Elva Hills
@elvahills.bsky.social
Writer from UK and US. She/they. 🏳️🌈🌻🏳️⚧️
SL #Kelpies Prize 2024. LL #WMCNA 2022 and #TimesChickenHouse 2021. SCBWI WIP Awardee 2021.
SL #Kelpies Prize 2024. LL #WMCNA 2022 and #TimesChickenHouse 2021. SCBWI WIP Awardee 2021.
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Very few folks have entered this, so odds of nabbing a free copy are high 😅 👀
Happy 1-year-versary to Limelight today - tales of not-so-far futures...! To celebrate: a GIVEAWAY, 2 paperbacks & 3 ebooks from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social! Just repost & comment preference ebook/paperback (or either)! For a bonus tell me your fave dark SF read! Will draw at random on 10th Sept ✨️🖤🚀
September 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Very few folks have entered this, so odds of nabbing a free copy are high 😅 👀
Another year, another application to the New Writers Award.
Proof that applications are worth submitting to even if the odds aren't in your favour: when asked 'what do you plan to work on?' I finally put pen to paper and outlined a novel that's been knocking around in my brain for years.
Proof that applications are worth submitting to even if the odds aren't in your favour: when asked 'what do you plan to work on?' I finally put pen to paper and outlined a novel that's been knocking around in my brain for years.
September 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Another year, another application to the New Writers Award.
Proof that applications are worth submitting to even if the odds aren't in your favour: when asked 'what do you plan to work on?' I finally put pen to paper and outlined a novel that's been knocking around in my brain for years.
Proof that applications are worth submitting to even if the odds aren't in your favour: when asked 'what do you plan to work on?' I finally put pen to paper and outlined a novel that's been knocking around in my brain for years.
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You've just warmly welcomed Serwotka - the husband of the woman who set up a TRANSPHOBIC HATE GROUP ("A Woman's Place") into #YourParty.
Meanwhile Corbyn is sharing top billing with a transphobe and anti abortion rights MP.
Your Party is dead. What the hell are you both thinking?
Meanwhile Corbyn is sharing top billing with a transphobe and anti abortion rights MP.
Your Party is dead. What the hell are you both thinking?
September 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
You've just warmly welcomed Serwotka - the husband of the woman who set up a TRANSPHOBIC HATE GROUP ("A Woman's Place") into #YourParty.
Meanwhile Corbyn is sharing top billing with a transphobe and anti abortion rights MP.
Your Party is dead. What the hell are you both thinking?
Meanwhile Corbyn is sharing top billing with a transphobe and anti abortion rights MP.
Your Party is dead. What the hell are you both thinking?
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Essential reading.
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
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August 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Essential reading.
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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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What in the utterly petty hell is this nonsense, Florida 😒
1. The situation in Florida is growing more tense with the erasure of Pride crosswalks.
After state officials painted over the Pulse Memorial sidewalk in Orlando, Florida Citizens painted them back.
Now the state has sent 7 squad cars to stare at the crosswalk.
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After state officials painted over the Pulse Memorial sidewalk in Orlando, Florida Citizens painted them back.
Now the state has sent 7 squad cars to stare at the crosswalk.
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Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow Colors
The move comes after citizens repainted the Pulse memorial sidewalk in Pride colors.
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August 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What in the utterly petty hell is this nonsense, Florida 😒
As a chronically ill/disabled person who couldn't even get on the wait list for accessible seating at Chappell Roan, I'm equal parts dread and excitement about tomorrow. Organisers could have accommodated more peoples' disabilities if they want to but you're supposed to suffer or miss out I guess.
August 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
As a chronically ill/disabled person who couldn't even get on the wait list for accessible seating at Chappell Roan, I'm equal parts dread and excitement about tomorrow. Organisers could have accommodated more peoples' disabilities if they want to but you're supposed to suffer or miss out I guess.
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
My toddler's obsession with Chappell Roan continues. His favourite is now "Chappell Roan gets her hair stuck", as he refers to The Subway. He is going to be so crushed that he's not coming to her show end of August, so I guess it's best he learns the lyrics now. #SheGotAway
a woman with red hair is dancing in a dark room with her arms outstretched
ALT: a woman with red hair is dancing in a dark room with her arms outstretched
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August 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My toddler's obsession with Chappell Roan continues. His favourite is now "Chappell Roan gets her hair stuck", as he refers to The Subway. He is going to be so crushed that he's not coming to her show end of August, so I guess it's best he learns the lyrics now. #SheGotAway
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Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
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Disappointing statement from the Polari Prize.
The inviolable right of our trans & non-binary siblings to live safely, without fear, abuse or discrimination is not a matter for debate, nor "a substantive issue" & you cannot "hold a different position”
You cannot “both sides” people’s right to exist
The inviolable right of our trans & non-binary siblings to live safely, without fear, abuse or discrimination is not a matter for debate, nor "a substantive issue" & you cannot "hold a different position”
You cannot “both sides” people’s right to exist
August 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Disappointing statement from the Polari Prize.
The inviolable right of our trans & non-binary siblings to live safely, without fear, abuse or discrimination is not a matter for debate, nor "a substantive issue" & you cannot "hold a different position”
You cannot “both sides” people’s right to exist
The inviolable right of our trans & non-binary siblings to live safely, without fear, abuse or discrimination is not a matter for debate, nor "a substantive issue" & you cannot "hold a different position”
You cannot “both sides” people’s right to exist
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Re John Boyne and the Polari Prize. I didn't think it could get worse, but here we are.
This has gone quite wide, here & on insta. I’m talking about John Boyne and the Polari Prize. Boyne said in his paean to Rowling last week in the Irish independent that women who support trans rights are “complicit in their own erasure” and “ready to pin down a handmaiden as her husband rapes her.”
You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.
August 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Re John Boyne and the Polari Prize. I didn't think it could get worse, but here we are.
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In case you needed a reminder of how disgusting and contemptible John Boyne is.
This has gone quite wide, here & on insta. I’m talking about John Boyne and the Polari Prize. Boyne said in his paean to Rowling last week in the Irish independent that women who support trans rights are “complicit in their own erasure” and “ready to pin down a handmaiden as her husband rapes her.”
You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.
August 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
In case you needed a reminder of how disgusting and contemptible John Boyne is.
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Donald Trump is not welcome in Scotland.
July 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Donald Trump is not welcome in Scotland.
I have a horrible cold and a flare up, so every part of my body hurts and I feel heavy like a bag of wet cement BUT not being able to sleep meant I finished reading the most amazing book yesterday.
#ThisPrincessKillsMonsters
#ThisPrincessKillsMonsters
July 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I have a horrible cold and a flare up, so every part of my body hurts and I feel heavy like a bag of wet cement BUT not being able to sleep meant I finished reading the most amazing book yesterday.
#ThisPrincessKillsMonsters
#ThisPrincessKillsMonsters
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“AI is inevitable, we’re just going to have to live with it” sounds a lot like “Covid is inevitable, we’re just going to have to live with it”
We’re all being conditioned to accept mass atrocity as normal
We’re all being conditioned to accept mass atrocity as normal
July 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“AI is inevitable, we’re just going to have to live with it” sounds a lot like “Covid is inevitable, we’re just going to have to live with it”
We’re all being conditioned to accept mass atrocity as normal
We’re all being conditioned to accept mass atrocity as normal
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Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
July 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
Listening to the Pink Pony Club cover by Hildegard von Blingin' makes me want to write a medieval fantasy, a genre I've always been too intimidated by to attempt, but undeniably where my writing aspirations began.
A perk of being an unpublished writer: I can write anything I please. 🙃
A perk of being an unpublished writer: I can write anything I please. 🙃
a painting of people with the word frolic on the top
ALT: a painting of people with the word frolic on the top
media.tenor.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Listening to the Pink Pony Club cover by Hildegard von Blingin' makes me want to write a medieval fantasy, a genre I've always been too intimidated by to attempt, but undeniably where my writing aspirations began.
A perk of being an unpublished writer: I can write anything I please. 🙃
A perk of being an unpublished writer: I can write anything I please. 🙃
For the first time in my knowledge, my toddler has an opinion on my outfit and baby does not like denim waistcoats. (Rude.)
July 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
For the first time in my knowledge, my toddler has an opinion on my outfit and baby does not like denim waistcoats. (Rude.)
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absolutely fuck this but it's crucial to think seriously about the fact that things like 'displaying a pride flag' and 'using customers' preferred pronouns' are being seen as unacceptable.
this country is far, far further along the slide into fascism than i think many people realise
this country is far, far further along the slide into fascism than i think many people realise
July 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
absolutely fuck this but it's crucial to think seriously about the fact that things like 'displaying a pride flag' and 'using customers' preferred pronouns' are being seen as unacceptable.
this country is far, far further along the slide into fascism than i think many people realise
this country is far, far further along the slide into fascism than i think many people realise
I am obsessed with the floppy pages of a US paperback. They're light. They're breezy. They hold themselves open. My arthritic hands are grateful.
July 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I am obsessed with the floppy pages of a US paperback. They're light. They're breezy. They hold themselves open. My arthritic hands are grateful.
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happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.
July 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.
What must summer be like when all those lovely flowers and trees and sunshine doesn't leave you wanting to claw your eyes out? I may have been born in June but I'm counting down the days 'til autumn.
a cat standing next to a bowl of food and a water dispenser
ALT: a cat standing next to a bowl of food and a water dispenser
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June 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
What must summer be like when all those lovely flowers and trees and sunshine doesn't leave you wanting to claw your eyes out? I may have been born in June but I'm counting down the days 'til autumn.
The Boy I Love might just be the perfect read if you're a queer person like me feeling a bit hopeless and despairing when looking at the state of the world. William Hussey brings so much kindness and tenderness to the page. This book destroyed me in all the ways a reader could wish. 😭
June 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Boy I Love might just be the perfect read if you're a queer person like me feeling a bit hopeless and despairing when looking at the state of the world. William Hussey brings so much kindness and tenderness to the page. This book destroyed me in all the ways a reader could wish. 😭