ryancolewrites.bsky.social
ryancolewrites.bsky.social
ryancolewrites.bsky.social
@ryancolewrites.bsky.social
SFF Writer. Pug Dad. Words in: Clarkesworld, PodCastle, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Flame Tree Press, and more.

Website: www.ryancolewrites.com
So excited to have my story “A Dream of Twin Sunsets” in the new issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com! It’s about an alien planet and killer pollen and a love that’s worth fighting for.
The August 2025 issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Marissa Lingen, L Chan, R.T. Ester, Ai Jiang, Bella Han, Raahem Alvi, Ryan Cole, Uchechukwu Nwaka.
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August 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
New story out today in @escapepod.org! Featuring a lollipopified version of the apocalypse 🍭
Hail, sapients! For the palindromic episode 1001 we've got for you "Death by Pink in the Lollipop Apocalypse" by Ryan Cole, with a lesson as old as the hills: don't rely on genetically-engineered bacteria to solve your problems. Seriously. They're more trouble than they're worth.
Escape Pod 1001: Death by Pink in the Lollipop Apocalypse
In the dark of her bed, curled up in her sheets, Susie tried to hide from the next few days and the reckoning they’d bring: of prom and graduation and the dozens of goodbyes she’d have to force…
escapepod.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My new story is out at @escapepod.org! I’m blown away by the voice acting and am so happy to have this story out in the world!
Merry equinox, sapients and assorted! The days are getting longer or shorter, but the sunrise always matters: most particularly "The Interdimensional Rift at the Lucky Sunrise Bingo Palace" by Ryan Cole, this week's Escape Pod Original!
Escape Pod 985: The Interdimensional Rift at the Lucky Sunrise Bingo Palace
So I’m sitting there with Bubbee—the two of us hunched over our empty paper play-cards, our fingers not yet bloody with magenta bingo marker—when the first rift appears. It’s smaller than I’d expected...
escapepod.org
March 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My story “From Enceladus, with Love” is out in the new issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com! It’s about AI and found family and the most unlikely friendships ❤️
The March Issue of Clarkesworld features original stories by Ryan Cole, Anna Burdenko, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Yukimi Ogawa, Koji A. Dae, Ren Zeyu, and Damián Neri.

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March 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New story out today in Voyage YA by Uncharted! Filled with queer love and coming of age ❤️

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/my-n...
My Neck-Mouth Can Sing Louder Than Yours - Uncharted
It starts with an inch-long slit in my neck. Mom notices first. “Got a secret you want to tell us?” she says with a laugh, chewing on the waffles that she makes for me and Dad every morning before sch...
www.unchartedmag.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:32 PM
It’s been a year since my sweet refrigerator story appeared in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, and I’m still so excited to have been in this issue. A writing dream come true ❤️

clarkesworldmagazine.com/cole_12_23/
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Waffles Are Only Goodbye for Now by Ryan Cole
clarkesworldmagazine.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:06 PM
The PodCastle gates are open, so send us your stories!
IT'S ALMOST THAT TIME! GET YOUR STORIES READY!
It's almost March, friends, which means: PodCastle will soon be OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS!

General subs call, so: fantasy stories <6k, originals or reprints. You can send one of each at a time, and submit as soon as you're rejected, so get sending!

Full guidelines below:
March 2, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I have a new story in the latest issue of @factorfourmagazine.com! About sidewalk chalk and time rifts and holding onto the people we love most 😍
Sharing with our new Bluesky friends first. But Issue 33, for March is already up on our website. You can read it for free!
factorfourmag.com/category/iss...
March 2, 2024 at 6:18 PM
My emotions-as-colors story is out in @podcastle.org today! Thank you so much to the PodCastle team for believing in it ❤️
#PC 828: The Museum of Living Color by Ryan Cole. Read by Hugo Jackson. Rated PG-13. Previously published in Museum Piece, from Metaphorosis Publishing.

podcastle.org/2024/02/27/p...
February 27, 2024 at 11:31 PM