An #author serious about writing something generous to their specific readership owes themself a venture into the respective works of Seth Godin and Joanna (J.F.) Penn, who merge #creative courage with #business savvy to unlock our potential. An indispensable #education.

Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo wins the 2021 Short Story Day AFR Prize, with Mbozi Haimbe from Zambia and Alithanayn Abdulkareem from Nigeria coming up as first and second runners-up. Congrats! brittlepaper.com/2021/06/3-winn…

Ian McEwan once said that the problem with most novels is that they're too long. I wonder if, after her darkly economical 'Resistance in a Drop of DNA' on clarkesworld, Andrea Kriz, PhD feels the same way about short stories. Mere microns in scale; a lifetime's depth. Amazing.

Do you ever wonder why we don't list our sources for our posts? It's because the Twitter character limit is too short. Help us build a web app which will contain all of our historical stories, including sources and more information: gofundme.com/f/help-us-buil…

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"A Heist in Fifteen Products" by Andrea M. Pawley in clarkesworld grapples the age-old question: 'What if Douglas Adams took revenge against past product-writing clients with a homage to Oceans 11?' The answer: with a very, VERY good time. A riotous tale; a giggle in each fist.

Between savagery and hope, predation and protection, Ray Nayler's "Yesterday's Wolf" commences this month's clarkesworld diving deep into dark places. Long live the brave womyn on the frontiers of science and patriarchy; candles in the shadow. May we all guard our flocks wisely

Read Nicholas A. Dawn's witty story, 'Enough' in 'Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa'. ⁠ 'Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa' is out now. Get it in all good bookstores and online. bit.ly/ssdadisruption

From the eerie to the macabre, Lucy Zhang's "Grafting" in Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine leaves eyes a-spiralling. A disturbing foray into a life as innocent as a child's, and as haunting as a monster's. Count your cherries, readers, and keep your heads screwed on tight - if you can.

Like a poetics of space and antagonists within, Team Two Dogs (@lchanwrites on Mastodon/Bluesky)'s "The Spelunker's Guide to Unreal Architecture" in The Dark guides us through loss and longing, to those unforgotten - here told unforgettably. If R. L. Stine flunked design class, and had his revenge.

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Many thanks to Mariah Brewer for her handy list on horror zines: mariahbrewer.com/2021/09/13/hor… May your awesomeness continue to multiply.

A toast to Every Writer's Resource for their fabulous work: everywritersresource.com/literarymagazi….

Eeriness, subtlety, vividness, forcefulness: arts mastered by Becca De La Rosa in her exacting portrayal of abundance and otherwise in 'Mal de Caribou'. Shout out to The Dark for chilling the heart and stirring the pot, and to Mabel, Becca's own podcast with Mabel Martin.

From the hysterical to the horrifying, the mammalian to the morbid, Robert Jeschonek Robert Jeschonek's 'Dog and Pony Show' on clarkesworld takes us for a dystopian spin through fun and otherwise. A must for scribes of the intoxicating. Long live the uncanny - and Clarkesworld!

Congratulations! Idza Luhumyo! Winner of the 2022 The Caine Prize for African Writing

Meet #SSDAInkubator Fellow 2022 Nicholas A. Dawn, literary SpecFic writer & essayist from South Africa. His short stories developed during the Inkubator will be published later this year as part of the British Council & Southern Africa Arts - British Council #cultureconnects grant. #SouthernAfricaArts

We condemn the conviction today of award-winning writer Tsitsi Dangarembga by a Zimbabwe Court, and reiterate our calls to the Zimbabwe authorities to uphold their human rights obligations and desist from persecuting dissenting voices. @EfieZethu pen-international.org/news/zimbabwe-…

Great take aways from Nina Nesseth NIGHTMARE FUEL panel on horror movies at #canconsf. 1) Terror is the realization there is going to be a terrible change. Horror is the reaction to that change. Can*Con

If you grill cheese on corn, smoke your hokey and kick your kitsch, the results may include inter-primate racism and falling diapers. Hysterical, sardonic and supremely slapstick, Derek Künsken's 'To Live and Die in Gibbontown' in Asimov's SF hits the spot right on target. BOOM!