Ephiny Gale
@ephiny.bsky.social
Writer of PICK YOUR POTION. Awarded 'Best of the Net' for fiction. 4x Aurealis Awards finalist.
www.ephinygale.com
This account contains only my personal views and is not representative of any organisation.
www.ephinygale.com
This account contains only my personal views and is not representative of any organisation.
Had a great time yesterday being filmed for community TV show 5 or 8, who interviewed me about my writing.
It’ll be on Channel 31, YouTube, and elsewhere - eventually!
This is what I looked like beforehand.
It’ll be on Channel 31, YouTube, and elsewhere - eventually!
This is what I looked like beforehand.
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Had a great time yesterday being filmed for community TV show 5 or 8, who interviewed me about my writing.
It’ll be on Channel 31, YouTube, and elsewhere - eventually!
This is what I looked like beforehand.
It’ll be on Channel 31, YouTube, and elsewhere - eventually!
This is what I looked like beforehand.
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my art director is feeling especially micro manage-y today
September 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
my art director is feeling especially micro manage-y today
This week marks one year since Pick Your Potion was released. In that time it’s been an Aurealis Awards finalist, longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and on the Locus Recommended Reading List. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported it. That means so much to me. 💖
September 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This week marks one year since Pick Your Potion was released. In that time it’s been an Aurealis Awards finalist, longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and on the Locus Recommended Reading List. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported it. That means so much to me. 💖
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Need a story with your coffee break? This one's a gorgeously sweet story on finding a loved one again, by the wonderful @ephiny.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com
smallwondersmag.com/piece/all-th...
#fantasy #cozy #flashfiction #shortstory #cozyfantasy #reincarnation
smallwondersmag.com/piece/all-th...
#fantasy #cozy #flashfiction #shortstory #cozyfantasy #reincarnation
All the Times I’m Ten - Small Wonders
The first time I turned ten was the most important one. Not because my feats in that lifetime were particularly impressive, but because of Morgan.
smallwondersmag.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Need a story with your coffee break? This one's a gorgeously sweet story on finding a loved one again, by the wonderful @ephiny.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com
smallwondersmag.com/piece/all-th...
#fantasy #cozy #flashfiction #shortstory #cozyfantasy #reincarnation
smallwondersmag.com/piece/all-th...
#fantasy #cozy #flashfiction #shortstory #cozyfantasy #reincarnation
Some excellent recent reads I’ve really enjoyed.
July 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Some excellent recent reads I’ve really enjoyed.
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If you've got a moment, read some microfic & vote for your favourites from nearly 4 years of Pete Wood Challenge winners. ⚡ Featuring stellar stories by @ephiny.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @ericfomley.bsky.social & more!
stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2025/07/its-...
stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2025/07/its-...
It’s Time To Nominate Your Favorite Stories!
All good things must end someday, and this includes The Pete Wood Challenge. After a four-year run and more than 230 published stories, it’s...
stupefyingstories.blogspot.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If you've got a moment, read some microfic & vote for your favourites from nearly 4 years of Pete Wood Challenge winners. ⚡ Featuring stellar stories by @ephiny.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @ericfomley.bsky.social & more!
stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2025/07/its-...
stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2025/07/its-...
I had the honour of blurbing this collection and absolutely loved it! 🎉
It’s official! I have a short story collection coming out Nov 3! Pre-orders open now! And look at the gorgeous cover designed in-house by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg
A sea-witch calls to souls from the deep. In modern suburbia, a middle-aged woman fights to keep her daughter from the clutches of a Faerie Queen. . . and finds herself confronting her own past and de...
www.interstellarflightpress.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I had the honour of blurbing this collection and absolutely loved it! 🎉
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As NB.1.8.1 spreads, there’s only one thing spreading faster: misinformation. Here, I run down 5 of the most common errors I see circulating about COVID and encourage people to integrate airborne disease mitigation into their lives holistically.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...
Common Misconceptions about COVID Hold Strong as New Variant Spreads
Media has the public talking about the "razor blade" COVID variant, but years of inaccurate public health messaging have taken their toll
www.thegauntlet.news
June 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
As NB.1.8.1 spreads, there’s only one thing spreading faster: misinformation. Here, I run down 5 of the most common errors I see circulating about COVID and encourage people to integrate airborne disease mitigation into their lives holistically.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...
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Happy pride month!! I made a starter pack of amazing queer/LGBTQIA+ speculative fiction authors and I think the best way to kick off the month is to share it around so they can get some recognition for their hard work!
Whether you are queer or an ally, support these wonderfully diverse creators!
Whether you are queer or an ally, support these wonderfully diverse creators!
June 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happy pride month!! I made a starter pack of amazing queer/LGBTQIA+ speculative fiction authors and I think the best way to kick off the month is to share it around so they can get some recognition for their hard work!
Whether you are queer or an ally, support these wonderfully diverse creators!
Whether you are queer or an ally, support these wonderfully diverse creators!
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It's Pride! So if you're a queer horror writer that we have NOT goofed on yet, please post a reply below with your sales pitch and link to where we can buy/obtain/see your writing!
June 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's Pride! So if you're a queer horror writer that we have NOT goofed on yet, please post a reply below with your sales pitch and link to where we can buy/obtain/see your writing!
Had a wonderful birthday weekend. 🧁
Got some litRPG books as presents. 📚
My wife wrote me a song (I cried). 🎵
Great Australian election results. 🌭
Attended the Aurealis Awards as a finalist again. 🏆
Felt very satisfied and loved. 💕 Thank you, everyone. 💖
Got some litRPG books as presents. 📚
My wife wrote me a song (I cried). 🎵
Great Australian election results. 🌭
Attended the Aurealis Awards as a finalist again. 🏆
Felt very satisfied and loved. 💕 Thank you, everyone. 💖
May 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Had a wonderful birthday weekend. 🧁
Got some litRPG books as presents. 📚
My wife wrote me a song (I cried). 🎵
Great Australian election results. 🌭
Attended the Aurealis Awards as a finalist again. 🏆
Felt very satisfied and loved. 💕 Thank you, everyone. 💖
Got some litRPG books as presents. 📚
My wife wrote me a song (I cried). 🎵
Great Australian election results. 🌭
Attended the Aurealis Awards as a finalist again. 🏆
Felt very satisfied and loved. 💕 Thank you, everyone. 💖
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This looks like such a fun read! I definitely have to check it out!
This is a lovely post! ☺️
My latest short fiction collection is “Pick Your Potion”, but I also have a bunch of short stories that you can read for free that are linked from my website.
ephinygale.com/books/
My latest short fiction collection is “Pick Your Potion”, but I also have a bunch of short stories that you can read for free that are linked from my website.
ephinygale.com/books/
Books
Pick Your Potion Aurealis Awards finalist for Best Collection! Magic, mystery, and the macabre collide in Pick Your Potion, a mesmerising collection of genre-blending fantasy, science-fiction, and …
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April 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This looks like such a fun read! I definitely have to check it out!
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I'm doing an independent study project this semester that's focused on submitter and editor perspectives on literary magazines. If you submit work to literary magazines and have a few minutes, I'd be so grateful if you would fill out my survey:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Literary Magazine Submitter Survey
Hi!
I'm Zoe Reay-Ellers and I'm a student currently attending Cornell University. This semester, I'm doing an independent study project that's aiming to bring transparency to the literary magazine s...
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April 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm doing an independent study project this semester that's focused on submitter and editor perspectives on literary magazines. If you submit work to literary magazines and have a few minutes, I'd be so grateful if you would fill out my survey:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Somebody loan me your eyeball lasers, I long to see the forbidden teal!!
Five people—three researchers and two test subjects—have just seen a color no human has ever seen before.
Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color
Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it
www.scientificamerican.com
April 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Somebody loan me your eyeball lasers, I long to see the forbidden teal!!
My short fiction collection Pick Your Potion is an Aurealis Awards finalist! 🤩🎉
Huge congrats to all of the finalists. 💕 Looking forward to the awards ceremony in May!
Huge congrats to all of the finalists. 💕 Looking forward to the awards ceremony in May!
April 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
My short fiction collection Pick Your Potion is an Aurealis Awards finalist! 🤩🎉
Huge congrats to all of the finalists. 💕 Looking forward to the awards ceremony in May!
Huge congrats to all of the finalists. 💕 Looking forward to the awards ceremony in May!
Had an enjoyable time at Farmworld this morning.
There was this friend! This small crocodile was 4 years old! And there was a dingo!
There was this friend! This small crocodile was 4 years old! And there was a dingo!
March 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Had an enjoyable time at Farmworld this morning.
There was this friend! This small crocodile was 4 years old! And there was a dingo!
There was this friend! This small crocodile was 4 years old! And there was a dingo!
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Did you know anybody can vote in the Locus Awards? See image for what you can vote for and go vote here: poll.voting.locusmag.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Did you know anybody can vote in the Locus Awards? See image for what you can vote for and go vote here: poll.voting.locusmag.com
Where she wanted to sit today (on my upper back / across my shoulders).
March 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Where she wanted to sit today (on my upper back / across my shoulders).
I haven’t been online that much recently due to a death in the family, but I’m planning to send out a proper newsletter update soon.
If you’d like to sign up to receive occasional newsletters, you can do so here: ephinygale.eo.page/newsletter
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March 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I haven’t been online that much recently due to a death in the family, but I’m planning to send out a proper newsletter update soon.
If you’d like to sign up to receive occasional newsletters, you can do so here: ephinygale.eo.page/newsletter
If you’d like to sign up to receive occasional newsletters, you can do so here: ephinygale.eo.page/newsletter
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You can still get where you want to go if you are slow at writing, or inconsistent about writing, or have long periods of time when you're not able to write, even very small and very intermittent progress over a long period of time will still add up if you keep at it and don't give up on yourself
if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)
February 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
You can still get where you want to go if you are slow at writing, or inconsistent about writing, or have long periods of time when you're not able to write, even very small and very intermittent progress over a long period of time will still add up if you keep at it and don't give up on yourself
Had fun last night at the Valentine’s Day Salon where my lovely wife Tara gave a reading. 💖
February 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Had fun last night at the Valentine’s Day Salon where my lovely wife Tara gave a reading. 💖
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Here is a preview of NBR #39: Mistaken Identity, featuring an excerpt of the short story "Baby" by @ephiny.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Here is a preview of NBR #39: Mistaken Identity, featuring an excerpt of the short story "Baby" by @ephiny.bsky.social
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Thanks to Ephiny for the recommendation! I also loved the descriptions/selling points of all the stories in this video, and now my to-read list is a bit longer:)
Speaking of recommendations, my 2024 eligibility and recommendations video is finally up! 🎉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nlu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nlu...
10 favourite short fiction stories from 2024 / My 2024 eligibility and recommendations
YouTube video by Ephiny Gale
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February 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Thanks to Ephiny for the recommendation! I also loved the descriptions/selling points of all the stories in this video, and now my to-read list is a bit longer:)
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Honored to have two stories mentioned here, alongside some *incredible* fiction by amazing writers and friends
Speaking of recommendations, my 2024 eligibility and recommendations video is finally up! 🎉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nlu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nlu...
10 favourite short fiction stories from 2024 / My 2024 eligibility and recommendations
YouTube video by Ephiny Gale
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Honored to have two stories mentioned here, alongside some *incredible* fiction by amazing writers and friends
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eeeek my first time in a *video* recommendation!
Speaking of recommendations, my 2024 eligibility and recommendations video is finally up! 🎉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nlu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nlu...
10 favourite short fiction stories from 2024 / My 2024 eligibility and recommendations
YouTube video by Ephiny Gale
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
eeeek my first time in a *video* recommendation!