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Only 0.7% of BCS readers support the magazine. Any readers interested in helping us pay authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of their work writing all rejections personalized, please support us on the BCS Patreon. Thank you! www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...
All of them, actually. If you'd like some suggestions: Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, FIYAH, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Analog, Asimov's, Apex Magazine, and the Magazine of F&SF is a good starting point.
October 7, 2023 at 1:31 PM
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We are still assessing the financial damage caused by Amazon closing its magazine subscription program. We know we've lost hundreds of subscribers in the process. If you were one of them, or were thinking of subscribing, here are your options:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
October 11, 2023 at 3:22 PM
Happy Monday! It's Indigenous Peoples' Day! To celebrate, tell us about some short stories by indigenous authors that you've loved! #shortstories

We'll start:

Black, Their Regalia by @littlebadger.bsky.app

Native metalheads vs.the apocalypse!

www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/b...
Black, Their Regalia - Fantasy Magazine
Outside, the quarantine train was unblemished white. Where its tracks skirted populated regions, barbed wire and warning signs—DANGER! ¡PELIGRO! INFECTIOUS MATERIALS! ¡SUSTANCIAS INFECCIOSAS!—di...
www.fantasy-magazine.com
October 9, 2023 at 6:22 PM
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We’ve got some new codes for people and journals still stuck over in the old place. Who needs them?
October 7, 2023 at 3:20 AM
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Indigenous swampcore???? uh, YES PLEASE
We're 1 week from Can*Con where we're launching @tiffmorris.bsky.social's Indigenous swampcore novella Green Fuse Burning. If you're at Can*Con access the event via Sched. Not at Can*Con? grab a ticket and join a launch led by the funny & talented Suzan Palumbo. www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...
October 6, 2023 at 9:12 PM
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“Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra’s MAGIC HAS NO BORDERS is, in fact, a strong collection of great stories. Get it, read it, love it.” @QueenOfRats reviews the new anthology edited by @sona_c & @sam_aye_ahm locusmag.com/2023/10...
October 6, 2023 at 10:00 PM
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Tomorrow the wonderful Fabulosa Books is having a 24-hour celebration of banned books in the Castro!

I'm going to be reading from VICTORIES GREATER THAN DEATH (which was banned in Tennessee) at around 3 PM, please stop by!

www.eventbrite.com/e/read-for-f...
October 6, 2023 at 9:25 PM
We love libraries, too! Donated our current codes to help BIPOC library peeps build their community here.
We Here is distributing Bluesky invite codes to community members and we currently have more requests than codes! if you have extras, you can share them with us here. forms.gle/1ygU6Tg59yoA...
October 6, 2023 at 4:05 PM
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Sometimes it’s hard to believe I’ve been publishing Kaleidotrope for more than a decade and a half.
October 5, 2023 at 8:35 PM
Building behind the scenes is slow because of time and money constraints. Periodically afraid that by the time we have anything on this end, there will be nothing left to help. But, we continue: the options are try or give up all hope, and trying is better
October 6, 2023 at 3:59 PM
Having a disgruntled and annoyed morning on behalf of short fiction magazines that got the double tap of Twitter becoming an unusable cesspit and breaking those connections, followed by Amazon deciding to take away a funding source built up over years. Tell a zine you love them today.
October 6, 2023 at 2:18 PM
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My most recent short story is Thronemaker, in Carmina Magazine! It's a folkloric tale about an old carpenter and his grand-daughter, who are commissioned to create a throne. You can read it here: carminamagazine.com/thronemaker....
Thronemaker by Nathaniel Spain | Sept 2023 | Carmina Magazine
carminamagazine.com
September 30, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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My most recent story is “The Tattooist of Triton” and it’s about body art… in SPACE!!!
It’s published by Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores:

cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
September 30, 2023 at 4:37 PM
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My most recent is a queer Lovecraftian folk horror story, Incantation on a Summer Night, published in Lonely Hollows: 15 Tales of Folk Horror. It's on Kindle Unlimited as well as paperback and hardcover here: a.co/d/3ShOzrl
#Writers: what's your most recently published short story? Where can we find it? What's it about? #shortstory #fiction #writing #readMoreShortFiction
September 30, 2023 at 4:55 PM
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If you want there to be F&SF fiction mags, we need to do something now, while Amazon is removing their support. Check out one mag's website today and support them, if you have the means. Or just RT this if you can't, because the situation is pretty dire.
October 3, 2023 at 1:32 PM
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A long short story at about 14k. The Golem of Greifswalder Straße was just published in the Days of Awe anthology! A sparrow-sized golem embedded with the soul of a Holocaust survivor wreaks domestic chaos, and then worse, on a modern neo-n*zi. Buy it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHXNMLVR/
Amazon.com
www.amazon.com
September 29, 2023 at 6:01 PM
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My most recent short story is called "Boojum", and it's a science-fiction story about explorers on Titan. You can find it in the September/October edition of "Analog", or read a (very short) extract on my website at:

angus.pw/writing/booj...
Boojum
They softly and silently vanished away.
angus.pw
September 29, 2023 at 4:41 PM
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"Something Oath-Like", a Sword & Sorcery story about a middle aged man breaking into a tomb while pursued by a hulking do gooder, a woman from a far-away land.

It's collected in the "A Book of Blades Vol.2" anthology:
www.amazon.com/Book-Blades-...
September 29, 2023 at 4:49 PM
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My most recent is Angelfall, which came out in @havenspec.bsky.social this past June! It's an apocalyptic flash piece about field dressing a giant crashed angel made of meat and gears.
Angelfall - Haven Speculative
www.havenspec.com
September 29, 2023 at 5:12 PM
#Writers: what's your most recently published short story? Where can we find it? What's it about? #shortstory #fiction #writing #readMoreShortFiction
September 29, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT is coming! Just in time for Halloween, we're excited to release speculative fiction author yves.'s absurd and charming collection of queer flash-fic pieces. Pre-order links are coming soon, in the meantime, here's the lush cover by @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social
September 22, 2023 at 3:00 PM