Anna Tizard
@annatizard.bsky.social
British award-winning author writing weird/ comtemp. fantasy. Inspired by a surrealist word game played live on podcast, Brainstoryum. Join the creative mayhem! annatizard.com.
Stories are doorways into the mind. 🌟✍️📚
No DMs unless u know me 😉
Stories are doorways into the mind. 🌟✍️📚
No DMs unless u know me 😉
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Anna Tizard
@annatizard.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Why did I start a podcast out of sheer desperation? Why do I play a surrealist word game to create #writingprompts to inspire my writing, and my fellow writers?
What do the Socks of Destiny look like, exactly? 🫣😆
Find out more in this crazy interview + 🔗below for pod
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwIR...
What do the Socks of Destiny look like, exactly? 🫣😆
Find out more in this crazy interview + 🔗below for pod
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwIR...
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shade of night
the earth sighing beneath me
chosen shadows imprinted
by spirits and broad cadence
signaling the presence
of blanketed bodies
lacking the state of sleep
#micropoetry #poet #poetry
#blackandwhitephotography 🖤🤍
the earth sighing beneath me
chosen shadows imprinted
by spirits and broad cadence
signaling the presence
of blanketed bodies
lacking the state of sleep
#micropoetry #poet #poetry
#blackandwhitephotography 🖤🤍
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
shade of night
the earth sighing beneath me
chosen shadows imprinted
by spirits and broad cadence
signaling the presence
of blanketed bodies
lacking the state of sleep
#micropoetry #poet #poetry
#blackandwhitephotography 🖤🤍
the earth sighing beneath me
chosen shadows imprinted
by spirits and broad cadence
signaling the presence
of blanketed bodies
lacking the state of sleep
#micropoetry #poet #poetry
#blackandwhitephotography 🖤🤍
Whoop whoop! 🎉🎈
OUT TOMORROW!
Contributions from @stefmowords.bsky.social @tanweerdar.com @llmacrae.bsky.social @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social @timhardieauthor.bsky.social @annatizard.bsky.social @emilyinkpen.bsky.social
with Guest Editor @frasierarmitage.bsky.social
Empowering #indieauthors everywhere!
Contributions from @stefmowords.bsky.social @tanweerdar.com @llmacrae.bsky.social @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social @timhardieauthor.bsky.social @annatizard.bsky.social @emilyinkpen.bsky.social
with Guest Editor @frasierarmitage.bsky.social
Empowering #indieauthors everywhere!
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Whoop whoop! 🎉🎈
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OUT TOMORROW!
Contributions from @stefmowords.bsky.social @tanweerdar.com @llmacrae.bsky.social @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social @timhardieauthor.bsky.social @annatizard.bsky.social @emilyinkpen.bsky.social
with Guest Editor @frasierarmitage.bsky.social
Empowering #indieauthors everywhere!
Contributions from @stefmowords.bsky.social @tanweerdar.com @llmacrae.bsky.social @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social @timhardieauthor.bsky.social @annatizard.bsky.social @emilyinkpen.bsky.social
with Guest Editor @frasierarmitage.bsky.social
Empowering #indieauthors everywhere!
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
OUT TOMORROW!
Contributions from @stefmowords.bsky.social @tanweerdar.com @llmacrae.bsky.social @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social @timhardieauthor.bsky.social @annatizard.bsky.social @emilyinkpen.bsky.social
with Guest Editor @frasierarmitage.bsky.social
Empowering #indieauthors everywhere!
Contributions from @stefmowords.bsky.social @tanweerdar.com @llmacrae.bsky.social @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social @timhardieauthor.bsky.social @annatizard.bsky.social @emilyinkpen.bsky.social
with Guest Editor @frasierarmitage.bsky.social
Empowering #indieauthors everywhere!
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Be sure to check out @annatizard.bsky.social's Brainstoryum #podcast, always a great show! She'll be reading 1, or 2, of my short stories again (I love it when she reads my stories). :)
Excited for tomorrow's Brainstoryum #podcast to drop,featuring:
NEW brainstorming method I learned at FantasyCon (I try it on the show!)
Stories from @quantumfairy.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social & others
Crazy #writingprompt game mixing listeners' words incl. @titaniatempest.bsky.social 😘✍️ #vss
NEW brainstorming method I learned at FantasyCon (I try it on the show!)
Stories from @quantumfairy.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social & others
Crazy #writingprompt game mixing listeners' words incl. @titaniatempest.bsky.social 😘✍️ #vss
Writers: "What can you do with too many choices? Sometimes the blank page can be daunting because you can literally take any path.
The surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse is a great way to narrow down those overwhelming choices w/ a unique challenge."
annatizard.com/brainstoryum
The surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse is a great way to narrow down those overwhelming choices w/ a unique challenge."
annatizard.com/brainstoryum
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Be sure to check out @annatizard.bsky.social's Brainstoryum #podcast, always a great show! She'll be reading 1, or 2, of my short stories again (I love it when she reads my stories). :)
Excited for tomorrow's Brainstoryum #podcast to drop,featuring:
NEW brainstorming method I learned at FantasyCon (I try it on the show!)
Stories from @quantumfairy.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social & others
Crazy #writingprompt game mixing listeners' words incl. @titaniatempest.bsky.social 😘✍️ #vss
NEW brainstorming method I learned at FantasyCon (I try it on the show!)
Stories from @quantumfairy.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social & others
Crazy #writingprompt game mixing listeners' words incl. @titaniatempest.bsky.social 😘✍️ #vss
Writers: "What can you do with too many choices? Sometimes the blank page can be daunting because you can literally take any path.
The surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse is a great way to narrow down those overwhelming choices w/ a unique challenge."
annatizard.com/brainstoryum
The surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse is a great way to narrow down those overwhelming choices w/ a unique challenge."
annatizard.com/brainstoryum
Brainstoryum
Podcast exploring inspiration with a little help from the surrealists. Anna Tizard plays Exquisite Corpse by picking random words from your entries at www.annatizard.com/play, and brainstorming story ...
annatizard.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Excited for tomorrow's Brainstoryum #podcast to drop,featuring:
NEW brainstorming method I learned at FantasyCon (I try it on the show!)
Stories from @quantumfairy.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social & others
Crazy #writingprompt game mixing listeners' words incl. @titaniatempest.bsky.social 😘✍️ #vss
NEW brainstorming method I learned at FantasyCon (I try it on the show!)
Stories from @quantumfairy.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social & others
Crazy #writingprompt game mixing listeners' words incl. @titaniatempest.bsky.social 😘✍️ #vss
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#MPPrompt
They used to dress the trees
Vibrant and green attire
Then the cool winds changed them
To orange, red and gold
Then they fluttered to ground
Baring branches and
Then went separate ways
Tattered and so lonely
Then no longer a bunch
They used to dress the trees
Vibrant and green attire
Then the cool winds changed them
To orange, red and gold
Then they fluttered to ground
Baring branches and
Then went separate ways
Tattered and so lonely
Then no longer a bunch
Today's #poetryprompt:
Where do all the leaves go after the fall?
#MPPrompt
I repost replies! Follow for daily prompts
Where do all the leaves go after the fall?
#MPPrompt
I repost replies! Follow for daily prompts
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
#MPPrompt
They used to dress the trees
Vibrant and green attire
Then the cool winds changed them
To orange, red and gold
Then they fluttered to ground
Baring branches and
Then went separate ways
Tattered and so lonely
Then no longer a bunch
They used to dress the trees
Vibrant and green attire
Then the cool winds changed them
To orange, red and gold
Then they fluttered to ground
Baring branches and
Then went separate ways
Tattered and so lonely
Then no longer a bunch
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The Brainstoryum #podcast is always a great listen! @annatizard.bsky.social often reads my short stories on her show, and I love hearing her bring them to life.
Your weekend is not weird enough without Brainstoryum!
Have you heard the latest one?
Tune in for insights & odd experiences at Fantasy Con, dark & strange flash fiction &3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse 👀
Catch it in all the usual places incl Youtube:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3swx...
#vss
Have you heard the latest one?
Tune in for insights & odd experiences at Fantasy Con, dark & strange flash fiction &3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse 👀
Catch it in all the usual places incl Youtube:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3swx...
#vss
#93. Unexpected Insights From Fantasy Con and a Heap of New Short Stories
YouTube video by Brainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts
m.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Brainstoryum #podcast is always a great listen! @annatizard.bsky.social often reads my short stories on her show, and I love hearing her bring them to life.
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#vss365 Because Enya played with fire, the townsfolk called her Little Fire, though some called her a witch. Whatever her name, she kept the departed souls from illegally leaving their transfer hub of Teach Duinn Island, not with witchcraft, but with Hellfire #Science, because souls fear fire.
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hurray! I've had 90 views of this interview. That's 90 people who've found out about my weird and wacky ways with words and writing prompts.
Can I make it to 100 before Xmas? 🤞
#writingcommunity #podcast #books
Can I make it to 100 before Xmas? 🤞
#writingcommunity #podcast #books
Why did I start a podcast out of sheer desperation? Why do I play a surrealist word game to create #writingprompts to inspire my writing, and my fellow writers?
What do the Socks of Destiny look like, exactly? 🫣😆
Find out more in this crazy interview + 🔗below for pod
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwIR...
What do the Socks of Destiny look like, exactly? 🫣😆
Find out more in this crazy interview + 🔗below for pod
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwIR...
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hurray! I've had 90 views of this interview. That's 90 people who've found out about my weird and wacky ways with words and writing prompts.
Can I make it to 100 before Xmas? 🤞
#writingcommunity #podcast #books
Can I make it to 100 before Xmas? 🤞
#writingcommunity #podcast #books
Your weekend is not weird enough without Brainstoryum!
Have you heard the latest one?
Tune in for insights & odd experiences at Fantasy Con, dark & strange flash fiction &3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse 👀
Catch it in all the usual places incl Youtube:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3swx...
#vss
Have you heard the latest one?
Tune in for insights & odd experiences at Fantasy Con, dark & strange flash fiction &3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse 👀
Catch it in all the usual places incl Youtube:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3swx...
#vss
#93. Unexpected Insights From Fantasy Con and a Heap of New Short Stories
YouTube video by Brainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts
m.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Your weekend is not weird enough without Brainstoryum!
Have you heard the latest one?
Tune in for insights & odd experiences at Fantasy Con, dark & strange flash fiction &3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse 👀
Catch it in all the usual places incl Youtube:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3swx...
#vss
Have you heard the latest one?
Tune in for insights & odd experiences at Fantasy Con, dark & strange flash fiction &3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse 👀
Catch it in all the usual places incl Youtube:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3swx...
#vss
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From Care and Feeding of Your Little Banned Bookshop
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
From Care and Feeding of Your Little Banned Bookshop
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This week, our Battalion didn’t shout their truth — they spoke it in such a way that others would have to listen closely to understand.
For these finalists, each verse became a reminder that the soul does not speak in thunder, but in quiet knowing.
freeonlinesurveys.com/s/ht4N3opu
For these finalists, each verse became a reminder that the soul does not speak in thunder, but in quiet knowing.
freeonlinesurveys.com/s/ht4N3opu
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This week, our Battalion didn’t shout their truth — they spoke it in such a way that others would have to listen closely to understand.
For these finalists, each verse became a reminder that the soul does not speak in thunder, but in quiet knowing.
freeonlinesurveys.com/s/ht4N3opu
For these finalists, each verse became a reminder that the soul does not speak in thunder, but in quiet knowing.
freeonlinesurveys.com/s/ht4N3opu
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Don’t miss @cmcaplanwrites.bsky.social @ajcalvin.bsky.social @adamcbassett.com Will Swardstrom and me TONIGHT on Bald & Balding, as we chat LIVE with @mikemollman.bsky.social and Ro Bushey about THE BOOK OF SPORES anthology 🍄
Join us live on YouTube at 7pm EST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrM...
Join us live on YouTube at 7pm EST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrM...
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Don’t miss @cmcaplanwrites.bsky.social @ajcalvin.bsky.social @adamcbassett.com Will Swardstrom and me TONIGHT on Bald & Balding, as we chat LIVE with @mikemollman.bsky.social and Ro Bushey about THE BOOK OF SPORES anthology 🍄
Join us live on YouTube at 7pm EST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrM...
Join us live on YouTube at 7pm EST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrM...
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Not long now until the Folkestone Book Festival! I’ll be there on Thursday 13th November, and I can’t wait to join such an inspiring line-up of writers and thinkers...
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Not long now until the Folkestone Book Festival! I’ll be there on Thursday 13th November, and I can’t wait to join such an inspiring line-up of writers and thinkers...
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Hi 🦋! I wrote a short story collection called Modern Mythical Creatures 🦄 & my current project is a novel about tiny dragons in a cafe 🐲
I also review books for the BFS & kick gremlins out of computers.
My natural habitats are Heffers (Cambridge) & Dragon Hall (Norwich)
melodybowles.carrd.co
I also review books for the BFS & kick gremlins out of computers.
My natural habitats are Heffers (Cambridge) & Dragon Hall (Norwich)
melodybowles.carrd.co
Melody Bowles - fantasy short story writer
Melody Bowles - fantasy short story writer
melodybowles.carrd.co
November 16, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Hi 🦋! I wrote a short story collection called Modern Mythical Creatures 🦄 & my current project is a novel about tiny dragons in a cafe 🐲
I also review books for the BFS & kick gremlins out of computers.
My natural habitats are Heffers (Cambridge) & Dragon Hall (Norwich)
melodybowles.carrd.co
I also review books for the BFS & kick gremlins out of computers.
My natural habitats are Heffers (Cambridge) & Dragon Hall (Norwich)
melodybowles.carrd.co
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It's Sunday.
State your position with a gif!
State your position with a gif!
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's Sunday.
State your position with a gif!
State your position with a gif!
It's Sunday.
State your position with a gif!
State your position with a gif!
a cartoon of garfield laying on the ground with a plate of food on his head
ALT: a cartoon of garfield laying on the ground with a plate of food on his head
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It's Sunday.
State your position with a gif!
State your position with a gif!
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We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟
Tune in to today's Brainstoryum #podcast for:
* adventures in #Fantasy Con &unexpected insights
* dark & strange flash fiction from @nickleevee.bsky.social
@quantumfairy.bsky.social& @madp03t.bsky.social
* 3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse
* a monster in disguise 👀
annatizard.com/brainstoryum
* adventures in #Fantasy Con &unexpected insights
* dark & strange flash fiction from @nickleevee.bsky.social
@quantumfairy.bsky.social& @madp03t.bsky.social
* 3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse
* a monster in disguise 👀
annatizard.com/brainstoryum
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Tune in to today's Brainstoryum #podcast for:
* adventures in #Fantasy Con &unexpected insights
* dark & strange flash fiction from @nickleevee.bsky.social
@quantumfairy.bsky.social& @madp03t.bsky.social
* 3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse
* a monster in disguise 👀
annatizard.com/brainstoryum
* adventures in #Fantasy Con &unexpected insights
* dark & strange flash fiction from @nickleevee.bsky.social
@quantumfairy.bsky.social& @madp03t.bsky.social
* 3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse
* a monster in disguise 👀
annatizard.com/brainstoryum
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The #language of trees
So different from
Ocean tongue
Speak for the bees
And the little ones.
You see that ripple
There on the back tide
Becomes a hurricane
The oceans spoken
Founder ship
Made mistake
Like not speaking
Tongues, ripples
In the wind
Great Lakes
Whisper
The Edmund Fitzgerald
#vss365
So different from
Ocean tongue
Speak for the bees
And the little ones.
You see that ripple
There on the back tide
Becomes a hurricane
The oceans spoken
Founder ship
Made mistake
Like not speaking
Tongues, ripples
In the wind
Great Lakes
Whisper
The Edmund Fitzgerald
#vss365
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Excited for the new Brainstoryum show to drop tomorrow!
Got some amazing writers' short stories to share, plus insights from the Fantasy Con event last weekend (though sadly this feels like ages ago now...)
In the meantime, you can still get spooky with this! ⬇️👀🦇
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnzd...
Got some amazing writers' short stories to share, plus insights from the Fantasy Con event last weekend (though sadly this feels like ages ago now...)
In the meantime, you can still get spooky with this! ⬇️👀🦇
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnzd...
#92. Halloween Special—A Brimming Casket of Creepiness (Short Stories and Poetry)
YouTube video by Brainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts
m.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited for the new Brainstoryum show to drop tomorrow!
Got some amazing writers' short stories to share, plus insights from the Fantasy Con event last weekend (though sadly this feels like ages ago now...)
In the meantime, you can still get spooky with this! ⬇️👀🦇
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnzd...
Got some amazing writers' short stories to share, plus insights from the Fantasy Con event last weekend (though sadly this feels like ages ago now...)
In the meantime, you can still get spooky with this! ⬇️👀🦇
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnzd...
Happy Friday, good people!
Btw, this offer ends tomorrow as the spooky season comes to a close. Keep the spooks alive a little longer with I For Immortality!
👀⬇️🦇
#books #reading
Btw, this offer ends tomorrow as the spooky season comes to a close. Keep the spooks alive a little longer with I For Immortality!
👀⬇️🦇
#books #reading
The award-winning “I” For Immortality is eerie, dark, with a touch of the profound. And it’s yours for a super-low price this #Halloween.
'"I" For Immortality is a story of change & permanence, & reading it permanently changed me.' - Amazon reviewer.
mybook.to/IFI
'"I" For Immortality is a story of change & permanence, & reading it permanently changed me.' - Amazon reviewer.
mybook.to/IFI
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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“Reality is the basis of all great art. Without it there is no life, no substance. Reality is the ground under our feet and sky over our head. Everything the artist creates has its point of departure in nature.”
-- Yvan Goll, “Surrealism Manifesto”
-- Yvan Goll, “Surrealism Manifesto”
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Reality is the basis of all great art. Without it there is no life, no substance. Reality is the ground under our feet and sky over our head. Everything the artist creates has its point of departure in nature.”
-- Yvan Goll, “Surrealism Manifesto”
-- Yvan Goll, “Surrealism Manifesto”
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A payphone still hummed in the sleet,
Its dial tone a pulse out of beat.
“History rings,”
The old porter sings,
“For ghosts with no fares and cold feet.”
#vss365 #history #prompt #poetry #limerick #skypoets #limericks #poetrycommunity #writing #5amwritersclub
Its dial tone a pulse out of beat.
“History rings,”
The old porter sings,
“For ghosts with no fares and cold feet.”
#vss365 #history #prompt #poetry #limerick #skypoets #limericks #poetrycommunity #writing #5amwritersclub
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A payphone still hummed in the sleet,
Its dial tone a pulse out of beat.
“History rings,”
The old porter sings,
“For ghosts with no fares and cold feet.”
#vss365 #history #prompt #poetry #limerick #skypoets #limericks #poetrycommunity #writing #5amwritersclub
Its dial tone a pulse out of beat.
“History rings,”
The old porter sings,
“For ghosts with no fares and cold feet.”
#vss365 #history #prompt #poetry #limerick #skypoets #limericks #poetrycommunity #writing #5amwritersclub