E.M. Linden
@emlinden.bsky.social
SFFH writer. Aotearoan, codexian, caffeinated. Words in: Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, Flash Fiction Online, Weird Horror, The Dark, & more
She/her. Fan of cool birds. The kiwi E.M. Linden, not the other one.
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An eligibility post for 2025! I was lucky enough to have five things published this year. 🧵
- I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
- I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Whalesong - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The whalesong hits when she’s on the highway. Up until that point, Hailey had just been driving, foot tensed on the pedal, hoping velocity would turn into an answer for a question that she didn’t know...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
An eligibility post for 2025! I was lucky enough to have five things published this year. 🧵
- I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
- I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well.
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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Great stories from all these 3LBE folks. Happy to have one make it. That one drew heavily on a Seamus Heaney poem in the opening, then warped from there. I edited it on phone from a hotel while skirting security in case they found out our youngest was 3yo not 2, per certain rules. Anyway, Old Wells.
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Great stories from all these 3LBE folks. Happy to have one make it. That one drew heavily on a Seamus Heaney poem in the opening, then warped from there. I edited it on phone from a hotel while skirting security in case they found out our youngest was 3yo not 2, per certain rules. Anyway, Old Wells.
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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
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
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
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
December 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
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
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
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It’s the time of year when I do my Christmas auction. This mouse icon is up for auction and it’s to raise money for Shelter Cymru & Doctors without borders. 100% of the money raised will go to these charities on a 50-50 basis.
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It’s the time of year when I do my Christmas auction. This mouse icon is up for auction and it’s to raise money for Shelter Cymru & Doctors without borders. 100% of the money raised will go to these charities on a 50-50 basis.
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FFer Read of the Day: "The Church at the Edge of Time" by @angelaliu.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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The Church at the Edge of Time
the pastor is a woman / with small birds living in the hollows of her eyes.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
FFer Read of the Day: "The Church at the Edge of Time" by @angelaliu.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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In case you missed it, here’s my favorite poem I had out this year 🕰️ I want to write a whole story in this same world.
FFer Read of the Day: "The Church at the Edge of Time" by @angelaliu.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
The Church at the Edge of Time
the pastor is a woman / with small birds living in the hollows of her eyes.
strangehorizons.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
In case you missed it, here’s my favorite poem I had out this year 🕰️ I want to write a whole story in this same world.
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Scurrying in excitedly to share that my novelette “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, was loved by the wonderful people at @locusmag.bsky.social, alongside @hhpak.bsky.social’s lovely story. So grateful to @acwise.bsky.social for their kind review of these stories✨
2025 Stories We Loved: “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak and “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue
It’s Locus’s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks! For your reading pleasure, Locus reviewer A.C. Wise recommends two novelettes, since short fiction often gets overlooked and novelettes especiall…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Scurrying in excitedly to share that my novelette “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, was loved by the wonderful people at @locusmag.bsky.social, alongside @hhpak.bsky.social’s lovely story. So grateful to @acwise.bsky.social for their kind review of these stories✨
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👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾
Includes numerous CREATURES.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...
#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
Includes numerous CREATURES.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...
#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
November 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾
Includes numerous CREATURES.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...
#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
Includes numerous CREATURES.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...
#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
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We have traveled to Day 13 of TTL's story reading party and have found How To Fail At Book-Smuggling (Across Several Timelines At Once) by @emlinden.bsky.social where it is only after the captain dies that the crew start to question if the cross-time book-smuggling is actually harmless
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We have traveled to Day 13 of TTL's story reading party and have found How To Fail At Book-Smuggling (Across Several Timelines At Once) by @emlinden.bsky.social where it is only after the captain dies that the crew start to question if the cross-time book-smuggling is actually harmless
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Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
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Thanksgiving is almost here, but not quite. Let me help tide you over to the feast with some of my foodie fiction!
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Thanksgiving is almost here, but not quite. Let me help tide you over to the feast with some of my foodie fiction!
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Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills
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Issue 100 has been cancelled... BUT!!! Issue 98 has wonderful works for you to read! AND issue 99 will be out soon, with more stunning offerings by amazing writers!
🐉Read something *Fantastic*!🧜🏽
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
🐉Read something *Fantastic*!🧜🏽
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni
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November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Issue 100 has been cancelled... BUT!!! Issue 98 has wonderful works for you to read! AND issue 99 will be out soon, with more stunning offerings by amazing writers!
🐉Read something *Fantastic*!🧜🏽
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
🐉Read something *Fantastic*!🧜🏽
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
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And yes, I know the novella market has changed and awards focus is on novellas that appear as standalone books from medium to large publishers but I (obviously) still love publishing and reading novellas as meaty offerings in magazines and anthologies and I hope enough people still do too.
As the end of the year approaches here's my 2025 eligibility post for my novella "Descent" in
@clarkesworldmagazine.com:
a science-fantasy story about an expedition on a planet of sonic storms. Adventure, parental expectations and the limits of knowledge
wtalabi.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/2...
@clarkesworldmagazine.com:
a science-fantasy story about an expedition on a planet of sonic storms. Adventure, parental expectations and the limits of knowledge
wtalabi.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/2...
2025 Awards Eligibility (Visibility) Post
Well! Here we are once again, approaching the end of another year. Where does all the time go? Sometimes I wish I could pull a Megalopolis and “stop time” (IYKYK). But yes, as the inexo…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
And yes, I know the novella market has changed and awards focus is on novellas that appear as standalone books from medium to large publishers but I (obviously) still love publishing and reading novellas as meaty offerings in magazines and anthologies and I hope enough people still do too.
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We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com
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sunday promotionday
reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is
AVAILABLE 4 READING
6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction
get the ePub/print @ Patreon
OR READ ONLINE👇
reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is
AVAILABLE 4 READING
6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction
get the ePub/print @ Patreon
OR READ ONLINE👇
The Deadlands - Issue 40 | Psychopomp
Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Malena Salazar Maciá, Belle Biscotti, Testimony Odey, Shana Ross, Erin Ulm, Matthew Wollin, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, R.B. Lemberg, Kat Sed...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
sunday promotionday
reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is
AVAILABLE 4 READING
6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction
get the ePub/print @ Patreon
OR READ ONLINE👇
reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is
AVAILABLE 4 READING
6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction
get the ePub/print @ Patreon
OR READ ONLINE👇
The Deadlands is publishing some of the best writing out there🖤
bit overwhelmed by the influx of patrons
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thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
PATRONS
support us and get access to our ePub/print issues
YOU CAN DO THAT, really.
also support tiers increasing in new year 😿
but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE,
really.
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
PATRONS
support us and get access to our ePub/print issues
YOU CAN DO THAT, really.
also support tiers increasing in new year 😿
but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE,
really.
thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The Deadlands is publishing some of the best writing out there🖤
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check out @vanessafogg.bsky.social's short fiction recs, beloveds!!
we are SO DELIGHTED to see the truly beautiful Hamaka, Leave Me Alone by Testimony Odey from issue 40 on this list 🖤
we are SO DELIGHTED to see the truly beautiful Hamaka, Leave Me Alone by Testimony Odey from issue 40 on this list 🖤
My reading fell off a cliff these last 2 months, so this list is shorter than usual. But here are recent stories I loved, from @renanbernardo.com @isabel.kim @wiswell.bsky.social Testimony Odey @kristinaten.bsky.social and @champwongs.bsky.social
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/11/shor...
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/11/shor...
Short fiction recs! Sept-Oct 2025
This reading round-up is shorter than usual, as I admit that my short fiction reading fell off a cliff these last two months, due to trave...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
check out @vanessafogg.bsky.social's short fiction recs, beloveds!!
we are SO DELIGHTED to see the truly beautiful Hamaka, Leave Me Alone by Testimony Odey from issue 40 on this list 🖤
we are SO DELIGHTED to see the truly beautiful Hamaka, Leave Me Alone by Testimony Odey from issue 40 on this list 🖤
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My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
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Psychopomp is one of the best publishing teams on the planet and I love being a part of it.
They consistently put out amazing work. But most of all, they are such good people.
Please support The Deadlands if you're able. We can't lose another. ❤️❤️
They consistently put out amazing work. But most of all, they are such good people.
Please support The Deadlands if you're able. We can't lose another. ❤️❤️
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Psychopomp is one of the best publishing teams on the planet and I love being a part of it.
They consistently put out amazing work. But most of all, they are such good people.
Please support The Deadlands if you're able. We can't lose another. ❤️❤️
They consistently put out amazing work. But most of all, they are such good people.
Please support The Deadlands if you're able. We can't lose another. ❤️❤️
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bit overwhelmed by the influx of patrons
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
PATRONS
support us and get access to our ePub/print issues
YOU CAN DO THAT, really.
also support tiers increasing in new year 😿
but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE,
really.
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
PATRONS
support us and get access to our ePub/print issues
YOU CAN DO THAT, really.
also support tiers increasing in new year 😿
but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE,
really.
thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon
this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support
🙏🏻🖤💀
if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
psychopomp.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
bit overwhelmed by the influx of patrons
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
PATRONS
support us and get access to our ePub/print issues
YOU CAN DO THAT, really.
also support tiers increasing in new year 😿
but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE,
really.
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
PATRONS
support us and get access to our ePub/print issues
YOU CAN DO THAT, really.
also support tiers increasing in new year 😿
but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE,
really.
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Oh, my heart. 💔 I published my debut novella, FROM THESE DARK ABODES, with Psychopomp, and it was such a nurturing and positive experience. Absolutely gutted to see Psychopomp and Fantasy end, but I am so glad we still have The Deadlands with us.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Oh, my heart. 💔 I published my debut novella, FROM THESE DARK ABODES, with Psychopomp, and it was such a nurturing and positive experience. Absolutely gutted to see Psychopomp and Fantasy end, but I am so glad we still have The Deadlands with us.
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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
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I'm so honored to have my novella shout out by @kjy1066.bsky.social ! Now it's my turn to shout a fellow bori writer for #Puertoricanheritagemonth
✍🏼🇵🇷👇🏼📚
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✍🏼🇵🇷👇🏼📚
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November 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I'm so honored to have my novella shout out by @kjy1066.bsky.social ! Now it's my turn to shout a fellow bori writer for #Puertoricanheritagemonth
✍🏼🇵🇷👇🏼📚
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✍🏼🇵🇷👇🏼📚
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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It's Day Three of the TTL 2025 celebration and here's @montelin.bsky.social with The In-Between Sister, a story of haunting, possession - and the relationships between elder and younger sisters.
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It's Day Three of the TTL 2025 celebration and here's @montelin.bsky.social with The In-Between Sister, a story of haunting, possession - and the relationships between elder and younger sisters.