Every month we publish a free newsletter of interesting publications, community events, and places to submit your LDS speculative work. In this month's newsblotter, we have an interview with our editor-in-chief at Dr. Blythe's Lost Library and Gethsemane symbolism in Harry Potter
We love the vibes of this week's poem from JS Absher. He really captures how trapped we can be in our experiences and our reactions to them. #poetry#latterdaysaints
Just an ordinary day for two sister missionaries, tracting through Dante's Inferno. But for one demon, it might mean a chance at redemption. Find out what happens in DA Cooper's "The Fallen." #LDS#poetry#Dante#religiouspoetry#religiousspeculative
Utah Mormons are known for their consumption of Jell-o, but what happens when the Jell-o fights back? Get ready to laugh while you read Jaleta Clegg's send-up of Relief Society activities with a monstrous twist! #latterdaysaint#fiction#monsteroftheweek#scifihumor
The tenth of the LTUE Benefit Anthologies, Iron Horses in the Sky, is open for submissions of science fiction and fantasy stories and poetry featuring trains. Think space trains. Magical trains. Cargo trains. They have to obviously be trains and not just single vehicles or single streetcars (longer trains are better!). Make your stories fun to read, make the characters interesting, and make us grin. The tales must have heart, must be solid stories, and must be positive in their outlook.
This is a benefit/charity anthology, so stories are donated and authors receive no monetary compensation.
Authors receive one copy of the anthology in each format in which it is released (print and epub at a minimum).
Stories and poems must feature science fiction or fantasy trains.
Stories and poems do not have to be set on Earth or even in this universe.
Story and poem characters and settings must be your own. Do not use other creators’ characters or settings or generative AI/LLM.
Stories and poems can be any length up to 17,500 words.
Stories and poems can be unpublished or reprint stories.
Up to two submissions per author.
No simultaneous submissions.
Stories and poems are due by Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:59pm Mountain Time.
Acceptances or rejections will be sent by Monday, August 31, 2026, and acceptances will be accompanied by a publication contract with all the details. The anthology will be released during the LTUE symposium in February 2028 (note the year!) in electronic and printed form, and possibly audio format.
For all the details, see the full call for submissions here: https://t.co/KG7vg9yQzW
We are excited to announce the authors selected to appear in Tales from the Silver City Saloon, the ninth volume in the LTUE Benefit Anthologies series.
The cover art will be announced later. Placeholder art by Tithi Luadthong. Details:
https://t.co/LARcj1Od8M
All of the acceptance and rejection letters have gone out for Tales from the Silver City Saloon. If you submitted two works, you should receive a letter for each one.
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Hemelein Publications is proud to announce the acquisition of Long Night: A Speculative History of World War II (working title), an alternate history novel by Sidewise Award-winning author Eric G. Swedin. #alternatehistory#alternateww2
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The call for submissions for Tales from the Silver City Saloon is out! Humorous weird western science fiction. Details here:
https://t.co/ImjRv9aqHv
#hemeleinpubs#ltuebenefitanthologies
Hemelein is proud to present the stories that will be in For Glory and Honor, a military science fiction and space opera anthology and the seventh of the LTUE Benefit Anthologies! Mark February 2026 on your calendar.
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I won't demonstrate the SQUEEEE!!! moment when Lee sent @raconteur_press the first of many stories of his we've published (I LITERALLY jumped out of my chair!). We're so delighted to have him on our team. Check out his new collection!
Want to read a lot of my short stories without buying a lot of books? DOWN THE ARCHES OF THE YEARS from @hemelein is a story collection chock full of nothing but @lee_allred stories! 12 tales including two novellas!
#LeeSpree