Adriana Kantcheva
@catchingwords.bsky.social
Bulgarian expat writer of SFF living in Germany. Still clinging to the white hair tips of the rabbit of existential wonder. Fiction in PodCastle, Short Circuit, Escape Pod. Website: catchingwords.com | Newsletter: sendfox.com/catchingwords | SFWA | Codex
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Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/freeze-com...
Affinition
www.manawaker.com/podcast/affi...
Beyond the Hills They Passed
lucentdreaming.com/product/luce...
Thank you!
Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/freeze-com...
Affinition
www.manawaker.com/podcast/affi...
Beyond the Hills They Passed
lucentdreaming.com/product/luce...
Thank you!
How lovely of @ideofmarch.bsky.social to include "Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope" in her list among so many authors I respect.
"Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope" appeared in @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social. A publication absolutely worth checking out.
idehennessy.medium.com/2025-recomme...
"Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope" appeared in @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social. A publication absolutely worth checking out.
idehennessy.medium.com/2025-recomme...
2025 Recommended Short Stories
It’s January somehow, which means it’s time to share my annual list of Sci-fi, Horror, Slipstream, and Fantasy stories I enjoyed. Fair…
idehennessy.medium.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:05 AM
How lovely of @ideofmarch.bsky.social to include "Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope" in her list among so many authors I respect.
"Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope" appeared in @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social. A publication absolutely worth checking out.
idehennessy.medium.com/2025-recomme...
"Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope" appeared in @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social. A publication absolutely worth checking out.
idehennessy.medium.com/2025-recomme...
Not finished with awards reading, but here is a batch of stories I really loved by @bethgoder.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @reasie.bsky.social, @emlinden.bsky.social, @effies.bsky.social, and @samtasticbooks.com.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
January 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Not finished with awards reading, but here is a batch of stories I really loved by @bethgoder.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @reasie.bsky.social, @emlinden.bsky.social, @effies.bsky.social, and @samtasticbooks.com.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
Thank you for creating these great stories.
Thank you so much for the shout-out, SJ. I appreciate it.
Links to some fantastic stories from 2025, if you're considering awards season nominations.
The image in the quoted post contains The names of the stories and publications.
The image in the quoted post contains The names of the stories and publications.
Links:
Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/freeze-com...
Affinition
www.manawaker.com/podcast/affi...
Beyond the Hills They Passed
lucentdreaming.com/product/luce...
Thank you!
Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/freeze-com...
Affinition
www.manawaker.com/podcast/affi...
Beyond the Hills They Passed
lucentdreaming.com/product/luce...
Thank you!
January 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Thank you so much for the shout-out, SJ. I appreciate it.
Links:
Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/freeze-com...
Affinition
www.manawaker.com/podcast/affi...
Beyond the Hills They Passed
lucentdreaming.com/product/luce...
Thank you!
Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/freeze-com...
Affinition
www.manawaker.com/podcast/affi...
Beyond the Hills They Passed
lucentdreaming.com/product/luce...
Thank you!
January 11, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Links:
Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/freeze-com...
Affinition
www.manawaker.com/podcast/affi...
Beyond the Hills They Passed
lucentdreaming.com/product/luce...
Thank you!
Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/freeze-com...
Affinition
www.manawaker.com/podcast/affi...
Beyond the Hills They Passed
lucentdreaming.com/product/luce...
Thank you!
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Milford loves to hear about the attendees' successes! Please share with us your publications, especially if they came after you attended a Milford Workshop or even wrote part of the piece at a retreat! Here's to a fabulous 2026!
Bye-bye 2025. You've been good to me.
I drafted a novel and am halfway-though revising it.
I attended the @milfordsff.bsky.social retreat in May and met a dear friend face to face for the first time.
I've had six original publications and two reprints, and a non-fiction piece is forthcoming.
I drafted a novel and am halfway-though revising it.
I attended the @milfordsff.bsky.social retreat in May and met a dear friend face to face for the first time.
I've had six original publications and two reprints, and a non-fiction piece is forthcoming.
January 6, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Milford loves to hear about the attendees' successes! Please share with us your publications, especially if they came after you attended a Milford Workshop or even wrote part of the piece at a retreat! Here's to a fabulous 2026!
Reposted by Adriana Kantcheva
My most recent @escapepod.org piece, Baron Quits the Payloaders, is featured in Charles's great list!
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My most recent @escapepod.org piece, Baron Quits the Payloaders, is featured in Charles's great list!
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
If you're looking for rock n' roll, a vocalist coming back from dead (then regretting it), and queer romance, that might be your thing.
escapepod.org/2025/11/13/e...
Bye-bye 2025. You've been good to me.
I drafted a novel and am halfway-though revising it.
I attended the @milfordsff.bsky.social retreat in May and met a dear friend face to face for the first time.
I've had six original publications and two reprints, and a non-fiction piece is forthcoming.
I drafted a novel and am halfway-though revising it.
I attended the @milfordsff.bsky.social retreat in May and met a dear friend face to face for the first time.
I've had six original publications and two reprints, and a non-fiction piece is forthcoming.
December 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Bye-bye 2025. You've been good to me.
I drafted a novel and am halfway-though revising it.
I attended the @milfordsff.bsky.social retreat in May and met a dear friend face to face for the first time.
I've had six original publications and two reprints, and a non-fiction piece is forthcoming.
I drafted a novel and am halfway-though revising it.
I attended the @milfordsff.bsky.social retreat in May and met a dear friend face to face for the first time.
I've had six original publications and two reprints, and a non-fiction piece is forthcoming.
Now that the year is coming to an end and in some ways it seems to have passed far too quickly, I'd like to ask a question:
How does one contrive to live slowly?
How does one contrive to live slowly?
December 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Now that the year is coming to an end and in some ways it seems to have passed far too quickly, I'd like to ask a question:
How does one contrive to live slowly?
How does one contrive to live slowly?
Reposted by Adriana Kantcheva
Vendritsa of the River is a great sapphic romance about old age and preservation by @catchingwords.bsky.social. It appeared in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social:
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
Vedritsa of the River - Trollbreath Magazine
Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Vendritsa of the River is a great sapphic romance about old age and preservation by @catchingwords.bsky.social. It appeared in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social:
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
Reposted by Adriana Kantcheva
Ten Stories from Trollbreath 2025 you should read - Jennifer Edition
4. Vedritsa of the River
by Adriana Kantcheva
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
Free and open to read
@catchingwords.bsky.social
4. Vedritsa of the River
by Adriana Kantcheva
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
Free and open to read
@catchingwords.bsky.social
Vedritsa of the River - Trollbreath Magazine
Vedritsa of the River
magazine.trollbreath.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Ten Stories from Trollbreath 2025 you should read - Jennifer Edition
4. Vedritsa of the River
by Adriana Kantcheva
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
Free and open to read
@catchingwords.bsky.social
4. Vedritsa of the River
by Adriana Kantcheva
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
Free and open to read
@catchingwords.bsky.social
Reposted by Adriana Kantcheva
Congratulations to @podcastle.org for winning an Ignyte Award! 👏
What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!
What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!
PodCastle 913: Vedritsa of the River - PodCastle
Vedritsa of the River by Adriana Kantcheva The Kamchia river had grown turgid after a storm. I surfaced from my habitual pool and bent over the young girl as she lay washed on the bank, her limbs co...
podcastle.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Congratulations to @podcastle.org for winning an Ignyte Award! 👏
What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!
What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!
Reposted by Adriana Kantcheva
Happy New Story Sunday! This week, we have a wonderful story by the SFF writer @catchingwords.bsky.social. I had a whole pun run for this one too, but I got cold feet so I just talked about the hours I spent agonizing over the cover. I recommend you skip it and get to the good part: the story.
Freeze, Compute, Revert, Hope — Part One
By Adriana Kantcheva
dailytomorrow.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Happy New Story Sunday! This week, we have a wonderful story by the SFF writer @catchingwords.bsky.social. I had a whole pun run for this one too, but I got cold feet so I just talked about the hours I spent agonizing over the cover. I recommend you skip it and get to the good part: the story.
Reposted by Adriana Kantcheva
Throwback Thursday gets us to Issue 3 and Vedritsa of the River by Adriana Kantcheva. Enjoy this tale of love, lust, hunger, and acceptance.
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
This piece is also featured on Podcastle!! podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
@catchingwords.bsky.social
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
This piece is also featured on Podcastle!! podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
@catchingwords.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Throwback Thursday gets us to Issue 3 and Vedritsa of the River by Adriana Kantcheva. Enjoy this tale of love, lust, hunger, and acceptance.
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
This piece is also featured on Podcastle!! podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
@catchingwords.bsky.social
magazine.trollbreath.com/vedritsa-of-...
This piece is also featured on Podcastle!! podcastle.org/2025/10/14/p...
@catchingwords.bsky.social
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More story recommendations! Short stories about monster women hitting all my favorite themes, by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @muteddragon.bsky.social @christinehanolsy.com @catchingwords.bsky.social, plus the novel Greenteeth by @mollyoneillwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/@katefrancia...
medium.com/@katefrancia...
Story recs: Monsters, Mothers, Aging, and Queer Joy
I’ve read several stories this year that are doing really interesting things with the folklore of monsters and women, bringing out themes…
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November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
More story recommendations! Short stories about monster women hitting all my favorite themes, by @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @muteddragon.bsky.social @christinehanolsy.com @catchingwords.bsky.social, plus the novel Greenteeth by @mollyoneillwrites.bsky.social
medium.com/@katefrancia...
medium.com/@katefrancia...
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This was so much fun! Will post pics and a link to the recording soon 🖤
Check out
@swsworlds.bsky.social and
@tracytodd-author.bsky.social
@paulinechow.bsky.social
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
@catchingwords.bsky.social as well as Linda Robertson Reinhart
Check out
@swsworlds.bsky.social and
@tracytodd-author.bsky.social
@paulinechow.bsky.social
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
@catchingwords.bsky.social as well as Linda Robertson Reinhart
Make sure you register! OCT 3 Noon EDT
This is going to be good.
strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com
@swsworlds.bsky.social
@tracytodd-author.bsky.social
@paulinechow.bsky.social
@kdbwrites.bsky.social
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
@catchingwords.bsky.social
This is going to be good.
strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com
@swsworlds.bsky.social
@tracytodd-author.bsky.social
@paulinechow.bsky.social
@kdbwrites.bsky.social
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
@catchingwords.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This was so much fun! Will post pics and a link to the recording soon 🖤
Check out
@swsworlds.bsky.social and
@tracytodd-author.bsky.social
@paulinechow.bsky.social
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
@catchingwords.bsky.social as well as Linda Robertson Reinhart
Check out
@swsworlds.bsky.social and
@tracytodd-author.bsky.social
@paulinechow.bsky.social
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
@catchingwords.bsky.social as well as Linda Robertson Reinhart
Hello! Heads up that I'm not much on Bluesky at the moment.
If you'd like to keep in touch, visit my website at catchingwords.com, or sign up for my newsletter at sendfox.com/catchingwords.
If you'd like to keep in touch, visit my website at catchingwords.com, or sign up for my newsletter at sendfox.com/catchingwords.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hello! Heads up that I'm not much on Bluesky at the moment.
If you'd like to keep in touch, visit my website at catchingwords.com, or sign up for my newsletter at sendfox.com/catchingwords.
If you'd like to keep in touch, visit my website at catchingwords.com, or sign up for my newsletter at sendfox.com/catchingwords.
That's me, second from the right. I'm so looking forward to being "on stage" with five other fabulous authors.
Make sure you register! OCT 3 Noon EDT
This is going to be good.
strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com
@swsworlds.bsky.social
@tracytodd-author.bsky.social
@paulinechow.bsky.social
@kdbwrites.bsky.social
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
@catchingwords.bsky.social
This is going to be good.
strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com
@swsworlds.bsky.social
@tracytodd-author.bsky.social
@paulinechow.bsky.social
@kdbwrites.bsky.social
@ninjafingers.bsky.social
@catchingwords.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
That's me, second from the right. I'm so looking forward to being "on stage" with five other fabulous authors.