartl.bsky.social
Translunar Travelers Lounge would be impossible without the writers who submit their stories, and meaningless without the readers to enjoy them. Thank you all! translunartravelerslounge.com
Translunar Travelers Lounge
a speculative fiction magazine
translunartravelerslounge.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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translunartl.bsky.social
We've come to the end of our look back at the year. Translunar Travelers Lounge published two issues with a total of twenty eight stories. If any of these have stayed with you then please consider them for awards, reading lists, or perhaps you might write a review.
Translunar Travelers Lounge Issue 12 February 2025 They Take You As They Find You Lane Robins Fighting Fire Victoria Chvatal The In-Between Sister Monte Lin Sunflower Loop Beth Goder The Penwielder Aditya Sundararajan Graduated Justice: An Amerlia Li mystery Myna Chang Build Your Own Heart Risa Wolf 12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being A Demigod Danai Christopoulou The Nadaists F Malanoche All These Inscriptions Are For Me Carol Scheina For The Love Of Drowning Isles Laila Amado Rise Theodore Hill How To Fail At Book-Smuggling (Across Several Timelines At Once) E M Linden A Vertical History Of Ramis' Pillar Henry Sanders Wright Translunar Travelers Lounge Issue 13 August 2025 Yarn as Warm as Dragon's Breath Amanda Saville Real Housewives of the Intergalactic HJ Ramsay Vengeance As Sweet As My Love - Anita Harris Satkunananthan Fire Dust Rose Strickman The Way You Talk About Your Life Camille Koob A Twist of Nothing Dale Smith The Last Wills and Testaments of Captain Kolhe Abhijeet Sathe When you Seek a Dragon Vijayalaxmi Samal Deliverance Elena Sichrovsky Home is where the Heart Rests Chidera Anikpe Wolfmothers Rukman Ragas Fall Wake Run Claire McNerney Watermen Kay Vaindal Blessed Are the Worms, and So Am I Michelle Carrera
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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naturefutures.bsky.social
Space exploration is hazardous. It is, by definition, all about the unexpected. That means you will face difficulties you can’t anticipate. And things will go wrong. Badly. The secret is knowing what to do next.

#scifi by Anna Kahn www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A small vial with glowing bands of light around it sits on a pillow in a spaceship
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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templeinacity.bsky.social
The whole issue is here. Share it with friends. Read it over lunch. Look mysterious in a cafe with it. Accidentally send it to workmates instead of that other dumb attachment. Haunt your ex with it. Pin it on your mood board. Quote sagely from it. You do you. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Imprint, Temple in a City issue 3
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
heatherdnorton.bsky.social
Lovely.
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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lunastation.bsky.social
Join our Patreon to support Luna Station Quarterly & get early access to new issues. 16 years of amplifying women's voices in SFF.

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December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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epistemiclit.bsky.social Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 7: Integrity now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 17d
“I had a trans friend once
she said; the medicine she took to become a woman ate her bones.”

My Mother Told Me She Saw Spirits All Around Her by @angelvleal.bsky.social - powerful #poetry from issue 7: #integrity. If you’re not in the habit of listening to the pieces, I suggest you try this one
MY MOTHER TOLD ME SHE SAW SPIRITS ALL AROUND HER -
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epistemiclit.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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beestung.bsky.social beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 16d
"Sharing my little, teal hormone tablets
with the trans girl who spent the night
was a communion infinitely more holy"

—Willow Sipling

beestungmag.com/issue25/one-...
One Poem by Willow Sipling – beestung
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December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
heatherdnorton.bsky.social
This is beautiful.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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translunartl.bsky.social
We've made it to day 18 of TTLs celebration of the stories we published this year and today it's Fire Dust by @rosestrickman.bsky.social with the phoenix returning to Heliopolis, and the dust from it's wings promise healing - yet Neferet is not ready to accept it
On a day hot and dry as fire, a star appeared in the southern sky, a dot of red-gold that drew closer and closer. By the time evening fell, the Phoenix had arrived. Horns and drums sounded once more, temple dancers raised their sistra in praise, incense smoke cloaked the altars of Ra, and thousands ran to view the mystical bird, perched on one of Pharaoh’s obelisks. The entire city—nay, the kingdom—was ecstatic with joy and awe. Except one. Fire Dust Rose Strickman
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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lunastation.bsky.social
Get DRM-free digital copies of LSQ 064 directly from us—support women authors in independent SFF!

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#IndiePublishing #ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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lunastation.bsky.social
Our cover art this issue is by the wonderful Sve Yurchenko, bringing a bit of winter enchantment to LSQ 064.

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December 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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284 pages. No ads. Celebrating sixteen years of amplifying women's voices in SFF, collected into one gorgeous book. This is LSQ 064.

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#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM