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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 21/09/2026

Just finishing an amazing weekend with my writing group! We’ve been meeting regularly online for over two years now and it’s fantastic when we get to do workshops in person. But online or face to face, every time we meet, I leave inspired to keep writing and to put my best into my work. 📝 📚

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 31/08/2026

The John Rylands Library in Manchester is a bibliophile’s dream! 😍📚

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 21/08/2026

I’m delighted to see my story "Sum of Parts" in the first issue of Nachtljocht alongside these other wonderful authors! Thanks to @ysgoldt.bsky.social for giving my story a home! 📖 nachtljocht.com/order.html#!...

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 17/08/2026

It was such a pleasure to interview my good friend, Peter-Adrian Altini, on his fantastic debut novel, Salt Water Pool Boy. You can find our talk on immigration, queerness, mourning and cruising over at The Masters Review. 📚📖 mastersreview.com/a-conversati...

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 19/07/2026

Afternoon in Portland 📚☕️ 🦆

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Appalachians keep cropping up in specfic right now - what's up with that? Well, here's @daviddaviddavid.com to have a think about one recent instance: "Olyoke is a book that’s begging to have a cult following," he says, "and it may get one." On Vincent Endwell:

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Olyoke by Vincent Endwell

While Vincent Endwell’s Olyoke is presented as a collection of linked stories, it reads more like parables from the scriptures of an Appalachian cult, demonstrating preoccupations with multiple ove…

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 28/06/2026

Had a great time at the launch of @bowparis.bsky.social’s second issue on the theme Healing in the Tennessee Bar. Loads of great readings, but the highlight was seeing my friend Michelle Crowell send chills through the audience in the middle of Paris’ historic heatwave 📚📝

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 13/06/2026

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Beings by Ilana Masad! @ilanaslightly.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

Winner graphic displaying the book cover of Beings by Ilana Masad!

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 08/06/2026

Just had time for one #Cymera2026 panel yesterday before my flight. A good one with @annasmithspark.bsky.social, @brigiddooks.bsky.social and Samantha Davey on the fantastical as an outlet for expression of hardships and the need to write difficult scenes fully for the integrity of their subjects.

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 07/06/2026

My Saturday at #Cymera2026 started with @catamaroon.bsky.social and @rainewilson.bsky.social talking about rewilding, ghosts of the internet, hope as necessary for survival and exploring where endings become beginnings

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 06/06/2026

Great start to #Cymera2026 yesterday with @dancoxon.bsky.social @richardstrachan.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social and Hanna Kaner discussing character, worldbuilding, magic and some writing advice to take home: “If you think something you’re writing is ‘too weird’ the double down on the weird”

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 24/05/2026

Over at the Masters Review you can find my review of Joe Bond's touching debut novel, Hope House 📚📖 mastersreview.com/book-review-...

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 29/04/2026

Just out at the Masters Review is my review of @housleydave.bsky.social's comic, extraterrestrial apocalypse, ALIENS ATTACK! mastersreview.com/book-review-...

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 13/04/2026

As a longtime reader and fan of Tin House books, I can hardly believe that I'll be going to the @mccormackwc.bsky.social's workshop in Oregon this summer! I’m so excited and terrified! I can’t wait! #mwcsummer

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 08/04/2026

My review of @justinfeinstein.bsky.social's debut novel, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored, is up on The Masters Review. A view into the uncanny valley of a fictional AI tech firm that's both funny and creepy. mastersreview.com/book-review-...

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 24/03/2026

It was such a pleasure to read and write about @ilanaslightly.bsky.social's gorgeous novel, Beings, for @strangehorizons.bsky.social. I was also delighted to see it's a finalist for a 2026 Lammy in speculative fiction! 📖📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Beings by Ilana Masad

Ilana Masad’s Beings overlaps three stories, genres, and narrators in each chapter. Readers who love literary puzzles can latch on to so many links between the stories: connections in chapter headi…

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The next feature from Tomm Moore/Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea, Secret of Kells, WolfWalkers) is called Kindred Spirits. Inspired by the below facts, it tells the New York-based story of the friendship between a Choctaw boy & an Irish emigrant child whose family have fled the ravages of the famine

Promotional artwork for animated feature Kindred Spirits. We see a Choctaw leading a horse, a blond-haired child at her ankles, the spirit of a young man on the back of the horse.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 21/01/2026

"Mom is a groupie, so when Dad has a gig, no matter how big or small, she forces us to go as a family." Read "Prodigies," new flash fiction by Drue Denmon. buff.ly/OCjfpYv

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 28/01/2026

My review of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's captivating novel, Terry Dactyl, has just gone up at The Masters Review. mastersreview.com/book-review-...

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 03/12/2025

A story by Ariel Katz about the many visible and invisible cracks and fissures in a home.

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A Severed Finger Is Rarely a Good Sign - Electric Literature

“Fissures,” flash fiction by Ariel Katz

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 06/11/2025

When your commitment to the church is lukewarm, even after you’ve been dead for hundreds of years.

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I'm Sorry, You've Reached the Wrong Messiah - Electric Literature

“Paul's Tomb,” flash fiction by Will VanDenBerg

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 12/01/2026

There are loads of great recommendations in @strangehorizons.bsky.social's review of the books of 2025. I was excited to find other reviewers also noted @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and @griffski.bsky.social's Eat the Ones You Love. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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2025 In Review: Part Two

The second part of our reviewers' picks of 2025.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Our reviewers have chimed in with the highlights of their 2025! Catch up and find something new to enjoy in this week's issue! #bookreviews #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #horror

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 05/01/2026

Some great reads in @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org’s notable books of 2025. Next to my pick of @amfaulkenbury.bsky.social’s Somewhere Past the End, I was delighted to see Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide and @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social’s Other Evolutions. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...

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ARB’s 2025 Notable Books

At the end of the year, we ask ARB’s contributors to pick just one book that they found really interesting this year: maybe already a best-seller or award-frontrunner, maybe something obscure…

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 08/12/2025

I had so much fun reading and reviewing @pfracassi.bsky.social's new novel, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre for @strangehorizons.bsky.social. A fun, intelligent slasher that, amidst all the - well - slashing, is also surprisingly delicate. 📚📖🗡️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

Fracassi addresses how easy it is to think a retirement home confirms the assumed connection of ageing to tragedy.

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 13/11/2025

In between Bostonian tourist spots and drinking obligatory pints of Samuel Adams, I had a quick peek in the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social and @mitpress.bsky.social bookstores 📚

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 11/11/2025

My theater going in NYC this trip was camp, queer, festive and absurd with Messy White Gays, Bat Boy, Queen of Versailles, Waiting for Godot and the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular! 🎭🏳️‍🌈🦇🎄

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 10/11/2025

On this trip to New York, I just got one book at the @strandbookstore.bsky.social’s Mark Z. Danielewski event. But at nearly 1250 pages, I feel like this one will contain multitudes.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

“Wonderfully weird”! “Really fun to read”! “Watch out”! (Okay, that last one was pieced out from a larger context…) Thanks to @daviddaviddavid.com at The Masters Review for this smart, generous look at Tell Me Yours: mastersreview.com/book-review-tell-me-yours-ill-tell-you-mine-by-kristina-ten/

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/10/2025

Over at The Masters Review, you can find my review of @kristinaten.bsky.social's weird and wonderful short story collection: Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine 📚📖 mastersreview.com/book-review-...

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 05/10/2025

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday evening 🦌 🏳️‍⚧️

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 03/10/2025

Easily one of my top audiobooks for this year! Nick Medina’s Sisters of the Lost Nation is brilliant!

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 13/08/2025

A flash story about the environmental effects of burning history, by Bernie Jean Schiebeling. buff.ly/GwpKhxR

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This Guilt Is 100% Renewable - Electric Literature

“The Endstate of History,” flash fiction by Bernie Jean Schiebeling

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 22/09/2025

Quick photo of my ever-growing free bookmark collection! It’s very possible that I spend more energy picking a bookmark for whatever I’m reading than I do picking an outfit for the day. 📚

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 17/09/2025

While in Oklahoma City, I found Bookish bookstore-Caboose Coffee - a really charming used bookstore/coffee shop that hosts regular literary events and sells dangerously nice oatmeal cream pies!

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 16/09/2025

On this trip to Oklahoma, I finally managed to make a stop at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur. A great center with a traditional village, dance demonstrations, exhibits and films on Chickasaw history, a restaurant and (of course) a bookshop! 📚

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 10/09/2025

While back in Oklahoma for a few days I discovered Boarding House Books in Claremore. A used bookstore that looks like it’s cozily merged with my grandma’s living room. Grandma, like me, loved influential Native literature and old timey photos of naked strongmen.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🎧 New Critical Friends for your listening devices! This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time. How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?

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Critical Friends Episode 15: On Time-Pass

Dan Hartland is joined by Sneha Pathak and Tansy Gardam to discuss the kinds of text which many don’t find worthy of criticism at all.

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 22/08/2025

My review of Kristin Kirby's fun and disturbing short story collection, Dark Worlds We Wander, is up on this week's issue at @strangehorizons.bsky.social 📚📖 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Dark Worlds We Wander by Kristin Kirby

Dark Worlds We Wander puts survival at the center of its narratives.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Today's review at @strangehorizons is @daviddaviddavid.com on Kristin Kirby's Dark Worlds We Wander (@eddiegenerous.bsky.social). David discovers a collection that is broad in form and subject matter, but in which "Kirby strikes the right balance between the profound and the practical."

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Dark Worlds We Wander by Kristin Kirby

Dark Worlds We Wander puts survival at the center of its narratives.

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 19/08/2025

I’m delighted that my story about demonic exes and doppelgängers, “The Replacement,” found a home in Issue 44 of Dark Horses Magazine! www.amazon.com/Dark-Horses-...

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