writer, visual poet.
An Orchid in my Belly Button (Elsewhen 2025) https://books2read.com/AnOrchidInMyBellyButton
Fifty One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press)
100% housebound #mecfs and #POTS #disability https://
whimsylph.wordpress.com
Katy Wimhurst
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The point of these attacks is twofold:
1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true.
2. Grind people down until they lose hope.
We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change.
There is absolutely no way they win this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
My favourite invented language is the degraded English that constitutes the entire book and the voice of MC (and all characters speak it) in Russell Hoban’s dystopian Riddley Walker. Apparently he kept all these cards with bits of language on it to ensure consistency as he was writing.
Zack Polanski
Katy Wimhurst
I write magical realism and dystopian fiction. I lived in Spain yesrs ago and speak some Spanish - I quite often have Spanish speaking secondary characters in my fiction. I am trying to learn Arabic for my WIP as a secondary character is Iraqi.
Katy Wimhurst
#booksky
Always nice to get a lovely review of the book from a random stranger on GR
Anyone want indie press magical realism and eco fiction summer? That features orchids, mushrooms, metamorphosis, crab ghosts + more?
Book by @elsewhen.press
Thanks to @authoramyorrell.bsky.social for the graphic
What some of us have been warning of for decades is happening, faster and fiercer than most imagined, even in the mildest and most temperate corners of the world.
#ClimateBreakdown
Katy Wimhurst
Disability history has been widely suppressed to the extent it rarely even gets mentioned when talking about the past. Huge congrats to Prof. David Turner for his groundbreaking deep dive, A History of Resistance.
Out this week: www.waterstones.com/book/disabil...
"If you’re a fan of Alastair Reynolds’ Chasm City or James S.A. Corey’s gritty Expanse, The Twisted Road will feel right at home."
A murder mystery, a political thriller set against humanity's push to the stars.
@elsewhen.press #booksky #sciencefiction #writing
books2read.com/TheTwistedRoad
I haven't invented languages but I do have a WIP where the adolescents of a fictional town have a deeply peculiar slang that seems to have developed at least partly from the eccentric nursery rhymes of the region.
#SFFChat
George Monbiot
**WIN A FREE SPOT ON ONE OF MY SUMMER WORKSHOPS**
To get your name in the hat, quote-post with the workshop you'd like to attend (details in thread below).
I'll pick a couple of winners on Sunday 31st May at midday BST.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
We’re in the dealers’ room at Satellite9. come and say hello.
34.8ºC at Kew Gardens breaks its May AND June records by OVER 4ºC for its May record set in 1922 and by 0.2ºC for its June record set in 1976. Unprecedented heat for the UK in late May, and likely to be bettered tomorrow. A rounded 35ºC temperature should not happen in May.
Matt Kendrick
Elsewhen Press
MetJam
Good morning, #SFFChat! Sorry for missing the evening one.
We're back today with a focus on language, as suggested by the wonderful @mkmartinwriter.com !
Intro: Introduce yourself & tell us what language(s) you speak! And/or what language(s) you'd love to learn.
#SFFChat Q2: Have you invented words, phrases, slang, or even whole lexicons for any languages in your work?
OR, if you haven’t, do you have favourite conlangs/fiction languages from other SFF worlds?
#SFFChat Q2: Have you invented words, phrases, slang, or even whole lexicons for any languages in your work?
OR, if you haven’t, do you have favourite conlangs/fiction languages from other SFF worlds?
SFFChat
SFFChat
SFFChat
My summer workshop series is now open for bookings. Two in-depth workshops full of writing craft tips and techniques, and exercises to get you embedding new skills.
"A Snow Globe on an Iceberg" and "What is Learnt in the Cradle"
Full details below...
