Ana Sun
@singingtotigers.bsky.social
Sci-fi/fantasy writer, occasional poet, accidental artist.
Utopia Award nominee '22, Best of British Sci-Fi ’23. 2nd runner-up Mo Siewcharran Prize ‘24. BSFA longlist '25.
Solarpunk 🌻, 3rd culture kid, she/her.
https://singingtotigers.com/
Utopia Award nominee '22, Best of British Sci-Fi ’23. 2nd runner-up Mo Siewcharran Prize ‘24. BSFA longlist '25.
Solarpunk 🌻, 3rd culture kid, she/her.
https://singingtotigers.com/
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First up, books I'm in. (Anthologies full of other brilliant authors as well, so hush now!)
@theslabpress.bsky.social "Hiding Under the Leaves", for folk horror: payhip.com/b/HNdvM
@aanpress.bsky.social "Our Dust Earth" for dying planet Sci-fi aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
@theslabpress.bsky.social "Hiding Under the Leaves", for folk horror: payhip.com/b/HNdvM
@aanpress.bsky.social "Our Dust Earth" for dying planet Sci-fi aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
First up, books I'm in. (Anthologies full of other brilliant authors as well, so hush now!)
@theslabpress.bsky.social "Hiding Under the Leaves", for folk horror: payhip.com/b/HNdvM
@aanpress.bsky.social "Our Dust Earth" for dying planet Sci-fi aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
@theslabpress.bsky.social "Hiding Under the Leaves", for folk horror: payhip.com/b/HNdvM
@aanpress.bsky.social "Our Dust Earth" for dying planet Sci-fi aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
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Saturday, Nov 8
#Hopepit community connect
share a snippet of your creations
Post a quote, image, or music you created that illustrates a light in the darkness, bringing hope
Tomorrow will be the big event to share / promote WIPs, pitches, and finished/available works!
#Hopepit community connect
share a snippet of your creations
Post a quote, image, or music you created that illustrates a light in the darkness, bringing hope
Tomorrow will be the big event to share / promote WIPs, pitches, and finished/available works!
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Saturday, Nov 8
#Hopepit community connect
share a snippet of your creations
Post a quote, image, or music you created that illustrates a light in the darkness, bringing hope
Tomorrow will be the big event to share / promote WIPs, pitches, and finished/available works!
#Hopepit community connect
share a snippet of your creations
Post a quote, image, or music you created that illustrates a light in the darkness, bringing hope
Tomorrow will be the big event to share / promote WIPs, pitches, and finished/available works!
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Massive congrats too to @rainewilson.bsky.social, one of coolest and best voices around, for her BFA winning The Last To Drown. Heck of an acceptance speech too!
If these names are unfamiliar to you, I urge you to seek them out pronto! Fantasy and horror are blossoming like you wouldn't believe.
If these names are unfamiliar to you, I urge you to seek them out pronto! Fantasy and horror are blossoming like you wouldn't believe.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Massive congrats too to @rainewilson.bsky.social, one of coolest and best voices around, for her BFA winning The Last To Drown. Heck of an acceptance speech too!
If these names are unfamiliar to you, I urge you to seek them out pronto! Fantasy and horror are blossoming like you wouldn't believe.
If these names are unfamiliar to you, I urge you to seek them out pronto! Fantasy and horror are blossoming like you wouldn't believe.
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And here's an interesting fact. Three of the above peeps won awards over the weekend too!
Massive congratulations to Ian and Cecile for your British Fantasy Award wins, and to Dan for his World Fantasy gong for the super Heartwood anthology.
Massive congratulations to Ian and Cecile for your British Fantasy Award wins, and to Dan for his World Fantasy gong for the super Heartwood anthology.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
And here's an interesting fact. Three of the above peeps won awards over the weekend too!
Massive congratulations to Ian and Cecile for your British Fantasy Award wins, and to Dan for his World Fantasy gong for the super Heartwood anthology.
Massive congratulations to Ian and Cecile for your British Fantasy Award wins, and to Dan for his World Fantasy gong for the super Heartwood anthology.
Not often I find myself washing sets of dice in warm soapy water in preparation for a workshop! Very much looking forward to this afternoon at #WorldFantasyCon. See you all in Brighton!
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Not often I find myself washing sets of dice in warm soapy water in preparation for a workshop! Very much looking forward to this afternoon at #WorldFantasyCon. See you all in Brighton!
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For those of you at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social then this is yet ANOTHER launch you should be thinking of going to. NewCon press, run by the legend Ian Whates will be launching a 3 new books at 6pm on Friday. Come meet @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social and Cécile Cristofari
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
For those of you at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social then this is yet ANOTHER launch you should be thinking of going to. NewCon press, run by the legend Ian Whates will be launching a 3 new books at 6pm on Friday. Come meet @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social and Cécile Cristofari
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New Pitch Event! #HopePit is coming up on November 9th!
See the rules below and follow @hopepit.bsky.social for more information!
Similar to #BluePit, it's open to other forms of media too!
#WriteSky #WritingCommuntiy #AmQuerying #AmWriting #AmAgenting#Writers #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic #TTRPG
See the rules below and follow @hopepit.bsky.social for more information!
Similar to #BluePit, it's open to other forms of media too!
#WriteSky #WritingCommuntiy #AmQuerying #AmWriting #AmAgenting#Writers #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic #TTRPG
Let's spin visions of hope & resilience!
🌞🌱
We hope you can JOIN US Nov 9 for #Hopepit, uplifting all types of media under the big #hopepunk & #clifi ⛱️ umbrellas.
Here on 🦋.
#solarpunk #permaculture #hopecore #hope
#WritingCommunity #GameDev #IndieDev #TTRPG #Comic
#WriteSky #Writers #MusicSky
🌞🌱
We hope you can JOIN US Nov 9 for #Hopepit, uplifting all types of media under the big #hopepunk & #clifi ⛱️ umbrellas.
Here on 🦋.
#solarpunk #permaculture #hopecore #hope
#WritingCommunity #GameDev #IndieDev #TTRPG #Comic
#WriteSky #Writers #MusicSky
October 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
New Pitch Event! #HopePit is coming up on November 9th!
See the rules below and follow @hopepit.bsky.social for more information!
Similar to #BluePit, it's open to other forms of media too!
#WriteSky #WritingCommuntiy #AmQuerying #AmWriting #AmAgenting#Writers #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic #TTRPG
See the rules below and follow @hopepit.bsky.social for more information!
Similar to #BluePit, it's open to other forms of media too!
#WriteSky #WritingCommuntiy #AmQuerying #AmWriting #AmAgenting#Writers #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic #TTRPG
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I recorded a podcast yesterday with the delightful @henrylienauthor.bsky.social!
The pod lifts up hopeful climate fiction stories but it's also an extended tutorial on #solarpunk storytelling. This ep is a great addition to that conversation!
Ep. 36 coming soon!
brightgreenfutures.substack.com
The pod lifts up hopeful climate fiction stories but it's also an extended tutorial on #solarpunk storytelling. This ep is a great addition to that conversation!
Ep. 36 coming soon!
brightgreenfutures.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I recorded a podcast yesterday with the delightful @henrylienauthor.bsky.social!
The pod lifts up hopeful climate fiction stories but it's also an extended tutorial on #solarpunk storytelling. This ep is a great addition to that conversation!
Ep. 36 coming soon!
brightgreenfutures.substack.com
The pod lifts up hopeful climate fiction stories but it's also an extended tutorial on #solarpunk storytelling. This ep is a great addition to that conversation!
Ep. 36 coming soon!
brightgreenfutures.substack.com
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This climate fiction romance story is so good!
Meet Me Under the Molokhia
A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home.
grist.org/climate-fict...
#Fiction #Climate #Beirut #Romance #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction
Meet Me Under the Molokhia
A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home.
grist.org/climate-fict...
#Fiction #Climate #Beirut #Romance #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction
Meet Me Under the Molokhia
Climate fiction: A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home.
grist.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This climate fiction romance story is so good!
Meet Me Under the Molokhia
A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home.
grist.org/climate-fict...
#Fiction #Climate #Beirut #Romance #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction
Meet Me Under the Molokhia
A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home.
grist.org/climate-fict...
#Fiction #Climate #Beirut #Romance #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction
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On Monday I'm presenting virtually at the Adaptation Futures conference, on the 'Beyond Adaptation: Loss and Damage and Justice' panel. 8am BST / 8pm NZT.
My paper is titled 'Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and Reparations'. It'll be the first time I present on this new area.
My paper is titled 'Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and Reparations'. It'll be the first time I present on this new area.
October 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
On Monday I'm presenting virtually at the Adaptation Futures conference, on the 'Beyond Adaptation: Loss and Damage and Justice' panel. 8am BST / 8pm NZT.
My paper is titled 'Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and Reparations'. It'll be the first time I present on this new area.
My paper is titled 'Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and Reparations'. It'll be the first time I present on this new area.
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For your timeline clense, may I offer a little grey parrot absolutely chugging some mint tea. Mr Beet co-stars with helpless giggling. (Volume up)
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
For your timeline clense, may I offer a little grey parrot absolutely chugging some mint tea. Mr Beet co-stars with helpless giggling. (Volume up)
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Very happy to have been awarded Creative Scotland funding to expand a dark SF project (similar vibes to Limelight)! A multi-POV tale of lives intersecting in a dystopian city run by a nefarious corporation (think Gotham meets Panem) with dark health tech, a heist, and an assassination plot...✨👁️
October 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Very happy to have been awarded Creative Scotland funding to expand a dark SF project (similar vibes to Limelight)! A multi-POV tale of lives intersecting in a dystopian city run by a nefarious corporation (think Gotham meets Panem) with dark health tech, a heist, and an assassination plot...✨👁️
Brief notes on Copenhagen, Milford Critique Week, the Mo Siewcharran Prize Ceremony, and all the things that I should've posted about earlier this year but never got around to because Life.
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Almost everything not quite everywhere all at once
Copenhagen notes, Milford SF, Mo Siewcharran Prize Ceremony, everything (but not everywhere) all at once.
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Brief notes on Copenhagen, Milford Critique Week, the Mo Siewcharran Prize Ceremony, and all the things that I should've posted about earlier this year but never got around to because Life.
open.substack.com/pub/singingt...
open.substack.com/pub/singingt...
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Our pick for #solarpunk (online) bookclub for October is in! We'll be reading Solarpunk Creatures!
**October 23rd, 8pm ET**
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@sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social @tashanmehta.bsky.social
**October 23rd, 8pm ET**
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@sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social @tashanmehta.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Our pick for #solarpunk (online) bookclub for October is in! We'll be reading Solarpunk Creatures!
**October 23rd, 8pm ET**
Subscribe to get reminders and Jitsi links! www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bo...
@sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social @tashanmehta.bsky.social
**October 23rd, 8pm ET**
Subscribe to get reminders and Jitsi links! www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bo...
@sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social @tashanmehta.bsky.social
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Delighted to announce that my debut picture book "Kid Rex To The Rescue", illustrated by the fantastic Diane Ewen will be released on the 26th of March 2026
t.co/ohez7oPTcZ (£)(screenshots below)
t.co/ohez7oPTcZ (£)(screenshots below)
September 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Delighted to announce that my debut picture book "Kid Rex To The Rescue", illustrated by the fantastic Diane Ewen will be released on the 26th of March 2026
t.co/ohez7oPTcZ (£)(screenshots below)
t.co/ohez7oPTcZ (£)(screenshots below)
Spent a fabulous evening yesterday with past - and new - winners of the #MoSiewcharran Prize. Congratulations to the 2025 winners! 🥂
October 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Spent a fabulous evening yesterday with past - and new - winners of the #MoSiewcharran Prize. Congratulations to the 2025 winners! 🥂
Very much looking forward to this! 🙌
Announcing "The Glorious Melancholy of Urgency", a Hard SF anthology for mid 2026. With stories by E.J. Delaney, Sydney Sackett, Michael Teasdale, and Lucy Zhang. This modest anthology will be self funded, and also available as a future KS add-on, once I am more sure about the challenges of 2026.
September 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Very much looking forward to this! 🙌
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Happy to announce that I've had a story translated into another language for the first time.
'Frank Peterson Comes Home' first published by @shoreinf.bsky.social can be found in the German anthology 'Ihr Körper, das Schiff: Die besten internationalen Science-Fiction-Geschichten' by A7L Books.
'Frank Peterson Comes Home' first published by @shoreinf.bsky.social can be found in the German anthology 'Ihr Körper, das Schiff: Die besten internationalen Science-Fiction-Geschichten' by A7L Books.
September 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Happy to announce that I've had a story translated into another language for the first time.
'Frank Peterson Comes Home' first published by @shoreinf.bsky.social can be found in the German anthology 'Ihr Körper, das Schiff: Die besten internationalen Science-Fiction-Geschichten' by A7L Books.
'Frank Peterson Comes Home' first published by @shoreinf.bsky.social can be found in the German anthology 'Ihr Körper, das Schiff: Die besten internationalen Science-Fiction-Geschichten' by A7L Books.
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September 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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We have the strongest evidence yet that life once existed on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance Rover drilled into Mars’s Jezero crater and pulled up a piece of mudstone covered in markings that resemble those left behind by metabolizing microbes on Earth. buff.ly/BdWp207
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
The Case for Life on Mars Just Got Stronger
The Perseverance rover's discovery is the "closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars."
buff.ly
September 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We have the strongest evidence yet that life once existed on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance Rover drilled into Mars’s Jezero crater and pulled up a piece of mudstone covered in markings that resemble those left behind by metabolizing microbes on Earth. buff.ly/BdWp207
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Huge congrats to Ana Sun on her short fiction collection! Just out from NewCon Press (while we are at Milford SF Writer Workshop.) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@singingtotigers.bsky.social
@milfordsff.bsky.social
#speculativefiction #solarpunk #climatefiction #newrelease
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@singingtotigers.bsky.social
@milfordsff.bsky.social
#speculativefiction #solarpunk #climatefiction #newrelease
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
September 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge congrats to Ana Sun on her short fiction collection! Just out from NewCon Press (while we are at Milford SF Writer Workshop.) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@singingtotigers.bsky.social
@milfordsff.bsky.social
#speculativefiction #solarpunk #climatefiction #newrelease
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
@singingtotigers.bsky.social
@milfordsff.bsky.social
#speculativefiction #solarpunk #climatefiction #newrelease
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
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I’ve been Wombled!! Thank you for reading If the Stars Are Lit and for this lovely, thoughtful review!! 😻
New Review - a really impressive science fiction story exploring themes of identity and memory. Highly recommend if The Stars Are Lit by @skateellis.bsky.social out now via @lunapress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...
If The Stars Are Lit by Sara K Ellis — Runalong The Shelves
Publisher – Luna Press Publishing Published – Out Now Price – £13.57 paperback £4.99 ebook If the Stars Are Lit is a speculative mystery exploring the implications of AI, memory, and loss. ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I’ve been Wombled!! Thank you for reading If the Stars Are Lit and for this lovely, thoughtful review!! 😻
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An absolute pleasure to help out at this MK Lit-Fest-arranged event last night in Waterstones, Milton Keynes - a talk by Professor David Wilson, whose new book A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders sounds like a fascinating work of social history. Can't wait to read it! #booksky
September 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
An absolute pleasure to help out at this MK Lit-Fest-arranged event last night in Waterstones, Milton Keynes - a talk by Professor David Wilson, whose new book A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders sounds like a fascinating work of social history. Can't wait to read it! #booksky
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Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved!
horror.org/awards/curre...
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HWA Bram Stoker Award Recommendations
horror.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved!
horror.org/awards/curre...
horror.org/awards/curre...
Taking a brief break from Milford Critique Week (where I'm having a fab time at the wonderful Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social) to celebrate the #bookrelease of my #solarpunk short story collection "Futures to Live By" by Newcon Press 🌻
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
Futures to Live By, Ana Sun - Books - Futures to Live By
NewCon Press is a multiple award-winning independent publisher specialising in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror.
www.newconpress.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Taking a brief break from Milford Critique Week (where I'm having a fab time at the wonderful Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social) to celebrate the #bookrelease of my #solarpunk short story collection "Futures to Live By" by Newcon Press 🌻
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...