Due to excessive levels of chaos (I blame the sun) this week's Writeopolis has unfortunately had to be postponed. But Stark will return triumphant next season!!

This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @starkholborn.bsky.social! discord.gg/sNmhySRn9

Next up we have the return of @starkholborn.bsky.social! Novelist, games writer, film reviewer; there's never a shortage of things to discuss with Stark on the show! Author of For The Road, the Factus Sequence, Triggernometry & Nunslinger - clearly we need to discuss her excellent naming tactics!

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @dancoxon.bsky.social! discord.gg/sNmhySRn9

This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @dancoxon.bsky.social! discord.gg/sNmhySRn9

S14 continues with @dancoxon.bsky.social! Dan has won a World Fantasy Award, a Saboteur Award and two British Fantasy Awards! His fiction anthologies include the strange & unsettling Unquiet Guests, stories inspired by Mythago Wood in Heartwood & the tragic high school yearbook of For Tomorrow.

Tonight! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social! discord.gg/cuYEJVvXn

@mahmudelsayed.bsky.social is my @jjbker.bsky.social agent sibling, fellow London SFF author and all round good dude. I can’t wait to read The Republic of Memory but in the meantime, you can check out this talk with @writeopolis.bsky.social👇

This Sunday! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social discord.gg/EKGe4CeU8

It's that time again! Season 14 kicks off next week with the brilliant @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social Mahmud is a British-Egyptian SFF writer and translator. A former journalist, he now writes about generation ships, sentient libraries and memory taxes instead.

Season 14 is closing in fast so we'd best get announcing guests!! 26th April - Kicking things off we have @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social! A former journalist, Mahmud now writes about generation ships, sentient libraries and memory taxes instead. His debut, The Republic of Memory, comes out on 14th May

Tonight! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @realjacksonford.bsky.social! discord.gg/8NuEA7wz

This Sunday! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @realjacksonford.bsky.social ! discord.gg/8NuEA7wz

Closing out this glorious season is the fabulous @realjacksonford.bsky.social! Jackson's latest series starts with The Bone Raiders & follows a bone-wearing clan who decide riding giant fire-breathing lizards (totally not dragons) is the only way to stop every raider in the land being wiped out.

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social! discord.gg/WaGFxYGs

This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social !! discord.gg/WaGFxYGs

Our next guest is the wonderful @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social Charlotte is an author, ghostwriter, freelance editor, proofreader, reviewer and podcaster! The Fireborne Blade & The Bloodless Princes duology follows a knight trying to steal a sword from a dragon! Sapphic women with swords FTW!

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @thomasdlee.bsky.social ! discord.gg/SNGXZWg8

This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @thomasdlee.bsky.social !! discord.gg/SNGXZWg8

Next up we have @thomasdlee.bsky.social! Tom's Sunday Times bestselling debut, Perilous Times, sees Sir Kay & his fellow knights awakened from their mythical slumber in modern times. Britain is divided, there's a dragon, & Kay is not the only ancient & terrible thing to crawl out of the ground...

Tonight! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @nicholaseames.bsky.social ! discord.gg/DvxNQKWG

This Sunday! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @nicholaseames.bsky.social! discord.gg/DvxNQKWG

Season 13 continues with @nicholaseames.bsky.social Nicholas is the author of The Band series, which starts with Kings of the Wyld and follows a band of mercenaries that have long split up and grown old and drunk. Until an old bandmate turns up with a plea for help...

Tonight! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @aliettedebodard.com ! discord.gg/jqDpubdP

This Sunday! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @aliettedebodard.com !! discord.gg/jqDpubdP

After the chaos of the One Star Quiz, we return to the normal Writeopolis format with the wonderful Aliette de Bodard! @aliettedebodard.com writes speculative fiction: she has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award and six British Science Fiction Association Awards!

It's One Star Quiz day!! Join us tonight, 8:30pm UK time, live in the Discord with @lauramauro.bsky.social @stewarthotston.com @worrad.bsky.social and Kayleigh Dobbs for all the chaos! discord.gg/AWaD9x4E

It's almost time! The tapirs are prepared, the hand is smally, and Scott is already on -5 points! Join us this Sunday, 11th January, 8:30pm live in the Discord where all this, and more, will continue to make no sense at all! discord.gg/AWaD9x4E

looking forward to maintaining my usual flawless levels of independent adjudication....see you there quizzers

Woohoo!

It's almost One Star Quiz time! Join us for chaos & confusion with independent adjudicator @lauramauro.bsky.social Temporary team captain @stewarthotston.com The brilliant @worrad.bsky.social & the fantastic Kayleigh Dobbs! Next Sunday, 11th January, 8:30pm in the Discord! discord.gg/TYBF6T7c

I'm looking forward to chatting with the Writeopolis gang in February! Based on my previous interactions with @rjbarker.bsky.social I'm sure chaos will reign and @katiebruce.bsky.social will regret putting us in the same Zoom call

The truth is I never left the studio. They just let me out of the cupboard twice a year.

A wild season 13 appears on the horizon, full of the cheer of the One Star Quiz!! That's right we will be bringing in the new year in the most smally like hand way on the 11th January with @stewarthotston.com @worrad.bsky.social Kayleigh Dobbs and @lauramauro.bsky.social adjudicating independently!

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @michaelrmiller.bsky.social for a fabulous season finale! discord.gg/cJH9H3XTs

This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @michaelrmiller.bsky.social Join us! discord.gg/bqqcbpwV

Closing out the season & year we have @michaelrmiller.bsky.social! Because what could be more festive than dragons Michael's Songs of Chaos series has a kitchen boy who rescues a doomed dragon egg and vows to protect the blind dragon within. The latest in the series, Reckoning, was released in Sept

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @shaunalawless.bsky.social!! discord.gg/Q7UDuQDh

This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @shaunalawless.bsky.social!! discord.gg/Q7UDuQDh

Next week we have mythology queen @shaunalawless.bsky.social! Shauna is an author & blogger from County Down. Her critically acclaimed Gael Song series combines Irish mythology with real-life history. It starts with The Children Of Gods And Fighting Men, full of Vikings & magic, kings & warriors!

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @cameronjohnston.bsky.social !! discord.gg/gGXUqYxNm

This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @cameronjohnston.bsky.social!! discord.gg/JaeqQ7yR

Our next guest is the wonderful Cameron Johnston! @cameronjohnston.bsky.social's books include The Maleficent Seven - 'Seven Samurai, but villains' The Last Shield - 'gender-flipped Die Hard in a mysterious castle'. & First Mage On The Moon - couldn't find a one-liner but it's mages on the moon!

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord! With @phokion.bsky.social discord.gg/XBF9sNBnE

Whalesong is out now! So we expect you all to have read it before Sunday so you can ask @phokion.bsky.social all the questions!

This Sunday! 8:30pm UK time (which will be GMT because hosting a show on the day the clocks change will definitely not cause any issues) With @phokion.bsky.social !! Live in the Discord discord.gg/P3ZZgMXH

Next up we have the delightful @phokion.bsky.social! And he's bringing along his alter ego Miles Cameron! With over 50 books already published, there's a lot to talk about! His latest historical fantasy, The Venetian Heretic, is set amongst the magic of Carnevale in Venice - with added espionage!

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord! With @stevetoase.bsky.social!

This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @stevetoase.bsky.social Join us for talk of horror, archaeology, motorbikes, vintage cocktails and cake! discord.gg/TnVuER79

Just a reminder, LONDON FOLKS, I will be in your fair city talking about folk horror and fantasy at COVENT GARDEN, Waterstone on the 7TH OF OCT. It should be Very fancy.