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Write, revise, edit, submit, repeat First reader for Small Wonders Codex member 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦🇳🇴- all the flags ✨
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · Mar 31
Woohoo 🎉 🥳 Issue 7 is now available!!! Go get your subscription and start reading your hearts out 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · Mar 31
Issue 7 is live for paid subscribers and available for purchase 🎉🎉🎉

Sign up for a free subscription and get 2 pieces to read right away!

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 15h
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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Chezza @chezza.bsky.social · 29d
The @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology Kickstarter is live! Tons of goodies up for grabs: ebook/hardcover editions, bookmarks, stickers, pins, & more!

So excited to have my wuxia fem rage story in this anthology 🥹 and to be in such excellent company ❤️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Front and back cover of the All Worlds Wayfarer Into the Dark anthology, a collection of dark fantasy stories
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Chezza @chezza.bsky.social · 10d
A snip from my short, "The First Woman of the Qingyan Sect," in the @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology 🖤 10 days left to get kickstarter rewards, such as digital/hard copy issues, stickers, bookmarks, digital art, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Snippet from "The First Woman of the Qingyan Sect" by Chezza Lee in the All Worlds Wayfarer Into the Dark anthology: "We were taught to protect this town from the forces that lived in the shadows. As I grew, the memories of blood, the iron-lashed stench of death, lessened in intensity. I reiterated Shifu’s words so often, they became my own personal mantra. Fight evil. Save the innocent. But it wasn’t until I descended the mountain that I realized my choices would never be that simple."
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 23h
Oooh, I’d love to try making some gf mooncakes. I have never had them, but they sound yummy.
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. 🍁

If you want to support some amazing writers in a dark fantasy anthology check out:

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

Its packed full of amazing and emotional stories. (Including one of mine)
Into the Dark
A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 5d
My short story The Red Shoes is about a young girl with necromancer magic, on her own, desperately trying to reconnect with a loved one while running from villagers who blame her for the plague ravaging the countryside. #magic #necromancy #death #skeletons
Check out @awwlitmag.bsky.social anthology
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 6d
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 7d
If you like dark moody fantasy stories with necromancy, and skeletons then you’ll probably like my short story The Red Shoes, which I’m so excited to have published in @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark Anthology!

If you have time, please check out their kickstarter
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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 8d
WE HIT 250 BACKERS!! +1 exclusive sticker for everyone who either added a sticker or backed at a tier with sticker rewards! That is our last backer goal!

We're in awe that over 250 of you have supported us. Thank you!! Sticker reveal coming soon 💜

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
Info for our Backer Goals! 50, 100, 150, 200, AND 250 Backers are unlocked! All backer goals are in rainbow with an open lock over a blurred version of OTHERSIDE banner art in purple, with a blurred floating fantastical head on the right.
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 8d
This is an eye opening episode:

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Why progressives may not be as 'woke' as they think
Podcast Episode · Ideas · 2025-10-06 · 54m
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 8d
I was listening to History Hits, “The Ancients” podcast about #Myths. They mentioned one called “the devil and the smith” and I wonder if the Andersen’s “The Red Shoes” story is a variation of it 🤔

You can find my own original version The Red Shoes in @awwlitmag.bsky.social dark fantasy anthology.
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 8d
Such a wild historical epidemic right? I was really excited when it fit perfectly with my plot.
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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 9d
If you missed our chill & chat at @spacemagiccon.bsky.social the recording is now live! Check it out for a peek at our magazine inspirations, Kickstarter prep—and more!

👀 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEz_...
💜 Then go register for today's panels: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/
Chill & Chat with OTHERSIDE
OTHERSIDE is a quarterly queer-led literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists. Their Kickstarter, to fund their first year, launched on September 29th and they will open for submissions in January 2026.
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 9d
Have you heard of the European Dancing Plague of 1518? I hint at that strange outbreak in my dark fantasy story “The Red Shoes” which will be published in @awwlitmag.bsky.social 🎉

They’re doing a great kickstarter, you check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Into the Dark
A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology
www.kickstarter.com
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 10d
Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 9d
We are now one subscriber away from unlocking reprints!
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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 10d
We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship!

Learn more about our plans here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
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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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 16d
🎉 Back our Kickstarter & grab awesome rewards—book & mag bundles, stickers, postcards + a surprise bonus if we hit 50% by halfway!

Help a small press & its authors grow ❤️
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Some of the Into the Dark Kickstarter rewards!
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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 10d
We’re 10 days from the end of the Into the Dark Kickstarter! 🌑
Thanks to all of you, we’ve crossed 40% funded — and we’re aiming for $2,500 next.

If you love eerie worlds, haunting art, and dark fantasy, now’s the time to join us. 💀
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Into the Dark by All World's Wayfarer Anthology. Picture of an archer his cape flying, standing a top a dragon it's mouth open fire about to erupt as they fly through a sky lit by sunset
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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 13d
The anthology is alive, but it needs more voices to grow stronger. 🌑
Can we reach 50% funded this week? Join us, and help unlock the darkness:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Funding Goals!
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Laura @chilibeck.bsky.social · 14d
In Canada today it is the National day of Truth and Reconciliation.
#EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay

I’m a European settler who lives on the stolen land of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.

Please read and learn about Canada’s Residential Schools

orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/
Phyllis’ Story - Orange Shirt Society
An introduction to Phyllis (Jack) Webstad and her story: her journey to residential school survivor and community leader. Get Started Here About Phyllis Webstad Founder, Ambassador, Author Phyll...
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Nathan A. Triplett @nathantriplett.bsky.social · 14d
Today is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honoring indigenous children who never returned home from residential schools, as well as the survivors, their families, and their communities. #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters
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Marina Gabriela 🇨🇦 Author @marina-gabriela.bsky.social · 14d
I'd like to acknowledge the indigenous peoples of Canada today. The character limit on BlueSky is too small for what I'd like to say, so please read the images attached 🫶

#truthandreconciliation #orangeshirtday #canadianhistory #indigenous #canada
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Mawenzi House @mawenzihouse.bsky.social · 14d
Today, we honour the children who never returned home and the survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.

#OrangeShirtDay
#TruthAndReconciliation
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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 18d
💀 If the Into the Dark anthology Kickstarter hits $2,500- by Monday, I'll release for free my article: "Take Me by the Hand: How the Danse Macabre Became Real" and all backers get a bonus gift! 💀
Please consider supporting this great little independent publisher!
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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 18d
If we hit $2,500 by Monday, all backers (any amount!) get a bonus gift 🎁 PLUS we’ll release for free “Take Me by the Hand: How the Danse Macabre Became Real,” an article on the Danse Macabre & the Dancing Plague.

Support our writers + anthology! 🖤📚
www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
a black and white cartoon of a skeleton dancing in a graveyard .
ALT: a black and white cartoon of a skeleton dancing in a graveyard .
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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 22d
❄️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
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