My latest story is available to read now at @clarkesworldmagazine.com ! ‘The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods’ is about a light switch and a smart fridge and look would you believe me if I said they were the best of friends

Sent out five submissions today, most of which feel like very Long Shots. But then if a market is open and the criteria fit…might as well tick it off the list

Second story Ive read this year by @louisinglishall.bsky.social and I think I’m a fan. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

My latest story is available to read now at @clarkesworldmagazine.com ! ‘The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods’ is about a light switch and a smart fridge and look would you believe me if I said they were the best of friends

The May issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Louis Inglis Hall, Tia Tashiro, Nick Wolven, Sheri Singerling, Grace Chan, Raahem Alvi, and Zhao Haihong. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_236 Subscriptions available at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

happy new Clarkesworld day to all who celebrate

read your literary grandparents. whatever writer inspires you and seems like a genius, check out who inspired them. it will confirm what makes them unique but also reveal how traceable their influences are. it teaches you new craft tools and relieves some pressure. no one writes in isolation.*

spent all day thinking maybe I need a break from writing. I write quite a lot and I get quite tired. maybe two months away would be okay. then I found myself with five spare minutes and suddenly a whole new story structure has appeared. oh well. I suppose there are worse compulsions.

Very happy to say that I’ll be returning to @trollbreathmag.bsky.social this September with ‘My Holiday from the Bringer of the Rain’, a story about ceaseless anxiety, storm-gods, and going to Corfu. I really love this one. I know I always say that but I really love this one

lads. come to scotmid lads. they’ve got the Bad Ham.

I am now up to nine stories coming out this year. I truly need to make clear that it is all downhill from here

now that. that is a lovely pair of emails

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

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My next story in Clarkesworld comes out in two weeks today! It’s called ‘The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods’ and i hope it upsets you all as much as it upsets me

Apologies: I remembered that I have a blog.

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Very happy to say I’ve just signed for a new novelette in Clarkesworld! ‘The Planet Has Two Names’ is about centipedes and kings and it completely accidentally continues my streak of titles with numbers in them.

MALO MALO MALO MALO is on this shortlist, which has entirely made my week. Still very pleased with my spooky tree story

Excited to see "Exhibition" by @lxuwrites.bsky.social from Saros #1 on the shortlist! Also work by FFers @andtatcat.bsky.social @louisinglishall.bsky.social @octavia-cade.bsky.social @ideofmarch.bsky.social! Congrats all!

2025 Awards Eligibility I had five stories come out this year - if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend. (My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing) www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...

Nominations for the Hugos close in two days! I would be beyond honoured if you considered my novelette ‘Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins’, which I thiiiink is the work of mine people enjoyed most last year. clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/

everyone is talking about Hugo nominations so just a reminder that I wrote some weird things about coins/trees/romans/ziggurats/ballerinas in 2025 and i would do it all over again

In ‘things that made my day’ today, thrilled to be featured on Alex’s must-reads for February for ‘Three Fortunes’!

excellent list, this (warning, does include some of mine)

just got a (lovely, personalised) rejection from an anthology saying I just missed out on the final spot. moments later, wandered into a second-hand bookshop and immediately found a *signed* Hilary Mantel for £3.50. so overall I think that balances out

Started New Story. Really very excited about New Story.

In ‘things that made my day’ today, thrilled to be featured on Alex’s must-reads for February for ‘Three Fortunes’!

finishing up on my new story skeleton. relatively sure that with this one i can make someone somewhere cry about a character called ‘Mr Bread’

i have an announcement. i have worked out the perfect final episode of the simpsons. you are all welcome

phenomenal book, 11/10 book

There was a picture of me in the National Gallery in London a few years ago.

this (by @rlmeza.bsky.social) is so so heavily My Thing. god I loved it. clarkesworldmagazine.com/meza_03_26/

Happy to say I have a story coming later this year in Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s called ‘A Candle for Her Tireless Dead’ and it’s about bogs and gods.

@louisinglishall.bsky.social is a 2nd-year eligible writer and I'm shouting out a story from this year because "Three Fortunes on Alcestis as Told by the Fraud Baeliss Shudal" is a mic-drop piece. It's exactly what it says on the tin and so well done. clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_02_26/

I did this last year and I'm trying to make it an annual Thing, so here are a few short fiction writers in their first two years of publishing worth considering for Astounding Award nomination! I'm highlighting a work I loved from each of them (it's hard to keep it to just one, but c'est la vie)

please assume that any of my sentences you have ever read originally had about three more commas in when i was in charge

and tbh I’m just as proud of ‘Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins’, if you are Nebula slash awards reading and looking for novelettes: clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/

Self-promotion still fills me with absolute dread but in the spirit of the below - Still very pleased with ‘Numismatic Archetypes’ which came out in February this year: clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_02_25/

Oh I am getting perilously close to 300 followers. Please don’t make me up my social media game I am so bad at this

I’ll go one farther: authors by whom I’ve five-starred 3+ shorts* published in the last ten years: - Thomas Ha - Isabel J. Kim - Ray Nayler - Sarah Pinsker - Naomi Kritzer - Louis Inglis Hall - Natasha King - Angela Liu - Tia Tashiro - Marie Croke - R.P. Sand - John Wiswell - Renan Bernardo

And "Three Fortunes on Alcestis as Told by the Fraud Baeliss Shudal" by @louisinglishall.bsky.social in Clarkesworld, which did a great job of being devastating in the exact way to leave room for the possibility of something new to grow:

Putting this out into the digital universe: this year, I would like to get into an anthology book. I’ve had near misses before, and I love the brilliant magazines I work with. All the same. I would like to manage a book.

all i need to do is change a few sentences very slightly today and yet. and yet it seems a very difficult thing to do actually

The full FF 2026 lineup is officially set and I can't tell you how excited I am for what we've got in store for you! We've got: -writers making their second appearances in FF! -writers you'll likely recognize from their work in other mags! -writers making their debuts in SFFH short fiction land!

I think I know what the next three stories I’m writing are? Never had this much of a plan before, but it feels good

It’s available to read online for free here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/

My novelette ‘Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins’ has found its way onto the @bsfa.bsky.social longlist!! I will be calm about this, one day. in the far distant future. Maybe. but right now…I am not calm at all