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🦊🌻A FIX OF LIGHT🌻🦊 OUT NOW‼️ 📚 rep: Losbennett.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them or siad/iad 📸: Chrissy Curtin & Shauna O’Donnell 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 🍉 🔗 https://kelmenton.carrd.co/

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hi Bluesky!! I’d better introduce myself!
🦊 I’m Kel!
🏳️‍⚧️ they/them
🍓 I’m a writer and facilitator
🌻 My debut YA novel #AFixofLight is out on 6 Feb!

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 14h

She's still in Israeli captivity
#Speirgorm

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 3d

I LOVE your cat illustrations (I still have the ones you did for the Rainbow Library workshops years ago!) so having it in sticker form is a DREAM

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 3d

you’ve got to be a bit delusional to keep going!!!!!!

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 3d

OH MY GOD KIP

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 3d

why did I just get an ad for a supplement to help with low T. excise me. buddy I pay top dollar explicitly to have average levels of T.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 5d

8 consecutive days of workshops and residency and book promo 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 which, if you were wondering, is 56 days in autism time

kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 5d

How is this still happening 😭

A screenshot of a text post from Tumblr. It reads: “it is like talking to a fucking genie with you people”

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 10d

Sumud boats currently being intercepted by Israel, likely to illegally abduct and imprison those inside. I’m on one of the Thousand Madleens boats just behind. We need escalation from home to end the impunity with which this rogue state commits genocide and stifles opposition

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 11d

@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and Poetry Ireland celebrate Black History Month 2025!

📆 24th October
🕰️ 6:30pm
📍 Irish Writers Centre
🎟️ €5

Book here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/bla...

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 13d

Or The Autistic Guide to Communicating and Connecting, also @niamhgarvey.bsky.social !!!

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 13d

Being Autistic by @niamhgarvey.bsky.social perhaps!!

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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 15d

No worries if not. Lots of worries if.

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 15d

New Quarterly Q&A was sent out on Buttondown this week!! Check out my newsletter archive here! #writing

buttondown.com/kelmenton/ar...

Quarterly Q&A | Writing, publishing, editing, oh my!

What's my next project? What's the timeline to publish a novel? Who let the dogs out?

buttondown.com

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 17d

Also a Top 10 SF/Fantasy Books for Youth from Booklist Reader (a magazine from the American Library Association)! 👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉

A screenshot of a page from BOOKLIST READER Oct 2025 issue of the Top 10 SF/Fantasy Books for Youth.

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 17d

oh my gosh!!! thank you so much for sharing!!! that’s so exciting?!?!?

kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 18d

I hope tomorrow is better!

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 19d

The thing that is so insane about this is, these books are entirely unpolitical in content. They’re just about a little black girl doing things like going to the library or visiting a beekeeper and learning about bees. Swap it for a white face and nobody could come up with a reason to ban them.

Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social · 21d

Anna’s Lola books listed as “banned in classrooms” in one US county – purely because they feature a black character

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 20d

IM SORRY I MEANT JOANNA CURSE YOU AUTOCORRECT

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 20d

Signed some copies of A Fix of Light in @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social & was so happy to see it was a staff recommendation!!!! (Whoever you are, Joanne, you’re a legend!!) 🦊✨🫶🏻🌻

A photograph of author Kel Menton, a white person with short brown hair, wearing a brown wax jacket, as they sign copies of their book, A Fix of Light, in Chapter’s Book shop

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 20d

This is inflating my ego too much. I’m going to become unbearable!!!!!!

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 20d

maybe I’ve missed my calling? I’m trying to be a writer but I should have been trying to become the next James Acaster?

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 21d

thank you to whoever said I should do stand up comedy. unfortunately 98% of my jokes are on-the-spot bits fuelled by nerves x

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Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social · 21d

Anna’s Lola books listed as “banned in classrooms” in one US county – purely because they feature a black character

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kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · 22d

Home from my #CultureNight event with Dubray Cork’s Book Club & listening to my brother killing it on 2FM live from Sligo (yup Cliffords!!!) because we are artsy siblings with big dreams <3