cspeterson

Speculative adventurer. Can write. Can juggle. Can question. Clarion West '19

[cspeterson @cspeterson]

Sure, I have a hand free. What do you need?

[Avra Margariti @avramargariti]

LISTEN (rant)

So many of my favorite pieces I've written got 50+ rejections before finding a good home. And those stories tend to be the misfits. Too experimental, too weird, too difficult in subject matter or execution. And you know what? I see writers get disappointed after-

[Susmita Bhattacharya @Susmitatweets]

📣 Announcement!!! 📣
Anita Goveas @coffeeandpaneer Farhana Kalique @HanaKhalique & I are so proud to present this Flash Fiction anthology showcasing South Asian talent from around the world. Published by @DahliaBooks & funded by @RSLiterature Literature Matters Award bursary.

[Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas @kitsune_ng]

Are you a slush reader? Are you a magazine that relies on slush readers? Are you an enjoyer of sad songs?*

I have some questions for you in my latest essay over at the @sfwa website: https://t.co/mBkBr5Ep5r

*it may not be an actual ballad, sorry

[Eugenia Triantafyllou @FoxesandRoses]

Friends! My second novelette for the year is out! "Joanna's Bodies" is free to read @psychopompcom! Eleni can't stop bringing Joanna back from the dead. This is a story about toxic friendships, forgiving yourself, and my love for Jennifer's Body 🖤

https://t.co/OruySZaAYb

[Kristina Ten | @kristinaten on Bluesky @kristina_ten]

It’s here! My Snegurochka retelling set entirely in and around a Myrtle Beach Señor Frog’s! About letdowns and get-back-ups and two-for-one drink specials. About making something out of nothing.

This was a @PorterHouseLit Editor’s Prize finalist—many thanks to the team there.

[Eugenia Triantafyllou @FoxesandRoses]

My first story of the year is out today! "The Roach Mom" in @MorningTransprt available to read for subscribers!
Monstrous daughters and the lies we are told as children that might have a lasting impact on us. For better or for worse. 🙏🏻

https://t.co/U2tENQ9X3Z

[Derrick Boden | @derrickboden on Bluesky @derrickboden]

Free story day 😈 "Down the Dust Hatch" is alive at @apexmag today - it's a story about running out of air (and friends, and morals, and everything else) on an asteroid. Would love to hear what y'all think!

https://t.co/IZstqaPNZJ

[Kristina Ten | @kristinaten on Bluesky @kristina_ten]

I’ve got a story called “Kamchatka” in the new issue of @on_squ, about a woman who runs away from her problems—all the way to the second-most densely concentrated geyser field on Earth. Which is basically its own (big, scalding, ready-to-erupt-at-any-second) problem, right?

[Derrick Boden | @derrickboden on Bluesky @derrickboden]

Wow, just look at this beautiful thing 👀👀👀

Very excited be a part of @apexmag #144 next to all these fabulous writers! My story "Down the Dust Hatch" is in there, about running out of air (and morals) on an asteroid. Hope you enjoy it!

[cspeterson @cspeterson]

@michaeldthomas I am so so sorry for the loss of Caitlin
My heart is broken
Sincere condolences 💔💔💔💔

[cspeterson @cspeterson]

!!!!!

[Clarion West Writers Workshop @ClarionWest]

We're very excited to announce our Six-Week Workshop Class of 2024! Can't wait to meet them all this summer!

[Eugenia Triantafyllou @FoxesandRoses]

Today is the final day to vote for both the Nebula and the Locus awards.

"Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge" is Nebula nominated and on the Locus Reading List. If you read and enjoyed it I would be honored if you voted for it. Thank you so much! 🙏

[psychopomp.bsky.social @psychopompcom]

do you like reading stories about

DEATH?

well we're publishing Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Stories, 2023 -- curated by @_vajra this summer.

you KNOW it's gonna be good, because,

JUST LOOK AT THIS TOC.

stacked.

check it out and pls share!

[Derrick Boden | @derrickboden on Bluesky @derrickboden]

Hell yeah. Stoked to be sharing a ToC with all these great writers.

[Emery Robin @emwrobin]

spent my lunch break today coming up with ways that the Kate Middleton story would turn out if it were being investigated by various fictional detectives

[Derrick Boden | @derrickboden on Bluesky @derrickboden]

It's alive! Thoroughly enjoyed J.S. Arquin's narration of my story "When the Giants Came Through the Valley" at @PodCastle_org. Would love to hear what you think!

[cspeterson @cspeterson]

@michaeldthomas So many hugs to all of you 🫂

[Eugenia Triantafyllou @FoxesandRoses]

Really happy to see "Always Be Returning" first published in @MorningTransprt among this fantastic list by @NOAFzine alongside amazing authors inducing dear friends @filiphdz and @kristina_ten ❤️❤️❤️

https://t.co/g1zTSChyeq

[Kristina Ten | @kristinaten on Bluesky @kristina_ten]

It’s here! My Stephen Dixon Award–winning story, “ADJECTIVE,” is now available to read in @mcsweeneys online. It explores the struggle for self-determination amid workplace microaggression (not fun) in mad-libs form (very fun!).

💓 https://t.co/2BsSraB5h3