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

And speaking of reading, I stupidly only brought two carry-on sized bags on the plane this year. So I couldn’t get all the books I wanted. But this still isn’t a bad haul 😍

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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

Y’all, I’m still starstruck from seeing one of my literary heroes @stephengrahamjones.com. @mkhardywrites.com’s interview was fantastic. I particularly loved the talk on the resurgence of slasher stories due to a collective realization that the world isn’t naturally guided by justice.

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

Next was the eldritch and uncanny by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social, @benedictanning.bsky.social and @inkyrosey.bsky.social All their books sound deliciously terrifying. A brilliant talk with @beckywojturska.bsky.social on: horror as a dwelling, horror through isolation and childhood fears.

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

After that I took this workshop with Samantha Davey. She made it a really supportive environment where I felt fully supported in the writing exercise where I tried to turn story of Prometheus’ capture and torture by Zeus into a queer, fantastical Western.

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

The next panel was @sunyidean.com and @lyndseycroal.bsky.social’s ghost stories. A great discussion on Hong Kong’s experience of WWII, why so many ghosts tend to be women and why it doesn’t make sense for them to haunt cemeteries.

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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

Next was a conversation about the evolution of gothic literature between @samkhorton.bsky.social @charlottecross.bsky.social @amyjanestewart.bsky.social and MK Hardy. Really insightful and interesting comments on agency, atmosphere, landscape and architecture in the gothic.

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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 · 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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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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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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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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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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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 27/06/2025

Paul Lynch was at the Irish Cultural Center of Paris last night. His thoughts on the historical rise and fall of rationality was interesting, if bleak. Though his statement on fiction’s ability to inspire empathy, where other information sources fail, was surely inspiring to any writers in the crowd

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

Final obligatory book haul photo. The stands in the Creators’ Hall have helped add more glorious wordy weight to my bookshelves, I’m looking at you @lunapress.bsky.social, @knighterrantpress.bsky.social and Daphne Press! (16/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

All good things end and the perfectly-named final event was Happily Never After with @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social and @ryherman.bsky.social. Their comments on the how fairy tales evolve to fit social norms were fascinating, inspiring, sometimes terrifying and sometimes hilarious! (15/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

After that was the open mic hosted by the wonderful @mkhardywrites.com where it was a massive (and nerve-racking) pleasure to get to read next to a bunch of really brilliant writers! Every year I’m blown away by the vibrancy and diversity of the SFFH writing community in Edinburgh! (14/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

After that was “Folklores and Other Stories” with @vlatinalondon.bsky.social, @lyndseycroal.bsky.social and @gustaffovargas.bsky.social. The talk on modernizing, adapting, translating and interpreting folklores was so brilliant that the books sold out before I could get to the bookseller! 😱 (13/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

Sunday was a bit calmer, Started of with an Inside SFFH publishing discussion with @kirstenlaaaang.bsky.social from @zenoagency.bsky.social, who talked about querying agents, the submission process, how agents work with writers and how trends change and repeat themselves in the SFFH market. (12/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

Finished off this literature marathon with a celebration of ten years of “Shoreline of Infinity” - a great magazine of Scottish speculative fiction! The SFFH inspired music of @pcpq.bsky.social was brilliant and the readings were wonderful! What a way to finish the day! (11/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

Next was What Blood Buys with @iameeadams.bsky.social and @samkhorton.bsky.social whose books explore Appalachian and Cornish folklore in new contexts. Adams’ thoughts on imperfect protagonists and Horton’s stories of the more “murdery” parts of folklore added two new books to my tbr list! (10/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

The next panel, License to Write with @vlatinalondon.bsky.social and @clclark.bsky.social , was the filled to the brim with fans! I loved the discussion on writing characters vulnerabilities. Also, my jaw dropped every ten seconds or so at how superhumanly prolific these two writers are! (9/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

Next was Dark Traditions with @whyiwrite.bsky.social and Andrew Michael Hurley. Their thoughts on how communities cling to harmful traditions in the name of civilization and how memorializing wars has been warped for nationalist ends are a terrifying contemporary issues. (8/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

Next was the panel discussion on time travel with @bingewriting.bsky.social, @roisinmcd.bsky.social and Adam Oyebanji. Really interesting thoughts on writing as an act of time traveling, advocating for the future requiring dialogue with the past and how memory and time form identity. (7/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

Then I went to the Inside SFFH publishing panel with @jessgofton.bsky.social, PR and Marketing Manager at Solaris. An informative discussion into how PR and marketing teams work with authors. (6/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

Saturday was a marathon, starting out with @tiffaniangus.bsky.social’s incredibly useful workshop on writing witches. It was a great balance of exploring historical and contemporary writing techniques in literature about witches and writing exercises. (5/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

The second panel I saw was on an upcoming @commapress.bsky.social anthology: The Monster, Capital. Editor Ra Page and contributors Sanjida Kay and @bronteschiltz.bsky.social discussed the slippery and terrifying ethics of scientific and cultural movements in a capitalist society. (4/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

The #Cymera Festival started with the panel featuring T.L. Huchu, J.J. Marr and @emmanewman.bsky.social Their thoughts on genre, politics and writing were brilliant. I also learned about a pirate cocktail called “Bumbo”🍹Is there, I don’t know, a pirate bar in Edinburgh where I can try this? (3/17)

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David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com · 09/06/2025

But before the festival, there was Edinburgh’s literary history to explore! First I did a little literary tourism at the place where Arthur Conan Doyle was born. Nearby was Topping & Company bookstore where I made the first of many book purchases this weekend. (2/17)

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