There are too many stories to tell. Too little time.

2025 Awards Eligibility! I published just one story this year, The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social but it's a very good story IMO Dark fantasy+ Slavic folklore www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

📚 [EVENT RECAP] Highlights from last week’s event in Montpellier: Sholeh Wolpé reading from “The Invisible Sun” and Jordan Elgrably presenting “The Best of The Markaz Review: 2020–2025.” ✨ Digital edition of “The Best of The Markaz Review” : https://bit.ly/the-best-of-the-markaz-review-2020-2025

Book 2 is under way. Writing slow but sure. #booktwt #WritingCommunity #amquerying

Voted for @innerworlds.bsky.social for @chillsubs.bsky.social best lit mags of 2025 awards ♥️ Sarah runs an impressive operation and alone! (from what I can tell) Vote here: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

Wrapping up my year-end recap: Best fantasy novel: The Wingspan of Treason by @inknest.bsky.social Best short story: Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City by @madeehahwrites.bsky.social Best dark fantasy: The Way of Unity by @skbalstrup.bsky.social

Ranking the best of Star Wars: 1.) Andor 2.) Any SW movie when you’re 8 years old 3.) Knights of the Old Republic 4.) Knights of the Old Republic II 5.) Tattered Star Wars expanded universe paperback you found for $1 6.) Empire Strikes Back 7.) A New Hope 8.) Christmas in the Stars holiday album

Inner Worlds issue 9 will be out at the end of November, featuring this stunning cover artwork by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social ✨️🌿💜

Ignoring the warning signs only lets the disease spread. Syria’s crisis is urgent. Recognizing this truth is the essential first step toward healing.

Comma Press (@commapress.bsky.social) +100 series has some great stuff in translation. EGYPT+100 edited by Ahmed Naji. IRAQ+100 edited by Hassan Blasim. PALESTINE+100 edited by Basma Ghalayini. (to name just a few from them) (2/4)

Very proud that THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY was picked as one of the SFF books to look out for in 2026 by The Bookseller (alongside some other bangers!). While you wait, there are already a few Arabfuturist books available in English that you should check out (1/4)

Wrapping up my #writing year, although it's a bit early: ☑️ Finished my #fantasy heist novel. 💫 Won a #shortstory prize. 📝 Wrote two novellas. 🔪 Survived a massacre. And most importantly, made some new friends.

This is another great tale by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social. And @longlukearnold.bsky.social narration is superb! Can't wait to get my hands on the Scour!

ARC sign-ups for Love Lethal, Death Divine are still open. If you want a dark fantasy love story, star-crossed lovers, Slavic gods and an unbearable amount of yearning, check it out forms.gle/PQcNtU243DaV...

First draft of my #Journalism #fantasy #wip is done: Reporting from the field during an unremitting conflict, a foreign correspondent faces desvastation & senseless violence. Scarred emotionally & physically, she must decide between professional impartiality & crossing the line.

Get a glimpse of what’s coming next! Read "War and War", my Azhar Prize-winning short story & part of the prequel to my #wip CLINGING TO THE STONES. #ShortStory #Fantasy #amqyerying #ClingingToTheStones bit.ly/war-and-war

An Agent’s Guide to CLINGING TO THE STONES! #agentguide #agentsguide #F #amquerying #Heist #WritingCommunity #amwriting

Enter Arabfuturism! THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY sits at the top of my most anticipated books for next year. I mean, look at these amazing covers!

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Almosting my heist fantasy: Andor meets the Age of Madness, set in a world inspired by Syrian history and mythology. So close! #WIP #WritingCommunity #EpicFantasy #Heist

Add my book on Goodreads. It costs you nothing and it makes me happy. Win-win. www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

"The fairest survivor from the slaughter Now worships a dagger, And the men are about to sell something dear—beware! All that sweats beneath the wing shall pass away, And the barking that led you to the spring Had led the guards..." Atif Khairy

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Halfway through rewrites. Way past my self-imposed deadline. Grinding hard, pushing toward the end. #WritingCommunity #writing #fantasy

"Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us." - Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

📰 [TMR WEEKLY] Today: two new short stories — Hussain A. Ayoub's war-torn dispatch and Sara Masry’s journey through memory — and Souseh’s advice column on love and survival in a time of genocide. 🔗 https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles #TMRweekly #LatesArticles

Today's art: the short story 'War & War', by Hussain A. Ayoub. Powerful and devastating.

Delighted to share that my short story “War & War”, first place in the Azhar Writing Prize, is now published in @markaz-review.bsky.social. 📖 Read it here: themarkaz.org/war-and-war #AzharWritingPrize #MarkazReview #literaryaward #ArabWriters #creativewriting #WritingCommunity

I squealed when I saw this and had to take a seat on the stairs to read it. My novella has a review in Strange Horizons!!

kindness is the priceless act that costs nothing. Be kind.

"Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs, and, given our history, we have an awful lot of songs." Frank Harte

Buy my booooook it has strange planets and female protagonists and emotions (And no romance) And if you've already read it remember to leave a review 😇

Have you reviewed us, or any of the stories we have published? If so, please send me a link! I've made a new page on our website where I'm keeping track of recommendations, awards, and other nice things inner-worlds.ghost.io/recognition/

So proud of Hussain for this! Clinging to the Stones (a fantasy heist novel) is coming to an agent's inbox near you soon!

Thrilled — and a little stunned — to have won first prize in the Al Azhar Writing Prize for a short story that’s part of the prequel novella to my #WIP, Clinging to the Stones. So grateful to the judges & organisers! And great many thanks for @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social! #WritingCommunity

That stage in writing when ‘starting fresh’ is really just a polite way of admitting you have no idea what you’re doing. #WritingStruggles #AmWriting #CreativeProcess #WritersLife

Today's writing caveat: Drones are more terrifying than dragons. You cannot reason with an algorithm. #amwriting #fantasy #SciFiAuthor #WritingCommunity

"There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel." Italo Calvino

Past issues of Inner Worlds are now available to buy in EPUB and PDF form 📚🤖👻🧚🏻 innerworlds.gumroad.com

I know everyone's broke and everything's awful 🫠 But if you like what we're doing here and you have a few £ spare it would be wonderful to be able to pay our authors and artists a little more. Subscribe here 👇🏻 inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

All the stories from our previous issues are available to read online! 68 speculative stories about our inner lives ✨️🧠❤️✨️ inner-worlds.ghost.io/past-issues/

After a lifetime studying politics, democracy, and propaganda, I can tell you—skip the books. Just watch #Andor. It’s all there. #StarWars #TV #PoliticalDrama #SciFi #Rebellion #WritingCommunity

Just sat down to write again after two rough months. It feels like coming home to a place I forgot I missed. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife

Whether you're into Arabfuturism or not, do yourself a favour and follow the brilliant Mahmud!

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In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; “But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.” -Stephen Crane

We're open for submissions to our sixth issue through January! 🌟 Read the guidelines and submit here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g... #SFF #SpeculativeFiction #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

#WIP #amwriting #WritingCommunity #Quillers25 #fantasy

So excited to be on this judging panel with these amazing people. The @futureworldsprize.bsky.social is an amazing prize run by wonderful people. If you're an SFF writer of colour, don't self-reject, submit now!

If you’d like to follow more up and coming authors, our 2026 debuts cohort made a handy starter pack: go.bsky.app/9Sw356k