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Kieran Craft
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Writer of Short Stories, Plays, Musicals; English Teacher, co-founder of Back and Forth Productions. He/him🇳🇿🏳️‍🌈🍅🍉 Free Palestine. ⚫⚪🔴Toitū te Tiriti

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Just gonna put this here...
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'." It is named after Ian Betteridge,
August 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Gave myself a birthday present, a tattoo to represent my short story, Narcissus Munro: Thief for Hire, which was published this year.

Thanks to Brad James at Inkstitution Tattoos
A tattoo of a head which is half a male Greek statue, and half a gold and pink robot.
November 8, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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I agree. The Royal Family probably COULD end homelessness. Why aren't you?
Prince William's face staring pensively off to one side, above the words "Prince William: We Can End Homelessness"
November 4, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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Huh, where did this thing come from? Oh well, I guess it can't hurt to give it a read. That story about a thief looks pretty cool, I suppose.
An open book, with the right page showing the first page of a short story called "Narcissus Munro: Thief for Hire" by Kieran Craft. The edges of the book have been colored purple. The front cover of the book "I Want That Twink Obliterated", showing the purple page edges.
September 9, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
August 20, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Ah, so the Vuruhi aren't just a generic fantasy evil militia, they're fantasy neo-nazis/sons of the confederacy/action zealandia.
August 8, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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It's here! The kickstarter backers for I Want That Twink Obliterated who got the ebook can now all read my story (and everyone else's)! Plus, later this week, the paperback launches at WorldCon! AAAAAAAAAAH! I'm like, a published author or something now.
August 7, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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At last, I have the Sunforge by @understatesmen.bsky.social in person, and I can finally take the words I've been hearing in the audiobook and see how they're spelled.
August 7, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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Missed the Kickstarter for I Want That Twink Obliterated? You'd better get in quick! The pre-order store will close on August 16th, after the book launches at Glasgow WorldCon on August 11th! (Incredible!) i-want-that-twink-obliterated-an-anthology-of-queer-sff.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
August 2, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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You have odd thoughts when you're still awake at 2am.

Read "The Fall", my newest piece of writing.

kierancraft.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...
Dark purple background with light purple text: The Fall, by Kieran Craft. In the background, a downward arc of fading stars appears to fall.
May 31, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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What's this, a queer pulp sci-fi anthology including works from writers like Anthony Oliveira, Brent Lambert and .. ME?

That's right, and you can pre-order "I Want That Twink Obliterated" right now (in paperback, ebook & audiobook).
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bit.ly/IWTTO_PO
"Narcissus Munro, Thief for Hire" by Kieran Craft. Available exclusively in "I Want That Twink Obliterated". Available for pre-order now! (The image in the centre is a sci-fi book cover, with the words "I Want That Twink Obliterated" above a collection of sci-fi images with a queer twist, like a cyclops monster with red nails and a moustache.)
May 14, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Today's #WIPSnips sample...
"No, it's just... I was excited to be here," said Kye. "Thought it meant something, like maybe there was a chance this could work, ye know?" "So stay." The smile dropped from Kye's face. "I told ye. It's all conditional, Adaline. They only let me come on the tour, let me pretend to be one of them, so they could get ye here too, to meet Prosper. I was just the cost of doing business."
May 14, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Thought I might give #WIPSnips a go, with a section from my Young Adult fantasy WIP.
“My family was all farm stock. They worked the land for generations. One year, war broke out, and I was conscripted. I forget who the fight was with. I think we invaded somewhere. The reasons for the fighting were never made clear to us, so it hardly mattered. Oh, there was plenty of talk about the horrors we would prevent by killing the enemy, all the ways our families were at risk if we lost, how grateful ‘the people’ would be when we came in as heroes, freeing them from the yoke of their oppressor. It was a lovely story, convinced us to go and remove that yoke, so that we could put our own in its place.”
May 13, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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Now that's what I call Jesus
A page with the words "one time he got really fucking furious at a fig tree, just absolutely screamed at it for like forty-five minutes"
April 23, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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The eternal issue with living in Aotearoa, is that it takes ages to get indie books over. But the wait is over, and I can finally read Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira, so it's all okay. 📚🇳🇿
April 23, 2024 at 3:46 AM