In sentences I never expected to type: my @clarkesworldmagazine.com story ‘Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of Five Regents’ has received an award from the Numismatic Literary Guild at the World’s Fair of Money. Full details here: nlgonline.org/news/numisma...

Only a few days until the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival! @EdWomensFicFest The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place this coming Friday and Saturday, 26th-27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. If you don't already have your…

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Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals. Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU

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Well that didn't go where I was expecting! Connections to a very well known vintage sf tale within. Enjoyed that. @amendlocke.bsky.social always does a nice job with his imagined future geopolitics. It's the future, but you couldn't get there from here.

If you too thought Post Coal Prom Queen were stunning at Event Horizon Cymera, here’s your chance to see them in Edinburgh tonight wegottickets.com/event/672506...

On our way to Glasgow for tonight's gig!

Our Neil Williamson is also a band! Disappointed Skeptics Club's new album is My Authentic Shelf, and you can get it now on Bandcamp before it hits your usual streaming services. thedisappointedskepticsclub.bandcamp.com/album/my-aut... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social (1/2)

The news today is horrific. It's easy to look at the world around us and despair. But we also need to remember that our stories and art matter even when the world turns bad. Here's my essay about why you should keep writing, keep fighting, and keep hope alive. www.patreon.com/posts/117228...

My review of @lyndseycroal.bsky.social’s wonderful collection LIMELIGHT AND OTHER STORIES is up! Incredibly fun reading: motivated characters, great pace, plenty of doomsday tech and voyaging through space… Read it on the @shoreinf.bsky.social website: tinyurl.com/3spfzkwp

Ta da! Excited to announce i have a brand new character comedy pilot on BBC R4, recording this November www.comedy.co.uk/radio/news/8...

Neil Williamson's new story 'Cold Case' features in anthology Absolute Zero (Dead Sky Publishing), due out on 7th October. Featuring tales of frozen worlds - both physical and metaphorical - preorders are open now at the link below: deadskypublishing.com/portfolio-it... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

I poured a lot of guts and angst into this. I wanted to write different SF, about being alive, afraid, and looking for something to fill the hole that lives in all of us. And look, you get another novella with it! Find out where to buy: wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove... #bookQuote

Here's an interesting opportunity for"Scottish literature professionals" from Literature Alliance Scotland (via the ever informative @edinburghminute.bsky.social ) literaturealliancescotland.co.uk/to-be-contin...

Of interest to Edinburgh-based writers - Workshop: Lessons in Indie Marketing with Julia Boggio (sponsored by IngramSpark) www.tickettailor.com/events/edinb... @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social

People say why is it flour and not flower and I say because it's spelt that way.

Slightly diminish a book The Left Hand Of Dusk

Exciting news! Pantomime (L’s Version) is one of the picks for Best SFF Book of the Month over on Amazon! It’s among great company, too Pantomime, the first in the newly edited Micah Grey trilogy is out on Tuesday! 💜🎪

Webcomics have been around since the mid-'90s, and plenty of the longest-running comics are still going! @jdnicoll.bsky.social looks at five venerable SFF webcomics that have massive archives. Why not dive in? reactormag.com/getting-lost...

And to celebrate 1 year of Limelight, an absolutely lovely review in @shoreinf.bsky.social! "Croal’s mastery over her characters and the grander reasons for their existence...makes for a reliably joyful reading experience." www.shorelineofinfinity.com/limelight-an... ✨@shortwavebooks.bsky.social

Welcome, my old friend, we missed you.

I see the mysterious fully equipped cafe in Fountainbridge that’s never opened and kept clean is available to let. #Edinburgh

Just to remind myself I can write, some nice stuff people have said about my story: "something special", "wonderful, powerful and heartbreaking stuff!", "really brilliant", "incredibly vivid", "just wonderful", and "disgustingly good". Hope you like it too 🥰 podcastle.org/2025/07/29/p...

It was a brilliant night and I was so chuffed you were there @shoreinf.bsky.social and @neilwilliamson.bsky.social! Nothing makes me happier than when SFF and Music hold hands, as is the way of the ancients :) 🚀🎶❤🎶🚀 #music

@ebbband.bsky.social —astonishing, amazing, brilliant.

Tomorrow at 1pm in St Andrews, I'm doing a signing at Waterstones - if you're in the area please pop by! ✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.waterstones.com/events/lynds...

This advice probably helps in any form of storytelling.

Not really made FOR my BlueSky followers but might be helpful or not

Hey! Check out my new all-ages adventure comic... 🌮 INTERSTELLAR TACO TRUCK! 🌮 Issue 1 is out now for digital download! Or you can pre-order issue #1 for UK delivery when copies arrive. www.edwardross.co.uk/shop

This is a fun talk by Andy Weir. The editing jumps about a lot but still, it's worth a watch. youtu.be/EXD3b6OLtsg?...

😂😂 Credit: Pat Byrnes

“Who’ll challenge my nine skills? I’m champion at chess, canny recalling runes, well-read, red-hot smith – some say I shoot and ski and skull skilfully too. Best of all, I’ve mastered harp-play and poetry” @theorkneynews.bsky.social on Orkney’s Warrior Poet 3/3 theorkneynews.scot/2024/07/30/e...

New Author Interview - today on the blog we welcome CL Hellisen to talk about their new audiobook The Shape of Monsters www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2...

Last night, I won the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form. Thanks again to everyone that voted for me!

New addition at SF Caledonia. Snapshots by Leo Robertson www.sfcaledonia.scot/snapshots-by...

Okay, deep breath. I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG... If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity is here...

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Let Marian Womack introduce you to a new wave of Spanish writers in speculative fiction.

📢 Open Call 📢 SBWN and WAHS Creative Balance are seeking pitches from Scotland-based BPOC writers on Defining Our Space. Text /audio /video formats, incl BSL. Caregiver and data bursaries available. scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/call-for-pit...

Ah, come on! You know you want it!😁 The ALTIPLANO Original Cover is still available at the Kickstarter campaign!!! 😱😱😱 please share awaaayyyy!!!🙏🏽 #PeruvianCyberpunk #originalart www.kickstarter.com/projects/gus...

#Glasgow Join our Annabel Campbell and Cameron Johnston, along with Justin Lee Anderson, for a night of Epic Fantasy on 28/08! Get your tickets to this Waterstones Argyle ST event below: @cameronjohnston.bsky.social @annabelcwrites.bsky.social @justinleeanderson.com @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social

the scenario we all feared

We were robbed last night. When it’s our stock or our money that is targeted, there’s insurance and systems in place for this, but when it’s stealing from a charity in an extremely direct way then we just can’t abide it. scottishbooktrust.com/donate @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

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