Thank you so much for featuring my story! It feels weirdly prescient right now.

For all the information check out our prize website and of course the European Writers Salon events! desperateliterature.com/prize saloneurope.org

14 Tips on Writing Speculative Fiction, by me, for all who write and dabble in the magical! Biggest thanks to the amazing writers quoted throughout for sharing their wisdom! Hope you enjoy! Read here: joybaglio.substack.com/p/14-tips-on-w…

Normally on my birthday I make a chocolate cheesecake, but since our new home in Barcelona lacks a working oven, I’m waiting in line at Joncake’s. Touristy but worth it!

Laundry day, so I decided to line up several band t-shirts in a row.

I wrote about novels with strange structures from around the world for Literary Hub lithub.com/neither-plot-n…

There is still time to submit to the Irish TheStormsJournal (deadline 8 June). No theme. Free submissions. Prose: 1500 words. Poetry: 3 poems (40 lines each). Payment is 1 copy + EUR 60 for prose and EUR 50 for poetry.

Our EIC, James Diaz will be reading some of their poetry with these fine folks this Sunday in Brooklyn. Stop on by if you're in the area.

Closes June 15th or after 100 subs received — whichever comes first — so don’t wait! ⬇️ Pays $25

Submissions for DARK READS will close next Monday (2nd June, 2025) If you have a short story, flash fic or poem that captures all things morbid and macabre, send it down into the crypt to feed us before the deadline.

Our home of the surreal-absurd is a home of bones and fur is a home of locusts and chimneys is a home of folklore and grief. Keep the lights on, please, but be sure to close the doors.

Submissions are live! flashpointsf.com/submissions/

I have a new story out in ergot.. It's called "Variety" and it's a horror story about otters and goldfish and flavors of toothpaste. I love how horror can comment on watching and imagining as acts we'd like to keep separate but not really. ergot.press/authors/Hugh_B…