Ana Sun
@singingtotigers.bsky.social
Sci-fi/fantasy writer. Utopia Award nominee, Best of British Sci-Fi, 2nd runner-up Mo Siewcharran Prize, BSFA longlist. Solarpunk 🌻, she/her.
"Futures to Live By" (BSFA Longlisted) now at NewCon Press https://v.gd/efd2dT
https://singingtotigers.com/
"Futures to Live By" (BSFA Longlisted) now at NewCon Press https://v.gd/efd2dT
https://singingtotigers.com/
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BGF24 S#6 Coriander Amazon
Go to BGF24 S#6 Coriander Amazon.
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One of my #BSFA longlisted works in the Best Short Fiction Category is now free to download for your reading pleasure:
lnk.to/BGF24S6Amazon
(see also: susankayequinn.com/books/corian... for availability on various platforms)
lnk.to/BGF24S6Amazon
(see also: susankayequinn.com/books/corian... for availability on various platforms)
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Local author 🚨 klaxon 🚨
@lyndseycroal.bsky.social 's In This City Where it Rains has just arrived from @lunapress.bsky.social . We had a terrific launch last spring for Lyndsey's short story collection.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
@lyndseycroal.bsky.social 's In This City Where it Rains has just arrived from @lunapress.bsky.social . We had a terrific launch last spring for Lyndsey's short story collection.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Local author 🚨 klaxon 🚨
@lyndseycroal.bsky.social 's In This City Where it Rains has just arrived from @lunapress.bsky.social . We had a terrific launch last spring for Lyndsey's short story collection.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
@lyndseycroal.bsky.social 's In This City Where it Rains has just arrived from @lunapress.bsky.social . We had a terrific launch last spring for Lyndsey's short story collection.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg
Excited to share the news that my #solarpunk eco-fiction story 'Coriander' on cultural heritage (and food, of course) is in the Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Feeling lucky to be there with some of my heroes in SFF! With thanks to editor @wishusdonna.bsky.social and NewCon Press ✨
February 11, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Excited to share the news that my #solarpunk eco-fiction story 'Coriander' on cultural heritage (and food, of course) is in the Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Feeling lucky to be there with some of my heroes in SFF! With thanks to editor @wishusdonna.bsky.social and NewCon Press ✨
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We had a great time celebrating @lunapress.bsky.social's 11th birthday in Edinburgh last night.🎊 Lovely to meet so many creative people within the community. Thanks Francesca for bringing us all together. 🎂
February 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
We had a great time celebrating @lunapress.bsky.social's 11th birthday in Edinburgh last night.🎊 Lovely to meet so many creative people within the community. Thanks Francesca for bringing us all together. 🎂
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With another surge the “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign is 91% base goal funded (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 78% to SG1 & 69% to SG2. 16 more backers and we’ll lock in the base goal funding. Keep signal boosting with our sincere thanks.
Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity
A Hard SF anthology of stories involving tea or coffee, stars, and gravity.
www.kickstarter.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
With another surge the “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign is 91% base goal funded (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 78% to SG1 & 69% to SG2. 16 more backers and we’ll lock in the base goal funding. Keep signal boosting with our sincere thanks.
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Its not quite Satchelcon (yet) but a mini confluence in the multiverse did bring @singingtotigers.bsky.social and I together this weekend to talk all things Librarian and the wonderful @aanpress.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Its not quite Satchelcon (yet) but a mini confluence in the multiverse did bring @singingtotigers.bsky.social and I together this weekend to talk all things Librarian and the wonderful @aanpress.bsky.social
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My originals for Nebula and Hugo consideration. (Am I doing this right? I hope this is right.)
For your consideration this year, I have eight originals! Most are free to read!
In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!
In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!
Martian Wallpaper — Full Story
By Wen Wen Yang
dailytomorrow.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
My originals for Nebula and Hugo consideration. (Am I doing this right? I hope this is right.)
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go @muteddragon.bsky.social go!! amazing work!!
We are elated to announce the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners, Class of 2025!
This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird.
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July.
Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/47f6tt48
This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird.
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July.
Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/47f6tt48
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4, Table of Contents! — tenebrous press
The Weird Fiction scene is as healthy now as it's ever been, and I think this collection—our fourth!—might have the broadest appeal yet. Much as Tenebrous continues to evolve, so has our selections pr...
tenebrouspress.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
go @muteddragon.bsky.social go!! amazing work!!
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Pumped to see #solarpunk on the #BSFAAwards2026 long list!
@singingtotigers.bsky.social's brilliant CORIANDER, a short story from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology
*and*
our co-authored non-fiction article on solarpunk in @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social!
Both free to read! lnk.to/SolarpunkBSFA
@singingtotigers.bsky.social's brilliant CORIANDER, a short story from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology
*and*
our co-authored non-fiction article on solarpunk in @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social!
Both free to read! lnk.to/SolarpunkBSFA
January 26, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Pumped to see #solarpunk on the #BSFAAwards2026 long list!
@singingtotigers.bsky.social's brilliant CORIANDER, a short story from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology
*and*
our co-authored non-fiction article on solarpunk in @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social!
Both free to read! lnk.to/SolarpunkBSFA
@singingtotigers.bsky.social's brilliant CORIANDER, a short story from the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology
*and*
our co-authored non-fiction article on solarpunk in @ecologicalcitizen.bsky.social!
Both free to read! lnk.to/SolarpunkBSFA
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Friends, a thought as the world keeps finding new ways to be terrible:
Create love first. As you're preparing to fight the hatred, start by doing one small act of love each day. For other people, or for yourself. We do need to fight, but we cannot let ourselves forget Love.
Create love first. As you're preparing to fight the hatred, start by doing one small act of love each day. For other people, or for yourself. We do need to fight, but we cannot let ourselves forget Love.
January 24, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Friends, a thought as the world keeps finding new ways to be terrible:
Create love first. As you're preparing to fight the hatred, start by doing one small act of love each day. For other people, or for yourself. We do need to fight, but we cannot let ourselves forget Love.
Create love first. As you're preparing to fight the hatred, start by doing one small act of love each day. For other people, or for yourself. We do need to fight, but we cannot let ourselves forget Love.
Refilling ink in a #fountainpen is always a slightly messy side quest.
January 25, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Refilling ink in a #fountainpen is always a slightly messy side quest.
One of my #BSFA longlisted works in the Best Short Fiction Category is now free to download for your reading pleasure:
lnk.to/BGF24S6Amazon
(see also: susankayequinn.com/books/corian... for availability on various platforms)
lnk.to/BGF24S6Amazon
(see also: susankayequinn.com/books/corian... for availability on various platforms)
BGF24 S#6 Coriander Amazon
Go to BGF24 S#6 Coriander Amazon.
lnk.to
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
One of my #BSFA longlisted works in the Best Short Fiction Category is now free to download for your reading pleasure:
lnk.to/BGF24S6Amazon
(see also: susankayequinn.com/books/corian... for availability on various platforms)
lnk.to/BGF24S6Amazon
(see also: susankayequinn.com/books/corian... for availability on various platforms)
I wrote a thing(!) about how music as we know it might be disappearing, the story structure of "Rashomon" compared to its short story inspiration "In A Grove" (and what that teaches us), and as usual, a smattering of random rabbit holes.
singingtotigers.substack.com/p/the-disapp...
singingtotigers.substack.com/p/the-disapp...
The Disappearing Music
Hauntology all sped up, the story structure of Rashomon, historical tomato soup.
singingtotigers.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:57 AM
I wrote a thing(!) about how music as we know it might be disappearing, the story structure of "Rashomon" compared to its short story inspiration "In A Grove" (and what that teaches us), and as usual, a smattering of random rabbit holes.
singingtotigers.substack.com/p/the-disapp...
singingtotigers.substack.com/p/the-disapp...
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Congratulations to our authors and artists on their @bsfa.bsky.social longlist 2026! @jennicoutts.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @madeehahwrites.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com Ivano Sassanelli, Jay Johnstone, Payton McCarty-Simas! @publishingscotland.bsky.social 🤩 And to all the nominees!
January 22, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Congratulations to our authors and artists on their @bsfa.bsky.social longlist 2026! @jennicoutts.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @madeehahwrites.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com Ivano Sassanelli, Jay Johnstone, Payton McCarty-Simas! @publishingscotland.bsky.social 🤩 And to all the nominees!
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Love to see clifi and solarpunk writers in so many categories!
Notable congrats to @singingtotigers.bsky.social @susankayequinn.bsky.social @izom-chisom.bsky.social @atgreenblatt.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @wishusdonna.bsky.social
and many others I surely missed
Notable congrats to @singingtotigers.bsky.social @susankayequinn.bsky.social @izom-chisom.bsky.social @atgreenblatt.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @wishusdonna.bsky.social
and many others I surely missed
🚀 Congratulations to all those longlisted for BSFA Awards!
Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works!
bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works!
bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
Vote for the BSFA Awards
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January 22, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Love to see clifi and solarpunk writers in so many categories!
Notable congrats to @singingtotigers.bsky.social @susankayequinn.bsky.social @izom-chisom.bsky.social @atgreenblatt.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @wishusdonna.bsky.social
and many others I surely missed
Notable congrats to @singingtotigers.bsky.social @susankayequinn.bsky.social @izom-chisom.bsky.social @atgreenblatt.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @wishusdonna.bsky.social
and many others I surely missed
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Announcing our first ever BSFA Award Longlist nomination for @singingtotigers.bsky.social for her story “For Tomorrow’s Moon” in our 2025 anthology “Our Dust Earth”
January 22, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Announcing our first ever BSFA Award Longlist nomination for @singingtotigers.bsky.social for her story “For Tomorrow’s Moon” in our 2025 anthology “Our Dust Earth”
Coming off a busy work day to find my collection, three short stories & the peer-reviewed paper I co-wrote with @susankayequinn.bsky.social has made the #BSFA Awards Long List!
Congratulations to all fabulous long-listees! Honoured to be among you.
Many thanks to everyone who nominated my work 💕✨
Congratulations to all fabulous long-listees! Honoured to be among you.
Many thanks to everyone who nominated my work 💕✨
January 22, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Coming off a busy work day to find my collection, three short stories & the peer-reviewed paper I co-wrote with @susankayequinn.bsky.social has made the #BSFA Awards Long List!
Congratulations to all fabulous long-listees! Honoured to be among you.
Many thanks to everyone who nominated my work 💕✨
Congratulations to all fabulous long-listees! Honoured to be among you.
Many thanks to everyone who nominated my work 💕✨
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After a century’s absence, pine martens are returning to England as part of a broader recovery across the British Isles. The species’ comeback is restoring balance to woodlands, curbing grey squirrels, and marking a milestone in UK nature recovery. buff.ly/Qw6k8w8
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
First pine martens released in Exmoor National Park in landmark nature recovery project | The Wildlife Trusts
A pioneering nature recovery project has reintroduced 19 pine martens to Exmoor National Park — marking the official return of a native species lost for over a century.
buff.ly
January 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
After a century’s absence, pine martens are returning to England as part of a broader recovery across the British Isles. The species’ comeback is restoring balance to woodlands, curbing grey squirrels, and marking a milestone in UK nature recovery. buff.ly/Qw6k8w8
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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A homecoming that cannot be. An unlikely friendship. A dog who guards a secret. Can shy Sylvia learn the language of luck?
go.dfstory.com/dog-helps
go.dfstory.com/dog-helps
January 17, 2026 at 11:17 AM
A homecoming that cannot be. An unlikely friendship. A dog who guards a secret. Can shy Sylvia learn the language of luck?
go.dfstory.com/dog-helps
go.dfstory.com/dog-helps
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If the Stars Are Lit is the debut speculative mystery by Sara K Ellis, exploring the implications of AI, memory, and loss. Cover art by Tara Bush. Order now! www.lunapresspublishing.com/novels
@skateellis.bsky.social #sciencefiction #smallpresspublishing #booksfromscotland
@skateellis.bsky.social #sciencefiction #smallpresspublishing #booksfromscotland
January 12, 2026 at 6:42 PM
If the Stars Are Lit is the debut speculative mystery by Sara K Ellis, exploring the implications of AI, memory, and loss. Cover art by Tara Bush. Order now! www.lunapresspublishing.com/novels
@skateellis.bsky.social #sciencefiction #smallpresspublishing #booksfromscotland
@skateellis.bsky.social #sciencefiction #smallpresspublishing #booksfromscotland
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Motocultor Festival Europe Tour is in London on the 15th! What an exciting metal line-up, includes two Asian bands, Uuhai, which I saw when they were last here and the awesome Deus Ex Machina from Singapore. Love this East West poster, but it's missing a Chinese mountain ghoul is suoyi and douli.
January 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Motocultor Festival Europe Tour is in London on the 15th! What an exciting metal line-up, includes two Asian bands, Uuhai, which I saw when they were last here and the awesome Deus Ex Machina from Singapore. Love this East West poster, but it's missing a Chinese mountain ghoul is suoyi and douli.
NewCon Press’s Polestar series have won multiple awards, and now you can grab a freshly released e-book sampler. ✨ My cosy #solarpunk story ‘Emily’s Farewell Coat’ is also in this wonderful collection, but do buy it for the other brilliant authors! 😊
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
Polestars Shining Brightly, Rose Biggin, Emma Coleman, C�cile Cristofari, Jaine Fenn, Juliet E. McKenna, Fiona Moore, Justina Robson, Patrice Sarath, Teika Marija Smits, Ana Sun, Aliya Whiteley, Liz W...
NewCon Press is a multiple award-winning independent publisher specialising in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror.
www.newconpress.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
NewCon Press’s Polestar series have won multiple awards, and now you can grab a freshly released e-book sampler. ✨ My cosy #solarpunk story ‘Emily’s Farewell Coat’ is also in this wonderful collection, but do buy it for the other brilliant authors! 😊
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
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This is an object lesson for all writers. If you put a sea shanty in your story, and then later offer to read said story for a podcast, you WILL BE EXPECTED TO SING and it might take thirty-seven takes in the @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social storage closet studio hoping no one else is in the building
New podcast episode, produced by audio editor Aaron Kling, features @tkrex.bsky.social reading their own work, "SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER" from Reckoning 7, a story about, among other things, a robot and a dolphin who become BFFs <3: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...
Podcast Episode 48: SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER | Reckoning
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, and listeners, if you're feeling cold, this episode will warm y...
reckoning.press
January 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
This is an object lesson for all writers. If you put a sea shanty in your story, and then later offer to read said story for a podcast, you WILL BE EXPECTED TO SING and it might take thirty-seven takes in the @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social storage closet studio hoping no one else is in the building
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This is KL's first #LRT line (STAR LRT, now Ampang Line) completed in 2 phases. It spans 27.4 km with 25 stations. It's one of the 3 driverless out of a total of 10 urban rail systems. They run on time, clean, air con & affordable.
#bluesky #mrt #evening #photography #myphoto #malaysia #kualalumpur
#bluesky #mrt #evening #photography #myphoto #malaysia #kualalumpur
January 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
This is KL's first #LRT line (STAR LRT, now Ampang Line) completed in 2 phases. It spans 27.4 km with 25 stations. It's one of the 3 driverless out of a total of 10 urban rail systems. They run on time, clean, air con & affordable.
#bluesky #mrt #evening #photography #myphoto #malaysia #kualalumpur
#bluesky #mrt #evening #photography #myphoto #malaysia #kualalumpur
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It's #SelfPromoSaturday and I have some time available this month for new editorial clients. Find out more about my services on my website donna-scott.co.uk/freelance-ed... Image shows Best of British Science Fiction 2022 which won the BSFA Best Collection Award.
Go on, I'm really good!
Go on, I'm really good!
January 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
It's #SelfPromoSaturday and I have some time available this month for new editorial clients. Find out more about my services on my website donna-scott.co.uk/freelance-ed... Image shows Best of British Science Fiction 2022 which won the BSFA Best Collection Award.
Go on, I'm really good!
Go on, I'm really good!
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This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.