Celia Neri
@celianeri.bsky.social
Scifi & fantasy writer (they/them). Stories in Apex Mag, Three Crows & Rosalind's Siblings.
I often type without my glasses because I like living dangerously.
Pardon my French.
http://www.celianeri.com
I often type without my glasses because I like living dangerously.
Pardon my French.
http://www.celianeri.com
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Very excited to share with you all my first Uncanny story & also my first horror short! 😍💀
Island folk horror with a splash of the cosmic, in which the gorgona of Greek folklore is way cooler than Cthulhu ever will be 🧜♀️ @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/zarg...
Island folk horror with a splash of the cosmic, in which the gorgona of Greek folklore is way cooler than Cthulhu ever will be 🧜♀️ @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/zarg...
Zarghána - Uncanny Magazine
On this island, women wait. It’s what they were made to do. Each morning, the sun warms the white-and-blue houses and, soft-boiled eggs, the doors crack. One by one the women trot out, sit on cattail ...
www.uncannymagazine.com
August 12, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Very excited to share with you all my first Uncanny story & also my first horror short! 😍💀
Island folk horror with a splash of the cosmic, in which the gorgona of Greek folklore is way cooler than Cthulhu ever will be 🧜♀️ @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/zarg...
Island folk horror with a splash of the cosmic, in which the gorgona of Greek folklore is way cooler than Cthulhu ever will be 🧜♀️ @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/zarg...
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Oh hey! "Loneliness Universe" my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social novelette got a kind review at Narrated Podcast among some awesome fiction! Check them out. :)
Short Fiction Spotlight includes stories by:
@foxesandroses.bsky.social
@sbdivya.bsky.social
Tia Tashiro
@rati.bsky.social
Elliot Gish
Luc Diamant
narratedpodcast.com/episodes/269
@foxesandroses.bsky.social
@sbdivya.bsky.social
Tia Tashiro
@rati.bsky.social
Elliot Gish
Luc Diamant
narratedpodcast.com/episodes/269
269: We Speak Through the Mountain — Narrated Podcast
narratedpodcast.com
August 13, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Oh hey! "Loneliness Universe" my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social novelette got a kind review at Narrated Podcast among some awesome fiction! Check them out. :)
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social I was delighted to meet you and Harold yesterday. Congrats on the NoaF win ! I hope our paths will cross again at a future con.
August 12, 2024 at 9:48 AM
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social I was delighted to meet you and Harold yesterday. Congrats on the NoaF win ! I hope our paths will cross again at a future con.
WorldCon is coming to an end for me. Most expensive meet up in the world but such a pleasure to see friends, spend hours chatting with them and meeting new people.
My next con will be World Fantasy+FantasyCon in 2025 and I’m already looking forward to it!
Thanks to Team Glasgow 2024!
My next con will be World Fantasy+FantasyCon in 2025 and I’m already looking forward to it!
Thanks to Team Glasgow 2024!
August 11, 2024 at 10:04 PM
WorldCon is coming to an end for me. Most expensive meet up in the world but such a pleasure to see friends, spend hours chatting with them and meeting new people.
My next con will be World Fantasy+FantasyCon in 2025 and I’m already looking forward to it!
Thanks to Team Glasgow 2024!
My next con will be World Fantasy+FantasyCon in 2025 and I’m already looking forward to it!
Thanks to Team Glasgow 2024!
WorldCon is coming closer. Feel free to say hi if you see me!
(If you can see me, it means I’m in social mode so you won’t bother me!)
(If you can see me, it means I’m in social mode so you won’t bother me!)
July 31, 2024 at 3:49 PM
WorldCon is coming closer. Feel free to say hi if you see me!
(If you can see me, it means I’m in social mode so you won’t bother me!)
(If you can see me, it means I’m in social mode so you won’t bother me!)
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It's here!!! 🪲🌳
My return to Strange Horizons is a body horror short story about a Greek village, its pack of half-feral kids, and the shapeshifting skills the cicadas taught them.
Read "Cicadas, and Their Skins" here:
strangehorizons.com/fiction/cica...
My return to Strange Horizons is a body horror short story about a Greek village, its pack of half-feral kids, and the shapeshifting skills the cicadas taught them.
Read "Cicadas, and Their Skins" here:
strangehorizons.com/fiction/cica...
Cicadas, and Their Skins
I spent my first summer as an orphan watching cicadas fuck, scream, and molt.
strangehorizons.com
July 30, 2024 at 4:33 PM
It's here!!! 🪲🌳
My return to Strange Horizons is a body horror short story about a Greek village, its pack of half-feral kids, and the shapeshifting skills the cicadas taught them.
Read "Cicadas, and Their Skins" here:
strangehorizons.com/fiction/cica...
My return to Strange Horizons is a body horror short story about a Greek village, its pack of half-feral kids, and the shapeshifting skills the cicadas taught them.
Read "Cicadas, and Their Skins" here:
strangehorizons.com/fiction/cica...
@julietemckenna.bsky.social I believe Dan would approve !
July 30, 2024 at 3:44 PM
@julietemckenna.bsky.social I believe Dan would approve !
@glasgow2024.bsky.social Dear Glasgow Team, since you must be getting a lot of hate atm, I wanted to send you some love instead. I love the energy! Keep it up!
July 18, 2024 at 2:15 PM
@glasgow2024.bsky.social Dear Glasgow Team, since you must be getting a lot of hate atm, I wanted to send you some love instead. I love the energy! Keep it up!
I’ll be at WorldCon in Glasgow in August and super happy about it.
Seeing old friends, meeting new people, listening to great panels, and all of this in a city I love and where temperatures are 15°C below what I usually experience in summer?
Dream holiday!
Seeing old friends, meeting new people, listening to great panels, and all of this in a city I love and where temperatures are 15°C below what I usually experience in summer?
Dream holiday!
June 30, 2024 at 1:20 PM
I’ll be at WorldCon in Glasgow in August and super happy about it.
Seeing old friends, meeting new people, listening to great panels, and all of this in a city I love and where temperatures are 15°C below what I usually experience in summer?
Dream holiday!
Seeing old friends, meeting new people, listening to great panels, and all of this in a city I love and where temperatures are 15°C below what I usually experience in summer?
Dream holiday!
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I read this as "Eugenia makes a monster"...and it checks out? 😆
But this is a story about the girls that might or might not be monsters. Get ready for them!
But this is a story about the girls that might or might not be monsters. Get ready for them!
What makes a monster? Find out in "Skinless," a new story by Eugenia Triantafyllou / @foxesandroses.bsky.social!
Read it in our July issue, available now to subscribers and to buy!
Read it in our July issue, available now to subscribers and to buy!
June 26, 2024 at 3:29 PM
I read this as "Eugenia makes a monster"...and it checks out? 😆
But this is a story about the girls that might or might not be monsters. Get ready for them!
But this is a story about the girls that might or might not be monsters. Get ready for them!
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Resharing this mother-daughter loop story based on Greek folklore because why not?
Sea horror Saturday!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue41/3lbe...
Sea horror Saturday!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue41/3lbe...
3LBE Magazine - Over the Yiousouri Tree by Avra Margariti
There is a tree in the sea and it births monsters. Or so Mana says as we lift the nets bulging with the morning catch. The nets are woven out of dried seaweed snagged against our boat, and old sailor-...
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June 29, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Resharing this mother-daughter loop story based on Greek folklore because why not?
Sea horror Saturday!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue41/3lbe...
Sea horror Saturday!
www.3lobedmag.com/issue41/3lbe...
@shonak.bsky.social Hi Shona! May I send you a DM here or on Discord during the weekend?
June 29, 2024 at 5:49 AM
@shonak.bsky.social Hi Shona! May I send you a DM here or on Discord during the weekend?
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What's that you say, a new fantasy series from Orbit, all about a fake chosen one? That sounds exciting. I wonder who wrote it?
ME IT'S ME I WROTE THIS AND IT'S REAL AND I CAN FINALLY SHOUT ABOUT IT!
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
ME IT'S ME I WROTE THIS AND IT'S REAL AND I CAN FINALLY SHOUT ABOUT IT!
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
Acquisition Announcement: FORGED FOR DESTINY by Andrew Knighton
Orbit is happy to announce the acquisition of Forged For Destiny, by Andrew Knighton, the first book in a new, ecstatically fun sword and sorcery fantasy series that turns the “chosen one” trope on…
www.hachettebookgroup.com
June 17, 2024 at 9:04 PM
What's that you say, a new fantasy series from Orbit, all about a fake chosen one? That sounds exciting. I wonder who wrote it?
ME IT'S ME I WROTE THIS AND IT'S REAL AND I CAN FINALLY SHOUT ABOUT IT!
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
ME IT'S ME I WROTE THIS AND IT'S REAL AND I CAN FINALLY SHOUT ABOUT IT!
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
Wishing you all Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Loved and a hard boiled egg!
#Glorious25th
#GNUTerryPratchett
#Glorious25th
#GNUTerryPratchett
May 25, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Wishing you all Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Loved and a hard boiled egg!
#Glorious25th
#GNUTerryPratchett
#Glorious25th
#GNUTerryPratchett
*emerges from the depths of a manuscript*
May the fourth be with you.
*plunges back into the deep*
May the fourth be with you.
*plunges back into the deep*
May 4, 2024 at 1:41 PM
*emerges from the depths of a manuscript*
May the fourth be with you.
*plunges back into the deep*
May the fourth be with you.
*plunges back into the deep*
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Hades curse it, does nobody actually read the Science Fiction?
April 30, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Hades curse it, does nobody actually read the Science Fiction?
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THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a finalist for the Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction category. I'm grateful for this unexpected and difficult joy. As a Lammy nominee—so very strange!—I have three painful things to say. I'll try to keep it short. vajra.me/2024/03/27/t...
The Saint of Bright Doors is a Lammy Award Finalist
THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a finalist for the Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction category.
vajra.me
March 27, 2024 at 3:58 PM
THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a finalist for the Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction category. I'm grateful for this unexpected and difficult joy. As a Lammy nominee—so very strange!—I have three painful things to say. I'll try to keep it short. vajra.me/2024/03/27/t...
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And!
I have an extra copy at hand that I'm happy to sign & I'm going to have a thread for it shortly, where you can bid on it in exchange for a donation to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
I'll ship it worldwide wherever USPS ships.
Keep an eye out!
I have an extra copy at hand that I'm happy to sign & I'm going to have a thread for it shortly, where you can bid on it in exchange for a donation to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
I'll ship it worldwide wherever USPS ships.
Keep an eye out!
March 27, 2024 at 9:56 PM
And!
I have an extra copy at hand that I'm happy to sign & I'm going to have a thread for it shortly, where you can bid on it in exchange for a donation to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
I'll ship it worldwide wherever USPS ships.
Keep an eye out!
I have an extra copy at hand that I'm happy to sign & I'm going to have a thread for it shortly, where you can bid on it in exchange for a donation to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
I'll ship it worldwide wherever USPS ships.
Keep an eye out!
Thrilled to hear that Rosalind’s Siblings is Lambda Award finalist!
So many wonderful stories in it, and also my own "Tightrope Walker". Read it!
So many wonderful stories in it, and also my own "Tightrope Walker". Read it!
Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders is a Lambda award finalist!
Thank you to everyone who supported this book; D Franklin, who asked me to edit a Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology; and my publisher @atthisarts.com who believed in it!
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Thank you to everyone who supported this book; D Franklin, who asked me to edit a Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology; and my publisher @atthisarts.com who believed in it!
More -
March 28, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Thrilled to hear that Rosalind’s Siblings is Lambda Award finalist!
So many wonderful stories in it, and also my own "Tightrope Walker". Read it!
So many wonderful stories in it, and also my own "Tightrope Walker". Read it!
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Not to not talk about the Hugos or anything 😂 but it's publication eve for the @lunapress.bsky.social novellas. Which means it's surely *high time* I shared some lovely things people have said about THE LAST TO DROWN!
(Yes, I should have done it earlier probably, but health crash. Oh the irony!)
(Yes, I should have done it earlier probably, but health crash. Oh the irony!)
February 18, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Not to not talk about the Hugos or anything 😂 but it's publication eve for the @lunapress.bsky.social novellas. Which means it's surely *high time* I shared some lovely things people have said about THE LAST TO DROWN!
(Yes, I should have done it earlier probably, but health crash. Oh the irony!)
(Yes, I should have done it earlier probably, but health crash. Oh the irony!)
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🎉 My new book is now out!! Repost from the rooftops!! 🎉
POWER TO YIELD AND OTHER STORIES, from Broken Eye Books, with an awesome cover by Galen Dara.
Amazon US: amzn.to/3UBawAP
Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/14302/9781...
From press: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p112/P...
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POWER TO YIELD AND OTHER STORIES, from Broken Eye Books, with an awesome cover by Galen Dara.
Amazon US: amzn.to/3UBawAP
Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/14302/9781...
From press: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p112/P...
(associate links)
February 14, 2024 at 3:16 PM
🎉 My new book is now out!! Repost from the rooftops!! 🎉
POWER TO YIELD AND OTHER STORIES, from Broken Eye Books, with an awesome cover by Galen Dara.
Amazon US: amzn.to/3UBawAP
Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/14302/9781...
From press: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p112/P...
(associate links)
POWER TO YIELD AND OTHER STORIES, from Broken Eye Books, with an awesome cover by Galen Dara.
Amazon US: amzn.to/3UBawAP
Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/14302/9781...
From press: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p112/P...
(associate links)
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Rosalind's Siblings is one of this year's Locus Recommended anthologies!! I'm delighted!
locusmag.com/2024/02/2023...
locusmag.com/2024/02/2023...
2023 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List! Another spin around the ole ball of fire and we’re back to our annual Recommended Reading List for 2023! Published in Locus magazine’s …
locusmag.com
February 1, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Rosalind's Siblings is one of this year's Locus Recommended anthologies!! I'm delighted!
locusmag.com/2024/02/2023...
locusmag.com/2024/02/2023...
Super honoured to see "The Tightrope Walker" on the Nerds of a Feather amazing rec list.
I never thought that a story about an autistic scientist facing the temptation of the void would hit so many people. Thank you to everyone who liked it and recommended it!
bsky.app/profile/nerd...
I never thought that a story about an autistic scientist facing the temptation of the void would hit so many people. Thank you to everyone who liked it and recommended it!
bsky.app/profile/nerd...
Nerds of a Feather 2024 Hugo Award Recommendation List: Part 1
Welcome to the Nerds of a Feather 2024 Hugo Award Recommendation List.
It's a bit uncomfortable, this year, given events in Chengdu but here are our major fiction recommendations.
www.nerds-feather.com/2024/01/nerd...
Welcome to the Nerds of a Feather 2024 Hugo Award Recommendation List.
It's a bit uncomfortable, this year, given events in Chengdu but here are our major fiction recommendations.
www.nerds-feather.com/2024/01/nerd...
Nerds of a Feather 2024 Hugo Award Recommendation List: Part 1
Welcome to the Nerds of a Feather 2024 Hugo Award Recommendation List. As in previous years, this is a 4-part list covering things our write...
www.nerds-feather.com
January 30, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Super honoured to see "The Tightrope Walker" on the Nerds of a Feather amazing rec list.
I never thought that a story about an autistic scientist facing the temptation of the void would hit so many people. Thank you to everyone who liked it and recommended it!
bsky.app/profile/nerd...
I never thought that a story about an autistic scientist facing the temptation of the void would hit so many people. Thank you to everyone who liked it and recommended it!
bsky.app/profile/nerd...
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It's me! And thirteen other awesome writers. That's a marvellous piece of news for the day.
Close to the Edge - our Flash Fiction Competition. We whittled the entries down to the Final Thirteen - see who they are here:
www.shorelineofinfinity.com/flash-fictio...
www.shorelineofinfinity.com/flash-fictio...
December 12, 2023 at 11:00 AM
It's me! And thirteen other awesome writers. That's a marvellous piece of news for the day.