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North Carolina Speculative Fiction Award Names 10 Finalists for 2026

The Manly Made Wellman Award, which recognizes science fiction and fantasy novels by Tarheel State authors, will be awarded July 17 at ConGregate 12 in Greensboro.

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Queer Horror Knows the Monster Rarely Stays Dead

Ahead of a June 18 event at Arcana, Jes Malitoris and Michael G. Williams explore how queer fiction turns fear, strangeness, and refusal into freedom.

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Help Choose the Next Jump in OtherSpace

Readers can help pick what happens next in a serial LitRPG set in an interactive universe I started noodling around with back in 1998.

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[Dispatches Received in Error Issue 1] Welcome Packet for Unauthorized Recipients

A weekly serial fiction project for paid subscribers, unfolding through a growing archive of documents from an alternate-universe Southpoint.

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Durham Library Hosts Sinister Story Showdown

Do you find reporting like this valuable? Support Southpoint Access as a subscriber or advertising sponsor and make it possible to keep this information flowing to readers in our community! Got an idea for a spine-chilling short story that’ll haunt readers after they’ve turned the terminal page?

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 16: The First Step

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, It’s the morning after the ritual, and something has changed. The air feels lighter, and for the first time in what feels

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 15: A Time for Hopes and Fears

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Plans are in motion. Our group, now almost twenty strong, is preparing to do something drastic: a ritual, using the black tree as a conduit

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 14: Light at the Edges

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, The community around the black tree is growing. More people are coming, drawn by the hum and the promise of understanding this new

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 12: The Tree Sees

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, Last night, Brad and Eliza’s dog, Juno, started barking at the black tree in the garden. Their barks were urgent, scared. We

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 11: Perpetual Half-Light

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, Eliza and I decided to venture further into the twilight today. The dusky glow seems to touch everything now, wrapping the world in

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 9: Eliza

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, I met someone today. Not Ludwig, not a shadow child, but a person. She was walking down the middle of the road, her

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[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 7: Eyes of the Sun

I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, I followed them, those shadow children. Brad was hesitant, but loyalty won over fear. We walked deeper into the woods, past the glowing

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