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Update 39: Submissions Closing Date · They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) Several people have been asking when submissions will close for They Are Still Here. We will be closing submissions on Saturday 21st March at Midnight UK time.We wanted to give a few pointers as to wh...

An update about They Are Still Here - when we close, and what we're still looking for. You've got a month, pobl!
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 165:
Don't wait for inspiration. It's rare and unpredictable. Hard work, lots of practice, editing, and rewriting is what matters every time.

Cover of Fight Like A Girl #2. Art by Oisin McGann. Image is of a brown-skinned girl in light armour wielding a Very Big Sword. She is surrounded by images of other things she might use to fight, not all of them obviously weapons.

With stories by Danie Ware, Juliet McKenna, Anna Smith Spark and many others, Fight Like A Girl #2 was a feature on award short lists this year. Find out why people love it so much:
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WIN

Ooh @bethkesh.bsky.social and @julietemckenna.bsky.social, brilliant news!

Cover of The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna. Art by Ben Baldwin. Image is of an animal-like face with many sharp teeth peering out from a pile of gray rocks. Foliage and white flowers cover the rocks.

Cover of Wiz Duo Book 2. Art by Roz Clarke. The images are of a shield superimposed on a flying dragon, and a girl with a hole through her belly.

Congratulations to Juliet E McKenna and E M Faulds who have made the Long Lists in this year's British Science Fiction Association Awards: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-...

I want to do a boast.

I finished my MA in Classics and I just found out this week that I got a distinction. I am very very proud of myself.

My dissertation was on women in Ancient Rome who wore the toga. Ask me anything. Really anything (about my subject, or I'll try more broadly in Classics).

The Court families are very into their history. I ought to be, but in all honesty, I joined more for the bit where you get to guide people all over the world. Turned out more of it is close to home than I expected, but there you go. We all make decisions we don’t fully understand the implications of in our youth, don’t we? Anyway. It’s damp down here, and only a little light comes through the tree roots. I turned my hands over one another, muttering the rhyme, and my guide-light appeared. “This way, my lady.” I started along the main road. The cobbles were moss-slick underfoot, and buildings in various states of ruin loomed in the shadows to either side. Grey stone, mostly, like the oldest chapterhouse buildings. Lady Arel, beside me, was looking around her, but still moving fast. “I have never before been down here,” she said, in the tone of one making conversation.

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'world'. In 'Song, Stone, Scale, Bone' by Juliet Kemp from Wiz Duos #2, Sir Cade is heading into the catacombs with a seemingly clueless client. #BookQW
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The cover of Wiz Duos 3, featuring a blue background and two triangle panels. One has a green land and an island sunset with the silhouette of a man with a camera. The other has a mountain range with the silhouette of a big house

60 Wiz Duos 3 featuring The Sheltering Flame by Ruthanna Emrys and Walking A Wounded Land by Andrew Knighton

Two fabulous novellas - one about a magic house and the power of the sanctuaries we build
- the other about grief, walking, and the power of the memories we hold

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

Submissions are open for our Welsh folklore anthology, They Are Still Here: wizardstowerpress.co...

Fuck.

Cornish language to get same protected status as Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic Kernewek submitted by government for part III status under European charter for regional or minority languages

Good news.

Starship Alexandria: Day 1 - 2025 Advent Calendar For our first day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, Emma sings the praises of Star Trek: The Next Generation and explains why it's so special to her. If you'd like to support the show, ...

So... it begins.

Each day of the Starship Alexandria Advent Calendar, @aptshadow.bsky.social and I will take turns to enthuse about a favourite TV show.

The first 'window' opens to the Enterprise NCC-1701-D... No points for guessing whose choice that was ;)

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The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

Good morning world. It is still yesterday in California so we still have an hour or so left of the Kickstarter campaign. We are currently at £7223. Anyone else fancy joining the fun?
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Just finished "The Sheltering Flame", the first novella in Wiz Duos volume 3 from @wtpress.bsky.social and it was excellent, a very satisfying contemporary fantasy that reminded me of Peter Beagle or Charles
de Lint - three burnt out academics discover their fixer-upper house is a magical sanctuary.

End tax breaks on oil and gas Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.

Join me in calling on @RachelReevesMP to stop propping up declining oil and gas companies with £2.7 BILLION of tax breaks a year (🤯) and fund a jobs guarantee for workers instead: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

Today's update features a real-life Welsh princess who eloped with a young king to help lead a guerilla army, died fighting the English, and may have also been a notable author.
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Cover with blurbs 1: The cover of Wiz Duo book 3 with stories by Ruthanna Emrys and Andrew Knighton. The images are an old, wooden house seen against a mountainous background for Ruthanna's story; and a hiker walking towards the sunset in Andrew's. Beside it are quotes from other authors: “Two gorgeously written novellas exploring the ways that our connections to the land and to each other can be broken but also mended, these stories tell of bargains and sacrifices, and ultimately of hopeful futures.” — Sarah Brooks “Beautiful and haunting.” — Anna Smith Spark “Beautiful in cadence, powerful in imagery, gentle in spirit, Andrew Knighton’s work takes your heart’s ghosts on dances of things lost” — Danie Ware “A story that reminds us of the permanence of dreams and the determination of the human spirit. You’ll never walk Britain’s pathways the same again.” – Charlotte Bond

Ghosts linger amid the fields of England, waiting to be summoned by passing feet. As a walker faces the spectres of his own grief, he's drawn into a struggle between the paths connecting us & the boundaries that cut us apart, in Walking a Wounded Land.
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television."

Yes, it’s a serious problem

(From @privateeyenews.bsky.social – posting to include Alt text)

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

Look out, look out! There's a skeletal horse about! For today's update, Jo Hall tells us all about the Mari Llwyd:
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The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

What connects Star Wars, the Bible and a mythical sea monster? Why, today's update of course: www.kickstarter.com/...

👇 Super important resource from @fairness.bsky.social.

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

Today's legendary update is all about Stonehenge. Was it built by Merlin? And if not, where did that story come from?
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Did you know if you are an attending or online member of #WorldFantasy2025 you can get a bunch of free eBooks right now (including two that feature me)? Just log in and look for the Members Only Content button!

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

“It’s a discourse that sets people against one another.”

The UN special rapporteur on poverty says that welfare cuts and the collapse of the social safety net are behind the rise of the far right:
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The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

We had a wonderful weekend at #BristolCon, including reaching our first stretch goal. Thank you, everyone. Here's a brief update on what happens next.
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Brilliantly walking the thin line between great and mean parenting.

Heddiw @rozc.bsky.social and I are doing a workshop on How Not To Get Rejected at @bristolcon.bsky.social - you can sign up at the ops desk!

I'm unreasonably upset at this flattening of Garak into Fashion Lizard,he was the Enigmatic Fashion Lizard and this cannot be erased