Clarkesworld

While I'm here, a small reminder that I have a new novella at Clarkesworld this month, one I'm very proud of. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

We're less than a month away from publication of The Best Science Fiction of the Year: 2025 in hardcover, trade paperback, and ebook editions. You can order them from: neil-clarke.com/where-you-ca... Print copies ordered direct from Wyrm will be signed by me.

Our subscription drive is closing in on its goal. So far, as part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, we've managed to give everyone but our authors a raise. We're only 20 subscriptions away upping author pay from 14 to 15 cents/word. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Heading home after a lovely day visiting @sheilawilliams.bsky.social. Good to see her in the new place the gofundme has helped pay for. So much better for her. www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...

this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word

Congratulations @somtoihezue.bsky.social and all the other Ignyte Award winners! You can read his (multiple) award-winning story here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/

I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

Clarkesworld gave me my first professional publication, and I couldn't be more thrilled to be in their 20yr anniversary issue. Happy birthday, @clarkesworldmagazine.com! And with one of my favourite stories, too: "Roams the Planet of Our Grief," where a trans boy talks to the dead. As one does.

More great news this week. I'm honoured to be part of @clarkesworldmagazine.com's 20th anniversary issue, with what is likely the last Morag and Seamus story. Find out how a Welsh holiday tradition comes in handy when there's ghosts in the abandoned mine... clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_10_26/

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Thrilled to be part of the 20th anniversary issue and in such good company. Check out Shi Heiyao's 'How Does One Person Kill A Mountain?'...

Very very (very) proud to have a story in Clarkesworld’s 20th anniversary issue! ‘Five Bottles’ is a story about families and death but mostly it’s about the world’s worst wine tasting and i apologise for that in advance

The October issue of Clarkesworld (our 20th anniversary issue) is now online and features stories by Alex T. Singer, Fiona Moore, Shi Heiyao, Elizabeth Bear, Louis Inglis Hall, Natalia Theodoridou, and Tia Tashiro clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_241 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Have we crowed loud enough that our 2027 guests of honor are Fonda Lee and Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld Magazine? How awesome is that? Come and join us in July 2027 as we celebrate their contributions to the literature of speculative fiction!

Incredibly honored that "We, the Fleet" (Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/singer_05_25/) is the 2026 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner. It's amazing to be chosen, especially among such an fantastic set of fellow nominees. Thrilled to be attending the symposium in October!

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Files are at the printer. Official release date is November 17th, but if you order it direct from us, it will be signed and could be sooner. shop.wyrmpublishing.com/b/bsfoty2025

We are 98 new subscribers away from our goal! clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Link to the story: clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/

We Begin Where Infinity Ends, is a Nommo Award Short Story Finalist✨🪲💕 Infinitely grateful to everyone who nominated it, the ASFS community, every reader, reviewer, and friend who read, loved, and shared this story💫 And just honored to share this ballot with these incredible authors!!!

I have a new story out in the September issue of Clarkesworld, a little, tender piece on eye contact and human connection... or the lack thereof. It's called "Skin and Glass"' and you can read it here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/sand_09_26/

Ok. Have arrived at Dragoncon and have settled in at the Hyatt.

I'm still recovering from Worldcon. Slept most of yesterday. Dealt with some backlogged emails and other work today. Have stuff I want to say about Hugos and Worldcon, but it will have to wait. Heading to my first Dragoncon in the morning. I need to start scheduling longer breaks between conventions

The September issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Beth Goder, Zhu Yixuan, A.D. Sui, Rachel Sobel, Rich Larson, Madeleine Vigneron, and R. P. Sand. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_240 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe

To be clear: no author has won a Hugo Award in the Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story or Series categories at a younger age than @hhpak.bsky.social just did. Astonishing.

I'm finally on my way home after a wonderful #LACon #worldcon weekend. More to say about it later when I've recovered. So tired.

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Short Story goes to “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld, Issue 223).

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novelette goes to “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld, Issue 220).

Saturday at the #lacon #worldcon Clarkesworld table we have H.H. Pak signing free copies of issue 220, containing their Hugo finalist novelette "Never Eaten Vegetables," at 10AM

Saturday at the #lacon #worldcon Clarkesworld table we have H.H. Pak signing free copies of issue 220, containing their Hugo finalist novelette "Never Eaten Vegetables," at 10AM

This is super exciting! Thank you so very much for having me onboard, it’s an honor to be featured amongst such prestigious works!

Only 30 minutes left #lacon #worldcon

Come to the Clarkesworld table at Worldcon today at 5pm and get a free copy of issue 226 signed by Tia Tashiro. Includes her Hugo finalist story "Missing Helen"

Delighted to be in this, and the TOC looks fantastic! Preorders open now :D

Thrilled to announce that Threat Assessment, the novella Mercurio D. Rivera and I co-wrote (originally appearing in F&SF) will be appearing in The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2025, edited by Neil Clarke. @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com