Vanessa Fogg
@vanessafogg.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy writer. Also lapsed scientist and freelance medical writer. Website: vanessafogg.com
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Vanessa Fogg
@vanessafogg.bsky.social
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The House of Illusionists – Vanessa Fogg, Writer
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New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.
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I’m thrilled and proud to have my story included in the newest issue of khoreo! This is a dream pub for me. I hope you’ll grab a copy and read all the wonderful stories inside 💕
Please check the CWs. Inspired by a tragic Thai spirit, my story of generational trauma was a tough one to write.
Please check the CWs. Inspired by a tragic Thai spirit, my story of generational trauma was a tough one to write.
In "The Body is a Cage Opened Only By Fire" by @jawmccarthy.bsky.social, a woman returns to burn the last of her mother’s body, in the wake of her mother’s death. An effort to escape a dark entity that has sealed itself to the bones of three generations of Thai women.
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m thrilled and proud to have my story included in the newest issue of khoreo! This is a dream pub for me. I hope you’ll grab a copy and read all the wonderful stories inside 💕
Please check the CWs. Inspired by a tragic Thai spirit, my story of generational trauma was a tough one to write.
Please check the CWs. Inspired by a tragic Thai spirit, my story of generational trauma was a tough one to write.
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The title pulled me in and I loved it. Absurdist, weirdly reassuring, unforgettable
Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Teleporting Disaster Fairy" by Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/Vx4qdNX
You can read it here!
buff.ly/Vx4qdNX
December 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The title pulled me in and I loved it. Absurdist, weirdly reassuring, unforgettable
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Happy to welcome Linda D. Addison to Sheep this week!
First up is The Construct’s Co-Emergence in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
@nytebird45.bsky.social
First up is The Construct’s Co-Emergence in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
@nytebird45.bsky.social
The Construct’s Co-Emergence - Uncanny Magazine
E = mc2 to C me, beginnings are hidden promises, unplanned, untested, did U plan me first? I hold the Singularity in breath I do not possess, ...
www.uncannymagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Happy to welcome Linda D. Addison to Sheep this week!
First up is The Construct’s Co-Emergence in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
@nytebird45.bsky.social
First up is The Construct’s Co-Emergence in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
@nytebird45.bsky.social
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Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
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There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
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i do wish more people understood that what makes writing "poetic" has much less to do with the word choice and much more to do with the pacing and structure of sentences and paragraphs. the rhythm of the language is absolutely vital to the feel of the text.
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i do wish more people understood that what makes writing "poetic" has much less to do with the word choice and much more to do with the pacing and structure of sentences and paragraphs. the rhythm of the language is absolutely vital to the feel of the text.
Oh my god, this is incredible and harrowing but then there’s hope and the hint of softness at the end
DID YOU KNOW
Podcastle reprinted my short story "Auguries" and it sounds so good, you have to go listen!!
(Content warnings for gore and traumatic birth)
podcastle.org/2025/12/02/p...
Podcastle reprinted my short story "Auguries" and it sounds so good, you have to go listen!!
(Content warnings for gore and traumatic birth)
podcastle.org/2025/12/02/p...
PodCastle 920: Auguries - PodCastle
Auguries By Jennifer R. Donohue She screamed the first time, so loud that the old man who lived in the next apartment arrived at her door with surprising speed, cardigan thrown hastily over his untu...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh my god, this is incredible and harrowing but then there’s hope and the hint of softness at the end
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I finally got around to putting together my own eligibility post for 2025. Here's what I published this year and where you can find it!
acwise.net/award-eligib...
acwise.net/award-eligib...
Award Eligibility 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I finally got around to putting together my own eligibility post for 2025. Here's what I published this year and where you can find it!
acwise.net/award-eligib...
acwise.net/award-eligib...
Well, before I take off on vacation, here's my 2025 Award Eligibility Thread!
First, my short story collection, The House of Illusionists. 17 tales of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, including the original horror story, "Sweetest."
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
First, my short story collection, The House of Illusionists. 17 tales of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, including the original horror story, "Sweetest."
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
The House of Illusionists by Vanessa Fogg
A sea-witch calls to souls from the deep. In modern suburbia, a middle-aged woman fights to keep her daughter from the clutches of a Faerie Queen. . . and finds herself confronting her own past and de...
www.interstellarflightpress.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Well, before I take off on vacation, here's my 2025 Award Eligibility Thread!
First, my short story collection, The House of Illusionists. 17 tales of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, including the original horror story, "Sweetest."
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
First, my short story collection, The House of Illusionists. 17 tales of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, including the original horror story, "Sweetest."
www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...
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A heartbreaking story of a ghost looking for the cause of her own death aboard a spaceship, a grandmother who could talk to Gods, and a hunger that remembers it is important to always give back.
by @renanbernardo.com in @reactorsff.bsky.social
by @renanbernardo.com in @reactorsff.bsky.social
The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home - Reactor
To celebrate her grandmother, all the captain of the Sopinha de Feijão wanted was to build a street market on a distant moon. But now the captain is dead and trying to figure out what kind of god migh...
reactormag.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A heartbreaking story of a ghost looking for the cause of her own death aboard a spaceship, a grandmother who could talk to Gods, and a hunger that remembers it is important to always give back.
by @renanbernardo.com in @reactorsff.bsky.social
by @renanbernardo.com in @reactorsff.bsky.social
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"This is a city of people who continuously shed their skin.
I can see piles of it everywhere these days. In pungent lorong-lorong damp from the monsoon."
Read 'Moult' by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in our latest issue:
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
#SFF #Fantasy #Horror #ShortStory
I can see piles of it everywhere these days. In pungent lorong-lorong damp from the monsoon."
Read 'Moult' by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in our latest issue:
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
#SFF #Fantasy #Horror #ShortStory
Moult by Anita Harris Satkunananthan
I shed my skin every seven years. I never realise it till long after the act of shedding has taken place.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
December 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"This is a city of people who continuously shed their skin.
I can see piles of it everywhere these days. In pungent lorong-lorong damp from the monsoon."
Read 'Moult' by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in our latest issue:
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
#SFF #Fantasy #Horror #ShortStory
I can see piles of it everywhere these days. In pungent lorong-lorong damp from the monsoon."
Read 'Moult' by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in our latest issue:
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
#SFF #Fantasy #Horror #ShortStory
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I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists.
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
December 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists.
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
1. bsky.app/starter-pack...
2. bsky.app/starter-pack...
Oh, I love this!
Sneaking in one last new story for the year! Us, In Another Universe, my flash piece about the hero/villain relationship, ships, fics, and the multiverse is now available to read in December's @lightspeedmagazine.com
www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=35303
www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=35303
Us, in Another Universe - Lightspeed Magazine
In this universe, we fight because we can’t fuck. Call it Universe A, or One, the Golden Age where it all began. Though “began” is relative when your timeline is constantly rewritten, rebooted, shatte...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Oh, I love this!
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Oh hey, it's me. Talking about balancing creativity while caring for a dying parent. 🖤
From @ecatherine.com - "Do Good Work"
"Sometimes I just want to step into the dark garage and scream until I can’t scream any more. So that’s what I do.
But how does that help the writing process, you wonder.
It doesn’t. It helps the writer."
ruadanbooks.com/do-good-work/
"Sometimes I just want to step into the dark garage and scream until I can’t scream any more. So that’s what I do.
But how does that help the writing process, you wonder.
It doesn’t. It helps the writer."
ruadanbooks.com/do-good-work/
Do Good Work - Ruadán Books
E. Catherine Tobler When my mother discovered that I wanted to be a writer, she told a friend at work. I do not know if she told this friend out of pride or vexation, though I suspect the latter. I ha...
ruadanbooks.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Oh hey, it's me. Talking about balancing creativity while caring for a dying parent. 🖤
Such a lovely little collection, of selkies and faerie and beauty and pain in our real world, as well.
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Such a lovely little collection, of selkies and faerie and beauty and pain in our real world, as well.
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"...on nights like this
when the moonlight chases a road across the sea...
Shrug off the human guise
you wear. Under it, the sea still runs
close to the surface"
From the title poem of @writerjencrow.bsky.social's TAKE UP YOUR SKIN available on her Patreon, here:
www.patreon.com/posts/take-u...
when the moonlight chases a road across the sea...
Shrug off the human guise
you wear. Under it, the sea still runs
close to the surface"
From the title poem of @writerjencrow.bsky.social's TAKE UP YOUR SKIN available on her Patreon, here:
www.patreon.com/posts/take-u...
Take Up Your Skin--PDF edition | Poetry from a Crow
Get more from Poetry from a Crow on Patreon
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December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"...on nights like this
when the moonlight chases a road across the sea...
Shrug off the human guise
you wear. Under it, the sea still runs
close to the surface"
From the title poem of @writerjencrow.bsky.social's TAKE UP YOUR SKIN available on her Patreon, here:
www.patreon.com/posts/take-u...
when the moonlight chases a road across the sea...
Shrug off the human guise
you wear. Under it, the sea still runs
close to the surface"
From the title poem of @writerjencrow.bsky.social's TAKE UP YOUR SKIN available on her Patreon, here:
www.patreon.com/posts/take-u...
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Honored to see Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine on @largeheartedboy.bsky.social's roundup of favorite story collections in 2025, alongside great books by @juliaelliott.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, @egreenberg.bsky.social, and more!
Largehearted Boy's favorite short fiction collections of the year include titles by Emily Greenberg, Julia Liz Elliott, Kerry Donoghue, Kristina Sergeevna Ten, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and Sara Jaffe largeheartedboy.com/2025/12/07/l...
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Honored to see Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine on @largeheartedboy.bsky.social's roundup of favorite story collections in 2025, alongside great books by @juliaelliott.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, @egreenberg.bsky.social, and more!
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i know it's trite but: most science fiction is not trying to predict the future.
i keep seeing people stumbling over this. "well, it wouldn't be plausible to have--" okay but maybe the author wasn't trying for "plausible." usually they aren't.
what other goals might the author have had?
i keep seeing people stumbling over this. "well, it wouldn't be plausible to have--" okay but maybe the author wasn't trying for "plausible." usually they aren't.
what other goals might the author have had?
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
i know it's trite but: most science fiction is not trying to predict the future.
i keep seeing people stumbling over this. "well, it wouldn't be plausible to have--" okay but maybe the author wasn't trying for "plausible." usually they aren't.
what other goals might the author have had?
i keep seeing people stumbling over this. "well, it wouldn't be plausible to have--" okay but maybe the author wasn't trying for "plausible." usually they aren't.
what other goals might the author have had?
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wow?????!!!???? I did NOT expect this
Am delighted that Song of Spores by @bogiperson.bsky.social is one of Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025!
Full list here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
Full list here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
wow?????!!!???? I did NOT expect this
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Sale alert: This month, Stillhouse Press's best sellers are 50% off! Get titles like Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine and @amystuber.com's PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize–winning Sad Grownups for less than ten bucks.
Supporting small presses = a guaranteed spot on the nice list, I hear...
Supporting small presses = a guaranteed spot on the nice list, I hear...
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Sale alert: This month, Stillhouse Press's best sellers are 50% off! Get titles like Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine and @amystuber.com's PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize–winning Sad Grownups for less than ten bucks.
Supporting small presses = a guaranteed spot on the nice list, I hear...
Supporting small presses = a guaranteed spot on the nice list, I hear...
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So many retellings by me, all in one place!
Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!
Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!
🎉It's my book day!🎉
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
So many retellings by me, all in one place!
Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!
Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!
"The first time Kittu teleported was into the lavatory of a plane bound for London, fifteen seconds before it crashed in a field south of Gatwick."
This story is fully as good as its first sentence suggests.
This story is fully as good as its first sentence suggests.
Story Day! The Teleporting Disaster Fairy is now live @uncannymagazine.bsky.social - one hapless but hopeful human against the absurdity of the universe. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Teleporting Disaster Fairy - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: attempted suicide The first time Kittu teleported was into the lavatory of a plane bound for London, fifteen seconds before it crashed in a field south of Gatwick. One moment she was b...
www.uncannymagazine.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
"The first time Kittu teleported was into the lavatory of a plane bound for London, fifteen seconds before it crashed in a field south of Gatwick."
This story is fully as good as its first sentence suggests.
This story is fully as good as its first sentence suggests.
I loved this series
I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social
Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net
Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms
March 10th, 2026!
awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net
Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms
March 10th, 2026!
awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
December 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I loved this series
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Hey! Some fun news. "The Sort" (orig. @clarkesworldmagazine.com) was picked up for @wilwheaton.net's podcast. Went live today! Narrated thoughtfully and w/a kind shoutout for SFF mags at the end. And a surprise(!) mention of Uncertain Sons 🙏. Many thanks to Wil and his audio team. What an honor.
It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton
You may recognize Wil Wheaton’s name from his acting work in television shows like The Big Bang Theory, Leverage, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, or 1985’s timeless classic, Stand B…
wilwheaton.net
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hey! Some fun news. "The Sort" (orig. @clarkesworldmagazine.com) was picked up for @wilwheaton.net's podcast. Went live today! Narrated thoughtfully and w/a kind shoutout for SFF mags at the end. And a surprise(!) mention of Uncertain Sons 🙏. Many thanks to Wil and his audio team. What an honor.
A new story from Rati!!
Story Day! The Teleporting Disaster Fairy is now live @uncannymagazine.bsky.social - one hapless but hopeful human against the absurdity of the universe. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Teleporting Disaster Fairy - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: attempted suicide The first time Kittu teleported was into the lavatory of a plane bound for London, fifteen seconds before it crashed in a field south of Gatwick. One moment she was b...
www.uncannymagazine.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A new story from Rati!!