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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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 sun-faced riders 🌞
February 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
🌞 the sun-faced riders 🌞
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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.
⚔️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!
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Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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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I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
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Lost in all of this is the original intention of this project: A regular/monthly Sword & Sorcery Newsletter with reviews and essays and reporting on cool stuff about that weirdest of fantasy genres. It's all shilling atm, but I swear it'll get there:
newsletter.swordsagainst.com
newsletter.swordsagainst.com
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February 12, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Lost in all of this is the original intention of this project: A regular/monthly Sword & Sorcery Newsletter with reviews and essays and reporting on cool stuff about that weirdest of fantasy genres. It's all shilling atm, but I swear it'll get there:
newsletter.swordsagainst.com
newsletter.swordsagainst.com
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.
⚔️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 13, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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.
Reposted by Bryn Hammond
SWORD & SORCERYE 4 LYFE!
February 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
SWORD & SORCERYE 4 LYFE!
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Proud to be the 9th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Swords Against! The swords & sorcery fiction magazine! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Swords Against! The swords & sorcery fiction magazine
Sword & sorcery fiction accented by great art. Our magazine explores the boundaries between the old and new, challenges where the genre is and was, and tells some kick-ass stories. The magazine is pub...
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February 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Proud to be the 9th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Swords Against! The swords & sorcery fiction magazine! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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HEY NIGHT/AFTERNOON/EVENING CROWD! I'm in this. It's going to be awesome, & @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social has assembled a bunch of cool folks to do fantastic stories and art. Tales that call upon the old ancestors of S&S while embracing the new & inclusive
72% funded and it hasn't even been 12hrs!
72% funded and it hasn't even been 12hrs!
⚔️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 12, 2026 at 11:19 PM
HEY NIGHT/AFTERNOON/EVENING CROWD! I'm in this. It's going to be awesome, & @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social has assembled a bunch of cool folks to do fantastic stories and art. Tales that call upon the old ancestors of S&S while embracing the new & inclusive
72% funded and it hasn't even been 12hrs!
72% funded and it hasn't even been 12hrs!
Chaucer Doth Tweet loves us!
Wearer of litel woolen hatte loveth Sword & Sorcery!
Wearer of litel woolen hatte loveth Sword & Sorcery!
SWORD & SORCERYE YS AN AWESOME GENRE. Thys ys a great crowdefunde
⚔️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!
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Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
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February 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Chaucer Doth Tweet loves us!
Wearer of litel woolen hatte loveth Sword & Sorcery!
Wearer of litel woolen hatte loveth Sword & Sorcery!
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New Edge Sword and Sorcery are crowdfunding their 2026 issues! I cannot recommend this magazine enough – great, genre-pushing writing in every issue, from a huge range of exciting , talented voices.
It captures everything I love about the genre and pushes it in whole new directions. Pure joy.
It captures everything I love about the genre and pushes it in whole new directions. Pure joy.
⚔️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 12, 2026 at 6:16 PM
New Edge Sword and Sorcery are crowdfunding their 2026 issues! I cannot recommend this magazine enough – great, genre-pushing writing in every issue, from a huge range of exciting , talented voices.
It captures everything I love about the genre and pushes it in whole new directions. Pure joy.
It captures everything I love about the genre and pushes it in whole new directions. Pure joy.
Reposted by Bryn Hammond
AHHHH SWORD AND SORCERY - I LOVE THIS GENRE. THIS IS GREAT.
I want to see more in the S&S genre. Shorts, novellas, novelettes, novels. ALL OF THEM.
And more diverse backgrounds and cool ass different ideas.
I want to see more in the S&S genre. Shorts, novellas, novelettes, novels. ALL OF THEM.
And more diverse backgrounds and cool ass different ideas.
⚔️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 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
AHHHH SWORD AND SORCERY - I LOVE THIS GENRE. THIS IS GREAT.
I want to see more in the S&S genre. Shorts, novellas, novelettes, novels. ALL OF THEM.
And more diverse backgrounds and cool ass different ideas.
I want to see more in the S&S genre. Shorts, novellas, novelettes, novels. ALL OF THEM.
And more diverse backgrounds and cool ass different ideas.
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Backing both @swordsagainst.bsky.social and @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social is actually a very cool and sexy thing to do.
February 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Backing both @swordsagainst.bsky.social and @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social is actually a very cool and sexy thing to do.
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what a wonderful day to be wearing a castle rat shirt and going out to my favorite cafe to write pulp fantasy bullshit while TWO sword and sorcery magazines launch their crowdfunding campaigns. my soul is fed
February 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
what a wonderful day to be wearing a castle rat shirt and going out to my favorite cafe to write pulp fantasy bullshit while TWO sword and sorcery magazines launch their crowdfunding campaigns. my soul is fed
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One of my favorite sword & sorcery characters. bsky.app/profile/bryn...
👇 that's my Goatskin 👇
⚔️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 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
One of my favorite sword & sorcery characters. bsky.app/profile/bryn...
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Hi you have to fund this or else my giant squid will be very vexed (it's extremely giant) (and Earth is extremely scrungly and doomed) 🦑
⚔️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 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Hi you have to fund this or else my giant squid will be very vexed (it's extremely giant) (and Earth is extremely scrungly and doomed) 🦑
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Hook it to my veins, love this magazine
⚔️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 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Hook it to my veins, love this magazine
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IT'S CROWDFUND DAY!
Check it out!
I beg. I plead. I mutter eldritch words of power into my beard for your protection from/ravishment by, strange gods (DELETE AS APPLICABLE)
Come support artists & writers (including me) who summon dreams of never-was, and the yet-might-be -- queer and phantastic!
Check it out!
I beg. I plead. I mutter eldritch words of power into my beard for your protection from/ravishment by, strange gods (DELETE AS APPLICABLE)
Come support artists & writers (including me) who summon dreams of never-was, and the yet-might-be -- queer and phantastic!
⚔️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 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
IT'S CROWDFUND DAY!
Check it out!
I beg. I plead. I mutter eldritch words of power into my beard for your protection from/ravishment by, strange gods (DELETE AS APPLICABLE)
Come support artists & writers (including me) who summon dreams of never-was, and the yet-might-be -- queer and phantastic!
Check it out!
I beg. I plead. I mutter eldritch words of power into my beard for your protection from/ravishment by, strange gods (DELETE AS APPLICABLE)
Come support artists & writers (including me) who summon dreams of never-was, and the yet-might-be -- queer and phantastic!
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New Goatskin story by the inimitable historian of Mongolia and spinner of steppe stories @brynhammond.bsky.social. This among many other goodies.
⚔️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 12, 2026 at 1:25 PM
New Goatskin story by the inimitable historian of Mongolia and spinner of steppe stories @brynhammond.bsky.social. This among many other goodies.
👇 that's my Goatskin 👇
⚔️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 12, 2026 at 1:17 PM
👇 that's my Goatskin 👇
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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...
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 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
⚔️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...
Proud to be the 6th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026
Sword & Sorcery magazine featuring short fiction, non-fiction, and gorgeous art. Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! Luxurious hardcover, clas...
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February 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Proud to be the 6th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
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Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day?
#lgbtqhistory
#lgbtqhistory
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
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UK readers, reviewers, bloggers! Mercutio is now available on Netgalley UK and I am very excited and nervous to have this one out in the world. It is the book of my heart, my brain, my toes. Please request and read if you can. It'll help me hugely to get some word of mouth before UK release in May.
Mercutio
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February 12, 2026 at 1:52 AM
UK readers, reviewers, bloggers! Mercutio is now available on Netgalley UK and I am very excited and nervous to have this one out in the world. It is the book of my heart, my brain, my toes. Please request and read if you can. It'll help me hugely to get some word of mouth before UK release in May.