mastodon 4.7.3Inner Worlds was a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. We published ten issues between 2023 and 2026, all of which are available to read for free on our website.
Header image is blue clouds against a starry sky, avatar is the IW logo, a star and a ringed planet.
🌦️ It's here! Our tenth and final issue 🌦️
Twelve super speculative stories about our inner worlds. Please read and share widely!
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-ten-editors-note/
#SFF #Horror #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity
Inner Worlds issue 9 will be out at the end of November, featuring this stunning cover artwork by Dhiyanah Hassan ✨️🌿💜
👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾
Includes numerous CREATURES.
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-editors-note/
#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag #speculativefiction #ShortStories
Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme is 'endings'.
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-guidelines/
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I have some sad news to share, folks 😔
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-10-will-be-our-last-issue/
Submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! 🎉
(general submission window 15-31 October)
Seeking speculative stories about our inner lives:
💙 500 - 2,500 words
💚 £0.02 per word, min £20
💛 Sim subs welcome!
🧡 Reprints welcome!
And other things, harder to describe:
Ok, responses for all 450 submissions for issue 9 have gone out now 📨
Yet more incredibly tough choices on the final selection! 😫
Thank you to everyone who sent something in, it really is a huge honour to read your words, and I'm sorry if we didn't take your story this time ❤️
"If a family was like an animal to be drawn and quartered, which side gets the heart? Does the blood ever ache for what could have been? The paths it used to know."
Read 'Lungs' by Busayo Akinmoju in our latest issue: https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-busayo-akinmoju/
Perhaps unsurprisingly I think a lot about speculative fiction and mental health (my day job is at a mental health charity) and I thought I'd have a go at putting some of my thoughts down in writing in the form of a conference paper about Inner Worlds.
I'm not quite sure what I want to say yet, but I do know I would *love* to hear from our readers and authors that we have published about this subject.
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