Jeda Pearl
@jedapearl.bsky.social
🖌️ Poetry • SFF • Fiction • Art
• https://linktr.ee/JedaPearl •
⚡ Disabled • Fibromyalgia 🥄
💫 Collaboration •Community • 🏴🇯🇲
• https://linktr.ee/JedaPearl •
⚡ Disabled • Fibromyalgia 🥄
💫 Collaboration •Community • 🏴🇯🇲
Please share. 💞 I collated a big list of links & resources including finding loved ones, and updating it regularly - I need more for Cuba & Haiti: linktr.ee/caribbeansol...
#HurricaneMelissa (400-mile wide record-breaking cat 5) caused devastation, especially across western Jamaica
#HurricaneMelissa (400-mile wide record-breaking cat 5) caused devastation, especially across western Jamaica
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Send resources, news & verified relief fund links to caribbeansolidarityscot [at] gmail.com
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November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Please share. 💞 I collated a big list of links & resources including finding loved ones, and updating it regularly - I need more for Cuba & Haiti: linktr.ee/caribbeansol...
#HurricaneMelissa (400-mile wide record-breaking cat 5) caused devastation, especially across western Jamaica
#HurricaneMelissa (400-mile wide record-breaking cat 5) caused devastation, especially across western Jamaica
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Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors!
Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors!
Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
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What a joy to be amongst all these clever people last night launching #NorthBridge Where We Traveled last night. Huge thanks to @jedapearl.bsky.social for all her creativity, thoughtfulness and hard work bringing this project together. It only remains to say- buy the book! payhip.com/b/BxUCD
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
What a joy to be amongst all these clever people last night launching #NorthBridge Where We Traveled last night. Huge thanks to @jedapearl.bsky.social for all her creativity, thoughtfulness and hard work bringing this project together. It only remains to say- buy the book! payhip.com/b/BxUCD
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Hurricane Melissa wreaked havoc in my birth nation of Jamaica. Reported: "The University of Miami with the US NOAA measured wind speeds from start to finish across Jamaica with the weather aircraft named Kermit. The maximum wind gust speeds were 252mph and maximum sustained winds were 185 mph..."
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Hurricane Melissa wreaked havoc in my birth nation of Jamaica. Reported: "The University of Miami with the US NOAA measured wind speeds from start to finish across Jamaica with the weather aircraft named Kermit. The maximum wind gust speeds were 252mph and maximum sustained winds were 185 mph..."
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Programme at Iridescence!
Want to be on a panel, run a workshop, or give a talk? Fill in the form and submit your ideas.
We are excited to build an awesome programme with you!
eastercon2026.org/programme
Want to be on a panel, run a workshop, or give a talk? Fill in the form and submit your ideas.
We are excited to build an awesome programme with you!
eastercon2026.org/programme
October 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Programme at Iridescence!
Want to be on a panel, run a workshop, or give a talk? Fill in the form and submit your ideas.
We are excited to build an awesome programme with you!
eastercon2026.org/programme
Want to be on a panel, run a workshop, or give a talk? Fill in the form and submit your ideas.
We are excited to build an awesome programme with you!
eastercon2026.org/programme
Proud book mama stylee! 😁🥹 Three sleeps to launch! Come and meet our amazing contributors on Saturday, and hear poems, real-life and invented stories, a script and a game.
🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
October 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Proud book mama stylee! 😁🥹 Three sleeps to launch! Come and meet our amazing contributors on Saturday, and hear poems, real-life and invented stories, a script and a game.
🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
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The beautiful Scottish Treasuries collections by #TheresaBreslin are now available in #audio individually or as a bundle from Voxblock! 🏴 📚
🧚♂️ Folk and Fairy Tales
🐉 Mythical Creatures
🏰 Castle Legends
Thanks to our partner
@florisbooks.bsky.social
voxblock.co.uk/products/sco...
🧚♂️ Folk and Fairy Tales
🐉 Mythical Creatures
🏰 Castle Legends
Thanks to our partner
@florisbooks.bsky.social
voxblock.co.uk/products/sco...
Scottish Treasuries Audiobook Bundle
Listen along to stories of dark dragons, ghostly pipers, rude goblins and sly wizards as you discover the legends that dwell within the ancient castles of Scotland in A Treasury of Scottish Castle Leg...
voxblock.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The beautiful Scottish Treasuries collections by #TheresaBreslin are now available in #audio individually or as a bundle from Voxblock! 🏴 📚
🧚♂️ Folk and Fairy Tales
🐉 Mythical Creatures
🏰 Castle Legends
Thanks to our partner
@florisbooks.bsky.social
voxblock.co.uk/products/sco...
🧚♂️ Folk and Fairy Tales
🐉 Mythical Creatures
🏰 Castle Legends
Thanks to our partner
@florisbooks.bsky.social
voxblock.co.uk/products/sco...
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Our AGM week 2025 is dedicated to Author Care.
With discussions around transparency, support and inclusion, communication and self-care, we ask how authors and publishing professionals can work better together and how authors can find support if needed.
With discussions around transparency, support and inclusion, communication and self-care, we ask how authors and publishing professionals can work better together and how authors can find support if needed.
October 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Our AGM week 2025 is dedicated to Author Care.
With discussions around transparency, support and inclusion, communication and self-care, we ask how authors and publishing professionals can work better together and how authors can find support if needed.
With discussions around transparency, support and inclusion, communication and self-care, we ask how authors and publishing professionals can work better together and how authors can find support if needed.
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Cutting support to the motability scheme for disabled people, while we continue to fund Prince Andrew's residences & "lifestyle", should *radicalise anyone* 👑🚫🤬
#CharlesTheLast #TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow
#CharlesTheLast #TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Cutting support to the motability scheme for disabled people, while we continue to fund Prince Andrew's residences & "lifestyle", should *radicalise anyone* 👑🚫🤬
#CharlesTheLast #TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow
#CharlesTheLast #TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow
Perfect for the early morning larks you know... 🌄
Join Marjorie’s Table for ten mornings in early January to get your writing practice off to the right start in 2026. Sessions will take place 7:30-8am weekdays from 5-16th January, with recordings available most mornings by 9am. £25 for all ten workshops! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...
Marjorie's Table January Short-Course
Ten Marjorie's Table workshops from 7:30-8am (+ recordings) from 5-16th January to kick-start your writing practice in 2026
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Perfect for the early morning larks you know... 🌄
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Hey bluesky - who are your favourite trans horror and fantasy writers?
Bonus points for recent novels or shorts.
I have some in mind but my titles may be a little old now
Bonus points for recent novels or shorts.
I have some in mind but my titles may be a little old now
October 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hey bluesky - who are your favourite trans horror and fantasy writers?
Bonus points for recent novels or shorts.
I have some in mind but my titles may be a little old now
Bonus points for recent novels or shorts.
I have some in mind but my titles may be a little old now
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Delighted to see this hard work come to fruition. This will be such an empowering tool for so many people across the industry 🤩
To celebrate the launch of the SoA’s Access Form template, ADCI is hosting a panel discussion on what an Access Form is and how it can help authors, agents, publishers, event organisers, and anyone else in the sector to work together more effectively.
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Industry Insider - Understanding Access Forms and Riders - Tools for Disabled, Chronically Ill and Neurodivergent Authors - The Society of Authors
To celebrate the launch of the SoA’s Access Form template, ADCI is hosting a panel discussion on what an Access Form is and how it can help authors, agents, publishers, event organisers, and anyone el...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Delighted to see this hard work come to fruition. This will be such an empowering tool for so many people across the industry 🤩
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We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
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✨ I commissioned the talented @clhellisen.bsky.social to do some promo art for In This City, Where it Rains, and I was so blown away by the perfect gothic weird moths delight they created!! Feast your eyes!! ITCWIR is out Feb 3rd from @lunapress.bsky.social! Pre-orders: linktr.ee/lyndseycroal 🖤✨
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
✨ I commissioned the talented @clhellisen.bsky.social to do some promo art for In This City, Where it Rains, and I was so blown away by the perfect gothic weird moths delight they created!! Feast your eyes!! ITCWIR is out Feb 3rd from @lunapress.bsky.social! Pre-orders: linktr.ee/lyndseycroal 🖤✨
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
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#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
New Writing Scotland Submission Manager
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
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October is halfway over! Have you submitted anything for the BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR OF THE YEAR?
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...
Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press
REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...
tenebrouspress.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
October is halfway over! Have you submitted anything for the BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR OF THE YEAR?
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It's October, which I think is officially the best month to start reading Dark Crescent...omens, superstitions, hauntings, monsters, all from Scottish folklore - here's a wee sneak peak at what you'll find...👀🏴🖤✨ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal @lunapress.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It's October, which I think is officially the best month to start reading Dark Crescent...omens, superstitions, hauntings, monsters, all from Scottish folklore - here's a wee sneak peak at what you'll find...👀🏴🖤✨ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal @lunapress.bsky.social
Great thread. October is breast cancer awareness month here in the UK. Get into the habit of checking your breasts regularly - you know your body best. Finding a change and facing BC is terrifying, but dealing with it means more time: you'll want more time.
breastcancernow.org/about-breast...
breastcancernow.org/about-breast...
October 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Great thread. October is breast cancer awareness month here in the UK. Get into the habit of checking your breasts regularly - you know your body best. Finding a change and facing BC is terrifying, but dealing with it means more time: you'll want more time.
breastcancernow.org/about-breast...
breastcancernow.org/about-breast...
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As Cymera Festival continues to mature, we are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to bring new ideas and knowledge to our board.
Experience in running or programming a book festival is not needed: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/join-the-board
Experience in running or programming a book festival is not needed: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/join-the-board
October 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
As Cymera Festival continues to mature, we are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to bring new ideas and knowledge to our board.
Experience in running or programming a book festival is not needed: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/join-the-board
Experience in running or programming a book festival is not needed: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/join-the-board
Just wondering quite how many hours... weeks... months... I'm going to lose to world-building this one long story in particular...? 🤔 The drawings have also begun 😅 #AmWorldBuilding
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Just wondering quite how many hours... weeks... months... I'm going to lose to world-building this one long story in particular...? 🤔 The drawings have also begun 😅 #AmWorldBuilding
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CONSIDER THIS THE SIGN YOU NEEDED! LAST CALL for The Novel Surgery! Online! Starts Sunday Oct 26.
🔥DON’T FORGET THE FREEBIE - for 1 great novelist short on funds.
🔥Deadline’s Today: Oct 20th, midnight (in your country).
🎁Email for application form - leoneross@mac.com
🔥Friends, please repost.
🔥DON’T FORGET THE FREEBIE - for 1 great novelist short on funds.
🔥Deadline’s Today: Oct 20th, midnight (in your country).
🎁Email for application form - leoneross@mac.com
🔥Friends, please repost.
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
CONSIDER THIS THE SIGN YOU NEEDED! LAST CALL for The Novel Surgery! Online! Starts Sunday Oct 26.
🔥DON’T FORGET THE FREEBIE - for 1 great novelist short on funds.
🔥Deadline’s Today: Oct 20th, midnight (in your country).
🎁Email for application form - leoneross@mac.com
🔥Friends, please repost.
🔥DON’T FORGET THE FREEBIE - for 1 great novelist short on funds.
🔥Deadline’s Today: Oct 20th, midnight (in your country).
🎁Email for application form - leoneross@mac.com
🔥Friends, please repost.
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Looking for a sneak peek of Dark Crescent? Here's a wee reading, capturing the dark autumnal opening vibes ✨️🖤🏴🌊 @lunapress.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=7fq6...
Authors' Readings: Dark Crescent - Lyndsey Croal
An omen of spirits dance across the sky. A lonely woman befriends a sea witch as the world ends. The last whale in the world travels north in search of hope. A grandmother seeks revenge on the sea monster that took her family. DARK CRESCENT is a collection of seasonal tales inspired by Scottish folklore, landscape, superstitions, and omens. In this book, readers will find reinterpretations of common folklore creatures and phenomenon, like the Kelpie, Selkie, and Will-o’-the-Wisps, as well as lesser known, such as the Sea Mither, Ceasg, Marool, Sluagh, Ghillie Dhu, Nuckelavee, Baobhan Sith, and The Frittening, all with dark and strange lore around them. Join Lyndsey in this read-along of the first story in the collection, "Dark Crescent". Order the book here: https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/dark-crescent Also available in all stores and usual online platforms (Paperback and ebook).
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October 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Looking for a sneak peek of Dark Crescent? Here's a wee reading, capturing the dark autumnal opening vibes ✨️🖤🏴🌊 @lunapress.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=7fq6...
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1 year ago, I published the book that brought me through grief & my cancer journey.
THE NIGHTWARD is a mashup of science, West Indian culture & mythologies, the fantasy books I grew up with & more.
Thank you to everyone who bought, read & recommended it. 1/4
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
THE NIGHTWARD is a mashup of science, West Indian culture & mythologies, the fantasy books I grew up with & more.
Thank you to everyone who bought, read & recommended it. 1/4
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Nightward
Sturgeon, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia’s scifantasy debut novel—the first in a duology—in which Caribbean mythology meets The Wit...
www.harpercollins.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
1 year ago, I published the book that brought me through grief & my cancer journey.
THE NIGHTWARD is a mashup of science, West Indian culture & mythologies, the fantasy books I grew up with & more.
Thank you to everyone who bought, read & recommended it. 1/4
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
THE NIGHTWARD is a mashup of science, West Indian culture & mythologies, the fantasy books I grew up with & more.
Thank you to everyone who bought, read & recommended it. 1/4
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
25 October, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre
North Bridge: Where We Travelled Book Launch
We'll have poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game from local authors! Plus 🍵🍰🍪
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
Meet our amazing readers... 🧵
North Bridge: Where We Travelled Book Launch
We'll have poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game from local authors! Plus 🍵🍰🍪
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
Meet our amazing readers... 🧵
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
25 October, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre
North Bridge: Where We Travelled Book Launch
We'll have poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game from local authors! Plus 🍵🍰🍪
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
Meet our amazing readers... 🧵
North Bridge: Where We Travelled Book Launch
We'll have poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game from local authors! Plus 🍵🍰🍪
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
Meet our amazing readers... 🧵