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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈
@rachelahandley.com
Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.

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February 1, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Get some excellent sci-fi, fantasy, and horror plugged right into your brain by joining me and some fabulous authors for a free online reading!

I'll be reading from Possible Worlds and Other Stories and I am PUMPED.

6th Feb, 5 pm GMT!

TIckets: www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...

#SWSWQR
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 AM
The tickets for my philosophical fiction writing workshop at York Literary Festival in March have just been released!

I am *so* excited for this! www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/lets-ge...

Sharing this post would be much appreciated! 🙏
January 23, 2026 at 3:12 PM
BEHOLD, TEA CHICKEN!
January 12, 2026 at 4:45 PM
💫 Possible Worlds and Other Stories 💫

Sci-fi/weird fiction/short story collection.
Available on Kobo Plus.

24 stories of philosophical exploration, from identity, corruption, personhood, and friendship, to duty, loyalty, the meaning of life and death, and guinea pigs.

www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 AM
My debut short story collection Possible Worlds and Other Stories came out three years ago today! Here is me looking very sensible at my book launch.
December 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Here is my face.
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
New Possible Worlds and Other Stories marketing strategy just dropped. Buy my book, or the fluffy round pig will be SAD.
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
He bides his time.
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
New office plant friends! What should I name them? I was thinking of Cyril Citrus for the lemon tree (that's right, left to my own devices after teaching yesterday I did indeed buy a whole entire tree).

I've no idea what to call the flat cactus. Maybe Bob?
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm delighted to say that I will be running an online Ursula Le Guin themed creative writing workshop for @octocon.bsky.social on 11th October, 4 pm.

Get ready for some philosophical fiction!

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October 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Yesterday, a friend reminded me that Hemmingway once endorsed* buying a copy of Possible Worlds and Other Stories 👀 (*very legit).
August 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My research assistants are hard at work.
August 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Last night, I became an honoured chosen one.
August 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today, I am editing whilst Mogs assists.
August 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Tibbles and Mogs. Yes, this is just a cat account now. I'm actually Tibbles. I have taken over. Meow meow meow. All hail our new cat overlords.
August 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Mogs.
August 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A Sunday spent reading feat. Tibbles.
August 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Tibbles.
August 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
New hair!
July 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I walked and fed an alpaca today AKA I had a perfect day.
July 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I had an absolute blast running an Ursula Le Guin themed creative writing workshop for the Current Research in Speculative Fiction at the University of Liverpool last week!

I loved the whole conference, but the keynote by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was a firm favourite!
July 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I went to see my book in the Sydney Jones Library at Liverpool University 😎
July 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New hair just dropped.
June 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This post is giving me life whilst I have an oh no my writing is bad actually day to the sound of a tiny violin.
June 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM