Matt Dovey
@mattdovey.com
Fantasy/SF writer. Surname rhymes with 'Dopey'. He/him. #ActuallyAutistic & #ADHD
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I've read my Orwell, you can't get me that easily
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I've read my Orwell, you can't get me that easily
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what a story to go out on!!
we are so grateful to all of you
for reading
for sending in your stories and poems
and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west
we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈
we are so grateful to all of you
for reading
for sending in your stories and poems
and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west
we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈
the time has come
the final GLORIOUS story ✨
"When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea."
Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
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the final GLORIOUS story ✨
"When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea."
Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Ichthyosis - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is how it begins.
psychopomp.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
what a story to go out on!!
we are so grateful to all of you
for reading
for sending in your stories and poems
and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west
we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈
we are so grateful to all of you
for reading
for sending in your stories and poems
and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west
we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈
I get some weird ADHD earworms sometimes, but singing "Euripides, Euripides!" to the tune of O Christmas Tree is a bit odd even for me. No idea how it came about.
December 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I get some weird ADHD earworms sometimes, but singing "Euripides, Euripides!" to the tune of O Christmas Tree is a bit odd even for me. No idea how it came about.
Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.
It’s a sci-fi Friday release! We have a brand new story from Matt Dovey, titled “Reflexive Benevolence Imperative,” in which a fish-ship and its human pilot contemplate the emotional toll of being first responders.
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Reflexive Benevolence Imperative
If Mx Milia N weren’t so intimate with their fishship, they wouldn’t have noticed anything amiss until they were in a rush to depart. The immense ichthycraft streamed through the upper-…
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December 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.
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Oh I loved this. Tender and weird and just what I needed first thing this morning
Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!
AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Oh I loved this. Tender and weird and just what I needed first thing this morning
Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!
AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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Flash Fiction Online December 2025
The theme of Flash Fiction Online’s December 2025 issue is “Menagerie.” Within these stories we follow a variety of creatures – scaled and feathered, warm- and cold-blooded.…
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December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!
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1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
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If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of over 314 questions outlined here including eg Do you start fires? Do you steal? Do you physically assault people?
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
Questioning trans kids
The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…
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November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
Really, deeply loved this one, and if I were going to do all the layers of it real justice in the outro I'd have had to take a year to write it. It resonated in so many ways for me, some of which I can't even name.
New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...
PodCastle 918: Waterways - PodCastle
Waterways by Diana Dima When his father died and left him the boat, he thought to himself, I can do it. I’m a boat-son, a boat-man, I’m no longer a child and no longer have to go home at sunset, w...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Really, deeply loved this one, and if I were going to do all the layers of it real justice in the outro I'd have had to take a year to write it. It resonated in so many ways for me, some of which I can't even name.
Reposted by Matt Dovey
New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...
PodCastle 918: Waterways - PodCastle
Waterways by Diana Dima When his father died and left him the boat, he thought to himself, I can do it. I’m a boat-son, a boat-man, I’m no longer a child and no longer have to go home at sunset, w...
podcastle.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...
Lovely wife got some fresh baked mince pies from the bakery and they're... just a lid? What am I meant to do, eat it in the fucking foil? Mind-blowing
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Lovely wife got some fresh baked mince pies from the bakery and they're... just a lid? What am I meant to do, eat it in the fucking foil? Mind-blowing
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People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site
Currently sat with a pint at the back of the main hall, just off the bar area on upper ground, if anyone is about?
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Currently sat with a pint at the back of the main hall, just off the bar area on upper ground, if anyone is about?
Ah, pre-con social anxiety, my least favourite part of the weekend. Knowing it will be fine in three hours is no use right now, alas. Stupid brain.
Probably be registered for World Fantasy and inside around an hour from now, so maybe see some of you about?
Probably be registered for World Fantasy and inside around an hour from now, so maybe see some of you about?
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ah, pre-con social anxiety, my least favourite part of the weekend. Knowing it will be fine in three hours is no use right now, alas. Stupid brain.
Probably be registered for World Fantasy and inside around an hour from now, so maybe see some of you about?
Probably be registered for World Fantasy and inside around an hour from now, so maybe see some of you about?
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Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.
October 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.
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"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve
October 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve
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October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Congratulations to @podcastle.org for winning an Ignyte Award! 👏
What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!
What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!
PodCastle 913: Vedritsa of the River - PodCastle
Vedritsa of the River by Adriana Kantcheva The Kamchia river had grown turgid after a storm. I surfaced from my habitual pool and bent over the young girl as she lay washed on the bank, her limbs co...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Congratulations to @podcastle.org for winning an Ignyte Award! 👏
What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!
What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!
They're trying to sell us AI as the future, meanwhile I ask my phone out loud to "set an alarm for ten to four" and it goes ahead and puts one in for 16:50 💀
Did that fine for a decade on the old Google Assistant, so I guess congrats on burning the world up for the sake of a worse product, berks
Did that fine for a decade on the old Google Assistant, so I guess congrats on burning the world up for the sake of a worse product, berks
October 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
They're trying to sell us AI as the future, meanwhile I ask my phone out loud to "set an alarm for ten to four" and it goes ahead and puts one in for 16:50 💀
Did that fine for a decade on the old Google Assistant, so I guess congrats on burning the world up for the sake of a worse product, berks
Did that fine for a decade on the old Google Assistant, so I guess congrats on burning the world up for the sake of a worse product, berks
Has just occurred to me that the Social Model of Disability is basically the Double Empathy Problem writ large on a societal scale. Just meet people halfway, in communication and in environments & opportunities.
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Has just occurred to me that the Social Model of Disability is basically the Double Empathy Problem writ large on a societal scale. Just meet people halfway, in communication and in environments & opportunities.
Another day, another form rejection from Uncanny. 21 in a row! I'm on a streak!
(c'est la vie, I suspect I don't write their kind of fiction, and that's fine, but doesn't mean I'm going to stop sending stuff in: it's their job to reject me, and not my place to do that job for them)
(c'est la vie, I suspect I don't write their kind of fiction, and that's fine, but doesn't mean I'm going to stop sending stuff in: it's their job to reject me, and not my place to do that job for them)
October 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Another day, another form rejection from Uncanny. 21 in a row! I'm on a streak!
(c'est la vie, I suspect I don't write their kind of fiction, and that's fine, but doesn't mean I'm going to stop sending stuff in: it's their job to reject me, and not my place to do that job for them)
(c'est la vie, I suspect I don't write their kind of fiction, and that's fine, but doesn't mean I'm going to stop sending stuff in: it's their job to reject me, and not my place to do that job for them)
It's a small thing, but I really appreciate @theignyteawards.bsky.social's use of "Outstanding" in the awards names. Not "best", not an implied ranking that sets us all in competition with a false authority of objective worth, but instead a recognition of who is doing work that deserves recognition.
October 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It's a small thing, but I really appreciate @theignyteawards.bsky.social's use of "Outstanding" in the awards names. Not "best", not an implied ranking that sets us all in competition with a false authority of objective worth, but instead a recognition of who is doing work that deserves recognition.
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That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
#2025IgnyteAwards
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2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards
OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
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Aaaaahhhhhhh this is such an honour!! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! 😭🎉🎉🎉😭
October 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Aaaaahhhhhhh this is such an honour!! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! 😭🎉🎉🎉😭