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Ailsa Cox

@ailsacox.bsky.social

Writer and critic, Emerita Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University UK. Short stories, Precipitation, https://www.confingopublishing.uk/ https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Short-Stories-A-Routledge-Writers-Guide/Cox/p/book/9781032582481.

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Science Fiction Foundation@sffoundation.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not only is there the cfp for our biennial conference on the Clarke Award (see the pinned post), there's also this cfp from the University of York (deadline 10 August). www.york.ac.uk/sociology/ab...

'Science - Fictions, Faiths and Futures' Conference: Call For Submissions

Colleagues are invited to submit their proposals for the 'Science - Fictions, Faiths and Futures' Conference which will be held at the University of York, 4-6 November 2026.

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Jonathan Gibbs@jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And off it goes, Richard Lea’s Personal Anthology, fifty and alone, rambling about a country nearly uninhabited, wearing a frock-coat and shabby canvas trousers, sweating under the electric-yellow dome of the municipal force field, shooting a straight piss into the base of the guava tree…

A Personal Anthology, by Richard Lea

‘He Who Saw the Deep’ by Sîn-liqe-unninni, translated by Andrew George (First written down in about 1200BCE, published in The Epic of Gilgamesh in this translation, Allen Lane 1999)

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John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I’ve read several of Harrison’s novels: not once have I fully understood what was happening, but I keep rushing back for more.” Me on M John Harrison’s The End of Everything, a book that speaks to our time of repeated crises, when disaster follows disaster until something seems permanently broken.

The end of the world (in dry, witty prose)

Post-apocalyptic beachcombers, alien invaders and weird jokes — you don’t have to fully understand M John Harrison’s The End of Everything to enjoy it

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Jonathan Gibbs@jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On Gen-AI and literary fiction. On metaphors, jokes and the ineffable. On monkeys with typewriters, and monkeys zip-wiring across the road. tinycamels.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/a...

A short screed: Gen-AI, ‘The Serpent in the Grove’, and the Monkey-Zoom

Last week, when the online world erupted into anger and frustration about the supposed AI-produced or -enhanced short story ‘The Serpent in the Grove’, I was marking an undergraduate creative writi…

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Livi Michael@livimichael.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So delighted to be published in Fictive Dream! fictivedream.com/2026/04/13/m... @clairedean.bsky.social @xanbrooks.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social @dickenssociety.bsky.social @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social

MicroMonday #52

The Last Shaman by Livi Michael In 1952, after the Chinese Revolution the leaders of the Oroquen agreed to give up their superstitions and religious practices. Over three nights in July a special r…

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Adam Roberts@adamroberts.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.