Stretch Goal Surge 3-Day Weekend is working on all caffeinated cylinders (SGs combined add up to 12 more authors). Currently 93% to SG1 & 81% to SG2.

Bright Green Futures is free during this awards season! My piece The Doglady and the Rainstorm is in it, alongside the great works of @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social, @brightflame.bsky.social, @tkrex.bsky.social, @daniellearostegui.bsky.social, and @singingtotigers.bsky.social!

Local author 🚨 klaxon 🚨 @lyndseycroal.bsky.social 's In This City Where it Rains has just arrived from @lunapress.bsky.social . We had a terrific launch last spring for Lyndsey's short story collection. #books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

Excited to share the news that my #solarpunk eco-fiction story 'Coriander' on cultural heritage (and food, of course) is in the Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Feeling lucky to be there with some of my heroes in SFF! With thanks to editor @wishusdonna.bsky.social and NewCon Press ✨

We had a great time celebrating @lunapress.bsky.social's 11th birthday in Edinburgh last night.🎊 Lovely to meet so many creative people within the community. Thanks Francesca for bringing us all together. 🎂

With another surge the “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign is 91% base goal funded (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 78% to SG1 & 69% to SG2. 16 more backers and we’ll lock in the base goal funding. Keep signal boosting with our sincere thanks.

Its not quite Satchelcon (yet) but a mini confluence in the multiverse did bring @singingtotigers.bsky.social and I together this weekend to talk all things Librarian and the wonderful @aanpress.bsky.social

My originals for Nebula and Hugo consideration. (Am I doing this right? I hope this is right.)

go @muteddragon.bsky.social go!! amazing work!!

Pumped to see #solarpunk on the #BSFAAwards2026 long list! @singingtotigers.bsky.social's brilliant CORIANDER, a short story from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology *and* our co-authored non-fiction article on solarpunk in @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social! Both free to read! lnk.to/SolarpunkBSFA

Friends, a thought as the world keeps finding new ways to be terrible: Create love first. As you're preparing to fight the hatred, start by doing one small act of love each day. For other people, or for yourself. We do need to fight, but we cannot let ourselves forget Love.

Refilling ink in a #fountainpen is always a slightly messy side quest.

One of my #BSFA longlisted works in the Best Short Fiction Category is now free to download for your reading pleasure: lnk.to/BGF24S6Amazon (see also: susankayequinn.com/books/corian... for availability on various platforms)

I wrote a thing(!) about how music as we know it might be disappearing, the story structure of "Rashomon" compared to its short story inspiration "In A Grove" (and what that teaches us), and as usual, a smattering of random rabbit holes. singingtotigers.substack.com/p/the-disapp...

Congratulations to our authors and artists on their @bsfa.bsky.social longlist 2026! @jennicoutts.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @madeehahwrites.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com Ivano Sassanelli, Jay Johnstone, Payton McCarty-Simas! @publishingscotland.bsky.social 🤩 And to all the nominees!

Love to see clifi and solarpunk writers in so many categories! Notable congrats to @singingtotigers.bsky.social @susankayequinn.bsky.social @izom-chisom.bsky.social @atgreenblatt.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @wishusdonna.bsky.social and many others I surely missed

Announcing our first ever BSFA Award Longlist nomination for @singingtotigers.bsky.social for her story “For Tomorrow’s Moon” in our 2025 anthology “Our Dust Earth”

Coming off a busy work day to find my collection, three short stories & the peer-reviewed paper I co-wrote with @susankayequinn.bsky.social has made the #BSFA Awards Long List! Congratulations to all fabulous long-listees! Honoured to be among you. Many thanks to everyone who nominated my work 💕✨

After a century’s absence, pine martens are returning to England as part of a broader recovery across the British Isles. The species’ comeback is restoring balance to woodlands, curbing grey squirrels, and marking a milestone in UK nature recovery. buff.ly/Qw6k8w8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

A homecoming that cannot be. An unlikely friendship. A dog who guards a secret. Can shy Sylvia learn the language of luck? go.dfstory.com/dog-helps

If the Stars Are Lit is the debut speculative mystery by Sara K Ellis, exploring the implications of AI, memory, and loss. Cover art by Tara Bush. Order now! www.lunapresspublishing.com/novels @skateellis.bsky.social #sciencefiction #smallpresspublishing #booksfromscotland

Motocultor Festival Europe Tour is in London on the 15th! What an exciting metal line-up, includes two Asian bands, Uuhai, which I saw when they were last here and the awesome Deus Ex Machina from Singapore. Love this East West poster, but it's missing a Chinese mountain ghoul is suoyi and douli.

NewCon Press’s Polestar series have won multiple awards, and now you can grab a freshly released e-book sampler. ✨ My cosy #solarpunk story ‘Emily’s Farewell Coat’ is also in this wonderful collection, but do buy it for the other brilliant authors! 😊 www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

This is an object lesson for all writers. If you put a sea shanty in your story, and then later offer to read said story for a podcast, you WILL BE EXPECTED TO SING and it might take thirty-seven takes in the @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social storage closet studio hoping no one else is in the building

This is KL's first #LRT line (STAR LRT, now Ampang Line) completed in 2 phases. It spans 27.4 km with 25 stations. It's one of the 3 driverless out of a total of 10 urban rail systems. They run on time, clean, air con & affordable. #bluesky #mrt #evening #photography #myphoto #malaysia #kualalumpur

It's #SelfPromoSaturday and I have some time available this month for new editorial clients. Find out more about my services on my website donna-scott.co.uk/freelance-ed... Image shows Best of British Science Fiction 2022 which won the BSFA Best Collection Award. Go on, I'm really good!

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Happy New Year! May 2026 brings you fresh joys, fruitfulness, and all good things ✨🎉

tomorrow, dec 27 at 8:45am: my story Our Bones Are the Mortar, beautifully read by Sarah Niles with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, airs on BBC Radio 4 alongside Dickens, Wilde & others. tune in here 👻🎄!! www.bbc.com/audio/play/l...

So many fabulous puns in the comments!

this little story of mine in @reckoningmag.bsky.social (now narrated by @annapele.eu ) is a nice bit of uplift if you're struggling with the world right now <3

400 years ago, Jubilee Marsh was walled off from the sea. Mid-2000s, the Royal Society for the Protection Of Birds bought land and decided to ‘rewet’ the marsh. In London, the Crossrail project needed a place for dirt. Cue collaboration & a successful bird refuge buff.ly/ofngNQR #ShareGoodNewsToo

In DreamForge Anvil Issue 22, we look for connections via music, gifts, and a cup of tea. SUBSCRIBE: dreamforgemagazine.com/subsc... READ Free Online: go.dfstory.com/anvil22

Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/

I've seen some people saying that the new SFWA rule on "AI" in the Nebulas will prevent people from being transparent about their LLM use. Newsflash: They wouldn't have been anyway. It would cost them readers. It would cost them votes. It would potentially cost them opportunities with publishers.

hello, writerly & creative friends! i've been working on an unhinged random title generator. ^-^ features: - 55+ different title structures - 6k+ words in lists! - no gen-AI = endless possibilities for chaos 👀 I hope it inspires you! (or makes you laugh!) perchance.org/sffh-title-g...

A paid writer's residency working with Nottingham Women's Centre and the Feminist Archive is open for applications. Share with anyone who might be interested. #booksky #writer #nottinghamcityofculture #nottingham #eastmidlands

Why does every day this week feel like Friday?

Britain could hit another milestone in the months ahead by running the grid for a period entirely with zero carbon power, renewables and nuclear. news.sky.com/story/n... #solarpunk #cyberpunk #solarpunkart #sciencefiction #future #community #ecopunk

my story "Our Bones are the Mortar" (originally published in @khoreo.bsky.social and then Flame Tree Press) will be read live by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a few days. ticket and streaming details in the post! perhaps my long-standing animosity with London will finally abate

How lucky was I, to get to read “Appendix: Witness Interview Transcripts” as part of Fitzrovia Futures last night within the most amazing Fitzrovia Chapel? With thanks to @stephenoram.bsky.social and Christine Aicardi for graciously allowing me to participate! fitzroviafutures.uk

Today I learned about https://subjecttoclimate.org/ , a #climate #education website for #usa #teachers . Might be useful to some #solarpunk folks :)

Just as well #Whamageddon doesn’t begin until tomorrow, as luck would have it, we’d heard it twice in the space time of 15 minutes. #itbegins

🚀IMAGINARIUM, a festival of East & Southeast Asian speculative fiction. Hear writers, artists, creators & producers - from YA, general adult, kidlit to gaming, theatre & more - ONLINE Sunday 30/11. Available on playback! writingourlegacy.org.uk/event/imagin... #books #speculative #fantasy #solarpunk

My solarpunk novels are on the sci-fi shelves along with Dungeon Crawler Carl at We Be Book'N the cutest, coolest indie bookshop in Monroe.There are also copies of Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters anthologies (wonderful holiday gifts). #solarpunk #shelfies #indiebookstores #solarpunkwinters

New paper out proposing the concept of weather commons, resisting ideas of technocratic & top-down weather modification! Beautiful weather commons figure by Aoi Yoshida/AOI Landscape Design https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-025-00302-w #weather #climate #commons #geoengineering #solarpunk

Stories that need to be read. Featuring @singingtotigers.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social @davidcleden.bsky.social @coreyjwhite.com @rickandwrite.bsky.social @rosemaxwell.bsky.social and many more. payhip.com/b/LNWd2 Paperback also available from theslab.press

First up, books I'm in. (Anthologies full of other brilliant authors as well, so hush now!) @theslabpress.bsky.social "Hiding Under the Leaves", for folk horror: payhip.com/b/HNdvM @aanpress.bsky.social "Our Dust Earth" for dying planet Sci-fi aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Saturday, Nov 8 #Hopepit community connect share a snippet of your creations Post a quote, image, or music you created that illustrates a light in the darkness, bringing hope Tomorrow will be the big event to share / promote WIPs, pitches, and finished/available works!

Massive congrats too to @rainewilson.bsky.social, one of coolest and best voices around, for her BFA winning The Last To Drown. Heck of an acceptance speech too! If these names are unfamiliar to you, I urge you to seek them out pronto! Fantasy and horror are blossoming like you wouldn't believe.