Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus pawb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 happy St. David’s Day everyone

Today’s egg count: 🥚 But sadly broken - a big hole pecked by one of the 🐓 #backyardflock

🪐📚💙 #nebula #writingcommunity #writersky

This month’s book club choice (suggested my me). Nice to start on a book in my TBR than add another to it 🤣 I’ve heard a LOT of good things about this #scifi classic and enjoying it so far 🪐📚💙

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Today’s egg count: ❌ #backyardflock

Eagle eyed readers spotted a classic spelling mistake in my newsletter. Just to be clear, on St. David’s Day in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 it’s not common for boys to have LEAKS pinned to their chests… It was supposed to say LEEKS… 🫠 I blame autocorrect 😆 🪐📚💙

My latest newsletter is out, if anyone is interested in catching up on my writing progress this past month. It also includes my favourite book of 2025 (It's still Q1, I'm not used to saying 2026!) and what I've been reading and watching as the rain keeps hammering down in Wales #writingcommunity 🪐📚💙

I dunno lads that seems pretty f*cking fundamental

Today’s egg count: 🥚 🥚 🥚 #backyardflock

Today’s egg count: 🥚 #backyardflock

🚀 Fission #6 - Submissions close at 11.59pm Feb 27th. We're looking for sf stories (including all subgenres/hybrids) between 1k and 5k words that have not been published before in an English language source. Find out more:

Had one of my most productive writing days in a long time today. Over 1,600 words on my WIP novel, taking the total to around 13k. Still a long way to go, and it’s very rough, but starting to think this might be the first novel I actually finish writing. #writingcommunity #writersky

You don't have to subscribe to read this award winning master of fantasy's short essays on writing. I think this piece is especially needed by beginning writers.

keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY

If anyone is interested in following my writing journey as I try to make it as a science fiction and fantasy writer, you can subscribe to my monthly(ish) newsletter for updates 😊 #specfic #writingcommunity 🪐📚💙

If you’re nominating for the Nebulas (or think you have) read this thread to make sure you haven’t missed a step.

Today’s egg count: 🥚 🥚 🥚 #backyardflock

🪐📚💙 #nebula #writingcommunity #writersky

Nebula nominations close the end of the week. If you're voting, I’d be honoured if you considered my novelette, “The Stench of Freedom,” from Writers of the Future Vol 41 (Galaxy Press, April 2025). It’s long-listed for the BSFA Award and ⭐️ ⭐️ recommendation by Tangent. Read it on my website below 😊

Massively late to post this (I blame child No. 3 arriving just before Christmas), but here's a post about my favourite book that I read in 2025. "The Paper Menagerie and other stories" by @kyliu99.bsky.social It's jam packed with fantastic SFF stories that are moving and wonderfully written 🪐📚💙

Occasionally I’ll grumble about how the Council spends public money, but this? I am all in on this. Standing up for a Swansea (and Neath) institution against the delusional WRU “leadership” (which is led by an ex-PWC partner based in London, so makes sense his only plan is to destroy). #welshrugby

For the sake of Welsh rugby, they must oust the WRU chair. The delusional arrogance of the WRU to call a vote of no confidence an “irresponsible first nuclear option” when they are literally trying to get rid of the most successful Welsh rugby team is just unbelievable. #ospreys

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Heads up for SFWA members filling out the Nebula nomination form: It is possible to 'save and continue later' BUT if you do this, be sure to ALSO do the step (on the next page) of emailing yourself the link to your partial ballot. Otherwise you'll have no way to get back to it!

Today’s egg count: 🥚 🥚 And one broken egg 😫 #backyardflock

It really grinds my gears that TMO can shove their oar in for seemingly trivial misdemeanours but when something blatant and significant happens like this in front of their eyes….. nothing.

Submissions for They Are Still Here will be closing on March 21st. You have a month to finish your stories. Details here: wizardstowerpress.co....

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Just a school boy error away from a six nations win. Frustrating not to get the result, especially due to such a shocking try to give away from a restart, but much much better from wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #sixnations

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🚀 attention members! Today is the last day of shortlist nominations for the BSFA Awards! So get over to the website and have your say! If you aren’t a member but would like to vote, you can join at BSFA.co.uk

Voting closes today BSFA members. If you’ve not voted on the long list for the #BSFAAwards2026, now’s the time to do so. And I’d be very grateful and honoured if you considered my story, “The Stench of Freedom” for Best Shorter Fiction. Free to read on my website 😊 - link below 🪐📚💙

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BSFA Award voting closes Thursday, Feb 19! If you're a BSFA member, I hope you'll consider my story, "For the Rectitude of Our Intentions", which is long-listed for Best Short Fiction. You can check the story out here for free--enjoy!: calendaroffools.com/stories/for-...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Canadian authors. The PLR program is open. Don’t forget to register your new titles. publiclendingright.ca

Fun chemistry class moments. Science is Cool. 🧫🧪🧑‍🔬 #chemistry #science #chemicalexperiments

Today’s egg count: 🥚 🥚 #backyardflock

Today’s egg count: 🥚 🥚 Although butterfingers here only went and dropped one 🫠 #backyardflock

Award season is upon us SFF writers and if anyone is reading for any awards, I’d be honoured if you considered “The Stench of Freedom”, which is nominated for a BSFA award, and received a double starred rating in the 2025 Tangent recommended reading list. It’s free to read on my website. Diolch! 🪐📚💙

Today’s egg count: 🥚 #backyardflock

Well, it could have gone a lot worse after that opening 15 minutes, at which point I would definitely have taken a 54-12 loss. Shows how far 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 rugby has fallen, we used to compete with 🇫🇷 for championship and grand slam deciders. But some positive signs there too, I think.

I had two goals for today’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 v 🇫🇷 #sixnations match. 1 - concede less than 75 points. 2 - get some points on the board. Nice converted try from Carre and 7 points scored (although 19 conceded already 🫣). Temporarily stopped the floodgates after savage opening 15mins.

AI doing exactly what it's designed to do and people still too stupid to see it for what it is.

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I hope the fans braving the rain and eye-gouging ticket prices for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 v 🇫🇷 in the #sixnations let the WRU chair and CEO know how well supported they really are in Wales. FYI, Wales Select Committee: they’re not. The WRU “leadership” is the real obstacle to Welsh rugby getting back on its feet

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"Removing an elite environment - because it’s easier than fixing the problems that surround it - gets framed as bold decision-making, when really it’s an admission that nobody knows how to make the existing system work". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/w...

Funny seeing Brian Moore claim to be a "disinterested party" in his robust defence of the WRU leadership in the Telegraph this morning… At no point does he think to mention that his wife is the WRU's head of women's rugby and was hired by that same leadership 12 months ago. "Disinterested"!