Glasgow SF Writers' Circle

VAMPIRES releases soon!

To celebrate, I'm making the official playlist public! For multiple years, this playlist made my Spotify Wrapped pointless 😂

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For more info on VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS, visit lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

Keeping up with Drawtober, my latest #art was for the prompt ‘mushroom fairy’, and tbh I’m pretty proud of this one! It’s my first time drawing mushrooms and fungi, and it took absolutely forever…

Community Discord Write-in – October - November 2025 Join us in October and November for our next Discord write-ins!

Calling all Scottish BPOC writers: want to write with us? Don't miss our next write-in hosted on Discord:

📅20th October 1:30pm – 2:00pm: Monday lunchtime write-in

BSL is available. Sign up & learn more: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/community-di...

So proud to have been involved in Close, the Citizens' Young Company show about the legendary Close Theatre.

On until Saturday.

Close | Citizens Theatre citz.co.uk/whats-on/clo...

well @seraph76.bsky.social’s books got here and they look pretty sweet

As We Grow Older by Stephen Cashmore | Waterstones Buy As We Grow Older by Stephen Cashmore from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Just in time for Halloween, Stephen Cashmore releases his new book of spooky tales for kids, 'As They Grow Older: Spooky Stories To Read Aloud' (Sparsile Books) on 15th October!

Preorder now:
www.waterstones.com/book/as-we-g...

Waterstones Ayr Launch (31/10):
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...

GSFWC 30th Anniversary Anthology Thirty Years Of Rain, the all-star anthology to celebrate the Glasgow SF Writers’ Circle’s 30th anniversary, is available to buy in paperback and ebook formats. The book features storie…

In 2016 we also did another anthology - Thirty Years of Rain - which is still available, marking 30 years of the @gsfwc.bsky.social - wow, nearly 10 years ago! My story is about the end of the world, and witches looking for hope. I do like a theme!
#30YoR #gsfwc40
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GALLUS Gallus celebrates Glasgow’s third home turf Worldcon and showcases brand new work from our authors. Some of the writers featured here have been around since the beginning, some are brand new. Some …

You know what? Now seems a good day remind people that Gallus exists. A collective anthology by members of the @gsfwc.bsky.social community, put together for the Glasgow Worldcon. My story is about the end of the world, and witches looking for hope. #gallus #gsfwc40
gsfwc.wordpress.com/gallus/

Yooooo the UK paperback is now available for preorder in Waterstones!! Go get those witches in PAPER!! 🧙✨🔮

www.waterstones.com/book/vampire...

October 2025 - The Dark Magazine Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints...

Fancy a tale that'll leave you shaking 'Down to the Roots'? Check out the reprint of our Neil Williamson's classic tale of Halloween Scotia in The Dark Magazine, available now from the link below.

@neilwilliamson.bsky.social @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social

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It's October, so it must be Gothic season! Check out this splendid new queer horror romance from our Heather Valentine, only available on The Pink Hydra.

@thepinkhydra.com @hexthervvv.bsky.social

www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/02022...

Hey, overseas friends! We've got a lot of spooky story news coming this week, so why not throw us a follow if you're not already?

@hexthervvv.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS!

🧙🏼‍♀️ Your favourite queer witches return!
❤️ Multiple F/F romances
🦭 The tragic end of your giant selkie gf
🦇 “I’m a vampire, you’re a witch, it can never work, and yet…”
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 More Weegie shit
🔪 Supporting women’s wrongs

CW: death, grief, toxic coping mechanisms

Last call for the online launch of our Shona Kinsella's The Daughters of Nicnevin! Part of the BFS Online: Something Monstrous event, your ticket will get you into the full day, including Shona interviewing Scarlett St Clair!

For more details and to get your ticket, see below:
@shonak.bsky.social

The main image shows four arrows; three are pointing up, and coloured white, while the fourth is coloured yellow and pointing to the side

Big news from BFS members (and leaders) @shonak.bsky.social and @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social: A new independent non-profit organisation designed to help creatives thrive in publishing. Here's @divergent-paths.bsky.social

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Toronto pals! Gonna be at WOTS today for a 3:30 panel on JOURNEYS, I hope you can turn up!

toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca/events/journ...

Okay, list is shaping up pretty well… But there’s a few more spaces if people want added, will also remove if people want me to. (Limit is 150).

Folk attending @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social in Brighton next month…

Women with Warrior Hearts: Female-Led Fantasy Panel with V.L. Bovalino, Annabel Campbell, and Genoveva Dimova at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh

Was about to do a promo post for @annabelcwrites.bsky.social , @gen-dimova.bsky.social , and @toribovalino.bsky.social ‘s event today, then I realised it was sold out…

Good news, everyone! Cameron Johnston's got The First Mage on the Moon and here's the cover the prove it! Check out the reveal of his next Angry Robot novel over on Reactor Magazine now.

@cameronjohnston.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Hellarkey is now sold out, but you lucky ducks you who already bagged one can check out the new story 'Ee Flow A Sustenance' from our Will Couper.

@malarkeybooks.bsky.social

You can also find out more about the starring characters here:

Good news, everyone! Cameron Johnston's got The First Mage on the Moon and here's the cover the prove it! Check out the reveal of his next Angry Robot novel over on Reactor Magazine now.

@cameronjohnston.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

A Halloween Special - Surviving Life by Cameron Johnston | Glasgow 2024 Her grandpa Rab struggled up in bed, rheumy blue eyes squinting out into the hospice corridor. Satisfied nobody was eavesdropping, he slumped back into his

Happy 71st Anniversary of the Hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, when school children gathered at Glasgow's Southern Necropolis to seek out the rumoured kidnapper of small boys!

Read our Cameron Johnston's take on the legend, Surviving Life, at the link below.

@cameronjohnston.bsky.social

The new paperback cover for Witches of Merchant city, with a white curtain backdrop

A thing of beauty ✨

Now in circulation!
lukebelcourt.com/witches/one....

READ & REVIEWED: RUNE By Meghan Ellis A dangerous zealot rushes towards a solitary figure, chanting a hymn of the stars. Nearby, a skeleton waits to join the fray, wearing clothes of an unfamiliar land. The sky above march...

In my latest for @tabletopbookshelf.com I review why Rune by @gilarpgs.bsky.social is a fantastic little homage to FromSoft games in tabletop form ✨

(One of the tactical combat enjoyers, myself included)

tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet...

Mabon - The Autumn Equinox — Shona Kinsella Today marks the Autumn Equinox, also known to some as Mabon. At the equinox, the earth is neither tilted toward nor away from the sun, and so we have (almost) equal hours of light and dark. This is a ...

www.shonakinsella.com/shona-kinsella-blog/mabon-the-autumn-equinox

a group of people are standing on top of a snow covered field with their arms in the air . Alt: GIF: The four main characters in The Craft (1996) call the corners

Inside me are two wolves:

One wants to wait until tomorrow to announce Witches 2 because by then at least one of the big paperback distributors will notice it's available

The other is like "Announce on the equinox, release on Samhain! Announce on the equinox, release on Samhain!!" 👏👏👏

Brian's "Reason to keep running" collection Help Brian Milton raise money to support Trussell

A lovely autumnal morning for a running update that will annoy Tonka Toy drivers in the southside.
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Sending out my first newsletter in a while today, but there's still time to sign up first: mailchi.mp/f29dba8a3a74...

A book titled Absolute Zero. The cover shows an iceberg whose submerged portion is a creepy skull.

Woke up to a nip in the air. Season is turning, perfect timing for this contributor's copy of the Absolute Zero anthology to arrive!

If you're up for a collection of genuine chills, you can grab yours at:
deadskypublishing.com/portfolio-it...