Ren Hutchings

Only a few more days to go until The Big Indie Weekend. Not sure what panels are happening when? Here's a reminder. What are you looking forward to? #writingcommunity #authorevent

Publication day is here! Wendy Waring’s THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT is now available everywhere books are sold. Good Reading calls it “seductively spellbinding” and declares, “Debuts aren’t supposed to be this good.” We couldn’t agree more.

It's alive... alive!!!! #OpportunityWindow, an anthology of time loop stories, has launched on BackerKit! Come join the adventure! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

The title is the warning. This Strange Horizons review places Wendy Waring’s novel squarely in our moment of wealth inequality -- when we must decide who our society serves, what we owe one another, and what kind of future we will build. Check out the full review here: strangehorizons.com/...

Less than a week until Issue 3! While you're waiting, why not read a past issue? If you want to support us, you can pick up a copy from... Weightless: tinyurl.com/bj2cv93j Kobo: tinyurl.com/2fm52kbm Amazon: tinyurl.com/5t3fn4mk Patreon: tinyurl.com/ycyu6es3 and all your favorite ebook retailers!

OUT TODAY! A beautiful blend of high tech scif-fi against a historical backdrop. An Empire in the Clouds by Ai Jang, from @titanbooks. #BFSReview britishfantasysociety.org/review/an-em...

Our ✨August 2026 issue✨ is now free to read online! In this thread are links to all of its poems and stories. Please read it and please spread the word! havenspec.com/issues/issue... 🧵

Just finished These Lifeless Things by @premeemohamed.com and it's instantly one of my favourite post-apocalypse stories. History and memory colliding with the unknowable, even as it curdles into the banal and knowable. There's a beat ten pages from the end that made me gasp. Amazing work.

Well this is interesting! A whole panel dedicated to The Dex Legacy. Join the brilliant @voidcricket.bsky.social @jordanacosta.co @timhardieauthor.bsky.social and @cmdrventura.bsky.social along with a special guest appearance from our genius creator @emilyinkpen.bsky.social on sat 26th!

Check out the Flights of Foundry program! flights-of-foundry.o...

NaNoWriMo was great, but it had a lot of flaws. We built #FirstDraftFall to be a better, more welcoming challenge for ALL writers. Keep reading OR check out our official First Draft Fall page to find out how it works:

HELLO. You need to support THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE because first of all they have the best NAME for a venue in all of spec fic. Secondly did you know that they send you WEIRDO STICKERS when you get an author copy? THEY DO. Mine are all jumbled somewhere but I put one on New Flat Rectangle!

Dex Legacy fans let's gooo! SEPT 26th 📣 Come join me & @emilyinkpen.bsky.social in conversation with @timhardieauthor.bsky.social @drfionamoore.bsky.social @jordanacosta.co @cmdrventura.bsky.social to talk all things Dex: characters, worldbuilding, theories👀 & more! cc: @storiesalt.bsky.social

Yesterday was #NationalReadABookDay in the UK, but we'd never get through our TBR mountain like that! To help you read every day of the year, here's a selection of Solaris SFFH Series starters ft: standalones in the same universe, continuing series, & thematically linked. Which would you pick up?

Reminder: Our Issue 4 theme is "exploration"—and we encourage you to explore (hah) that in unexpected ways, not only by taking us to new locations. Give us surreal scifiscapes, messy relationships, musings on identity... We open in October and we can't wait! Info: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpe...

ICYMI ‼️ I shall have a new book coming 2028 from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social / @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social 👀✨ 🏮👻VESSEL EATER👻🏮 🎐 dark fantasy 🎐 Chinese folklore 🎐Mulan meets THE GHOST BRIDE

Today is the start of the Narratess Indie Book Sale! This weekend only, over 280 indie ebooks are on sale across a collection of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror genres at 1.99, 2.99, and FREE! indiebook.sale To celebrate, check out books from our Discord server: www.readindiefantasy.com/the-narrates...

We've got some amazing talent joining us for Writing the Occult: Time & Place on 5 September - people like acclaimed SF author @unamccormack.bsky.social, who's got a new Star Trek DS9 novelisation coming just in time for Christmas. Read more about it ⬇️

THE BIG INDIE WEEKEND IS BACK! Not seen our epic line up yet? 25th to 27th September, 3 days of awesome indie authors and creators. Online panels, live streams, an RPG, writing sprint, giveaways and an exciting event announcement...SEE YOU THERE!

For those of us regretfully missing WorldCon, today E.G. Condé read from his forthcoming novella, CACIQUES, and revealed the new cover. We're thrilled to work with artist Paulina Niño again to create another stunning cover for this follow-up to the award-winning SORDIDEZ.

experiments with reworking something from the archives WYRD CITADEL

We asked those talented sods speaking at Writing the Occult on 5 September for their favourite handling of time and/or place in books, TV shows or films. @stewarthotston.com went with a few historical tales that really hone that sense of place - read about some of his personal faves in the 🧵⬇️

Start at the beginning! Our first anthology is the cross-genre Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers, featuring masters of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Find out more, and order from your favorite bookseller: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-sha... #books #horror #scifi #fantasy

We hit the stretch goal, so we'll be doing at least two of these babies 📚

Hey pals, come follow my next BackerKit campaign and help me bring a TIME LOOP ANTHOLOGY to life next month!! (It will have an open submission period for writers in October.) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Next year, @taranhunt.bsky.social 's belovéd KYSTROM CHRONICLES concludes! Sean and the gang's antics began with cosmic horror adventures in THE IMMORTALITY CYCLE, took a turn into spy drama in THE UNKILLABLE PRINCESS & will end...with THE DEATHLESS COUNCIL! geni.us/TheImmortali... geni.us/unkprin

Every Friday, we meet a BFS member & peer deep into their soul. Here's sci-fantasy author @voidcricket.bsky.social, who also works in editorial at @stelliform.press. They're aiming for something that becomes a cult hit with a "small but feral following". britishfantasysociety.org/meet-ren-hut...

We’re chatting with the brilliant Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social on Writing Worlds today! Join me and @emilyinkpen.bsky.social for a chat with Ren about liminal spaces and liminality in #worldbuilding via the link below pod.link/1812994751

We passed $5k!! 🎉 That puts us at 80% funded for next year of T&F! Funding our next year is the minimum we need to continue as the only pro-rate magazine focused on quiet, slice of life fiction, but we'd really like to fund our stretch goals as well! Please boost and share; it really helps! 💚

BIG NEWS!!! I’m so honored that @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social has brought me on as the Publishing Project Manager for their SFF novella line! I love what GdM does, and the team is brimming with amazing, talented people, so I couldn’t be happier to join them and help push the novellas forward.

An exciting life update: I am now an associate literary agent at @thetobiasagency.bsky.social … and I’m opening to queries! Send me all your weird, genre-mashing books; I’m currently open in several genres in Adult books, from horror and fantasy to romance and scifi. querytracker.net/query/4283

It's tomorrow! Whoop whoop! Grab your ticket: tinyurl.com/watopera

Scroll for a full list of science fiction panels at Cymera Festival 2026 ⬇️

The BFS is excited to announce our first in-person Reading event, Making Galaxies: Identity & Community in Space Opera. Wed 6th May 2026, 6:30pm. Waterstones, Broad Street, Reading. £6. Ticket: tinyurl.com/watopera @stewarthotston.com ‬ @voidcricket.bsky.social @gretacolombani.bsky.social ‬

🎉30K giveaway book bundle! #💙📚 Inc @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @lavanya.bsky.social @neuvel.net @csecooney.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social US/CAN/UK/IE only. Like, repost, follow & drop a🌟in the comments! Ends 24/4

New today, @redfernjon.bsky.social reviews @syr.bsky.social's @stelliform.press "novella in fairytale retellings", What a Fish Looks Like: reckoning.press/review-what-...

Two Stelliform titles made the absolutely stacked BSFA Longlist! Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) is nominated in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction. See the full list here: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-...

🚀 Congratulations to all those longlisted for BSFA Awards! Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works! bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Delighted & honored that my novel AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD & my novella THE LEGEND LIMINAL are on the longlist for the BSFA Awards! Thanks so much to the BSFA members who nominated my works, & congrats to everybody on this absolutely incredible list 🫶 📚 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

We are thrilled to announce several BSFA Award Longlist nominations for our writers and cover artists! Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social, @voidcricket.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, Niall C. Grant, and Raúl Cruz! #BSFA #BSFAAwards #books #horror #scifi #fantasy #coverart

Our cover artist @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social has created the art for three gorgeous book covers for us, and is in the process of making our romantasy anthology cover, and soon more novella covers! Read more about Kim Herbst: www.starsandsabers.com/2025/06/09/m... #artist #coverart #illustrator

A reminder that I have a few US and UK codes for the audio version of Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle! If you are reading for the awards and want to listen to a dark space opera novella with horror feels, feel free to let me know! 💀

Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday! The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026. There will be no cap. More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Incredibly excited to announce that my debut science-fantasy novel THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FALLING WORLDS will be published by Daphne Press (UK & Commonwealth), Bindery Books (US) and Bolinda (audio)! This Cyberpunk 2077 X Spirited Away book has been cooking in my brain for 6 long years!

We do NOT have 11 pipers piping but we do have 2 of @voidcricket.bsky.social 's scifi standalones - UNDER FORTUNATE STARS & AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD - each with their own original songs! US/CAN/UK & IE only. Like, follow, repost & drop a 🌙 in the comments to enter! Ends 11th Jan 2026 23:59 GMT🪐📚💙