Katherine Stansfield
LightNews LightNews
banner
kstansfield.bsky.social
Katherine Stansfield
@kstansfield.bsky.social
350 followers 240 following 98 posts
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
Posts Replies Media Videos
kstansfield.bsky.social
** 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!
Text on an orange background which reads, Call out for submissions for Bending The Arc 3, what we're looking for... Submissions window: 12th January to 1st February 2026. bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
kstansfield.bsky.social
** 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
A graphic that reads 'we've been to the future, oct 29 - nov 15, a thrutopia magazine'.
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
kstansfield.bsky.social
Friends in Bristol environs, I'll be reading some new work in your neck of the woods on 27th June, launching this wonderful new anthology VOCAL INHABITANTS at East Bristol Books!
A pink book on a green background. The text on the book reads vocal inhabitants, an anthology, book launch and celebration. East Bristol Books, 27.06, 19.00, feat. Madalina Boboc, Flora Neve and Katherine Stansfield
June 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
kstansfield.bsky.social
If you're enjoying learning about thrutopias in BENDING THE ARC & fancy writing something yourself, I have good news: our submissions will open in July!

Full info here:

bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/call-out-f...
An illustrated image that shows the Bending The Arc logo which is a teal circle with the magazine name in black. The logo has the rays of a sun emanating from it and is surrounded by stylised cloud shapes. The text in the rest of the image says, Open call for submissions, poetry and prose.
May 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
kstansfield.bsky.social
Today's piece on BENDING THE ARC is a wondrous poem from Alice Willitts that takes us to a future we might long for:

begonias and buddlieja hollering gateway translations /
neighbours of the oldest language

bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/words-stro...
Words Strong Enough to Dig up Your Street: Poem by Alice Willitts In the heart of this city, no street-trees. the glaring was hot. neighbours had never gardened. only weather gathers— could we make a framework, run wooden posts along the street, hold up a ceiling of green fat vine leaves a spanning of grapes ripening over tarmac, glistening the ideas come, the young sweat
April 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
kstansfield.bsky.social
Ever had that feeling in a second hand bookshop when you think, this one was waiting for me
The book Clay Phoenix: a Biography of Jack Clemo by Luke Thompson
December 12, 2024 at 12:12 PM
kstansfield.bsky.social
Yesterday I was back in the room where it happens, 452 days after booking the ticket! & the wait was worth it. Shout out to the brilliant cast & crew at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff (aka the greatest city in the world)
Kath, a 40 something white woman with short blonde hair and glasses, is outside a theatre which is displaying a banner for the musical Hamilton. She is full of joy!
December 1, 2024 at 12:15 PM