Arthur H. Manners
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
Author of SFFH. Work published/forthcoming in Analog, Strange Horizons, Flash Fiction Online, etc.
Rep: Alexander Cochran, Greyhound Literary (UK) & Brandi Bowles, UTA (US).
Website & Newsletter: https://arthurmanners.com/
Rep: Alexander Cochran, Greyhound Literary (UK) & Brandi Bowles, UTA (US).
Website & Newsletter: https://arthurmanners.com/
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Absolutely love this tragic beauty of a story by @arthurmanners.bsky.social and the peace that only comes with acceptance, in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social magazine!
#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia
#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia
My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
Woodsong
It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Absolutely love this tragic beauty of a story by @arthurmanners.bsky.social and the peace that only comes with acceptance, in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social magazine!
#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia
#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia
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Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of the World Fantasy Awards!
World Fantasy Awards Winners
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2024 were presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, held October 30 – November 2, 2025 in Brighton, UK. The Life Achievement …
locusmag.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of the World Fantasy Awards!
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THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
ICYMI. I’m on some panels today at World Fantasy in Brighton. See you there!
This week I'll be at the World Fantasy Convention (30th Oct - 2nd Nov) in Brighton, UK. Both my panels are on Thursday 30th: 1. AI and LLMs in our industry: What Can We Do? What Should We Do? (5PM), 2. Visions of the Future (9PM). @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025
worldfantasy2025.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ICYMI. I’m on some panels today at World Fantasy in Brighton. See you there!
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An inescapable wilderness is the setting for Arthur H. Manners’ story “Woodsong.” At the edge of survival this indomitable father-son pair cling to hope
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
Woodsong
It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …
www.flashfictiononline.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
An inescapable wilderness is the setting for Arthur H. Manners’ story “Woodsong.” At the edge of survival this indomitable father-son pair cling to hope
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
This week I'll be at the World Fantasy Convention (30th Oct - 2nd Nov) in Brighton, UK. Both my panels are on Thursday 30th: 1. AI and LLMs in our industry: What Can We Do? What Should We Do? (5PM), 2. Visions of the Future (9PM). @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025
worldfantasy2025.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This week I'll be at the World Fantasy Convention (30th Oct - 2nd Nov) in Brighton, UK. Both my panels are on Thursday 30th: 1. AI and LLMs in our industry: What Can We Do? What Should We Do? (5PM), 2. Visions of the Future (9PM). @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
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Just followed these instructions. So. Much. Better.
spread the word.
spread the word.
October 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just followed these instructions. So. Much. Better.
spread the word.
spread the word.
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They’re so close! Can we get them across the finish line?
Friends, I am currently under the weather, very behind on work, fighting SAD--my heart, it cannot take this. Please, give and get @apexmag.bsky.social to their goal so I can save my dwindling supply of tissues for my nose and not my tears.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
They’re so close! Can we get them across the finish line?
Okay, friends! @apexmag.bsky.social is close to their Kickstarter funding goal, but needs your help to make it before the end of October. I got into short fiction because of Apex. Please, if you can swing anything, even pocket change, throw in. xx www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Okay, friends! @apexmag.bsky.social is close to their Kickstarter funding goal, but needs your help to make it before the end of October. I got into short fiction because of Apex. Please, if you can swing anything, even pocket change, throw in. xx www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
Woodsong
It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …
www.flashfictiononline.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
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Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!
October 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!
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Look at this Halloween ass book
You want it
You want it
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Look at this Halloween ass book
You want it
You want it
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A haunting story. 🖤
Delighted to have my sci-fi/horror story "Woodsong" appear in the October issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, which features tales of the deep, dark woods. www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A haunting story. 🖤
ICYMI
Delighted to have my sci-fi/horror story "Woodsong" appear in the October issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, which features tales of the deep, dark woods. www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
October 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
ICYMI
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💯
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
💯
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The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results
October 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results
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This is good advice, if you have one -- unclear how accurate that database is, as yet. I'm to understand the original search form just polled LibGen in general and not *specifically* what was pulled and scraped, and further the copyright issue muddies that, as well.
On the Anthropic database claim:
TALK TO YOUR AGENT (if you have one).
They will be able to help with claims and also payment/bank account requirements. US-based agents are already compiling a list of works and authors through their agents' association. Non-US agents should also be making lists.
TALK TO YOUR AGENT (if you have one).
They will be able to help with claims and also payment/bank account requirements. US-based agents are already compiling a list of works and authors through their agents' association. Non-US agents should also be making lists.
October 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is good advice, if you have one -- unclear how accurate that database is, as yet. I'm to understand the original search form just polled LibGen in general and not *specifically* what was pulled and scraped, and further the copyright issue muddies that, as well.
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Excellent point. We have our no-AI policy for submitters of both words and art (smallwondersmag.com/submissions/) but haven’t explicitly spelled out that we don’t use AI in place of first readers, to summarize pieces, or to talk to our contributors or staff. We’ll add that to our site.
October 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Excellent point. We have our no-AI policy for submitters of both words and art (smallwondersmag.com/submissions/) but haven’t explicitly spelled out that we don’t use AI in place of first readers, to summarize pieces, or to talk to our contributors or staff. We’ll add that to our site.
Delighted to have my sci-fi/horror story "Woodsong" appear in the October issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, which features tales of the deep, dark woods. www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Delighted to have my sci-fi/horror story "Woodsong" appear in the October issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, which features tales of the deep, dark woods. www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
Boosting Dave Goodman's newsletter, which is always a treat to find in my inbox. No idea how he blogs and newsletters and writes books, so I'm planning to strike and steal his secrets when the time is right.
Hey there new followers - my next newsletter comes out tomorrow at 1000hrs! Subscribe now for the full story on my Bloody Scotland adventure, lots of craft chat and the usual barrow-load of links and recommendations:
www.davidgoodman.net/newsletter/
www.davidgoodman.net/newsletter/
Newsletter
Hi, I'm Dave Goodman, an award-winning novelist and short story writer based in East Lothian, Scotland. I write spy thrillers, science fiction and more.
The Decrypt is my writing-focused newsletter. ...
www.davidgoodman.net
September 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Boosting Dave Goodman's newsletter, which is always a treat to find in my inbox. No idea how he blogs and newsletters and writes books, so I'm planning to strike and steal his secrets when the time is right.
Just finished the fantastic ergodic creepfest that is Basilisk by Matt Wixey. Comp title on the cover was "House of Leaves for hackers", and it absolutely delivered. www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...
September 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just finished the fantastic ergodic creepfest that is Basilisk by Matt Wixey. Comp title on the cover was "House of Leaves for hackers", and it absolutely delivered. www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...
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Lately I've been thinking of this as "platform logic" bc it's pretty much always got a platform
You aren't connected to a person or people. You're connected to the platform, which can facilitate specific types of interactions with people.
You don't have a dr, you have a care platform
You aren't connected to a person or people. You're connected to the platform, which can facilitate specific types of interactions with people.
You don't have a dr, you have a care platform
And! You have zero continuity of care. You see a different doc every time you go - there’s no ONE person looking at your chart to notice trends/patterns.
You get worse care - things get missed - you get *worse.*
Insurance company makes even *more* money.
It’s gross af.
You get worse care - things get missed - you get *worse.*
Insurance company makes even *more* money.
It’s gross af.
September 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Congrats on pub day, Nick! Who somehow found out that that "sci fi noir crime thriller" is the cheat code to my wallet.
This crazy sci fi noir crime thriller is out today in the UK and I can't wait for you all to read it!
Available in hardback, ebook, and audio from all reputable retailers (and probably some disreputable ones too!)
If you can, support your local indie!
Available in hardback, ebook, and audio from all reputable retailers (and probably some disreputable ones too!)
If you can, support your local indie!
September 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Congrats on pub day, Nick! Who somehow found out that that "sci fi noir crime thriller" is the cheat code to my wallet.
Outrageous.
ICYMI: Google removes net zero goal from website.
Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis
Google's goal to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030 is still apparently company policy, it's just not broadcasting it anymore
www.tomshardware.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Outrageous.