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A list of active, regularly published fiction markets, including stories by today's best science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.
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We promote short fiction! Keep an eye on us for reposts of free fiction, AND calls for funding. Give short venues your love and support!
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Purgatory has forms, formulas, angels, and librarians. Then one applicant writes something the system wasn't built to handle. 'The Open Stacks of Judgement Day' by A. S. Klatt-Diego.
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October 8, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Purgatory has forms, formulas, angels, and librarians. Then one applicant writes something the system wasn't built to handle. 'The Open Stacks of Judgement Day' by A. S. Klatt-Diego.
go.dfstory.com/open-stack
go.dfstory.com/open-stack
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Come away, O human child, and enjoy @mariness.bsky.social's new story of unexpected deals made with fairies in "The Bargain.
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October 7, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Come away, O human child, and enjoy @mariness.bsky.social's new story of unexpected deals made with fairies in "The Bargain.
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ICYMI, Issue 3 is OUT NOW on our website! Mina Yeh’s heartbreaking and hopeful “Field Notes on Liturgical Rites, Co-Authored Li and Albrecht” insists that love can work miracles, literally.
📝 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/field...
📝 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/field...
October 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
ICYMI, Issue 3 is OUT NOW on our website! Mina Yeh’s heartbreaking and hopeful “Field Notes on Liturgical Rites, Co-Authored Li and Albrecht” insists that love can work miracles, literally.
📝 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/field...
📝 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/field...
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(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing all replies personalized. Thank you! weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... )
October 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
(Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing all replies personalized. Thank you! weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... )
We interrupt this regularly scheduled feed of worthy publications to ask you to donate to a worthy individual. Normally this time of year we're purchasing the latest Deadlands challenge coin, but helping Elise pay for her hospitalization is more important right now.
Please give generously!
Please give generously!
this october
instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS
we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay.
no coin fundraiser
only fundraising Elise
🖤🖤
pls join us + spread the word
instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS
we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay.
no coin fundraiser
only fundraising Elise
🖤🖤
pls join us + spread the word
www.gofundme.com
October 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
We interrupt this regularly scheduled feed of worthy publications to ask you to donate to a worthy individual. Normally this time of year we're purchasing the latest Deadlands challenge coin, but helping Elise pay for her hospitalization is more important right now.
Please give generously!
Please give generously!
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We're nearly a week into the Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter and have already reached 34% of our goal! Thank you so much to our backers for making this possible 💜👽
If you want to help us publish more strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful fiction next year, you can check out the campaign below! ⬇️
If you want to help us publish more strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful fiction next year, you can check out the campaign below! ⬇️
Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 6, 2026 at 3:53 PM
We're nearly a week into the Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter and have already reached 34% of our goal! Thank you so much to our backers for making this possible 💜👽
If you want to help us publish more strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful fiction next year, you can check out the campaign below! ⬇️
If you want to help us publish more strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful fiction next year, you can check out the campaign below! ⬇️
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Don't forget to read "The Things You'll Wish You'd Known" before undergoing joining with your Selrini symbiont! Kristen Koopman's list from our April issue is a good introduction to what you're signing up for with this process (it's a lot):
The Things You’ll Wish You’d Known - Small Wonders
1. This process will make you marvel at your own longevity.
smallwondersmag.com
October 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Don't forget to read "The Things You'll Wish You'd Known" before undergoing joining with your Selrini symbiont! Kristen Koopman's list from our April issue is a good introduction to what you're signing up for with this process (it's a lot):
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Issue 3 is OUT NOW! We can't wait to share these amazing stories and poems with you 🪐🗡️
The issue opens with Madeleine Poole’s “Feral thing in a lightbox,” a bloody fairy tale about gender, want, and the girl in the wolf’s belly.
🐺 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/feral...
The issue opens with Madeleine Poole’s “Feral thing in a lightbox,” a bloody fairy tale about gender, want, and the girl in the wolf’s belly.
🐺 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/feral...
October 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Issue 3 is OUT NOW! We can't wait to share these amazing stories and poems with you 🪐🗡️
The issue opens with Madeleine Poole’s “Feral thing in a lightbox,” a bloody fairy tale about gender, want, and the girl in the wolf’s belly.
🐺 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/feral...
The issue opens with Madeleine Poole’s “Feral thing in a lightbox,” a bloody fairy tale about gender, want, and the girl in the wolf’s belly.
🐺 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/feral...
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We're starting out spooky month strong with "Mess" by Rose Maxwell! What if you could remove all the messy parts from yourself, literally? Would you see the appeal?
Mess - Small Wonders
Something about the procedure, the magic, keeps me conscious as she cuts. The pain grips my throat, makes me want to throw up even as it pins me in place.
smallwondersmag.com
October 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
We're starting out spooky month strong with "Mess" by Rose Maxwell! What if you could remove all the messy parts from yourself, literally? Would you see the appeal?
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Our summer issue #36 is now online and free to read on our website!!
Please have a read of these incredible stories, poems & interviews and help us share them!
To read: tinyurl.com/OB-issue36
To get the PDF/ebook: ko-fi.com/s/95de821dd4
To subscribe to OB 🧡: bit.ly/orionsbelt-p...
Please have a read of these incredible stories, poems & interviews and help us share them!
To read: tinyurl.com/OB-issue36
To get the PDF/ebook: ko-fi.com/s/95de821dd4
To subscribe to OB 🧡: bit.ly/orionsbelt-p...
36: Summer 2026 — Orion's Belt
www.orions-belt.net
October 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Our summer issue #36 is now online and free to read on our website!!
Please have a read of these incredible stories, poems & interviews and help us share them!
To read: tinyurl.com/OB-issue36
To get the PDF/ebook: ko-fi.com/s/95de821dd4
To subscribe to OB 🧡: bit.ly/orionsbelt-p...
Please have a read of these incredible stories, poems & interviews and help us share them!
To read: tinyurl.com/OB-issue36
To get the PDF/ebook: ko-fi.com/s/95de821dd4
To subscribe to OB 🧡: bit.ly/orionsbelt-p...
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The first short story of Issue 06 is now free and available to read online!
Check out "Mother Moon" by @rachiea.bsky.social now:
plotthoundmag.com/mother-moon-...
Check out "Mother Moon" by @rachiea.bsky.social now:
plotthoundmag.com/mother-moon-...
“Mother Moon” by Rachel Ashcraft – Plott Hound Magazine
A sharp nose for amazing animal stories
plotthoundmag.com
October 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
The first short story of Issue 06 is now free and available to read online!
Check out "Mother Moon" by @rachiea.bsky.social now:
plotthoundmag.com/mother-moon-...
Check out "Mother Moon" by @rachiea.bsky.social now:
plotthoundmag.com/mother-moon-...
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We are fortunate to have reached our initial goal (late pledges open!) We also support other speculative fiction magazines, three of which are fundraising right now. Please check out and support Lightspeed and Nightmare kck.st/4dxFQc7, and Apex kck.st/4hWOmUL, all publishing great fiction.
October 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
We are fortunate to have reached our initial goal (late pledges open!) We also support other speculative fiction magazines, three of which are fundraising right now. Please check out and support Lightspeed and Nightmare kck.st/4dxFQc7, and Apex kck.st/4hWOmUL, all publishing great fiction.
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The sun was going down on his third day without proper food ...
-from "One Who Helps" by Cecil Fenn (@cecilfenn.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #fantasy
-from "One Who Helps" by Cecil Fenn (@cecilfenn.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #fantasy
October 5, 2026 at 3:06 AM
The sun was going down on his third day without proper food ...
-from "One Who Helps" by Cecil Fenn (@cecilfenn.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #fantasy
-from "One Who Helps" by Cecil Fenn (@cecilfenn.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#shortstory #fantasy
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The Sunday Morning Transport picks out a special outfit today with a story from E.C. Myers (ecmyers.bsky.social) about online dating with some unusual complications. Free for everyone to read!
Carbon Dating
The Sunday Morning Transport arrives in October with tricks and treats in the form of weekly stories by E.C. Myers, Emma Osborne, James K. Morrow, and Mur Lafferty
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
October 4, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The Sunday Morning Transport picks out a special outfit today with a story from E.C. Myers (ecmyers.bsky.social) about online dating with some unusual complications. Free for everyone to read!
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Sunday #art from August's #Penumbric: "Those Who Left in Winter" by Irina Tall, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#artist #horror
#artist #horror
October 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Sunday #art from August's #Penumbric: "Those Who Left in Winter" by Irina Tall, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#artist #horror
#artist #horror
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Greetings, urbanist sophonts! Do you like sky cities? They have their perks over underground cities, for one. Check out a tale of two of them (cities) in our latest original, "Sister Cities" by @reasie.bsky.social.
Escape Pod 1065: Sister Cities
The Pour House Tavern is built on a stairway, with low ceilings that step down along with the bar, so it’s hard to see who’s at the other end, and the smoke gathers on the high side…
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October 2, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Greetings, urbanist sophonts! Do you like sky cities? They have their perks over underground cities, for one. Check out a tale of two of them (cities) in our latest original, "Sister Cities" by @reasie.bsky.social.
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Cast of Wonders 702: A Starry Sort of Hope by young author Torrance Elizabeth narrated by @darthj.uno produced by @jeremycarter42.bsky.social hosted by @chesneycat.bsky.social
www.castofwonders.org/2026/10/cast...
CW: death and grief
www.castofwonders.org/2026/10/cast...
CW: death and grief
October 2, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Cast of Wonders 702: A Starry Sort of Hope by young author Torrance Elizabeth narrated by @darthj.uno produced by @jeremycarter42.bsky.social hosted by @chesneycat.bsky.social
www.castofwonders.org/2026/10/cast...
CW: death and grief
www.castofwonders.org/2026/10/cast...
CW: death and grief
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The flower does not like
Being my metaphor—
-from "Villain Origin Story" by Hibah Shabkhez, in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poem #poetry #horror
Being my metaphor—
-from "Villain Origin Story" by Hibah Shabkhez, in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poem #poetry #horror
October 2, 2026 at 11:33 PM
The flower does not like
Being my metaphor—
-from "Villain Origin Story" by Hibah Shabkhez, in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poem #poetry #horror
Being my metaphor—
-from "Villain Origin Story" by Hibah Shabkhez, in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
#poem #poetry #horror
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Buying copies of Radon through Foofaraw supports us just as much, if not more, than doing so directly. Plus you can browse closely-related other magazines and bundle them together
Want some free mags from the Emporium? We've got 'em from @hearthstories.bsky.social! Want the latest and greatest from our friends at @radonjournal.bsky.social, publishing the best in anarchistic speculative fiction? We've got that too! store.foofaraw.press
October 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Buying copies of Radon through Foofaraw supports us just as much, if not more, than doing so directly. Plus you can browse closely-related other magazines and bundle them together
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Like stories? Like poems? Then have I got fantastic news for you!
Kaleidotrope - Autumn 2026
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October 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Like stories? Like poems? Then have I got fantastic news for you!
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Free Fiction Friday! Two poems today for your quick lit break: Swimming the Witch by Jennifer Hudak AND Natty Bumppo Bums a Smoke Outside the Stewart’s Shop by Rick Hollon. Great titles topping great poems!
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October 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Free Fiction Friday! Two poems today for your quick lit break: Swimming the Witch by Jennifer Hudak AND Natty Bumppo Bums a Smoke Outside the Stewart’s Shop by Rick Hollon. Great titles topping great poems!
magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...
magazine.trollbreath.com/natty-bumppo...
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Radon Journal Issue 14 is live!
Read online or buy a print copy: www.radonjournal.com/issue14
Start your October off right with some of the best all-new science fiction in the industry
Read online or buy a print copy: www.radonjournal.com/issue14
Start your October off right with some of the best all-new science fiction in the industry
October 1, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Radon Journal Issue 14 is live!
Read online or buy a print copy: www.radonjournal.com/issue14
Start your October off right with some of the best all-new science fiction in the industry
Read online or buy a print copy: www.radonjournal.com/issue14
Start your October off right with some of the best all-new science fiction in the industry
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This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Congratulations on your Magic Sword™" by John Wiswell www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cong...
Congratulations on your Magic Sword™ - Lightspeed Magazine
Congratulations on your Magic Sword"! For all inquiries as to its powers and perils, please consult the Virtue Exercises Manual". However, we know new users sometimes get in over their heads. That’s w...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
October 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
This week in LIGHTSPEED: "Congratulations on your Magic Sword™" by John Wiswell www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cong...
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Issue 48 is out today! Ebooks are on your kindle. Physical copies will ship in a week or so (I’ll let you all know as soon as I have our dispatch window).
More detail below!
More detail below!
October 1, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Issue 48 is out today! Ebooks are on your kindle. Physical copies will ship in a week or so (I’ll let you all know as soon as I have our dispatch window).
More detail below!
More detail below!
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New stories by @mariness.bsky.social, @robgillham.bsky.social, Emily O’Malley Liu, @doc12345.bsky.social, @jenniferskogen.bsky.social, @damianstockli.bsky.social, @jennyrae.bsky.social, @jelliclejay.bsky.social, @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, @jakeiswriting.bsky.social, and @chrisbarnham.bsky.social!
There's a new issue of Kaleidotrope today!
Kaleidotrope - Autumn 2026
kaleidotrope.net
October 1, 2026 at 12:23 PM
New stories by @mariness.bsky.social, @robgillham.bsky.social, Emily O’Malley Liu, @doc12345.bsky.social, @jenniferskogen.bsky.social, @damianstockli.bsky.social, @jennyrae.bsky.social, @jelliclejay.bsky.social, @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, @jakeiswriting.bsky.social, and @chrisbarnham.bsky.social!