Arthur H. Manners
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
Author of SFFH. Work published/forthcoming in Analog, Strange Horizons, Flash Fiction Online, etc.
Rep: Alexander Cochran, Greyhound Literary (UK) & Brandi Bowles, UTA (US).
Website & Newsletter: https://arthurmanners.com/
Rep: Alexander Cochran, Greyhound Literary (UK) & Brandi Bowles, UTA (US).
Website & Newsletter: https://arthurmanners.com/
My sci-fi/horror flash "Woodsong" will also be coming to audio in @pseudopod.org later this year (est. Oct 2026)!
I'm late to this, but given the Nebula award nominations are still open: if you've enjoyed my work this year, I'd be overjoyed if you would consider nominating "Woodsong" in the 2025 awards season. Details on my website: arthurmanners.com/awards-eligi...
Eligible: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Bram Stoker
Eligible: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Bram Stoker
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
My sci-fi/horror flash "Woodsong" will also be coming to audio in @pseudopod.org later this year (est. Oct 2026)!
I'm late to this, but given the Nebula award nominations are still open: if you've enjoyed my work this year, I'd be overjoyed if you would consider nominating "Woodsong" in the 2025 awards season. Details on my website: arthurmanners.com/awards-eligi...
Eligible: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Bram Stoker
Eligible: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Bram Stoker
February 2, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I'm late to this, but given the Nebula award nominations are still open: if you've enjoyed my work this year, I'd be overjoyed if you would consider nominating "Woodsong" in the 2025 awards season. Details on my website: arthurmanners.com/awards-eligi...
Eligible: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Bram Stoker
Eligible: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Bram Stoker
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This was a fun read. :) Check it out!
5-min distraction incoming: my sci-fi comedy flash-fiction "A Troubleshooting Guide to Your Flat-Pack Planet" is now out in Nature Futures. media.nature.com/original/mag...
January 20, 2026 at 12:06 PM
This was a fun read. :) Check it out!
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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...
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...
January 12, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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...
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...
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Done. Took three minutes. If you use Discord, tell them what you think.
EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
January 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Done. Took three minutes. If you use Discord, tell them what you think.
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Liked the story, laughed to tears reading the story behind the story. Thanks for brightening my day!
January 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Liked the story, laughed to tears reading the story behind the story. Thanks for brightening my day!
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This is so much fun!
5-min distraction incoming: my sci-fi comedy flash-fiction "A Troubleshooting Guide to Your Flat-Pack Planet" is now out in Nature Futures. media.nature.com/original/mag...
January 7, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is so much fun!
5-min distraction incoming: my sci-fi comedy flash-fiction "A Troubleshooting Guide to Your Flat-Pack Planet" is now out in Nature Futures. media.nature.com/original/mag...
January 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
5-min distraction incoming: my sci-fi comedy flash-fiction "A Troubleshooting Guide to Your Flat-Pack Planet" is now out in Nature Futures. media.nature.com/original/mag...
Happy to have my fantasy story "Ten Thousand Years Walking the Godsroad" reprinted in this anthology of eclectic tales. Plot: a minor god falls in love with a magical road. Just your basic normal everyday story, nothing weird you're weird.
JayHenge is so happy to announce the release of Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue!
Thank you to all the amazing authors who contributed!
Find it here zurl.co/eM3oX in Kindle format, & the paperback and hard cover editions should be available shortly!
Thank you to all the amazing authors who contributed!
Find it here zurl.co/eM3oX in Kindle format, & the paperback and hard cover editions should be available shortly!
Amazon.com: Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue eBook : Augustsson, Jessica, Frohn, Joyce, Fekete, Zary, Runté, Robert, Adamson, Mike, Culagovski, Rodrigo, Clarke, Regina, Bisdorf, Don, Rumpel, James, Bliss, Matt: Kindle Store
Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue - Kindle edition by Augustsson, Jessica, Frohn, Joyce, Fekete, Zary, Runté, Robert, Adamson, Mike, Culagovski, Rodrigo, Clarke, Regina, Bisdorf, Don, Rumpel, James, Bliss, Matt. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue.
zurl.co
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Happy to have my fantasy story "Ten Thousand Years Walking the Godsroad" reprinted in this anthology of eclectic tales. Plot: a minor god falls in love with a magical road. Just your basic normal everyday story, nothing weird you're weird.
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Absolutely love this tragic beauty of a story by @arthurmanners.bsky.social and the peace that only comes with acceptance, in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social magazine!
#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia
#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia
My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
Woodsong
It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Absolutely love this tragic beauty of a story by @arthurmanners.bsky.social and the peace that only comes with acceptance, in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social magazine!
#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia
#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia
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Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of the World Fantasy Awards!
World Fantasy Awards Winners
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2024 were presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, held October 30 – November 2, 2025 in Brighton, UK. The Life Achievement …
locusmag.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of the World Fantasy Awards!
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THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
ICYMI. I’m on some panels today at World Fantasy in Brighton. See you there!
This week I'll be at the World Fantasy Convention (30th Oct - 2nd Nov) in Brighton, UK. Both my panels are on Thursday 30th: 1. AI and LLMs in our industry: What Can We Do? What Should We Do? (5PM), 2. Visions of the Future (9PM). @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025
worldfantasy2025.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ICYMI. I’m on some panels today at World Fantasy in Brighton. See you there!
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An inescapable wilderness is the setting for Arthur H. Manners’ story “Woodsong.” At the edge of survival this indomitable father-son pair cling to hope
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
Woodsong
It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …
www.flashfictiononline.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
An inescapable wilderness is the setting for Arthur H. Manners’ story “Woodsong.” At the edge of survival this indomitable father-son pair cling to hope
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
This week I'll be at the World Fantasy Convention (30th Oct - 2nd Nov) in Brighton, UK. Both my panels are on Thursday 30th: 1. AI and LLMs in our industry: What Can We Do? What Should We Do? (5PM), 2. Visions of the Future (9PM). @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025
worldfantasy2025.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This week I'll be at the World Fantasy Convention (30th Oct - 2nd Nov) in Brighton, UK. Both my panels are on Thursday 30th: 1. AI and LLMs in our industry: What Can We Do? What Should We Do? (5PM), 2. Visions of the Future (9PM). @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
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Just followed these instructions. So. Much. Better.
spread the word.
spread the word.
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just followed these instructions. So. Much. Better.
spread the word.
spread the word.
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They’re so close! Can we get them across the finish line?
Friends, I am currently under the weather, very behind on work, fighting SAD--my heart, it cannot take this. Please, give and get @apexmag.bsky.social to their goal so I can save my dwindling supply of tissues for my nose and not my tears.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
They’re so close! Can we get them across the finish line?
Okay, friends! @apexmag.bsky.social is close to their Kickstarter funding goal, but needs your help to make it before the end of October. I got into short fiction because of Apex. Please, if you can swing anything, even pocket change, throw in. xx www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Okay, friends! @apexmag.bsky.social is close to their Kickstarter funding goal, but needs your help to make it before the end of October. I got into short fiction because of Apex. Please, if you can swing anything, even pocket change, throw in. xx www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
Woodsong
It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …
www.flashfictiononline.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
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Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!
October 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!
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Look at this Halloween ass book
You want it
You want it
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Look at this Halloween ass book
You want it
You want it
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A haunting story. 🖤
Delighted to have my sci-fi/horror story "Woodsong" appear in the October issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, which features tales of the deep, dark woods. www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A haunting story. 🖤
ICYMI
Delighted to have my sci-fi/horror story "Woodsong" appear in the October issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, which features tales of the deep, dark woods. www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
October 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
ICYMI
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💯
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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