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Łukasz Drobnik

@drobnik.co
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Fiction writer, author of VOSTOK, RIVERINE & NOCTURINE. Words in Split Lip Magazine, HAD, Fractured Lit, Foglifter, etc. He/him. Website: drobnik.co

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“You remember his first words. You remember him naming a branch that wasn’t there.” “You die and die and die.” @drobnik.co in @cartridgelit.bsky.social cartridgelit.com/2026/08/31/d...
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Death Howl | Cartridge Lit
Trunks shoot fire. Crocodiles pierce through you. Snails bite and retreat to their shells. (If only you returned to your son’s arms.) Frogs barf copies of themselves. You start to realize you’ll never...
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 31/08/2026
My first flash fiction publication in YEARS! “Death Howl” was inspired by the haunting, punishing game from The Outer Zone / 11 Bit Studios. Thank you @cartridgelit.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home! 🧡
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 31/08/2026
Look what I’ve got! Congrats again, @pdforan.bsky.social! 🧡
A book by Pat Foran titled Songs from the Blimp Ruins held against the late-summer verdure of a park
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 29/08/2026
Ah, this gut punch of a flash that’s at the same time weirdly wholesome and heartwarming. Stellar writing from @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social!
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 02/08/2026
This beautiful micro by @rgvaughan.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute says so much with so little: ghostparachute.com/issue/august...
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Larry Barely — Ghost Parachute
He wasn’t really our Dad, I called him Larry because his van smelled like Limberger cheese. And he wore brown slacks to match his wheels, the fabric sagged, and his velour shirts always reeked of reef...
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 02/08/2026
Love this ingenious hermit crab micro by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute. ghostparachute.com/issue/august...
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How Do I Clear a Search History — Ghost Parachute
How do I assess if someone is lying What are somatic “cues” Most unobtrusive GPS tracking devices How do I install a GPS tracking device Can a phone detect a hidden tracker How much does average divor...
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 29/07/2026
Love this micro ghost story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @havehashad.com 🤍
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 14/06/2026
Oh, the feeling of having just written, out of nowhere, a flash fiction. How I’ve missed you.
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 14/06/2026
Love every sentence of this FlashFlood micro by @rgvaughan.bsky.social.
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 14/06/2026
Some excellent book mail! Can’t wait to dig in. You can get these gems by @barbarabyar.bsky.social and @tcboudreau.bsky.social from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @stanchion.bsky.social, respectively.
Two books: In The Desert by Barbara Byar and Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever by Timothy Boudreau, held out against a park scenery. Barbara’s book is in the front.Two books: In The Desert by Barbara Byar and Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever by Timothy Boudreau, held out against a park scenery. Timothy's book is in the front.
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 14/06/2026
Speaking of catching up, I’m enthralled by this story by @rossshowalter.com from @theoffingmag.bsky.social.
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 14/06/2026
So writing this novel burnt me out a bit, and for months I didn’t have it in me to read or write or post. This means I’ve got a lot of catching up to do on @anniejowrites.bsky.social’s beautiful writing. Let’s start with this tiny marvel from @bendinggenres.bsky.social.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
NERVOUS and READY
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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It's @barbarabyar.bsky.social's birthday on the 27th, but she wants to give YOU the present! Share this post to be in the draw for a free copy of IN THE DESERT. Draw will be next Wednesday. If you can't wait & don't want to chance it, get yours: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/in-the-deser...
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In the Desert
IN THE DESERT  a new novel from ​Barbara Byar ORDER HERE! (Bookshop, paperback) or ORDER HERE!  (Amazon, paperback and ebook available) or  ORDER HERE! (Barnes & Noble, paperback) In the desert,...
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 31/03/2026
Happy Publication Day to the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee, @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and the long awaited, never duplicated HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
cover of March Xness Anthology, a yellow book with a cassette tape on the cover
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thank you so much @alkratz.bsky.social and Silverbacked Punk Press for believing in Songs from the Blimp Ruins (in visible ink and in Sensurround®, we think). Coming soon. 💙
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
that’s me in the corner that’s me in the spotlight writing my silly little stories hoping they find readers
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Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's PUBLICATION DAY for my debut novel, IN THE DESERT! I've been writing for decades (many) and this is such a hugely big day for me. Thank you so much to my publisher @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social for believing in this book and to everyone who has helped along the way! Links to buy in thread 1/
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Still 3 days left if you want to be a part of our unique KickStarter. Extra funds will give us freedom to experiment and afford more materials. We have ideas that we'd love to explore but I'm not a fan of promising stretch goals when more interesting things can arise organically through development.
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Obviously going to be spamming ABIDE for the next week, sorry about that. I saw a tweet that someone didn't realise it was live and I still have about 1000 followers who I haven't convinced yet about how freakishly original and exciting this work is.
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Edith has a "storied past". ABIDE is live on KickStarter now and needs your help! www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
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Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Coming in 20 days!
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Be a part of the ABIDE KickStarter and help fund one of the most unique games ever conceived! Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ABIDE. KickStarter next week!
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 14/01/2026
Many thanks to @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social for including fragments of NOCTURINE in Alien Buddha Zine #81 and The Alien Buddha’s Best of 2025 🙏
A copy of Issue 81 of Alien Buddha Zine held against a background of snow-capped trees.A copy of The Alien Buddha’s Best of 2025 held against a background of snow-capped trees.
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Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
So much fiction is ill-disguised auto-fiction (I'm guilty of it myself) so I'm delighted to say, In the Desert is 100% pure imagination. Out 3-3-2026
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 26/11/2025
Alien Buddha Zine #81 is out, and among many texts, you can read a wee excerpt of NOCTURINE! Many thanks @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social for including me 🙏
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"So sudden you didn’t have time to put your hair on. So loud your eardrums hurt" What a piece from @drobnik.co - so much intensity in this @fracturedlit.bsky.social micro
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 26/10/2025
Update: I’ve started revision 8, and I think we’re getting somewhere.
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Mashina on sale in the Steam sale! Meee-ow! Play it and review it if you fancy and if you're fancy! Are you fancy? store.steampowered.com/app/3395930/...
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Save 20% on Mashina on Steam
A little robot digs to repair her world. Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Dujanah on sale in the Steam sale! WOOF! Play it and review it if you fancy and if you're fancy! Are you fancy? Fancy pantsy take a trip to Francey? store.steampowered.com/app/681240/D...
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Save 65% on Dujanah on Steam
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 29/09/2025
I’m shit at marketing, and you can tell because I published a book nearly a month ago, and you probably haven’t heard about it. Anyway, NOCTURINE is a surreal novella in breathless paragraphs. You might enjoy it if you’re into dark, voicey stuff.
A copy of Nocturine held against some petunias. The cover features a magenta pixely jellyfish in the style of 8-bit games as well as the title and author’s name (Łukasz Drobnik) in a similarly pixely font against a black background.An open copy of Nocturine held against some petunias.
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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam
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Pay Rivers Solomon using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/riversandfam and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 04/09/2025
No, Copilot, I don’t want your help with this paragraph. And no, I don’t need your assistance pasting this one word. And it would be great if Word didn’t work so slow like we’re back in 1999, thank you.
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 02/09/2025
At long last, NOCTURINE is here! The novella had a wild publishing journey. It was supposed to be my first book published in English, but ended up being my third. Huge thanks to @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social for giving it a new home! You can get your copy here: amazon.com/NOCTURINE-%C...
The cover of Nocturine by Łukasz Drobnik with a magenta pixely jellyfish in the style of 8-bit games as well as the title and author’s name in a similarly pixely font against a black background.
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 22/08/2025
FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT by @writesloud.bsky.social has made it to Poland! 🔥🔥 Can’t wait to dig in!
A copy of First Kicking, Then Not by Hannah Grieco held against orange-spotted yellow canna lilies.
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 04/08/2025
Remember NOCTURINE? My surreal novella/linked story collection that was forthcoming for eight years but didn’t come out in the end? —It’s forthcoming again! Thank you @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social for giving the book a lovely home. Release date: September 2, 2025.
The front cover of Nocturine by Łukasz Drobnik with a magenta pixely jellyfish in the style of 8-bit games as well as the title and author’s name in a similarly pixely font against a black background.The back cover of Nocturine with the logo of Alien Buddha Press and the following text in a magenta font.

Excerpt: 

The vehicle somersaulted, I couldn't manoeuvre, the currents were too fast, red blood cells kept hitting the vehicle's walls, white blood cells opalised in the headlights, soft shreds of thrombocytes floated by, I was surrounded by the warmth of your body, I thought about the day you'd moved in, and I carried all your stuff up to the tenth floor, annoyed you were in class when I had to take a day off, after you came home, I made dinner, and then we had sex on the floor. 

Blurb:

Nocturine is a surreal apocalyptic fantasy with a literary bent and elements of horror. Six twentysomethings receive emails warning them that their city, Poznań, is about to meet its Ragnarök. Drobnik orchestrates a dazzling descent into collapse and rebirth. These are the last days of Poznań rendered in dreamlike fragments, each chapter a separate account, yet intertwined by desire, infidelity, and fate. Imagine 8-bit dreams, darkly luminous, pulsing with urgency and the promise of another beginning.

Bio:

Łukasz Drobnik is a queer Polish writer, author of Vostok and Riverine. His work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, HAD, Fractured Lit, and Foglifter. Longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, he continues to shape fiction that feels electric and strange.
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 02/08/2025
I’ve been working on this novel for more than two years and didn’t have much time to write anything else. So as a reminder (mostly to myself) I’m also a short ficion writer, let me pin some of my flash fiction pieces:
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 02/08/2025
A story by @anniejowrites.bsky.social is always a treat. Love this weird, surreal piece up at Monkeybicycle 🔥
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 02/08/2025
“There is so much blood in this, so many women. But the only blood I can speak to is my own.“ Oh, this brave, heartbreaking, powerful essay by the incredible @megpillow.bsky.social, up at @literaryhub.bsky.social.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
a haunted house where the ghosts are all the manuscripts you once treasured but have since abandoned
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Hey friends. I’m going to send a newsletter tomorrow with a bunch of reading recs & a lot of feels. If you want to receive it, you can sign up on my website contact page. I only send a few a year so it’s not a big commitment for your inbox. Thank you! 📥 www.maureenlangloss.com/contact/
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Are sex scenes really so hard to write, or are we thinking about them the wrong way? In this class, we’ll consider the power of the sex scene, and what it can accomplish in fiction and nonfiction to explore theme, character, context, and beyond. Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/summ...
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Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
So excited to be part of @stanchion.bsky.social's 🔥 2026 lineup!
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 30/06/2025
NOCTURINE, my book that was forthcoming for seven years, won’t be coming out after all. The publisher and I have decided to part ways. I’ve asked them to refund any outstanding pre-orders, but let me know if there’s any delay. 1/2
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
!!! I’m a debut novelist! This is the coolest, most welcome thing this week (and month), thank you @debutiful.bsky.social
Happy People Don't Live Here by Amber
Sparks (October 14)

As a longtime fan of Sparks, when her debut landed on my desk, I stopped everything I was doing to read the first few chapters, where an unforgettable cast of characters call a peculiar apartment complex home. If you love And I Do Not Forgive You and The Unfinished World, you'll love Happy People.
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Foglifter Press & Journal @foglifterpress.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Hi Bluesky! 🦋👋 We're Foglifter Press & Journal, a San Francisco based small press and literary journal by and for queer writers. We accept #poetry, #nonfiction, #fiction, and hybrid works during our biannual submission periods starting in May and September—and visual #art & media all year round. 🌈
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Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co · 25/06/2025
Look at this child in his first publication from 20 (!) years ago. I might not have had a stellar writing career, and the world is an even scarier place than back then, but I’m here and keep writing. Thank you all for reading and supporting me throughout literal decades! 💙
An old magazine with my story in Polish titled Astroskopia with a photo of a pensive young white man — the author.
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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Here's what I want to see in my query inbox! I want stories with unique characters taking on unique and specific stakes, conflicts that they have created from their past, problems they can't escape, with no easy solutions, and no choice but to involve the ones they love.
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Oh, you were so sad to miss my kegger launch because you're not from DC? Or maybe you just love me so much you want to attend all the events?? Here you go! Zoom launch for "First Kicking, Then Not" is on August 19th at 8PM! Register at tinyurl.com/firstkicking...
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