Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚
@ecow0rrier.bsky.social
Writer, editor, translator. Books, Earth &
misc. musings. Someone Else's Conflict (2014) & #CliFi novels Riverflow (2019) and After the Clearances (coming 10 July 25) pub @honno. More at www.alayland.uk
misc. musings. Someone Else's Conflict (2014) & #CliFi novels Riverflow (2019) and After the Clearances (coming 10 July 25) pub @honno. More at www.alayland.uk
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After the Clearances
YouTube video by Alison Layland
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My daughter Trina and I spent a couple of lovely days roaming Ynys Enlli/Bardsey, filming the video for After the Clearances. And now, a week before publication, here it is! Enjoy!
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#books #trailer #booksky #islandlife
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It's a pleasure and a privilege to be featured in the second edition of the ever-fascinating Bending the Arc magazine today.
BENDING THE ARC & @ecow0rrier.bsky.social aka Alison Layland take us to north Wales in 2056. This novel extract accompanied by a reflection from my fellow co-editor Laura Baggaley on what makes it thrutopian: great practical insights for novelists bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/seeds-of-c...
Seeds of Change in a Future Wales
Novel extract from After the Clearances by Alison Layland
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November 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It's a pleasure and a privilege to be featured in the second edition of the ever-fascinating Bending the Arc magazine today.
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Day 3 of the new issue of BENDING THE ARC, a thrutopian magazine, & we're talking punks with Rachel Pryor:
'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'
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'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/more-than-...
More Than a Mohawk: Why Thrutopian Punks Don’t Just Burn It Down
Feature by Rachel Pryor
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October 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Day 3 of the new issue of BENDING THE ARC, a thrutopian magazine, & we're talking punks with Rachel Pryor:
'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/more-than-...
'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/more-than-...
Beautiful. 💚
we learnt about natural resources today / her tiny hand encased in mine like a rare seed / of starfruit
Day 2 of BENDING THE ARC magazine features a glorious thrutopoem by Nia Solomon!
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Day 2 of BENDING THE ARC magazine features a glorious thrutopoem by Nia Solomon!
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/grove-of-t...
Grove of Titans
Poem by Nia Solomon
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October 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Beautiful. 💚
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** DRUMROLL **
Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
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Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
** DRUMROLL **
Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
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A very happy publication day to @amylilwall.bsky.social and the emotive novel 'The Water That May Come'!
In a future where we all may become refugees, it asks: how far would you go to stay afloat?
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #clifi @inpressbooks.bsky.social
In a future where we all may become refugees, it asks: how far would you go to stay afloat?
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #clifi @inpressbooks.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
A very happy publication day to @amylilwall.bsky.social and the emotive novel 'The Water That May Come'!
In a future where we all may become refugees, it asks: how far would you go to stay afloat?
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #clifi @inpressbooks.bsky.social
In a future where we all may become refugees, it asks: how far would you go to stay afloat?
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #clifi @inpressbooks.bsky.social
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Really lovely to discuss The Water That May Come with the excellent @samszanto.bsky.social 💙📚
New on my blog, an interview with the very talented Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social about her fantastic new book, 'The Water That May Come', with @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social - please have a read and share
www.samszanto.com/post/amy-lil...
www.samszanto.com/post/amy-lil...
Amy Lilwall: "The fun starts when you have a full draft and the editing begins. It’s like building a house, then placing the furniture inside it."
A chat with Amy Lilwall about her book, The Water That May Come (Fly on the Wall Press, 2025)How would you describe The Water That May Come in one sentence? The Water That May Come is a book about rel...
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September 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Really lovely to discuss The Water That May Come with the excellent @samszanto.bsky.social 💙📚
Out today!
Looking for a chilling, gripping read for the bank holiday weekend?
Looking for a chilling, gripping read for the bank holiday weekend?
Just 3 days left until the paperback release of ##IsolationWard on Thursday.
Pre-order here tinyurl.com/48etnzp5
Pre-order here tinyurl.com/48etnzp5
August 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Out today!
Looking for a chilling, gripping read for the bank holiday weekend?
Looking for a chilling, gripping read for the bank holiday weekend?
Having seen a broadcast, I'm really looking forward to seeing this live. 🎶🐄
Our Oswestry show is on Sunday 21st September
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It will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴 🏴
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It will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴 🏴
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Having seen a broadcast, I'm really looking forward to seeing this live. 🎶🐄
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It's officially Plot Girl Summer! ☀️😎🏖️ If you're looking for a hot new read, click the link below to see our round-up of July's best new fiction!
Plot Girl Summer – July’s Best New Fiction
With July comes the realisation that we’re already over half way through the year, and I for one am woefully behind on my TBR target! But the release schedule waits for nobody, and we’v…
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July 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's officially Plot Girl Summer! ☀️😎🏖️ If you're looking for a hot new read, click the link below to see our round-up of July's best new fiction!
Great to see After the Clearances featured in this @turnarounduk.bsky.social round-up of climate fiction to watch out for.
July 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Great to see After the Clearances featured in this @turnarounduk.bsky.social round-up of climate fiction to watch out for.
I love the Writers Review blog, so it's been an honour to share some of the ideas behind my new novel with @lindanewbery.bsky.social on the site this week.
Congratulations to today's guest Alison Layland on her excellent new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES - a tale of near-future survival in a remote island community. Find out more from our Q&A. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/q-al... @honnopress.bsky.social #clifi #future #survival #community
Q&A: Alison Layland talks to Linda Newbery about her new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES
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July 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I love the Writers Review blog, so it's been an honour to share some of the ideas behind my new novel with @lindanewbery.bsky.social on the site this week.
My daughter Trina and I spent a couple of lovely days roaming Ynys Enlli/Bardsey, filming the video for After the Clearances. And now, a week before publication, here it is! Enjoy!
youtu.be/2y2NMDZEh-8?...
@honnopress.bsky.social
linktr.ee/AlisonLayland
#books #trailer #booksky #islandlife
youtu.be/2y2NMDZEh-8?...
@honnopress.bsky.social
linktr.ee/AlisonLayland
#books #trailer #booksky #islandlife
After the Clearances
YouTube video by Alison Layland
youtu.be
July 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
My daughter Trina and I spent a couple of lovely days roaming Ynys Enlli/Bardsey, filming the video for After the Clearances. And now, a week before publication, here it is! Enjoy!
youtu.be/2y2NMDZEh-8?...
@honnopress.bsky.social
linktr.ee/AlisonLayland
#books #trailer #booksky #islandlife
youtu.be/2y2NMDZEh-8?...
@honnopress.bsky.social
linktr.ee/AlisonLayland
#books #trailer #booksky #islandlife
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Delighted to have our first endorsement through for upcoming speculative novel 'The Water That May Come' by the talented @amylilwall.bsky.social ! Alison Layland, Author of 'Riverflow', 'After the Clearances' and 'Someone Else’s Conflict' immerses herself in this near-future Britain...
June 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Delighted to have our first endorsement through for upcoming speculative novel 'The Water That May Come' by the talented @amylilwall.bsky.social ! Alison Layland, Author of 'Riverflow', 'After the Clearances' and 'Someone Else’s Conflict' immerses herself in this near-future Britain...
A first! 🎉😎
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May 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
A first! 🎉😎
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'We can choose to write contemporary fiction with no acknowledgement of the crisis going on outside our windows; but it will look as strange to readers in a hundred years’ time as a novel set in 1930s Germany would look if it made no mention of the war.'
May 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
'We can choose to write contemporary fiction with no acknowledgement of the crisis going on outside our windows; but it will look as strange to readers in a hundred years’ time as a novel set in 1930s Germany would look if it made no mention of the war.'
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Tripfiction is a site that matches books to locations - I've often used it to find inspiration for holiday reading. Today I'm delighted to see my article on Yorkshire, location of Isolation Ward, taking in Hebden Bridge, Menston Asylum, the empty moors, and more.
Talking Location With Martine Bailey - YORKSHIRE - TripFiction
#TalkingLocationWith… Martine Bailey, author of Isolation Ward, set in YORKSHIRE I knew right from the beginning that the setting for my latest book,
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April 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Tripfiction is a site that matches books to locations - I've often used it to find inspiration for holiday reading. Today I'm delighted to see my article on Yorkshire, location of Isolation Ward, taking in Hebden Bridge, Menston Asylum, the empty moors, and more.
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I'm thrilled to be part of The Writing on the Wall, an exhibition with my friends Jood Gough and Bob Knowles, in Oswestry Library. Do come and have a look!
March 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I'm thrilled to be part of The Writing on the Wall, an exhibition with my friends Jood Gough and Bob Knowles, in Oswestry Library. Do come and have a look!
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Welcome to Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2025!
Only ten weeks then we'll be back in Aberystwyth with lots of lovely book loving readers and writers.
Tickets go on sale on March 1, 2025, because it's St David's Day and we are proud of being Welsh.
Do drop in if you can.
Only ten weeks then we'll be back in Aberystwyth with lots of lovely book loving readers and writers.
Tickets go on sale on March 1, 2025, because it's St David's Day and we are proud of being Welsh.
Do drop in if you can.
February 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Welcome to Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2025!
Only ten weeks then we'll be back in Aberystwyth with lots of lovely book loving readers and writers.
Tickets go on sale on March 1, 2025, because it's St David's Day and we are proud of being Welsh.
Do drop in if you can.
Only ten weeks then we'll be back in Aberystwyth with lots of lovely book loving readers and writers.
Tickets go on sale on March 1, 2025, because it's St David's Day and we are proud of being Welsh.
Do drop in if you can.
I was fortunate to read an early copy of @martinebailey.bsky.social 's sinister and gripping Isolation Ward - love the cover, which conveys the atmosphere brilliantly!
Excited to post this #CoverReveal today! Just 6 weeks until the follow up to #SharpScratch is released.
Lorraine Quick is sent to a northern asylum where dangerous memories and desires erupt in murder. Allison & Busby Books
Lorraine Quick is sent to a northern asylum where dangerous memories and desires erupt in murder. Allison & Busby Books
February 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I was fortunate to read an early copy of @martinebailey.bsky.social 's sinister and gripping Isolation Ward - love the cover, which conveys the atmosphere brilliantly!
I've just finished the wonderful The Wager and the Bear. Congratulations and thanks - I hope it reaches the wide audience it deserves and finds a rising tide of appreciation. 📚🌊
'The narrative flows seamlessly whether the location is Cornwall or the Arctic, one sequence of events seems to glide effortlessly into the next like some of the glaciers in the tale...It's a clever story, contemporary yet timeless.' @bookphace.bsky.social reviews @johnironmonger.bsky.social #books📚
This lovely book is published tomorrow by @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
It’s Pertinent and it’s topical. And it’s beautifully written by @johnironmonger.bsky.social
I wrote about it on my blog.
bookphace.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
@isabellekenyon.bsky.social
It’s Pertinent and it’s topical. And it’s beautifully written by @johnironmonger.bsky.social
I wrote about it on my blog.
bookphace.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
@isabellekenyon.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I've just finished the wonderful The Wager and the Bear. Congratulations and thanks - I hope it reaches the wide audience it deserves and finds a rising tide of appreciation. 📚🌊
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We welcome Alison Layland, who praises Tom Bullough's SARN HELEN, Welsh Book of the Year 2024. "What a journey he takes us on! A cry from the heart.https://reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/02/guest-review-by-alison-layland-sarn.html @ecoworrier.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social #climatecrisis
Guest review by Alison Layland: SARN HELEN, a Journey through Wales, Past, Present and Future, by Tom Bullough
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February 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We welcome Alison Layland, who praises Tom Bullough's SARN HELEN, Welsh Book of the Year 2024. "What a journey he takes us on! A cry from the heart.https://reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/02/guest-review-by-alison-layland-sarn.html @ecoworrier.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social #climatecrisis
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Nothing like a walk along a windy cliff for sorting out a plot dilemma.
January 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Nothing like a walk along a windy cliff for sorting out a plot dilemma.