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

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nkjemisin.bsky.social
Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
sfwa.org Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.org · 2d
✨ 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:
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N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
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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apexmag.bsky.social
"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-...
"Don't Hide From the Mirror by Nico Martinez Nocito. Apex Magazine, Issue 151."
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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thedeadlands.com
in case you missed it!

our latest is up and free to read 🖤
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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killianfantasy.bsky.social
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!

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The cover to the parody comic Soul Food Wars. A young Black man in a red and white sweatshirt holds a plate of soul food while an excited Black girl in a purple shirt with locs in ponytails looks on. They stand in a small restaurant. A menu is on the wall above a counter where another Black youth eats. A Black man with locs tied back cooks in the kitchen.
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
“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 ✨

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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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arleysorg.bsky.social
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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mariahaskins.com
This issue absolutely rips. Fantastic stuff through and through.
fiyahlitmag.bsky.social FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 28d
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! 🥰
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FIYAH No 36 Gods and Monsters Cover art by Odera Igbokwe
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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johnjosephadams.com
"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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grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social
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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tonyarmoore.com
Help me pool resources via the GFM or Donate directly to supportjamaica.gov's emergency relief efforts.
tonyarmoore.com Tonya R. Moore @tonyarmoore.com · 20d
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
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October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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bcsmagazine.bsky.social
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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clarkesworldmagazine.com
Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that.
Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
Text reads: Fed up with your world? Visit ours. clarkesworldmagazine.com Includes our robot mascot's head looking up and over at the cover of a recent issue that has a building on a hill with red tubes bursting through the walls and into the sky. A small robot and some people approach the woods in front of the building. Ok, so maybe that place has problems too, but at least it's pretty to look at. I won't say that won't happen in the real world because you never know who will decide to invest in the BuildingDestroyer(tm) after seeing that picture instead of buying a subscription and supporting real human artists and authors. Those people probably wouldn't support us anyway because we hate their so-called "AI" and mock their little toys when we have the opportunity to. But yes, visit our world. The stories are good. Really. At least we think so. Can't hurt to try, can it? Stay as long as you like. There's nineteen years of stories, many in audio too. Just don't forget to stop to eat and drink and sleep and take care of yourself. And when you're ready, go back to the real world and fight your monsters or just breathe. You can come back any time. I suppose I should stop rambling now. I apologize for the lack of a screaming possum in this ad, but trust that it is there in spirit.
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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uncannymagazine.bsky.social
Behold, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Table of Contents and Paul Lewin cover! buff.ly/D7a2nXG
Cover: Mushroom Mother of Us All by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The text "Uncanny," "November/December 2025," "Issue Sixty-Seven," and the credits are in white.
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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podcastle.org
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...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
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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fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
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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bcsmagazine.bsky.social
BCS #444 ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store & subscribers, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) & @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to @theignyteawards.bsky.social Winner): weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #444
Issue #444 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe and cover art by Bruce Brenneise.
weightlessbooks.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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podcastle.org
#PC914: The Magnolia Returns by Eden Royce, read by Laurice White. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG.

podcastle.org/2025/10/21/p...
#PC914: The Magnolia Returns by Eden Royce, read by Laurice White. A #PodCastleOriginal! Rated PG. The Magnolia blooms out of nowhere at any time of year it chooses, bringing its dilapidated wooden slats and rickety front steps to a neighborhood that somehow believes it has always been there. The butcher shop itself is well-worn, looking like it has seen better days: peeling seafoam green paint on salt-blasted boards, the once-vivid red front door now a faded smear like lipstick after an ardent lover’s attention. Once it arrives, the locals begin to talk about visiting. They have always talked of the things they miss in life, and more often than not, it’s the food, the ingredients. Depending on when and where the Magnolia appears, either the supermarkets don’t stock the items the locals crave — the chicken feet, the pig tails, jowl, and ear — or these once-reviled parts of the animal have become so popular with the wealthy, it’s impossible for the poor to attain them.
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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jasonsanford.bsky.social
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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fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
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/...
FIYAH No 36 Gods and Monsters Cover art by Odera Igbokwe
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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edenroyce.bsky.social
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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apexmag.bsky.social
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...
60% UNLOCKED! our Kickstarter backers will gain early access to another story slated to be published next year. “Island of Sea Turtles and Blood,” by Angela Liu, is a wonderful dark fantasy story that is sure to send shivers up your spine.
October 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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smallwondersmag.com
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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dubonicplague.bsky.social
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