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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

<totters out onto porch> <settles into rocker> <thumps cane a few times> Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 12/10/2025

We have been on the shortlist for the Ignytes every year since they started and I did not think we would ever actually win an Ignyte but we just won an Ignyte??? Huge if true!!!

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Aaaaahhhhhhh this is such an honour!! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! 😭🎉🎉🎉😭

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Tom Emanuel @realtomemanuel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

People took all the wrong lessons from Tolkien (fantasy race determinism, long-prophesied return of the king, lore coming out your ears) and none of the right ones (subversive heroes who succeed through failure, overwhelming grief at the passing of an enchanted world).

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/01/2025

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am currently in a place of personal optimism I've not felt in a long time. I have also been avoiding social media and the news as much as possible. Half an hour scrolling on Bluesky for the first time in two months and I can feel that optimism starting to dial down.

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

THIS TINY STORY IS INCREDIBLE 😨😱😨 An utterly perfect piece of flash fiction.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

existence pushes towards love community and freedom, because CREATION is what we were built to do and creation thrives with these things as fuel. IT GETS BETTER. LOVE IS REAL. however this change comes in up and down waves. its not a straight line and should not be expected to be

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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 02/11/2024

General subs call, so: fantasy stories <6k, originals or reprints. You can send one of each at a time, and submit as soon as you're rejected, so get sending!

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

It was an honour to guest host this episode for our tentacled sister! This is a powerful, important story... do go give it a listen.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

RIP Greg Hildebrandt (January 23, 1939 – October 31, 2024)

Hildebrandt's poster for the original Star Wars Luke Skywalker holding his lightsaber Loft Princess Leia with her blaster Darth Vader's helmet looming gigantic in the sky the Death Star X-Wing Fighters glorious science fiction landscape just coming into being

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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 01/11/2024

This is a great interview but this answer just made me miss the ‘90s so bad

Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you're hunting, to feel like you're living your life. I'm going to the movies, I'm going to this show. What streaming has done-it's very convenient, but it's taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we're all just being fed. We're all farm animals that are just being fed, and we're being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We'll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone's depressed.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I have to be honest, it's such a shock to see Handala's face. I'm so honoured that this is one of the rare depictions like that. If you know, you know why its so powerful. @deltahead.bsky.social is doing such great work!

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 22/10/2024

The @societyofauthors.bsky.social “encourages our fellow creatives to sign the AI training statement. This is a simple statement rejecting unlicenced training of generative AI models on creative work. There is no deadline, only the need for every voice.” www.aitrainingstatement.org

aitrainingstatement.org

Statement on AI training

An open letter on AI training signed by creators around the world.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Here's my report on the allegations raised against Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. I'm pissed and angry about what I've learned. Many thanks to Erin Cairns and the other people in the genre who are bringing attention to what happened. www.patreon.com/posts/114826...

patreon.com

Allegations raised against Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki | Jason Sanford

Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

This feels like a good time to share a thread of stories by African authors featured at @podcastle.org since Shingai and I took the helm. Read on for five powerful, vibrant, wonderful pieces of fantasy fiction. 🧵

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

We don't want support withdrawn from BIPOC writers, particularly other writers from the same demographic as retribution and punishment. Please uplift and support writers from African countries. There are many writers living there who are doing incredible work! That's all I got.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Agree and I also think it's important not to stigmatize or shun writers who do end up in WotF without knowledge of the cult—some folks don't find out until later, sadly, but I've heard horror stories of finalists/winners getting horrible treatment for something *they didn't know about beforehand* :\

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 26/10/2024

For example, it's good practice to make a frequent habit of warning newer writers away from the predatory cult of the Church of Scientology/Writers of the Future. That's an easy one.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

No listen this is correct. Nobody who has 20 stories or is an editor and had no previous contact with a writer with O or 2 stories should slide into any new writer's dm and say: yo you wanna write a story with me?? I could change your career *TM.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Well, first up, my solidarity with Erin, and with all other people affected — and in hope of accountability. But also, while this is about the actions of one individual, it’s also not *just* about that: it’s also about an industry climate that has enabled this. I want to talk a bit about that. 🧵

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 26/10/2024

You may be inclined to skepticism or defense particularly if he is a person in whom you've invested energy. But I say this, with a visible career that will back up that I do not relish falling on this side of discourse about a Black man: Leave it. There is too much.

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

OMG Tunnocks Caramel Wafer Henge!! also the realisation that I am not the only one who makes henges out of random items at any given opportunity

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

The wonderful @podcastle.org has reprinted/narrated my 2015 flash "What Wags the World" along with two other dog stories. Bring a tissue. podcastle.org

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PodCastle

PodCastle - The Fantasy Fiction Podcast

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ErinLindiCairns @erincairns.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Here is my report on my experience with unethical behavior and bad faith dealings of Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. ethicsreport.tiiny.site

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ODE_Ethics Report

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 13/09/2024

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful weekend!✨ UK followers, keep looking out for the northern lights . . . www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

theguardian.com

Sky gazers in UK catch northern lights again – with more to come tonight

Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England had best views, with sightings as far south as Kent

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 08/09/2024

Oh my goodness Firstly, this is a fabulous story from Charlie Sorrenson, with a pitch-perfect narration from Rebecca Wei Hsieh. Secondly, it really is a marvellous rant from Matt. “Boys will be boys […] four simple words that are at once acceptance, and permission, and a warning not to challenge”

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

GO LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT NOW do it just do it... you won't regret a second of its gorgeousness

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

We are so thrilled to be honoured at the Hugos like this and cannot thank you all enough for your support! This is a really special one for our entire team so thank you so much ❤️

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Wynn Thornton @northwind.myatproto.social · 12/08/2024

There once was a man From Rabu, whose lim'ricks all Looked like haiku. He Said with a laugh, "I Cut them in half. The pay is Much better for two!"

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

It's been amazing hanging out with my EA fam this weekend!! 🐉🏰🎙(Also Flying Castle crew not pictured: @mattdovey.com, Kaitlyn Zivanovich, and @quitevague.bsky.social)

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 22/07/2024

Incredible finalist list! Especially delighted for @castofwonders.org and @podcastle.org !

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Ignyte voting is now open through Aug 31 and it's free to participate! No membership required. We encourage you to read/engage with the work of these finalists to inform your vote. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

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Vote, The Ignyte Awards

Public voting for the 2024 Awards is now OPEN. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN NOVEMBER

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Hey. How's it going? Can we interest you in some Ignyte Award finalists? 👀

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Delighted to announce that PodCastle is an Ignyte finalist again!! 🎉🔥🎉🔥🎉 Huge congrats to our fellow nominees, especially our little sis @castofwonders.org!

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Rachael K. Jones @rachaelkjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Wow. @mattdovey.com positively sucker-punching me in the feels with his outtro commentary, which is by turns powerful, incisive, righteously angry, and damning. Made me cry in the car. Send this speech to Congress and give Matt an award already 🔥

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Team Two Dogs @lchanwrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

If there is too much politics on your feed, take a break and marvel at Telly's tongue

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

Wow, looks like I picked a helluva day to poke my head over the social media parapet for the first time in months...

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ALT: Upisnotjump Kitchen GIF

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Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures @glasgow2024.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

The nominations for the Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards close today so don’t forget to get your nominations in! For full information about the nomination process please see our webpages glasgow2024.org/hugo... 1/2

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Hugo Awards - Nomination Ballot | Glasgow 2024

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 28/02/2024

...think of PodCastle? Please? I am very proud of all the work everyone else puts in so tirelessly, every week, to keep that astonishingly intricate enterprise running, to gently put out the kind of stories we think can reshape the way the world thinks in the hopes it's better for everyone

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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 30/01/2024

#PC 824: The Portal Keeper by @lavietidhar.bsky.social narrated by @erwrites.bsky.social. Rated PG. Previously published in Uncanny. podcastle.org/2024/01/30/p...

PodCastle Episode 824:The Portal Keeper by Lavie Tidhar narrated by Eleanor R. Wood.
October 1st

The rabbit was back this morning. It stopped outside the portal like it always does and it checked its pocket watch like it always does. It doesn’t matter — the rabbit’s always late.
So far I’ve never found out what the rabbit is late for. It wore a jazzy waistcoat. It looked nervously from side to side and mumbled to itself. Then it hopped through the portal and was gone.
I trimmed the grass hedges and washed the flagstones and placed fresh seeds in the bird feeder. I’m a portal keeper. The portal just sits there, a circle of heavy etched metal the height of three men or one small giant. It shimmers like a mirror inside. I cleaned and wiped the metal, applying polish. The metal is etched with what could be ancient runes or could be manual instructions. I don’t know what it means. I’m just the keeper.

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Breaking my Bluesky silence to say hey, cyclists - PLEASE STOP USING FLASHING LIGHTS ON YOUR BIKES. You might think they're making you safer, but in fact the opposite is true. For motorists like myself and the millions of other migraine sufferers who drive, flashing lights put both of us at risk.

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Cyclamen season is the best season.

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

I have made liver cake. My house smells awful, but the dogs are Very Interested.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 11/10/2023

We are still assessing the financial damage caused by Amazon closing its magazine subscription program. We know we've lost hundreds of subscribers in the process. If you were one of them, or were thinking of subscribing, here are your options: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

I’m doing a fundraiser for Purrs of Point Cook (the cat rescue I got Maze and Pan from!) Send me a donation receipt of any amount and I’ll crit a short story up to $6k! ✨✨✨ www.purrsofpointcook.com.au/donate

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

My flash piece, "Variations on Heisenberg's Third Concerto", which first appeared in Nature: Futures, is now available in Spanish audio!

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