Taylor Driggers(-McDowall)

“Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. And their guides, the writers of fantasy, should take their responsibilities seriously."

From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, Ursula K Le Guin

Cover for C. L. Clark's THE SOVEREIGN: a red-tinged illustration of a black woman with short hair crouching in front of a massive oak tree. She is cradling a pale woman in tattered clothing in her arms. A cane lays on the ground in front of them, with a knife thrust into the earth to the side.

17. THE SOVEREIGN (C. L. Clark, 2025)

If you live in or near Glasgow, you can hear me discuss this book with C. L. Clark next Wednesday 5th November at Waterstones Argyle Street! Find more info & get tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Cover for C. L. Clark's THE SOVEREIGN: a red-tinged illustration of a black woman with short hair crouching in front of a massive oak tree. She is cradling a pale woman in tattered clothing in her arms. A cane lays on the ground in front of them, with a knife thrust into the earth to the side.

17. THE SOVEREIGN (C. L. Clark, 2025)

If you live in or near Glasgow, you can hear me discuss this book with C. L. Clark next Wednesday 5th November at Waterstones Argyle Street! Find more info & get tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

A photo of Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins and Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

'The "uncle" who Frodo said got rich by adventuring with Dwarves is actually a distant cousin, he clarified on Monday.' - Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, The Shire Post

Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game

A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin today.

Excited to be participating in this Glasgow Ursula Le Guin love fest on 4/11 with @suchmayer.bsky.social, @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, @mjrsangster.bsky.social

We're celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social gorgeous new book The Word for World which centres on Le Guin's imaginative maps. Come!

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

yes
YES
the plums are gone

I can't articulate it well but I don't care what punctuation/ set of words is the current tell for Chatgpt. I'm not changing my voice or the way I write for this program, my writing will evolve the way it evolves. I am not panicking that it uses em dashes. They should panic and pay me.

Support the Sameer Project
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A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.

That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

The CFP for the 2026 meeting of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (Stirling, UK, 10-13 September) is now live. Abstracts of no more than 350 words due 31 January.
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...

It’s still weird that you have multiple parties running on making the country so shite no one will want to live here

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I've seen Goodreads reviews of The River Has Roots complaining about its "magic system" and I think we should just go back in time & make sure Brandon Sanderson never writes a novel.

*screams*

An Evening with C. L. Clark | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with C. L. Clark today.

Then on Wednesday 5th November, @clclark.bsky.social & I will be in conversation about their new books THE SOVEREIGN and FATE'S BANE, talking about anti-colonial fantasy, queer romance, & writing a conclusion to a series.

A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin today.

Glasgow friends: I have a couple of book events coming up at Waterstones Argyle Street in a couple weeks' time!

On Tuesday 4th November I'll be taking part in "A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin" with @suchmayer.bsky.social, @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social, & @mjrsangster.bsky.social.

A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin today.

2 weeks to go until A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social, just before the full supermoon!

With me, @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social & @mjrsangster.bsky.social, celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social's The Word for World.

Book now!

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Bona Books Presents A new queer literary magazine FANTABULOSA! Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices. Science fiction, fantasy and horror Short fiction & poetry Submissions open now

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& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Anyone need a good proofreader or queer sensitivity reader? A friend of mine is going through a rough time at the moment and could do with some paid work. She has loads of experience with editing & proofreading, and I've paid her to do sensitivity reads for me in the past. DM me if interested.

Cover of C. L. Clark's THE FAITHLESS: a woman with pale skin and long blonde hair slouches on an ornate gilt throne, holding a cane in one hand. She is wearing a rich blue coat, waistcoat, and trousers and looking directly at the viewer with an impassive stare.

16. THE FAITHLESS (C. L. Clark, 2023)

Read in preparation for "An Evening with C. L. Clark" at Waterstones Argyle Street in Glasgow, 5th November. Get your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Cover of C. L. Clark's THE FAITHLESS: a woman with pale skin and long blonde hair slouches on an ornate gilt throne, holding a cane in one hand. She is wearing a rich blue coat, waistcoat, and trousers and looking directly at the viewer with an impassive stare.

16. THE FAITHLESS (C. L. Clark, 2023)

Read in preparation for "An Evening with C. L. Clark" at Waterstones Argyle Street in Glasgow, 5th November. Get your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

So many American far-right Catholic weirdos these days are just Protestants who converted for the vibes once they learned people thought megachurches were cringe, & didn't do any further research.

I was mired in evangelical culture back when Matt Walsh was still a popular conservative Calvinist blogger. Seeing him pivot to Catholicism only to be constantly furious that it isn't more Calvinist will always be funny to me.

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media.

The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters.

They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters.

Israel is once again breaking international law

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

So, I'm making a video game based on Palestinian folklore. It's called Thursday of the Dead, and you can talk to a Palestinian ghouleh. It will have branching narrative, and art all made by a human (me). I need exactly $100 to launch it on Steam when it's finished.

ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Especially if you feel "stuck" in your life then it's especially galling to see people who are certainly struggling but in very different ways refuse to accept what they're given. What's even more unforgivable is that they're willing to take risks to grow...

You can tell a lot about a society by its folk devils so it's interesting that ours seem to be migrants, trans folks and students: very different groups but the common denominator seems to be... self-improvement? You can kinda see why they would elicit resentment in an aging, sclerotic society...

Responding to a call for creative nonfiction submissions by trying to write *the* thing I've actively avoided writing about so far, Lord help me 🙃