Alex Pheby
@alexpheby.bsky.social
Writer: GRACE/PLAYTHINGS/LUCIA/MORDEW/MALARKOI/WATERBLACK
Galley Beggar Press and Tor
Forthcoming: THE PICNIC/NOONE/LUMA
Agent: David Godwin david@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk
Galley Beggar Press and Tor
Forthcoming: THE PICNIC/NOONE/LUMA
Agent: David Godwin david@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk
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Come fellow writers, come willing to write what you’d rather burn:
✨EWS DOUBLE BILLING✨
Writing From Rage: Turning Fury Into Form
with Mark Bowles
26 November 2025
6-7:30pm GMT
&
Pop-up Salon: London with Insurgent Press
26 November 2025
8-10pm GMT
Both at:
The Queens Larder, 1 Queen Square WC1N 3AR
🎟️Tickets together or separate – see below
Writing From Rage: Turning Fury Into Form
with Mark Bowles
26 November 2025
6-7:30pm GMT
&
Pop-up Salon: London with Insurgent Press
26 November 2025
8-10pm GMT
Both at:
The Queens Larder, 1 Queen Square WC1N 3AR
🎟️Tickets together or separate – see below
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Come fellow writers, come willing to write what you’d rather burn:
Collector alert! Limited edition Cities of the Weft prints from the genius cover artist James Nunn. Get them before they sell out.
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Prints
James Nunn is a contemporary artist and printmaker, working primarily with ink, charcoal and pastel. Beautiful art for real homes.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Collector alert! Limited edition Cities of the Weft prints from the genius cover artist James Nunn. Get them before they sell out.
jamesnunnart.com/collections/...
jamesnunnart.com/collections/...
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Oh yes, we're doing this on Saturday 25th October at MCM Comic Con in London. Join me, RJ Barker, Alex Pheby and Juliet E. McKenna, as we discuss how to build fantasy worlds and our new book of essays, WRITING THE MAGIC (out September 18th).
September 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Oh yes, we're doing this on Saturday 25th October at MCM Comic Con in London. Join me, RJ Barker, Alex Pheby and Juliet E. McKenna, as we discuss how to build fantasy worlds and our new book of essays, WRITING THE MAGIC (out September 18th).
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Don't forget to grab a ticket for a night discussing Fantasy fiction with Dan Coxon, Alex Pheby and R.J. Barker at Dead Ink Bookshop! We're celebrating the launch of WRITING THE MAGIC ✨
Date: 18.09.25
Time: 6 - 8 PM
Tickets: £5 entry // £13 entry & book
deadinkbookshop.com/products/sep...
Date: 18.09.25
Time: 6 - 8 PM
Tickets: £5 entry // £13 entry & book
deadinkbookshop.com/products/sep...
SEPT 18 - Book Launch: WRITING THE MAGIC
Date: 18 SeptemberTime: 6 PM - 8 PMDead Ink Books, 375 Smithdown Road, L15 3JJTickets from £5 WRITING THE MAGIC is the fourth in Dead Ink's award winning series of genre writing guides. Following on f...
deadinkbookshop.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Don't forget to grab a ticket for a night discussing Fantasy fiction with Dan Coxon, Alex Pheby and R.J. Barker at Dead Ink Bookshop! We're celebrating the launch of WRITING THE MAGIC ✨
Date: 18.09.25
Time: 6 - 8 PM
Tickets: £5 entry // £13 entry & book
deadinkbookshop.com/products/sep...
Date: 18.09.25
Time: 6 - 8 PM
Tickets: £5 entry // £13 entry & book
deadinkbookshop.com/products/sep...
Signing with Wes at Elliott Bay bookstore in Seattle. V. cool guy.
August 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Signing with Wes at Elliott Bay bookstore in Seattle. V. cool guy.
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No Tropes For Me—Let’s Write Weird panel @seattlein2025.org #worldcon2025
August 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
No Tropes For Me—Let’s Write Weird panel @seattlein2025.org #worldcon2025
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Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
Prize — Galley Beggar Press
www.galleybeggar.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Closing date 8 November!
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Alert! Alert! We're having a 35% backlist title sale.
And just look at these incredible books: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/gbp-timeline...
And just look at these incredible books: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/gbp-timeline...
GBP Timeline — Galley Beggar Press
www.galleybeggar.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Alert! Alert! We're having a 35% backlist title sale.
And just look at these incredible books: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/gbp-timeline...
And just look at these incredible books: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/gbp-timeline...
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We're bringing a little magic to #Liverpool this September! WRITING THE MAGIC will launch on Thurs 18 Sept at Dead Ink Books, Liverpool, at 6pm. Discussing it with me will be archmages of the written word Alex Pheby & RJ Barker. More info and tickets below.
deadinkbookshop.com/products/sep...
deadinkbookshop.com/products/sep...
SEPT 18 - Book Launch: WRITING THE MAGIC
Date: 18 SeptemberTime: 6 PM - 8 PMDead Ink Books, 375 Smithdown Road, L15 3JJTickets from £5 WRITING THE MAGIC is the fourth in Dead Ink's award winning series of genre writing guides. Following on f...
deadinkbookshop.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We're bringing a little magic to #Liverpool this September! WRITING THE MAGIC will launch on Thurs 18 Sept at Dead Ink Books, Liverpool, at 6pm. Discussing it with me will be archmages of the written word Alex Pheby & RJ Barker. More info and tickets below.
deadinkbookshop.com/products/sep...
deadinkbookshop.com/products/sep...
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Reading “Waterblack” by @alexpheby.bsky.social and a dreadful thing is occurring — this novel (and the series it concludes, “Cities of the Weft”) is SO bloody good that it’s spoiling me rotten. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that this is as good as Mervyn Peake.
July 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reading “Waterblack” by @alexpheby.bsky.social and a dreadful thing is occurring — this novel (and the series it concludes, “Cities of the Weft”) is SO bloody good that it’s spoiling me rotten. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that this is as good as Mervyn Peake.
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Do yourself a favor and read the cities of the West trilogy from @alexpheby.bsky.social. Waterblack, the last installment, is a mind blowing conclusion?? that I am in total awe of.
Rating: 5/5⭐
Final Recommendation: BUY ALL OF THEM IMMEDIATELY
#booksky 💙📚💫🖋️
Rating: 5/5⭐
Final Recommendation: BUY ALL OF THEM IMMEDIATELY
#booksky 💙📚💫🖋️
June 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Do yourself a favor and read the cities of the West trilogy from @alexpheby.bsky.social. Waterblack, the last installment, is a mind blowing conclusion?? that I am in total awe of.
Rating: 5/5⭐
Final Recommendation: BUY ALL OF THEM IMMEDIATELY
#booksky 💙📚💫🖋️
Rating: 5/5⭐
Final Recommendation: BUY ALL OF THEM IMMEDIATELY
#booksky 💙📚💫🖋️
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Links, Tips and Suggestions substack.com/@samj/note/c...
SamJordison on Substack
An old idea in a new form. A column I used to run in The Guardian is back, with some new twists. Let’s see if it also works on Substack. (Features Lawrence Sterne, Graham Swift, Lorde, bookworms, Don ...
substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Links, Tips and Suggestions substack.com/@samj/note/c...
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Our latest newsletter is live: shorturl.at/0KVXi Contains: news. News about Waterblack, upcoming books, upcoming short story prize and more.
Landmark literature
It feels like quite a while since we last sent a newsletter… And that’s because it is.
www.galleybeggar.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Our latest newsletter is live: shorturl.at/0KVXi Contains: news. News about Waterblack, upcoming books, upcoming short story prize and more.
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Epic review of Waterblack in @strangehorizons.bsky.social by Matthew Eatough: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
"Waterblack will be greeted as a fitting conclusion to one of the landmark works of experimental fantasy of the twenty-first century...
"Waterblack will be greeted as a fitting conclusion to one of the landmark works of experimental fantasy of the twenty-first century...
Waterblack by Alex Pheby
“How is a person changed by power?”
strangehorizons.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Epic review of Waterblack in @strangehorizons.bsky.social by Matthew Eatough: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
"Waterblack will be greeted as a fitting conclusion to one of the landmark works of experimental fantasy of the twenty-first century...
"Waterblack will be greeted as a fitting conclusion to one of the landmark works of experimental fantasy of the twenty-first century...
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Amid the excitement of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social fund drive, we also have a standard issue this week (we are rockstars).
In Reviews so far: Eatough on Waterblack and Pheby’s Cities of the Weft (@galleybeggars.bsky.social); @marinaberlin.bsky.social on Wheel of Time’s third and final season.
In Reviews so far: Eatough on Waterblack and Pheby’s Cities of the Weft (@galleybeggars.bsky.social); @marinaberlin.bsky.social on Wheel of Time’s third and final season.
9 June 2025
Visit the post for more.
www.strangehorizons.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Amid the excitement of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social fund drive, we also have a standard issue this week (we are rockstars).
In Reviews so far: Eatough on Waterblack and Pheby’s Cities of the Weft (@galleybeggars.bsky.social); @marinaberlin.bsky.social on Wheel of Time’s third and final season.
In Reviews so far: Eatough on Waterblack and Pheby’s Cities of the Weft (@galleybeggars.bsky.social); @marinaberlin.bsky.social on Wheel of Time’s third and final season.
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THE COUNTDOWN APPROACHES!
We have 4 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!!
Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!
Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky
We have 4 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!!
Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!
Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky
May 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
THE COUNTDOWN APPROACHES!
We have 4 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!!
Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!
Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky
We have 4 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!!
Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!
Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky
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"If, in Peake, I saw the possibility of a fundamentally different sort of fantasy story from those of Tolkien and his many imitators then in Pheby we can see the perfection of that method" Sounds right! www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/02/23/i...
Interrogating Power and Narrative in the Cities of the Weft Trilogy - Typebar Magazine
An admonishment to read closely and not to fix upon plot becomes an encouragement to read as you will.
www.typebarmagazine.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"If, in Peake, I saw the possibility of a fundamentally different sort of fantasy story from those of Tolkien and his many imitators then in Pheby we can see the perfection of that method" Sounds right! www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/02/23/i...
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The Fiction shortlist:
Mark Bowles, All My Precious Madness @galleybeggars.bsky.social
Lucas Rijneveld, My Heavenly Favourite, translated by Michele Hutchison @faberbooks.bsky.social
Phillip B. Williams, Ours @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Yasmin Zaher, The Coin @wearefootnote.bsky.social
Mark Bowles, All My Precious Madness @galleybeggars.bsky.social
Lucas Rijneveld, My Heavenly Favourite, translated by Michele Hutchison @faberbooks.bsky.social
Phillip B. Williams, Ours @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Yasmin Zaher, The Coin @wearefootnote.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The Fiction shortlist:
Mark Bowles, All My Precious Madness @galleybeggars.bsky.social
Lucas Rijneveld, My Heavenly Favourite, translated by Michele Hutchison @faberbooks.bsky.social
Phillip B. Williams, Ours @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Yasmin Zaher, The Coin @wearefootnote.bsky.social
Mark Bowles, All My Precious Madness @galleybeggars.bsky.social
Lucas Rijneveld, My Heavenly Favourite, translated by Michele Hutchison @faberbooks.bsky.social
Phillip B. Williams, Ours @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Yasmin Zaher, The Coin @wearefootnote.bsky.social
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We just finished recording a bonus episode with @alexpheby.bsky.social about his work, the undeserved disrespect heaped on Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and Final Fantasy games. We all had a great time chatting with him and can't wait to get the episode out to you!
We'll be back to Against the Day in two weeks!
We'll be back to Against the Day in two weeks!
May 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We just finished recording a bonus episode with @alexpheby.bsky.social about his work, the undeserved disrespect heaped on Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and Final Fantasy games. We all had a great time chatting with him and can't wait to get the episode out to you!
We'll be back to Against the Day in two weeks!
We'll be back to Against the Day in two weeks!
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The third has finally come to join the others. I can’t wait to see how the Weft expands in Waterblack @galleybeggars.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The third has finally come to join the others. I can’t wait to see how the Weft expands in Waterblack @galleybeggars.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social
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My God. Mark Bowles, All My Precious Madness. Do read it, please.
April 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My God. Mark Bowles, All My Precious Madness. Do read it, please.
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I'm listening to Waterblack by Alex Pheby and it's fantastic. Been looking forward to it so much.
March 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I'm listening to Waterblack by Alex Pheby and it's fantastic. Been looking forward to it so much.