Contracts signed. I'm a big fan of the @escapeartists.net podcasts, who've been consistently publishing some of the best short fiction in the business. This year I'm pleased to say that I'll have stories appearing in @castofwonders.org and @pseudopod.org!

Huge congratulations to all the Hugo finalists this year!

Add this to your TBRs asap folks! If you like crazy mind-bending SF that will fill you with a sense of absolute awe, @arthurmanners.bsky.social's Inworld is the book for you. Out next year!

Delighted to finally announce: I got a book deal! My science-fiction debut, INWORLD, is pitched as The Three-Body Problem meets Annihilation, and will be published in spring 2027 by @sagapressbooks.bsky.social and HarperVoyager UK. Details below! #bookdeal #scifi #books #booksky

⏳ Time is running out. ⏳ Nominations close on March 28. www.lacon.org/hugos

The Green Party just came out strongly in favour of creatives in their battle against exploitation by AI companies. They urge the government to commit to not weakening copyright law. 🧵 1/2

Final reminder that the Hugo awards close tomorrow. You don't have to vote for every category, just vote in any category for something you enjoyed! My eligible works in #ShortStory and #Poetry categories: arthurmanners.com/awards-eligi... #HugoEligible #HugoAwards

One of my paintings of Rose Crescent in Cambridge UK (not recent). I love this curved street and it's shops and restaurants. Frequented La Mimosa around the time this was painted. The WOW sign was included in other paintings and drawings. This one was sold.

If you think you need genAI to make your art, I think that’s sad and self-defeating and will lead to badly derivative art, but that’s not why I oppose it. GenAI was built unethically, is maintained exploitatively, often to enrich the worst people, and is environmentally disastrous. That’s why.

Newsletter: Spring 2026 Roundup - New SFFH Short Fiction & Poetry arthur-manners-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/spring-202...

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

this thread is why bsky is better

[infinite screaming]

Hugos are still open! My sci-fi/horror flash "Woodsong" and my sci-fi poem "Looking Back" are eligible! Details: arthurmanners.com/awards-eligi...

Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF! More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

ICYMI: My poem "Roommate" is now free to read in @havenspec.bsky.social! The day after Danny died of pneumonia He came downstairs to call the landlord. I watched trembling from the kitchen As he rasped and bubbled into his phone, “Damp’s gotten worse, you need to get down here.” ...

A final reminder that the Nebula award nominations close tomorrow. If you haven't cast a vote yet, there's still time. Even if it's an incomplete ballot, it all counts. There have been so many wonderful stories, poems, games and everything else this year. There's plenty to choose from!

This sounds fantastic, one to watch!

There still a few days to nominate for the Nebula awards. A reminder that this year there's a poetry category! If you haven't voted yet, I'd be honoured if you'd consider my sci-fi poem "Looking Back", published in Analog. Details: bsky.app/profile/arth...

Fiction by Lex Chamberlin, @verybadllama.bsky.social, @eggandcressida.bsky.social, Dafydd McKimm, @lima-zulu.bsky.social! Poetry by @eleanorball.bsky.social, Sophia Zhao, @marisca.bsky.social, @arthurmanners.bsky.social, @babblewocky.bsky.social! Cover Art by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social!

So pleased that my sci-fi poem about deep time and legacy, "Looking Back", has been nominated for the Rhysling Award @sfpoetry.bsky.social. Thanks as always to the editors at @analogsf.bsky.social for believing in it. sfpoetry.org/wp/rhysling-...

Bad landlords beware! My dark poem "Roommate" is out now in @havenspec.bsky.social.

With the Hugo award poetry category going for its second year, I'd also love to shout out my sci-fi poem "Looking Back", published in @analogsf.bsky.social . I think it's my best poem yet, with all those big themes of deep time and destiny!

With the Hugo nominations now open, just a reminder that my flash horror "Woodsong", which I'm very proud of, is eligible for the short fiction category. I'd be honoured if you'd consider voting for it! Details: arthurmanners.com/awards-eligi...

Delighted to have my horror poem "Roommate" feature in the upcoming issue of @havenspec.bsky.social!

My sci-fi/horror flash "Woodsong" will also be coming to audio in @pseudopod.org later this year (est. Oct 2026)!

I'm late to this, but given the Nebula award nominations are still open: if you've enjoyed my work this year, I'd be overjoyed if you would consider nominating "Woodsong" in the 2025 awards season. Details on my website: arthurmanners.com/awards-eligi... Eligible: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Bram Stoker

This was a fun read. :) Check it out!

Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday! The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026. There will be no cap. More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

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Liked the story, laughed to tears reading the story behind the story. Thanks for brightening my day!

This is so much fun!

5-min distraction incoming: my sci-fi comedy flash-fiction "A Troubleshooting Guide to Your Flat-Pack Planet" is now out in Nature Futures. media.nature.com/original/mag...

Happy to have my fantasy story "Ten Thousand Years Walking the Godsroad" reprinted in this anthology of eclectic tales. Plot: a minor god falls in love with a magical road. Just your basic normal everyday story, nothing weird you're weird.

Absolutely love this tragic beauty of a story by @arthurmanners.bsky.social and the peace that only comes with acceptance, in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social magazine! #flashfiction #speculative #dystopia

Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of the World Fantasy Awards!

THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW! "A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book" - Christopher Buehlman "A hallucinatory scorpion sting" - Elizabeth Bear "My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that." - My barber Get your copy from your local bookstore!

ICYMI. I’m on some panels today at World Fantasy in Brighton. See you there!

An inescapable wilderness is the setting for Arthur H. Manners’ story “Woodsong.” At the edge of survival this indomitable father-son pair cling to hope #horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading @arthurmanners.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...

This week I'll be at the World Fantasy Convention (30th Oct - 2nd Nov) in Brighton, UK. Both my panels are on Thursday 30th: 1. AI and LLMs in our industry: What Can We Do? What Should We Do? (5PM), 2. Visions of the Future (9PM). @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/

Just followed these instructions. So. Much. Better. spread the word.

They’re so close! Can we get them across the finish line?

Okay, friends! @apexmag.bsky.social is close to their Kickstarter funding goal, but needs your help to make it before the end of October. I got into short fiction because of Apex. Please, if you can swing anything, even pocket change, throw in. xx www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉 Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

Look at this Halloween ass book You want it

A haunting story. 🖤

ICYMI

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