Bryn Hammond
@brynhammond.bsky.social
| Writer. S&S: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine; Goatskin novellas Waste Flowers, What Rough Beast? Historical fiction: Amgalant on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols
| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
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| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
| https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
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⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
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Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
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I've loved New Edge Sword & Sorcery since #0, and been in the mag with tales and profiles of Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Janrae Frank.
THIS is my Goatskin's cover year, with this marvelous art by Jimmy Makepeace, and Linnea Sterte for interior art. I hope I've written a story worthy.
Do share.
THIS is my Goatskin's cover year, with this marvelous art by Jimmy Makepeace, and Linnea Sterte for interior art. I hope I've written a story worthy.
Do share.
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The coolest thing ever is getting a STARRED review for a reissue of a 1915 novel!!!
FIDELITY | Kirkus Reviews
This reissue of Glaspell’s 1915 novel—about a woman who defies the conventions of her Midwestern town by running off with her married lover—reintroduces a writer whose ideas on individualism and confo...
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February 19, 2026 at 3:32 PM
The coolest thing ever is getting a STARRED review for a reissue of a 1915 novel!!!
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @curtisdozier.bsky.social discusses the ways that Classics is instrumentalized. Then, the role of Blackness in medieval imagery, a new Edmonia Lewis retrospective, repatriating the Benin Bronzes, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.
Pasts Imperfect (2.19.26)
This week, classicist Curtis Dozier discusses new books—including his own—that critique Classics and the ways it is instrumentalized. Then, the role of Blackness in the imagery of the Middle Ages, an ...
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February 19, 2026 at 12:06 PM
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @curtisdozier.bsky.social discusses the ways that Classics is instrumentalized. Then, the role of Blackness in medieval imagery, a new Edmonia Lewis retrospective, repatriating the Benin Bronzes, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.
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Free fiction on the CHM website! Check out "Along the Way to Shaft 13" by Eugen Bacon right here: https://bit.ly/3OsMUgy
February 19, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Free fiction on the CHM website! Check out "Along the Way to Shaft 13" by Eugen Bacon right here: https://bit.ly/3OsMUgy
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New publisher listing for: Neurodivergent Realms: A Fantasy Anthology Celebrating Neurodivergent Voices (Fiction; Fantasy; pays). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: Neurodivergent Realms: A Fantasy Anthology Celebrating Neurodivergent Voices
New publisher listing for: Neurodivergent Realms: A Fantasy Anthology Celebrating Neurodivergent Voices (Fiction; Fantasy; pays). #WritingCommunity
duotrope.com
February 19, 2026 at 7:55 AM
New publisher listing for: Neurodivergent Realms: A Fantasy Anthology Celebrating Neurodivergent Voices (Fiction; Fantasy; pays). #WritingCommunity
Particularly applicable to Sword & Sorcery
February 19, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Particularly applicable to Sword & Sorcery
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We love to see this! @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
PS - thanks for turning me on to New Edge Sword and Sorcery and Old Moon Quarterly. I've been enjoying them immensely! Your shout out last month worked!
February 19, 2026 at 2:54 AM
We love to see this! @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
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Book mail! The proof copy of The Secret of the Sunken Temple has arrived! Releasing in print and digital formats on 15 April, with preorder links to follow soon. :) #booksky #romance #magic #mythology #archaeology #witchsky
February 19, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Book mail! The proof copy of The Secret of the Sunken Temple has arrived! Releasing in print and digital formats on 15 April, with preorder links to follow soon. :) #booksky #romance #magic #mythology #archaeology #witchsky
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Tonight, @therotund.bsky.social and I will be talking about examples of fashion in spec fic, both written and on-screen. Right here on Bluesky, in fanfare for the forthcoming "What Elegant Stars," a fashionable space opera anthology. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
What Elegant Stars
Queer Tales of Impossible Style, a fashionable space opera anthology.
www.kickstarter.com
February 19, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Tonight, @therotund.bsky.social and I will be talking about examples of fashion in spec fic, both written and on-screen. Right here on Bluesky, in fanfare for the forthcoming "What Elegant Stars," a fashionable space opera anthology. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
17 more re-posts and I get to write a poem that ties in with this cover story
⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 19, 2026 at 1:17 AM
17 more re-posts and I get to write a poem that ties in with this cover story
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🤘666 backers AND we've unlocked a third author raise, on to more money for the artists!🤘
🔥Join us, it's nice and warm in here...🔥
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February 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
🤘666 backers AND we've unlocked a third author raise, on to more money for the artists!🤘
🔥Join us, it's nice and warm in here...🔥
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
🔥Join us, it's nice and warm in here...🔥
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The Center for Hellenic Studies has hundreds of open access books 📕 for use. I appreciate that the book I use to teach the Helots of Sparta in my ancient slavery class is openly available:
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures - The Center for Hellenic Studies
The name “Helots” evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functio...
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February 18, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The Center for Hellenic Studies has hundreds of open access books 📕 for use. I appreciate that the book I use to teach the Helots of Sparta in my ancient slavery class is openly available:
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
_Helots and The Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures_ by Luraghi & Alcock
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NEW: This - on the signalling system that crossed Anatolia from Loulon to Constantinople -by @chrysoboullon.bsky.social is v cool. A 'trip wire' to alert Constantinople to the start of the Abbasid campaigning season. Tantalising hints that it 'employs knowledge of the longitudinal circumference... 👇
February 18, 2026 at 10:58 AM
NEW: This - on the signalling system that crossed Anatolia from Loulon to Constantinople -by @chrysoboullon.bsky.social is v cool. A 'trip wire' to alert Constantinople to the start of the Abbasid campaigning season. Tantalising hints that it 'employs knowledge of the longitudinal circumference... 👇
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Balaraba Ramat Yakubu's classic soyayya novel Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home gets a shoutout from the University of Utah (!)
attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff...
Pick up your copy here!
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attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff...
Pick up your copy here!
www.blaft.com/products/sin...
attheu.utah.edu
February 18, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Balaraba Ramat Yakubu's classic soyayya novel Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home gets a shoutout from the University of Utah (!)
attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff...
Pick up your copy here!
www.blaft.com/products/sin...
attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff...
Pick up your copy here!
www.blaft.com/products/sin...
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I read The Samurai and the Prisoner by Honobu Yonezawa
Review by kjcharles - The Samurai and the Prisoner
A really remarkable history/mystery novel. I say it like that because it's in no way a histori...
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February 18, 2026 at 9:18 AM
I read The Samurai and the Prisoner by Honobu Yonezawa
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Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!
Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
February 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!
Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
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Maudlin House exists for the weird, tender books that believe surviving the present is possible…
February 18, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Maudlin House exists for the weird, tender books that believe surviving the present is possible…
Can I finish up the items on my February schedule and turn to the delayed larger project as of March? Possibly. That's the aim. One further thing, a short thing but it's gotta be worth its salt where it is, before I do that.
February 18, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Can I finish up the items on my February schedule and turn to the delayed larger project as of March? Possibly. That's the aim. One further thing, a short thing but it's gotta be worth its salt where it is, before I do that.
writing a story in tribute -- for @chmmagazine.bsky.social 's CL Moore tribute issue, open March 1-7 -- was frightening at first and I got off to a slow tormented start, but it's been a great exercise; I've learned to specify what I admire in Moore and found out how I can emulate it in my own voice.
February 18, 2026 at 1:30 AM
writing a story in tribute -- for @chmmagazine.bsky.social 's CL Moore tribute issue, open March 1-7 -- was frightening at first and I got off to a slow tormented start, but it's been a great exercise; I've learned to specify what I admire in Moore and found out how I can emulate it in my own voice.
But this story is so sad.
February 18, 2026 at 1:02 AM
But this story is so sad.
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It’s crowdfunding time for another mighty year of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social! Did you know that if you repost the original post below, you can unlock new sword & sorcery poems from Bryn Hammond, Oliver Brackenbury, and me?
February 17, 2026 at 10:06 PM
It’s crowdfunding time for another mighty year of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social! Did you know that if you repost the original post below, you can unlock new sword & sorcery poems from Bryn Hammond, Oliver Brackenbury, and me?
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ACE DOUBLES ARE BACK BABY
February 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
ACE DOUBLES ARE BACK BABY
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Mail call! I can’t get enough of @brynhammond.bsky.social ‘s Goatskin, plus it’s tete-beche with Dariel Quiogue’s “Walls of Shira Yulun,” and David C Smith’s “Sometimes Lofty Towers” is openly anticolonialist sword & sorcery! Available from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social !
February 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Mail call! I can’t get enough of @brynhammond.bsky.social ‘s Goatskin, plus it’s tete-beche with Dariel Quiogue’s “Walls of Shira Yulun,” and David C Smith’s “Sometimes Lofty Towers” is openly anticolonialist sword & sorcery! Available from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social !
I want to write a Sword & Sorcery poem help me out
Did you know sharing the original post here helps unlock bonus content for this year's issues?
Did you know you've already unlocked one bonus story and another is only nine shares away???
Did you know you've already unlocked one bonus story and another is only nine shares away???
February 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I want to write a Sword & Sorcery poem help me out
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New for #GlobalMiddleAges. "most impressive is an extensive repertoire of rare Yuan dynasty blue-and-white porcelain, far more than has ever been recovered from a documented wreck site anywhere else in the world." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #TengriSky #Ceramics #Singapore
The Temasek Wreck ceramics cargo: Yuan blue-and-white porcelain, celadon and other ceramics found in Singapore waters
A maritime archaeological excavation recently carried out in stages over a four-year period resulted in the recovery of approximately 3.5 tonnes of ce…
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February 17, 2026 at 6:20 PM
New for #GlobalMiddleAges. "most impressive is an extensive repertoire of rare Yuan dynasty blue-and-white porcelain, far more than has ever been recovered from a documented wreck site anywhere else in the world." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #TengriSky #Ceramics #Singapore