Shannon Phillips
@joshannonphillips.com
Writer and mom living in Oakland. Short speculative fiction and serialized novels at https://joshannonphillips.substack.com/. I like old things, wild places, tall tales, and the people who tell them.🐉
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Shannon Phillips
@joshannonphillips.com
· May 28
Journey
Journey - Kindle edition by Phillips, Shannon, Yanovsky, German. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Journey.
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JOURNEY is out now ( www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8WTJXHJ , or can be ordered through your local bookstore). Reviewers interested in getting a copy, feel free to message me!
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The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT genuinely changed my life. I learned a ton, witnessed how science is done firsthand, and took my writing career in a new direction. If you write about science/tech, you should apply!! ksj.mit.edu/fellowships/...
The bookshelf in our beautiful seminar room @ksjatmit.bsky.social is filled with books by former fellows. Want to be next? Applications to our fellowship are open and on our website. @annaleen.bsky.social @ferrisjabr.bsky.social @tomzellerjr.com @s-r-m.bsky.social and Melanie Kaplan. Please share.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT genuinely changed my life. I learned a ton, witnessed how science is done firsthand, and took my writing career in a new direction. If you write about science/tech, you should apply!! ksj.mit.edu/fellowships/...
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This is very high on the list of what motivates new writing careers to get off the ground, and you should absolutely run with it.
honestly inspired by all the shitty writing to get back into writing more fiction. i am at a very minimum a better writer than this shit.
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is very high on the list of what motivates new writing careers to get off the ground, and you should absolutely run with it.
The short story I wrote with my mom, "The Greenstone Beads," has been longlisted for the Ink of Ages fiction prize. The shortlist will be announced in January--fingers crossed!
fictionprize.worldhistory.org/2026-results
(story link: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/the-greens... )
fictionprize.worldhistory.org/2026-results
(story link: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/the-greens... )
Results
The 2026 Prize Longlist
At World History Encyclopedia, we've enjoyed reading all 510 adult and 147 youth submissions this year! Each story was read by at least two reviewers (usually three!) from Worl...
fictionprize.worldhistory.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The short story I wrote with my mom, "The Greenstone Beads," has been longlisted for the Ink of Ages fiction prize. The shortlist will be announced in January--fingers crossed!
fictionprize.worldhistory.org/2026-results
(story link: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/the-greens... )
fictionprize.worldhistory.org/2026-results
(story link: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/the-greens... )
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and we take a break from our usual nonsense to say go take a look at these octopus tea cups!
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No code, discount automatically applied inside cart! ⚠️
#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
No code, discount automatically applied inside cart! ⚠️
#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
and we take a break from our usual nonsense to say go take a look at these octopus tea cups!
Monday space pirate chapter (free to read): joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-10-jour...
Ch. 10: Journey
“Mutiny!” he shouted in a strong and forceful voice. “Mutiny! Security, to me!”
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November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Monday space pirate chapter (free to read): joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-10-jour...
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
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Free trade, open borders, Mexi-Korean Halal trucks on every corner.
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Free trade, open borders, Mexi-Korean Halal trucks on every corner.
We should welcome refugees and immigrants. Comprehensive prison & police reform is a moral imperative. Schools should teach real history, science, lit etc, not propaganda. Kids are not their parents' property. Trans people are fine, just treat all the queers like anyone else. Make AOC president
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We should welcome refugees and immigrants. Comprehensive prison & police reform is a moral imperative. Schools should teach real history, science, lit etc, not propaganda. Kids are not their parents' property. Trans people are fine, just treat all the queers like anyone else. Make AOC president
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Oil Rig Disaster
Painting study
Painting study
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Oil Rig Disaster
Painting study
Painting study
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.
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Not now carnivorous death-ball
Carnivorous 'death-ball' among odd deep-sea finds. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge is team's oddest deep-sea find
The unusual creature lurks more than two miles (3.2km) deep in a trench in the Southern Ocean.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Not now carnivorous death-ball
I wish someone would reorganize my pell-mell & ontologically upsetting silverware drawer
Watched my brother’s family’s pups this weekend & reorganized their pell-mell & ontologically upsetting silverware drawer (little forks no longer in the same slot as big forks, jam spoons disassociated from teaspoons) & I didn’t say anything & just got a text from my brother that reads, “🙄.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I wish someone would reorganize my pell-mell & ontologically upsetting silverware drawer
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Nightmare.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Nightmare.
Monday chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-9-journey
Ch. 9: Journey
Niels pried his fingers under her chin and forced her gaze abruptly upwards. “What happened in the missing hours?” he roared
joshannonphillips.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Monday chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-9-journey
Real art installation vibes
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Real art installation vibes
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Urgent help wanted, as mention by Tonda in this talk. One of the lead playtesters really urgently needs a living kidney donor. Read www.iggyland.org and then consider reposting, please.
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Urgent help wanted, as mention by Tonda in this talk. One of the lead playtesters really urgently needs a living kidney donor. Read www.iggyland.org and then consider reposting, please.
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
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dr mccoy was right. ban transporters and ban them now
what star trek political opinion would you have if you lived in universe? would you still be weird about the xindi? would you be one of the people who protests the Klingon embassy in Paris? Me, i'd be a borg truther
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
dr mccoy was right. ban transporters and ban them now
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The nice people at ThinkyCon made me a poster! Also, don't forget ThinkyCon starts on Wednesday 5th - I'm on day two.
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The nice people at ThinkyCon made me a poster! Also, don't forget ThinkyCon starts on Wednesday 5th - I'm on day two.
Monday chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-8-journey
Ch. 8: Journey
“I will kill those pirate bastards myself if nobody beats me to it.”
joshannonphillips.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Monday chapter: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-8-journey
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it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
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happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
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ALL SOULS EVE (2024)
Acrylic on Canvas - 9 ½” x 7”
With leaves starting to fall and temperatures cooling, the color patterns on this scrap of canvas shifted me right into the Halloween spirit. 1/2
Acrylic on Canvas - 9 ½” x 7”
With leaves starting to fall and temperatures cooling, the color patterns on this scrap of canvas shifted me right into the Halloween spirit. 1/2
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
ALL SOULS EVE (2024)
Acrylic on Canvas - 9 ½” x 7”
With leaves starting to fall and temperatures cooling, the color patterns on this scrap of canvas shifted me right into the Halloween spirit. 1/2
Acrylic on Canvas - 9 ½” x 7”
With leaves starting to fall and temperatures cooling, the color patterns on this scrap of canvas shifted me right into the Halloween spirit. 1/2