Kelly Robson
@kellyrobson.com
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, High Times in the Low Parliament, A Human Stain, Waters of Versailles https://kellyrobson.com/books
Trans rights are human rights for f*cks sake
she/her in Toronto, Canada
Trans rights are human rights for f*cks sake
she/her in Toronto, Canada
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Kelly Robson
@kellyrobson.com
· Sep 11
I wrote books. I'm writing more.
kellyrobson.com/books/
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Coming next week! I'm grateful that I can finally share this very personal story of grief and swamps.
Transformed by a fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most...
December 3rd. "All That Means or Mourns," by @r-emrys.bsky.social
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
December 3rd. "All That Means or Mourns," by @r-emrys.bsky.social
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Coming next week! I'm grateful that I can finally share this very personal story of grief and swamps.
Holidays are arbitrary, and their timing makes no sense, but it's still strange that American Thanksgiving is celebrated on a Thursday. Thoughts and prayers to everyone traveling today.
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Holidays are arbitrary, and their timing makes no sense, but it's still strange that American Thanksgiving is celebrated on a Thursday. Thoughts and prayers to everyone traveling today.
Apologizing to the cat for summoning his mortal enemy, the dreaded vacuum
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Apologizing to the cat for summoning his mortal enemy, the dreaded vacuum
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Delighted to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Goblin Shark', published in @thebraag.bsky.social 🦈
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Delighted to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Goblin Shark', published in @thebraag.bsky.social 🦈
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eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
🧵
Holy shit. Pluribus. Holy shit what a show. Just when I thought US tv was in the toilet.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Holy shit. Pluribus. Holy shit what a show. Just when I thought US tv was in the toilet.
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Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted
“This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...
www.unchartedmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
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Patreon is currenlty a large income source as I try to get this whole "writing regularly" thing off the ground
(had mental health crisis in family, now slowly digging myself out. With my fingernails hahhaha sob)
(had mental health crisis in family, now slowly digging myself out. With my fingernails hahhaha sob)
Managed to do my Patreon posts for tomorrow!!!
A reminder you can subscribe here: www.patreon.com/aliettedebod...
It really helps.
A reminder you can subscribe here: www.patreon.com/aliettedebod...
It really helps.
Get more from Aliette de Bodard on Patreon
creating Speculative Fiction
www.patreon.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Patreon is currenlty a large income source as I try to get this whole "writing regularly" thing off the ground
(had mental health crisis in family, now slowly digging myself out. With my fingernails hahhaha sob)
(had mental health crisis in family, now slowly digging myself out. With my fingernails hahhaha sob)
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The 1st instalment of my 1st serialized short story has landed in people's inboxes care of @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! If you want to read "A Road Less Taken" over the course of this week, sign up! You'll get access to previous instalments too. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
Book Week Scotland: Amal El-Mohtar in your inbox
Sign up to receive an exclusive serialised story from Amal El-Mohtar during Book Week Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The 1st instalment of my 1st serialized short story has landed in people's inboxes care of @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! If you want to read "A Road Less Taken" over the course of this week, sign up! You'll get access to previous instalments too. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
Congratulations @averyother.bsky.social, @crustywareniki.bsky.social, and Niloufar-Lily Soltan, winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest, and to all the shortlisted finalists!
pulpliterature.com/announcing-t...
pulpliterature.com/announcing-t...
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest! - PULP Literature
Taking Flight We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest! Here’s what final judge Kelly Robson had to say about [...]
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November 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Congratulations @averyother.bsky.social, @crustywareniki.bsky.social, and Niloufar-Lily Soltan, winners of the 2025 Raven Short Story Contest, and to all the shortlisted finalists!
pulpliterature.com/announcing-t...
pulpliterature.com/announcing-t...
Alyx and I once watched a seagull laboriously and with great determination swallow a huge starfish. In the end, it had to bash the starfish on a rock to force it into its throat. We were certain the bird was going to die in front of us. But eventually, it got the starfish down and flew away.
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Alyx and I once watched a seagull laboriously and with great determination swallow a huge starfish. In the end, it had to bash the starfish on a rock to force it into its throat. We were certain the bird was going to die in front of us. But eventually, it got the starfish down and flew away.
Reminder that anyone who says "a writer must do this," "a writer cannot do that," is WRONG.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reminder that anyone who says "a writer must do this," "a writer cannot do that," is WRONG.
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Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...
Queen Demon by Martha Wells: Review by Liz Bourke
Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor 978-1-250-82691-6, $28.99, 400pp, hc) October 2025. Cover by Cynthia Sheppard. I’ve loved Martha Wells’s fantasy novels ever since I picked up The Element of Fire. Qu…
locusmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...
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I write 2 pep talks a month for my Patreon supporters, usually focused on creativity and positivity. Today's post is about the post-book launch blues, and I made it free for everyone, because I think it's common and very miserable.
www.patreon.com/posts/143504...
www.patreon.com/posts/143504...
You can always get ice cream | Wendy N. Wagner
Get more from Wendy N. Wagner on Patreon
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November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I write 2 pep talks a month for my Patreon supporters, usually focused on creativity and positivity. Today's post is about the post-book launch blues, and I made it free for everyone, because I think it's common and very miserable.
www.patreon.com/posts/143504...
www.patreon.com/posts/143504...
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New novelette out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! Contains pigeon angels and living burials.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/and-...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/and-...
And on Their Graves a Fall of Angels - Uncanny Magazine
He was ten when he shot his first angel. He remembers its stupid dark eyes staring at him from the foliage above, its two sets of wings flapping, the sound of something breaking. It was shortly after ...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New novelette out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! Contains pigeon angels and living burials.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/and-...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/and-...
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I’ve got about 45 minutes before work so let’s do a game — give me a number between 1 and 293, and I’ll give you a quote from that page
Happy paperback day to Dead Girls Don’t Dream! Now with a bonus playlist in the back, which are all songs I both listened to incessantly while writing this, and songs that are thematically or vibe-ally resonant. Available wherever books are sold, and signed copies thru @astoriabookshop.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I’ve got about 45 minutes before work so let’s do a game — give me a number between 1 and 293, and I’ll give you a quote from that page
Now the weather has turned cold, I get this
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Now the weather has turned cold, I get this
Huge turnout today for the launch of The Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, stretched from wall to wall to wall @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Huge turnout today for the launch of The Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, stretched from wall to wall to wall @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social
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If you looked like a bot so I blocked you, but you weren’t, that still kinda seems like a you problem.
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If you looked like a bot so I blocked you, but you weren’t, that still kinda seems like a you problem.
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This is today!
I'll be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin this weekend doing a panel with @scalzi.com!
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is today!
Today! In Toronto! See you there???
Tomorrow in Toronto! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3. Sat, Nov 8 at Bakka Phoenix @ 3pm @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social
maps.app.goo.gl/2qnXrY1mcgE7...
maps.app.goo.gl/2qnXrY1mcgE7...
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Today! In Toronto! See you there???
Tomorrow in Toronto! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3. Sat, Nov 8 at Bakka Phoenix @ 3pm @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social
maps.app.goo.gl/2qnXrY1mcgE7...
maps.app.goo.gl/2qnXrY1mcgE7...
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Tomorrow in Toronto! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3. Sat, Nov 8 at Bakka Phoenix @ 3pm @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social
maps.app.goo.gl/2qnXrY1mcgE7...
maps.app.goo.gl/2qnXrY1mcgE7...
The era has not changed. I'm still exactly this human though perhaps am reading slightly more sophisticated books at the moment
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The era has not changed. I'm still exactly this human though perhaps am reading slightly more sophisticated books at the moment