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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 13h

....So we're doing a thing. The thing is taking over Nottingham Central Library on 27th March next year! Please save the date & share - this is a free event supported by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social We're so excited! More author reveals & details to come over at @fairrealms.bsky.social 🖤

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you like what I do, and you might be in Nottingham in March next year, then you might want to save the date... Author guest reveals start next week! 🔥👀

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So excited to be able to talk more about this soon.... it's something we've been cooking for a while and we can't wait to share what we have planned! 😍🖤 @guyhaley.bsky.social @nickybandini.bsky.social @johnfrench.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social @thetowerofstars.bsky.social @gavthorpe.co.uk

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aw thank you for your service - you taught me everything I know about football 😭🖤💔

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Authors on tour! If you're in Lancaster on 18th Oct I'll be in town with my Black Library colleagues @gavthorpe.co.uk & @squintywitch.bsky.social for a panel on building fantasy worlds chaired by the wonderful @oliverklangmead.bsky.social for @litfest.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! 🖤

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Author Panel:World-Building in fantasy
How do fantasy authors go about building their worlds? We discuss different approaches to constructing original, fantastical worlds.

Gav Thorpe: Award-winning game designer & Warhammer author
Victoria Hayward: Warhammer, Grimdark Magazine & Darktide 40K writer
Jude Reid: Award-winning writer for Warhammer & Zombies, Run!
Inés Gregori Labarta: Queer, migrant storyteller. Speculative fiction, horror and magic realism
Oliver K. Langmead: Hugo & British Fantasy award nominated speculative fiction writer

Sunday 18th October
Atkinsons Upper Hall, 8.80pm Tickets @ The Dukes, Lancaster

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is an honour to have been eliminated by Durham Red this week - thank you @agentofweird.bsky.social! 🖤💀 2000 AD was a formative text I read as an impressionable 11 year old after finding a stash of Halo Jones & covertly reading it in between music lessons - so this is a very meaningful privilege!

Victoria's hand holding the latest 2000AD

An image of the top panels of a page from 2000AD. It shows a swat team member with a badge that says 'Hayward' dead in the foreground with Durham Red in the background.

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So sorry to hear this - sending all my love x

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Folk in & around Lancaster on 17 Oct - @oliverklangmead.bsky.social Inés Gregori Labarta @squintywitch.bsky.social @gavthorpe.co.uk & myself are at @litfest.bsky.social! Hope to see you there & feel free to bring anything* you'd like signed :-) dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/the... *...within reason

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LITFEST: Fair Realms: World-Building in Fantasy

VENUE: Atkinsons Upper Hall

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🔮 Marketh your diaries welle! 🔮 @gavthorpe.bsky.social & myself will be out and about on Saturday 24th October at various locations as part of the Fair Realms British Academy / Arts Council England Project. Come and say hi and let us know your thoughts on fantasy worlds!

Fair Realms Author Visit
Informal drop-in

We are researching how to write new fantasy worlds and we'd like to hear your thoughts on fantasy!

Gav Thorpe & Victoria Hayward

Saturday 24 October 2026
10.00 - 11.30: Geeks Headquarters
3 High Street, Chesterfield, S40 1PS

14.00 - 15.30: Wargames Emporium
31 Leeming Street, Mansfield, NG18 1NA

16.00 - 17:30: Sanctuary Gaming Centre
Forest Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 1BE

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Marc Collins @malkydel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl... Guess the cat is out of the bag now! Huron Blackheart has to defend his domain of ill-gotten gains from the Great Devourer itself! Was a true honour to get to play around with as devious a monster as Huron.

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Huron Blackheart takes on Tyranids in a new Black Library novel

A new Warhammer 40,000 novel emerges from the Maelstrom.

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Please consider it. And I'm sorry to say - chameleonic life forms - no thanks 🙏

A wood pigeon sits on a fence post on which someone has written 'give quiche a chance'

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is part of a larger research project at Lancaster University exploring perceptions of fantasy fiction. Our first stop will be 24th October 2-3.30 at The Games Emporium in Mansfield. Stay posted for more visits!

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We’re researching fantasy settings for science! Thanks to support from @britishacademy.bsky.social & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social, @gavthorpe.bsky.social & I will be visiting local gaming clubs on 24th October with our mini postbox where you can share your thoughts on fantasy settings :-)

Author visit - informal drop-in

We are researching how to write new fantasy worlds & we’d like to hear your thoughts on fantasy!

Gav Thorpe
Gav is an award-winning game designer, New York Times best-selling author, David Gemmell Legend Award recipient and Warhammer author.

Victoria Hayward
Victoria has written for Grimdark Magazine, Black Library, AAN and Anthem Press and the award-winning Warhammer 40,000: Darktide game.

24 October 2026 14.00 - 15.30, The Games Emporium, 31 Leeming Street, Mansfield, NG18 1NA

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl... I had SO much fun spending a year of my life inside Bjorn's dreadnought sarcophagus. #BjorntheFellhanded #warhammer40k

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Bjorn the Fell-handed stars in a new Black Library novel

The iconic Space Wolves Dreadnought awakens to battle the Death Guard.

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Would I eat the truffled Baron Bigod forever? Yes. When I wasn't eating a potent manchego or having my head turned by the triple cream of a Délice de Bourgogne 🧀

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Also bonus gannet chicks because they are SO lovely

A very fluffy white gannet chick with a parent sits on a pale cliff overlooking the sea

A white fluffy gannet chick stretches out its wings which are very much a work in progress as a parent looks on proudly

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Gorgeous gannet at @rspb.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs this weekend! First visit to the site and it's absolutely amazing. The RSPB volunteers were fantastic on site and on the boat trip run aboard the Yorkshire Belle. Strong recommendation if you would like to see a LOT of gannets!! 🖤

A northern gannet gives a piercing stare. It is a striking bird with a pure white body with a gradient into a soft golden yellow head and neck with vivid blue eyelids. There are no visible nostrils - these are internal to withstand the force with which the bird strikes the water when diving.

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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It was an enormous pleasure to sit down with @alexdoddy.bsky.social and talk about DOMINION GENESIS, my other stories, and my journey to writing for Black Library. My sincere thanks to the Scribes and Scriveners team for making it such a fun conversation. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

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Sunday Preview – Exodites leap from the jungle

What’s coming up next week?

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHWEST. On Tuesday 21st of July I'll be in talking to @starkholborn.bsky.social at @mrbsemporium.bsky.social in Bath about my new book THE KNIGHT WATCH. Ticket sales are looking a bit thin on the ground at the moment so please share far and wide! mrbsemporium.com/events/2026/...

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The Knight Watch with Thomas D. Lee - Mr B's Emporium

We’re delighted to welcome bestselling author Thomas D. Lee to Mr B’s for his new novel, The Knight Watch. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Perilous Times (a huge Team B fave!), comes this ...

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Rob Young @notsosilentrobb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Darya Nevic is back! My latest Black Library book, Ghosts of Cadia, is up for pre-order today - it’s available in hardback and special edition alongside my debut, Longshot, which has been re-released in hardback for the first time! Check them out: www.warhammer.com/en-GB/pre-or...

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If there’s one question I’ve been asked more than any other it’s this: “Will there be a sequel to Infinite and the Divine?” Today I can answer: YES. Join Trazyn and Orikan as they try to mend their relationship by ruining the galaxy… again. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

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Trazyn and Orikan return in The Wicked and the Warped

The next Black Library novel by Robert Rath is coming.

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Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

COVER REVEAL! OUR GLORIOUS PROGENY An anthology of reproductive futures, coming March 2027 from @lunapress.bsky.social Featuring 12 short stories from:

The cover of OUR GLORIOUS PROGENY, edited by Oliver K. Langmead and Anna McFarlane

The cover features an image of plastic babies contained in a gumball machine

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Ian is so inspirational, I knew he could do it but it's still amazing to see 🖤⚽️

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

He is beauty. He is grace 👑 You may not like it, but this is what peak bird performance looks like 🪶

A grey and yellow budgie lands in a very upright pose, his wings outstretched, his little pink claws dangling in front of him

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PLASMOMETER (LOOKING FOR A JOB) @plasmometer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

COMMISSIONS OPEN!! pls repost i have just graduated and therefore am absolutely free now, unfortunately that includes the burden of money. please commission fandom characters, your ocs, your pets, i could draw your favourite place too! also i would enjoy working on long projects

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Ready to hammer Monday 💀🖤💪 📸 forges_of_ruin

A black and white photo of Tory brandishing a big hammer in front of the Warhammer World space marine statue and looking like she means hammer business

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

...Actually while I'm thinking of it, a few of us have a little feminist fantasy writing project on the go (and a publisher lined up for it!). Would absolutely love the chance to tell you both about it in case you're interested! :-)

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thank you for sharing @gailsimone.bsky.social & @rhi.bsky.social (from a writer comrade from the worlds of Warhammer 🖤)

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

These pigeons have so much love!

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Important update: bebe pigeon is fledging 🖤

A beautiful young wood pigeon sits on a branch

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I love them so much 🖤 They are snogging and ignoring the baby that just fledged so I think they have plans for more eggs 😂

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Got a nice camera and all of my pics are birds now 🖤🐦 These lovebirds just raised their third chick this season and are working on another nest already!

Two wood pigeons grooming each other and looking in love

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Good selection of Warhammer books in Games Workshop Brussels! Spotted yours @squintywitch.bsky.social 🖤

A French version of Jude Reid's Fulgrim Black Library book

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

RIP John. You were an incredible artist who inspired so much & so many. Not only the master of grimdark, he was also a kind friend who loved afternoon tea & nature. I'll be raising a glassy of bubbly & going outside to appreciate butterflies in his memory & encourage everyone to do the same 🖤

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