Tania Fordwalker
@fordwalker.bsky.social
Tasmanian writer and PhD student. Stories in Lightspeed, BCS, PodCastle. Clarion West & Odyssey ‘22. Tree enthusiast, dog friend, garden wench.
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New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #Neurodivergent Reprint Collection, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @fordwalker.bsky.social's "The Blackthorn Door," a powerful story about trees, trauma, and how memory defines us.
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The Blackthorn Door | Reckoning
Akari saw the restricted tree first. Wrestling the Agency’s sleek sedan around the treacherous holes in Zimmerman’s pitted rural driveway held my full attention. We’d passed the mailbox fifteen minute...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #Neurodivergent Reprint Collection, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @fordwalker.bsky.social's "The Blackthorn Door," a powerful story about trees, trauma, and how memory defines us.
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Sharing this for no particular reason... 😎
Just sent out thirteen acceptance letters. I look forward to sharing these stories with everyone!
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sharing this for no particular reason... 😎
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Here’s a classic bit of story feedback from my writing buddy @fordwalker.bsky.social.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Here’s a classic bit of story feedback from my writing buddy @fordwalker.bsky.social.
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"There, on her mother’s stomach, where her hands had fallen away, was the bloody outline of a butterfly."
We're excited (and...scared? A little intrigued?) to share an excerpt from @wenyilee.bsky.social's adult fantasy When They Burned the Butterfly!! 🦋🔥
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We're excited (and...scared? A little intrigued?) to share an excerpt from @wenyilee.bsky.social's adult fantasy When They Burned the Butterfly!! 🦋🔥
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Read an Excerpt From When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee - Reactor
Loner schoolgirl Adeline Siow has never needed more company than the flame she can summon at her fingertips…
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September 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"There, on her mother’s stomach, where her hands had fallen away, was the bloody outline of a butterfly."
We're excited (and...scared? A little intrigued?) to share an excerpt from @wenyilee.bsky.social's adult fantasy When They Burned the Butterfly!! 🦋🔥
reactormag.com/excerpts-whe...
We're excited (and...scared? A little intrigued?) to share an excerpt from @wenyilee.bsky.social's adult fantasy When They Burned the Butterfly!! 🦋🔥
reactormag.com/excerpts-whe...
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In a newly integrated insect metropolis, generations clash around art, technology, and capitalism. Boris, a rural vesper, chases modernity to the city, but tradition is there first.
Next week. "Laurie on the Radio" by Sam Davis!!
Art by Michael Hirshon
Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
Next week. "Laurie on the Radio" by Sam Davis!!
Art by Michael Hirshon
Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In a newly integrated insect metropolis, generations clash around art, technology, and capitalism. Boris, a rural vesper, chases modernity to the city, but tradition is there first.
Next week. "Laurie on the Radio" by Sam Davis!!
Art by Michael Hirshon
Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
Next week. "Laurie on the Radio" by Sam Davis!!
Art by Michael Hirshon
Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
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I sent a photo of our half-cleaned patio to @fordwalker.bsky.social and
January 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I sent a photo of our half-cleaned patio to @fordwalker.bsky.social and
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So, twice a week @fordwalker.bsky.social and I do writing sessions: one digital, one in person.
I just asked how her editing went and she replied: "I am midway through replacing square brackets with specific and appropriate car models."
If this isn't the most writerly of writer phrases.
I just asked how her editing went and she replied: "I am midway through replacing square brackets with specific and appropriate car models."
If this isn't the most writerly of writer phrases.
January 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
So, twice a week @fordwalker.bsky.social and I do writing sessions: one digital, one in person.
I just asked how her editing went and she replied: "I am midway through replacing square brackets with specific and appropriate car models."
If this isn't the most writerly of writer phrases.
I just asked how her editing went and she replied: "I am midway through replacing square brackets with specific and appropriate car models."
If this isn't the most writerly of writer phrases.
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This is your periodic reminder that:
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
January 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is your periodic reminder that:
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
Putting it out there: my PhD is winding up, so I’m looking for work in creative copywriting, tech writing, or art direction. Remote; potentially hybrid if based in Hobart or Brisbane. Many years experience working with internationally distributed teams in businesses both startup and established.
January 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Putting it out there: my PhD is winding up, so I’m looking for work in creative copywriting, tech writing, or art direction. Remote; potentially hybrid if based in Hobart or Brisbane. Many years experience working with internationally distributed teams in businesses both startup and established.
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If you go to @dorkymum.bsky.social profile and click on her pinned post you’ll see her Tasmanian starter pack that has links to all the Tassie accounts on here. Great way to reconnect with old Tassie Twitter
January 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If you go to @dorkymum.bsky.social profile and click on her pinned post you’ll see her Tasmanian starter pack that has links to all the Tassie accounts on here. Great way to reconnect with old Tassie Twitter
Hey! I just found Old Tasmanian Twitter!
January 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hey! I just found Old Tasmanian Twitter!
Just saw a licence plate reading ‘734 TBR’, and man, what a succinct description of my home library
October 19, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Just saw a licence plate reading ‘734 TBR’, and man, what a succinct description of my home library
Back on my bullshit*
*The continent of Australia
*The continent of Australia
September 1, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Back on my bullshit*
*The continent of Australia
*The continent of Australia
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tv tropes taught a whole generation of readers to mistake basic pattern recognition for gotcha criticism and a whole generation of writers to feel insecure every time they came up with an idea that happened to be in conversation with other ideas
August 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM
tv tropes taught a whole generation of readers to mistake basic pattern recognition for gotcha criticism and a whole generation of writers to feel insecure every time they came up with an idea that happened to be in conversation with other ideas
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Your email did not find me. Like a velociraptor, I tracked it by scent and spoor, I crept as I hung to the shadows and veiled myself in the moist leaves of the forest. I watched and waited and waited and watched. I was a clever girl.
August 27, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Your email did not find me. Like a velociraptor, I tracked it by scent and spoor, I crept as I hung to the shadows and veiled myself in the moist leaves of the forest. I watched and waited and waited and watched. I was a clever girl.
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It has been my experience that whenever someone criticizes a book for having a "Mary Sue" protagonist that their real beef is the fact that it has a female protagonist written by a female author.
August 27, 2024 at 10:45 PM
It has been my experience that whenever someone criticizes a book for having a "Mary Sue" protagonist that their real beef is the fact that it has a female protagonist written by a female author.
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Friend and I were picking out a movie to watch and I mentioned Mad Max Fury Road and she asked if the plot was good and I legitimately didn’t know how to answer because it was basically like asking about the plot to a porn movie, I just have never even thought about it
August 26, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Friend and I were picking out a movie to watch and I mentioned Mad Max Fury Road and she asked if the plot was good and I legitimately didn’t know how to answer because it was basically like asking about the plot to a porn movie, I just have never even thought about it
Went on a swamp tour out of New Orleans yesterday. A gaggle of five blonde girls got on the bus, near-indistinguishable from one another, all dressed identically, right down to their matching bucket hats, which were covered in cartoon hot dogs. American culture is so exotic. 🙂
August 24, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Went on a swamp tour out of New Orleans yesterday. A gaggle of five blonde girls got on the bus, near-indistinguishable from one another, all dressed identically, right down to their matching bucket hats, which were covered in cartoon hot dogs. American culture is so exotic. 🙂
As necropolii go, this one was a corker!
August 13, 2024 at 5:17 PM
As necropolii go, this one was a corker!
If the Glasgow Necropolis didn’t want me eating the forbidden grave berries, it should not have grown them so dark and sweet and bloody.
August 13, 2024 at 5:12 PM
If the Glasgow Necropolis didn’t want me eating the forbidden grave berries, it should not have grown them so dark and sweet and bloody.
New lyrical YA horror just dropped! Grief, queerness, a suffocating small-town setting, and a supernatural evil killing local kids. Intrigued? Check out The Dark We Know, @wenyilee.bsky.social’s debut. www.wenyileewrites.com/the-dark-we-...
The Dark We Know
The Dark We Know is a lyrical, propulsive YA horror that’s perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting, Stephen King’s It, and The Haunting of Hill House.
www.wenyileewrites.com
August 13, 2024 at 4:39 PM
New lyrical YA horror just dropped! Grief, queerness, a suffocating small-town setting, and a supernatural evil killing local kids. Intrigued? Check out The Dark We Know, @wenyilee.bsky.social’s debut. www.wenyileewrites.com/the-dark-we-...
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My latest book is now out in the world!
Happy book birthday to NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, the new anthology from World Fantasy Award award-winning Jonathan Strahan - Tachyon Publications
Lauded by Publishers Weekly as “a gift for sci-fi lovers” and by Weightless State as “a great edition to any shelf for those who love scifi,” NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA, edited by World Fantasy, Au...
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August 13, 2024 at 4:00 PM
My latest book is now out in the world!
The fruit scones I ate this morning were a revelation. Never could get behind scones in Australia. This, it turns out, is because we’re Doing It Wrong.
August 13, 2024 at 11:10 AM
The fruit scones I ate this morning were a revelation. Never could get behind scones in Australia. This, it turns out, is because we’re Doing It Wrong.