Anwen Kya
@kyatic.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏴 Writer of Gothic nonsense and reader of everything. Never met a wall I couldn't walk into.
✒️ Discoveries Prize 2025 longlist
https://linktr.ee/kyatic
✒️ Discoveries Prize 2025 longlist
https://linktr.ee/kyatic
Made paneer, made paneer koftas, ate paneer, became paneer
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Made paneer, made paneer koftas, ate paneer, became paneer
Editing is going great, thanks for asking
September 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Editing is going great, thanks for asking
I have been chosen... blessings from Heaven shine down upon me
September 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I have been chosen... blessings from Heaven shine down upon me
I have done the impossible and that makes me mighty (and sleepy)
August 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I have done the impossible and that makes me mighty (and sleepy)
100k and still not done, RIP to Future Me who has to edit this nonsense
August 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
100k and still not done, RIP to Future Me who has to edit this nonsense
7. PLUS ULTRA by Sarah Fletcher - a... poetry collection. About? Who knows. Way too Eliot-inspired for my tastes. Lots of (too) clever, beautiful language that made me feel absolutely nothing. Impenetrable, and I'm not persuaded that pushing through was ultimately worth it. A slog, alas.
August 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
7. PLUS ULTRA by Sarah Fletcher - a... poetry collection. About? Who knows. Way too Eliot-inspired for my tastes. Lots of (too) clever, beautiful language that made me feel absolutely nothing. Impenetrable, and I'm not persuaded that pushing through was ultimately worth it. A slog, alas.
6. Remains by Lou Willingham - a pamphlet about death and death work. Quite liked it, but it was definitely a little surface level in terms of language and imagery; I like my grief poetry to be raw and INTENSE
August 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
6. Remains by Lou Willingham - a pamphlet about death and death work. Quite liked it, but it was definitely a little surface level in terms of language and imagery; I like my grief poetry to be raw and INTENSE
5. Muse by Dawn Marie Kresan - a really, really brilliant collection about Elizabeth Siddal and the concept of the female 'muse' to a highly acclaimed man. Absolutely loved this one. Will probably reread 50 times.
August 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
5. Muse by Dawn Marie Kresan - a really, really brilliant collection about Elizabeth Siddal and the concept of the female 'muse' to a highly acclaimed man. Absolutely loved this one. Will probably reread 50 times.
4. Girls Etc by Rhian Elizabeth - a collection about uneasy motherhood and abuse in a lesbian relationship. I liked this a lot, but less than I expected; I think I wanted it to be longer!
August 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
4. Girls Etc by Rhian Elizabeth - a collection about uneasy motherhood and abuse in a lesbian relationship. I liked this a lot, but less than I expected; I think I wanted it to be longer!
3. Salted Wounds by Mohammed Moussa - poetry about daily life in Gaza, from the normal heartbreaks to the immense trauma of relentless war
August 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
3. Salted Wounds by Mohammed Moussa - poetry about daily life in Gaza, from the normal heartbreaks to the immense trauma of relentless war
2. Blue by Tanicia Pratt - poems about heartbreak (in this case, having a long-term affair with a married man) and women's lives and masculinity in The Bahamas. Really liked this one - loved the use of local vernacular and the repeated storm imagery
August 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
2. Blue by Tanicia Pratt - poems about heartbreak (in this case, having a long-term affair with a married man) and women's lives and masculinity in The Bahamas. Really liked this one - loved the use of local vernacular and the repeated storm imagery
1. My Urohs by Emelihter Kihleng - poetry about Pohnpeian culture and diaspora. Pohnpei is 1 of the 4 islands that makes up the Federated States of Micronesia. Lots of Pohnpeian language and culture in this one, super interesting, deliberately a bit inaccessible
August 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
1. My Urohs by Emelihter Kihleng - poetry about Pohnpeian culture and diaspora. Pohnpei is 1 of the 4 islands that makes up the Federated States of Micronesia. Lots of Pohnpeian language and culture in this one, super interesting, deliberately a bit inaccessible
Being very productive in my second week of septoplasty recovery. I am now readily available for Pointless competitions.
August 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Being very productive in my second week of septoplasty recovery. I am now readily available for Pointless competitions.
Screaming, crying, throwing up with excitement as Caerphilly Castle has reopened at last, they've really amped up the Hugh Despenser content, AND they have the historical thing I'm most obsessed with in the whole world: the inventory of Hugh & Edward's belongings, primarily THE SAFFRON BEAR ROBE
July 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Screaming, crying, throwing up with excitement as Caerphilly Castle has reopened at last, they've really amped up the Hugh Despenser content, AND they have the historical thing I'm most obsessed with in the whole world: the inventory of Hugh & Edward's belongings, primarily THE SAFFRON BEAR ROBE
After 4 years together, Dr Tall Gf and I have just become the exact same person
July 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
After 4 years together, Dr Tall Gf and I have just become the exact same person
Operation 'do 1k every day until my actual operation in two weeks' time' has commenced
July 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Operation 'do 1k every day until my actual operation in two weeks' time' has commenced
Just finished this book in one sitting, letting my cup of tea go cold, doing a few heaving sobs, relishing every sentence. Hoo boy. This is one of Those Books that you read once and it stays with you forever. The kind of book that it's just such an enormous privilege to read.
July 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Just finished this book in one sitting, letting my cup of tea go cold, doing a few heaving sobs, relishing every sentence. Hoo boy. This is one of Those Books that you read once and it stays with you forever. The kind of book that it's just such an enormous privilege to read.
My dad just sent me this photo of Poo, and it certainly brightened my morning, so may it brighten yours too
July 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
My dad just sent me this photo of Poo, and it certainly brightened my morning, so may it brighten yours too
Really enjoying these subtitling problems with the accents on Masterchef Australia
June 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Really enjoying these subtitling problems with the accents on Masterchef Australia
Had the best evening at the Women's Prize party with the rest of the 2025 Discoveries gang, felt very fancy, spoke to some long-term mutuals in the flesh, ate a weird avocado canapé, 12/10 night
June 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Had the best evening at the Women's Prize party with the rest of the 2025 Discoveries gang, felt very fancy, spoke to some long-term mutuals in the flesh, ate a weird avocado canapé, 12/10 night
Most pathetic Goodreads reviewer spotted
May 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Most pathetic Goodreads reviewer spotted
Hello, dyspraxic here. What the fuck do I do with this smoke alarm? I can't find any battery or any clue that it's linked to the mains. I have no make/model or manual. It's screaming at me. Please, for my sake, help an idiot out.
May 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Hello, dyspraxic here. What the fuck do I do with this smoke alarm? I can't find any battery or any clue that it's linked to the mains. I have no make/model or manual. It's screaming at me. Please, for my sake, help an idiot out.
Two Whopper meals with extra bread, please
May 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Two Whopper meals with extra bread, please
20/10 for this National Trust employee, who clearly had the time of their life writing this little letter as part of the dressing for one of the rooms at Mompesson House
May 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
20/10 for this National Trust employee, who clearly had the time of their life writing this little letter as part of the dressing for one of the rooms at Mompesson House