emma burnett
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
Doctor of food. Writer of stories.
Neurospicy. Kind of a lot.
Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
Science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk
Drabbleµ markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets
Neurospicy. Kind of a lot.
Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
Science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk
Drabbleµ markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets
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emma burnett
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
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Useful links for writers (details in the 🧵)
Drabble & micro markets database: emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micr...
Spec-fic novella markets database: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The Title Page: emmaburnett.uk/the-title-page
Drabble & micro markets database: emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micr...
Spec-fic novella markets database: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The Title Page: emmaburnett.uk/the-title-page
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It’s that time of year when everyone goes ‘Omg I gotta tell everyone all the things they can nominate me for’ and then sits around wondering if anyone actually will.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s that time of year when everyone goes ‘Omg I gotta tell everyone all the things they can nominate me for’ and then sits around wondering if anyone actually will.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
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A feminist, anti-corporate, indie sci-fi novella, anyone?
It's an ARC - and a cover reveal!
Now on #NetGalley - out in June, Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social, cover art by Ellen Burnett 💙 #BookSky
It's an ARC - and a cover reveal!
Now on #NetGalley - out in June, Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social, cover art by Ellen Burnett 💙 #BookSky
Ex Partum
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
www.netgalley.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A feminist, anti-corporate, indie sci-fi novella, anyone?
It's an ARC - and a cover reveal!
Now on #NetGalley - out in June, Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social, cover art by Ellen Burnett 💙 #BookSky
It's an ARC - and a cover reveal!
Now on #NetGalley - out in June, Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social, cover art by Ellen Burnett 💙 #BookSky
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
It’s got a cover, an ISBN, and now an ARC page. It’s a really real book!
#ExPartum #NetGalley #writing #booksky
#ExPartum #NetGalley #writing #booksky
A feminist, anti-corporate, indie sci-fi novella, anyone?
It's an ARC - and a cover reveal!
Now on #NetGalley - out in June, Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social, cover art by Ellen Burnett 💙 #BookSky
It's an ARC - and a cover reveal!
Now on #NetGalley - out in June, Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social, cover art by Ellen Burnett 💙 #BookSky
Ex Partum
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
www.netgalley.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It’s got a cover, an ISBN, and now an ARC page. It’s a really real book!
#ExPartum #NetGalley #writing #booksky
#ExPartum #NetGalley #writing #booksky
The artwork for Ex Partum was done by my mother, Ellen Burnett. She is a truly amazing artist, whose artwork leaves me wanting to simultaneously cry and sigh in satisfaction.
You should check out her other work: ellenburnett.com
You should check out her other work: ellenburnett.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The artwork for Ex Partum was done by my mother, Ellen Burnett. She is a truly amazing artist, whose artwork leaves me wanting to simultaneously cry and sigh in satisfaction.
You should check out her other work: ellenburnett.com
You should check out her other work: ellenburnett.com
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I'm up at HAD today and yet my family is still not showing me any respect
seems weird
seems weird
"If someone asks if you’re a narc and you actually are a narc, you have to say it. That’s the rule. Like if someone directly asks you, you’re not allowed to lie about it. Same with if you’re a Republican..."
some rules today from Sasha Brown
https://www.havehashad.com/5as8y
some rules today from Sasha Brown
https://www.havehashad.com/5as8y
Narc Rules by Sasha Brown
If someone asks if you’re a narc and you actually are a narc, you have to say it. That’s the rule. Like if someone directly asks you, you’re not allowed to lie about it. Same with if you’re a…
www.havehashad.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm up at HAD today and yet my family is still not showing me any respect
seems weird
seems weird
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Ew. Chewing like… like a thing that chews?!
Interested in ARC reviewing my first book? Get in touch with @atthisarts.com!
#scifi #dystopia #writingcommunity #expartumbites
Interested in ARC reviewing my first book? Get in touch with @atthisarts.com!
#scifi #dystopia #writingcommunity #expartumbites
Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social 📱 - ARCs available now for review (contact us if interested!)
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ew. Chewing like… like a thing that chews?!
Interested in ARC reviewing my first book? Get in touch with @atthisarts.com!
#scifi #dystopia #writingcommunity #expartumbites
Interested in ARC reviewing my first book? Get in touch with @atthisarts.com!
#scifi #dystopia #writingcommunity #expartumbites
Ew. Chewing like… like a thing that chews?!
Interested in ARC reviewing my first book? Get in touch with @atthisarts.com!
#scifi #dystopia #writingcommunity #expartumbites
Interested in ARC reviewing my first book? Get in touch with @atthisarts.com!
#scifi #dystopia #writingcommunity #expartumbites
Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social 📱 - ARCs available now for review (contact us if interested!)
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ew. Chewing like… like a thing that chews?!
Interested in ARC reviewing my first book? Get in touch with @atthisarts.com!
#scifi #dystopia #writingcommunity #expartumbites
Interested in ARC reviewing my first book? Get in touch with @atthisarts.com!
#scifi #dystopia #writingcommunity #expartumbites
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Hoping to see this one on some awards lists - check it out!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social
@slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social
Bone-eater Earth was in @unchartedmag.bsky.social.
If we don’t get our act together, Mother Earth is gonna make some big decisions for us. So, hey, maybe we consider degrowth, instead?
CW: amputation, rude language, techbros
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...
If we don’t get our act together, Mother Earth is gonna make some big decisions for us. So, hey, maybe we consider degrowth, instead?
CW: amputation, rude language, techbros
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...
Bone-Eater Earth - Uncharted
I lose my finger during the private flight back from Japan. It isn’t the whole finger, of course, just the bone. When I drugged myself into oblivion at the start of the flight, it was totally fine. Wh...
www.unchartedmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hoping to see this one on some awards lists - check it out!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social
@slashnburnett.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social
It’s that time of year when everyone goes ‘Omg I gotta tell everyone all the things they can nominate me for’ and then sits around wondering if anyone actually will.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s that time of year when everyone goes ‘Omg I gotta tell everyone all the things they can nominate me for’ and then sits around wondering if anyone actually will.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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New kitten journey begins
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
New kitten journey begins
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Thank you for your generosity - also, the shares work! Please, could we rally and close this up?
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this *8 months* for a Black woman owned small press.
We can do this! Today, even, with a rally! 💚
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this *8 months* for a Black woman owned small press.
We can do this! Today, even, with a rally! 💚
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2470, 50% / Amount above completes funding for translation of Zvinobvinza / isiZulu translation ...
ko-fi.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thank you for your generosity - also, the shares work! Please, could we rally and close this up?
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this *8 months* for a Black woman owned small press.
We can do this! Today, even, with a rally! 💚
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this *8 months* for a Black woman owned small press.
We can do this! Today, even, with a rally! 💚
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
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Our midweek read is a freshly harvested fantasy straight out of my Xennial dreams of real Cabbage Patch kids. Check out “A Proper Mother, Unhexed” by Ashlee Lhamon, free to read on FFO
#writingcommunity #fantasy #family
#magic #cabbagepatch
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-pr...
#writingcommunity #fantasy #family
#magic #cabbagepatch
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-pr...
A Proper Mother, Unhexed
The chief difficulty in being a garden witch is that the cabbage patches occasionally sprout babies. Odelia didn’t know this when she started garden witchery, only that cabbage, in parts or w…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Our midweek read is a freshly harvested fantasy straight out of my Xennial dreams of real Cabbage Patch kids. Check out “A Proper Mother, Unhexed” by Ashlee Lhamon, free to read on FFO
#writingcommunity #fantasy #family
#magic #cabbagepatch
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-pr...
#writingcommunity #fantasy #family
#magic #cabbagepatch
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-pr...
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Surreal meets tearful in Kate Horsley’s story “The Tao of Thorstein” about saying goodbye.
#flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
#flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter
I’m certain Mom will shit a brick about the Vikings, so we take baby steps on the morning of the big reveal.First, I load up a tray with pancakes – her favourite ever since she got sick and I quit …
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Surreal meets tearful in Kate Horsley’s story “The Tao of Thorstein” about saying goodbye.
#flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
#flashfiction #fantasy #family #caregiving
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
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COZY SCI-FI: “The Last Ofutan in Orbit” by Mizuki Yamagen is available to read on FFO:
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Last Ofuton in Orbit
After my grandmother died, I was left with the ofuton and the spirit inside it.It had been hers since before lift-off, stitched by hand on Earth, brought to the orbiting colony in the old days when…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
COZY SCI-FI: “The Last Ofutan in Orbit” by Mizuki Yamagen is available to read on FFO:
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
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OUT THIS WEEK: “Unfinished Conversations Package” by Chris Baker. Dad persona has so many things to share with you!
@chrisbaker1337.bsky.social
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/unfi...
@chrisbaker1337.bsky.social
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/unfi...
Unfinished Conversations Package
<DAD PERSONA> 05/11/29 15:1750% COMPLETE…75% COMPLETE…PERSONA GENERATED! COMMUNICATE FREELY WITH PARENTAL SIMULATION!Hey Dan! Thought you’d get a kick out of this Far Side cartoon. I lo…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
OUT THIS WEEK: “Unfinished Conversations Package” by Chris Baker. Dad persona has so many things to share with you!
@chrisbaker1337.bsky.social
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/unfi...
@chrisbaker1337.bsky.social
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/unfi...
Remember: when you bury the bodies, you should always plant native, endangered species on top so they can’t dig them up.
#livelocal
#livelocal
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Remember: when you bury the bodies, you should always plant native, endangered species on top so they can’t dig them up.
#livelocal
#livelocal
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How Much It Costs to Run a Literary Journal – 2025
Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
How Much It Costs to Run a Literary Journal – 2025
Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
Radon Journal is a not-for-profit science fiction publisher committed to transparency. This is our yearly public financial thread. We also want to show aspiring editors the true costs of running a semi-pro journal. #writingcommunity (1/10)
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Good morning from the kitten room! Here’re some Nebula & Sunshine photos to get your day going right.
Everyone is putting on weight, and they have increased in bravery and playfulness. Sunshine just made a brrp sound, and Nebula did an accidental forward roll whilst playing. Yaaay!
Everyone is putting on weight, and they have increased in bravery and playfulness. Sunshine just made a brrp sound, and Nebula did an accidental forward roll whilst playing. Yaaay!
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Good morning from the kitten room! Here’re some Nebula & Sunshine photos to get your day going right.
Everyone is putting on weight, and they have increased in bravery and playfulness. Sunshine just made a brrp sound, and Nebula did an accidental forward roll whilst playing. Yaaay!
Everyone is putting on weight, and they have increased in bravery and playfulness. Sunshine just made a brrp sound, and Nebula did an accidental forward roll whilst playing. Yaaay!
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Ok, before I check under the hood, shall we take some bets on whether Sunshine is M or F? Here's some deets before I check:
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ok, before I check under the hood, shall we take some bets on whether Sunshine is M or F? Here's some deets before I check:
Can you even believe those Blocks 1-2 people? Share, whydontcha?
#scifi #dystopia #booksky #writingcommunity #comingsoon #expartumbites
#scifi #dystopia #booksky #writingcommunity #comingsoon #expartumbites
Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social 🔌 ... ARCs available soon ...
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Can you even believe those Blocks 1-2 people? Share, whydontcha?
#scifi #dystopia #booksky #writingcommunity #comingsoon #expartumbites
#scifi #dystopia #booksky #writingcommunity #comingsoon #expartumbites
New kitten journey begins
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
New kitten journey begins
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My story in Flash Fiction Online's FamPunk issue is now available online. Thanks again to @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and guest editor @slashnburnett.bsky.social for selecting it! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/unfi...
Unfinished Conversations Package
<DAD PERSONA> 05/11/29 15:1750% COMPLETE…75% COMPLETE…PERSONA GENERATED! COMMUNICATE FREELY WITH PARENTAL SIMULATION!Hey Dan! Thought you’d get a kick out of this Far Side cartoon. I lo…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My story in Flash Fiction Online's FamPunk issue is now available online. Thanks again to @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and guest editor @slashnburnett.bsky.social for selecting it! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/unfi...