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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 16d

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

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God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 19d

SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 23d

❄️In Into the Dark, @devanbarlow.bsky.social Devan Barlow’s A Frozen Woman of Balecrocus weaves a tale of legacy, defiance & chilling magic. Cold needles, colder bloodlines & power that refuses to die.

Support this story & 33 others! Join the Kickstarter today!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Into the Dark

A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology

www.kickstarter.com

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · 29d

I just got approved to do some gay shit at work, so that will be fun.

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 15

🌑 It begins. 🌑

The Into the Dark Kickstarter is officially LIVE!
34 tales of dark fantasy & fantastical horror — haunting, harrowing, and unforgettable.

Back today and help us bring this anthology to life!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
#IntoTheDark #Kickstarter #DarkFantasy #HorrorBooks

Into the Dark

A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology

www.kickstarter.com

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Sep 15

The Kickstarter for Into the Dark is officially live! My story “Second Love” is in this anthology. Please share and consider backing the anthology if you’re able to. www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Into the Dark

A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology

www.kickstarter.com

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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 13

The shadows have a face. 🌑✨
We’re thrilled to reveal the cover of Into the Dark, our anthology of 34 stories of dark fantasy & fantastical horror.

The Kickstarter goes live tomorrow — be ready to step Into the Dark with us.

#IntoTheDark #Kickstarter #SpecFic

All World's Wayfarer Into the Dark Anthology Cover A woman with white eyes, surrounded by teeth like tentacles.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · Sep 12

During the first week of October, @spicycloaca.bsky.social and I are running an open sub call for the zine that will accompany their book Gore Poetics. 500 words max on the theme FLESH. Pay is 10 cents/word. Samir's book is weird, erotic, and often transgressive vibewise, so keep that in mind.

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · Sep 11

We’re going to be closing to submissions from 12pm BST tomorrow (12th September). Not sure exactly how long for, until we get caught up. If you want to get something in, send it in before then.

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · Sep 9

IT'S OUT TODAY!

Ancient family lore. Secrets passed down through generations. A feeling of belonging...or, of not.

Heritage and horror, ancestry, things we pass down through our bloodlines.

Stories that have deep, foul roots.

I'M SO PROUD OF THIS BOOK!

GET YOURS:
titanbooks.com/72017-roots-...

Gemma Amor in a red shirt holding a copy of ROOTS OF MY FEARS

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Sep 10

Heads up! I have a story in this anthology. Keep yours eyes peeled for the Kickstarter on the 15th!

All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 9

🌑 Something stirs in the dark…
We’re launching the Kickstarter for Into the Dark, our next All Worlds Wayfarer anthology, in just 6 days!
34 stories of dark fantasy & fantastical horror, from haunting to hopeful.
Join us & help bring it to life.
#IntoTheDark #KickstarterComing

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Sep 8

Congratulations! A publisher needs to snatch this up fast because I want to read it NOW.

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Sep 4

They what now?!?!

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our Kickstarter campaign is now coming September 29th! Turns out Halloween is busy (who knew)—and with our co-founders' schedules, it makes more sense to end the campaign on October 29th instead of the 31st! That’s VERY SOON! We are VERY EXCITED!

In the meantime: follow our pre-launch campaign? 👀

Coming soon: OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations! 🎉

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Sam Asher @samasherwriter.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year.

Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it.

gofund.me/ca0c2b7d

Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher

For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Aug 27

Awwwww congratulations, Ai! 2027 needs to hurry up and get here.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · Aug 27

A big thank you to @laneheymont.bsky.social and @danaiwrites.bsky.social from @thetobiasagency.bsky.social for their support and to @alandistro.bsky.social for taking on these smol stories! 🙆🏻‍♀️✨

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · Aug 27

Another announcement you say? 👀 I’m excited to say that my short story collection 💭MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST💭will be forthcoming with @shortwavebooks.bsky.social spring 2027, and will include I AM AI as well! 🙇🏻‍♀️🤍

Screenshot of the publisher’s marketplace announcement of MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST by Ai Jiang, a collection on hauntings, loss, and diaspora, across fantasy, dystopian, and horror fiction, sold to Alan Lastufka at Shortwave by Lane Heymont and Danai Christopoulou from The Tobias Literary Agency

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today we are thrilled to announce MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST, a collection of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror stories / novelettes by @aijiang.bsky.social!

The new collection is comprehensive at 40 stories / novelettes and around 120,000 words. 👀

MEMORIES will be out Spring 2027.

Bram Stoker, Nebula, and Ignyte Award-winning author of LINGHUN, I AM AI, and A PALACE NEAR THE WIND Ai Jiang's MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST, a collection on hauntings, loss, and the diaspora across fantasy, dystopian, and horror fiction, to Alan Lastufka at Shortwave, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2027, by Lane Heymont and Danai Christopoulou at The Tobias Literary Agency (world English).

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · Aug 25

did you know if you took a person's bones and laid them end to end in a straight line that'd fucking kill them

don't do that

bones are for INSIDE

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Aug 25

Really makes you think

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you, Gordon!

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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Aug 20

I was happy to see you were on that panel! And thanks for the book! It’s near the top of my list.

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