Louis Inglis Hall
@louisinglishall.bsky.social
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I do writing: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, The Dark, PodCastle, etc. www.louisinglishall.com
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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-...
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This new story is the hardest thing I’ve written, I think? 3K in and realised it’s not going anywhere interesting. BUT I have a solution BUT this involves doing it all again
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(this was Fishing and Four People, btw - there’s a much vaguer link in one more story I have coming up too)
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about 22 hours ago
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Short Fiction Book Club
about 24 hours ago
"Space Meets Sea" is our first theme for 2026! Come join this discussion of ocean depths and the space between stars. Our slate: "Freediver" by Isabel J Kim "Whale Fall of Yours" by M.M. Olivas "Fishing the Intergalactic Stream" by Louis Inglis Hall
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From the Fantasy community on Reddit: Short Fiction Book Club: Space Meets Sea
Explore this post and more from the Fantasy community
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1q6guyv/short_fiction_book_club_space_meets_sea/
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when you watch a Scooby Doo and the crook is dressed say as The Phantom Gator. Do you witness objective reality (the crook has designed a costume that can scowl, sniff the air, roll its eyes) or the subjective experience of the gang (children who cannot recognize a badly-stitched alligator costume)?
11 months ago
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Jay
3 days ago
Eligibility post: I’m Hugo-eligible for Best Fan Writer for my blogging at Tar Vol On and work facilitating discussion for the Hugo Readalong and Short Fiction Book Club 🧵
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3 days ago
Grab single issues of CHM #67 here:
https://bit.ly/4q5dz0P
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claire jia-wen
6 days ago
what I did in 2025! I'm very proud of the year I had, and would love if you checked any of my stories out, I've linked some below :D
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My obituary for my grandfather Peter is in today’s print edition of the Guardian!
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ellison hyde
6 days ago
it's hard to pick a favorite but the one that smacks on my own personal inner tambourine the hardest is 'house cats' by
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but they're all so good these people have so much imagination and word-skills i am in a small amount of physical pain with the burnination of envy
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Trollbreath Magazine
8 days ago
Ten Stories from Trollbreath 2025 you should read - Jeffery Edition 5. founders keepers by Louis Inglis Hall
magazine.trollbreath.com/founders-kee...
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founders keepers - Trollbreath Magazine
Founders Keepers
https://magazine.trollbreath.com/founders-keepers/
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very excited to be appearing in Cosmic Horror Monthly this January with ‘House Cats’! it’s got ghosts! it’s got geology! it’s got divorce! that’s right The Big Three
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New year and new stories! I’ve given a run-down of what I’ve got coming up in 2026 so far, including one that is maybe already out?
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2026 Preview — Louis Inglis Hall, Writer
Happy New Year, and happy new stories! We have achieved January (congratulations, it was a good team effort) and that means it’s time to look ahead to what stories I’ve got coming up in the next twelv...
https://www.louisinglishall.com/blog/2026-preview
7 days ago
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2025 has been such a strange and wonderful year for me and for my writing. Thank you to everyone who has supported me through it - from the NLG award to starting the website, it all has happened because of the kindness and good advice of other people.
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2025 In Review — Louis Inglis Hall, Writer
Me I hope 2025 has treated you alright, whether you are a reader, writer, gymnast or life guard. If you are none of the above, then I expect it was tolerable, but really, if you weren’t reading/writ...
https://www.louisinglishall.com/blog/2025-in-review
9 days ago
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Very happy to say I’ve just signed the contract for a sixth story in Clarkesworld! ‘The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods’ is a story about war and fridges and best friends, and I hope it makes people very upset.
23 days ago
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Really blown away to have both ‘Four People’ and ‘Numismatic Archetypes’ in Jay’s recommendations this year, surrounded by some absolute bangers of stories! Honestly, I’m thrilled
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21 days ago
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ionomycin
7 months ago
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happy Christmas i am writing about these centipedes still
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very excited to be appearing in Cosmic Horror Monthly this January with ‘House Cats’! it’s got ghosts! it’s got geology! it’s got divorce! that’s right The Big Three
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16 days ago
COVER REVEAL! 2026 is getting off to a great start with issue #67 (don't tell your kids). Featuring stories from R.L. Meza, Louis Inglis Hall, Ryan Marie Ketterer, Olivia Sowers, Eugen Bacon, Ellison Hyde, Chris Kuriata, and Kaya Skovdatter. Art by Asya Yordanova
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I’m sure i will get other good gifts in my lifetime but none of them will ever be ‘tiny handbound editions of
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
to hang on the Christmas tree’ good
16 days ago
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yeah I’m writing but I’m about to run out of what i can write without having figured out any of the plot for this at all
18 days ago
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Really blown away to have both ‘Four People’ and ‘Numismatic Archetypes’ in Jay’s recommendations this year, surrounded by some absolute bangers of stories! Honestly, I’m thrilled
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21 days ago
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Jay
22 days ago
My 2025 Recommended Reading List is finally ready! Honestly, just writing these descriptions made me excited about this year's sci-fi/fantasy all over again.
www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Tar Vol's 2025 Recommended Reading List (Holiday Edition)
Tar Vol's 2025 Recommended Reading List collects the best sci-fi and fantasy fiction to be published in 2025, from novels all the way to short stories.
https://www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/18/tar-vols-2025-recommended-reading-list-holiday-edition/
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Very happy to say I’ve just signed the contract for a sixth story in Clarkesworld! ‘The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods’ is a story about war and fridges and best friends, and I hope it makes people very upset.
23 days ago
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uhhhhh make this six? six is good too
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23 days ago
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Just updated my forthcoming fiction page as i am now up to *five* pieces scheduled for 2026! Five different venues too, three of which I’ve not worked with before. The oldest of the stories was written in September 2023 and the most recent in October 2025.
24 days ago
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maaaaaay have some good news to share about this one very soon
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24 days ago
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surprised myself and started a New Thing tonight. just 300 words and I think there will be a lot more than that before I’m through
25 days ago
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Very pleased to say I’m back in
@trollbreathmag.bsky.social
next June with ‘Or Forever Hold Your Peace’, a love story about tall buildings. It’s a weird story but Trollbreath are so supportive of slipstream and stories that fall between cracks. I’m really thrilled to be back with them for this one.
25 days ago
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Locus Magazine
27 days ago
Clarkesworld: Review by A. C. Wise
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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author
30 days ago
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
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Today on my site I’ve talked about my first published story! I’ve written a bit about the writing process and left in a few embarrassing bad ideas too. I might do more revisits in future — not sure if behind the scenes stuff is interesting to other people though? Let me know!
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Old Stories: Manticores — Louis Inglis Hall, Writer
I should be writing a new story this weekend, but I can’t make the structure work. So instead I thought I would write about a story that has already been a) written and b) published. That seems much m...
https://www.louisinglishall.com/blog/manticores
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RIP to the photographer Martin Parr. I was inadvertently in some pictures of his when I was a teenager. It’s thanks to him that I can make the mad but entirely accurate boast that there was once a picture of me in the National Gallery. A brilliant photographer, who will be much missed.
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I’m walking around the Natural History Museum in Bucharest in a massive cloud of fever and there is only one creature here that knows how i feel
about 1 month ago
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I’ve spent today on a bus trip going around Romanian castles with a bunch of strangers. lots of fun, lots of chat. and now the man next to me is asking ChatGPT to write ‘a post about visiting Bucharest at Christmas’ to stick on his social media, and sir really what is the point of any of this
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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/
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about 1 month ago
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Ravelin
about 1 year ago
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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/
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about 1 month ago
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Chris Farnell
about 1 month ago
Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine
about 1 month ago
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports.
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creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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no you’re having a dark night of the soul because it’s hard to structure your giant centipede story
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Today on my site I’ve talked about my first published story! I’ve written a bit about the writing process and left in a few embarrassing bad ideas too. I might do more revisits in future — not sure if behind the scenes stuff is interesting to other people though? Let me know!
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Old Stories: Manticores — Louis Inglis Hall, Writer
I should be writing a new story this weekend, but I can’t make the structure work. So instead I thought I would write about a story that has already been a) written and b) published. That seems much m...
https://www.louisinglishall.com/blog/manticores
about 1 month ago
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me at about 4pm: I’ve not had any rejections in a while. it would be good to hear on something either way me now, 2 rejections deep into my evening: well. good. this is good
about 2 months ago
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Kathryn VanArendonk
about 2 months ago
got some stuff off my chest
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Death to the Penultimate Flashback Episode
Why do so many shows keep making episodes that feel like unnecessary homework?
https://www.vulture.com/article/penultimate-flashback-tv-episodes.html?utm_source=nymag_app_article_share
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Argonaut Books
about 2 months ago
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social
, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information
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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25629089.waterstones-open-prime-site-beside-independent-shop/
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Clarkesworld
about 2 months ago
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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Scifi Geek
about 2 months ago
I've read the 3 Clarkesworld stories from
@louisinglishall.bsky.social
and all of them are excellent reads, worthy of award consideration. If you haven't checked out his work, I highly recommend it. I'm always excited to see new stories from Hall in Clarkesworld!
#BookSky
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#SciFisky
#sf
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This review made me sit up, go out and buy a book immediately. That’s paid off brilliantly with what is very probably my favourite speculative book of the year. It’s given me flashbacks to reading The Raw Shark Texts as a teenager and the absolute head-splitting *thrill* of it. Such a joy.
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about 2 months ago
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Scifi Geek
about 2 months ago
Book 74 of 2025 Clarkesworld, Issue 228, September 2025 by Neil Clarke STRONG issue of
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Favs included Robert Falco,
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#BookSky
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#books
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Matthew WK's review of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 228, September 2025
4/5: Claire Jia-Wen 3.5 stars Sheri Singerling 4 starts Louis Hall 4 stars David McGillveray 4 stars Koji A. Dae 4 stars Robert Falco 4.5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7995467449
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Scott Edelman
about 2 months ago
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story.
www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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