The Pink Hydra

South African webzine publishing tales of unreality. Show us your weird! Opening for submissions in May 2025.

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

The new issue of our minizine, featuring sapphic Viking fiction by @MirandaLJensen, is out now on Ko-fi:

https://t.co/NRRzYSn0gP

Sales go towards funding our larger magazine (paying writers), so if you'd like to support us, now's the chance!!

[MLJ @MirandaLJensen]

So thrilled to be included in Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Vol 4! Check out our Kickstarter below💜

https://t.co/Ol0vT2SvR6

[Element115 @Element115art]

My new short story, "Prophet 60091", comes out Friday in @ThePinkHydra. If you like my near future space concepts, you'll like this. https://t.co/fgmsaS6NUd

[Purbasha Roy @Purbash36904525]

This new poem is in @ThePinkHydra . Thanks to the Editor. A childhood fascination turned into a poem. A little silly but that's it. https://t.co/ZbhwMhHvAz

[Bruno Lowagie @bruno1970]

One of my #FuriousFiction stories was published in the most recent issue of @ThePinkHydra!
You can read it here: https://t.co/hvmIynLaoR
Cc: @WritersCentreAU

[Anna Madden @anna_madden_]

I'm excited to announce I have two poems coming out in an upcoming issue of @ThePinkHydra!

"Prey-born" is a poem with bite marks 🌘🫚🌿🦷

"Where Snow-on-the-Mountain Grows" was a piece I wrote after seeing snow-on-the-mountain in bloom ☕🌬️🐟🍯

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

FUNDRAISER UPDATE: The Pink Hydra is 60% funded for our 2025 issues!!

What this means is: we will have at least 1 issue released this year, prob'ly 2!

Help us get to 100%!!

https://t.co/M4DONmhwEI

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

The Pink Hydra is fundraising so we can publish 3 more issues this year. Most of this money is for author compensation. Support the smallest of indie SFF freezines with a donation:

https://t.co/F9BCazqrH7

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

For anyone still remaining here, please please please join us on Bluesky. The literary community over there is flourishing and we don't have to put up with muskrat bullshit.✌️

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

Pink Hydra Press' first novella release: "The Artistry of Magic" by Helen De Cruz! 🥳

https://t.co/2PGPoelvFM

Genres: #MagicalRealism, #Romantasy, #CozyFantasy

A love story between an unhoused street magician and a scholar of ancient books.

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

@DannyeChase Thanks for the endorsement! 🥰

[Duotrope @Duotrope]

Pink Hydra Press (Fiction: $? adv+?% roy, G/F/R/O) opened to fiction submissions. https://t.co/iji4hgLjSO #amwriting

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

So for anyone who needs distraction... or just something new to read, I'm **giving away** my books on Ko-fi for the next 24 hours!
No need for a Kofi or Paypal account, just follow the link, download, and enjoy 💖
Happy V November! 🔥🧨
https://t.co/XB63zK6GLp

[Briefly Zine (OPEN FOR SUBS) @Briefly_Zine]

We want your:

- photos 📸
- poems (up to 16 lines)
- stories (up to 300 words)

Theme is BETWEEN. Interpret freely. (Reminder: we accept translated poems & fiction 👀)

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

@MISTERBULLBULL Going to plug our indie-as-shit little magazine! Here's a story I think you might enjoy: https://t.co/5qUSZMl2yZ

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

To the person who posted my book on ZLibrary: I'm really, really flattered, but it would be GRRREat if you, y'know, donated a little something extra to my Paypal, maybe?? So that I can cover my cat's vet bills & pay my rent?

https://t.co/cOumI1PHPi

[Writer Dannye Chase is writing gay vampires @DannyeChase]

Amazed to say my horror story "The Impossible House" took first prize in the latest On the Premises contest!
A woman seeks help from a necromancer after her sister vanishes into a haunted house.
Read all the winners for free:
https://t.co/8I8PNzIgpX
#hauntedhouse #horrorstory

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

It's release day for my #epicfantasy novel, Forest of the Morning!

Get it anywhere books are sold in ebook and paperback.

https://t.co/2YSxiF8N8P

[The Pink Hydra @ThePinkHydra]

My books are on Waterstones! 🤩https://t.co/CQKl7CC2an

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

"beauty i see in persistent wanderlust,
in counter-steps taken to the sleeping kings,
in palms filled with murmurs and tears,
in the fingertips of gentle wind"

—Abdulmalik Mahmud, "I See Beauty in Death and Sorrow"

https://t.co/80DrtFBXby