Morris Wayts
@morriswayts.com
Burned dirt person (coffee drinker), Xennial, he/him, proud kitchenwitch.
Writing SFF/Horror mostly on Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/morris_wayts
Linklist to all stories: https://www.morriswayts.com/publications
Strive!
Writing SFF/Horror mostly on Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/morris_wayts
Linklist to all stories: https://www.morriswayts.com/publications
Strive!
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tell your friends, your frenemies, your favorite writers & publishers... only a couple days left to send us the best nature-based speculative fiction you published last year!
We're reading 2025's ecohorror, clifi, solarpunk, anthropomorphic, ecoweird, dystopian, utopian, anti-utopian, ecofuturism!
We're reading 2025's ecohorror, clifi, solarpunk, anthropomorphic, ecoweird, dystopian, utopian, anti-utopian, ecofuturism!
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
tell your friends, your frenemies, your favorite writers & publishers... only a couple days left to send us the best nature-based speculative fiction you published last year!
We're reading 2025's ecohorror, clifi, solarpunk, anthropomorphic, ecoweird, dystopian, utopian, anti-utopian, ecofuturism!
We're reading 2025's ecohorror, clifi, solarpunk, anthropomorphic, ecoweird, dystopian, utopian, anti-utopian, ecofuturism!
#amwriting #shortfiction #fantasy #mtgpromptfill
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Hey #readers, new #story, #free2read is up! I had fun with this prompt, 2nd is already WIP.
Please read, share, ❤️, comment - don't be shy, you would be shocked by the amount of compliments writers can endure! 🥰
ko-fi.com/post/MTG-Pro...
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Hey #readers, new #story, #free2read is up! I had fun with this prompt, 2nd is already WIP.
Please read, share, ❤️, comment - don't be shy, you would be shocked by the amount of compliments writers can endure! 🥰
ko-fi.com/post/MTG-Pro...
For the Silverbark Forest - MTG Prompt Fill
Morris Wayts published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:41 PM
#amwriting #shortfiction #fantasy #mtgpromptfill
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Hey #readers, new #story, #free2read is up! I had fun with this prompt, 2nd is already WIP.
Please read, share, ❤️, comment - don't be shy, you would be shocked by the amount of compliments writers can endure! 🥰
ko-fi.com/post/MTG-Pro...
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Hey #readers, new #story, #free2read is up! I had fun with this prompt, 2nd is already WIP.
Please read, share, ❤️, comment - don't be shy, you would be shocked by the amount of compliments writers can endure! 🥰
ko-fi.com/post/MTG-Pro...
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Hell is empty and all the Devil's Advocates are here.
January 30, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Hell is empty and all the Devil's Advocates are here.
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Newsletter goes out later today!
It's free! This one is about a childhood bully, a fundraiser for a friend of a friend, and poetry!
buttondown.email/alwayscoffee
It's free! This one is about a childhood bully, a fundraiser for a friend of a friend, and poetry!
buttondown.email/alwayscoffee
Between the Lines
A writer's life: a bit of this and that, but always coffee.
buttondown.email
January 30, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Newsletter goes out later today!
It's free! This one is about a childhood bully, a fundraiser for a friend of a friend, and poetry!
buttondown.email/alwayscoffee
It's free! This one is about a childhood bully, a fundraiser for a friend of a friend, and poetry!
buttondown.email/alwayscoffee
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My 9yo made this picture.
He asked me to put it on social media ‘so all the grown-ups will see it and will stop climate change’.
I’m so proud of how kind, smart and creative he is.
I’m also heartbroken that he’s scared of where humanity is heading.
He asked me to put it on social media ‘so all the grown-ups will see it and will stop climate change’.
I’m so proud of how kind, smart and creative he is.
I’m also heartbroken that he’s scared of where humanity is heading.
January 30, 2026 at 9:38 AM
My 9yo made this picture.
He asked me to put it on social media ‘so all the grown-ups will see it and will stop climate change’.
I’m so proud of how kind, smart and creative he is.
I’m also heartbroken that he’s scared of where humanity is heading.
He asked me to put it on social media ‘so all the grown-ups will see it and will stop climate change’.
I’m so proud of how kind, smart and creative he is.
I’m also heartbroken that he’s scared of where humanity is heading.
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Art isn’t a vending machine.
You can’t put a coin in and push a magic button and get a poem.
You wouldn’t call a candy bar a gourmet, Michelin meal.
Art takes time, work, and practice.
It takes mistakes and passion and almost always a few tears.
Make it yourself or bugger off.
You can’t put a coin in and push a magic button and get a poem.
You wouldn’t call a candy bar a gourmet, Michelin meal.
Art takes time, work, and practice.
It takes mistakes and passion and almost always a few tears.
Make it yourself or bugger off.
January 29, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Art isn’t a vending machine.
You can’t put a coin in and push a magic button and get a poem.
You wouldn’t call a candy bar a gourmet, Michelin meal.
Art takes time, work, and practice.
It takes mistakes and passion and almost always a few tears.
Make it yourself or bugger off.
You can’t put a coin in and push a magic button and get a poem.
You wouldn’t call a candy bar a gourmet, Michelin meal.
Art takes time, work, and practice.
It takes mistakes and passion and almost always a few tears.
Make it yourself or bugger off.
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I got 500+ submissions (potentially 3000+ poems) already, might as well add more
strangehorizons.com/submit/poetr...
strangehorizons.com/submit/poetr...
Poetry Submission Guidelines
How to submit poetry.
strangehorizons.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I got 500+ submissions (potentially 3000+ poems) already, might as well add more
strangehorizons.com/submit/poetr...
strangehorizons.com/submit/poetr...
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If you are reading for awards, I would be touched if you would consider my novelette, "Phantom View." It's one of my most personal stories, about disabled people helping each other, whether they're alive or dead.
Phantom View - Reactor
A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father tries to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.
reactormag.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:06 PM
If you are reading for awards, I would be touched if you would consider my novelette, "Phantom View." It's one of my most personal stories, about disabled people helping each other, whether they're alive or dead.
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guidelines like this are a reason I'm so thankful for the Submission Grinder! I can weed out these markets with the click of a checkbox and never even see them!
From a guidelines:
"Please note that there is a minimal $25 reading fee to help cover our costs."
LOL, to "help" cover our costs seems to say it costs that publisher more than $25 in expenses to read a single submitted manuscript? Man, how you reading it? Printing it out on dollar bills?
"Please note that there is a minimal $25 reading fee to help cover our costs."
LOL, to "help" cover our costs seems to say it costs that publisher more than $25 in expenses to read a single submitted manuscript? Man, how you reading it? Printing it out on dollar bills?
January 28, 2026 at 3:17 PM
guidelines like this are a reason I'm so thankful for the Submission Grinder! I can weed out these markets with the click of a checkbox and never even see them!
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Good morning! Let’s do a #WriterShareWednesday!
Share a project you’ve published OR a pitch for your current WIP with the hashtag #WriterShareWednesday and we’ll give it a boost! (Please use alt text for images + share other folks' projects too!)
Share a project you’ve published OR a pitch for your current WIP with the hashtag #WriterShareWednesday and we’ll give it a boost! (Please use alt text for images + share other folks' projects too!)
January 28, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Good morning! Let’s do a #WriterShareWednesday!
Share a project you’ve published OR a pitch for your current WIP with the hashtag #WriterShareWednesday and we’ll give it a boost! (Please use alt text for images + share other folks' projects too!)
Share a project you’ve published OR a pitch for your current WIP with the hashtag #WriterShareWednesday and we’ll give it a boost! (Please use alt text for images + share other folks' projects too!)
#writerslife #amwriting #newsletter
#2 is in your mailbox, or readable at the link I posted down there.
buttondown.com/morriswayts/...
#2 is in your mailbox, or readable at the link I posted down there.
buttondown.com/morriswayts/...
The universe laughs at my plans
Friends, I hate to tell you - 2026 has 2025 vibes...
buttondown.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:07 PM
#writerslife #amwriting #newsletter
#2 is in your mailbox, or readable at the link I posted down there.
buttondown.com/morriswayts/...
#2 is in your mailbox, or readable at the link I posted down there.
buttondown.com/morriswayts/...
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the first prompt round up of the year is on the blog! araopenpages.com?p=4507
AUTHOR AVENGERS; January Round Up – open pages
araopenpages.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:33 PM
the first prompt round up of the year is on the blog! araopenpages.com?p=4507
#wipwednesday #amwriting #prompt #writesky
Updates from my progress on the new prompt routine, and the new prompt - what would you make of it? Also, have to work on my photo skills. 👀
ko-fi.com/post/WIP-Wed...
Updates from my progress on the new prompt routine, and the new prompt - what would you make of it? Also, have to work on my photo skills. 👀
ko-fi.com/post/WIP-Wed...
WIP Wednesday - MTG prompt 2
Morris Wayts published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
#wipwednesday #amwriting #prompt #writesky
Updates from my progress on the new prompt routine, and the new prompt - what would you make of it? Also, have to work on my photo skills. 👀
ko-fi.com/post/WIP-Wed...
Updates from my progress on the new prompt routine, and the new prompt - what would you make of it? Also, have to work on my photo skills. 👀
ko-fi.com/post/WIP-Wed...
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I'm in a mood. Here's a link to my book. No genAI went anywhere near it. I wrote it. I edited it. I did the cover. If you enjoy reading fantasy books with an angry female POV, have at it. Also found family, sapphic romance subplot, elemental magic, brutal deaths. Annoying nobles...
💙📚🪐 #WriteSky
💙📚🪐 #WriteSky
Reborn in Ash
Magic abandoned humanity millennia ago. Now it returns, bringing ruin to a wanted thief, and her chance for redemption.
When ash fell like snow, everyone it touched grew ill with fever. Most died. Ada...
books.thellian.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:37 AM
I'm in a mood. Here's a link to my book. No genAI went anywhere near it. I wrote it. I edited it. I did the cover. If you enjoy reading fantasy books with an angry female POV, have at it. Also found family, sapphic romance subplot, elemental magic, brutal deaths. Annoying nobles...
💙📚🪐 #WriteSky
💙📚🪐 #WriteSky
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I feel icky making these posts when the world is even more hellish than usual…
But the world needs our stories - now more than ever!
If you’re looking for a freelance fiction editor for your story then please check out my website 🙂
But the world needs our stories - now more than ever!
If you’re looking for a freelance fiction editor for your story then please check out my website 🙂
a man is using a vacuum cleaner to clean a fire pit
Alt: A man is trying, and failing, to vacuum a patch of fire
media.tenor.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:14 AM
I feel icky making these posts when the world is even more hellish than usual…
But the world needs our stories - now more than ever!
If you’re looking for a freelance fiction editor for your story then please check out my website 🙂
But the world needs our stories - now more than ever!
If you’re looking for a freelance fiction editor for your story then please check out my website 🙂
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@fersus.bsky.social @araopenpages.bsky.social
Still trying not to be, but as a writer...
Also, a bit proud for guessing on the third. 😂
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@fersus.bsky.social @araopenpages.bsky.social
Still trying not to be, but as a writer...
Also, a bit proud for guessing on the third. 😂
January 28, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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@fersus.bsky.social @araopenpages.bsky.social
Still trying not to be, but as a writer...
Also, a bit proud for guessing on the third. 😂
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@fersus.bsky.social @araopenpages.bsky.social
Still trying not to be, but as a writer...
Also, a bit proud for guessing on the third. 😂
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At #Ebooks Direct: our bundles are holding at pre-holiday prices. And every #ebook is DRM-free and comes with a lifetime free replacement guarantee. Stop by and take advantage of us! ebooks.direct/collections/...
January 27, 2026 at 11:45 PM
At #Ebooks Direct: our bundles are holding at pre-holiday prices. And every #ebook is DRM-free and comes with a lifetime free replacement guarantee. Stop by and take advantage of us! ebooks.direct/collections/...
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oh, joining in.
1 like = 1 line from something I've written, WIP or published, fic/rp or original. (I'll try not to use the same project twice.)
1 like = 1 line from something I've written, WIP or published, fic/rp or original. (I'll try not to use the same project twice.)
Oh, I love this!
1 like = 1 line from something I've written, WIP or published.
1 like = 1 line from something I've written, WIP or published.
1 like = 1 random line from something I've written
which thing I've written? published or unpublished for my eyes only? let's find out!
which thing I've written? published or unpublished for my eyes only? let's find out!
January 28, 2026 at 4:06 AM
oh, joining in.
1 like = 1 line from something I've written, WIP or published, fic/rp or original. (I'll try not to use the same project twice.)
1 like = 1 line from something I've written, WIP or published, fic/rp or original. (I'll try not to use the same project twice.)
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They're not wrong, are they?
‘Don’t ask people to read something you couldn’t be bothered to write’ –Irish publishers warn authors over use of AI www.independent.ie/irish-news/d...
‘Don’t ask people to read something you couldn’t be bothered to write’ –Irish publishers warn authors over use of AI
Publisher Mercier Press is warning authors against using AI as “you can tell straight away because there’s no soul there”.
www.independent.ie
January 28, 2026 at 12:40 AM
They're not wrong, are they?
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The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."
Should artists get a basic income like they do in Ireland?
Could the government pay salaries to musicians and artists - no strings attached like they do in Ireland?
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 PM
The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."
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Darlings! If you're nominating for the Rhyslings, Hugos, or Nebulas, I've got poetry offerings for you! Check out the thread.
I'm really proud of the work I did last year, and I hope you'll consider it for nomination!
I'm really proud of the work I did last year, and I hope you'll consider it for nomination!
Darlings! A fresh post.
I've got poems eligible for the Hugo @laworldcon.bsky.social), Nebula ( @sfwa.org), and Rhysling awards ( @sfpoetry.bsky.social). Links:
@strangehorizons.bsky.social -- "Of Water, Always Seeking" strangehorizons.com/poetry/of-wa...
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I've got poems eligible for the Hugo @laworldcon.bsky.social), Nebula ( @sfwa.org), and Rhysling awards ( @sfpoetry.bsky.social). Links:
@strangehorizons.bsky.social -- "Of Water, Always Seeking" strangehorizons.com/poetry/of-wa...
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January 27, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Darlings! If you're nominating for the Rhyslings, Hugos, or Nebulas, I've got poetry offerings for you! Check out the thread.
I'm really proud of the work I did last year, and I hope you'll consider it for nomination!
I'm really proud of the work I did last year, and I hope you'll consider it for nomination!
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Snag your 99 cent copy of my debut novel, Culinary Confessions for Stuff Your Kindle Day until Jan. 28th, 12 a.m. EST! 📖
💘 Swoonworthy romance
🧁 Lush dessert descriptions
💛 Ride-or-die friendships
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amzn.to/3f6BzkE
#BlackBookSky #BookPromo #booksale #Romancelandia #StuffYourKindleDay
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💘 Swoonworthy romance
🧁 Lush dessert descriptions
💛 Ride-or-die friendships
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amzn.to/3f6BzkE
#BlackBookSky #BookPromo #booksale #Romancelandia #StuffYourKindleDay
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January 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Snag your 99 cent copy of my debut novel, Culinary Confessions for Stuff Your Kindle Day until Jan. 28th, 12 a.m. EST! 📖
💘 Swoonworthy romance
🧁 Lush dessert descriptions
💛 Ride-or-die friendships
💙 📚 👀
amzn.to/3f6BzkE
#BlackBookSky #BookPromo #booksale #Romancelandia #StuffYourKindleDay
💙 📚 👀
💘 Swoonworthy romance
🧁 Lush dessert descriptions
💛 Ride-or-die friendships
💙 📚 👀
amzn.to/3f6BzkE
#BlackBookSky #BookPromo #booksale #Romancelandia #StuffYourKindleDay
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Me, after checking the lists I'm on via clearsky:
a man with a mustache and glasses says yea i did good
Alt: a man with a mustache and glasses says yea i did good
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Me, after checking the lists I'm on via clearsky: