🎃STARTS WEDNESDAY🎃 My horror-loving friends, it is time 👻 #31DaysofHorror bingo 1. Each day in October watch a horror movie. 2. For each horror movie, mark a tombstone on the bingo board. 3. Post your progress and challenge others. 4. Tag me to be entered to win a RED WALLS gift box.

Looking forward to this! Myself and Leonie from the Owls team will be there representing @acoupofowls.bsky.social and selling BOOKS, MERCH and BOOKISH BITS!!! Come along and say hi if you're in Norwich on 25th October!

The spammers aren’t even putting in the minimum effort any more!

✊🏿 Paid opportunities for Black LGBTQIA+ writers and journalists! The @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social is joining @WeAreQueerAF.com as our Black History Month UK guest editor Details in 🧵 or apply now 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/black-histor...

It's a great time to write queer horror

Kickstarter has been such a great platform for us, and we're looking forward to once again bringing more stories to life and putting them into reader's hands (physical or digital!). Whilst you're over checking out our Kickstarter, be sure other amazing projects! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

With just over a month to go until our Kickstarter ends AND we send out the first of our 2025 publications, we are currently at 69% funded! We would love to smash through the £500 goal so that we can include some great stretch goals!! #booksky #queerwriters #writersofcolour 🌈📚 #supportindiewriters

An aimless retail worker discovers new, elusive residents of the store, and decides to be delighted rather than frightened. Miracle Aisle by Bethany L. Sherwood is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a #BookSky #ShortStories #RetailHell

A humanities major hitchhiking in Jordan embarks on a quirky road trip that becomes a mysterious quest for the Ark of the Covenant. Backpacking Through the books of Exodus... by Rowan Tate is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a #BookSky #ShortStories #RoadTripwithGod

A retelling of the Norse myth of Fenrir and Tyr… from Fenrir’s perspective. The Hand that Feeds by Phoebe Bush is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a #BookSky #ShortStories #NorseMythology

A man encounters a midnight stranger who issues him a task, in the process of carrying it out he discovers himself, and experiences culture. The Visitation by Nwafor Emmanuel Okechukwu is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a #BookSky #ShortStories #NigerianFiction

A woman obsessed with a coworker takes matters into her own hands. L’Amour, Thy Name is Ana by Sylvie Soul is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a... #BookSky #ShortStories #WritersofColour

It’s hard to break the cycle. Drain by Fallon Buchholz is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a... #BookSky #ShortStories #QueerWriters

Remembering and grieving the loss of a loved one. Grief of the Ones Left Behind by Lavanya Arora is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a... #BookSky #ShortStories #IndianFiction #IndianWriters

We are so excited to announce the #BannedBooksWeek honorary chair for 2025: legendary actor/author/activist GEORGE TAKEI! "Please stand with me in opposing censorship, so that we all can find ourselves — and each other — in books.” bannedbooksweek.org/legendary-ac... @georgetakei.bsky.social

The Kickstarter for our 2025/6 publications is NOW LIVE!! Oct 2025: Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection Dec 2025: Light Paths: A Queer Fantast Romance Collection Feb 2026: trans romance novella Summer Nights, Cigarettes & Spearmint Toothpaste. www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

Death and Obsession... 🍂 Our Autumn issue is now LIVE 🍂 Feat. stories from Lavanya Arora, Fallon Buchholz, Sylvie Soul, Nwafor Emmanuel Okechukwu, Phoebe Bush, Rowan Tate and @theherocomplex.bsky.social acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a... #Booksky #shortstories

I don't think this is a case of being unaware of the harm JRK has caused. These people live in or near the UK, no way they don't know what she's been up to. I think they just don't care. I think they are able to justify this as "separating the art from the artist" so they can cash a paycheck.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

We're thrilled to be able to share more details about our 2025-2026 publication line-up. With two novelette collections and a novella that span across genres but feature romance (of one sort or another) at their core, we are excited to be working with a number of talented authors! 🧵

Accidentally brundle-fly'd my microwave potato.

Pre-orders are now available for the next batch of Adapt Evolve Become (2nd edition), including a pick-up at RDC8 (Feb 2026) option! The pre-order form is here: forms.gle/L4teLG5nsbha... #Hannibal #Hannigram #Fannibals

Excellent fundraising for great causes over at @transhanniday.bsky.social (another project from our publisher @maxturneruk.com!). #transrightsarehumanrights

Four shows worth binging.

Okay, well. Queer & especially trans authors of erotica and other content deemed 'nsfw' by major platforms, please drop links to where people can find your stories in the replies. Everyone else: Repost people's links. Stop worrying about the sanctity of your feed & help the most impacted authors.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to an error with the shipping on the listings, they have been cancelled and relisted. They are now open to Worldwide bids, apologies for the inconvenience. You can find both auctions here: www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?i... You have 7 days to bid! #Hannibal #Fannibals

I have been so focused over the last year on @acoupofowls.bsky.social that I've really lost touch with a lot of my writing. I'm looking forward to us going back to just quarterly issues for a while so I can pick up some old WIPs again! Hopefully I remember how to write! 😬😆

this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025

Hey everyone, Trans Actual are collecting responses to the EHRC consultation because it sounds likely they're going to try and obscure them If you saved them (a good idea if you haven't filled it in yet!) please can you email the address below with them! I personally trust Trans Actual and Helen

Doesn't matter. The money she makes for it will still go to anti-trans initiatives. Stop trying to find ways to make Potter shit guilt-free again. It's not going to happen.

#TransAllies in the UK STEP UP! We need your help because we don't have the mental or emotional bandwidth to do this alone GI have created this guidance to complete the consultation relating to the supreme court ruling that impacts trans rights. 30 June deadline! transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

LESS THAN A WEEK LEFT!! And still a few pledges from the next stretch goal! Remember you can have it delivered or pick it up from RDC! Pledge now for your copy and stretch goals! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

KICKSTARTER NOW LIVE!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth... This is your chance to order a copy (esp if you want to collect at RDC7) and help support the costs of us sending free copies to our contributors. You have until the end of May to pledge! 🧵 #Hannibal #Hannigram #Fannibals

The thing with Pedro Pascal is he not only gives a fuck; he knows he's huge enough to spend all day trashing bigots safely because entire franchises are built around him atm. He's no dispensable Gina Carano-tier secondary guy. This also underlines how most famous artists as big as him are cowards.

The Kickstarter is launching tomorrow!! Sign up to be notified of the launch 💙💗🤍💗💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

We were so spoiled for choice with all the amazing submissions for our recent Othered Romance novelette call that we have decided to publish SIX of them! These six stories, each with a romantic element, will be split across two collections publishing in October and December 2025.

Submissions may be closed, but you can still be involved! If you want to order a copy our Kickstarter is just around the corner!! The KS will give you a chance to pre-order physical copies of the book as well as provide some funds so we can send free copies out to our contributors! Stay tuned!!

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Reminder! It's almost cucumber season! #FolkloreThursday

Ok, update for the busy last few days. 1. A few boxes left at old house and currently nothing at the new house is unpacked except the beds. 2. Still need to clean the old house. 3. NHS GIC appointment went better than expected (I was very cynical) 4. Still trans. Yay 🎉

hear hear

What a shame to hear that both John Lithgow and Nick Forst have died in tragic casting accidents. RIP.

I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.

In the midst of our last minute house move, I'm having to spend today in Exeter at my very first NHS gender ID clinic appointment. A little over 8 years to the day since my GP referred me. Which is technically good going considering the wait list for this clinic is currently an average of 10 years.

I'd also recommend having your work read aloud to you by an app/programme and make notes / edits as you go - it's a great way to identify any unintentional tone shifts, and repetitions and contradictions.

This isn’t a comprehensive list of folks in our anthologies or magazines or who maintain their privacy, but if you’re looking for Tenebrous titles for the #transrightsreadathon this list is a great place to start 🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️ #transreadathon store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

Need more reading for #transreadathon? Want to support a trans writer? All my paperbacks are currently on sale! Grab them whilst stocks last! #transdayofvisibility #booksky #queerfiction #transfiction