Kym Deyn
@kymdeyn.bsky.social
Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - kymdeyn.com - thebraag.co - she/they with CFS/ME. In books and in bogs.
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Kym Deyn
@kymdeyn.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Kym Deyn
kymdeyn.com
Hello folks! I'm a writer based in Newcastle, UK. I write poetry and speculative fiction and run @thebraag.bsky.social. I like bogs and books and my books include Dionysia published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social, Primers Vol.6, and Unfurl, a collaborative fiction experiment. kymdeyn.com
being hatecrimed over here
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
being hatecrimed over here
@empressofkashyr.bsky.social and I got married last month!
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
@empressofkashyr.bsky.social and I got married last month!
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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
You're telling me you trust LLMs to do *anything* ? COME ON. it can't even count to thirteen correctly.
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
You're telling me you trust LLMs to do *anything* ? COME ON. it can't even count to thirteen correctly.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Oh, to be a little squirrel in a mast year.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Oh, to be a little squirrel in a mast year.
Okay but this is how I name my rats.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 13,1952
November 13,1952
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Okay but this is how I name my rats.
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'Northern Spring' (1969)
Brent Wong
Brent Wong
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
'Northern Spring' (1969)
Brent Wong
Brent Wong
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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I am going to get through the next six-eight weeks of being housebound with books and good company. Today I am much helped by @sarahkat.bsky.social’s fabulous Fernseed and humbled to find Hookland mentioned in the acknowledgements.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I am going to get through the next six-eight weeks of being housebound with books and good company. Today I am much helped by @sarahkat.bsky.social’s fabulous Fernseed and humbled to find Hookland mentioned in the acknowledgements.
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If I lived in the north, I would be submitting to Carnyx Press. Good advice from good folk.
Getting ready to send us a publishing enquiry? We've penned a blog post on how to write a query letter:
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How to write a cover letter
Our tips on how to write an eye-catching query letter.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If I lived in the north, I would be submitting to Carnyx Press. Good advice from good folk.
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Following from our announcement that Quindrie Press will be closing at the end of 2026, I want to make people aware that in Spring 2026 we will be opening a one-off comic fund for UK creators. More details will be released next year.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Following from our announcement that Quindrie Press will be closing at the end of 2026, I want to make people aware that in Spring 2026 we will be opening a one-off comic fund for UK creators. More details will be released next year.
Sign up to our newsletter: quindriepress.com/newsletter
Sign up to our newsletter: quindriepress.com/newsletter
me, everyday with my rats:
![Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing butterfree and ash with text saying [squeaking noises] to signify what butterfree sounds like](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nlz6s2rcv4rixjux6avn6ezz/bafkreiefgemxi2x6beokntxrwqkk7fwbyb35r6g4wjjngxvnnetrxnairy@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
me, everyday with my rats:
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im sorry this is so fucking funny to me
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
im sorry this is so fucking funny to me
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There are infections of blood. There are infections of the soul. There are I believe, infections of the place. For the land itself may be wounded by our traumas. Where its psychic skin cracks, the spoilings of rot and wickedness can set in. We call such infections hauntings. – Rev. A. Morley
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There are infections of blood. There are infections of the soul. There are I believe, infections of the place. For the land itself may be wounded by our traumas. Where its psychic skin cracks, the spoilings of rot and wickedness can set in. We call such infections hauntings. – Rev. A. Morley
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I'm a writer and have worked in a support role in arts marketing, both employed and freelance, since 2008.
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Durham’s Lumiere festival was a beacon of hope and togetherness – we cannot let the lights go out on the rest of the arts
Durham’s Lumiere festival was a beacon of hope and togetherness – we cannot let the lights go out on the rest of the arts
The UK’s culture sector needs financial, political and public support to survive. Funding is not a ‘favour’. It is an investment in imagination, in our shared experience – and in inspiration and joy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I'm a writer and have worked in a support role in arts marketing, both employed and freelance, since 2008.
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔
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A scan of the actual riso print
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November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A scan of the actual riso print
Join up this month to get one of these, and help me weigh in on next month’s print theme!
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『土偶犬ドッグゥ マスコットフィギュア』9月発売予定。土偶みたいな犬が発見されました。その名も「ドッグゥ」
"Dogu Dogu Mascot Figure" is scheduled to be released in September. A dog resembling a clay figurine has been discovered. Its name is "Doguu"
#ガチャポン #gachapon
『土偶犬ドッグゥ マスコットフィギュア』9月発売予定。土偶みたいな犬が発見されました。その名も「ドッグゥ」
"Dogu Dogu Mascot Figure" is scheduled to be released in September. A dog resembling a clay figurine has been discovered. Its name is "Doguu"
#ガチャポン #gachapon
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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『土偶犬ドッグゥ マスコットフィギュア』9月発売予定。土偶みたいな犬が発見されました。その名も「ドッグゥ」
"Dogu Dogu Mascot Figure" is scheduled to be released in September. A dog resembling a clay figurine has been discovered. Its name is "Doguu"
#ガチャポン #gachapon
『土偶犬ドッグゥ マスコットフィギュア』9月発売予定。土偶みたいな犬が発見されました。その名も「ドッグゥ」
"Dogu Dogu Mascot Figure" is scheduled to be released in September. A dog resembling a clay figurine has been discovered. Its name is "Doguu"
#ガチャポン #gachapon
just reminding everyone that my reputation as a bog witch stems from when i met the oldcroghan man, went summarily mad, and the spagnum moss refused to let me go. this poem is from back in 2019-ish.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
just reminding everyone that my reputation as a bog witch stems from when i met the oldcroghan man, went summarily mad, and the spagnum moss refused to let me go. this poem is from back in 2019-ish.
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She is the thrice-changed. The mummified soft tissue and dissolved bones, the transformed into the spirit of place, the transmuted figure of fact to folklore.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
She is the thrice-changed. The mummified soft tissue and dissolved bones, the transformed into the spirit of place, the transmuted figure of fact to folklore.
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Her wounds leak blood prayers to place, cry out to gods we shall never truly know the names of. She has crossed the mire’s cold threshold into a territory of low oxygen and high acidity. Her supplications answered with transformation. - Emily C. Banting
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Her wounds leak blood prayers to place, cry out to gods we shall never truly know the names of. She has crossed the mire’s cold threshold into a territory of low oxygen and high acidity. Her supplications answered with transformation. - Emily C. Banting
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@tomsbrown.bsky.social She falls into her bog bed. Peat-pillowed. Moss-blanketed. Cradled by its brown waters. A protection of humic acids, tannins. Heather honey on the tongue of her bitter dreams.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
@tomsbrown.bsky.social She falls into her bog bed. Peat-pillowed. Moss-blanketed. Cradled by its brown waters. A protection of humic acids, tannins. Heather honey on the tongue of her bitter dreams.
YESSSS NATHANIEL !!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Absolutely delighted to share my short story 'Iterate' has won third prize in the 2025 @britfantasysoc.bsky.social short story competition, and is forthcoming in BFS horizons!
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
YESSSS NATHANIEL !!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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all poets are cool anti-establishment leftists, until they get a chance to lick a royal's arsehole 💀💀
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
all poets are cool anti-establishment leftists, until they get a chance to lick a royal's arsehole 💀💀