Matt Neil Hill
@mattneilhill.bsky.social
Dad/Husband/Writer/Tsundoku practitioner. He/him. Words in Stories of the Eye, The Mad Butterfly's Ball, Vastarien, Children of the New Flesh, and others (links in 📌). Trans rights are human rights. Fuck the Labour Party. Fuck TERFS. Fuck Nazis. Fuck A.I.
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Matt Neil Hill
@mattneilhill.bsky.social
· Nov 21
The Vigil by Matt Neil Hill
Suzanna wears her central nervous system like an exoskeleton now, shrieking the glass shards of bloody murder whenever I even think about touching her. I bring us back suspect materials wrapped in …
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A few of my stories that are online, should anyone fancy a read:
syntaxandsalt.com/2017/06/19/t...
cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/cold...
cemeterygatesmedia.com/2021/09/16/c...
syntaxandsalt.com/2017/06/19/t...
cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/cold...
cemeterygatesmedia.com/2021/09/16/c...
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
All of this thread is 🔥🔥🔥 but this bit especially
AND PLEASE do not get me started on people who say that hating typical AI use in the arts is ableist. So many brilliant, disabled artists who created genius work without AI prove otherwise. UGH.
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
All of this thread is 🔥🔥🔥 but this bit especially
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My debut collection still exists only in my dreams, but these are my favourite anthology appearances from the last couple of years. And there are links to some free online stuff in my pinned post as well.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My debut collection still exists only in my dreams, but these are my favourite anthology appearances from the last couple of years. And there are links to some free online stuff in my pinned post as well.
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Also remember that the average monthly rent payment will be more than the average mortage payment for the same property. I pay £200 more a month to rent a terraced house than my friends pay to own a semi-detatched, yet I'd never be given a mortage because I can't save because I'm paying so much rent
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Also remember that the average monthly rent payment will be more than the average mortage payment for the same property. I pay £200 more a month to rent a terraced house than my friends pay to own a semi-detatched, yet I'd never be given a mortage because I can't save because I'm paying so much rent
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A short but powerful list of books for today. I think I enjoyed B.R. Yeager's 'Negative Space' the most, out of the fiction I read, though I also finished 'Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion' by James Maffie, and that was a real brain-bender.
Check out more detailed thoughts below:
Check out more detailed thoughts below:
Cameron's Book Round-Up: 2025, part 8 — Broken Hands Media
This is going to be quick, because I need to start prepping the sweet potatoes for tomorrow and I’ve got SO MANY papers to grade.
www.brokenhandsmedia.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A short but powerful list of books for today. I think I enjoyed B.R. Yeager's 'Negative Space' the most, out of the fiction I read, though I also finished 'Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion' by James Maffie, and that was a real brain-bender.
Check out more detailed thoughts below:
Check out more detailed thoughts below:
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This is true Ireland and the UK too. If you’re an author in either of those two countries, you should sign up. Here’s the Irish site:
plr.ie
#SpeirGorm
plr.ie
#SpeirGorm
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is true Ireland and the UK too. If you’re an author in either of those two countries, you should sign up. Here’s the Irish site:
plr.ie
#SpeirGorm
plr.ie
#SpeirGorm
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If you're wondering about the sort of person who becomes a writer, for 3 years every day I have played chess with this one person and for 3 years I have lost every day and every day I go back for another go because this time could be the charm, it could happen, you never know
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
If you're wondering about the sort of person who becomes a writer, for 3 years every day I have played chess with this one person and for 3 years I have lost every day and every day I go back for another go because this time could be the charm, it could happen, you never know
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2000AD’s MACH Zero has this plot about all the homeless people and vagrants in London being part of a hidden secret society and I’m trying to work out what pre-1978 media had done that idea: I feel like there was something famous but can’t remember
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
2000AD’s MACH Zero has this plot about all the homeless people and vagrants in London being part of a hidden secret society and I’m trying to work out what pre-1978 media had done that idea: I feel like there was something famous but can’t remember
Very late in the day, but I just watched the 2nd series of Flowers by Will Sharpe and... I perhaps shouldn't have done, not right now. It's beautiful, but I'm not sure I've been feeling robust enough for quite that level of sadness. Absolutely brilliant work from everyone involved, but 💔
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Very late in the day, but I just watched the 2nd series of Flowers by Will Sharpe and... I perhaps shouldn't have done, not right now. It's beautiful, but I'm not sure I've been feeling robust enough for quite that level of sadness. Absolutely brilliant work from everyone involved, but 💔
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The river carves the land. Collects its gossip, hears all its spirited stories. Blends them into its own song. Witches listen to this fluid singing of place, gathers omens as they float by. She runs with the river and absorbs its wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The river carves the land. Collects its gossip, hears all its spirited stories. Blends them into its own song. Witches listen to this fluid singing of place, gathers omens as they float by. She runs with the river and absorbs its wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
My debut collection still exists only in my dreams, but these are my favourite anthology appearances from the last couple of years. And there are links to some free online stuff in my pinned post as well.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My debut collection still exists only in my dreams, but these are my favourite anthology appearances from the last couple of years. And there are links to some free online stuff in my pinned post as well.
These are both brilliant and fearless and I recommend that you get on board relatively near the start of @miseryvulture.bsky.social's career, because I think there's *so* much powerful work yet to come from her. Thank me later, sickos.
I have TWO novellas available from Filthy Loot, one which was published this year and the other aaaalll the way back in the ancient past of 2022. You can find them in various places! Including the Filthy Loot website and Asterism Books!
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
These are both brilliant and fearless and I recommend that you get on board relatively near the start of @miseryvulture.bsky.social's career, because I think there's *so* much powerful work yet to come from her. Thank me later, sickos.
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Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
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I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
Growing Your Idea: From Thought to Script with Paul Duane - Irish Writers Centre
In-person scriptwriting course at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin). Turn an idea for a film into a detailed outline or script. Starts Tues 11 March 2025.
irishwriterscentre.ie
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Monthly Link Dump: November 2025
- arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
- arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Monthly Link Dump: November 2025
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, haunto...
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Monthly Link Dump: November 2025
- arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
- arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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When our son was 10 he would ask questions about whatever narrative we were consuming together and it took one talk like "those questions you're always asking are called the story and if you're patient you'll find that they get answered eventually" and a lot of the internet needs that refresher.
"WHY'S SHE DOING THAT?? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT, I'M BORED" well the cool thing about following a narrative is that eventually if you keep watching or reading or listening, magical bits of information are doled out
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
When our son was 10 he would ask questions about whatever narrative we were consuming together and it took one talk like "those questions you're always asking are called the story and if you're patient you'll find that they get answered eventually" and a lot of the internet needs that refresher.
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If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
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i have a book about the Death of Mountains visiting a middling hill in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's a short little book, and on sale from my publisher (@lethepress.bsky.social)!
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
i have a book about the Death of Mountains visiting a middling hill in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's a short little book, and on sale from my publisher (@lethepress.bsky.social)!
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Chris Kelso is interviewed by Alice @notveryalice.bsky.social about his book on Żuławski’s 'Possession'
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
CONTROL AND THE FUCKTOPUS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS KELSO ABOUT ŻUŁAWSKI’S 'POSSESSION' by Alice
Chris Kelso is a Scottish writer of dark, weird fiction. I came to his work through Voidheads (Schism), and he’s since published Metampsychosis with Feral Dove, and most recently, a monograph on the f...
xraylitmag.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Chris Kelso is interviewed by Alice @notveryalice.bsky.social about his book on Żuławski’s 'Possession'
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
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2 DAYS LEFT TO PREORDER WEEEEEEEEEEE ✨✨✨✨
this years charity tee is available to preorder for 2 weeks, 100% of proceeds go to Crisis UK - a charity dedicated to ending homelessness
nobody owns this design yet, it is available in a range of colours as i appreciate we're not all emos (long sleeves and a chunky sweater are avail too)
🔗 ⬇️
nobody owns this design yet, it is available in a range of colours as i appreciate we're not all emos (long sleeves and a chunky sweater are avail too)
🔗 ⬇️
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
2 DAYS LEFT TO PREORDER WEEEEEEEEEEE ✨✨✨✨
"Madness to not drown AO World boss in a bucket of his own shit," say quite a few people. Not *me*, obviously, but quite a few people, I'd imagine.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Madness to not drown AO World boss in a bucket of his own shit," say quite a few people. Not *me*, obviously, but quite a few people, I'd imagine.
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Pre-transition // Post-transition
July 18, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Pre-transition // Post-transition