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Tonja K. Johnson
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🏅Award-winning SFF Author | Acquiring Editor @FIYAH Literary Magazine

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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social

Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"Gaze into it instead." 🪞🎭

New drabble fiction today by @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social: "Don't Hide From the Mirror"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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in case you missed it!

our latest is up and free to read 🖤
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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It's feasting month here in the US so here is my comic Soul Food Wars. Black kids at a culinary school in Charleston learning about Soul food. Only available in my shop!

ko-fi.com/sarahamackli...
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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“Finger by finger, my father’s hand sprouts like fungus from the cold hard ground.”

it’s Fantasy Friday! 🍄

and today’s fantastic short is

They Return by @ecastroianni.bsky.social

read it here ✨

psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
They Return - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Finger by finger, my father’s hand sprouts like fungus from the cold hard ground. Loamy, cinereal, it grows into an arm.
psychopomp.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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quick reminder for my writers out there -

(yes... YOU! 😻)

rejection

*does NOT mean*

you are a bad writer!!!!

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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This issue absolutely rips. Fantastic stuff through and through.
We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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"All That Touches the Air" An Owomoyela, from LIGHTSPEED (2011) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/all-...

LIGHTSPEED also just published "Thaw" by An in the October 2025 issue www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thaw/
Thaw - Lightspeed Magazine
The thaw comes early. Though I’ve been held here for dreams upon dreams, I am not ready. Shoals of us overwinter in the ice. As our bodies slow to quiescence, the ice resonates between us: signals tha...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Massive news! We’ve just announced our second (of three) novellas for 2026 with the brilliant @clclark.bsky.social
Grimdark Magazine acquires world rights to a new C.L. Clark novella
In August 2026, we will be publishing a new dark fantasy novella by BFA award-winning editor and Nebula-nominated author C.L. Clark.
www.grimdarkmagazine.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Help me pool resources via the GFM or Donate directly to supportjamaica.gov's emergency relief efforts.
The island of Jamaica has been utterly devastated by Hurricane Melissa. I'm collecting donations/micro-donations to help. ALL funds will go directly to supportjamaica.gov's emergency relief efforts. Please spread the word and help if you can! gofund.me/85055b3c1
Donate to Help Jamaica Recover from Hurricane Melissa, organized by Tonya Moore
Hurricane Melissa has left Jamaica devastated, with homes flattened, farms flo… Tonya Moore needs your support for Help Jamaica Recover from Hurricane Melissa
gofund.me
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Ghostly BCS for Halloween! "Where They Sleep" @lectio.bsky.social BCS #419: "the shades would wander out from the empty hills. People we knew. But more we didn't, moving slowly along in search of something, somebody. Then they would mill aimlessly" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/wher...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Where They Sleep by Heather Clitheroe
On those late afternoons, when the day slipped away and the night lights came, the shades would wander out from the empty hills, down to the road. All kinds of them. People we knew. But more we didn't...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that.
Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Behold, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Table of Contents and Paul Lewin cover! buff.ly/D7a2nXG
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window!! We will open in November and close in April. See our announcement on the website for details. All our usual Submissions Guidelines still apply.

podcastle.org/2025/10/17/a...
Announcement: PodCastle Is Trialling a Six Month Submissions Window - PodCastle
Greetings, writers of fantasy fiction! We at PodCastle are due to open back up to general submissions in November. When we do, instead of our usual one month open period, we plan to open for six month...
podcastle.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Pssst. One week left until our unthemed issue window closes. Send us your lovely words...!

fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
October 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Do give our friends @roguestarmag.bsky.social a follow today! Emerging markets flourish with your support, let's do the thing and show them some love ❤️
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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#PC914: The Magnolia Returns by Eden Royce, read by Laurice White. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG.

podcastle.org/2025/10/21/p...
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.

I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
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 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!

This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.

In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook

Available wherever books are sold.

#booksky #Blackbooksky
October 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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WE'VE REACHED 60%!! You've just unlocked EARLY ACCESS to "Island of Sea Turtle and Blood" by Angela Liu! 🐢🩸

Keep up the good work and help us unlock ALL the exciting exclusive events we have planned for this fundraiser! The next milestone is a real...scream 👀⬇️⏰

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Not all monsters of childhood live under the bed. Some of them live in your closet, quietly eating your dolls and clothes and much, much, more, as Stacie Turner's story "Like Sunlight, Like Poison" teaches us.
Like Sunlight, Like Poison - Small Wonders
Dolls tasted dry. Sawdusty. It didn’t matter if they were made of plastic or rags or even fancy porcelain, chipped on one ear and cried over. They were never satisfying.
smallwondersmag.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Flash on the Borderlands is here with one of my all time favorite @alexebenstein.bsky.social stories!

Keep your eyes on the Michigan skies. (And keep your ears on @pseudopod.org.)

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
PseudoPod 997: Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be
Podcast Episode · PseudoPod · 10/10/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM