Time Traveller. Social Historian. Reader and Writer of Speculative Fiction.
North East England.
Sturgeon Award finalist. Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope, Interzone, and more.
https://louisehugheswrites.wordpress.com/
Louise Hughes
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#OtD 15 Jun 1911 shipping workers in the UK launched a national strike across the industry for better pay and conditions. The employers caved in within two weeks stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8689...
Congratulations to all the incredible finalists—not least of all @trailofleaves.bsky.social for her story "The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn" in the Autumn 2025 issue of Kaleidotrope!
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I don't want to summarise sewing pattern instructions Adobe. I don't want to ask the AI questions about it. I just want to READ it.
No-one in this whole stupid affair seems to want to admit that the suffragettes WERE terrorists, which - frankly - would have really pissed off the actual Suffragettes.
[slide credit to me]
I'm in amazing company again!
And thats a wrap for Banned Books Week Submissions! Audition doors are closed until August 1st when we will open ONLY to young authors! Spread the word to your aspiring youngsters!
Reprints, reprints, reprints! Our upper limit on reprint flash fiction is a little more flexible - 1100 words. We'll be opening for your reprint gems this week!
My story "The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn" (which appeared in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social last year) is a finalist for the Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award!
Congrats to my fellow finalists!!
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Very excited to announce our latest special issue submission call: for an all flash fiction issue edited by @andrewkozma.net! reckoning.press/reckoning-fl...
