Packed house at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social listening to @jupiterjonz.bsky.social & Anju Gaston talk about their joint Weatherglass prize-winning novellas with @alismith269.bsky.social

Just one week until my workshop Weathering the Storms at the fab Penzance Litfest! Come if you want to learn about writing climate without dystopia, how story can help shape the way we act and think… You can buy both novels at the festival. @aurorametro.bsky.social @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social

If you're in London, don't miss the brilliant Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social in convo with Ali Smith discussing her award-winning novella!

I have a new Substack. It's free. Thoughts, some fiction... today there is a story. #Booksky #writing open.substack.com/pub/deboraht...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Really looking forward to my #writing #workshop at #Penzance LitFest on 8th July (Morrab Library). If you thought #climate writing always has to be dystopian, think again! We will explore hope, generosity and ingenuity, among other things. My novel The Wilder Path is set in #Cornwall! #Booksky

Really looking forward to my #writing #workshop at the #Penzance literary festival on 8th July (Morrab Library). If you thought #climate writing always has to be dystopian, think again! We will explore hope, generosity and ingenuity, among other things. My novel The Wilder Path is set in #Cornwall!

👀Novella-in-Flash Writers! I've been invited by London Writers Salon to deliver this w/shop. If you want to add your/a NiF to my Recommended Reading list drop title & publisher in the comments. A great way to promote your work to a new audience. community.londonwriterssalon.com/c/interviews...

New post on Substack about The Wilder Path shortlisted for the Encore Award @societyofauthors.bsky.social. In this pic you can see 10 copies on a rusty table plus the original linoprint from artist @michellehughes.bsky.social. My publisher is @aurorametro.bsky.social. substack.com/home/post/p-...

"And how Anthopic said Mythos was too dangerous to release, and held hushed meetings in Washington? And how Anthropic’s valuation leapt up after that? Well here, we are, two months later. And guess what…." garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-reveng...

#writing #nature #books #climate #Cornwall

This call to require AI companies to disclose their training data is the bare minimum regulation we should be demanding, but everyone should sign it. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

EFF’s Threat Lab confirmed @WIRED.com’s finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

It took 4.5 billion years of precise cosmic history to build an Earth that can support human life. Yet, we are risking it all for quarterly earnings. True intelligence means recognizing that a dead planet has a GDP of exactly zero. 🛑💼 #ClimateAction #EarthFirst

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

I am SO looking forward to taking part in the #Penzance #LitFest (such a beautiful part of the world - Cornwall) with my workshop Weathering the Storms. For #writers of all genres, climate and nature, hope and generosity. At the wonderful Morrab Library. www.pzlitfest.co.uk/event-detail...

The data is the point. Would love a robot to do my tedious housework chores but we’re a looooong way off that if ever. This is about amassing valuable intimate domestic data

Snapped out in the wild... The Hyena's Daughter rubbing shoulders with some other Jones's: Cynan Jones, David Jones, Ruth Jones - and in proximity to James Joyce!!!

“Among the most corrupt acts in American political history” “A stunningly corrupt attempt for the president to take taxpayer money and put it in his pocket” “Part of a pattern where Trump is violating the basic separation of powers"

They have another prize that's straight-up reputation laundering: Paying authors to write that AI is gonna make everything better. More concerning: One of their partners is @locusmag.bsky.social.

AI, AI, and more AI! Oh, and blockchain. Avoid this contest. Don't take their AI blood money.

If the homeowners won't make a deal to sell their land to Georgia Power, then the company can use eminent domain to force the sale. The price we pay with Georgia being a mecca for data centers. www.ajc.com/business/202...

I’m so enjoying these.

My novel The Wilder Path, published 2025 by @aurorametro.bsky.social, was shortlisted this year for The Encore Award. @societyofauthors.bsky.social In paperback and digital. Climate, nature, family, love, grief, and Cornwall. Available online and from any bookstore. #Booksky

My novel The Wilder Path, published 2025 by @aurorametro.bsky.social, was shortlisted this year for The Encore Award. In paperback and digital. #Climate, #nature, family, love, grief, Cornwall... All life is there. @societyofauthors.bsky.social Available online and at any bookstore.

Congratulations to the 2026 winner of the Encore Award, Claire Adam for Love Forms (@faberbooks.bsky.social). Judge Anita Sethi said, "The novel is by turns heartbreaking and humorous as it explores what it really means to care for another human being."

Some awards eligibility periods are closing soon! 👀 Please check out "As The Earth Dreams" for your anthology considerations! 💜🩵🖤 Filled with beautiful and haunting stories of ancestry, memory, labor, freedom, and more, this is the first Black Canadian SFF anthology, and hopefully not the last.

#Booksky 📚💙

Only a week to go until the Encore Prize announcement of the winning novel in London! Very exciting indeed. I'm looking forward very much to tea with my three fellow authors and the three judges, where we will have lovely writerly chats! 🥰 @aurorametro.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social

For £200,000 Farage will promote your company and get his councils to buy your products. Just imagine what he’d do for you if you gave him £5,000,000. Because it wouldn’t be nothing. It’s never nothing. He’s in hock to his donors and if he took power, we’d all be. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Did you know UK rules let companies get away with slave labour, illegal deforestation and more? A new law could end this - please join me and sign the petition to stop corporate abuses now👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

So, this! I am, of course, delighted but also slightly speechless 😊 open.substack.com/pub/weatherg...

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Very exciting news! My second novel The Wilder Path has been shortlisted for The Encore Award (alongside three very talented writers). societyofauthors.org/prizes/other...

Love Forms by Claire Adam (@faberbooks.bsky.social) Mr Outside by Caleb Klaces (@prototypepubs.bsky.social) Sycorax by Nydia Hetherington (Quercus) The Wilder Path by @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social (@aurorametro.bsky.social) Congratulations to all four shortlistees. The winner will be announced on 13 May.

@greenchristian.org.uk Great decision! greenchristian.org.uk/we-no-longer...

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

If you have any information at all on these plans, now is the time to share it. Reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

This post, including one of her stories, Is dedicated to the memory of Lorraine Collins who came to the festival for every year since 2023 and was booked this year. Lorraine died in a car accident last week and we will miss her at the festival very much. www.flashfictionfestival.com/news/

La Terre a accumulé une chaleur record en 2025: "Soyons francs, la situation est plutôt alarmante, le chaos s'accélère"

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Time to get a move on with the renewable evolution. www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

This is profoundly shocking.

No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is simply a hideous betrayal of the country and its future in exchange for a bribe.