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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine
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Hugo Award finalist, World Fantasy and Ignyte Award winning online magazine of literary adventure fantasy, since 2008.

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It won an Ignyte Award @theignyteawards.bsky.social! Also there's a recent sequel: “A Librarian’s Resolution In The Land Of Demons.”
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December 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Today I read A Witch’s Transition In The City Of Ghosts by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social.

"We walk hand in hand into the city of ghosts, aware that everyone on the other side of the wall hates us now.

We do not care."

Amazing world-building in such a short piece!
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Really loved this one.
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In BCS #446: "The Unmasking Of Fioha Dubhan" @samuelchapman.bsky.social. "enough people that others are having to shove their way through. Fioha doesn't like starting with an audience. It highlights the artifice in just the way she's trying to avoid." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Unmasking Of Fioha Dubhan by Samuel Chapman
Tonight, Margrave Bridge has been cleared. A few greatcoat-clad bravos stand at the edge, shooing away all comers. They have the look of a village peacekeeping force, the kind Fioha's been hired more ...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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2025 Awards Eligibility!
I published just one story this year, The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
but it's a very good story IMO
Dark fantasy+ Slavic folklore
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December 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Live in BCS #446 "Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head" @japrenticewrites.bsky.social "She found herself thinking of the head, how lonely and cold he must be. Just a quick visit, she decided. To see if he was all right, other than being dead and rotten." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/litt...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head by J.A. Prentice
She found herself thinking of the head, of how lonely and cold and wet he must be. Why she should think of him—of it—when she herself was shivering and drenched through, she did not know. It seemed a ...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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✨2025 Eligibility Post✨

I co-edited an anthology with @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app, published a novelette, three short stories, and one poem. You can read all these works via the link below, and your consideration is most welcome & appreciated.

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December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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And unbelievably I was accepted into Beneath Ceaseless Skies too. I have a short story in here called "A Good Brother". Thank you Scott H. Andrews for your invaluable help getting this story into shape!
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by @annewilkins.bsky.social and Walter J. Wiese and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Story out early!
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by @annewilkins.bsky.social and Walter J. Wiese and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
BCS #447 ebook out early today @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, w stories of siblings and sacrifice by @annewilkins.bsky.social and @walterwriter.bsky.social J. Wiese, cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #447
Issue #447 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Anne Wilkins and Walter J. Wiese and cover art by Jereme Peabody.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Just donated and joined the Patreon! You do some of the best SFF out there, I’m glad I can help you keep it coming!
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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This is one of my favorite magazine who often gives new writers their first pro sales. Please support if you can.
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thank you! BCS ebook subscriptions are available exclusively through indie ebook store @weightlessbooks.bsky.social. Weightless has lots of other indie & SF/F zines too. Subscribe, get delivery to your e-reading device and support indie commerce as well as zines.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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BCS is one of the most valuable magazines out there.
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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December 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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BCS has published more stories of mine than any other magazine. For me and many others, they're the main venue for secondary-world and historical fantasy. Check them out, or if you already know them, support them if you can!
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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December 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The brilliant @charliefish.bsky.social's second annual FISH list is out! 4,000 magazines, 14 different criteria, all indie lit goodness.

Check it out here: www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/fish-list....
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Other nonprofits AFAIK in SF/F and thus worthy of your attention on this Giving Thursday. (Pls add others!)

@odysseyworkshop.bsky.social
@clarionwest.bsky.social
@clarionucsd.bsky.social IIRC?
Speculative Literature Foundation
@locusmag.bsky.social Magazine
many conventions & local SF societies
December 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!)

BCS
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
@escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thank you, ALL, who supported the BCS Patreon or donated this week and shared word! We really appreciate it. All Patreon support and donations go to pay our authors a pro rate, our artists, and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing personalized comments in all submission replies.
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Our echoes drifting through the marsh, by @mariecroke.bsky.social, is a fantasy novelette published at @bcsmagazine.bsky.social that you should definitely check! Her inspiration for this one was also pretty cool.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh by Marie Croke
Outside the preburial cottage, the pier creaked. I saw no shadow under the doorway, yet I froze, afraid Adamet was listening. I imagined, yet again, an anger filtering over his calm countenance. Wonde...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I've been a patron of BCS for several years now and they are well worth it to keep this bastion going. Paying $5 a month (or $2) for multiple memorable short stories from new and well known authors alike is well worth it.

#fantasy #shortfiction #writing #reading #books
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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BCS is a wonderful professional venue for fantasy fiction, and I’m happy to support them. If you already read/listen to them, maybe you can too? And if you haven’t yet, check them out! It’ll be worth it.
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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December 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Support this wonderful magazine! They were just ranked #3 in the 2026 Fish List among 4,000 magazines!!! www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/fish-list....
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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BCS is a tasting menu of new and established authors' work, and a great place to discover your next favorite. Authors are treated with care by the editors throughout the process.

Subscribe if you can. Def give it a listen and a share.
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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December 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM