Get your copy of EM Faulds' These Broken Little Worlds at @satellitecons.bsky.social this weekend! @bethkesh.bsky.social

Indeed. I have floor tiles, tea cakes and some emergency glasses so I can read my instructions. Gronda, gronda.

We're at Satellite 9, kicking off at 6pm with Brian M. Milton on The Drogna Game. See you there! @satellitecons.bsky.social @munchkinstein.bsky.social #SatelliteCon

Turns out I have some news! - New collection, BFA shortlisting, events, and an anthology inclusion. I'm having to resist my urge to hide under a rock, but apparently if you don't talk about things nobody finds out about them. Weird, that. emfaulds.com/news/news-ro...

Friends 🥹🥹🥹 This just the most wonderful news to receive. Thank you thank you to everyone who voted for THE OUTCAST MAGE. I’m stunned, thrilled and honoured to be shortlisted. All of the BFA shortlists are filled with brilliant, lovely people. Congratulations to all of them!

Eeek! Thank you everyone who voted for me 🥰

I don’t even know what to say. I have no words right now

Ooh, that's a lovely thing. Congrats to all the other nominees. (I love how horrory this shortlist is this year!)

Oh WOW!!! Mega congratulations to all shortlisted creatives! In particular our very own @lyndseycroal.bsky.social for the fabulous Dark Crescent collection of Scottish folk tales and @jennicoutts.bsky.social for Dark Crescent artwork! And little old Luna too 🥳😬❤️💙❤️❤️ @booksfromscotland.bsky.social

Well, that's lovely news 😊. I am sure the wonderful other stories will be tough as heck competition... Well done, @clhellisen.bsky.social , @jamesbennett.bsky.social and @laurenwrites.bsky.social, I won't be mad if any of you win.

We're at Satellite 9, kicking off at 6pm with Brian M. Milton on The Drogna Game. See you there! @satellitecons.bsky.social @munchkinstein.bsky.social #SatelliteCon

A flooded future Earth, pilots and solarpunk: check out Puddlejumpers, written by our own Alex Blott, with art by Vicky Chen and lettering by Buddy Beaudoin! Pick up your copy now at the link below:

#Glasgow Alas, no cake for us! This event has now been cancelled. But if you're headed to Cymera Festival next month, you can catch Sunyi Dean on Saturday 6th June, while Neil Williamson will interview David Quantick on Friday 5th. @cymerafestival.co.uk @sunyidean.com @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

It's Satellite 9 this weekend! Here's a wee reminder of where ticket holders can find us across Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th May. @satellitecons.bsky.social @robincmduncan.bsky.social @realbigal.bsky.social @munchkinstein.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

Well, that's the opening salvo of the Arthurian project sent off to my agent to see what the fuck he makes of it. With an introduction and a metafictional appendix to the Culhwch adaptation, it clocks in at ~50K words, so fuck knows if that suits the current market. We shall see.

The Girl With A Thousand Faces is *such* a good book. I have many questions!

I will do my best to bring cake!

#Glasgow Sunyi Dean launches her new novel, The Girl With a Thousand Faces, on 26th May at Waterstones Argyle Street. Hosted by our Neil Williamson, that'll be a grand chat and no mistake. Grab your ticket at the link below: @sunyidean.com @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social

Guess I should start shouting about this! PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN!! Official launch date is 29th of May 2026, but you can get a limited edition hardback if you're quick! This is my 2nd SF / Fantasy / Spec Fic story collection and yep, it contains the Godzilla one. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

These Broken Little Worlds (NewCon Press) is the fabulous new collection from our own E.M. Faulds, due out 29/05. Featuring the BSFA award-winning 'Godzilla As A Young Man Named Mike', you can pre-order yours now from the link below: www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as... @bethkesh.bsky.social

Got some absolutely brilliant bookpost today... @bethkesh.bsky.social

What if, in edition to all the other projects I’m behind in, I wrote a novella about Tommy and Davion’s years in Mexico?

Thanks @clhellisen.bsky.social for spotting this over on FB! My first ever hardback in the shape of my second short story collection from NewCon Press! Limited, signed, pretty! 🥳 Pre-orders and extra info here: www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Satellite 9 kicks off this bank holiday weekend in Glasgow! If you were lucky enough to grab your ticket before it sold out, be sure to check out your GSFWC pals on the following items... (Feat. Robin CM Duncan, Alan Laird, Brian Milton and Neil Williamson) @satellitecons.bsky.social (1/3)

Well deserved, this is by FAR the most gorgeous board game I've played in a long time. It's also satisfyingly complex, very replayable, and loaded with *really* snazzy game pieces, for people who are into presentation big time (it's me I'm people) 👑

I am absolutely delighted to have a story in this anthology, imagining a hopeful future in tackling climate change humbersff.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/a...

Did you know our Ian Hunter is the Poetry editor for BFS Horizons? And for the whole of May, they're open for Poetry Submissions? And successful payment is £20 per poet per issue?! Now you do! Get your submissions in at the link below: @ianhunter60.bsky.social @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

If you're looking for fantasy that draws on grimdark, engineering, and magic AND has female main characters that feel like actual human beings, plus non-patronising disability rep for the MC, then I recommend grabbing Cameron Johnston's latest novel First Mage on the Moon. I'm very much enjoying.

Congratulations to everyone who made the longlist for the 2026 Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction -- but especially to our own Meghan Ellis and Ian Hunter! Fingers crossed for the winners announcement on 2nd June... @ianhunter60.bsky.social @meghan0n.bsky.social @cymerafestival.co.uk

Morning Womble! I have also been reading The Girl With A Thousand Faces, because I'm interviewing Sunyi about it in a couple of weeks. If anyone in the Glasgow area wants to join us, details below. /shamelessplug bsky.app/profile/wate...

Delighted to be longlisted for the 2026 Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction with my piece "The Pavilion In The Sky" 🎉 great news for a Sunday afternoon. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2026-prize

Started writing a short story yesterday. Thought it was going well. Realised overnight that it wants to be a novel. Sigh

I am very proud indeed to have my short story The Other Mara in issue 7 of the fantastic Thin Skin Magazine... !

I am so proud to have my poem 'beetles' in the current edition of the awesome @strangehorizons.bsky.social

I just left this guy in my trug last year to see how he'd cope with the winter... looks like strawberries are on the menu! 🍓 I should've known a native Scottish plant would, you know, handle a Scottish cold spell 🫡

As both a writer and a physicist, I support this message.

Whether you've gone out and done your bit for democracy, or that's another day at the office done with, you deserve a reward. So here's our Ewan Downie's new story, 'The Other Mara', as a wee treat for you. Check it out on Thin Skin at the link below. @thin-skin.bsky.social @ewandownie.com

E.M. Faulds is back with 'To Stave Off the Void', part of the new anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity -- subjects very close to our hearts! Preorders are available now from the link below. aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... @bethkesh.bsky.social @aanpress.bsky.social

E.M. Faulds is back with 'To Stave Off the Void', part of the new anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity -- subjects very close to our hearts! Preorders are available now from the link below. aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... @bethkesh.bsky.social @aanpress.bsky.social

We’re looking for a new Co-Director and a Digital & Social Media Assistant to join the Scottish BPOC Writers Network (SBWN) team!  Follow the link to learn more and apply!

Check out the latest issue of Strange Horizons for a brand new poem from our Ewan Downie! Just a heads up that 'Beetles' is not one for entomophobes. @ewandownie.com @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Restarting this story, giving it a different opening and changing it to present tense was useful

Absolutely delighted to have an essay in this book. It's a treasury of editorial insight!

There is a bit in First Mage On The Moon where I mention that ancient scholars figured out the world was curved. This is what I had in mind, coming from ancient Greece: Eratosthenes' experiment with two sticks and shadows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-pp...

Happy Bealtaine! If for some reason you missed me talking about it over the last few months, my Crawford Award winning, Locus Award finalist collection is available for purchase! People with good taste have enjoyed it! www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a... bookshop.org/p/books/call...

It's just tipped over 3k, and I'm heading towards a bit of a showdown, so chances are good it'll stay a shorty. However, who knows if it's cooked enough? If it may, in fact grow arms and legs as it develops? Exciting times.

As it’s Indie Press Day, here are my four novels published by Elsewhen Press! elsewhen.press/index.php/ca... #indiepressday #books #urbanfantasy #fantasy #scotland

Wee update for Bandcamp Friday - our Neil Williamson's new album is out!

Looking forward to chatting with @sunyidean.com on May 26th. If you enjoyed The Book Eaters, you're going to want to hear all about The Girl With A Thousand Faces. Come join us!

Coming very soon. Keep your ears peeled...