Katherine Stansfield
@kstansfield.bsky.social
Reader, writer, cat fan. Historical fiction, crime fiction, weird fiction, poems. I'm one half of D. K. Fields (fantasy crime series) & co-editor of Bending The Arc: A Thrutopian Magazine which imagines thriving & liveable futures into being
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Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
** SUBMISSIONS KLAXON **
BENDING THE ARC will open for submissions in January & we would love to read your stories, poems, non-fic & hybrid work that imagines paths through to hopeful, thriving futures. We're open to pitches for features & reviews all yr round so get in touch!
BENDING THE ARC will open for submissions in January & we would love to read your stories, poems, non-fic & hybrid work that imagines paths through to hopeful, thriving futures. We're open to pitches for features & reviews all yr round so get in touch!
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
** SUBMISSIONS KLAXON **
BENDING THE ARC will open for submissions in January & we would love to read your stories, poems, non-fic & hybrid work that imagines paths through to hopeful, thriving futures. We're open to pitches for features & reviews all yr round so get in touch!
BENDING THE ARC will open for submissions in January & we would love to read your stories, poems, non-fic & hybrid work that imagines paths through to hopeful, thriving futures. We're open to pitches for features & reviews all yr round so get in touch!
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The leg gets worse, of course.
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The leg gets worse, of course.
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Im just not sure I know how to do a prime ministerial crisis which doesn’t revolve around vaguely ominous reports about the number of letters being sent to Graham Brady
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Im just not sure I know how to do a prime ministerial crisis which doesn’t revolve around vaguely ominous reports about the number of letters being sent to Graham Brady
More thrutopian fiction on BENDING THE ARC today!
So pleased to be sharing an extract from Donna M. Cameron's novel THE REWILDING.
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So pleased to be sharing an extract from Donna M. Cameron's novel THE REWILDING.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/grasshoppe...
Grasshoppers Are Older than Dinosaurs
Novel Extract from 'The Rewilding' by Donna M. Cameron
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November 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
More thrutopian fiction on BENDING THE ARC today!
So pleased to be sharing an extract from Donna M. Cameron's novel THE REWILDING.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/grasshoppe...
So pleased to be sharing an extract from Donna M. Cameron's novel THE REWILDING.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/grasshoppe...
On BENDING THE ARC today we've got our reviewing hat on to consider two titles by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira:
'What if Modernity is a construct and not a given? What if Modernity is flawed, based on false assumptions, and is, well, dying?'
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'What if Modernity is a construct and not a given? What if Modernity is flawed, based on false assumptions, and is, well, dying?'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/death-doul...
Death Doulas for Modernity
Review: writer and academic Sophie Bouchaillard inspects Vanessa Machado de Oliveira's books 'Hospicing Modernity' and 'Outgrowing Modernity' to see how Modernity is faring.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
On BENDING THE ARC today we've got our reviewing hat on to consider two titles by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira:
'What if Modernity is a construct and not a given? What if Modernity is flawed, based on false assumptions, and is, well, dying?'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/death-doul...
'What if Modernity is a construct and not a given? What if Modernity is flawed, based on false assumptions, and is, well, dying?'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/death-doul...
Today on BENDING THE ARC we feature a fascinating collaboration between a poet & a consultancy who specialise in flood risk & water management.
What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe?
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What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe?
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/we-are-res...
We Are Resilience: A Thrutopian Approach to Flooding
Hybrid piece: JBA Consulting, who specialise in flood risk and water management, and poet, Sophie Kirtley, explain their unusual collaboration and the inspiration for her poem, ‘We Are Resilience’.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Today on BENDING THE ARC we feature a fascinating collaboration between a poet & a consultancy who specialise in flood risk & water management.
What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe?
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/we-are-res...
What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe?
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/we-are-res...
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A gentle reminder that if you sign up for my online course 'What Can A Short Story Do?' by 30th Nov you get a 10% Early Bird discount! 🦜 #ShortStory #BookSky #WritingWorkshop
Short story writers! I am running my 8-week online course again in 2026: 'What can a short story do?', exploring the possibilities of this wonderful form. We'll read 8 contemporary short stories and use them as a launchpad for our own writing. More details ⬇️
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A gentle reminder that if you sign up for my online course 'What Can A Short Story Do?' by 30th Nov you get a 10% Early Bird discount! 🦜 #ShortStory #BookSky #WritingWorkshop
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We’re happy to announce three workshops in partnership with @durreshahwar.bsky.social: Writing for Wellbeing – South Asian Stories.
Each one is a ‘standalone’ workshop, and you can register for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-f...
Each one is a ‘standalone’ workshop, and you can register for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-f...
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
We’re happy to announce three workshops in partnership with @durreshahwar.bsky.social: Writing for Wellbeing – South Asian Stories.
Each one is a ‘standalone’ workshop, and you can register for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-f...
Each one is a ‘standalone’ workshop, and you can register for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-f...
New poem by yours truly on BENDING THE ARC today, about manifesting the future, along with some reflection on just what is this whole thrutopian writing thing anyway, & a prompt so you can have a go yourselves
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/how-to-man...
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/how-to-man...
How To… Manifest the Future
Writing a manifesto poem by Katherine Stansfield
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November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New poem by yours truly on BENDING THE ARC today, about manifesting the future, along with some reflection on just what is this whole thrutopian writing thing anyway, & a prompt so you can have a go yourselves
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/how-to-man...
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/how-to-man...
Finding community when you're not into communes.
Megan Mills' triumph of a thrutopian short story is today's post in BENDING THE ARC.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/fireflies
Megan Mills' triumph of a thrutopian short story is today's post in BENDING THE ARC.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/fireflies
Fireflies
Short story by Megan Mills
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November 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Finding community when you're not into communes.
Megan Mills' triumph of a thrutopian short story is today's post in BENDING THE ARC.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/fireflies
Megan Mills' triumph of a thrutopian short story is today's post in BENDING THE ARC.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/fireflies
I love love love this poem on BENDING THE ARC today, by Elizabeth Lewis Williams:
'What if I fly to Mars / and find its surface red, hear in wind and long-gone rain / some echoes of my living blood.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/what-if
'What if I fly to Mars / and find its surface red, hear in wind and long-gone rain / some echoes of my living blood.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/what-if
What if
Poem by Elizabeth Lewis Williams
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November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I love love love this poem on BENDING THE ARC today, by Elizabeth Lewis Williams:
'What if I fly to Mars / and find its surface red, hear in wind and long-gone rain / some echoes of my living blood.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/what-if
'What if I fly to Mars / and find its surface red, hear in wind and long-gone rain / some echoes of my living blood.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/what-if
‘Narrative is really important, we don’t talk enough about the world that we could have.’
And that's what we're all about at BENDING THE ARC! In today's post, co-editor Ilse Pedler talks to Mike Berners-Lee about finding hope.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/finding-ho...
And that's what we're all about at BENDING THE ARC! In today's post, co-editor Ilse Pedler talks to Mike Berners-Lee about finding hope.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/finding-ho...
Finding Hope in A Climate of Truth
Feature: Mike Berners-Lee in conversation with Ilse Pedler about his new book A Climate of Truth
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November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
‘Narrative is really important, we don’t talk enough about the world that we could have.’
And that's what we're all about at BENDING THE ARC! In today's post, co-editor Ilse Pedler talks to Mike Berners-Lee about finding hope.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/finding-ho...
And that's what we're all about at BENDING THE ARC! In today's post, co-editor Ilse Pedler talks to Mike Berners-Lee about finding hope.
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/finding-ho...
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PALESTINE - 1 📚🗝️
Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini
📕 Publishing Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.
Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini
📕 Publishing Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
PALESTINE - 1 📚🗝️
Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini
📕 Publishing Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.
Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini
📕 Publishing Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.
Reposted by Katherine Stansfield
Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven close at midnight on Thursday 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between. www.tolkajournal.org/submit
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven close at midnight on Thursday 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between. www.tolkajournal.org/submit
Valleys by @jonpountney1.bsky.social is an absolutely beautiful book, I'm very glad indeed to have a copy of the 1st edition. Publishers, get on it!
Looking for serious, interested publishers to help make a second edition happen!
My Valleys book, with @seanrees.bsky.social
500 supporters, £13,258 raised at 241% of the original target, 10 books sold in the Martin Parr Foundation in two weeks
My Valleys book, with @seanrees.bsky.social
500 supporters, £13,258 raised at 241% of the original target, 10 books sold in the Martin Parr Foundation in two weeks
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Valleys by @jonpountney1.bsky.social is an absolutely beautiful book, I'm very glad indeed to have a copy of the 1st edition. Publishers, get on it!
BENDING THE ARC & @ecow0rrier.bsky.social aka Alison Layland take us to north Wales in 2056. This novel extract accompanied by a reflection from my fellow co-editor Laura Baggaley on what makes it thrutopian: great practical insights for novelists bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/seeds-of-c...
Seeds of Change in a Future Wales
Novel extract from After the Clearances by Alison Layland
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November 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
BENDING THE ARC & @ecow0rrier.bsky.social aka Alison Layland take us to north Wales in 2056. This novel extract accompanied by a reflection from my fellow co-editor Laura Baggaley on what makes it thrutopian: great practical insights for novelists bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/seeds-of-c...
Day 3 of the new issue of BENDING THE ARC, a thrutopian magazine, & we're talking punks with Rachel Pryor:
'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'
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'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/more-than-...
More Than a Mohawk: Why Thrutopian Punks Don’t Just Burn It Down
Feature by Rachel Pryor
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October 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Day 3 of the new issue of BENDING THE ARC, a thrutopian magazine, & we're talking punks with Rachel Pryor:
'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/more-than-...
'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/more-than-...
we learnt about natural resources today / her tiny hand encased in mine like a rare seed / of starfruit
Day 2 of BENDING THE ARC magazine features a glorious thrutopoem by Nia Solomon!
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Day 2 of BENDING THE ARC magazine features a glorious thrutopoem by Nia Solomon!
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/grove-of-t...
Grove of Titans
Poem by Nia Solomon
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October 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
we learnt about natural resources today / her tiny hand encased in mine like a rare seed / of starfruit
Day 2 of BENDING THE ARC magazine features a glorious thrutopoem by Nia Solomon!
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/grove-of-t...
Day 2 of BENDING THE ARC magazine features a glorious thrutopoem by Nia Solomon!
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/grove-of-t...
Edition 2 of BENDING THE ARC is go!
I'm very proud of this issue's contents, the list of which you can read in this opening post. A smorgasbord of fiction, poems, non-fiction & hybrid pieces which imagine hopeful futures & the paths to reach them. substack.com/home/post/p-...
I'm very proud of this issue's contents, the list of which you can read in this opening post. A smorgasbord of fiction, poems, non-fiction & hybrid pieces which imagine hopeful futures & the paths to reach them. substack.com/home/post/p-...
We've been to the future & you'll love it!
Bending The Arc 2 skips out to play on Sustainability Day
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October 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Edition 2 of BENDING THE ARC is go!
I'm very proud of this issue's contents, the list of which you can read in this opening post. A smorgasbord of fiction, poems, non-fiction & hybrid pieces which imagine hopeful futures & the paths to reach them. substack.com/home/post/p-...
I'm very proud of this issue's contents, the list of which you can read in this opening post. A smorgasbord of fiction, poems, non-fiction & hybrid pieces which imagine hopeful futures & the paths to reach them. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Chair of Advisory Board (voluntary) at @uniwalespress.bsky.social
For a term of 3-5 years.
Salary: n/a (voluntary).
Location: Cardiff.
Closing date: 14 November 2025.
For more details visit bit.ly/2Zt85SE
For a term of 3-5 years.
Salary: n/a (voluntary).
Location: Cardiff.
Closing date: 14 November 2025.
For more details visit bit.ly/2Zt85SE
October 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Chair of Advisory Board (voluntary) at @uniwalespress.bsky.social
For a term of 3-5 years.
Salary: n/a (voluntary).
Location: Cardiff.
Closing date: 14 November 2025.
For more details visit bit.ly/2Zt85SE
For a term of 3-5 years.
Salary: n/a (voluntary).
Location: Cardiff.
Closing date: 14 November 2025.
For more details visit bit.ly/2Zt85SE
Reposted by Katherine Stansfield
AVAILABLE NOW: Some say the world will end in fire or flood. 15 short stories from some of the best crime fiction writers today, including @richienarvaez.bsky.social. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
AVAILABLE NOW: Some say the world will end in fire or flood. 15 short stories from some of the best crime fiction writers today, including @richienarvaez.bsky.social. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK
** DRUMROLL **
Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
** DRUMROLL **
Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.
Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
Reposted by Katherine Stansfield
Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between.
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
October 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between.
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit
Reposted by Katherine Stansfield
*Vacancy - Chair of Advisory Board (Voluntary)*
UWP is seeking to appoint a new Chair to the Advisory Board, responsible for ensuring the Board functions effectively in supporting our mission, vision and strategic objectives.
For more information, visit: www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...
UWP is seeking to appoint a new Chair to the Advisory Board, responsible for ensuring the Board functions effectively in supporting our mission, vision and strategic objectives.
For more information, visit: www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
*Vacancy - Chair of Advisory Board (Voluntary)*
UWP is seeking to appoint a new Chair to the Advisory Board, responsible for ensuring the Board functions effectively in supporting our mission, vision and strategic objectives.
For more information, visit: www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...
UWP is seeking to appoint a new Chair to the Advisory Board, responsible for ensuring the Board functions effectively in supporting our mission, vision and strategic objectives.
For more information, visit: www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...
Reposted by Katherine Stansfield
Do you have "Fear of Physics"? Let me cure you at my Zoom writing workshop, When Physics & Fairy Tales Collide, Mon Oct 20 7-9pm UK! We'll play with weird & wonderful physics words, celebrate female physicists and invent particles! Pay-what-you-can available: app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
October 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Do you have "Fear of Physics"? Let me cure you at my Zoom writing workshop, When Physics & Fairy Tales Collide, Mon Oct 20 7-9pm UK! We'll play with weird & wonderful physics words, celebrate female physicists and invent particles! Pay-what-you-can available: app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...