Here are the winning writers and the longlist for the Cymera Festival/ Shoreline of Infinity Scottish SFF&H short story competition. www.shorelineofinfinity.com/cymera-festi...

"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.

Why is RoboCop exposing himself next to her?

Hit Cymera Book Festival and came home with lots horror novels: Stephen Graham Jones x2, Sunyi Dean, Charlotte Cross, Amy Jane Stewart. Haunted houses, Kowloon ghosts, vampire reckonings, and a Scottish fairy tale with a body count. Full haul review at.

Was having such a lovely @cymerafestival.co.uk time that I hardly took any pics, but thanks to pals who got a couple from the Beware of Ghosts panel with @sunyidean.com and @bethkesh.bsky.social, was such an enjoyable one! Loved catching up with folks, old and new writer pals! Until next year 💙✨️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

An essay on why I think Jedi don't work for us anymore and what could be done to change that

Branding! @clhellisen.bsky.social at Cymera yesrerday.

So, why should you preorder my #historicalfantasy Black Doe? Well, for starters, Kirkus think you’d like it…

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

Yes! Come watch me witter about the weird. I've been really enjoying David's collection, And Other Stories, too.

So just think…by preordering Black Doe, you’d not just be making *me* very happy (on a day when I’m a bit sad about not making it to @cymerafestival.co.uk) you’d be making all of these wonderful writers happy too! Preorder wherever you buy your books… www.waterstones.com/book/black-d...

For my birthday (13th June) every year I raise money for Refuge UK. Instead of a birthday pint or gift, please consider donating the money to Refuge instead. Refuge is a charity which is very close to my heart, and if you donate even just £1 I would be enormously grateful 🙏 ig.me/1TGqOC3ZjGyj...

Now would be an excellent time to buy or borrow one of my folk horror novels, before the fourth, TWISTED PIKE, comes out in October.

The previous attempt had a link that didn't work properly, so I'll try again. There's a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition calling for Health Secretary James Murray to trigger the break clause and get Palantir out of the NHS here: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ja...

Raaaaine! @rainewilson.bsky.social

It's HEREEEEEE: storybundle.com/pride

I’m doing a thing; really excited to be on the stage at @cymerafestival.co.uk tomorrow talking about a subject that fascinates and captivates me - the power of language.

"I'd do ANYTHING for my kids" Yeah? Would you give up your car?

As a warmup for CYMERA tomorrow, join David Goodman tonight for the launch of the follow up to his brilliant thriller ‘A Reluctant Spy’ - edinburghsff.com/events/2026/...

I'm at the Comet Festival in Port Glasgow on Saturday 20 June: www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/2616306...

Rupey's makin his moves, steppin out with confidence now, safe in the knowledge he doesn't need that mask now

I am delighted to announce the ToC for @bsfa.bsky.social 's Fission #6 anthology. It's been an honour to edit these wonderful works, and I cannot wait to see it out in June / July. www.bsfa.co.uk/fission/

If you like folk horror, come along to this awesome online festival! I'll be delivering a special workshop on Sunday 21st June about Scottish folklore 🐴🦭⚓ all the weirdest creatures, why our fears founded them in the first place, and how to use them in your writing!

I have a story in here! "To Stave Off the Void" is included with lots of other smashing stories about the theme, which is also handily the title "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity". Link in the quoted post!

Just a wee heads up that I'll be chatting to Peter F Hamilton about the next book in his Archimedes Engine duology, Exodus: The Helium Sea, at Argonaut Books in Leith on June 17 argonautbooks.co.uk/event/Piik_W...

It's pride month, and I'm a queer nonbinary writer with queer nonbinary characters, most of whom are spiky and broken with razor blade hearts. The Shape of Monsters is out on Audible now, and in print soon. A reviewer called it 'Woke Cannibal Erotica' so you know it makes rightwingers mad ;)

Pride month pride month give me your book recs with ace-spec MCs GO GO GO!

Hand-Me-Downs Absolutely beside myself to announce that my new short story collection, Hand-Me-Downs, will be published very soon. In the past, the contents of my collections have been a mixed bag of genres and styles selected from everything I'd published in the previous decade or so, but…

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

Okay since I made that query post a few days ago, people have been asking—here's my Easy Guide To Writing A Query, broken down into three sections! I've seen them done in other ways but (in my experience) these have received the most positive reception and had a good success rate. #querying

More HOME SICK events coming up 🪓🐑 I'll be chatting with @amyjanestewart.bsky.social about all things horror at Ink & Quill bookshop in Montrose on July 25 HOME SICK Coming 14(US) and 16(UK) July from @solarisbooks.bsky.social inkandquill.co.uk/products/aut...

Less than a week to go! Happy Pride month, folks, let's make it gayer

oh no this keeps on happening

We are pleased to announce the Translation Fund is open for a new round until the end of August. This fund, supported by @creativescots.bsky.social offers financial support to international publishers seeking to translate Scottish writers. www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s...

Ok, folks. Who will I see at @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend? I get in early (Tuesday at 5.30) to run the Masterclass from Wednesday so am available for meals (dinner!) if you live in Edinburgh. As of 4.30 Friday I am 'off the clock' at Cymera and free to be social.

For Pride Month, I'll keep on reading books by queer and trans authors as I have been all year 😎 I shared this in my newsletter, but here are six queer books by new authors that I read and enjoyed in the past year, including @ravenswordpress.com of course who is forever awesome #Pride

This weekend I'll be at @cymerafestival.co.uk - looking forward to a truckload of events and catching up with writer pals. I'll be chairing this Saturday panel with @alexpheby.bsky.social @rtorrubia.com and @annasmithspark.bsky.social www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

Controversial take but maybe AI bros are happy using the plagiarising machine to steal people's labour without credit or compensation because they've been taught to do that to at least half the population since they were kids.

TFW you find yourself in the midst of a renaissance painting.

It's officially Pride Month now, so: Trans rights.

Neil is a brilliant short story writer, and this cover for his latest collection is something else! Like Neil's work - faceted, strange, dazzling, bright and dark, and an invitation to slow down and look at the details.

TFW you find yourself in the midst of a renaissance painting.

We have a stunning line-up for Cymera Event Horizon - Sat 6th June. Dan Collins Rachel Plummer Danielle Farrow reading the winning story from our short story competition Goldy-Looking Blanket EM Faulds MC for the evening is Pippa Goldschmidt www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

I'm hecking pleased announce that my new weird horror collection Hand-Me-Downs is available to pre-order right now! You can read all about it in the PS Publishing newsletter right now: preview.mailerlite.com/v5g0e1m4q5

Caption competition

Fell for a bridge today: the transporter bridge over the Tees in Middlesbrough. It made so many parts of my brain sparkle at once. 🤩

Caption competition

Out noooooow! It looks like there are still some signed hardbacks of this little beauty from @bethkesh.bsky.social available, so get on it people…I just went to order before remembering in the nick of time that I’d already preordered. 😂

The Shirley Jackson Award nominees have been announced! Massive congrats to everyone on the list - and especially Aussies @angelaslatter.bsky.social and @kaaronwarren.bsky.social! www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2026/05/28/n... #OceaniaSFF #AustralianSFF