Christopher Marcatili
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Christopher Marcatili
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Writer. Researcher. Editor. Game designer. Restless hermit.

Weird/queer/fantasy fic
www.christophermarcatili.com

Anthropology: creativity, writing, Iceland
elsewhereanthropologist.substack.com

Games
nogoodnikstudio.com

Editing
www.ellipsis-editing.com
Just recently finished reading #graphicnovel 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane... what a ride! The art is gorgeously intricate. The stories are nonsensically weird. I loved every page.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

#graphicnovels #comics #comicsky #scifi
August 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Extremely excited to announce that my brother Luke and I are recipients of Screen NSW's Development fund to develop Gutterjacket, a #cyberpunk adventure #videogame

Drawing on classic adventure games with a modern twist.

More: nogoodnikstudio.com

#indiegames #gamedev #scifi #writing
August 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Zora Neale Hurston is essential reading for US #literature. Did you know she was also an #anthropologist?

Hers might be the most successful, impactful example of ethnographic #fiction. Read my #review on #substack

#booksky #writingcommunity #africanamerican #books #anthropology #ZoraNealeHurston
April 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A little teaser I made of my most recent #shortstory Grief for Others. Read the full piece: overland.org.au/2024/11/grie...

#writingcommunity #booksky #writers #amwriting #stories #books #dark #specfic
March 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
#MarchWorldbuilders 25/3: MC + ethical dilemma.

In #TrickstersWake Evelyn Blackbriar is obsessed with understanding the deadly trickster creatures that bend the earth at will, and kill in the wilds outside the city. Why is she so sympathetic to these monsters??

#writingcommunity #SFF #fantasy
March 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
#MarchWorldbuilders #writingcommunity

In #TrickstersWake the major Panquist church collapsed about 50 years earlier. But the recently elected autocratic government has re-embraced Panquist moralism, leading to prohibition, state control, controlled borders...

#fantasy #fiction #sff #writer #books
March 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#MarchWorldbuilders 18 Punishment for Sin

In #TrickstersWake the gravest* punishment is to be buried underground, esp. alive (obvs).

In a world where wild creatures bend the earth at will, there's no nightmare worse than being buried.

#writingcommunity #fantasy #fiction #amwriting #sff #booksky
March 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
First Draft #WIP Live With Me, Sorrow complete! A #queer #novella

Sam wakes one to find himself haunted by his still living grandmother. About #grief #family and #forgiveness

Check out my website for updates!

#writingcommunity #amwriting #fiction #author #writers #readers #amreading #story
March 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Currently Reading:

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Written by #anthropologist and #author, Hurston was both rejected by anthropologists AND #AfricanAmerican authors and commentators in her time. Yet her work has risen to become essential reading.

#booksky #writer #fiction
January 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM