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Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer
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Writer of speculative fiction • 🌈 they/them • 📚 words in Strange Horizons, Apex, Flame Tree, Heartlines, Factor Four, Utopia SF & more • Codex, SFPA • Rhysling nominee • Currently querying

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Reading for awards? I'd be honored if you considered my SFF poetry and short fiction!

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Nico Martinez Nocito Award Eligibility All Award-Eligible Fiction “To Catch A Name,” 3900 words (Morgana le Fay, Flame Tree Press) “The Science of Transient Cartography,” 2100 words (The Daily Tomorrow) “An Unexpected Wombat,” 550 words (Worlds of Possibility) “A Single Song,” 750 words (Factor Four) “A Knot for the Hawk,” 3100 words (Loki, Flame Tree Press) “Blood Stains True,” 3300 words (Vampire Hunters, Speculation Publications) “Speak,” 1000 words (Utopia SF) “Through Time and Calamity,” 750 words (Starship Librarians, Tyche Books) “Blue Wood, Ash Crown,” 2500 words (Fraidy Cat Quarterly) “Imperfect Monsters,” 1900 words (Into the Dark, All Worlds Wayfarer) Nico Martinez Nocito Awards Eligibility All Award-Eligible Poetry All are eligible for the Rhysling (short form) and Nebula poetry awards, among others. “them // us” (Utopia Science Fiction) “To Be the Change” (Strange Horizons) “Bait” (Black Cat Tales anthology) “Beauty's Captor” (Star*Line) “Eagle-Eyed” (Eye to the Telescope) “Before the Gingerbread House” (The Limerick in Chains anthology) “What the Birds Taught Me” (Heartlines Spec) “To the Swallow's Final Hatchling” (Orion's Belt) “Halloween Nights” (Spaceports and Spidersilk) “Whittled and Burned” (Trollbreath)
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Sharing 'Citrus & Sky', my entry for @augursociety.bsky.social's #AugurMicros2025 contest!
Citrus & Sky The orange’s mottled skin settles into my left palm, and I lower myself onto my back, the roofing made comfortable by my thick sweater. The usual urban lights dim after sunset to make way for the blaze of the aurora, and I’ve always enjoyed the peaceful quiet of the midnight city. My fingernail digs under the orange’s peel. The soft scent of citrus merges with the chilly breeze. Nico Martinez Nocito
October 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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ICYMI: my fairytale-inspired poem "Beauty's Captor" is in the Summer issue of Star*Line from @sfpoetry.bsky.social!

🌿 Sleeping Beauty retold from the POV of the vines
✨️ Free verse

Plus, this issue has an absolutely gorgeous cover!

See the full table of contents ⬇️
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Staring at the Night Sky by Denny E. Marshall, cover of Star*Line 48.3 A muted palette of blue-grey, cream, and rusty red displays a human standing at the foreground on a suspended bridge, staring up at a collection of massive mushrooms (red caps with white spots) with trunks made of gears and machinery.
August 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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@bonabooks.bsky.social does this mean.... 🎉🎉🎉
Wrath Month - Stories of Queer Rage The punk anthology where queer rage kicks down the doors of fantasy, science-fiction and horror. Bona Books 2 created • 25 backed £36,632 pledged of £8,500 771 backers
July 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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ICYMI: the gorgeous cover of STARSHIP LIBRARIANS from @tychebooks.bsky.social was revealed earlier today!
Amidst book bans and upheaval, we need this book more than ever right now - an anthology full of sci-fi librarians championing knowledge in all its forms. (1/2)

💙📚🌈🚀📚 #anthology #sciencefiction
Book promo post. A 3D mock-up of the print books for Starship Librarians, an anthology edited by Shannon Allen and JR Campbell. On the cover is a librarian wearing a spacesuit in a retro-orange colour with a pointed hood and strange technology attached to various parts of the suit. They are shelving books. Behind them is a vast window overlooking space, and one side is a bookcart with rocket thrusters instead of wheels. book shaped white rectangle dominates the left-hand side of the image. A portion of the white has peeled away like paper, revealing part of a book title, Starship Librarians. Additional text reads Cover Reveal, Tyche, and Tyche Books Dot Com. Cover art is by Lorna Antoniazzi, with typography design by Indigo Chick Designs. (Alt text adapted from the Tyche Books Bluesky account)
June 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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BLACK CAT TALES, an upcoming anthology featuring one of my poems, was chosen as one of BookSirens' April 2025 list of favorite Fantasy and Mystery ARCs!

Interested in reading an advance copy before the June 13 release date? Check out BLACK CAT TALES on Booksirens: booksirens.com/book/RVFE93B...
April 2025 Batch Fantasy Mystery ARCs You'll Love Join > Read > Review [a string of book covers, including Offshoot, Cycles, Five speeds the Wild Poney, Riddles of the Haunted Hoard, Anything Ghost, Black Cat Tales, Tomb, Truth and Transformation, Icara's Flight, and the End Every War] Click link to grab a free copy! Hurry, spots are limited! @BookSirens
April 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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ARC readers wanted!

I'm one of 39 authors featured in this incredible anthology of black cat stories coming this June, and advance reader's copies can be accessed now through BookSirens.

Check it out below!

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#blackcattales #horroranthology #writing #arc
A black background graphic reading the following in horror-esque fobts; BLACK CAT TALES Friday the 13th of June 2025 Arc Readers Wanted Available on: BookSirens The graphic also includes the cover of BLACK CAT TALES, which features a black cat against a tilted house in shades of blue and green and the following text below the title: An anthology of black cats Edited by Francesca Maria & Mark Causey
March 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Oh no I saw your post and now I need to submit one more story 😂😂
Black serif text reads: Submissions: 249 Rejections: 162 Acceptances: 16 Pending Submissions: 65
March 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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The news is out! 🌈🚀📚

My short story "A Knot for the Hawk" is part of the upcoming anthology LOKI, publishing this summer from Flame Tree Press!

If you've ever wanted a snarky, genderqueer Norse myth reimagining, you'll want to check out this anthology!

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A brown background has a red gradient circle and a light brown/gold border design. In the circle are the words Myths, Gods & Immortals, and at the bottom of the image, "New stories, new weiters & new introduction ". The cover of the LOKI anthology is at center, featuring a similar design with an image of Loki with an axe at center. The angled cover displays red sprayed edges and gold filigree. Against a brown background with a red circle and a gold border design, the titles and authors for the table of contents are listed: Loki: The Movie by Chris A. Bolton Loki’s Confrontations by Drew Conners The Norn’s Offer by S. Cameron David Means to an End by Stephanie Ellis Eitrdropar by Corey D. Evans The Ties that Bind by Ariana Ferrante Parent-Aesir Conference by Cara Giles Fraternized by Sara Gonzalez-Rothi The Apple of Her Eye by Kay Hanifen Captain of the Ship by Justin R. Hopper Degrees of Truth by Michelle Kaseler Loki Meets His Match by Mark Patrick Lynch A Knot for the Hawk by Nico Martinez Nocito Loki and Pickled Herring at World’s End by Mark Oxbrow Just Because by Diego Suárez The Shape of Mischief by Jeffery Allen Tobin Laufey’s Son by C. Adam Volle The God of Lead and Blood by M.M. Williams
February 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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My short story TO CATCH A NAME will be appearing in Flame Tree Press's upcoming Morgana Le Fay anthology!

This trans take on Arthurian legend was truly a delight to write, and I'm so excited it'll be shared with the world soon.

On sale next month in England and April in North America!

🌈🚀💫💙📚🪐🌎
A green-and-red graphic features the cover of Morgana Le Fay (featuring a woman gripping a sword against a green background) beside the contents list: His Head in Your Lap, Dear Brother by K. Blair Morgana and the Morrigan by Chris A. Bolton No Need for the Green Knight by Courtney Danielson The Woman with the Bleeding Eye by Evan Davies To Cut the Rot by Caroline Fleischauer Gelato by Micah Giddens The Story that I Want by Lyndsay E. Gilbert Under Avalon by Liam Hogan An Offense of Memory by Larry Ivkovich Mirror, Mirage by Alexis Kaegi Destiny Forged by Damien Mckeating To Catch a Name by Nico Martinez Nocito The Many-Hued Land by John J. O’Hara Hound, Hart, Crow, Queen by M.R. Robinson Sea-born by C.J. Subko She Made a Doll in Winter by Lana Voos Every Son a Reaver by Holly Lyn Walrath
February 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Published in GRIMM RETOLD from Speculation Publications - comment or DM if you're interested in reviewing!
The cover of GRIMM RETOLD, featuring the title full of and surrounded by vines and thorns. All this and the text is red against the black background.
January 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Authors, post something related to your last publication or WIP without context!

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Doodly image of a woman on fire surrounded by cats. Caption reads: My life is a fairy tale, but the author is German
January 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Finally deleted the x account that I havent used in years & forgot I had. Extremely glad to see you go
A screenshot of a phone screen displaying the deactivation screen for x/Twitter. It reads Your account is deactivated Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye
January 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM