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Ida Keogh
@idakeogh.bsky.social
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Neurospicy and queer BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning SFF author and occasional mermaid. Equality and Diversity Officer for the British Science Fiction Association. she/her

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idakeogh.bsky.social
Tentacle experiment.

#watercolourart
Watercolour of a dark blue tentacle, ink dripping from it. Along its flank are the words 'Tentacle Experiment', inscribed in white in the ancient Octopian language used by all space faring octopuses.
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
#Momentsofbeauty
Wild coprinopsis funghi sprouting from a tree trunk. Elegant, long pale stalks with woody brown caps hiding almost black gills underneath.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
Today's art is a teeny tiny Voyager 1. 6" canvas and acrylics.

#spaceart
A square canvas painted with a purple, magenta and green nebula dotted with stars, with a tiny silhouette of Voyager 1 floating by.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
I'm off work and my brain is scrampled egg right now so can't get stuck into writing... So I have been doing a bit of art. It's messy and it's shiny and it's keeping me sane. Ish. Anyway here is my space octopus.
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
Walking home along the canal.

#Momentsofbeauty
A peach and gold sunset reflected in a strip of canal, bordered by dark trees.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
This time last week I was packing to leave @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. It was a strange con for me as I was deep in bereavement, but the support of so many wonderful friends and loved ones kept me going.

Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.
Ida in a mint green ballgown and fluffy jacket, with a mermaid necklace and bubble earrings, standing on Brighton beach and kissed by the golden setting sun. Ida moderating the Food, Costume and Music panel, wearing a purple Arwen dress and silver elf ears, sat behind a row of boxed cakes. Halloween! Ida with dark teal hair and dark teal velvet dress and jacket with spooky white eyes, hugging David Green, who has marvellous pointy ears and some fierce black eyeliner. Ida reading horror (gasp) alongside talented authors Carol Gyzander and CC Adams
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
This story out today by @worldanvil.bsky.social is incredibly beautiful and spoke to my grief when I needed it most this morning.

www.dreamtheory.media/song-of-the-...

#Writersky #Booksky
Song of the Loom
by Janet Forbes I Sang to the loom, the day my mother died.   My hands were an echo of hers. Heavy with grief, they wove eight hundred threads onto the frame, a hundred for each string of her Lyra. ...
www.dreamtheory.media
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
The cake was dressed and boxed on time and thoroughly taste tested, with thanks to my trusty helpers @liwella.bsky.social and @worldanvil.bsky.social! I await nervously to hear any feedback from the audience members who received a piece...

#Amwritingrecipes #Foodfiction
Janet, eyes closed in ecstatic contemplation, uses both hands to hold a small slab of cream slathered cake and is about to plunge her teeth through its moist flesh.
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
I am at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social!

I'm moderating this evening's panel on Food, Music and Costume (7pm) and have CAKE - the recipe for which is in my food genre story collection 'Taste', which I'm just putting the finishing touches on.

Good audience question = CAKE!
A slice of bergamot infused genoise sponge with lavender chantilly cream
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
This is the kind of stuff I like to explore in my writing. I am just putting the finishing touches on a collection of genre stories all centred around food. The way sharing it enriches our lives, the impact of food scarcity, the ritual use of food to celebrate or to mourn.

#amwriting #foodfiction
beebrookshire.bsky.social Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 17d
"Agriculture and produce is inherently political. Think of all the things that goes into food: who has access to eat it, to grow it, how it’s kept safe, what companies dominate that market, where it is imported from and exported to, what food is kept to the wealthy and kept away from the poor..."
chuckwendig.bsky.social Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 17d
In today's apple reviews, I review a -- *checks notes* banana?

Also, some chatter about food insecurity and food banks --
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
It's been a very tough week, but I'm having a little pamper in the salon today to get ready for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and finally getting round to reading British Fantasy Award nominee @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social's Long Live Evil. 💜
A shiny purple hardback copy of Sarah Rees Brennan's Long Live Evil, propped up on a glass table next to a nice cup of tea and some biscuits.
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
Mmm, what a beautiful piece of food fiction! Utterly delicious prose.
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reposted by Ida Keogh
womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'I am a mermaid' by Indigenous Australian painter Djakangu Yunupingu, a Yolngu elder based in Yirrkala in the Northern Territory #WomensArt
Painting featuring three stylised female figures in different sizes or of different ages all with fish tails, against a starry backdrop
October 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
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sachacoward.bsky.social Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 22d
Not a false alarm!!
I'm building a pop-up queer mermaid escape room for Tate Britain!
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
October 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
@jeremycshipp.bsky.social if you're on the look out for turtles, you may like this post as much as I did... (I think the algorithm is just showing me all your animal seeking posts now 😂)
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22d
The etymology of ‘turtle’ is interesting as shell.

'Turtle' comes from the French 'tortue,' which in turn comes from the Late Latin 'tartarucha.'

‘Tartarucha’ was short for the phrase ‘bestia tartarucha’ which means "infernal beast" or "beast of the nether regions."
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
I bought a copy of Futility after hearing @nuzo.bsky.social read from it at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club on Tuesday. It is... passionate, and hilarious, with just the right amount of extreme female rage. Well worth picking up!
britfantasysoc.bsky.social British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 28d
Remember, we have 5 copies of @nuzo.bsky.social's latest, Futility, to give away with big thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social! Head over to our blog to read more about the book, and find out how you can win.

britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-...
October 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
I do love a good bit of inventive cooking.

#Writersky #Amwriting
maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · Oct 13
My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
ddwardiswriting.bsky.social Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · Oct 12
So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?
October 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
If I followed you before 6am this morning, that's because @claudineliterary.bsky.social sent me skittering gaily down a #flashfiction rabbit hole, and such wonders I did see. 🐈‍⬛✨
October 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
Look out for this one - I was lucky enough to beta read and it is AMAZING.

#booksky #writersky
mikebrooks668.bsky.social Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · Oct 8
Since the article itself is paywalled... my new novel is called THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS, which @losbennett.bsky.social sold to @titanbooks.bsky.social earlier this year. It's a fantasy adventure in a queer-normative world featuring fractured futures, sapphic romance, and giant wasps.
October 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Reposted by Ida Keogh
womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Steampunk dragon by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates steampunk sculptures and jewellery by recycling old watch parts #WomensArt
Photo featuring a tiny sculpture of a winged dragon created with small metal cogs resting on the end of a white finger
October 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Reposted by Ida Keogh
britfantasysoc.bsky.social
Big news from BFS members (and leaders) @shonak.bsky.social and @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social: A new independent non-profit organisation designed to help creatives thrive in publishing. Here's @divergent-paths.bsky.social

britishfantasysociety.org/divergent-pa...
The main image shows four arrows; three are pointing up, and coloured white, while the fourth is coloured yellow and pointing to the side
September 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
There's queer lit, then there's THIS. An amazing piece @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - congratulations!
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
Amazing time today at Bridge Command! I got completely into my Comms Officer role. So much fun!
Ida looking severe with a navy blue jumpsuit with UCN badges and a headset, against the glowing blue background of the Bridge of the starship UCN Havock. Ida wearing a navy jumpsuit and a headet, sat at the Comms controls of the UCN Havock.
September 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
idakeogh.bsky.social
Eastercon is a great event. If things are a bit difficult right now but you would like to come, then please take a look at the bursary scheme.
drfionamoore.bsky.social Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · Sep 23
Next year's @easterconuk.bsky.social bursary is now live! Do apply and don't self-reject, I hear too many talented authors and artists saying "well I would go to Eastercon but I can't afford it." eastercon2026.org/bursary-sche...
Bursary Scheme Policy | Iridescence
eastercon2026.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
idakeogh.bsky.social
✨It's official! ✨
I'm so proud to reveal that my first ever attempt at writing audio drama, based on my story The Wheel of Fortune (1st published in Major Arcana, Black Shuck Books) has been awarded Highly Commended in the Pent to Print Audio Play Competition! 🥳🥳🥳
An image of a spaceship shaped like a wheel. Text over it reads: Pen to Print The Wheel of Fortune An audio drama by Ida Keogh The Pen to Print Audio Play Competition 2025: Highly Commended
September 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM