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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mythology Queen Shauna Lawless joined us for a fascinating discussion including: -Shauna's excellent approach to home school in lockdown: throw out the curriculum, watch Bill And Ted -Shauna greatly offended and intrigued the Sandwich Shop of Dreams -Announcement of the TV show of Shauna’s series!

A stack of Daughter of the Otherworld by Shauna Lawless. The cover has a green Celtic tree with a face of a woman in the branches at the top and images of a horse, a bird, an axe and a bow and arrow in the corners

A black and white photo of Shauna Lawless against some trees

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're back!! After a year of far too many disruptive shenanigans, it is time to get this show back on the road! Or back in the podcast feeds And what better way to do it than an episode with @stevetoase.bsky.social that immediately veered off into a discussion about German cake and cheese. Classic.

A black and white photo of Steve Toase wearing a biker jacket with bare trees in the background

The cover of Dirt Upon My Skin by Steve Toase, featuring a black background and a circle with a pattern made up of brown trowels in the centre

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our next guest is the wonderful @rainewilson.bsky.social Lorraine's latest book, The Salt Oracle, is an Arthur C Clarke Award finalist! Set 17 years after the internet crashed & left the world broken, aboard a floating college, Auli studies the Oracle - an uncanny girl who channels dangerous ghosts

A black and white photo of Lorraine Wilson on a rocky coast

The cover of The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson, featuring a woodcut-style drawing of a young woman with skulls, fish bones and fishing hooks in her hair

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Season 15 continues with the brilliant Cleland Smith! @angelacleland.co.uk is the Scottish-born author of Sequela & Black Doe. Black Doe follows a member of the legendary assassins trying to retrieve her stolen memories & a mother bearing a deadly secret in a world soaked in magic & blood.

The cover of Black Doe by Cleland Smith, with a green background, a dagger with a deer head through the O and black celtic doe designs in the corners

A photo of Cleland holding a landline phone

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Season 15 kicks off with @davidmbarnett.bsky.social David is an author, journalist & comic book writer. His latest series is creepy & unsettling folk horror: An isolated Lancashire village in Withered Hill, crabby coastal horror in Scuttler's Cove, a multi-timeline mining community in Scratch Moss

The cover of Twisted Pike by David Barnett, featuring a black background with an orange wolf made out of thorny vines and the words "The cunning will be punished."

A photo of David Barnett wearing a grey coat against a snowy background

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Season 15 guests! Summer is coming to an end (it bloody better be or we'll set the Sandwich Shop of Dreams on it!) & so the next season of Writeopolis is upon us! 6th Sept -There will be a guest. Probably. Most likely. Or it could be a classic host-only opener. Who knows! (Not us, that's for sure)

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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

*monster truck announcer voice* 🗣️ SUNDAY💥SUNDAY💥SUNDAY💥

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Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m a goddamn delight. (I actually have writerly news that I’ll share during this discussion. Like, the good kind of news.)

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The season finale is upon us and we're ending strong with @pauladashe.bsky.social Paula is the award winning author of We Are Here To Hurt Each Other, a collection of short stories in a dark and bloody world where nothing is sacred and no one is safe. So, a nice, light end to the season!

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The cover of We Are Here To Hurt Each Other by Paula D Ashe, featuring a human head shape made up of teeth and a dystopian background

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Huge apologies to everyone, but unfortunately tonight's episode with @helencooperwriter.bsky.social has had to be postponed! Do not worry, Helen will return triumphant next season!

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Season 14 speeds on with the wonderful @helencooperwriter.bsky.social up next! Described as the master of the twisty plot (a most delightful title, more of this please), Helen is a writer of psychological thrillers including The Woman In The Villa, My Darling Boy and The Couple In The Photo.

Helen Cooper stood in a bar holding a copy of My Darling Boy

The cover of The Woman In The Villa by Helen Cooper, featuring a cloudy, orange, sunset sky, with a woman in a blue dress and sunhat holding a glass of wine, looking out over a villa

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

S14 continues with @mikebrooks668.bsky.social returning to discuss This Is Where The Future Bleeds. A fabulously-named book following a smart-talking bunch of rogues thrust into an epic quest to save the future & meddle with the destinies of empires. Definitely nothing that can go wrong there...

A photo of Mike Brooks wearing a black tank top sitting on a metal staircase.

The cover of This Is Where The Future Bleeds by Mike Brooks (from Titan Books) featuring a figure in a red cloak with a sword standing on a ledge with a background of stormy clouds, yellow and green crashing water and blue wasp-like creatures

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

S14 continues with @emmanewman.bsky.social! Emma writes SFF short stories, novels & novellas, and is an audiobook narrator & Hugo Award-winning podcaster. Will she raise us up to her award-winning level, or will we drag her down with our shenanigan-riddled chaos? I think we all know the answer...

A photo of Emma Newman wearing a gorgeous blue coat and silver necklace

The cover of The Vengeance by Emma Newman, featuring a purple background, a heart with a dagger in it, bat wings, a skull and Crossbones, pirate ships, cutlasses and pistols and a compass

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Due to excessive levels of chaos (I blame the sun) this week's Writeopolis has unfortunately had to be postponed. But Stark will return triumphant next season!!

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Next up we have the return of @starkholborn.bsky.social! Novelist, games writer, film reviewer; there's never a shortage of things to discuss with Stark on the show! Author of For The Road, the Factus Sequence, Triggernometry & Nunslinger - clearly we need to discuss her excellent naming tactics!

A photo of Stark against a blue background, wearing a yellow top with the word "Yello?" and a drawing of a person on the telephone

The cover of For The Road by Stark Holborn, featuring a hand with a heart on it, caught in a linked chain in the shape of a figure 8

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

S14 continues with @dancoxon.bsky.social! Dan has won a World Fantasy Award, a Saboteur Award and two British Fantasy Awards! His fiction anthologies include the strange & unsettling Unquiet Guests, stories inspired by Mythago Wood in Heartwood & the tragic high school yearbook of For Tomorrow.

A photo of Dan Coxon wearing a dark blue shirt against a tiled background

The cover of Unquiet Guests, an anthology edited by Dan Coxon, featuring a green background with a white arched brick window filled with a spiderweb. At the bottom are the names Grady Hendrix, Kirsty Logan, Irenosen Okojie, Ally wilkes, Clay McLeod Chapman, Chuck Palahniuk, Matthew Holness, Claire Fuller, Will Maclean, Alison Moore

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 23/04/2026

@mahmudelsayed.bsky.social is my @jjbker.bsky.social agent sibling, fellow London SFF author and all round good dude. I can’t wait to read The Republic of Memory but in the meantime, you can check out this talk with @writeopolis.bsky.social👇

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It's that time again! Season 14 kicks off next week with the brilliant @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social Mahmud is a British-Egyptian SFF writer and translator. A former journalist, he now writes about generation ships, sentient libraries and memory taxes instead.

A black and white photo of Mahmud wearing glasses, a t-shirt and a shirt

The cover of The Republic of Memory, featuring all blue, a woman with large wings, and a futuristic city in the background

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Season 14 is closing in fast so we'd best get announcing guests!! 26th April - Kicking things off we have @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social! A former journalist, Mahmud now writes about generation ships, sentient libraries and memory taxes instead. His debut, The Republic of Memory, comes out on 14th May

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Closing out this glorious season is the fabulous @realjacksonford.bsky.social! Jackson's latest series starts with The Bone Raiders & follows a bone-wearing clan who decide riding giant fire-breathing lizards (totally not dragons) is the only way to stop every raider in the land being wiped out.

A photo of Jackson Ford wearing a sports top against a multicoloured background

The cover of Sisters of the Lizard by Jackson Ford, featuring two women in black and red armour looking at each other and giant lizards in the background breathing fire

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Our next guest is the wonderful @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social Charlotte is an author, ghostwriter, freelance editor, proofreader, reviewer and podcaster! The Fireborne Blade & The Bloodless Princes duology follows a knight trying to steal a sword from a dragon! Sapphic women with swords FTW!

A photo of Charlotte bond holding up a mug

The cover of The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond, featuring a woman in armour, holding a sword, with a white dragon behind her

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Next up we have @thomasdlee.bsky.social! Tom's Sunday Times bestselling debut, Perilous Times, sees Sir Kay & his fellow knights awakened from their mythical slumber in modern times. Britain is divided, there's a dragon, & Kay is not the only ancient & terrible thing to crawl out of the ground...

A photo of Tom wearing a navy blue jacket and a blue shirt, with a background of grass and a brick wall. Photo credit to Stephanie Emma Photography

The cover of Perilous Times, featuring a read dragon tail wrapping around a bare tree, with a castle and an industrial city in the background

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Season 13 continues with @nicholaseames.bsky.social Nicholas is the author of The Band series, which starts with Kings of the Wyld and follows a band of mercenaries that have long split up and grown old and drunk. Until an old bandmate turns up with a plea for help...

The cover of Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames, featuring four men in armour with shields, swords and axes. With the tag line 'The Boys Are Back In Town' above

A photo of Nicholas Eames wearing a blue shirt

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