Pippa Goldschmidt
@pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social
Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF, and 'Night Vision' from Broken Sleep Books. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
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No agent? No problem.
The 5th Edition of our Indie Press Guide is available to pre-order!
With over 750 editors to choose from, there's never been a better time to take control of your writing!
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The 5th Edition of our Indie Press Guide is available to pre-order!
With over 750 editors to choose from, there's never been a better time to take control of your writing!
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#amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity #writers
Indie Press Guide (5th Edition) - Shop : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
Indie Press Guide (5th Edition) - Shop : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
No agent? No problem.
The 5th Edition of our Indie Press Guide is available to pre-order!
With over 750 editors to choose from, there's never been a better time to take control of your writing!
mslexia.co.uk/shop/indie-p...
#amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity #writers
The 5th Edition of our Indie Press Guide is available to pre-order!
With over 750 editors to choose from, there's never been a better time to take control of your writing!
mslexia.co.uk/shop/indie-p...
#amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity #writers
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Publishers, publicity peeps, take note, I'm back in the saddle for Wigtown Book Festival 2026. Please send catalogues, AI sheets, proofs. Using Programme@Wigtownbookfestival.com email again (after a year off). Writers, please have publishers get in touch! www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/welcome...
Wigtown Book Festival | Welcome Return of Festival Programmer Lee…
Lee is a well-known figure in Scottish literature and media. Her role with will involve curating the 2026 Wigtown Book Festival programme.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Publishers, publicity peeps, take note, I'm back in the saddle for Wigtown Book Festival 2026. Please send catalogues, AI sheets, proofs. Using Programme@Wigtownbookfestival.com email again (after a year off). Writers, please have publishers get in touch! www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/welcome...
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Maybe the Birds, by @ajashworth.bsky.social featured on MIT Reader from @mitpress.bsky.social
@goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social #newwriting #newreleases #newbooks #SF #FeministSF #IntersectionalSF
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@goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social #newwriting #newreleases #newbooks #SF #FeministSF #IntersectionalSF
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A.J. Ashworth: ‘The Guide’
Across millennia, a cave painter and a son confront the shadows of creation and loss. A story from A.J. Ashworth’s new collection “Maybe the Birds.”
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October 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Maybe the Birds, by @ajashworth.bsky.social featured on MIT Reader from @mitpress.bsky.social
@goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social #newwriting #newreleases #newbooks #SF #FeministSF #IntersectionalSF
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@goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social #newwriting #newreleases #newbooks #SF #FeministSF #IntersectionalSF
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Want to read a story about bats predicting extreme weather? Of course you do!
With thanks to the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, my story "The Way Out" is here:
issues.org/futuretensef...
With thanks to the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, my story "The Way Out" is here:
issues.org/futuretensef...
The Way Out | Future Tense Fiction
Can animal behavior predict extreme weather? Pippa Goldschmidt’s story imagines a future in which analysts anticipate climate catastrophes by monitoring bats.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Want to read a story about bats predicting extreme weather? Of course you do!
With thanks to the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, my story "The Way Out" is here:
issues.org/futuretensef...
With thanks to the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, my story "The Way Out" is here:
issues.org/futuretensef...
In which I recommend (some of) my fave short stories!
There's still time to sign up for @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social's A Personal Anthology, her pick of and introduction to a dozen favourite short stories.
Hitting inboxes at 2pm. Sign up here:
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November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In which I recommend (some of) my fave short stories!
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🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
My fave short stories! (Well, some of them, anyway.) Huge thanks to @jonathangibbs.bsky.social for organising:
It's Wednesday afternoon, and so officially nearly the weekend – and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social, author of the collection Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities).
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About - A Personal Anthology
A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My fave short stories! (Well, some of them, anyway.) Huge thanks to @jonathangibbs.bsky.social for organising:
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I'm lucky enough to have the time and other resources to spend a lot of time with my children doing "making" activities. A few years ago, I organised a "Month of Making" to encourage people to make gifts for Christmas instead of buying them - some of you might like these ideas to try:
A Month of Making
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) champions bold, groundbreaking engineering innovation which is of global benefit to humanity.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I'm lucky enough to have the time and other resources to spend a lot of time with my children doing "making" activities. A few years ago, I organised a "Month of Making" to encourage people to make gifts for Christmas instead of buying them - some of you might like these ideas to try:
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"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'
October 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'
This Tory "policy" is going to be an absolute gift to the SNP. Can't imagine any better way of convincing Scottish people that they'd be better off by setting themselves free from this immoral sh*te once and for all. (Same is probably true of Sinn Fein in NI.)
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
October 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This Tory "policy" is going to be an absolute gift to the SNP. Can't imagine any better way of convincing Scottish people that they'd be better off by setting themselves free from this immoral sh*te once and for all. (Same is probably true of Sinn Fein in NI.)
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#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
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Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
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New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
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Resistance is not futile
October 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Resistance is not futile
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‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins.
My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins
The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins.
My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Why is having covid such hard work? I lie on the sofa, arrange the hot water bottle over my feet, tuck myself under a blanket, sort out the cushion under my head, realise I can't reach the tv remote control and have forgotten to fetch the hankies, paracetamol and other assorted drugs (1/n)
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Why is having covid such hard work? I lie on the sofa, arrange the hot water bottle over my feet, tuck myself under a blanket, sort out the cushion under my head, realise I can't reach the tv remote control and have forgotten to fetch the hankies, paracetamol and other assorted drugs (1/n)
Pretty disturbing. Authors need to argue for the legal right (written into their contracts with publishers) to veto AI translations of their work.
The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25
AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears
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October 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Pretty disturbing. Authors need to argue for the legal right (written into their contracts with publishers) to veto AI translations of their work.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Our October sale has gone EVEN deeper! 🤩
33% off selected items while stocks last! 🚀
Discount applied automatically in our checkout.
Head now to: www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
33% off selected items while stocks last! 🚀
Discount applied automatically in our checkout.
Head now to: www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
Salt Monthly Sale
Don’t miss out! Each month we spotlight a fresh selection of Salt titles at special prices – but only for a limited time. This month there is 33% off sale items! Happy shopping.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Our October sale has gone EVEN deeper! 🤩
33% off selected items while stocks last! 🚀
Discount applied automatically in our checkout.
Head now to: www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
33% off selected items while stocks last! 🚀
Discount applied automatically in our checkout.
Head now to: www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Happy pub day to this wonder anthology which includes my story "Lord of the Fruit Flies" about the biologist Hermann Muller, big thanks to editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and publisher @saltpublishing.com
It's publication day for this beauty, with stories by David Bevan @iancritchley.bsky.social @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, @simonokotie.bsky.social, C.D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Naomi Wood, lucky old me! et al. Thank you @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com 🔥
October 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Happy pub day to this wonder anthology which includes my story "Lord of the Fruit Flies" about the biologist Hermann Muller, big thanks to editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and publisher @saltpublishing.com
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Happy #WorldPorridgeDay to all who celebrate! 🥣
Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel,
you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel
fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule
(we don’t do Simmer)…
—WN Herbert, “TO PORRIDGE”
#poem #poetry #porridge
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Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel,
you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel
fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule
(we don’t do Simmer)…
—WN Herbert, “TO PORRIDGE”
#poem #poetry #porridge
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October 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Happy #WorldPorridgeDay to all who celebrate! 🥣
Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel,
you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel
fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule
(we don’t do Simmer)…
—WN Herbert, “TO PORRIDGE”
#poem #poetry #porridge
poetryinternationalweb.org/pi/site/poem...
Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel,
you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel
fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule
(we don’t do Simmer)…
—WN Herbert, “TO PORRIDGE”
#poem #poetry #porridge
poetryinternationalweb.org/pi/site/poem...
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Join us in commemorating Black Speculative Fiction Month at Arizona State University! This series of events on October 16 explores how artists, scholars, and cultural leaders use speculative storytelling to imagine more just and inclusive futures.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Join us in commemorating Black Speculative Fiction Month at Arizona State University! This series of events on October 16 explores how artists, scholars, and cultural leaders use speculative storytelling to imagine more just and inclusive futures.
🔗 asuevents.asu.edu?searchText=b...
🔗 asuevents.asu.edu?searchText=b...
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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"
Stay tuned for more.
Stay tuned for more.
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"
Stay tuned for more.
Stay tuned for more.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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