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Z.K.A.

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writer&psychiatrist M.D. pub @ Clarkesworld, Fantasy Mag, Podcastle, The Rumpus, FIYAH, Fractured Lit, + Scottish New Writers Award (Callan Gordon Award) RLF Reading Round Fellow Rep C. L. Geisler at P.S. Literary Cinema Worms film podcast co-host!

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · Feb 27

Oh look, it's me!

SO HAPPY and honored the Scottish Book Trust picked me and the other excellent writers in this year's cohort of New Writers Awardees. I am so happy to receive the New Writers Award, specifically the Callan Gordon Award!

Also, I am very grateful to the Gordon family <3

Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · Feb 27

Introducing the 12 emerging writers selected for our New Writers Award 2025.

Thank you to @creativescots.bsky.social, @leughleabhar.bsky.social and the family of Callan Gordon for their invaluable support.

www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 15h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 15h

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Alumni Profiles – September 2025 – Enlightened

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 15h

University of Edinburgh Alumni Profiles – September 2025

*It's me!!*

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 1d

HAPPENING TODAY!

My workshop - I SCARE KIDS, AND YOU CAN TOO!
Writing Horror for Children

via Google Meet 6:30pm - 8:30pm UK time.

You can still get tickets and watch the replays of all the workshops if you aren't available to participate live.

www.eventbrite.com/e/autumn-fri...

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Text reads: I scare Kids, and you can too:
Writing Horror for children
A workshop with Bram Stoker award-winning author Eden Royce
Part of the Autumn Frights 6 week Horror writing workshop
7th October 2025
6:30-8:30 pm UK/1:30-3:30 pm EST

tickets available at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/autumn-frights-6-week-horror-writing-school-tickets-1405820038579

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 2d

🎥 CINEMA WORMS 🎥

Baes argue about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER !!!

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sorry about my stance on There Will Be Blood (which is, great film but absolutely NOT the best film of the last 25 years, absolute nonsense from Rolling Stone)

Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 2d

🎥 CINEMA WORMS 🎥

Baes argue about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER !!!

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 2d

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Cinema Worms FILM REVIEWS Ep 36: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (the movie of the year?!)

YouTube video by Z. K. A.

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 2d

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 2d

🎥 CINEMA WORMS 🎥

Baes argue about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER !!!

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 2d

OUT LATER TODAY :

CINEMA WORMS takes on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

CINEMA WORMS EPISODE 36 ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER; me black woman with glasses smiling and Lindz white person with blond hair glasses covering their mouth

gorgeous Regina Hall, glowing black woman, here just because

Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 2d

Please follow CINEMA WORMS on Youtube and Spotify!

We would love more followers (*cough* fans) to our mini-pod! If you love movies you will love it!

Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 15d

📽️ Reminder about our mini-film podcast, CINEMA WORMS

📽️ Check out all episodes to date!

📽️ Two wifeys discuss our thoughts on many just-released films... quickly.

📽️ Also...Lindz brings jokes

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 15d

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 3d

And make sure you follow @swsworlds.bsky.social for more info and cool events!

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 3d

If you like bite-sized readings that you can listen to in your sweatpants, then I highly suggest you sign up for the Strong Women, Strange Worlds event (link in post below, free to attend) on 7th November! I'll be reading a tasty little treat alongside five fabulous authors.

#SWSWQR

First Friday - Third Thursday QuickRead

6 authors * 8 minutes each - come find your next favorite read with us!

www.eventbrite.com

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 3d

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Cinema Worms - YouTube

A mini-podcast, around 15 minutes weekly, in which we discuss movies we saw in theaters that week! Cinema Worms is brought to you by two cinephiles and creat...

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 3d

CINEMA WORMS!
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Cinema Worms Episode 35 - THE LONG WALK (Deep Dive!)

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 3d

Who has seen ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER?!

We are talking about it on the mini podcast, out tomorrow.

THOUGHTS THOUGHTS THOUGHTS?!?!

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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 4d

Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 5d

REALLY important petition folks. This is so that people without smartphones can access important things (like NHS care). We need the choice to have a non digital option!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
#superconnectedpetition #digitalfree #digitalminimalism #accessforall

Petition: Provide a legal right to access certain services without a digital device

We call on the Government to make it law that all British citizens have a legal right to access certain services without a digital device. Protect the right to choose a non-digital or digital life—and...

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you to everyone who participated in #PreDV today! Even though the time to officially post your pitches is over, feel free to continue giving each other feedback/advice & making friends! And join us for #DVParty starting October 2nd!
And we'll see you at #DVpit on October 8th, 2025!
#writersky

#DVparty
October 2nd - October 7th 2025
October 2nd (Day 1): Post a moodboard/art
October 3rd (Day 2): Introduce your main character
October 4th (Day 3): Opening LInes
October 5th (Day 4): Your Story as a meme/gif
October 6th (Day 5): Your story's theme song/playlist
October 7th (Day 6): Hype your next project
Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag. Open all day.
Please use alt-text if you post images.
No AI generated images allowed.
Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit!
More info at dvpit.carrd.co

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 5d

"Do not hump your brother in here! That is not polite library behaviour!" I say to the cat, hoping that my explanation will deter him from deviance in front of the books.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetang.myatproto.social · 7d

As we head into spooky Oct 🎃, I & 12 other BIPOC authors have erotic eco-horror stories out in "Silk and Foxglove", published by @hedonebooks.bsky.social, and curated & edited by the amazing @pegasusunder.bsky.social!

The anthology is available in ebook or paperback format:

books2read.com/u/mvwAv6

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The table of contents for "Silk and Foxglove" reads:

ANNIE ZH SUN - "FLOWER POWER"
SHANTELL POWELL - "ALL THAT CAME FROM OUR LIPS WERE LILIES"
TOSHIYA KAMEI - "THE LAST GARDEN"
ANNIKA ANCHETA - "POP"
CINDY PHAN - "ALL HER DARLING LITTLE ONES"
SIMO SRINIVAS - "THE HILLTOP EEL"
CHRISTIAN PRESGRAVES - "A BLUEBERRY DELIGHT"
MAE TANG - "DOWN BY THE RIVER"
MAXINE NWIGWE - "THE HUMAN PROJECT"
CANDICE ZHENG - "MERGE"
PSYCHE CHIMÈRE - "TINDERFISH"
WINIFRED BURTON - "MISS KAIYAH REGRETS, SHE'S UNABLE TO TEXT, TODAY"
KOFI BROWN - "DEADLY PLEASURE"

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 7d

And one short story rec - Her Body, the Ship by @pegasusunder.bsky.social (Z. K. Abraham) in Clarkesworld clarkesworldmagazine.com/abraham_03_24/

Her Body, The Ship by Z. K. Abraham

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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