T.R. Steele 🍂

I made a bookmark with sleeping babies✨️🫶 #art

Passing Moons 🌒🌓🌔🌕

You know how copse is very closer to corpse? 👀 🌲 💀 🍃 The Tree by @authortrsteele.bsky.social is FREE-TO-READ!

Thank you for reading and for this wonderful review! ✨

writing tip: when in doubt, read

Woodland edge 🦋

Summer is SO GOOD (Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Wild Bergamot) #invertebrates 🌿 🌱 #BugSky #NativePlants #BloomScrolling

So happy that my story about love, care, loss, and possessed trees (I know, you'll have to read to find out...) found a home in this issue of @heartlines-spec.com! ❤️🌳✨

It's RELEASE DAY! Lower those shoulders, take a deep breath, and read some fantastic short fiction and poetry! www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-11/

One month to apply! ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. More: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...

Hi #WeeknightWriters! I'm T.R. Steele (he/him), my current WIP is a dark fantasy/folkloric novel about a wayward trans man who ventures into an underworld to find his former lover, a woman who is the (rather complicated) hero of the land. Currently aiming to edit/rework a chapter a week!

What if I was you? What if you were me?

"Our kind survives by the grace of little monsters. When we lay waste to systems we did not build and do not fully understand, we doom not only nature, but ourselves." Amazing essay! Recommended reading for those writing monsters in their fiction (and recommended reading in general, haha).

it's here! it's here!! body horror, carnivorous plants, mother issues! please check it out!

yesss I got to beta-read this novella and it's so. damn. good!!

🪨🔥 BARROWBOUND 🔥🪨 a dark fantasy novel Lorcan returns to his hometown after 5 years to find that the otherworldly barrow in the woods has claimed his childhood best friend, former lover, and hero of the land. With nothing left to lose, he enters the underworld to look for her. #DF #F #QueerPit #A

⚔️✨THE UNICORN'S BANE ✨⚔️ a cli-fi fantasy novella SPEAR x TLoZ: TWILIGHT PRINCESS A troubled young transgender knight looking to prove himself is sent to a small town to hunt and kill a unicorn laying waste to the ecologically important dragon population. #F #CLI #N #QueerPit

🐎 🩸CAN'T MAKE THEM DRINK 🩸🐎 a gothic historical fantasy and horror novella WHAT MOVES THE DEAD x THE SCORPIO RACES An unnamed narrator, desperate for work, is blackmailed into caring for monstrous horses by the wealthy lady of a decaying estate. #H #HF #N #A #QueerPit

Hear ye, hear ye! It's time to OFFICIALLY announce our Table of Contents for Issue 11. Releasing on July 31 (iykyk), it's a summer special with stories and poetry from new and old friends!

somewhere in new hampshire probably

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...

No snare may hold me Foiled prints o' this avaliable later this month! www.coyoteprince.com #art #unicorn #fantasy

𝔖𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔞𝔫 𝔄𝔭𝔭𝔩𝔢 𝔗𝔯𝔢𝔢 🍎🌸

Had a harrowing day transporting a Swainson's thrush (most likely been injured in a window collision) from a busy city park to a wildlife rehab centre. I wish them a speedy recovery, and a reminder to all to keep an eye out for injured birds during this busy migratory season!

So happy this story is now available for you to read and listen to, with narration from the amazing @jordankurella.com! Thank you so much Jordan, and thank you so much @podcastle.org for publishing this piece.

The chimney swifts have returned to my neighbourhood for the season! I'm so happy to see them again. ✨

Hello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚

fairies✨

GET READY TO SUBMIT ‼️ Augur Magazine is opening for a priority call! We're accepting submissions from anyone living within Canada who is also... - BIPOC - 2SLGBTQIA - Disabled on MAY 5TH!!! Open call for international + Canadian subs will take place this summer! Check out our subs guidelines👇

Salamander breeding season is here in my neck of the woods; sharing my short horror story, "Salamander Season," in a celebration of sorts...? Happy listening!

obsessed with unicorns lately absolute weirdos🐎 #art

💫 Gouache and pencil on aqua board!

Thinking about how the barn swallows will be returning soon as spring draws closer... and the protagonist of this story of mine is a barn swallow!

✷ Unicorn ✷

Today is Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ This is your reminder to support trans people (and their art) year-round. I'm one of those trans art-makers - I'm a trans man and author of fantasy and horror fiction. You can find links to read (and listen!) to my published stories here: linktr.ee/trsteeleauthor

🌸🔥 WYRM OF HEARTHS 🔥🌸 this piece sponsored by my patrons <3 i'll be sending a 6x8" print to everyone signed up to a print tier this month! patreon.com/ratwednesday #art #dragonart #dragon

Solarpunk Magazine submission portals will be open from April 1-14. Send us your hopeful climate fiction, poetry, essays, and art for consideration! Guidelines and sub link can be found at solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions

My short horror story "Home" is out now in the special Trans Eco Horror issue of smoke and mold! Read it here: smokeandmold.net/issue-13-spr... Wonderful story cover art by Gay Famous (Adam Ponto).

I’ve been so excited to share this one! My flash story about two envoys each searching for a new home is out now in vol 3.1 of @thesprawl.bsky.social You can read the whole issue here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-3-1

Now announcing our contributors for the Sprawl Mag 3.1. We are so excited to share this volume with you! Featuring: Pablo Andrés Palo Viviana De Cecco @francesboyle19.bsky.social @themaust.bsky.social @sidellwrites.bsky.social Ivan Ndoma-Egba @lucienrstarchild.bsky.social

SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN ⌛ 1st to 7th March Why submit to ACoO? 💰 Always free to submit 💰 Always free to read 💰 Always paid 📝 Feedback available on declined subs ✨ Quality publication going strong since 2021 #writersofbsky #submissionsopen #booksky acoupofowls.com/submissions/

Contract is signed! I'm so excited to say I have a story set to publish in @podcastle.org this year! Can't wait to share it with everyone when it's released. It's a grim (but ultimately hopeful) story about searching, doors, fey beings in owl-shapes, and much more... 🦉✨

If you're looking for a calfing good time, check out "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social We love it, and we hope you will, too! plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-...

Issue 4 is now available on our website! Scroll to the bottom of the pages for Issue 4: plotthoundmag.com/issues/ And, Issues 1 and 2 are free to read online at the same link!