emma burnett
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
Doctor of food. Writer of stories.
Neurospicy. Kind of a lot.
Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
Science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk
Drabbleµ markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets
Neurospicy. Kind of a lot.
Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social.
Science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk
Drabbleµ markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets
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@slashnburnett.bsky.social
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Useful links for writers (details in the 🧵)
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The Title Page: emmaburnett.uk/the-title-page
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The Title Page: emmaburnett.uk/the-title-page
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Tourist: Can you please help me get to 90bazillion Southbumblefuck Avenue?
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Tourist: Can you please help me get to 90bazillion Southbumblefuck Avenue?
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Tourist: Can you please help me get to 90bazillion Southbumblefuck Avenue?
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Tourist: Can you please help me get to 90bazillion Southbumblefuck Avenue?
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
Me: Totes, of course. You're gonna want to type that address into your phone, then follow it where it says you need to go.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Anyone else working on their ‘awards eligible’ list and feeling very proud of just how many voices live in their heads?
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Anyone else working on their ‘awards eligible’ list and feeling very proud of just how many voices live in their heads?
A thought: the BBC could just air Trump saying ‘just grab them by the pussy’ as an unedited reply.
Ben Jennings on the BBC resignations – cartoon
Ben Jennings on the BBC resignations – cartoon
The corporation is under attack after admitting an ‘error of judgment’ in the way Panorama edited a Donald Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A thought: the BBC could just air Trump saying ‘just grab them by the pussy’ as an unedited reply.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My partner just complained I never listen to him.
What an odd way to begin a conversation.
What an odd way to begin a conversation.
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
My partner just complained I never listen to him.
What an odd way to begin a conversation.
What an odd way to begin a conversation.
Take the piss all you like, at least the Greens have policies you can actually sink your teeth into.
Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Take the piss all you like, at least the Greens have policies you can actually sink your teeth into.
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'25 Peppercorns' is out now with @mythaxis.bsky.social.
This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
1/...
This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
1/...
September 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
'25 Peppercorns' is out now with @mythaxis.bsky.social.
This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
1/...
This has been a particularly difficult story for me to publish, both personally and in finding a good home for it. It is deeply personal, but it's also political.
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
1/...
Omg no wot.
Read this.
Read this.
Author Rachael K. Jones is known for writing stories that are so knife-sharp that you cut yourself when you pick them up. Her story "Five Functions of Your Binosaur," from Issue 4, is a gentler story, though still bittersweet.
Five Functions of Your Bionosaur - Small Wonders
The bionosaur was a baby shower gift from your mom's favorite aunt. They were nervous about its size, the stainless steel maw, the retractable razorclaws inside its stubby little arms, but the aunt had insisted.
smallwondersmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Omg no wot.
Read this.
Read this.
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Brace yourself for all the feelings with today's reprint, "With Nothing Left" by @slashnburnett.bsky.social :
With Nothing Left - Small Wonders
I buy us some printed burgers. One for you, two for me, because you like me soft, for comfort, and this body needs to eat to keep the padding fed, all wrapped around and through the metal subframe.
smallwondersmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Brace yourself for all the feelings with today's reprint, "With Nothing Left" by @slashnburnett.bsky.social :
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It’s just a drop of blood. It’ll be fine.
——
Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
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Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It’s just a drop of blood. It’ll be fine.
——
Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
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Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
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Oxford! An unbelievably beautiful place, also full of books. I was given a great tour by the inimitable @slashnburnett.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Oxford! An unbelievably beautiful place, also full of books. I was given a great tour by the inimitable @slashnburnett.bsky.social
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Full Timelapse! Please enjoy it and read the wonderful story that inspired it!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Full Timelapse! Please enjoy it and read the wonderful story that inspired it!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social
New rule proposal: If the food doesn’t taste good, you should get your calories back.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
New rule proposal: If the food doesn’t taste good, you should get your calories back.
“The thing is,” my father says, when I finally get up the courage to tell my parents. “Your daughter is not actually a bear.”
In our first @flashfictiononline.bsky.social FamPunk story, @emlinden.bsky.social gives us Ursula, who is perfect as she is.
#fampunk #fantasy #flashfiction
In our first @flashfictiononline.bsky.social FamPunk story, @emlinden.bsky.social gives us Ursula, who is perfect as she is.
#fampunk #fantasy #flashfiction
An unsettling but furry fantasy opener for our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue: “Ursula” by E.M. Linden is free to read on FFO. The tension is all in the choices we make as parents… 🥺
#fantasy #parenting #flashfiction #writingcommunity
@emlinden.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/ursu...
#fantasy #parenting #flashfiction #writingcommunity
@emlinden.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/ursu...
Ursula
Naturally, my first thought is that the bear has eaten my child. My second is to blame myself. I put my daughter to bed early, went to read my book. I should have been hovering in the dark beside h…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“The thing is,” my father says, when I finally get up the courage to tell my parents. “Your daughter is not actually a bear.”
In our first @flashfictiononline.bsky.social FamPunk story, @emlinden.bsky.social gives us Ursula, who is perfect as she is.
#fampunk #fantasy #flashfiction
In our first @flashfictiononline.bsky.social FamPunk story, @emlinden.bsky.social gives us Ursula, who is perfect as she is.
#fampunk #fantasy #flashfiction
It’s just a drop of blood. It’ll be fine.
——
Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
——
Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It’s just a drop of blood. It’ll be fine.
——
Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
——
Ex Partum, coming out in June 2026 from @atthisarts.com
#expartumbites #scifi #specfic #dystopia #writing
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This.
Wolf's Path is up for nominations.
And also take a look at all the titles.
Wolf's Path is up for nominations.
And also take a look at all the titles.
Welcome to November! Do you love indie fiction? Love supporting it? We hope you'll see our work. (And tell people about it!) 💜 #Booksky
Atthis Arts 2025 Visibility
We hope you love our work.
www.atthisarts.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This.
Wolf's Path is up for nominations.
And also take a look at all the titles.
Wolf's Path is up for nominations.
And also take a look at all the titles.
Reposted by emma burnett
My latest Patreon post is live. It's got some life updates, and for paid supporters, it has a snippet from my upcoming book, Ex Partum (coming soon from @atthisarts.com).
www.patreon.com/posts/140919...
#scifi #specfic #booksky
www.patreon.com/posts/140919...
#scifi #specfic #booksky
November, novella, new beginnings | Emma Burnett
Get more from Emma Burnett on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My latest Patreon post is live. It's got some life updates, and for paid supporters, it has a snippet from my upcoming book, Ex Partum (coming soon from @atthisarts.com).
www.patreon.com/posts/140919...
#scifi #specfic #booksky
www.patreon.com/posts/140919...
#scifi #specfic #booksky
Just got this email following World Fantasy Con, offering to sell me all attendee emails. Whilst I love replying to a scam (will drop links below), this one is a little more concerning. There are very few typos & the info is accurate. Not the usual.
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
![Email (mostly just black text on white background) that reads:
World Fantasy Convention 2025 Visitors List
Hi,
I hope you're doing well. I’m reaching out to see if you’d be interested in the Visitor List.
Event: World Fantasy Convention 2025
Date: 30 Oct - 02 Nov 2025
Place: Brighton, UK
Visitors: 2,000
If this is something you're interested in, I’d be happy to provide pricing and further details.
Best regards,
Caroline Marra | Business Analyst
This is a commercial message.
To stop receiving emails from us, [click here to Unsubscribe].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2wxv44gvg4ato4gsetxijzl/bafkreidfa5fq6tv4egvd24y7ayq53qgi3qrnbxc33spit7avjl2aktjo5a@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Just got this email following World Fantasy Con, offering to sell me all attendee emails. Whilst I love replying to a scam (will drop links below), this one is a little more concerning. There are very few typos & the info is accurate. Not the usual.
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
Oh my actual, I’m legit melting. Isn’t she the most lovely?
A very special Illustration for me inspired by an incredible 100 word story by the wonderful @slashnburnett.bsky.social
Please read it here: www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social
Timelapse to follow!
Please read it here: www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...
@fiveminutelit.bsky.social
Timelapse to follow!
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Oh my actual, I’m legit melting. Isn’t she the most lovely?
Today’s creative writing, ft punctuation
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Today’s creative writing, ft punctuation
Someone I know has recently taken to mansplaining technical space science details at me, to ‘improve’ my fiction. This is unsolicited and unwelcome.
Just wondering if other writers (particularly women) have dealt with this, and… how?
#writing #writingcommunity #scifi #specfic
Just wondering if other writers (particularly women) have dealt with this, and… how?
#writing #writingcommunity #scifi #specfic
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Someone I know has recently taken to mansplaining technical space science details at me, to ‘improve’ my fiction. This is unsolicited and unwelcome.
Just wondering if other writers (particularly women) have dealt with this, and… how?
#writing #writingcommunity #scifi #specfic
Just wondering if other writers (particularly women) have dealt with this, and… how?
#writing #writingcommunity #scifi #specfic
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November issues of @locusmag.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @lightspeedmagazine.com, The Dark, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and Dirty Magick are here! weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/
November 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
November issues of @locusmag.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @lightspeedmagazine.com, The Dark, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and Dirty Magick are here! weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/
Oh wait, hang on… this story was kind of happy?
FFF02102023
Fluid Movements
by Emma Burnett
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
emmaburnett.uk
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/flui...
Fluid Movements
by Emma Burnett
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
emmaburnett.uk
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/flui...
Fluid Movements – Free Flash Fiction
******He taught her to love her body. In a cramped bedroom on the top floor of a run-down tenement building, he gently tugged at her arms, freeing her breasts from under her hands, and smiled at her, ...
freeflashfiction.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Oh wait, hang on… this story was kind of happy?