I'm writing an issue of my newsletter pottern.substack.com (still lives there, atm) on marketing short stories and I'd love to hear from short story publications & short fiction writers:
What, if any, marketing do you do for your stories? How do readers find them? What do you find moves the needle?
Yay, @natmesnard.bsky.social 👏🏻!
Thanks, @igdn-official.bsky.social 🤘! This is so cool.
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Wow! You all really showed up. We are now well beyond our max for fiction subs, so we will close to stories 4/30. (Games, poetry, and ephemera are still open until 5/15.)
Dawwww I love this. ❤️✨
Excited for Stokercon (and to read with @elsieraymond.bsky.social ❤️)!
Trae Hawkins
Allison Pottern
We're officially at the 30-day mark of our Kickstarter campaign! Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far ✨ We must reach our goal of $5,000 or Kickstarter returns every dollar. Let's give queer writers of color the home they deserve. Back us today 💜
#SFF #Queer #bipoc #qtpoc #anathema
Author. Photographer. Game designer. Co-Founder of Scryptid Games. Viable Paradise ‘23. SFWA. HWA. Rep’d by Sara Megibow.
Brigitte Winter
Brigitte Winter
Brigitte Winter
Brigitte Winter
Brigitte Winter
Brigitte Winter
Whoa! We've already hit our cap of 100 fiction subs for Tales from the Cryptids, but @brigittewinter.bsky.social is so delighted by what she’s read that we're keeping the portal open until we hit 200 or reach our May 15th deadline. Keep 'em coming, and get us your #ttrpg and #poetry submissions too!
Anathema Magazine
I loved doing this panel.
Congrats, @apottern.bsky.social ✨🥰! I love this story so much!
Watch some furry friends get into and out of trouble in this one shot actual play of The Goodest Girls from @scryptidgames.bsky.social
Starring
@dani-bryn.bsky.social as Mabel
@afluffygoomba.bsky.social as Bernice
@mozzarelle.bsky.social as Dahlia
@itstennyy.bsky.social as Elvira
@ablacksparrow.com
The Goodest Girls and @brigittewinter.bsky.social are nominated for an Indie Groundbreaker Award! Celebrate with 20% off this sitcom-inspired TTRPG about senior shelter animals living their best lives. (Discount Code: Sophia)
scryptidgames.com/discount/Sop...
These are the things that I write about 🙃
Scryptid Games
Brigitte Winter
Brigitte Winter
Scryptid Games
Tabletop Bookshelf
Nat Mesnard
Two poems about the pleasurable pain of a New Jersey sex dungeon and a very expensive travel souvenir, by Nat Mesnard.
We had a great time at @norwescon.org this past weekend! From panels to tabling, connecting with other sci-fi and fantasy writers and fans was inspiring, as always. Thanks for another great year, Norwescon!
Brigitte Winter
OMG @mariahaskins.com reviewed my novelette for @locusmag.bsky.social and had such very lovely things to say. Am I dreaming??
"Mother, Darling" @strangehorizons.bsky.social: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
Clarion West
Allison Pottern
New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity
New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity
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Duotrope
“Into the Briarpatch” by Ella N’Diaye from FIYAH Literary Magazine, “Mother, Darling” by Allison Pottern from Strange Horizons, and more short fic recs from Maria Haskins
Fiyah Winter '26 Strange Horizons 2/2/26 Escape Pod 1/29/26 The winter issue of Fiyah delivers a strong and varied selection of stories, beginning with The Things We Bury In Each Other by Timothy Ngome. It's a hauntingly beautiful story about Mariah, who lingers in the world of the living after her death, and who calls her partner, the story's narrator, from the afterlife to ask him to care …Read More
