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Marian Womack

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✨ Weird & Speculative fiction writer. 💜 Rare bookseller at La Doyenne. 🏳️‍🌈 ENG/SPA/FRE (She/Her) https://linktr.ee/marianwomack

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hi there! I'm new here, so I thought I'd tell you a little bit about me. I am a bilingual (SPA/ENG) writer/editor of speculative fiction with an interest in the Weird, the Gothic, eco-storytelling, and future-making fiction... as political as possible! Below, my most recent pic, taken by my 12 yo:

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming...

Day five brings @maudmarianw.bsky.social , and her tale "The Way Through the Woods".

SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jun 26

In case you're not sick of Southern Reach stuff.

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Science Fiction’s “Weird Thoreau” Offers a New Way of Seeing—and Being—Nature | Atmos

Jeff VanderMeer’s surprise fourth book in the Southern Reach trilogy is testing the definition of nature and humanity's place in it.

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · Jun 19

'Womack is a master at using realism to enhance the uncanny.'

Rachel Robinson reviews @maudmarianw.bsky.social LOST OBJECTS for Full Stop Mag:

www.full-stop.net/2025/03/31/r...

Lost Objects – Marian Womack

LOST OBJECTS shows us humanity at its most atomized, out of control, hoping and fearing and going mad.

www.full-stop.net

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · Jun 19

My little list is up 🖤

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Jun 17

“A good library is reactive, almost alive, in how it can respond to shifts in the kaleidoscope of opinion or academic fashion.”

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8 Books About the Quiet Power of Libraries and Museums - Electric Literature

To understand a society, consider how it records its knowledge

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Cristina Jurado @cristinajurado.bsky.social · Jun 19

📌 Os animo a que os conectéis a esta charla que tendremos el próximo 23 de junio, lunes, a las 6:00pm (hora de Madrid) la talentosísima @eliabarcelo.bsky.social y servidora.

Este es el enlace donde os podéis registrar gratis:

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#cienciaficción
#literatura
#ficción

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Callum James @callum-james.bsky.social · Jun 15

The book covers designed by Vanessa Bell on display at "Charleston at Lewes". I have been to all the exhibitions there since it opened and they haven't yet been less than excellent.

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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · Jun 12

Catching up on @iandunt.bsky.social and this is exactly what I needed. As the husband of an immigrant, dad to a 2nd generation, I’d add how definitional living with an Italian has been for my adult life. How much stronger and happier it’s made all three of us.
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Thank God for immigrants

This week, of all weeks: Thank God they came here and chose to make it their home.

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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social · May 20

Any Cambridge-based writers on Bluesky who we haven't followed yet?

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · May 20

I'm so confused as a new immigrant: so abortion is not legal in the UK? Or just very difficult to get? (Amazingly, tthjis wasn't covered in the Life in the UK Test, alth if you need to know how many members there are in the Welsh parliament or about a famous gardener called Lancelot*, I got you).

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · May 17

José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of 89. Jon Lee Anderson writes about the leader’s legacy.

Pepe Mujica’s Long Revolution

For the Uruguayan leader, a longtime icon of the Latin American left, economic fairness was inseparable from human decency.

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · May 17

Me and who

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 17

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds

www.theguardian.com

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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · May 14

Exciting times at the Calque office! These two limited-edition beauties are here.

Order at calquepress.com

Two pamphlets shown against a background of leaves.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · May 12

Keir Starmer in happier days on the 'island of strangers ' when immigrants were a jolly photo op & not an excuse for every crappy thing that happens to a nation more committed to extreme capitalism than the welfare of it's people .

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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · May 8

Attention writers! ⚠️ The annual Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity is now open. Click https://bgfn.sh/PS25 to read more about this year's competition and how to enter.

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · May 5

Vetusta!!! Qué recuerdos... ♥️

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · May 4

Once again, not the picture that the media wants you to see

FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · May 4

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · May 3

My wisteria ladies and gentlemen!!! 😍

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · May 3

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · May 3

ICYMI: Authors Jeannette Ng and Lauren Beukes have established The Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction with all proceeds going to The Good Law Project and The Triangle Project 👇 #BookSky

Authors Jeannette Ng and Lauren Beukes establish The Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction

www.thebookseller.com

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · May 3

This is so great!!! Massive congratulations 🎉

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · May 2

Putting here again my translation of Sofia Rhei's Cefiro, published earlier this week by Strange Horizon's @samovarmag.bsky.social. It's dark and weird, just the way I like them 🖤

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Zephyr | Céfiro

When the flint salamander stopped talking, its lava eyes dimmed and it sank back into the sand. Some of the scales on its upper body still poked out, here and there, as though they were part of no …

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · May 1

OMG!!!! 🖤

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Apr 30

Some confusion that the Southern Reach is up for a Hamster Award, due to an AI glitch on WorldCon's part, but in fact it's up for a Hugo Award for best series.

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