Ren Hutchings

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Congratulations!! It really is such a great list!! 🎉🎉🎉

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So thrilled to see our editor @danaiwrites.bsky.social's essay on the BSFA Longlist! 🧡

Thank you!! 🫶

Cover art for WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE by Syr Hayati Beker, featuring a mermaid embracing a fish with human legs.

New today, @redfernjon.bsky.social reviews @syr.bsky.social's @stelliform.press "novella in fairytale retellings", What a Fish Looks Like: reckoning.press/review-what-...

This makes me so incredibly happy!! 👏

BSFA LONGLIST 2026 announcement: Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction.

Two Stelliform titles made the absolutely stacked BSFA Longlist! Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) is nominated in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction.

See the full list here: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-...

🚀 Congratulations to all those longlisted for BSFA Awards!

Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works!

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!! AAAAAH so well deserved!!! 🥰

Longlisted for the BSFA Awards AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings (Solaris) - Best Novel

Longlisted for the BSFA Awards THE LEGEND LIMINAL by Ren Hutchings (Stars and Sabers) - Best Shorter Fiction

Delighted & honored that my novel AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD & my novella THE LEGEND LIMINAL are on the longlist for the BSFA Awards!

Thanks so much to the BSFA members who nominated my works, & congrats to everybody on this absolutely incredible list 🫶

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BSFA Awards Longlist! Left to right book covers: OF SHADOWS, STARS, AND SABERS, edited by Jendia Gammon and Gareth L. Powell; ECHOES AND EMBERS: SPECULATIVE STORIES by Pedro Iniguez; THE NGA’PHANDILEH WHISPERER by Eugen Bacon; THE LEGEND LIMINAL by Ren Hutchings Best Novella The Nga'phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon The Legend Liminal by Ren Hutchings Best Short Fiction "The Shadow Eater of Orino-Rin" by Eugen Bacon, in Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers Best Artwork Cover: Art by Niall C. Grant for Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers Cover: Art by Raúl Cruz for Echoes and Embers by Pedro Iniguez Cover: Art by Stephen Embleton for The Nga'phandileh Whisper by Eugen Bacon

We are thrilled to announce several BSFA Award Longlist nominations for our writers and cover artists! Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social, @voidcricket.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, Niall C. Grant, and Raúl Cruz!
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Kim Herbst Cover Artist, featuring a woman with chin-length dark hair, and three books whose covers she has illustrated: THE LEGEND LIMINAL by Ren Hutchings, SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL by P.A. Cornell, and IMAGINE A FRIEND by David Quantick.

Our cover artist @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social has created the art for three gorgeous book covers for us, and is in the process of making our romantasy anthology cover, and soon more novella covers! Read more about Kim Herbst: www.starsandsabers.com/2025/06/09/m...
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A reminder that I have a few US and UK codes for the audio version of Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! If you are reading for the awards and want to listen to a dark space opera novella with horror feels, feel free to let me know! 💀

2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21

Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday!

The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.

There will be no cap.

More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
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Incredibly excited to announce that my debut science-fantasy novel THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FALLING WORLDS will be published by Daphne Press (UK & Commonwealth), Bindery Books (US) and Bolinda (audio)! This Cyberpunk 2077 X Spirited Away book has been cooking in my brain for 6 long years!

Two paperbacks by Ren Hutchings - UNDER FORTUNATE STARS and AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD - surrounded by blue, gold and white Christmas decorations.

We do NOT have 11 pipers piping but we do have 2 of @voidcricket.bsky.social 's scifi standalones - UNDER FORTUNATE STARS & AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD - each with their own original songs!

US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a 🌙 in the comments to enter! Ends 11th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT🪐📚💙

"Buried secrets seep through a surreal alternate Edinburgh in this twisty and ultimately hopeful haunted-house tale, imbued with themes of memory, grief, and a heartfelt search for belonging. Lyndsey Croal's writing drips with atmosphere, evoking the disquieting feeling of a half-remembered dream."

A month to go until In This City, Where it Rains publishes with @lunapress.bsky.social! A good time to start sharing some blurbs from early readers, first up from @voidcricket.bsky.social, author of Under Fortunate Stars, The Legend Liminal, and more! Pre-order now! ✨ 🖤 linktr.ee/lyndseycroal

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Small Press Dispatch: The Thing You Do When Crying Isn’t Enough Roseanna Pendlebury In Syr Hayati Beker’s What A Fish Looks Like, a book of fairytales is transformed by annotation into a collection of new fables, more suited to the climate-change-ravaged future…

The Thing You Do When Crying Isn’t Enough: for the latest Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE (@stelliform.press)

The Demon Star by Jesse Aragon is now available for preorder! This cinematic thriller is a horror tinged science fantasy with expansive worldbuilding and tons of action.
Preorder now, available July 28, 2026!

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The Hugo Awards (2026)

As we approach the end of the year, it's a great time to record things you love! Not just for the Hugo Awards, but in general. The rec sheet is a handy resource for nomination, but also at its heart a rec resource in a loud, busy media environment.

No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.

have you ordered your copy yet?

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"Lush, lyrical, and heartbreaking" - @ivygrimes.bsky.social

"A beautiful meditation on loss and grief" - @acwise.bsky.social

"A visceral and timely tale" - @thesuiway.bsky.social

"This is eco and science fiction at its best" -@lyndseycroal.bsky.social

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A compilation of book covers: THE GOBLIN EMPEROR by Katherine Addison WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson PHOENIX EXTRAVAGANT by Yoon Ha Lee UNDER FORTUNATE STARS and AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS and RAKESFALL by Vajra Chandrasekera THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ by Isabel Canas THE GANYMENDA by R. T. Ester THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE MISHEARD WOLRD by Aliya Whiteley SKYWARD INN by Aliya Whiteley THE NEEDFIRE by MK Hardy

Did you know that it's #singlesday?

The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!

From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!

Early Praise for GODFESTATION by JENDIA GAMMON "Slinking through the cracks between the familiar and the uncanny, Godfestation evokes the glimmer of something surreal lingering at your periphery. Jendia Gammon's poignant prose captures the melancholy ache of nostalgia, the monstrous manifestations of loss, the liminality of grief, and the resilience of confronting what haunts us before we can move forward." - Ren Hutchings, author of The Legend Liminal and Under Fortunate Stars August 2026 via Sley House Publishing Preorders Forthcoming

Thank you @voidcricket.bsky.social for this beautiful blurb for GODFESTATION, my Appalachia weird horror, arriving August 2026 via @sleyhouseeditor! Cover reveal and preorders are coming soon.
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