Kiera Lesley
@kieralesley.bsky.social
SFFH writer, reader, tea drinker. Aurealis award winner. AHWA. Codex. Words in: Nightmare, Andromeda Spaceways, Factor Four etc.
Naarm/Melbourne
https://linktr.ee/kieralesley
Naarm/Melbourne
https://linktr.ee/kieralesley
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Midnight Echo Issue 20
Midnight Echo Issue 20 eBook : Young, Marty, McDermott, Kirstyn, Anderton, Joanne, Ashton, Kris, Sampson, Louise, Davis, Matthew, Carroll, Monica, Lovecraft, Charles, McGregor, Brent, Schembri, David: Amazon.com.au: Books
www.amazon.com.au
Thrilled to announce I’ve got a story in the 20th anniversary issue of Midnight Echo!
My story has an attitude problem and features sisters, baseball bats and necromancy.
You can get your copy in all the places, especially here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FTYJGKQG
My story has an attitude problem and features sisters, baseball bats and necromancy.
You can get your copy in all the places, especially here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FTYJGKQG
Join ussss!
It's back!
We're just a bunch of local authors sitting around and talking plots and contracts and editing woes over beer and pizza. If you're in Naarm/Melbourne and you write literally anything, join us!
We're just a bunch of local authors sitting around and talking plots and contracts and editing woes over beer and pizza. If you're in Naarm/Melbourne and you write literally anything, join us!
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Join ussss!
One of the greatest things about being in a long term relationship of any kind is watching someone you care about experience The Thing that is going to become their new obsession for the next little while
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
One of the greatest things about being in a long term relationship of any kind is watching someone you care about experience The Thing that is going to become their new obsession for the next little while
New Florence dropped, window is open to let in the spring air, fresh tea in the pot and nothing left to do today except write
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
New Florence dropped, window is open to let in the spring air, fresh tea in the pot and nothing left to do today except write
Delighted reading this food for thought piece by @naomialderman.bsky.social on my lunch break
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
making a living vs making a life
or "can you earn money from your art?" (and is that even the right question?)
naomialderman.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Delighted reading this food for thought piece by @naomialderman.bsky.social on my lunch break
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
Downside of co-writes: other people seeing your stupid laptop dances when the words are flowing and the playlist hits just right
October 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Downside of co-writes: other people seeing your stupid laptop dances when the words are flowing and the playlist hits just right
Legit
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Legit
Just backed. Apex is one of the greats, let’s help them get over the line!
There's only 5 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we just unlocked our 80% goal! 🎉
@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!
Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!
Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just backed. Apex is one of the greats, let’s help them get over the line!
I love the idea of these, but I don’t have and will likely never have space on my shelves
lmao at the idea of having any gaps in my bookshelves
FOOLS I HAVE NO SPACE FOR YOUR WHIMSY
FOOLS I HAVE NO SPACE FOR YOUR WHIMSY
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I love the idea of these, but I don’t have and will likely never have space on my shelves
For the evening crowd…
Thrilled to announce I’ve got a story in the 20th anniversary issue of Midnight Echo!
My story has an attitude problem and features sisters, baseball bats and necromancy.
You can get your copy in all the places, especially here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FTYJGKQG
My story has an attitude problem and features sisters, baseball bats and necromancy.
You can get your copy in all the places, especially here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FTYJGKQG
Midnight Echo Issue 20
Midnight Echo Issue 20 eBook : Young, Marty, McDermott, Kirstyn, Anderton, Joanne, Ashton, Kris, Sampson, Louise, Davis, Matthew, Carroll, Monica, Lovecraft, Charles, McGregor, Brent, Schembri, David: Amazon.com.au: Books
www.amazon.com.au
October 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
For the evening crowd…
Thrilled to announce I’ve got a story in the 20th anniversary issue of Midnight Echo!
My story has an attitude problem and features sisters, baseball bats and necromancy.
You can get your copy in all the places, especially here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FTYJGKQG
My story has an attitude problem and features sisters, baseball bats and necromancy.
You can get your copy in all the places, especially here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FTYJGKQG
Midnight Echo Issue 20
Midnight Echo Issue 20 eBook : Young, Marty, McDermott, Kirstyn, Anderton, Joanne, Ashton, Kris, Sampson, Louise, Davis, Matthew, Carroll, Monica, Lovecraft, Charles, McGregor, Brent, Schembri, David: Amazon.com.au: Books
www.amazon.com.au
October 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thrilled to announce I’ve got a story in the 20th anniversary issue of Midnight Echo!
My story has an attitude problem and features sisters, baseball bats and necromancy.
You can get your copy in all the places, especially here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FTYJGKQG
My story has an attitude problem and features sisters, baseball bats and necromancy.
You can get your copy in all the places, especially here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FTYJGKQG
Reposted by Kiera Lesley
Aurealis has unearthed and reanimated a series of forgotten Australian classic speculative fiction. Ranging from the 1880s to the 1930s, this selection shows the vital contribution that speculative fiction plays in Australia’s literary history.
aurealis.com.au/store/classi...
aurealis.com.au/store/classi...
September 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Aurealis has unearthed and reanimated a series of forgotten Australian classic speculative fiction. Ranging from the 1880s to the 1930s, this selection shows the vital contribution that speculative fiction plays in Australia’s literary history.
aurealis.com.au/store/classi...
aurealis.com.au/store/classi...
Sunday pub write in with violet crumble stout ❤️
September 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Sunday pub write in with violet crumble stout ❤️
Fave short fiction read this week was The Water Dragons of Harney County by @bmorrisallen.com in Trollbreath. Whimsical, both modern and folkloric, and incredibly compelling
magazine.trollbreath.com/the-water-dr...
magazine.trollbreath.com/the-water-dr...
September 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Fave short fiction read this week was The Water Dragons of Harney County by @bmorrisallen.com in Trollbreath. Whimsical, both modern and folkloric, and incredibly compelling
magazine.trollbreath.com/the-water-dr...
magazine.trollbreath.com/the-water-dr...
Reposted by Kiera Lesley
Shitposters around the country getting what they asked for after years of “why isn’t there a hottest 100 of books?” posts
September 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Shitposters around the country getting what they asked for after years of “why isn’t there a hottest 100 of books?” posts
Reposted by Kiera Lesley
Calling All New Zealand Speculative Authors!
Have you published a speculative work in 2025?
Then this is your time to shine!
tepaetawhitiawards.nz/calling-all-...
🐉🚀🧌
Have you published a speculative work in 2025?
Then this is your time to shine!
tepaetawhitiawards.nz/calling-all-...
🐉🚀🧌
September 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Calling All New Zealand Speculative Authors!
Have you published a speculative work in 2025?
Then this is your time to shine!
tepaetawhitiawards.nz/calling-all-...
🐉🚀🧌
Have you published a speculative work in 2025?
Then this is your time to shine!
tepaetawhitiawards.nz/calling-all-...
🐉🚀🧌
I know everyone’s had a hell of a week and mine personally was extra spicy but may I recommend a combo of Frieren and Expedition 33 as high quality soul balm
September 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I know everyone’s had a hell of a week and mine personally was extra spicy but may I recommend a combo of Frieren and Expedition 33 as high quality soul balm
Fave short fiction read this week was this banger of a poignant ghost story from @champwongs.bsky.social in Nightmare. Layered motifs, strong characterisation and a deft ending. Well worth your time
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
September 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Fave short fiction read this week was this banger of a poignant ghost story from @champwongs.bsky.social in Nightmare. Layered motifs, strong characterisation and a deft ending. Well worth your time
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
My fave short fiction read this week was from @kaunvijaya.bsky.social in BCS about how war is a complex hell for the heart. Loads more story depth, setting detail and emotion than I thought possible at this length and with inexorable pacing.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post...
September 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My fave short fiction read this week was from @kaunvijaya.bsky.social in BCS about how war is a complex hell for the heart. Loads more story depth, setting detail and emotion than I thought possible at this length and with inexorable pacing.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post...
Reposted by Kiera Lesley
Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
September 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.
Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!
I do not know why more people aren’t talking about this YA series by Caroline O’Donoghue. It’s contemporary Irish witchy fantasy with lots of tarot, queer as all get out and the main antagonists are terfy religious assholes getting their due. Audio narration is delicious, too.
September 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I do not know why more people aren’t talking about this YA series by Caroline O’Donoghue. It’s contemporary Irish witchy fantasy with lots of tarot, queer as all get out and the main antagonists are terfy religious assholes getting their due. Audio narration is delicious, too.
Every word is carefully placed in this horrifically fresh feminist retelling by Lilia Zhang, my fave short fiction read of the week:
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
August 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Every word is carefully placed in this horrifically fresh feminist retelling by Lilia Zhang, my fave short fiction read of the week:
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
Writing scifi at the pub. In this instance scifi is defined by: has lots of spaceships
August 31, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Writing scifi at the pub. In this instance scifi is defined by: has lots of spaceships
Reposted by Kiera Lesley
Congrats to everyone on the Ditmar finalist list - and of course especially to @joanneanderton.bsky.social and Rjurik Davidson, whose essays for SI are up for the William Atheling Jr Award for criticism!
www.conflux.org.au/2025-ditmar-...
www.conflux.org.au/2025-ditmar-...
2025 Ditmar Awards
CONFLUX INC.
www.conflux.org.au
August 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Congrats to everyone on the Ditmar finalist list - and of course especially to @joanneanderton.bsky.social and Rjurik Davidson, whose essays for SI are up for the William Atheling Jr Award for criticism!
www.conflux.org.au/2025-ditmar-...
www.conflux.org.au/2025-ditmar-...
I am actually so keen for this anthology and want to see it get over the line!
News: we are postponing the horror anthology OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM to June 2026 to explore other funding opportunities. We do have one available, via Ko-fi. Learn more about the book and find that link on its book page: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-dre...
#books #horror #horrorbooks
#books #horror #horrorbooks
Of Dread, Decay, and Doom – Stars and Sabers
Of Dread, Decay, and Doom: a horror-themed anthology edited by Jendia Gammon and Gareth L. Powell featuring masters of horror fiction.
www.starsandsabers.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I am actually so keen for this anthology and want to see it get over the line!
Instapaper finally rolled out to Kobo to replace pocket. Welcome back short fiction reading on my commute!
August 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Instapaper finally rolled out to Kobo to replace pocket. Welcome back short fiction reading on my commute!