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Katy Wimhurst

@sylphsea.bsky.social

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writer, visual poet. An Orchid in my Belly Button (Elsewhen 2025) https://books2read.com/AnOrchidInMyBellyButton Fifty One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press) 100% housebound #mecfs #disability https:// whimsylph.wordpress.com

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Dec 20

Getting some lovely endorsement quotes about my new book out in February from @elsewhen.press
thanks to
@amandaearl.bsky.social and Rhys Hughes for quotes

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Ellen Forkin @ellenforkin.bsky.social · 12d

It’s dream-come-true time! The lovely Orcadian are publishing my collection of Orkney folklore inspired short stories - the book will be out for Autumn 2026! I can’t wait and I’m super busy creating the colour illustrations for it! #BookSky #Orkney #WritingCommunity #Folklore #ShortStories

A painting of a raven flying on a bright blue sky. Dark purple words read: Exciting news! The Orcadian are publishing my book! Ellen Forkin.

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · 17d

Dumbo octopus

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 18d

Hotel is appalling. We are all in the attic.

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Amy Orrell @authoramyorrell.bsky.social · 20d

Always wonderful to receive a new, and glowing, review! 🥰
📚🪐
@elsewhen.press #booksky #sciencefiction #timetravel #climatefiction #dystopianfiction

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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 24d

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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social · 25d

Creatively Yours has launched. There are 6 items available for purchase now. More will be added and the current offerings will expire in December. Expect more wild promo and info to come! amandaearl.substack.com/p/creatively...

Creatively Yours Begins

Initial offerings purchasable until December 2025

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25d

The Long Neolithic is an ongoing conversation. The stones talk between themselves, slow exchange across centuries. The stones talk to the landscape and of course, the stones talk to us. Answering back may be the minimum level of politeness. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Amy Orrell @authoramyorrell.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is a wonderful collection of stories! ❤️

Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Aug 30

Always lovely to get a glowing review on Goodreads. Thanks to the brilliant David Hay who I know a little from X but who isn’t on here
@elsewhen.press
#booksky

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thabks Amy x

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Elsewhen Press @elsewhen.press · Aug 28

Out now, The Witch’s Journey, a dark fairytale that is also an uplifting coming-of-age story, by American author Keith Miller. He describes it as “a dark fairytale embroidered with fairytales, full of sorrows and terrors, heartbreaks and delights, chocolates and mayhem and magic.”

Cover image of The Witch’s Journey by Keith Miller. Artwork by Simon Koontz. A girl with wild read hair blowing sideways in the wind is standing in front of a river which is also being whipped up by the wind. behind, the other side of the river is a silhouette of a city. the girl has pale skin, green-blue eyes and is holding a golden key to her breast in her right hand. The key has a quatrefoil design cut out of the bow. the title is above the girl in cursive capitals in a light grey-green colour. The author’s name is at the bottom of the cover below the girl’s hand in the same typeface and colour. A quote is included on the cover in white text: “A book to savor… I adored it.” attributed to Alix E. Harrow.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · Aug 28

A horrible thought.

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Aug 30

Always lovely to get a glowing review on Goodreads. Thanks to the brilliant David Hay who I know a little from X but who isn’t on here
@elsewhen.press
#booksky

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Aug 27

🤣genius

Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Aug 27

I love Diane in everything from Motherland to Philomena Cunk so that is a good suggestion!

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Aug 27

🤣Bella has some great lines

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · Aug 22

My regards to your dear lady.

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Dragonfly @dragonfly.eco · Aug 26

buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... This month's newsletter is a li'l late, but it is here. This issue features fiction about drought, an indie corner with Todd Medema, and a world spotlight on Dheepa R. Maturi. #ecofiction #drought #wildfires

August 2025 - If the whole world was burning...

A quote from Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife is, “If the whole world was burning, why not face it with a beer in your hand, unafraid?” Last month I...

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · Aug 27

Autumn is a sad & melancholic yet beautiful season & does strange things to me.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Aug 2

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

www.theguardian.com

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Aug 17

Ps I also review fiction books about disability for Ciadish magazine ciadish.wordpress.com

Ciadish

For chronically ill and disabled (CIAD) writers and the readers who love their books

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Aug 17

Could i suggest my book of short fiction Let Them
Float for yr book club? I have ME/CFS + book includes a short story about woman who develops post viral illness, literally turning invisible to others. It had excellent reviews + is featured in a PhD on disability www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Let Them Float: And Other Short Stories

In these short stories, Katy Wimhurst creates off-kilte…

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hottest crime zone in Washington DC

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · Aug 9

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary.

Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · Aug 4

I might be over seeing climate change! In previous years I don’t recall seeing the bushes around here fruit until September though. My memory is pretty dodgy though!

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