Anna Clark
@annaclark.bsky.social
Writer of speculative fiction, welder of ships, and artist of dragons.
Stories in Diabolical Plots, Factor Four, and Flash Fiction Online.
She/they
https://linktr.ee/AnnaClarksWritings
Stories in Diabolical Plots, Factor Four, and Flash Fiction Online.
She/they
https://linktr.ee/AnnaClarksWritings
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Anna Clark
@annaclark.bsky.social
· Aug 9
FRESH FICTION: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark. Ever feel like you don’t know who you are? This story is about relationship to self
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
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#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
New story! This one comes particularly from past worries about authenticity when doing the very natural thing of adapting behaviours around different people, taken to the extreme.
In light of today's episode of lunchtime politics, there haven't been over 50,000 stabbings recorded in the UK last year. We don't track 'stabbings'. There is a record of offences involving a knife or sharp object - a broad category. A more relevant statistic might be NHS admissions: 3500.
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
In light of today's episode of lunchtime politics, there haven't been over 50,000 stabbings recorded in the UK last year. We don't track 'stabbings'. There is a record of offences involving a knife or sharp object - a broad category. A more relevant statistic might be NHS admissions: 3500.
Just read this phenomenal story by @slashnburnett.bsky.social: mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
It features food as a sensory metaphor for generational trauma and is heartbreakingly rendered, with just the right touch of hope at the end.
It features food as a sensory metaphor for generational trauma and is heartbreakingly rendered, with just the right touch of hope at the end.
25 Peppercorns
Speculative Fiction Without Distraction
mythaxis.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Just read this phenomenal story by @slashnburnett.bsky.social: mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
It features food as a sensory metaphor for generational trauma and is heartbreakingly rendered, with just the right touch of hope at the end.
It features food as a sensory metaphor for generational trauma and is heartbreakingly rendered, with just the right touch of hope at the end.
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New eco horror story! About a subject that's close to my heart (and my rage): aedeakin.substack.com/p/plastic-tr...
Plastic Treaty
Supernatural eco-horror. Environmentalist Eva Steinbeck seeks revenge against her corporate lobbyist nemesis, but gets more than she bargained for.
aedeakin.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New eco horror story! About a subject that's close to my heart (and my rage): aedeakin.substack.com/p/plastic-tr...
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My words are projected onto the side of Freo Ports building as part of a series with other amazing local writers for a literary festival! 🥹 Catch @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social and @belindarowe.bsky.social too!
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
October 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
My words are projected onto the side of Freo Ports building as part of a series with other amazing local writers for a literary festival! 🥹 Catch @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social and @belindarowe.bsky.social too!
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
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Coming spring 2026!
After working through developmental edits with the truly wonderful @slashnburnett.bsky.social - we can confirm the title of her gorgeous, frustrated, mama-centered, anti-capitalist, sci-fi debut novella is: 🥁
Community, built
Community, built
August 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Coming spring 2026!
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Oooo, this one rings a bell for those of us still looking for ourselves. Be careful, it may leave you cackling at the end. Wonderful piece by @annaclark.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory #specfic
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory #specfic
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Oooo, this one rings a bell for those of us still looking for ourselves. Be careful, it may leave you cackling at the end. Wonderful piece by @annaclark.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory #specfic
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory #specfic
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I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
Genre Grapevine Delay, Neurodiverse Writers Booklet, and Seattle Worldcon Schedule | Jason Sanford
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August 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
New story! This one comes particularly from past worries about authenticity when doing the very natural thing of adapting behaviours around different people, taken to the extreme.
FRESH FICTION: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark. Ever feel like you don’t know who you are? This story is about relationship to self
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
New story! This one comes particularly from past worries about authenticity when doing the very natural thing of adapting behaviours around different people, taken to the extreme.
Reposted by Anna Clark
I always read @annaclark.bsky.social’s prose with a magnifier, to see every tiny touch, sentence by sentence. And this one is fantastic! And what a first sentence to begin a story:
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I always read @annaclark.bsky.social’s prose with a magnifier, to see every tiny touch, sentence by sentence. And this one is fantastic! And what a first sentence to begin a story:
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.
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FRESH FICTION: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark. Ever feel like you don’t know who you are? This story is about relationship to self
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
FRESH FICTION: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark. Ever feel like you don’t know who you are? This story is about relationship to self
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
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My wonderful friend @annaclark.bsky.social smashed it out of the park again. Go have a fun quick read about a personality vacuum:
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#shortfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fantasy #sff #fantasyfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#shortfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fantasy #sff #fantasyfiction
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
My wonderful friend @annaclark.bsky.social smashed it out of the park again. Go have a fun quick read about a personality vacuum:
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#shortfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fantasy #sff #fantasyfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#shortfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fantasy #sff #fantasyfiction
Keep seeing complaints about Marvel-style dialogue in books, and I kind of get it. I don't mind a good quip at a dire moment, but relentlessly glib characterisation that never gets dug into is very frustrating in novel format.
August 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Keep seeing complaints about Marvel-style dialogue in books, and I kind of get it. I don't mind a good quip at a dire moment, but relentlessly glib characterisation that never gets dug into is very frustrating in novel format.
This is a wonderful period grief story with a folkloric feel, written by my talented friend. Very recommended!
Just accidentally deleted my old post about this while trying to re-share (don't post tired folks) so here it is again in case anyone wants to take a look. I have a story in this lovely magazine about grief, faeries and friendship and it's in some fab company.
#shortstory #fantasy #sff
#shortstory #fantasy #sff
July 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is a wonderful period grief story with a folkloric feel, written by my talented friend. Very recommended!
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Some art! Which is a bookmark. Which is titled "procrastination" and made out of a biscuit packet using the fine liner colours I haven't lost yet. I don't even like zombies, I just began drawing hands, remembered I had scissors, and took the path of least resistance. Yes, it puppets.
July 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Some art! Which is a bookmark. Which is titled "procrastination" and made out of a biscuit packet using the fine liner colours I haven't lost yet. I don't even like zombies, I just began drawing hands, remembered I had scissors, and took the path of least resistance. Yes, it puppets.
Some art! Which is a bookmark. Which is titled "procrastination" and made out of a biscuit packet using the fine liner colours I haven't lost yet. I don't even like zombies, I just began drawing hands, remembered I had scissors, and took the path of least resistance. Yes, it puppets.
July 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Some art! Which is a bookmark. Which is titled "procrastination" and made out of a biscuit packet using the fine liner colours I haven't lost yet. I don't even like zombies, I just began drawing hands, remembered I had scissors, and took the path of least resistance. Yes, it puppets.
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The Ravenous Gindark is one of Strangehollow's many predators, specific to the swamps. It stands at around 2m tall and looks a little like a flightless bird, yet it is not a bird. It can be heard making deep booming calls using the airsack under its chin and will eat anything smaller than it. #art
July 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Ravenous Gindark is one of Strangehollow's many predators, specific to the swamps. It stands at around 2m tall and looks a little like a flightless bird, yet it is not a bird. It can be heard making deep booming calls using the airsack under its chin and will eat anything smaller than it. #art
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I'm quite proud of this story.
It's angry.
It's angry.
If you'd like to read my World Fantasy Award shortlisted story Godskin, then amble on over to @strangehorizons.bsky.social ...
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Godskin
Sometimes among the fish and crabs, we trawl squid and octopus, or little sharks, all added to the pots. Sometimes it’s a fish person, a thing we cut free and do not talk of, pretend we never saw. …
strangehorizons.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I'm quite proud of this story.
It's angry.
It's angry.
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My body is a
MACHINE
That turns
ANXIETY
into
COOL THINGS FOR OTHERS
but also
MORE ANXIETY
MACHINE
That turns
ANXIETY
into
COOL THINGS FOR OTHERS
but also
MORE ANXIETY
July 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My body is a
MACHINE
That turns
ANXIETY
into
COOL THINGS FOR OTHERS
but also
MORE ANXIETY
MACHINE
That turns
ANXIETY
into
COOL THINGS FOR OTHERS
but also
MORE ANXIETY
Look at this wonderfully uncanny story by my friend!
My first‑ever publication is in one of my dream pubs! In this gorgeous @apexmag.bsky.social issue, alongside amazing writers! Denizens of My Face is a story about unworded emotions, and I hope it speaks to your heart through the ant antennae and bug wings. www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape...
Apex Magazine Issue 150
EDITORIALEditorial Musings from Maryland by Lesley ConnerFICTIONMy Song at the Conclave of Many Sorrows by Daniel A. OluremiA Rare and Exceptional Delicacy by G.M. MitchellOrion and His Moon by J. S. ...
www.apexbookcompany.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Look at this wonderfully uncanny story by my friend!
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Stories I read in June: annalieselemmon.com/2025/07/03/h...
July 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Stories I read in June: annalieselemmon.com/2025/07/03/h...
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a new newsletter is here! I talk about my new poem that's out, some (small) good news for trans kids in Alberta, and show you part of my garden because why not look at something green when you feel sad
I also rec short stories from @slashnburnett.bsky.social and @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social !
I also rec short stories from @slashnburnett.bsky.social and @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social !
Ash Vale Updates: June 2025
goodbye Pride, hello WRATH
ashvale.beehiiv.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
a new newsletter is here! I talk about my new poem that's out, some (small) good news for trans kids in Alberta, and show you part of my garden because why not look at something green when you feel sad
I also rec short stories from @slashnburnett.bsky.social and @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social !
I also rec short stories from @slashnburnett.bsky.social and @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social !
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What does a Chinese grandma and bunyips have in common?
Read/listen to learn more in my #shortstory "Feeding Spirits." Thanks to the wonderful team @castofwonders.org
Narrated by amazing #Australian actor Tanya Jade: IG @ tanyajadeism
www.castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast...
#speculative #fantasy
Read/listen to learn more in my #shortstory "Feeding Spirits." Thanks to the wonderful team @castofwonders.org
Narrated by amazing #Australian actor Tanya Jade: IG @ tanyajadeism
www.castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast...
#speculative #fantasy
Cast of Wonders 642: Feeding Spirits | Cast of Wonders
What does one feed a hungry ancestor? Fish and chips, chicken parmi, or steak pie didn’t seem like something my recently deceased Popo would enjoy. I’d just returned from my backyard swamp with a…
www.castofwonders.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
What does a Chinese grandma and bunyips have in common?
Read/listen to learn more in my #shortstory "Feeding Spirits." Thanks to the wonderful team @castofwonders.org
Narrated by amazing #Australian actor Tanya Jade: IG @ tanyajadeism
www.castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast...
#speculative #fantasy
Read/listen to learn more in my #shortstory "Feeding Spirits." Thanks to the wonderful team @castofwonders.org
Narrated by amazing #Australian actor Tanya Jade: IG @ tanyajadeism
www.castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast...
#speculative #fantasy
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Diabolical Plots is opening for submissions in 8 days!
Ask any questions you want to ask before the window is here!
Ask any questions you want to ask before the window is here!
June 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Diabolical Plots is opening for submissions in 8 days!
Ask any questions you want to ask before the window is here!
Ask any questions you want to ask before the window is here!
Recent listen: www.castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast... by @emmikhor.bsky.social
It's a really beautiful story of connecting to old and new cultures through food (and family, and looking after the local environment). Very much recommended!
It's a really beautiful story of connecting to old and new cultures through food (and family, and looking after the local environment). Very much recommended!
www.castofwonders.org
June 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Recent listen: www.castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast... by @emmikhor.bsky.social
It's a really beautiful story of connecting to old and new cultures through food (and family, and looking after the local environment). Very much recommended!
It's a really beautiful story of connecting to old and new cultures through food (and family, and looking after the local environment). Very much recommended!
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Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️
Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥
Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥
June 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️
Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥
Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥