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The Ingredients Instead

Image of a dragon's head with text overlaid: A collaboration between Authortunities Press & Ghastly Goings-On Press. Coven of the East. Benebell Wen, Mudang Jenn, Chaweon Koo, Fraces Lu-Pai, Ippolito, Kristy Park Kulski, Lee Murray, Ai Jiang, Wen Wen Yang, ShiYu Ren, Sam Burton, Niharika Ikkurthy, Joyce Keokham, Sobhia Kamal Jamro, Christine H. Chen, Ayida Shonibar, M.S. Marquart, Gitanjali Lena, R.F. Whong, Sara S. Surani, Arushi Karthik, Theresa Drew Falk, Sonya Rhen. Edited by Paula Chow & Angela Yuriko Smith.

Food as connection through time, place, and inter-generational illness.

Anthology: Coven of the East

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Genre: grounded fantasy

Publisher: Authortunities Press & Ghastly Goings-On Press

Publication date: September 2025

An Unholy Terroir

Cover of Silk and Sinew anthology, edited by Kristy Park Kulski. Tag Iine: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora. lllustration of a woman intertwined with spiralling branches. Background contains details of the title in different languages.

Anthology cover by Eileen Kai Hing Kwan and Todd Keisling

The making of monsters through the eye of the beholder—and the embracing of monstrosity to survive the beholder.

Anthology: Silk & Sinew — A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora

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Genre: horror

Publisher: Bad Hand Books

Publication date: 6 May 2025

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An Inordinate Amount of Interest

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Issue cover art by Mx. Morgan G Robles

A Faustian interpretation of student loans.

Publication: The Skull & Laurel — Magazine of New Weird Fiction (Issue 3)

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Genre: horror

Word count: ~ 3,500

Content warnings: exploitation, violence, reference to misgendering

Publisher: Tenebrous Press

Publication date: 15 April 2025

All Relative

The cover art is a bright blue table with several pairs of hands on top. They are conducting a seance with a ghostly presence at the table and reflected in the mirror.

Cover art by Alice M.

A mycological allegory about fungal communities.

Publication: Heartlines Spec (Issue 7)

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Genre: poetry

Line count: 35

Publication date: 31 March 2025

Speculative Anthologies That Get Creative with Gender

Repeating array of five miniature book covers.

Thoughts on five fantastic speculative fiction anthologies that explore queer concepts of gender.

Publication: Reactor Magazine

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Genre: article

Word count: ~ 1,100

Publication date: 19 March 2025

Project Renewable, Sourced Organically

Abstract image of an orange arced form against a teal background

Photo by Oliver Hae (Unsplash)

A sales script for a new technology that harvests electrical energy from an organic source.

Publication: Book XI — A Journal of Literary Philosophy (Issue XVII)

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Genre: horror / science fiction

Word count: ~ 1,500

Content warnings: ableism, industrialised exploitation, references to a climate crisis

Publication date: 14 March 2025

Levels of the Food Chain

Issue cover with grinning skull of a unicorn with a red iris inside the eye socket against a black background. Red title text vertically stylised along the bone of the horn: If There's Anyone Left.

Volume cover art by Sierra Barnes / sierra bravo art

Expressions of love and solidarity through food in a climate dystopia.

Publication: If There’s Anyone Left (Volume 4)

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Genre: horror / science fiction

Word count: ~ 800

Content warnings: food scarcity, body horror, cannibalism

Publication date: 23 January 2024

Pleasure in the Margins

Zine cover with black background and white textured pattern. "Cursed Morsels" written in stylised white text. "Zine Bundle (Issues #1-5)" in smaller white text below.

Zine cover by Eric Raglin

Reflections on the intersections of queerness, neurodivergence, and erotic horror.

Publication: Cursed Morsels Zine (Issue 2)

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Genre: essay

Word count: ~ 500

Content warnings: references to intrusive thoughts and dysphoria, descriptions of misogyny and homophobia in media

Publication date: 27 December 2023

Sweet Child

Issue cover of Worlds of Possibility, edited by Julia Rios, with illustration of a cottage surrounded by flowers.

Issue cover designed by Julia Rios with stock art

A Bengali shop of sweets with a little magic.

Publication: Worlds of Possibility

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Genre: poetry

Line count: 45

Content warnings: reference to death

Publication date: 25 December 2023

In Search of the Subtitles: an Anticolonial Recipe

Photo of a bowl filled with cooked, diced, golden potatoes seasoned with green chillies and mustard and poppy seeds

Photo by Debashis Kumar

On repressed histories passed down through food.

Publication: Stone Soup — Personal Canons Cookbook

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Genre: essay

Word count: ~ 1,000

Content warnings: racism, colonialism

Publication date: 18 October 2023

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An Inordinate Amount of Interest

Book cover of Wilted Pages anthology edited by Ai Jiang and Christi Nogle. Tag line: An Anthology of Dark Academia. Illustration of a dark-haired student holding an electronic tablet with a mechanical hand, framed by dark flowers and with a background of baroque patterning and a dark building with tall windows.

Anthology cover by George Cotronis and Alan Lastufka

A Faustian interpretation of student loans.

Anthology: Wilted Pages — An Anthology of Dark Academia

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Genre: horror

Word count: ~ 3,500

Content warnings: exploitation, violence, reference to misgendering

Publisher: Shortwave Publishing

Publication date: 19 September 2023

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Save Me from Myself

Book cover of Night of the Living Queers anthology edited by Shelly Page and Alex Brown. Five illustrated teens gathered on ornate steps in front of an ominous-looking arched metal gate. Through the gate, light spills from a full moon in a night sky onto an eerie building set on a grassy hill, framed by dark tree branches.

Anthology cover by Colin Verdi and Olga Grlic

A teenager’s intrusive thoughts manifest into reality during a confluence of Kali Pujo, Halloween, and queer angst.

Anthology: Night of the Living Queers — 13 Tales of Terror & Delight

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Genre: young adult horror

Word count: ~ 6,500

Content warnings: suicidal ideation, death

Publisher: Wednesday Books

Publication date: 29 August 2023

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I Am My Art

Book cover of Luminescent Machinations anthology edited by Rhiannon Rasmussen and dave ring. Tag line: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention. Illustration of a giant purple mecha with green eyes and exuding green energy holding a person in their taloned hand.

Anthology cover by Sloane Leong

On crafting the statues of colonisers and toppling them.

Anthology: Luminescent Machinations — Queer Tales of Monumental Invention

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Genre: fantasy

Word count: ~ 1,000

Content warnings: colonialism, violence

Publisher: Neon Hemlock

Publication date: 25 July 2023

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Light Years

Digital illustration of glass lenses and discs arranged around each other in orbiting formation.

Story art by Jacey

Long distance and heartbreak in space.

Publication: Nature Futures

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Genre: science fiction

Word count: ~ 1,000

Content warnings: reference to death

Publication date: 5 July 2023

In a Name

Book cover of Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic anthology edited by g. haron davis. Tag line: magic is for everyone. Three illustrated teens with a book, small dragon, and mirror surrounded by trees on a pink background.

Anthology cover by Amy Matsushita-Beal and Jenna Stempel-Lobell

A magic school story that interrogates the binary categorisation of gender and biology through a permutational analogy of the seven chakras.

Anthology: Transmogrify! — 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

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Genre: young adult fantasy

Word count: ~ 6,000

Content warnings: transphobia, violence

Publisher: Harper Teen

Publication date: 16 May 2023

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Old Prints and Fresh Snow

Illustrated artwork with a dreamy, fantastical style. Dark purple gently cup a bright purple butterfly in the centre. Orange flowers with green and purple stems to either side. Multicoloured stars, moon, sun, and clouds in the pink and yellow sky above. Blue and purple river flowing through yellow earth and brown hill below.

Issue cover art by Fatimah Nadeem

Unspoken conversations between seemingly estranged siblings.

Publication: Tasavvur (Issue 4)

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Genre: grounded fantasy

Word count: ~ 1,000

Content warnings: reference to suicide

Publication date: 12 November 2022

Stories Our Parents Told Us

Book cover of Gothic Fantasy: Asian Ghost Short Stories anthology with blue foil on a black background and a small white mask underneath the title.

A sapphic reimagining of a Bengali folktale about a spirit who possesses her victims to relive the passion of her married days.

Anthology: Gothic Fantasy — Asian Ghost Short Stories

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Genre: horror / fantasy

Word count: ~ 4,000

Content warnings: death, violence

Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing

Publication date: 28 June 2022

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