Laila Miller
@lailamiller.bsky.social
Author. Scientist. Canadian. Australian.
Fantasy. Windows. Flash. Gnomes. SciFi. Turnips. Micros. Puddles. Bees.
Flash Frontier. FlashFlood. Best Microfiction 2024.
Member, Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Electric Sheep, Codex
Fantasy. Windows. Flash. Gnomes. SciFi. Turnips. Micros. Puddles. Bees.
Flash Frontier. FlashFlood. Best Microfiction 2024.
Member, Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Electric Sheep, Codex
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Electric Sheep Reading Series – SpecPo Hugo Edition!
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Electric Sheep Reading Series – SpecPo Hugo Edition!
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem
Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
Congrats, @andreagoyan.bsky.social on this gruesome Hallowscream piece in @gnashingteethpub.bsky.social
@bsky.app Happy Creepy Halloween! My unsettling, icky horror piece appears today in @gnashingteethpub.bsky.social among their Hallowscream pieces. Thank you, Editors!! Link below. Read it if you dare!
gnashingteethpublishing.com/birthed-by-a...
gnashingteethpublishing.com/birthed-by-a...
Birthed by Andrea Goyan and Haunted by Anon - Gnashing Teeth Publishing
Gestated in agony, hidden in shadows, you’re birthed from the wrong end of the decomposing dog. With stomach acid for amniotic fluid, the bitch’s love burns. Blisters erupt along your spine. They rupt...
gnashingteethpublishing.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Congrats, @andreagoyan.bsky.social on this gruesome Hallowscream piece in @gnashingteethpub.bsky.social
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Really looking forward to hosting this panel discussion on "Emotional Depths" with @claudiamonpere.bsky.social & @dawnsteffler.bsky.social. Should be such a great event. It's a week on Monday at 7pm GMT for anyone who'd like to sign up:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Really looking forward to hosting this panel discussion on "Emotional Depths" with @claudiamonpere.bsky.social & @dawnsteffler.bsky.social. Should be such a great event. It's a week on Monday at 7pm GMT for anyone who'd like to sign up:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Be Brave! Order Helen McClory's collection! Part of our discussion this week @electricsheepsf.bsky.social @helenmcclory.bsky.social
A story in Helen McClory's collection, "Lore," creeped me out so much I still remembered it years after I read it. It's in her wonderful collection, MAYHEM & DEATH. It's available at 404 Ink if you're in the UK.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @404ink.bsky.social
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @404ink.bsky.social
Mayhem & Death - Helen McClory — 404 Ink
‘A writer completely unafraid’ - Ali Smith | ‘Shiny dark licorice mind candy’ - Margaret Atwood
www.404ink.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Be Brave! Order Helen McClory's collection! Part of our discussion this week @electricsheepsf.bsky.social @helenmcclory.bsky.social
Looking forward to meeting Helen McClory this week!
This week's guest is Helen McClory!
First up is "The Companion" in Wigleaf!
"At this time of day, the risk of attack was minimal, and all she had was that noise, that taste, the treachery beneath, and the cold air around."
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social
First up is "The Companion" in Wigleaf!
"At this time of day, the risk of attack was minimal, and all she had was that noise, that taste, the treachery beneath, and the cold air around."
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social
McClory: 'The Companion'
Fiction by Helen McClory
wigleaf.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Looking forward to meeting Helen McClory this week!
Love the recs by @vanessafogg.bsky.social
My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and--
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/09/shor...
itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/09/shor...
Short fiction recs! July and August 2025
It’s the last day of September, and this round-up is way overdue. Some things I read and loved in July and August. Strange Tales o...
itsajumble.blogspot.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Love the recs by @vanessafogg.bsky.social
Looking forward to meeting Aimee this week @electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Our guest this week is Aimee Ogden! Excited to talk about several of Aimee’s short stories, as well as her fantastic new novelette, STARSTRUCK!
@aimeeogdenwrites.com @psychopomp.com
@aimeeogdenwrites.com @psychopomp.com
Starstruck, by Aimee Ogden | Psychopomp
a radish, a fox, and a boulder walk into the world... check out the cover for Aimee's amazing novella STARSTRUCK, and preorder your copy today.
psychopomp.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Looking forward to meeting Aimee this week @electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Honoured that my micro, "Occupation" will be published in issue 17.2 of Consequence, by Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social. Thank you @sfreligh.bsky.social whose workshop inspired this story. There will be two launch parties, free to attend on line and in person.
September 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Honoured that my micro, "Occupation" will be published in issue 17.2 of Consequence, by Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social. Thank you @sfreligh.bsky.social whose workshop inspired this story. There will be two launch parties, free to attend on line and in person.
Terrific interview with @erincairns.bsky.social by @mynachang.bsky.social. Looking forward to meeting Erin this week at @electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Excited to talk with @erincairns.bsky.social at Electric Sheep this week. Here's a recent MicroVerse interview with Erin - info about her writing, her gorgeous art, and InkFoundry!
Publisher Interview * Erin Cairns
I met Erin Cairns through a writers’ group, which led me to her phenomenal speculative fiction aggregator, InkFoundry. She’s also a writer and editor, and she creates gorgeous art. Huge thanks to E…
mynachang.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Terrific interview with @erincairns.bsky.social by @mynachang.bsky.social. Looking forward to meeting Erin this week at @electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Looking forward to meeting Erin Cairns and hearing about InkFoundry @electricsheepsf.bsky.social
This week's guest is Erin Cairns! We'll read several of Erin's stories and geek out about InkFoundry!
InkFoundry is a phenomenal spec fic aggregator with a robust tagging system. It's easy to find whatever you want to read!
@erincairns.bsky.social
InkFoundry is a phenomenal spec fic aggregator with a robust tagging system. It's easy to find whatever you want to read!
@erincairns.bsky.social
inkfoundry.net
September 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Looking forward to meeting Erin Cairns and hearing about InkFoundry @electricsheepsf.bsky.social
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August Spec Flash Roundup!
With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
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With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
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Flash Roundup * August 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
mynachang.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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***Drumroll, please! Presenting the dazzling contributor list of Issue 2. So much literary beauty is coming your way! We're beyond excited to share it with you all.
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
August 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
***Drumroll, please! Presenting the dazzling contributor list of Issue 2. So much literary beauty is coming your way! We're beyond excited to share it with you all.
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
An amazing evening discussing ecology and lyricism with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @electricsheepsf.bsky.social including Thistle's gorgeous story in @pseudopod.org pseudopod.org/2025/04/11/p...
PseudoPod 971: Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight
Thistle stepped over an upturned root that twisted from the dark, wet earth. “Your mama live near the river?” “Naw.” “Your mama live in a tree?” “Nope.” “Then what we doing?” “Mama the river and the…
pseudopod.org
August 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
An amazing evening discussing ecology and lyricism with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @electricsheepsf.bsky.social including Thistle's gorgeous story in @pseudopod.org pseudopod.org/2025/04/11/p...
Can't wait for this week's discussion with Sheree Renée Thomas at @electricsheepsf.bsky.social!
This week’s guest is Sheree Renée Thomas! Excited to dive into Sheree’s stories!
First up is "Downwinders" in Far Futures. Read along with us!
Don't miss the author's statement!
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social
First up is "Downwinders" in Far Futures. Read along with us!
Don't miss the author's statement!
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Downwinders by Sheree Renée Thomas
Downwinders is set in White Sands, New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. In the story the Earth, free from the weight of our weapons, starts healing itself.Read acclaimed sci-...
farfutures.horizon2045.org
August 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Can't wait for this week's discussion with Sheree Renée Thomas at @electricsheepsf.bsky.social!
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This final essay in my craft series with @intrepidusink.bsky.social is out today. This time I'm talking about breaking the rules with deliberation & artistry.
Thanks for following along!
#amwriting #craftessays #writingrules #breaktherules
Thanks for following along!
#amwriting #craftessays #writingrules #breaktherules
Breaking the Rules: Doing It With Intention and Style
They say there are rules for a reason. But who is this mysterious they, and do we really have to listen to them? Yes, and no. Helpful, right? When approaching writing conventions, there’s a complemen...
intrepidusink.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This final essay in my craft series with @intrepidusink.bsky.social is out today. This time I'm talking about breaking the rules with deliberation & artistry.
Thanks for following along!
#amwriting #craftessays #writingrules #breaktherules
Thanks for following along!
#amwriting #craftessays #writingrules #breaktherules
"If love had a texture...if regret had a texture" - gorgeous prose by @lisafox10800.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Our August opener is “Textures” by Lisa Fox, in which a bridal shop owner considers notions of love and ever after.
#flashfiction #romance #writingcommunity #literary
@lisafox10800.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/text...
#flashfiction #romance #writingcommunity #literary
@lisafox10800.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/text...
Textures
‘If love had a texture, it would be satin.’It’s what I’d often told my brides, tucking and pinning them to perfection as they stood on a pedestal under the bright lights of my little shop. Draped i…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"If love had a texture...if regret had a texture" - gorgeous prose by @lisafox10800.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
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Stunned and thrilled to be a Best of the Net finalist for "Girl Locks," published in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Thank you, @wendyoleson.bsky.social, @maureenlangloss.bsky.social , @amystuber.com, and Star Su for giving my story such a loving home. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0524/c...
Girl Locks — Split Lip Magazine
It’s very late, the policeman insists, for a woman and a girl. His flashlight drills into our car.
splitlipthemag.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Stunned and thrilled to be a Best of the Net finalist for "Girl Locks," published in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Thank you, @wendyoleson.bsky.social, @maureenlangloss.bsky.social , @amystuber.com, and Star Su for giving my story such a loving home. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0524/c...
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Last chance to sign up for "Beyond These Shores", a panel discussion on historical / speculative with @mynachang.bsky.social & @sharontelfer.bsky.social that is bound to be full of so much wisdom and gold.
Next Tuesday (5th) at 7pm BST:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Next Tuesday (5th) at 7pm BST:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Beyond These Shores: Exploring the Historical and the Speculative | MattKendrick.co.uk
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Last chance to sign up for "Beyond These Shores", a panel discussion on historical / speculative with @mynachang.bsky.social & @sharontelfer.bsky.social that is bound to be full of so much wisdom and gold.
Next Tuesday (5th) at 7pm BST:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Next Tuesday (5th) at 7pm BST:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho...
Normally a longlist wouldn't be THAT exciting, except when it's the elusive Furious Fiction! Thank you @mynachang.bsky.social for the suggestion. www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/furious...
Furious Fiction: June 2025 Story Showcase | Australian Writers' Centre
Welcome to the June creative showcase – a chance to celebrate some of the stories we received this month and to inspire you in your own writing. (Speaking of inspiring, check out our SALE happening r...
www.writerscentre.com.au
June 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Normally a longlist wouldn't be THAT exciting, except when it's the elusive Furious Fiction! Thank you @mynachang.bsky.social for the suggestion. www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/furious...
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🎉 Congrats 🎉 to our June 22 Micro Madness First place 🥇 winner Joani Reese – Texas, USA
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
June 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🎉 Congrats 🎉 to our June 22 Micro Madness First place 🥇 winner Joani Reese – Texas, USA
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
#flashfiction #microfiction #micromadness
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If you haven't been online much lately (we understand) & you've missed this, we're open for submissions until July 3. Send us your tiny stories centered around self-care. Fiction & nonfiction under 500 words. Sub here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
We're now open for submissions for Issue 2!
Send us your previously unpublished fiction and non-fiction under 500 words. We're so excited to read your work! Submit here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
Send us your previously unpublished fiction and non-fiction under 500 words. We're so excited to read your work! Submit here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
June 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you haven't been online much lately (we understand) & you've missed this, we're open for submissions until July 3. Send us your tiny stories centered around self-care. Fiction & nonfiction under 500 words. Sub here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
Exciting news from the talented @vanessafogg.bsky.social
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 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Exciting news from the talented @vanessafogg.bsky.social
Australian writers: Perth's Festival of Fiction tickets now on sale. It's all happening 18&19 Oct. Mem Fox & more! festivaloffiction.com.au
Festival of Fiction – Perth's newest literary festival celebrating all things fiction
festivaloffiction.com.au
June 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Australian writers: Perth's Festival of Fiction tickets now on sale. It's all happening 18&19 Oct. Mem Fox & more! festivaloffiction.com.au
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Just been updating the **FREE** resources section on my website. Hopefully lots of useful stuff here on everything from body language to collective nouns, sensory inspiration to proverbs & sayings. PLUS lots of lists of example stories including a list of lists...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources
Resources | MattKendrick.co.uk
Free resources from Matt Kendrick.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Just been updating the **FREE** resources section on my website. Hopefully lots of useful stuff here on everything from body language to collective nouns, sensory inspiration to proverbs & sayings. PLUS lots of lists of example stories including a list of lists...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources
"I disappear under the covers and listen as the undog trudges along corridors only it knows." Terrific cozy story of longing, broken relationships and found ones by @foxesandroses.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"I disappear under the covers and listen as the undog trudges along corridors only it knows." Terrific cozy story of longing, broken relationships and found ones by @foxesandroses.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social