Fiona Mossman
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Fiona Mossman
@fionamossman.bsky.social
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📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms

Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙

Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Hydrangeas are such a bisexual bush: whether they appear blue, pink, or purple depends upon the environment they're in, but they are capable of all of these colours regardless of how they are perceived.

Today I'm thrilled to have a poem out in 'Bi All Accounts' claiming the hydrangea #bivisibility
September 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Love it when @cuttinghail.bsky.social gets published in Tiny Wren Lit because it means I get to do a little zine making. The design on these is just gorgeous 🥰
August 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This book is brilliant: the premise (it's a post-internet world and we're haunted by the ghosts of our data) delivers on multiple levels, the characters are full of soul and the story is full of heart, the writing is so gut-punching I lost count of how many times I teared up. Plus, fab ghost cat 🖤
August 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I'm celebrating 100 writing rejections 🥳

It marks three years of treating my writing more seriously and also more playfully, of sending it out into the world for other people to judge and yet holding myself to nobody's standards but my own. It's perseverance and confidence and joy.
June 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Happy Pride from me & my cat!
June 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I really enjoyed seeing Through the Shortbread Tin at Eden Court the other day - Martin O’Connor has made a banger of a script and performs the hell out of it. Glasgae meets the Highlands in this funny, poignant play about authentic mythmaking.
May 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Time in the mountains = time well spent 🥾

Thank you Mr Ben Nevis for the good weather and the awesome scramble!
April 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Past Fiona may have made a mistake (pre-ordering is risky when you have a memory as bad as mine) but suffice to say that I am very excited to read @nassos.bsky.social's debut novel after having been a fan of his short fiction for a while!

My local library might be getting a wee donation 🫠
April 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Love a wee librarians' outing - went to the Edinburgh city archives with the team the other week & had a peek at their collections 👀

Doesn't old Scottish secretary hand writing look like magic? This is probably a very dull book of records or accounting but we poured over it like a magic spell book!
March 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
When custody is on the line, what wouldn't you bake into your kids' cookies? Thank you to Ruby Literary Magazine for publishing this hybrid piece of mine, and especially for the Best Microfiction 2025 nomination 🍴💖

rubyliterarypress.com/issue-five-i...
January 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Thank you for making this list - I've got my first awards eligibility post up, would love to be added 😱
November 16, 2024 at 4:58 PM
This year I'm making an awards eligibility post for the first time - I've had four speculative stories out that I'm really proud of! More details & how to read available here: www.fionamossman.com - I'd be honorued to be considered for any award 💜
November 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Had a wonderful time yesterday at my first author event (!!) launching the Utopia of Us with @LunaPressGlobal at @CymeraF - it's a fantastic anthology and I'm so excited to be part of it!
June 2, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Author copy, kitty approved 🩶
April 2, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Preorders are open for We Are All Thieves of Somebody's Future from @aanpress.bsky.social and I *can't wait* to get my paws on a copy in May aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
March 1, 2024 at 6:02 PM
What could be better than having a coffee break with this beautiful creature beside me, having just finished my latest short story? Bliss!
January 30, 2024 at 11:37 AM