Sending out decision emails for @folkloricmag.bsky.social tomorrow! Can’t wait to start putting the first edition together!

My novel Ghost Daddy Issues has been longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize! www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/news/lucy-ca... 📚💙

Two incredible writing things happened in the same week! Could 2025 be MY YEAR?!

My short story ‘Hostile Takeover’ sees the light of day at the end of the month in Hooded: Science Fiction. Thank you @crowvuslit.bsky.social ! Get your copy March 31st! 💙📚

We are practically BURSTING with excitement at the prospect of reading your submissions. But, like not in a weird way. In a very cool, normal way. forms.gle/Cti8ciVYWqLA... #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #callforsubs #submissioncall #literarymagazinesubmissions #opencall #callforentries #callforsubmissions

After months of work and prep, we are finally open for subs! Looking forward to some incredible artwork and short stories! 💙📚

Get ready, people! #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #callforsubs #submissioncall #literarymagazinesubmissions #opencall #callforentries #callforsubmissions #artwork #shortstories

Opening in less than a week! THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #callforsubs #submissioncall #literarymagazinesubmissions #opencall #callforentries #callforsubmissions #artwork #shortstories www.patreon.com/posts/122403...

A third of the way through my WIP first draft. A small milestone today 💙📚

We cannot wait to share this story! Readers, keep your eyes peeled for Hooded:Science Fiction! [Out 31st March] 🚀👽🪐🍃⚛️⚗️ #SciFiLit #BookSky #Hooded #SciFi

Just found out that I’m going to have my first short story published next month! 🥹 💙📚

Just a reminder: our submission period will be open March 14-28! Head over to our Patron for more info! #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #callforsubs #opencall #callforentries #callforsubmissions #shortstories #artwork www.patreon.com/posts/122403...

In testing the print-on-demand service we plan to use for @folkloricmag.bsky.social I have self published one of my plays. 😁 mixam.co.uk/print-on-dem...

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! Our submission period will be open March 14-28! We are looking for short stories and artwork. Follow this link to our patron for more details about what we are looking for! www.patreon.com/posts/122403... #litmag #folklore 💙📚 #callforsubs

Currently devouring

Paul Bunyan & his blue ox Babe are working class and fashion icons. don't @ me #litmag #folklore 💙📚

Whether it is the food, the stitching, the dances, the songs, or the stories, Palestinians have never abandoned their roots burrowed deep under the foundations of this new apartheid ethnostate. Always and forever, #freepalestine Read the full post: www.patreon.com/posts/folklo... 💙📚

ITS ALIVE! 💙📚

Something big and exciting is happening tomorrow and I’m SO BLOODY EXCITED! 😜 #litmag 💙📚

Support bringing the work of #PalestinianArtists to @edfringe.bsky.social ! Donate or share! #theatre #theatresky #edfringe2025 #freepalestine www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/welcome-to...

I’m not a fae but I’m convinced this is what any baby of mine would look like. And I would call her Goblynne. Lynne for short.

Today's moss.

Authors of #booksky, explain your story badly: Watch a grown woman learn that dads are still hard to connect with even when they are haunting you.

A new #StarterPack of writers, well worth following, who are also seeking an agent. If you want to be included, then like, share, follow, ask in the chat, and I'll include you. And to writers/readers in general, please share so we can include more fine talents here #booksky #writing #writers #agents

If they insist on using AI in the creative industries I’m willing to help train it to give a pill to my cat. Cause that little furry bitch is smart and I’m all out of ideas.

My brother told me he wanted to do a “self-lead thesis” on “how snakes listen to music” No, he doesn’t have a degree in biology. Or zoology. Or ophiology. He has a degree in music and a persistent refusal to engage with reality. I foresee animal endangerment charges.

I have opinions about the Citizens Theatre in #Glasgow advertising jobs on the @artscouncilengland.bsky.social website!!! Six years we’ve waited for it to be open and the smart money says they are not going to hire from the local pool of theatre makers desperate for work. FFS

Any #publishers or #literaryagents looking for a manuscript that’s funny, imaginative, and Scottish? Because I just got ANOTHER rejection email saying it was too funny 🤔😩😬

Introduce yourself with One book📚 One film 🎥 One album 💿 One show 📺 💙📚

Took a break from fiction for a little WIP research 💙📚🐪🤠

Breezed through the last one, but I tend to be slower with short stories. Book 5 of the year starting….. NOW 💙📚

Looking for a new #litmag to read, support, and enjoy? I’m about to launch @folkloricmag.bsky.social in the next few weeks! Give us a follow! 💙📚

On to book number 3 of 2025! 📚💙

I liked the idea of this challenge, but now I’m not so sure. Or maybe I’m bored.

Challenge for authors: post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations 🪐📚 💙📚 8/20 Her eyes crack open like a two-thousand-year-old tomb at the hands of British “explorers.”

Any #Glasgow based #theatremakers want to get into playwriting in 2025? Join my 6-week course! www.frankieregalia.com/events-1/one...

Challenge for authors: post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations 🪐📚 💙📚 7/20 A thought stabs through Fia’s mind like a hot knife through soft butter.

Challenge for authors: post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations 🪐📚 💙📚 6/20 She turns the wicked grin of the craftily drunk to her father’s ghost.

Just because a book is funny doesn’t make it satirical. I feel this is a point that big book reviewers and marketers need reiterated to them. 📚💙

Challenge for authors: post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations 🪐📚 💙📚 5/20 The bestiality of the whole plan comes crashing down on her like a pile of particularly traumatizing bricks and she pulls herself back across the bar with such force that she loses her footing.

Finally recovered enough from my ill was to stare at my phone screen

What did we get for Christmas back in Ireland this year? Sick. We got sick.

Challenge for authors: post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations 🪐📚 💙📚 4/20 In alignment with the immovable law of the universe, Fia sleeps deeply and completely for as long as necessary to catch up on the sleep she lost the night before and wakes up feeling like a zombie.

Challenge for authors: post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations 🪐📚 💙📚 2/20 The air is thick the atmosphere of two socially inept people having to confront parting from one another under awkward circumstances.

What do you mean Christmas dinner is a struggle? Well, my mother-in-law just said that CELERY has a strong flavor. So, that’s kinda what I’m dealing with…

Challenge for authors: post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations 🪐📚 💙📚 2/20 No one wants to get pissed with their dad’s ghost watching. That’s just depressing.

Challenge for authors: post 1 sentence a day from any project for 20 days. No explanations 🪐📚 💙📚 1/20 She proceeds to have a perfectly reasonable reaction: screaming her head off, toppling out of her armchair, and throwing JD Salinger's seminal work of annoying teenage boys at the ghost.

Saw someone else out up their writing goals and I loved that, so here’s mine for Dec (since it’s almost over) & Jan: - finish first draft of speculative play 🎭 - launch literary magazine & open submissions 🪐📚 - start editing first 20k words of magical realism novel 💙📚

The older I get the less I can tolerate children and the more they like me 🤷‍♀️