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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today we have another triplet of spotlights from our themed anthology, now online to read 🦝 In A Crossing, Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social plays with time and landscape and dark mystery in her lyrical period piece. trashcatlit.com/read-what-co... 1/3

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In case you missed it, the full pod episode with author @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social is now available to watch on Substack! Tune in to hear his thoughts on the current state of climate fiction, what animal he would choose to be in another life, and what his novel writing process really looks like.

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Book Worms: Jeff VanderMeer on Writing Annihilation and Guest Editing for Tractor Beam

Author Jeff VanderMeer reads from his newest novel, Absolution, and reflects on the evolution of the Southern Reach series and the genre of climate fiction over the past decade

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm so happy about this, and loved hearing my story dramatised in the podcast! 🐝🌸🦜🔥

Text reads: Category Winner: Other erotica: Whirlagust by Sarah Royston

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Spring is here, and Tractor Beam has made its first full trip around the sun. 🌞🌱🪱 For our fifth issue, we're looking Underground—with help from our guest editor: poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar! Read their guest editor letter here: www.tractorbeam.earth

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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Fuck AI. Write an absolutely banging short story with your own glorious brain. The Writers' HQ Write A Short Story Festival is in April and you should definitely join us writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch... With @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social @aliceslat

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We've got another fun episode of Book Worms tomorrow! 🤓🧚🏽‍♀️📖🍄 Tune in for a conversation with Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social, author of "Grubbers" from our Fall issue. Read the full story on Substack and subscribe to get notified as soon as we go live! tractorbeamearth.substack.com

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It was an honor having @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social guest edit our Winter issue! You can read the stories and his thoughts on the collection at tractorbeam.earth If this is your first time coming across us, nice to meet you. We're a quarterly science fiction publication dedicated to soilpunk. ❄️🌱❤️

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Thaw | Tractor Beam

A quarterly publication of soilpunk fiction: Radical visions rooted in soil

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JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thank you to Mark for giving me this opportunity, it was a real treat and shows @urbanpigspress.bsky.social are one of the best. Shoutouts within to @sarahkat.bsky.social and my collab pal, @matgost.bsky.social 🖤

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JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There’s nothing like bad ice-cream and bullies to get a man riled 😝 Thanks so much for publishing this dark little treat 🖤

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social, @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨ 💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Congratulations to all 750+ writers who had the perseverance to complete a story and the courage to submit it. @thebulletin.org it's good practice to show respect for those who share their work with you (even if the editorial task can feel onerous at times!)

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

31 Dec: On the cusp of a New Year, nature carries its promise. These winter buds hold next season’s life, hope wrapped tightly within, waiting for the light to return. As midnight nears, we celebrate new beginnings already stirring beneath the earth and in the trees. #NewYearsEve

A collage of close-up photographs of winter tree buds on bare branches, each tightly wrapped and tipped with brown and green, against soft muted backgrounds. The images highlight the promise of new growth held within.

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Our charity anthology authors share the love! "A Crossing gives us pilgrims almost meeting on the road – but centuries apart. Rich with authenticity and memory, deftly unspooled in under 1000 words. A gem." Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... @leighloveday.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social

Christmas ’Lights, where one of our Trash Family tell you which anthology story they loved, and why. Leigh Loveday, author of Threequarter Lane, highlights A Crossing by Sarah Royston.

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Our charity anthology authors share the love! "This story is a glittering shard of dark urban magic from the king of creepy-trippy-cool. Come scream into the void; you know you want to…" Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... @sarahkat.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social

Christmas ’Lights, where one of our Trash Family tell you which anthology story they loved, and why. Sarah Royston, author of A Crossing, highlights For a While There, We Were Weightless by Mathew Gostelow.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Roger Clarke and I are writing a book about ghosts. We need a publisher. @tomsbrown.bsky.social and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Day 20 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration comes. We set the Frost Witch to the tree, Drape the chain of miniature icicles falling from her cloak, unfurl the white lace trail that mimics her decoration of the lanes on winter mornings. Say a prayer for those sleeping rough.

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Happy Christmas panic-buying onset for those who celebrate! Must be time to bump this, suitable for anyone in your life who likes a) charity and b) animals. And optimally c) reading. 27 snack-sized stories curated by @trashcatlit.bsky.social for The Wildlife Trusts: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...

Paperback copy of 'What Comes to Light' anthology stood on a kitchen table with an imperious chonker of a tabby cat named Arsehole looming majestically behind it

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

David's work is such an inspiration. Because of Hookland, I shiver when I pass between two pylons. I often ask myself: "What would Emily Banting do?" And I know that the most ordinary places are alive with strangeness. Sending gratitude and well wishes to you, David! @cultauthor.bsky.social

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Jo Clark @thejokelark.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Delighted to be in the latest issue of WestWord (and alongside some other wonderful pieces from brilliant writers) with this little story from earlier this year: open.substack.com/pub/westword...

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On Leaving a Familiar Place

A Micro Fiction by Jo Clark

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I'm ready for Halloween with this stunningly creepy anthology! 🖤 Silent Screams: An Anthology of Quiet Horrors share.google/gafGIwAXtsZR...

A photo: The Silent Screams book is clutched by two skeletal hands in front of a tombstone.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Every pylon was portal. Each transmission tower a temporary temple. We followed The Hum as an act of ecstatic pilgrimage. We were the 'filthy hippy cult' parent were afraid their child would run away to join. You either heard The Hum and understood or you didn't. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Want to read something a little folky, a little mystical? Our print anthology has that among its 27 glorious short fictions. Here are some teases to tantalise your storybuds 🦝 Then click here to buy our book and help raise money for charity 💜 mybook.to/WhatComesToL... 1/2

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JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Very proud of this beautiful baby! 🦝 If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌

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MatGost @matgost.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed... My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social Read all about them here: matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...

A promo image for my blog post on substack, showing the cover of my Silent Screams anthology, with a word cloud, and the post title: "Silent Screams for Halloween"

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MatGost @matgost.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Silent Screams is out now. It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it. If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you. eBook and paperback: mybook.to/SilentScream... #Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity

The cover wrap for Silent Screams, An Anthology of Quiet Horrors - featuring a striking, surreal illustration by Eric Brenner, depicting a screaming face with far too many eyes. The book blurb states:
The most terrifying horror stories don't churn your stomach. They creep like shadows, chilling with a touch. They build dread through atmosphere and emotion, rather than splatter and gore.

Welcome to Silent Screams, an anthology of quiet horror stories.

Within these pages, you will face strange and twisted scenes, dark and demonic characters, nightmares great and small, written by a host of talented authors from around the world.

These are shattering tales of grief and loss, visitations from strange folk, troubled dreams, and cursed artefacts.

These are whispers to make your skin crawl and your toes curl. Words to catch your breath and smother screams.

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Resistance is fertile in this powerful piece! "Sporesong" is visually and lyrically stunning 👌🍄✊️

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A briny blast of soilpunk (with extra punk), and a masterclass in character, setting and voice. Love this!

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

So excited to be part of this gorgeous anthology from the wonderful @trashcatlit.bsky.social ! My story follows two veterans walking the Icknield Way, 600 years apart, and a pilgrim badge that's lost and found.

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JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

If you read anything today, read this. Gorgeous soil and fungi prose, masterful worldbuilding 💚

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

In the shadow of the Reserve of Persisting Complexity, a rag-tag community finds that webs are stronger than walls... I'm thrilled to introduce my Grubbers to the world, with such beautiful illustrations by Manon Cezaro!

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

"Trees [...] never fully trusted humans. Their chemical-trace sign for us includes the ideas of movement, fire, seeds, and danger." Gorgeous, mind-bending mycelial writing from @culagovski.net 🍄🌱💚

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Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My tale of queer folksong collectors and the music of the dead is out now in Rawhead! Thrilled to be part of this stunning issue 🖤

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It’s my birthday, the autumn equinox and the first day of fall 💛🍂 It would mean a lot if you could share my work today. Thank you for all the support this year. It’s everything to me Hope Persephone’s blessings find you today ✨

Black and white illustration representing Persephone during the autumn equinox. A frame surrounds the whole thing split in half in black and white. The middle horizontal section is torn in half like a piece of paper representing the division between the above and the underworld. In the bottom right corner are wispy swirling smoke lines going towards the centre with 3 bats flying from right to left. In the bottom left is the symbol for Persephone. In the middle are two pomegranates one whole and one cut in half. In the top half on a black background is a bee in reference to Persephone’s name as “honeyed one” on a circular medallion with narcissus flowers dropping petals around it. In the top left is the Greek word for Persephone

Swatch card of my Forest Floor Repeat Pattern. Repeat pattern of the greenery crushed into a forest floor. tan leaf branches and grey slate branches with bright red and dark green large berries also small branches of tan leaves with red berries and slate grey branches with tan leaves on a dark navy blue background

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Night Magic - Black and white ink illustration of a magic filled Victorian house with an ominous surrounding. of a shrub framing the left side and bottom of the page. In the middle is a Victorian revival house with a spire to the right and a porch. Over the porch is a bison skull and the windows are celestial stain glass. The roof is black with cosmic looking weather vanes. 5 Crows are flying overheard from the back to the front of the house and the sky is The sky is textured with swirling pattern of lines and with black dot stars

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hydrangeas are such a bisexual bush: whether they appear blue, pink, or purple depends upon the environment they're in, but they are capable of all of these colours regardless of how they are perceived. Today I'm thrilled to have a poem out in 'Bi All Accounts' claiming the hydrangea #bivisibility

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Photo of the anthology 'Bi All Accounts'

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"Some things cannot be hurried. Some things take years, yes, years, slow underground." Our first story in Issue 3, "The Fruiting," written by Anna Kahn and illustrated by Rui Pu, follows Kiera and an unnamed driver on a secret mycological mission. Will it be sabotage or salvation? 💥🍄🚙

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The Fruiting | Tractor Beam

Sabotage or salvation?

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"Sometimes decay is tender, sometimes it is traumatic. Sometimes decay is new life bursting with potential, sometimes it is unclear." Read guest editor Dr. Patricia Kaishian's thoughts on the collection of stories in Issue 3: SOMETHING'S ROTTING in her editor's note, out now at tractorbeam.earth! 🍄

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Something’s Rotting | Tractor Beam

A quarterly publication of soilpunk fiction: Radical visions rooted in soil

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Introducing our Issue 3 guest editor, Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian! 🍄🌱🪱 Dr. Kaishian is the author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, a blend of memoir and science writing that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.

Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian sits on the floor of a forest, holding up a mushroom in her hand

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Every metamorphosis requires some kind of breakdown. Today marks the Autumn Equinox, the beginning of a new season and the launch of Issue 3: SOMETHING’S ROTTING. Join us as we fall into decay! 🐌🍄🍂🪱🕷️ Live now at tractorbeam.earth 🚜🛸🌍

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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

It's the last full week of the Writing as Resistance Festival and we have A THOUSAND BLUNDRED BILLION EVENTS and you should come to them all. (But also they're all recorded if you can't make them all because it's a lot...) 🧵

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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Tomorrow... Fall is coming to Tractor Beam 🐌🪱🍂🕷🍄 Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first in the know 👀 tractorbeamearth.substack.com

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

One of my most devastating stories EVER is in this anthology! You're not going to want to miss 'Mother Nature', and much more from talented horror writers. Check out that amazing cover by Eric W. Brenner! Pre-orders open now: htthttps://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FRSJ488M?ref_=ast_author_dp

An orange book cover. The front is an abstract, screaming face with a dropped jaw.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 10/09/2025

A thread of warning about a what looks to be a predatory promotional website, Readiln..com

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It can be a struggle to work out if what is being depicted is the Wicker King, the Lumbering Man or even one of the Children-Made-of-Thorns. It can be even harder to work out if the intent was ward or summons. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1981

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