Astrolabe

The Clepsydra is live! As the year runs out, we hope you'll thieve away some time to spend with this wonderful group of prose, poetry, and artwork. astrolabe.ooo featuring... @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @binhdaur.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social Nnadi Samuel Lisa Dailey Didem Arslanoglu

ahh to have a speculative poem 'materialize' in Astrolabe! www.astrolabe.ooo/acadia-never... alongside words from @sara-rauch.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com @goldiepeacock.bsky.social @odiwelter.bsky.social

What joy to see my poem "Dirt Dad" in @astrolabe.ooo alongside works by @acadialogue.bsky.social @sara-rauch.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @gabedurham.bossfightbooks.com and @odiwelter.bsky.social!

NEW SHIT FROM SASHA BROWN! I had to look "caravel" up it's been a while since I've played Civilization anyway I hope you like sharks fighting babies www.astrolabe.ooo/brown-snow-g...

A story of mine just came out in the new issue of @astrolabe.ooo! This is from a manuscript called CALMLY REFUSING TO AGE. Other stories appeared in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social & @coverlit.bsky.social. Thank you to Joel, Jae, and Astrid for publishing it. www.astrolabe.ooo/durham-think...

We're looking for another editor (or two) to help with reading and making selections, but *most importantly*, giving our socials some life. We need to shine more light on the work we publish, but the three of us floating around here so far are not suited for it. Email us at editors@astrolabe.ooo!

Day 104! I read The Waiting Room at the End of the Universe by Veronica Tucker published in @astrolabe.ooo. Who knows what comes to those who wait? Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/s...

It's surreal seeing my poem "Light of My Life" (originally published in @astrolabe.ooo) featured on the Toronto subway, truly a dream come true! Thank you to Poems in Passage for bringing poetry to the TTC, and thank you to Astrolabe for believing in my work.

Check out Astrolabe! This is a great concept for a magazine & they've published so many award-winning stories! Scroll around the landing page & check out all the gorgeous work! EIC @joelhans.com & @astrolabe.ooo

I recently gave @astrolabe.ooo a visual overhaul I'm pretty proud of. I wanted to take nothing away from the universe viz but make it more grounded and better match the aesthetics of everything we've published over the last 3(!) years. And hopefully show we're in it for the long haul.

Hey everyone. Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been posted! We congratulate all the winners. Thank you so much to our brilliant Guest Editor for 2026, @dseuss.bsky.social ! www.bestmicrofiction.com? #FlashFiction #Microfiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

i wrote and submitted this in the bathroom of a party. 2025, what a year: moving out, playing tennis for the first time in years, witnessing djokovic still play legendary tennis, watching my parents separate, seeing a viet kid named learner tien winning left and right ... phew for @havehashad.com

Starting the year with a complicated one - featured today on Poetry Pause @canadianpoets.bsky.social : poets.ca/a-bell-is-a-...

A brilliant new eco-cosmic poem from our Ice Floe guest editor and author Vikki. C. in @astrolabe.ooo (a new cool journal). "butterflies loiter in a cold spell, confused between fall and the next life" @vikkicwrites.bsky.social

Astrolabe @astrolabe.ooo (Fiction Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Honoured to have a new poem out with the cosmic and beautiful @astrolabe.ooo! Huge thank you to editors Joel, Jae and Astrid for including my poem 'Elegy for a Grown World' in the Winter 2025 materialisation 'The Clepsydra' alongside so many luminous works 🌌 www.astrolabe.ooo/c-elegy-for-...

a piece i wrote this summer. a final act of forgiveness. one step in a lifetime journey of healing. for @astrolabe.ooo

Taking a moment to treasure our Best Microfiction nominees! Congratulations to: Devan Murphy @shanaross.bsky.social Carter Lappin Veronica Tucker @susanllin.bsky.social

this perfect piece of spec fic in @astrolabe.ooo by @thisisguan.bsky.social in honour of his birthday. One of my favourite pieces this year. And by an Aussie too 🇦🇺🧡🧡🧡 ”It’s hard to see her in the dark but you can still hear her song like a hook in your spine.” www.astrolabe.ooo/un-sorrow-fo...

A gorgeous anthology of Canadian works from last year, and I'm very lucky to have my bittersweet prose poem "Light of My Life" (originally published by @astrolabe.ooo) included alongside this incredible lineup of Canadian writers

We just hit our submission cap, so we’ll keep things open until the end of the day if you have something you’d like to sneak our way. Friendly reminder that we’re friendly and always pay for the work we publish! astrolabe.ooo/submissions

With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning. Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker. astrolabe.ooo

I’m still pinching myself that my small story is in this year’s Best of the Net alongside so many amazing pieces. Many thanks to the good folks at COMP for nominating it. bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...

Great list of stories I need to search out - and litmags! @grist.org @orionmagazine.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com @apexmag.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

One week from today! Free / zoom / mid-day break

New micros up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social!! Thank you for giving these micros a home! 🥰❤️

Each day this week, I’m sharing why I loved one of the pieces we published last week on @astrolabe.ooo as part of the Retrograde.

Honoured to have materialized in the Astrolabe universe today: www.astrolabe.ooo/ross-annual-...

A touch late, but never forgotten, the Retrograde has arrived! With it comes signs of yellowing and desiccation, omens from the sun, but also some things Exceptional and worth gathering around. As always, we encourage you to explore and delight in these works among the Universe: astrolabe.ooo

I’m so excited to be a part of this anthology with so many amazing writers. Many thanks to @astrolabe.ooo for originally publishing my story.

For all sorts of reasons, we're pushing back our summer issue to July 17th, and our next open reading window to the autumnal equinox. We got a quite a few submissions this spring, and we want to make sure we're giving each of them attention before we open for more. Thanks for bearing with us.

"I hear an ice cream truck ringing around the corner. Children are shouting. The seasons bleed into one another." Mr. Bear! And this issue of @astrolabe.ooo is transporting, as always!