🚀 Good afternoon folks. We're looking for someone to become our media officer. It's a BSFA committee role that will sit alongside Emily Inkpen who is moving from this role to look after our media/podcast initiatives. We think this is most likely a team role… Details below👇

And so we’re off! BSFA Awards are go 🚀 Watch live: Https://www.youtube.com/@bsfachair2284/streams

@bsfa.bsky.social BSFA Award ceremony starting now. Watch here! Https://www.youtube.com/@bsfachair2284/streams

Come say hello at the BSFA table! 🚀

🚀 amazing insights from The Politics of Hope panel. Hope punk as resistance and resilience. Quote of the panel - “if you don’t imagine your own future, someone else will.”

And so we’re off! Eastercon Iridescence 2026 has begun with a vibe-set: “be excellent to each other” 🚀

🚀 Monday caption competition!

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

CONGRATULATIONS TEAM DEX! This is a huge outcome for everyone involved. Across both dramas that’s over 30 cast members 🎬 It would not be possible to do it without everyone giving their time and talent to this project, so thank you - from the bottom of my dark-sci-fi-soul ♥️

🚀🚀🚀 The BSFA Awards Shortlist is available to view now 👇 Congratulations to everyone shortlisted 🌟 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Delighted to discover the Blood In The Bricks has been shortlisted for this year's @bsfa.bsky.social awards in the Best Collection category. Thanks to NewCon Press, artist Vinnie Chong and the absolutely brilliant contributors! And congrats to all the other nominees. www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

We here at Chateau Undertow are delighted to learn that @thomasha.bsky.social 's "Uncertain Sons and Other Stories" is a nominee for the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards in Best Collections. Congratulations, Thomas! bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Congratulations to everyone who made the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards shortlist! I'm particularly pleased four of them have previously dined with me on my Eating the Fantastic podcast. I invite you to learn more about these amazing creators by eavesdropping as we chat and chew. pod.link/1083737796

The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, edited by me, is a nominee for best collection for the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards! @libraryofamerica.bsky.social bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Delighted that Paul Kincaid's Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction is on the @bsfa.bsky.social shortlist! Congratulations to all the finalists: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

It is with great joy that i can say Project Hanuman is shortlisted for best novel In the BSFA awards @bsfa.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social i also have a story in the short listed anthology, Creative Futures If you’ve not yet read either now is the time! Congrats to all the finalists.

Nice to get a mention on the @bsfa.bsky.social shortlists, but in all honesty we did not publish @garethlpowell.bsky.social’s fine collection. Doubtless it will be corrected soon. Good luck, Gareth!

I'm both overwhelmed and very grateful to have 5 items on the @bsfa.bsky.social award short list. It's an honour to be nominated against pieces from: @foxesandroses.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social @drfionamoore.bsky.social @bethkesh.bsky.social @emilyinkpen.bsky.social Congrats all 🙌

Congratulations to the very talented artist @jennicoutts.bsky.social and scholar Payton McCarty-Simas on making the shortlist for the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards! You can see Jenni's cover for Dark Crescent here, and discover Payton's book in the Luna store! www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...

Congrats to all the shortlisted writers for the @bsfa.bsky.social awards!! But seriously… @rickandwrite.bsky.social could you let a few other people have a go? How many nominations do you need?! 😂 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Genuinely chuffed to see my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends" be a @bsfa.bsky.social finalist alongside such great authors!! bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Congratulations to @taracampbell.bsky.social for making the @bsfa.bsky.social shortlist for Best Audio Fiction for "Just Let Me Help" from Simultaneous Times podcast!!! bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Congrats to the @bsfa.bsky.social shortlist for 2025 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-... Congrats @jendiagammon.bsky.social @stewarthotston.com @drfionamoore.bsky.social @grigorylukin.bsky.social @foxesandroses.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @garethlpowell.bsky.social and all the finalists!

Here is the full @bsfa.bsky.social shortlist: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-... #BSFAAwards

NEWS! I am a @bsfa.bsky.social Awards finalist for THE SECRET OF THE SAPPHIRE SENTINEL, sequel to my Nebula & BSFA Award finalist, THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN! Thank you to the @BSFA members for the nomination and for upcoming votes. Read my full announcement:

🚀 Fission #6 - Submissions close at 11.59pm Feb 27th. We're looking for sf stories (including all subgenres/hybrids) between 1k and 5k words that have not been published before in an English language source. Find out more:

🚀 Monday morning caption competition!

🚀 attention members! Today is the last day of shortlist nominations for the BSFA Awards! So get over to the website and have your say! If you aren’t a member but would like to vote, you can join at BSFA.co.uk

Honoured to announce I’ve just been voted in as the Membership Officer of the @bsfa.bsky.social Looking forward to working for the membership and with the fine people on the committee. I unfortunately cannot be at EasterCon this year but I will be with you all in spirit. Thanks everyone.

🚀 please be aware people! Voting is for BSFA members only👇

🚀 An amazing night at the Flame Tree Press Sauúti Horrors anthology launch, where I caught @stephenembleton.bsky.social and @genni.bsky.social and met the wonderful Cheryl Ntumy and Jude Umeh. This sci-fi universe is 100% African and bursting with detail. Get it today wherever you find your books!

🚀 Space Vault Exhibition at the Think Tank - Birmingham! Don't forget to go along and see one of the UK’s largest private collections of space artefacts from human space exploration. Find out more:

🚀 Fission #6 - Call for Submissions Opens 12am Feb 13th - Closes at 11.59pm Feb 27th. We're looking for sf stories (including all subgenres/hybrids) between 1k and 5k words that have not been published before in an English language source. Find out more:

🚀 Monday morning caption competition!

🚀 Congratulations to all those longlisted for BSFA Awards! Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works! bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

🚀 Monday morning caption competition!

🚀 okay people, we’re probably overdue for this but… it’s time to take our rocket and leave X-Twitter. The account has been dormant for a long time now… the outpost is defunct… let’s nuke it from orbit - it’s the only way to be sure…

🚀 Check out Stuart Carter's review of The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Mieville:

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🚀 Happy festivities folks! Have a great day - from all of us at the BSFA 🎄

🚀 Monday morning caption competition!

🚀 Check out Stuart Carter's review of Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky 👇

🚀 Members - there's still time to nominate your favourite books, stories, audio dramas, works of art and more to the BSFA long list. Go now and give your favourites the boost they deserve! If you're not a member yet, it takes minutes to join. Go to bsfa.co.uk to find out more.

🚀 A reminder to all members that Fission #5 is available to download from the member site 👉 see 'Members Digital Editions' under 'Publications' 👈 you can also buy the paperback on Amazon! It's a very strong selection of stories, perfect for some Christmas to New Year reading 🎄

🚀 Monday morning caption competition! (art by Corona Borealis)

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🚀 It's tonight! Come join us at the Dorich Arch in Euston from 7pm to 9pm, to raise a glass and enjoy the festivities🎄

🚀 Check out Leanbh Pearson's review of The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song 👇

🚀 So what are your favourite Christmas sci-fi reads?

🚀 Members! Don't forget to come join us this Friday 12 December at the Dorich Arch in Euston. We will be there from 7pm to 9pm. Raise a glass with fellow BSFA members and if we are lucky, former chair, Allen Stroud and current chair, Stewart Hotston will be there too 🎄