Anna Clark
@annaclark.bsky.social
Writer of speculative fiction, welder of ships, and artist of dragons.
Stories in Diabolical Plots, Factor Four, and Flash Fiction Online.
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https://linktr.ee/AnnaClarksWritings
Stories in Diabolical Plots, Factor Four, and Flash Fiction Online.
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https://linktr.ee/AnnaClarksWritings
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Anna Clark
@annaclark.bsky.social
· Aug 9
FRESH FICTION: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark. Ever feel like you don’t know who you are? This story is about relationship to self
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
New story! This one comes particularly from past worries about authenticity when doing the very natural thing of adapting behaviours around different people, taken to the extreme.
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Well, speaking of the Nebulas, I can assure you no part of this story was created using AI. In fact, it’s inspired by my utter disgust of AI-generated art. I wrote is as an F-you to this whole shoehorning of AI in art. Give it a read if any of that speaks to you. #fuckai
Nebula nominations are open. It would mean a lot if you’d consider “Through the Machine.” Published in Lightspeed and featured by Gizmodo, it’s a cautionary tale of AI in the arts, using the film industry as example. Thank you for your consideration.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
Through the Machine - Lightspeed Magazine
“Steve, over here! Turn to your right. Can we get a smile?” He falls back on his training easily enough, turns to the cameras, gives them his famous crooked smile, tilts his head just so as the flashe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Well, speaking of the Nebulas, I can assure you no part of this story was created using AI. In fact, it’s inspired by my utter disgust of AI-generated art. I wrote is as an F-you to this whole shoehorning of AI in art. Give it a read if any of that speaks to you. #fuckai
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I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I'm so disappointed in @sfwa.org for this. I understand that by requiring disclosure of partial LLM-created works, as their announcement states, means SFWA's letting "nominators and the voters" make the final decision. BUT YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING SUCH WORKS ON THE NEBULA AWARDS FINAL BALLOT! 1/
Just finished "The Year of the Griffin" by Diana Wynne Jones (one of hers I hadn't read before). I love how effortlessly it escalates. Of course the irate royal parents/family of the main characters would turn up on the campus right when they've just tried to reach the moon (and overshot).
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Just finished "The Year of the Griffin" by Diana Wynne Jones (one of hers I hadn't read before). I love how effortlessly it escalates. Of course the irate royal parents/family of the main characters would turn up on the campus right when they've just tried to reach the moon (and overshot).
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My 2025 Recommended Reading List is finally ready! Honestly, just writing these descriptions made me excited about this year's sci-fi/fantasy all over again. www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/18/t...
Tar Vol's 2025 Recommended Reading List (Holiday Edition)
Tar Vol's 2025 Recommended Reading List collects the best sci-fi and fantasy fiction to be published in 2025, from novels all the way to short stories.
www.tarvolon.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My 2025 Recommended Reading List is finally ready! Honestly, just writing these descriptions made me excited about this year's sci-fi/fantasy all over again. www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/18/t...
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ICYMI Shedding has been nominated for Best Small Fiction 2026! 🥹
Thanks to the amazing EIC Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social Read this mag for great stories! Here's Shedding for a short break:
fictivedream.com/2025/09/29/m...
Keep #writing y'all! 💪💖
#5amwritersclub #writerslife #speculative
Thanks to the amazing EIC Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social Read this mag for great stories! Here's Shedding for a short break:
fictivedream.com/2025/09/29/m...
Keep #writing y'all! 💪💖
#5amwritersclub #writerslife #speculative
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
ICYMI Shedding has been nominated for Best Small Fiction 2026! 🥹
Thanks to the amazing EIC Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social Read this mag for great stories! Here's Shedding for a short break:
fictivedream.com/2025/09/29/m...
Keep #writing y'all! 💪💖
#5amwritersclub #writerslife #speculative
Thanks to the amazing EIC Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social Read this mag for great stories! Here's Shedding for a short break:
fictivedream.com/2025/09/29/m...
Keep #writing y'all! 💪💖
#5amwritersclub #writerslife #speculative
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Super excited to see @cypayseur.bsky.social recommend my teleportation story “Dislocated”! Read that and Charles’s other reviews at locusmag.com/review/flash... and my story at www.flashfictiononline.com/article/disl...
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Super excited to see @cypayseur.bsky.social recommend my teleportation story “Dislocated”! Read that and Charles’s other reviews at locusmag.com/review/flash... and my story at www.flashfictiononline.com/article/disl...
My story was recommended in Locus by Charles Payseur! On a page with other amazing stories! I am unbelievable happy.
“No Laughter in a Vacuum” by @annaclark.bsky.social and “Dislocated” by @granades.com from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social
Flash Fiction Online, Zooscape, and Cast of Wonders: Review by Charles Payseur
Flash Fiction Online 8/25 Zooscape 8/25 Cast of Wonders 8/23/25 August brings a number of great stories to Flash Fiction Online, including Anna Clark’s “No Laughter in a Vacuum”, which introduces r…
locusmag.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My story was recommended in Locus by Charles Payseur! On a page with other amazing stories! I am unbelievable happy.
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I've signed and confirmed this. Please do the same!
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I've signed and confirmed this. Please do the same!
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A love letter to public libraries: I'm in a new town waiting for my girlfriend to finish work. I have three bags I need to finish work too. The public library here is beautiful and has a community area and computer area both in solid use and loads of books and a free coffee machine ❤️ more of this!
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A love letter to public libraries: I'm in a new town waiting for my girlfriend to finish work. I have three bags I need to finish work too. The public library here is beautiful and has a community area and computer area both in solid use and loads of books and a free coffee machine ❤️ more of this!
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This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
I endorse these stories. They are very good and should definitely be read. My personal favourite is Bone-Eater Earth, which is the perfect melding of concept and character voice, in my view. The others will break your heat in the best way.
It’s that time of year when everyone goes ‘Omg I gotta tell everyone all the things they can nominate me for’ and then sits around wondering if anyone actually will.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
Feel free to nominate my stories for a Hugo, Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, Pulitzer, Nobel… But, equally, I’m thrilled if you just read them.
December 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I endorse these stories. They are very good and should definitely be read. My personal favourite is Bone-Eater Earth, which is the perfect melding of concept and character voice, in my view. The others will break your heat in the best way.
Reposted by Anna Clark
With the Nebula and BSFA nominations open, I’d be honored if you’d consider my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. It's a story of friendship, love, and fireflies✨🪲
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
With the Nebula and BSFA nominations open, I’d be honored if you’d consider my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. It's a story of friendship, love, and fireflies✨🪲
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
In light of today's episode of lunchtime politics, there haven't been over 50,000 stabbings recorded in the UK last year. We don't track 'stabbings'. There is a record of offences involving a knife or sharp object - a broad category. A more relevant statistic might be NHS admissions: 3500.
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
In light of today's episode of lunchtime politics, there haven't been over 50,000 stabbings recorded in the UK last year. We don't track 'stabbings'. There is a record of offences involving a knife or sharp object - a broad category. A more relevant statistic might be NHS admissions: 3500.
Just read this phenomenal story by @slashnburnett.bsky.social: mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
It features food as a sensory metaphor for generational trauma and is heartbreakingly rendered, with just the right touch of hope at the end.
It features food as a sensory metaphor for generational trauma and is heartbreakingly rendered, with just the right touch of hope at the end.
25 Peppercorns
Speculative Fiction Without Distraction
mythaxis.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Just read this phenomenal story by @slashnburnett.bsky.social: mythaxis.co.uk/issue-43/25-...
It features food as a sensory metaphor for generational trauma and is heartbreakingly rendered, with just the right touch of hope at the end.
It features food as a sensory metaphor for generational trauma and is heartbreakingly rendered, with just the right touch of hope at the end.
Reposted by Anna Clark
New eco horror story! About a subject that's close to my heart (and my rage): aedeakin.substack.com/p/plastic-tr...
Plastic Treaty
Supernatural eco-horror. Environmentalist Eva Steinbeck seeks revenge against her corporate lobbyist nemesis, but gets more than she bargained for.
aedeakin.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New eco horror story! About a subject that's close to my heart (and my rage): aedeakin.substack.com/p/plastic-tr...
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My words are projected onto the side of Freo Ports building as part of a series with other amazing local writers for a literary festival! 🥹 Catch @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social and @belindarowe.bsky.social too!
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
October 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
My words are projected onto the side of Freo Ports building as part of a series with other amazing local writers for a literary festival! 🥹 Catch @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social and @belindarowe.bsky.social too!
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
(Looks like AI has ruined em dashes for good?!)
#totallylitfreo #microstories #flashfic
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Coming spring 2026!
After working through developmental edits with the truly wonderful @slashnburnett.bsky.social - we can confirm the title of her gorgeous, frustrated, mama-centered, anti-capitalist, sci-fi debut novella is: 🥁
Community, built
Community, built
August 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Coming spring 2026!
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Oooo, this one rings a bell for those of us still looking for ourselves. Be careful, it may leave you cackling at the end. Wonderful piece by @annaclark.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory #specfic
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory #specfic
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Oooo, this one rings a bell for those of us still looking for ourselves. Be careful, it may leave you cackling at the end. Wonderful piece by @annaclark.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory #specfic
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#speculative #flashfiction #shortstory #specfic
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I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
Genre Grapevine Delay, Neurodiverse Writers Booklet, and Seattle Worldcon Schedule | Jason Sanford
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August 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
New story! This one comes particularly from past worries about authenticity when doing the very natural thing of adapting behaviours around different people, taken to the extreme.
FRESH FICTION: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark. Ever feel like you don’t know who you are? This story is about relationship to self
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
New story! This one comes particularly from past worries about authenticity when doing the very natural thing of adapting behaviours around different people, taken to the extreme.
Reposted by Anna Clark
I always read @annaclark.bsky.social’s prose with a magnifier, to see every tiny touch, sentence by sentence. And this one is fantastic! And what a first sentence to begin a story:
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I always read @annaclark.bsky.social’s prose with a magnifier, to see every tiny touch, sentence by sentence. And this one is fantastic! And what a first sentence to begin a story:
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.
Reposted by Anna Clark
FRESH FICTION: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark. Ever feel like you don’t know who you are? This story is about relationship to self
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
FRESH FICTION: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark. Ever feel like you don’t know who you are? This story is about relationship to self
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity
@annaclark.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
Reposted by Anna Clark
My wonderful friend @annaclark.bsky.social smashed it out of the park again. Go have a fun quick read about a personality vacuum:
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#shortfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fantasy #sff #fantasyfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#shortfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fantasy #sff #fantasyfiction
No Laughter in a Vacuum
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she…
www.flashfictiononline.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
My wonderful friend @annaclark.bsky.social smashed it out of the park again. Go have a fun quick read about a personality vacuum:
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#shortfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fantasy #sff #fantasyfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...
#shortfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #fantasy #sff #fantasyfiction
Keep seeing complaints about Marvel-style dialogue in books, and I kind of get it. I don't mind a good quip at a dire moment, but relentlessly glib characterisation that never gets dug into is very frustrating in novel format.
August 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Keep seeing complaints about Marvel-style dialogue in books, and I kind of get it. I don't mind a good quip at a dire moment, but relentlessly glib characterisation that never gets dug into is very frustrating in novel format.
This is a wonderful period grief story with a folkloric feel, written by my talented friend. Very recommended!
Just accidentally deleted my old post about this while trying to re-share (don't post tired folks) so here it is again in case anyone wants to take a look. I have a story in this lovely magazine about grief, faeries and friendship and it's in some fab company.
#shortstory #fantasy #sff
#shortstory #fantasy #sff
July 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is a wonderful period grief story with a folkloric feel, written by my talented friend. Very recommended!