ISSUE 13 - OUT NOW! 🌌🌌 All-new science fiction stories and poems. Free to read on our website: www.radonjournal.com/issue13

Ex Partum is officially out TODAY! Which is exciting enough. But also, @boriscrito.bsky.social says it's intense and flows kinetic (and we all know he does the MOST GRIPPING stories). You can get your book now through any local or online retailer! emmaburnett.carrd.co #booksky 🪐📚

Look, I don't wax enthusiastically on here enough about books I've really enjoyed so let me break that trend by urging you to GO PICK THIS UP AND READ IT. It's on my top ten reads for this year and I think it'll connect with a lot of you. [maybe uncomfortably so]

Add this to your TBR or the bureaucratic state will be used against you.

It's here! Release Day for Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social. 🔥 Are you ready to relax into the perfectly packaged life? "heartrending” —Ai Jiang “*phenomenal*” —Michelle A. Chikaonda “brilliant and characterful” —Miles Cameron emmaburnett.carrd.co #NewRelease #BookSky #SciFi #SFF

Happy book birthday to @slashnburnett.bsky.social! @atthisarts.com

This was one of the best things that I read last year. Strongly recommended. Out today! emmaburnett.carrd.co

But how will we destroy the environment, the economy, and society now?

oh no how will we generate pure unrefined mediocrity from the midden heap of stolen human interactions where will I get my fresh artbarf, my hot steaming infoslurry

Ex Partum is officially out TODAY! Which is exciting enough. But also, @boriscrito.bsky.social says it's intense and flows kinetic (and we all know he does the MOST GRIPPING stories). You can get your book now through any local or online retailer! emmaburnett.carrd.co #booksky 🪐📚

excited for @slashnburnett.bsky.social 's book launch tomorrow! everybody check it out! :) thrill of a read! emmaburnett.carrd.co 😀 ❤️

Israel said it would sabotage peace deals and it did. Voila. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

This is THE. COOLEST. EVER.

Did you know it's almost @slashnburnett.bsky.social's book birthday? Ex Partum is coming out this week! I got lucky and received an advanced copy. It surprised me how deeply engaged I got with this big brother vs. motherhood story. bookshop.org/p/books/ex-p...

Ex Partum is officially out tomorrow, though there have been sightings of it in the wild already. @machikaonda.bsky.social says it’s phenomenal (and we all know she’s an absolute DYNAMO). If this sounds like its up your alley, you can pre-order it here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #booksky 🪐📚

Pssst… JK Rowling’s house has a gender neutral bathroom in it.

Ex Partum is on the Oxford Clarion’s ‘Dark Reads for Bright Days’ reading list. That makes it newsworthy. Also ft. @chronicleflask.katday.com, Sarah Mughal, Lucy Atkins, Eve Smith, Susanna Clarke

Oh to be a stay at home cat.

reading #novelette submissions for @foofarawpress.bsky.social for our winter '26 issue and into 2027. gimme: -genre-bendy slipstream -female-identifying/nonbinary mc's -stories unafraid of addressing that the world is a mess -stories that explore creative solutions -every definition of hybridism

Ex Partum is in the world next week. @aijiang.bsky.social says it’s heartrending (and we all she rends the MOST hearts). If this sounds like its up your alley, you can pre-order it here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #booksky 🪐📚

Pssst… JK Rowling’s house has a gender neutral bathroom in it.

Ex Partum comes out on Tuesday. Here's what @phokion.bsky.social has to say about the book (and we all know he has the absolute BEST words!) If this sounds like a a book for you, you can pre-order it here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #booksky 🪐📚

In case today is a day where you need to see pictures of kittens, I got you.

When I teamed up with public radio and the Jim Henson Legacy group to work on the Muppets documentaries, we came up with the idea for Cobblestones. Little did I know that my friend Julio would want to bring it back to interview me about my new novella. The tables have turned! 😍 youtu.be/1eEDJk7pXZ8

Ex Partum is officially out next week. Here's what @mynachang.bsky.social thought of it (and we all know she has SUPERB taste in stories). Sound like it's up your alley? I hope so! Pre-order here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #booksky 🪐📚

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. H/T @metjam.co.uk

Person on the train: Hello! Me: That’s quite enough.

Don’t worry if you were a little bit of a bitch today. There’s always tomorrow. You can be a bigger bitch then.

Just $10 to $9k!! 😲 Who's gonna push us over?? 👀👀

Don’t worry if you were a little bit of a bitch today. There’s always tomorrow. You can be a bigger bitch then.

The secret, my dudes, is to not believe every meme out there. -me

Too soon, but

Nazi content in your life is like polonium in your blood- the correct amount is zero

Me: Aw, you think I’m pretty Therapist: I said you’re pretty wild Me: Potato, tomato

There’s no social event I go to where someone new I meet doesn’t end up talking about how terribly their business is being fucked over by AI.

NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve.news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. www.thenerve.news/p/investigat... 1/

Good things come in more than three! Not just talking about my novella Hornytown Chutzpah, but I've had the fortune to read @slashnburnett.bsky.social Ex Partum and Clara Ward's Down the Deep and both are so good. Check out the reviews on the publisher's page! www.atthisarts.com/product/horn...

Struggling to blast through @rfkuang.bsky.social’s Katabasis, not because it’s bad, but because it’s SO GOOD. Like, every paragraph is an accurate read of postgrad life, of OxBridge, of the classics. It’s making me laugh, and it’s giving me anxiety, and I’m forced to take my damn time over it. Wild.

there is no horror horrific enough My god how do we even go on after this

If you were unsure about how batshit crazy politics has gotten, check out this decision making.

On holiday with my partner’s family for some Organised Fun. Someone send a silent, zero eye contact rescue party.

And it's a THIRD finalist for our 2025 books! So much joy to say that Wolf's Path by @jolantru.bsky.social is a finalist for the British Fantasy Awards! Congratulations, Wolf, so deserved. 💐 And THANK YOU to the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social membership for seeing our stunning, immersive, trans book! 💫

Need something to listen to on your walk in the sunshine? Check out this fun review of Ex Partum in Bookshelf in the Wasteland. Just a note, though, it's deffo available in paperback. open.spotify.com/episode/7Fs3...

Order early and often

We usually aren't mentioned in the indie novella discourse, but we'd really love the community to see our work, because reviewers sure are. Here are three for 2026. Do they have your eye? Please let people know. Boosts always so appreciated. ❤️

With FIYAH going on indefinite hiatus it's really fucking important we support the mags publishing POC. If you have the means, support the things you love or they will disappear. Everyone's probs sick as fuck of hearing it but a magazine for Black voices stopped publishing today, it isn't abstract.

Very sad news because FIYAH is a great magazine. If you want to support the magazine and also show how much FIYAH means to the genre, go and buy some back issues or subscribe. fiyahlitmag.com/shop/

You have to support the projects you love with money. I am sorry we do not live in a world where that is not the truth.

Ex Partum officially drops in 12 days (but who’s counting? 😆). Get your copy reserved!

Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself