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Fiona Mossman

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she/her 📖 Writer | Librarian 📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙 Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Feb 28

"There are other ways. There are other worlds."

I'm excited for you to meet my Aphrodite as she struggles to accept the death of her priestess--Sappho of Lesbos.

Thank you to Flame Tree Publishing for including this story in their gorgeous anthology 😍

blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Myths, Gods & Immortals | Contents Announcement | Aphrodite

We’re very pleased to present the list of stories selected for inclusion in our Aphrodite book! Seventeen stories, all of which are new for this volume, explore the fascinating figure of Aphrodite and...

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · 23h

Sounds like you might've got a lot out of a History of the Book course or degree! I like literary theory as much as the next gal but switching out and looking at the book as a human-made object and part of our communication cycles was really interesting during my post-grad 😄

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book

The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries.

www.popsci.com

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Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social · 13d

I wrote a rather long post on FB about taking part in poetry writing classes, or rather a lack of money and time to do so regularly, and I recommended two courses I've found so far that help with all these issues in their own ways. Featuring @marjorielotfi.bsky.social and @helenboden.bsky.social.

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 15d

There's one week left for writers in the North of England to send us their stories!

We're looking for folklore-inspired tales to publish in our first anthology.

It's been a real treat to read all the submissions so far, but we'd love to squeeze a few more in 🙏

carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions

One week left: submissions close midnight 30th September

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · 15d

Hydrangeas are such a bisexual bush: whether they appear blue, pink, or purple depends upon the environment they're in, but they are capable of all of these colours regardless of how they are perceived.

Today I'm thrilled to have a poem out in 'Bi All Accounts' claiming the hydrangea #bivisibility

Photo of blue, purple and pink hydrangeas

Photo of the anthology 'Bi All Accounts'

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 23d

"A future where I can live"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_vz...

Ursula K. Le Guin: Listening to the Unheard Voices

YouTube video by The Nation

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 23d

You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing -- just by accident.

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 27d

Pls Share 👉🏽sign up via Eventbrite to join our FREE webinar on 30.09.25 @ 6.30pm supported by @sgsah.bsky.social with @sorchadallas.bsky.social @rodgeglass.bsky.social & Lucy Lauder - launching a new resource on memoir & biography writing as a tool for research and self-led creative projects 👇🏽

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27d

Only what is mortal bears life. Only in death is there rebirth. The Balance is not a stillness. it is a movement--an eternal becoming.

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · Sep 8

Anthropic has agreed to pay affected authors a record $1.5 billion in a settlement, following its use of pirated books to train its AI. We'll share more details with members in the coming days.

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild

Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

authorsguild.org

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Sep 2

Stoked to be on this longlist! Congrats to my fellow poets 🦊

Renard Press @renardpress.com · Sep 2

Delighted to announce the Interwoven #poetrycompetition longlist today, with huge thanks to the judges, who whittled down a phenomenal 700 entries to a longlist of 100 extraordinary poems. Huge congrats to all poets on the list, and thanks to all who entered!

renardpress.com/interwoven-a...

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · Aug 17

Philip Larkin said "What will survive of us is love," but research based on previous collapsing civilizations suggests it's more likely to be inorganic items that can be buried, burned, or struck without significant degradation. Likely what will survive of us is ceramic toilets.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 17

What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · Aug 12

I haven't posted by #Litmag starter pack in awhile. Find some you love and share this post. Sooner litmags see Bluesky as a viable option, sooner they leave X/Twitter.

go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Aug 9

Zine-putting-together I should say. All credit for the making of goes to Tiny Wren Lit & the wonderful poets!

Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Aug 9

Love it when @cuttinghail.bsky.social gets published in Tiny Wren Lit because it means I get to do a little zine making. The design on these is just gorgeous 🥰

Image of a zine in progress of being put together, open at some poems by Luca Fois and Janel Pleskač

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Aug 8

This book is brilliant: the premise (it's a post-internet world and we're haunted by the ghosts of our data) delivers on multiple levels, the characters are full of soul and the story is full of heart, the writing is so gut-punching I lost count of how many times I teared up. Plus, fab ghost cat 🖤

In the foreground is a book called 'We Are All Ghosts in the Forest' by Lorraine Wilson. Behind it on the sofa is a curled up grey cat with one paw outstretched.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Aug 7

Let Marian Womack introduce you to a new wave of Spanish writers in speculative fiction.

Five Spanish Women SpecFic Writers You Should Know - Reactor

An introduction to some essential women writers from Spain

reactormag.com

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Aww 🥰 what a precious boy!

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · Jul 30

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬

‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Jul 24

'Someone will remember us' in the Aphrodite anthology from Flame Tree Press is my timey-wimey queer take on Aphrodite and Sappho by way of Hades, death, memory, the end of the world and desire's relationship with the future www.flametreepublishing.com/aphrodite-is...

Aphrodite

Aphrodite, the mesmerizing Greek goddess of beauty, love, and passion, continues to fascinate. Born of sea foam, her tale is as profound as the ocean

www.flametreepublishing.com

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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thrilled to share the news that THE UTOPIA OF US has been shortlisted for the The International Rubery Book Award! Many congratulations to all the authors who, collectively, made this such a fantastic anthology, and huge thanks to editor Teika Marija Smits for bringing them all together!

2025 Winners

FICTION About Charlie by JM Langan Bruise by Adrian Markle Hope Never Knew Horizon by Douglas Bruton Kitten Heels by Maureen Cullen The Manhattan Deception by Simon Leighton-Porter The Thickness of...

www.ruberybookaward.com

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · Jun 29

There are loads of us that feel we can’t face doing the EHRC consultation, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have a voice.
What the GLP has done is brilliant.
You can write as much or as little as you want, but you get your say!!!
So let’s not give the EHRC the excuse that we did not engage!

Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · Jun 29

With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage.
The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.

How to respond to the EHRC consultation

Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...

action.goodlawproject.org

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · Jun 21

'The briefest and slipperiest of the seasons, the one that won't be held to account - because summer won't be held at all, except in bits, fragments, moments, flashes of memory of so-called or imagined perfect summers, summers that never existed.'

Ali Smith, Summer

🎨 Alma Tipton

#BookwormSat

Summer Holiday by Alma Tipton. Abstract painting which suggests a beach from above. Blue cresting white washes up the canvas towards a sandy above that's dotted with bright colour. Might be parasols or seashells, might be sweeties, bubbles or balloons, but probably magic.

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Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Jun 22

Particular shout-out to those rejections that nurtured and inspired me - yes, it does work that way sometimes, I promise!

Also thanks to my wonderful partner for baking 🎂

NB: These rejections have been mostly for short stories, with the odd poem or award thrown in

Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social · Jun 22

I'm celebrating 100 writing rejections 🥳

It marks three years of treating my writing more seriously and also more playfully, of sending it out into the world for other people to judge and yet holding myself to nobody's standards but my own. It's perseverance and confidence and joy.

A countertop with three cakes on it, in the shape of 100.

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