Matthew J. Hockey
@mathockey.bsky.social
Part time writer. Full Time dad. Englishman living on the Costa Del Sol.
Short stories. Flash fiction. Screenplays. Comics. Computer games. All Genre All the Time.
Short stories. Flash fiction. Screenplays. Comics. Computer games. All Genre All the Time.
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Our final author reveal for Wednesday's Issue 11
We double-dip into the poetic mind of Mark Dimaisip, explore some wholesome space-love with
@marisca.bsky.social, and read an underground (literally) resistance battle with Bryn Farrar.
We double-dip into the poetic mind of Mark Dimaisip, explore some wholesome space-love with
@marisca.bsky.social, and read an underground (literally) resistance battle with Bryn Farrar.
September 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Our final author reveal for Wednesday's Issue 11
We double-dip into the poetic mind of Mark Dimaisip, explore some wholesome space-love with
@marisca.bsky.social, and read an underground (literally) resistance battle with Bryn Farrar.
We double-dip into the poetic mind of Mark Dimaisip, explore some wholesome space-love with
@marisca.bsky.social, and read an underground (literally) resistance battle with Bryn Farrar.
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Issue 11 Author Reveal – Day 3
@jaredchenwynn.bsky.social, @miahomalley.bsky.social, Mark Wyatt, and Mark Dimaisip, bringing us some scifi body horror, gun violence, repression, revolution, and self-actualization
@jaredchenwynn.bsky.social, @miahomalley.bsky.social, Mark Wyatt, and Mark Dimaisip, bringing us some scifi body horror, gun violence, repression, revolution, and self-actualization
September 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Issue 11 Author Reveal – Day 3
@jaredchenwynn.bsky.social, @miahomalley.bsky.social, Mark Wyatt, and Mark Dimaisip, bringing us some scifi body horror, gun violence, repression, revolution, and self-actualization
@jaredchenwynn.bsky.social, @miahomalley.bsky.social, Mark Wyatt, and Mark Dimaisip, bringing us some scifi body horror, gun violence, repression, revolution, and self-actualization
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Author Reveal Day 2!
September 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Author Reveal Day 2!
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Day 1 of our author reveals for next week's Issue 11!
Check back each day to see which authors you'll be reading soon, and what tantalizing titles capture your attention.
@cpclemens.bsky.social
@mathockey.bsky.social
Full issue releases October 1
Check back each day to see which authors you'll be reading soon, and what tantalizing titles capture your attention.
@cpclemens.bsky.social
@mathockey.bsky.social
Full issue releases October 1
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Day 1 of our author reveals for next week's Issue 11!
Check back each day to see which authors you'll be reading soon, and what tantalizing titles capture your attention.
@cpclemens.bsky.social
@mathockey.bsky.social
Full issue releases October 1
Check back each day to see which authors you'll be reading soon, and what tantalizing titles capture your attention.
@cpclemens.bsky.social
@mathockey.bsky.social
Full issue releases October 1
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Acceptances for Issue 11 have gone out and all contracts are signed. October 1 will bring the world eight new poems and seven new stories. We've got a great mix we can't wait to tell you about soon. From cybernetic revolution to scifi body horror.
September 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Acceptances for Issue 11 have gone out and all contracts are signed. October 1 will bring the world eight new poems and seven new stories. We've got a great mix we can't wait to tell you about soon. From cybernetic revolution to scifi body horror.
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Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
July 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
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An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
July 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
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📸 On the hottest UK May 1st since records began.
Let’s get fossil fuel ads banned– just 9 days left to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024
Let’s get fossil fuel ads banned– just 9 days left to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024
May 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
📸 On the hottest UK May 1st since records began.
Let’s get fossil fuel ads banned– just 9 days left to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024
Let’s get fossil fuel ads banned– just 9 days left to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024
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Hi everyone!
I had some fantastic news today! FOUND2 has been nominated for a second award! The antho has been shortlisted in this year's Australasian Shadows Awards! Huge congratulations to all the finalists! 🖤 australasianhorror.com/australian-s... @gabino.bsky.social, @alandistro.bsky.social
I had some fantastic news today! FOUND2 has been nominated for a second award! The antho has been shortlisted in this year's Australasian Shadows Awards! Huge congratulations to all the finalists! 🖤 australasianhorror.com/australian-s... @gabino.bsky.social, @alandistro.bsky.social
Australasian Shadows Awards
The 2024 Australasian Shadows Awards shortlists have been announced! Congratulations to everyone who made the shortlists. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at Conflux 19, to be h…
australasianhorror.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Hi everyone!
I had some fantastic news today! FOUND2 has been nominated for a second award! The antho has been shortlisted in this year's Australasian Shadows Awards! Huge congratulations to all the finalists! 🖤 australasianhorror.com/australian-s... @gabino.bsky.social, @alandistro.bsky.social
I had some fantastic news today! FOUND2 has been nominated for a second award! The antho has been shortlisted in this year's Australasian Shadows Awards! Huge congratulations to all the finalists! 🖤 australasianhorror.com/australian-s... @gabino.bsky.social, @alandistro.bsky.social
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Are you part of the 'silent majority' who wants faster action on dealing with the impact of our #ClimateCrisis?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Are you part of the 'silent majority' who wants faster action on dealing with the impact of our #ClimateCrisis?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hi everyone!
I'm absolutely stoked to share that FOUND2 has been shortlisted in this year's Aurealis Awards!
aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...
Congratulations to all the authors and everyone who worked so hard to make the antho as good as it is! 🖤 @gabino.bsky.social @alandistro.bsky.social
I'm absolutely stoked to share that FOUND2 has been shortlisted in this year's Aurealis Awards!
aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...
Congratulations to all the authors and everyone who worked so hard to make the antho as good as it is! 🖤 @gabino.bsky.social @alandistro.bsky.social
2024 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement
Now in its 30th year, the 2024 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction award, attracted more than 830 entries across 15 categories, including 34 nominations in the tri-annual…
aurealisawards.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hi everyone!
I'm absolutely stoked to share that FOUND2 has been shortlisted in this year's Aurealis Awards!
aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...
Congratulations to all the authors and everyone who worked so hard to make the antho as good as it is! 🖤 @gabino.bsky.social @alandistro.bsky.social
I'm absolutely stoked to share that FOUND2 has been shortlisted in this year's Aurealis Awards!
aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...
Congratulations to all the authors and everyone who worked so hard to make the antho as good as it is! 🖤 @gabino.bsky.social @alandistro.bsky.social
I was pickpocketed today but my phone is so old and shit they left it on the ground, so, a win... I guess?
March 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I was pickpocketed today but my phone is so old and shit they left it on the ground, so, a win... I guess?
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OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
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I love seeing our two spooky (definitely not cursed) books together like this! They're like evil twins or Ringu and Pulse. If you'd like to win a FOUND double-bill like this one, follow me and share this post. I'll pick a winner on 01/18 👻.
Huge thanks to samanthahaunts for this awesome shot! 📼🖤
Huge thanks to samanthahaunts for this awesome shot! 📼🖤
January 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I love seeing our two spooky (definitely not cursed) books together like this! They're like evil twins or Ringu and Pulse. If you'd like to win a FOUND double-bill like this one, follow me and share this post. I'll pick a winner on 01/18 👻.
Huge thanks to samanthahaunts for this awesome shot! 📼🖤
Huge thanks to samanthahaunts for this awesome shot! 📼🖤
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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM
"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
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Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
December 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
I've been GMing RPGs for years... for the first time ever all the players used ChatGPT to come up with the character backstories. They don't understand why I'm so upset with them.
December 17, 2024 at 6:52 PM
I've been GMing RPGs for years... for the first time ever all the players used ChatGPT to come up with the character backstories. They don't understand why I'm so upset with them.
Does anything beat finding a forgotten story idea in an old pad and it's actually awesome?
December 2, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Does anything beat finding a forgotten story idea in an old pad and it's actually awesome?
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FOUND 2: MORE STORIES OF FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR, edited by @andrewcull.bsky.social and @gabino.bsky.social, gets a lot of love from @jonezyboy.bsky.social. This anthology features stories from @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social, @peterrosch.bsky.social, & more! #amreading
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Found 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror
Found 2 is undoubtedly the most welcome sequel of 2024!
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December 1, 2024 at 8:32 PM
FOUND 2: MORE STORIES OF FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR, edited by @andrewcull.bsky.social and @gabino.bsky.social, gets a lot of love from @jonezyboy.bsky.social. This anthology features stories from @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social, @peterrosch.bsky.social, & more! #amreading
buff.ly/3CRHxlz
buff.ly/3CRHxlz
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I had one short story published in 2024, so here's my little awards eligibility post!
My story A Place Where the Sun Has Never Shone is in FOUND 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror, edited by @gabino.bsky.social and @andrewcull.bsky.social, published 10/25/24.
www.amazon.com/FOUND-storie...
My story A Place Where the Sun Has Never Shone is in FOUND 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror, edited by @gabino.bsky.social and @andrewcull.bsky.social, published 10/25/24.
www.amazon.com/FOUND-storie...
December 1, 2024 at 12:46 PM
I had one short story published in 2024, so here's my little awards eligibility post!
My story A Place Where the Sun Has Never Shone is in FOUND 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror, edited by @gabino.bsky.social and @andrewcull.bsky.social, published 10/25/24.
www.amazon.com/FOUND-storie...
My story A Place Where the Sun Has Never Shone is in FOUND 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror, edited by @gabino.bsky.social and @andrewcull.bsky.social, published 10/25/24.
www.amazon.com/FOUND-storie...
Please help me Skyvemind. I just followed everybody on the Spec Fic Short Story Writers list but it refreshed before I could ask to be added. Anybody know how I could find it again?
December 1, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Please help me Skyvemind. I just followed everybody on the Spec Fic Short Story Writers list but it refreshed before I could ask to be added. Anybody know how I could find it again?
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Looking for accounts to follow now you're on Bluesky? Here's a starter pack featuring the authors from FOUND2: More stories of found footage horror! 🖤📼👻
go.bsky.app/Nc4RaKK
go.bsky.app/Nc4RaKK
November 28, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Looking for accounts to follow now you're on Bluesky? Here's a starter pack featuring the authors from FOUND2: More stories of found footage horror! 🖤📼👻
go.bsky.app/Nc4RaKK
go.bsky.app/Nc4RaKK
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Two days! TWO DAYS! You've still got TWO DAYS to enter the 7th annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Anthology (-slash-contest-thing)!!!!!
weirdchristmas.com/2024/09/25/a...
weirdchristmas.com/2024/09/25/a...
Announcing the Seventh Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest!!
I am not dead. Nor have I given up the contest. I’m just late. Very late. Months late. But that means that this year, I won’t be announcing the contest when it’s unbearably hot, e…
weirdchristmas.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Two days! TWO DAYS! You've still got TWO DAYS to enter the 7th annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Anthology (-slash-contest-thing)!!!!!
weirdchristmas.com/2024/09/25/a...
weirdchristmas.com/2024/09/25/a...
I've been reading a lot of books set in New Orleans lately, so last night I made po boys and dirty rice. Delicious. It got me wondering, does anybody else get cravings for food from the books they read? If so, what are the best recipes you've found that way?
November 28, 2024 at 8:13 AM
I've been reading a lot of books set in New Orleans lately, so last night I made po boys and dirty rice. Delicious. It got me wondering, does anybody else get cravings for food from the books they read? If so, what are the best recipes you've found that way?
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As writers, we support each other. We're not in competition. The creative industries need many voices and visions to survive. We're not in competition, we're working together to keep publishing alive and a diverse readership engaged—and that requires many voices, many stories.
December 29, 2023 at 10:24 PM
As writers, we support each other. We're not in competition. The creative industries need many voices and visions to survive. We're not in competition, we're working together to keep publishing alive and a diverse readership engaged—and that requires many voices, many stories.