W.A.Hamilton
@wahamilton.bsky.social
Canadian SFF Writer | Stories in BCS, Seize The Press, Daikaijuzine
https://wahamiltron.com/
Working on something longer 🖋️
https://wahamiltron.com/
Working on something longer 🖋️
Finally starting to write more regularly again, which is great!
The reason: I have gotten stuck at Act 3 of Silksong.
The reason: I have gotten stuck at Act 3 of Silksong.
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Finally starting to write more regularly again, which is great!
The reason: I have gotten stuck at Act 3 of Silksong.
The reason: I have gotten stuck at Act 3 of Silksong.
Finishing up ‘Uncertain Sons’ by @thomasha.bsky.social — highly recommend!
I’d already read a few of these stories over the years but enjoyed seeing how themes/imagery overlaps across the collection.
Especially enjoyed ‘Window Boy’, ‘Balloon Season’ and ‘Sweetbaby’. Creepy, haunting and WEIRD. 🤌
I’d already read a few of these stories over the years but enjoyed seeing how themes/imagery overlaps across the collection.
Especially enjoyed ‘Window Boy’, ‘Balloon Season’ and ‘Sweetbaby’. Creepy, haunting and WEIRD. 🤌
November 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Finishing up ‘Uncertain Sons’ by @thomasha.bsky.social — highly recommend!
I’d already read a few of these stories over the years but enjoyed seeing how themes/imagery overlaps across the collection.
Especially enjoyed ‘Window Boy’, ‘Balloon Season’ and ‘Sweetbaby’. Creepy, haunting and WEIRD. 🤌
I’d already read a few of these stories over the years but enjoyed seeing how themes/imagery overlaps across the collection.
Especially enjoyed ‘Window Boy’, ‘Balloon Season’ and ‘Sweetbaby’. Creepy, haunting and WEIRD. 🤌
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ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).
also hey, this issue is stacked??
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
also hey, this issue is stacked??
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).
also hey, this issue is stacked??
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
also hey, this issue is stacked??
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
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Can't get enough of these AI gross-out stories, and this one is great! Isabel J. Kim in Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Can't get enough of these AI gross-out stories, and this one is great! Isabel J. Kim in Clarkesworld: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
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a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.
September 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.
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Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.
September 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.
Love this book, such a great cover design!
The first appearance of The Tombs of Atuan, in Worlds of Fantasy issue 3, 1970-71.
Cover art by Jack Gaughan.
Cover art by Jack Gaughan.
August 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Love this book, such a great cover design!
Really enjoyed listening to this! Was a great opportunity to revisit an old favourite.
What an amazing excuse to revisit these! Written as a type of post-Arthurian "medieval fantasy," Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is at many turns, a story about the inevitable loss of institutional knowledge, and a clever subversion of Tolkien
It's 608 pages, it's WaldenBooks-core: @kjy1066.bsky.social joins to discuss Tad Williams' STONE OF FAREWELL, with many musings on mass market fantasy:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/11/a...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/11/a...
August 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Really enjoyed listening to this! Was a great opportunity to revisit an old favourite.
Ars Technica is owned by Conde Nast, who last year announced a partnership with OpenAI. 🔗👇
Normally I would take a salient quote from this article, add the link, and let it go. But in this case, I'm a bit stunned at the underlying assumption in this piece that Anthropic is a poor wee babe deserving of special protection and excuse for outright, open, ongoing thievery.
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
arstechnica.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ars Technica is owned by Conde Nast, who last year announced a partnership with OpenAI. 🔗👇
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nobody predicted that the internet would create imagined communities or public spheres for creeps, cranks, lunatics, and psychopaths
August 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
nobody predicted that the internet would create imagined communities or public spheres for creeps, cranks, lunatics, and psychopaths
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This! And encoded in that difference is the whole neoliberal capitalist mindset, because to the people who build these things, those objections are, respectively, (a) irrelevant to profits;(b) a forgettable externality; (c) a healthy marketing environment; and (d) the whole point in the first place
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This! And encoded in that difference is the whole neoliberal capitalist mindset, because to the people who build these things, those objections are, respectively, (a) irrelevant to profits;(b) a forgettable externality; (c) a healthy marketing environment; and (d) the whole point in the first place
It's been a while, but I can finally make one of those vague 'good stuff in the works' posts.
One short piece in rewrites, another held for consideration.
Really excited about the home these two have found... :)
One short piece in rewrites, another held for consideration.
Really excited about the home these two have found... :)
August 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's been a while, but I can finally make one of those vague 'good stuff in the works' posts.
One short piece in rewrites, another held for consideration.
Really excited about the home these two have found... :)
One short piece in rewrites, another held for consideration.
Really excited about the home these two have found... :)
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Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de...
www.seizethepress.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.
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BCS opened for submissions 17 years ago this month, July 2008, and has been open continuously since. Writing all submission replies with personalized comments.
And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.
And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.
Today's listing of the day is: Beneath Ceaseless Skies @bcsmagazine.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Beneath Ceaseless Skies @bcsmagazine.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
duotrope.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
BCS opened for submissions 17 years ago this month, July 2008, and has been open continuously since. Writing all submission replies with personalized comments.
And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.
And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.
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one like, one writing opinion (void while prohibited, while supplies last).
one like, one writing opinion.
one like, one SFF opinion.
July 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
one like, one writing opinion (void while prohibited, while supplies last).
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Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
The H Word: The Profane Illumination of the Weird - Nightmare Magazine
Weird fiction, it seems, is having a moment in the zeitgeist; horror, we’re told, is also having a moment in the zeitgeist. It isn’t surprising, given the state of the world, that these two modes are ...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
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The V*mpire was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award:
locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...
Congratulations to all the other finalists!
locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...
Congratulations to all the other finalists!
2025 World Fantasy Awards Finalists
The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2024 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 30 – November 2, 2…
locusmag.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The V*mpire was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award:
locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...
Congratulations to all the other finalists!
locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...
Congratulations to all the other finalists!
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The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
www.patreon.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2
Sent out a story I've been working on for the last few months today. Still get big nerves doing that when it's something I've poured a lot of effort into and I'm hoping for a certain outcome. Now I just have to wait and see...
June 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Sent out a story I've been working on for the last few months today. Still get big nerves doing that when it's something I've poured a lot of effort into and I'm hoping for a certain outcome. Now I just have to wait and see...
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The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me
June 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me
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I have a new story out @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. "Last Stop: Tomb City" is a weird fantasy story about a very nervous man guiding an Eternal Champion across a dead city to rescue a depressed savior from an undead life coach.
Read it (for free!) here: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last...
Read it (for free!) here: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Last Stop: Tomb City by Justin Howe
Now, breaking and entering may be a sport in some scapes, but in most it’s an act much frowned upon indeed. When the act is also accompanied by the removal of objects or persons, that frown brings wit...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I have a new story out @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. "Last Stop: Tomb City" is a weird fantasy story about a very nervous man guiding an Eternal Champion across a dead city to rescue a depressed savior from an undead life coach.
Read it (for free!) here: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last...
Read it (for free!) here: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last...
Baby has decided she enjoys trying to rip out my leg hairs, which has coincided with the arrival of shorts weather in an unfortunate way.
May 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Baby has decided she enjoys trying to rip out my leg hairs, which has coincided with the arrival of shorts weather in an unfortunate way.
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consequences of the death of the AI industry:
- creates many more jobs
- massively better for the arts, the sciences, education, news, the internet, mental health
- critical acclaim from aliens watching us as reality TV, for moving away from a very embarrassing cringe comedy gimmick
- creates many more jobs
- massively better for the arts, the sciences, education, news, the internet, mental health
- critical acclaim from aliens watching us as reality TV, for moving away from a very embarrassing cringe comedy gimmick
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
consequences of the death of the AI industry:
- creates many more jobs
- massively better for the arts, the sciences, education, news, the internet, mental health
- critical acclaim from aliens watching us as reality TV, for moving away from a very embarrassing cringe comedy gimmick
- creates many more jobs
- massively better for the arts, the sciences, education, news, the internet, mental health
- critical acclaim from aliens watching us as reality TV, for moving away from a very embarrassing cringe comedy gimmick
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Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.
May 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.
In that baby phase where I’m completely exhausted by 9am AND I actually had a full night’s sleep.
Was gonna try and write something today but let’s focus on staying awake for now…
Was gonna try and write something today but let’s focus on staying awake for now…
May 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In that baby phase where I’m completely exhausted by 9am AND I actually had a full night’s sleep.
Was gonna try and write something today but let’s focus on staying awake for now…
Was gonna try and write something today but let’s focus on staying awake for now…