It was so much fun judging for the @westwordsorg.bsky.social & Campbelltown Arts Centre Fishers Ghost Prize this year. Such a fantastic collection of creative works! 💙📚 🌈📚 #booksky #books #writing

met with my accountability buddies for the last time for 2025 and 1st time in 6 months I CANNOT recommend having accountability buddies for writing enough I got so much more done this year just by hanging out with some lovely inspiring writer friends 📚🪐 📚💙 #amwriting #writingcommunity

First ever academic publication is now out! It's a book review of "Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel" by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips doi.org/10.1111/taja... #anthropology

The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin What a great and great big collection of stories this is. And you can get it DRM-free too, which is nice. www.ursulakleguin.com/unreal-real

#authors finishing projects: Ellipsis Editing is taking bookings for the rest of the year. We offer #proofreading #copyediting & structural #editing to creatives & academics at reasonable prices. More than 10 years experience editing. UK/US style #writers #booksky #writingcommunity #amediting

Fan of Martha Wells or the Murderbot series? HumbleBundle is selling a whole bundle of her books - with proceeds going to charity. 🪐📚💙📚🪐 #books #booksky #scifi #specfic #sff #booksale #ebooks

It's true that submitting your manuscript for publication is a looong process. I submitted one today and the email says *at least* 3 months before reply. ...Doesn't help that I put off submitting it for a month already 😅 #publishing #amwriting #booksky #wrtingcommunity #author #submissions 🪐📚 🌈📚

Part 17 in my weekly poster series of 2025 #art #punk

Ooo the Blue Moutains Writers Festival program is out. There's so much cool stuff! The workshop on making historical fiction *weird* looks right up my street and a fantastic panel for #queerwriters too! #writingcommunity #writersfestivals #bluemountains #writers #fiction #books

🧊🐈This #study of #cubism probably should be illegal to post… but the cat made me do it @pixeldailies.bsky.social PD #108 #pixelart #aseprite #art #pixel_dailies

Just recently finished reading #graphicnovel 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane... what a ride! The art is gorgeously intricate. The stories are nonsensically weird. I loved every page. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... #graphicnovels #comics #comicsky #scifi

Herdling - Launch Trailer | https://pressakey.tube/134266 #Herdling #Indiegame #gamescom2025

Here's a loving reminder that 8/27 is the last day of our big publisher sale on Steam! There's truly something for everyone in there. ☀️ store.steampowered.com/sale/strange...

Weird sentience in the forgotten corners of the Net. Love it.

Since it's #TrailerTuesday here's the super early teaser we put together for a game dev project, Gutterjacket - a #cyberpunk adventure game 🎮 youtu.be/cgzWxpGkdcE nogoodnikstudio.com #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #gameart #sff #scifi #IndieDev #gamewriting #pointandclick #adventuregames

Congrats to @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social and all the finalists for the 2025 Aldiss Award locusmag.com/2025/08/2025...

If you're into #indiegame and #gamedev check out the #devlog for Powerhoof's recently launched The Drifter - excellent #scifi #thriller point-n-click. @dave.powerhoof.com breaks down some of the learning from the game's success (it's great - play it!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P87...

I've been a #writer for a while now. For the first time I'm writing for a video game, not a novel or short story. It is *mind bending* to have to think in terms of plot, character, AND player agency. Fun, but challenging. #bluesky #videogames #gaming

Hi I made an open source game dev webring for the #indieweb. If you make games and run a website please feel free to join. gdt.fireye.coffee

Extremely excited to announce that my brother Luke and I are recipients of Screen NSW's Development fund to develop Gutterjacket, a #cyberpunk adventure #videogame Drawing on classic adventure games with a modern twist. More: nogoodnikstudio.com #indiegames #gamedev #scifi #writing

Lately I've been thinkin of the backrooms to reality. Y'know, where the dreams of modernity go to die? Latest blog, Dancing with Ghosts on #backrooms, #hauntology, and other #creepypasta #anthropology #digital #culture #liminal #thecaretaker #culturaltheory #weirdstudies #writers #ideas #blog

Zora Neale Hurston is essential reading for US #literature. Did you know she was also an #anthropologist? Hers might be the most successful, impactful example of ethnographic #fiction. Read my #review on #substack #booksky #writingcommunity #africanamerican #books #anthropology #ZoraNealeHurston

Congrats to the #shortlist #writers for the Neilma Sidney short story prize!! I've read a couple and they're all great. Worth a look for sure. #writingcommunity #booksky #shortstory @overlandjournal.bsky.social

Colleagues interested in #creative #methods and #anthropology or #environmentalism #ocean #audio need to check this out: sailingsonicsea.com/how-to-contr...

A little teaser I made of my most recent #shortstory Grief for Others. Read the full piece: overland.org.au/2024/11/grie... #writingcommunity #booksky #writers #amwriting #stories #books #dark #specfic

#MarchWorldbuilders 25/3: MC + ethical dilemma. In #TrickstersWake Evelyn Blackbriar is obsessed with understanding the deadly trickster creatures that bend the earth at will, and kill in the wilds outside the city. Why is she so sympathetic to these monsters?? #writingcommunity #SFF #fantasy

Only ever seen to miss #sydney when I come back for a visit Then the nostalgia comes.

#MarchWorldbuilders #writingcommunity In #TrickstersWake the major Panquist church collapsed about 50 years earlier. But the recently elected autocratic government has re-embraced Panquist moralism, leading to prohibition, state control, controlled borders... #fantasy #fiction #sff #writer #books

Why's there still so many literary agents saying they want to support minority voices while also asking for Twitter accounts or referring us to their #mswl twitter feed?? Some of us prefer not to engage in a cesspit owned by a far-right bigot. #writingcommunity

Finally read King Rat by China Miéville. Published back in 1998, it's been on my #TBR pile for half that time. A solid, if dated, urban fantasy. Wasn't terrible but not going to say it was worth the wait. Synopsis next post. #books #fantasy #urbanfantasy #dark #bookreview #booksky #london

#MarchWorldbuilders 18 Punishment for Sin In #TrickstersWake the gravest* punishment is to be buried underground, esp. alive (obvs). In a world where wild creatures bend the earth at will, there's no nightmare worse than being buried. #writingcommunity #fantasy #fiction #amwriting #sff #booksky

First post for An Elsewhere Anthropologist out now! Blending #anthropology and #fiction this #blog explores bestiaries old and new, the #anthropocene, and speculative zoology! Hope you enjoy. #folklore #literature #writingcommunity #Writers #Authors #Literature #Writing #BookSky #ReaderSky

Release of An Elsewhere Anthropologist on #substack tomorrow! Learn of a bestiary of the #anthropocene from medieval unicorns to cell towers hidden as trees, & the blending of categories that make our world. #anthropology #fiction #writingcommunity #speculativezoology #specfic #ethnofiction

First Draft #WIP Live With Me, Sorrow complete! A #queer #novella Sam wakes one to find himself haunted by his still living grandmother. About #grief #family and #forgiveness Check out my website for updates! #writingcommunity #amwriting #fiction #author #writers #readers #amreading #story

In Feb I set myself a goal of 500 words every day for my #queer #novella Live With Me, Sorrow. 14,000 words in a month... Instead I wrote 17,187! I'm doing it again for March. If I reach my goal, I'll have the whole novella done. 🤞🤞🤞 #writingcommunity #amwriting #novel #writer #author #writing

Halfway through 500 Words of February... #writing at least 500 words every day for the whole month of #february. So far... 11,638 words! (about 775 per day) 🥳🥳 Working on a #queer #weird #novella called Live With Me, Sorrow. #writingcommunity #amwriting #books #novels #writer

Currently drowning in a sea of half-finished stories and promising potential projects. Send help! seriously tho, anyone have any tips for staying on top of multiple projects? do apps help or are they just another distraction? #writingcommunity #author #creative #projectmanagement #writing

Launching a new blog series: An Elsewhere Anthropologist Exploring how we tell stories about the things we can't quite understand, crossing #anthropology and #fiction – field notes from places where reality gets #weird. #creative #shortstories #sff #scifi #specfic #blog #substack

I have all these ideas for #writing / #creative work and only so much time… how to know which ideas are worth the effort? How to know which are good before they’ve even started? Anyone else struggle with this? Any thoughts on how to approach it? #author #writingcommunity #advice #writer

Day 3 of 500 Words of February. Min. 500 words of new writing every day. Currently at 2,206 words! So nice to have the morning writing routine back again. #amwriting #author #writer #book #novel #authors #booksky #writingcommunity #fiction #queer #WIP

Tentatively committing to 500 Words of February... #writing 500 words *every day* for a month (admittedly the shortest). Working on a #queer/#weird #novella called Live With Me, Sorrow. I'll send excerpts over the coming weeks. #amwriting #author #books #writingcommunity #booksky #writer

Last year I was part of the expansion of the Reykajvík Poetics event series. These are a series of events in #reykjavik #iceland including #poetry and #shortstory readings from new/known #writers Best of all, we're making many of the recordings free on the website! www.rvkpoetics.com

Electoral trust in politicians and democratic institutions has been eroding for years now, and this is no accident. They’ve been under consistent assault. substack.com/home/post/p-... #politics #USpol #election #trump #musk #fraud

Currently Reading: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Written by #anthropologist and #author, Hurston was both rejected by anthropologists AND #AfricanAmerican authors and commentators in her time. Yet her work has risen to become essential reading. #booksky #writer #fiction

My first #bluesky post... like many, fleeing #toxic #socialmedia. I look forward to a time like 15 years ago without the ever-present anxiety-inducing algorithmic overlords watching our every click and post.