Beyond delighted to be taking up a post at UEA as a Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Technologies! It's amazing returning to the uni where I did my PhD, teaching Creative Writing which I care about deeply. Huge thanks to my new colleagues for being so welcoming! 🙏

Catching up with myself post-
@seattlein2025.org. Such a wonderful, friend-filled time!
Talked about fungi and climate fiction; played Ready Steady Flash (Fiction); dressed up for Hugos; danced at the Scalzi Disco; AND did my first Table Talk!
Big love Worldcon friends! ❤️

🚀On my way to @seattlein2025.org!
📚I’m on 6 panels from cover letters to climate fiction - full schedule below...
🪐I’m also hosting my first ever Table Talk on Sunday - sign up 8am-6pm on Sat: virtual.seattlein2025.org/sign-ups
❤️Looking forward to seeing friends old and new!
#SeattleWorldcon2025

I'm truly honoured to be interviewing the acclaimed author Michael Morpurgo as part of this year's Autumn Festival of Norfolk. 🍂
The event will be at University of East Anglia, 1-2.30pm on Saturday 1st November - get your tickets here: www.autumnfestivalofnorfolk.org/event/michae...

Had a wonderful time giving the academic keynote about mushroompunk literature at last week's Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) Conference in Liverpool. Loved everyone's papers & delighted how popular fungal fiction is! Huge thanks to the organisers for a fascinating & fun time ⭐🍄

There’s still time to get your (free) tickets for the Current Research in Speculative Fiction conference in Liverpool and online, with keynote speakers @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social and @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social it’s going to be great!

www.eventbrite.com/e/crsf-2025-...

💙🕰️ BOOK COVER REVEAL 🕰️💙
So delighted to share the gorgeous cover for my debut novel #TheForestontheEdgeofTime - it's time-travel climate fiction out Feb 2026 - preorder link in bio!
Huge thanks to the @torbooks team, particularly illustrator Sam Green and designer Shreya Gupta⁣. ⭐

You can now pre-order THE FOREST ON THE EDGE OF TIME in the US!

📖Hardback www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-forest...

💡eBook www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-forest...

🎙Audiobook www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-forest...

AND it's part of @barnesandnoble.com's #BNPreorder event - use PREORDER25 for 25% off!

Very excitingly, my academic article ‘Radically Hopeful Dystopian Climate Fiction: Exploring Social Dreaming, Temporal Re-Sensitisation, and Katharsis in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne' has been published in Wild Possibilities, a special edition of Comparative American Studies! 1/3

🎉so excited for this!!!

Could this sound more like SF heaven? Can’t wait to order my copy of this exciting debut from the awesome @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social!

Very lovely to have my THE FOREST ON THE EDGE OF TIME deal with @torbooks.bsky.social featured as a @bookbrunch.bsky.social top story this morning - what a day! 📚⭐ www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

Wooo looking forward to reading this debut SF novel! 👀

Jasmin is not only one of the nicest people I have ever met, she also possesses that rare kind of wise intelligence I admire so much and it's so difficult to find in our world!!!

These two novels sound like a dream, and I can't wait to read them. ⬇️ 💙

I have read this and can confirm it's absolutely fantastic. A speculative concept that I'm absolutely raging I didn't come up with myself because its so good, and absolutely engrossing writing to boot. Tor have nabbed a really special one here, folks. Add it to your roster for next year!

BOOK DEAL NEWS!
So delighted @torbooks.bsky.social signed my debut sci fi novel THE FOREST ON THE EDGE OF TIME, publishing Feb 2026. 🌳🌟
Huge gratitude to my agent @acochran.bsky.social at @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social and my editor @leeharris.net at Tor for making my writerly dreams come true! ❤️📚

Obligatory annual London Book Fair selfie - I always say this but I really did have the best time at #LBF25! Spent Tuesday afternoon catching up with old publishing friends - so lucky to be part of such a supportive industry. Particular thanks to British Council & BookMachine for the stand parties!

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #55234567:
You don’t have to write for a living to be a writer. You don’t have to be a great writer to be a writer. You don’t have to write full time to be a writer.
All you have to do is write.

Oh y'all know my jam: publishing rants, book chat, sci-fi nerdery, over-enthusiasm for amphibians, mushrooms, and earl grey tea.
Just doing it on here now as well as everywhere else. Social media's making me feel like a froglet searching for a safe lily pad.