Victoria Hayward
@writervh.bsky.social
Writer / Science Fiction / Fantasy / Birds / 🍸
Warhammer 40K Darktide / Black Library Author / Lancaster University Creative Writing Scholarship PhD Student 🌈
All views her own, she/her
https://linktr.ee/WriterVH
Warhammer 40K Darktide / Black Library Author / Lancaster University Creative Writing Scholarship PhD Student 🌈
All views her own, she/her
https://linktr.ee/WriterVH
Happy 50th Birthday to Games Workshop! 💀🎉
Lovely retrospective in White Dwarf including staff memories & the fun detail behind the first ever store gaming table!
What's your earliest memory of GW?
Here are two of mine - my first miniature and my first ticket to Games Day from ~20 years ago! :-)
Lovely retrospective in White Dwarf including staff memories & the fun detail behind the first ever store gaming table!
What's your earliest memory of GW?
Here are two of mine - my first miniature and my first ticket to Games Day from ~20 years ago! :-)
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Happy 50th Birthday to Games Workshop! 💀🎉
Lovely retrospective in White Dwarf including staff memories & the fun detail behind the first ever store gaming table!
What's your earliest memory of GW?
Here are two of mine - my first miniature and my first ticket to Games Day from ~20 years ago! :-)
Lovely retrospective in White Dwarf including staff memories & the fun detail behind the first ever store gaming table!
What's your earliest memory of GW?
Here are two of mine - my first miniature and my first ticket to Games Day from ~20 years ago! :-)
And if you're a Warhammer+ subscriber you can see me talking (and gesticulating!) all things Tyranid for a good 40 minutes with the very patient @alexdoddy.bsky.social on the Warhammer TV Scribes and Scriveners show :-)
warhammertv.com/details/25794
warhammertv.com/details/25794
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
And if you're a Warhammer+ subscriber you can see me talking (and gesticulating!) all things Tyranid for a good 40 minutes with the very patient @alexdoddy.bsky.social on the Warhammer TV Scribes and Scriveners show :-)
warhammertv.com/details/25794
warhammertv.com/details/25794
Thank you for the review of my Warhammer 40K short story Nightsider Imperialis @goonhammer.com & @lenoongh.bsky.social!
It's in the Darkness Eternal Black Library anthology & features some of the characters from my novel Deathworlder.
So if you want more Adair, this is where you can find her;-) 🖤
It's in the Darkness Eternal Black Library anthology & features some of the characters from my novel Deathworlder.
So if you want more Adair, this is where you can find her;-) 🖤
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Thank you for the review of my Warhammer 40K short story Nightsider Imperialis @goonhammer.com & @lenoongh.bsky.social!
It's in the Darkness Eternal Black Library anthology & features some of the characters from my novel Deathworlder.
So if you want more Adair, this is where you can find her;-) 🖤
It's in the Darkness Eternal Black Library anthology & features some of the characters from my novel Deathworlder.
So if you want more Adair, this is where you can find her;-) 🖤
Beautiful post just arrived from @decassette.bsky.social!
A reading treat to have for the dark nights now the winter is closing in 🖤
A reading treat to have for the dark nights now the winter is closing in 🖤
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Beautiful post just arrived from @decassette.bsky.social!
A reading treat to have for the dark nights now the winter is closing in 🖤
A reading treat to have for the dark nights now the winter is closing in 🖤
Tank u for taking the time to review my stories! 🖤🙏
It is a much appreciated way of supporting authors and means a great deal - plus is of course a welcome motivator to hop into the ol' Black Library Rhino carpool to work and keep typing grim tales 💀
It is a much appreciated way of supporting authors and means a great deal - plus is of course a welcome motivator to hop into the ol' Black Library Rhino carpool to work and keep typing grim tales 💀
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Tank u for taking the time to review my stories! 🖤🙏
It is a much appreciated way of supporting authors and means a great deal - plus is of course a welcome motivator to hop into the ol' Black Library Rhino carpool to work and keep typing grim tales 💀
It is a much appreciated way of supporting authors and means a great deal - plus is of course a welcome motivator to hop into the ol' Black Library Rhino carpool to work and keep typing grim tales 💀
Tbt a seasonal homage to our greatest living author, dreamweaver, visionary plus actor and the reason I NEVER use subtext in my own oeuvre (it is of course for cowards) 🙏🖤💀
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Tbt a seasonal homage to our greatest living author, dreamweaver, visionary plus actor and the reason I NEVER use subtext in my own oeuvre (it is of course for cowards) 🙏🖤💀
All of the Warhammer stories I've written!
When I wandered into my local Games Workshop store as a kid more than 20 years ago I'd never have believed I'd get the chance to do this!
It's so fun & there's just as much wonder in the great, grimdark world of Warhammer as when I first encountered it 🖤
When I wandered into my local Games Workshop store as a kid more than 20 years ago I'd never have believed I'd get the chance to do this!
It's so fun & there's just as much wonder in the great, grimdark world of Warhammer as when I first encountered it 🖤
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
All of the Warhammer stories I've written!
When I wandered into my local Games Workshop store as a kid more than 20 years ago I'd never have believed I'd get the chance to do this!
It's so fun & there's just as much wonder in the great, grimdark world of Warhammer as when I first encountered it 🖤
When I wandered into my local Games Workshop store as a kid more than 20 years ago I'd never have believed I'd get the chance to do this!
It's so fun & there's just as much wonder in the great, grimdark world of Warhammer as when I first encountered it 🖤
Picked up some goodies from Kim's Bookshop in Arundel over the weekend including a vintage Nebula & British Science Fiction Magazine 😍
I highly recommend visiting if you're passing through Arundel - there are many floors of good stuff!
Thank you to @hormannalex.bsky.social for putting me onto it!
I highly recommend visiting if you're passing through Arundel - there are many floors of good stuff!
Thank you to @hormannalex.bsky.social for putting me onto it!
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Picked up some goodies from Kim's Bookshop in Arundel over the weekend including a vintage Nebula & British Science Fiction Magazine 😍
I highly recommend visiting if you're passing through Arundel - there are many floors of good stuff!
Thank you to @hormannalex.bsky.social for putting me onto it!
I highly recommend visiting if you're passing through Arundel - there are many floors of good stuff!
Thank you to @hormannalex.bsky.social for putting me onto it!
Grateful to have picked up numerous fab reading recommendations from *every* panel at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social but am now intimidated by the state of my reading pile (anyone else?? 😅)
Tbt Tokyo as I'm currently starting on my sub-pile of Japanese fantasy 🖤
📸 Hiroyuki Okawara @hero_nightwalker
Tbt Tokyo as I'm currently starting on my sub-pile of Japanese fantasy 🖤
📸 Hiroyuki Okawara @hero_nightwalker
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Grateful to have picked up numerous fab reading recommendations from *every* panel at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social but am now intimidated by the state of my reading pile (anyone else?? 😅)
Tbt Tokyo as I'm currently starting on my sub-pile of Japanese fantasy 🖤
📸 Hiroyuki Okawara @hero_nightwalker
Tbt Tokyo as I'm currently starting on my sub-pile of Japanese fantasy 🖤
📸 Hiroyuki Okawara @hero_nightwalker
Dr Phibes budgie wishes everyone an extremely fresh Monday 🐤🚿
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Dr Phibes budgie wishes everyone an extremely fresh Monday 🐤🚿
Had a super interesting time at World Fantasy Con - all of the panels have been bangers!
Now at Gods & Faith in Fantasy - skillfully chaired by @theodoragoss.bsky.social with fascinating discussion from
@johngwynneauthor.bsky.social @joannechocolat.bsky.social @gavthorpe.bsky.social & Willow Woods
Now at Gods & Faith in Fantasy - skillfully chaired by @theodoragoss.bsky.social with fascinating discussion from
@johngwynneauthor.bsky.social @joannechocolat.bsky.social @gavthorpe.bsky.social & Willow Woods
November 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Had a super interesting time at World Fantasy Con - all of the panels have been bangers!
Now at Gods & Faith in Fantasy - skillfully chaired by @theodoragoss.bsky.social with fascinating discussion from
@johngwynneauthor.bsky.social @joannechocolat.bsky.social @gavthorpe.bsky.social & Willow Woods
Now at Gods & Faith in Fantasy - skillfully chaired by @theodoragoss.bsky.social with fascinating discussion from
@johngwynneauthor.bsky.social @joannechocolat.bsky.social @gavthorpe.bsky.social & Willow Woods
....oh have you? 🤔
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
....oh have you? 🤔
Myself and @gavthorpe.bsky.social have stolen Mike's badge and will be performing as @mikebrooks668.bsky.social please visit our table if you would like us to sign Mike's books 🖤
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Myself and @gavthorpe.bsky.social have stolen Mike's badge and will be performing as @mikebrooks668.bsky.social please visit our table if you would like us to sign Mike's books 🖤
Good news for Catachan enjoyers!
My short story Nightsider Imperialis is now in an audio anthology read by Gabrielle Nellis Pain, the narrator of Deathworlder. It features Major Wulf Khan & Trooper Falke Adair in the gnarly jungle of a nightworld, Nectria 💀
www.blacklibrary.com/all-products...
My short story Nightsider Imperialis is now in an audio anthology read by Gabrielle Nellis Pain, the narrator of Deathworlder. It features Major Wulf Khan & Trooper Falke Adair in the gnarly jungle of a nightworld, Nectria 💀
www.blacklibrary.com/all-products...
October 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Good news for Catachan enjoyers!
My short story Nightsider Imperialis is now in an audio anthology read by Gabrielle Nellis Pain, the narrator of Deathworlder. It features Major Wulf Khan & Trooper Falke Adair in the gnarly jungle of a nightworld, Nectria 💀
www.blacklibrary.com/all-products...
My short story Nightsider Imperialis is now in an audio anthology read by Gabrielle Nellis Pain, the narrator of Deathworlder. It features Major Wulf Khan & Trooper Falke Adair in the gnarly jungle of a nightworld, Nectria 💀
www.blacklibrary.com/all-products...
Sergeant Aisha Itoh is about to have a total chitin-ightmare in my #warhammer40k Sentinel short story ‘Blood Sands’ - in print for the first time!
You also get:
💀Blood
💀Sands
💀Sentinels
💀Astra Militarum Messenger Pigeon cameo
...& 11 other stories from fab folk!
www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/p...
You also get:
💀Blood
💀Sands
💀Sentinels
💀Astra Militarum Messenger Pigeon cameo
...& 11 other stories from fab folk!
www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/p...
October 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sergeant Aisha Itoh is about to have a total chitin-ightmare in my #warhammer40k Sentinel short story ‘Blood Sands’ - in print for the first time!
You also get:
💀Blood
💀Sands
💀Sentinels
💀Astra Militarum Messenger Pigeon cameo
...& 11 other stories from fab folk!
www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/p...
You also get:
💀Blood
💀Sands
💀Sentinels
💀Astra Militarum Messenger Pigeon cameo
...& 11 other stories from fab folk!
www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/p...
Cheers for now, Tokyo! You've been magic 🖤
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind and whilst it's time to get back to the writing desk I'm enormously grateful for the kaleidoscope of ideas and experiences I have to bring with me!
📸 Hiroyuki Okawara @hero_nightwalker
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind and whilst it's time to get back to the writing desk I'm enormously grateful for the kaleidoscope of ideas and experiences I have to bring with me!
📸 Hiroyuki Okawara @hero_nightwalker
October 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Cheers for now, Tokyo! You've been magic 🖤
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind and whilst it's time to get back to the writing desk I'm enormously grateful for the kaleidoscope of ideas and experiences I have to bring with me!
📸 Hiroyuki Okawara @hero_nightwalker
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind and whilst it's time to get back to the writing desk I'm enormously grateful for the kaleidoscope of ideas and experiences I have to bring with me!
📸 Hiroyuki Okawara @hero_nightwalker
I was delighted to receive a good old-fashioned Warhammer welcome in the Tokyo store (Wars and Hammers compulsory obvs) 😂🌸🌸🌸
October 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I was delighted to receive a good old-fashioned Warhammer welcome in the Tokyo store (Wars and Hammers compulsory obvs) 😂🌸🌸🌸
Hello Warhammer Tokyo! 🌸
The Darkness Eternal anthology may be sold out online, but you can pick up a signed copy in Akihabara right now along with the biggest selection of Black Library books in Japan :-) 🖤
Thanks to the lovely staff at the store for the welcome!
The Darkness Eternal anthology may be sold out online, but you can pick up a signed copy in Akihabara right now along with the biggest selection of Black Library books in Japan :-) 🖤
Thanks to the lovely staff at the store for the welcome!
October 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Hello Warhammer Tokyo! 🌸
The Darkness Eternal anthology may be sold out online, but you can pick up a signed copy in Akihabara right now along with the biggest selection of Black Library books in Japan :-) 🖤
Thanks to the lovely staff at the store for the welcome!
The Darkness Eternal anthology may be sold out online, but you can pick up a signed copy in Akihabara right now along with the biggest selection of Black Library books in Japan :-) 🖤
Thanks to the lovely staff at the store for the welcome!
Accidentally crashed the Nagoya Warhammer store Armies on Parade yesterday - it was lovely to see such a full store and fantastic to see some really beautiful and creative hobby on show!
Thank you for the warm welcome hobbyists of Nagoya, and please tag your army if you happen to see it here :-) 🖤
Thank you for the warm welcome hobbyists of Nagoya, and please tag your army if you happen to see it here :-) 🖤
October 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Accidentally crashed the Nagoya Warhammer store Armies on Parade yesterday - it was lovely to see such a full store and fantastic to see some really beautiful and creative hobby on show!
Thank you for the warm welcome hobbyists of Nagoya, and please tag your army if you happen to see it here :-) 🖤
Thank you for the warm welcome hobbyists of Nagoya, and please tag your army if you happen to see it here :-) 🖤
Attempting to make some new friends but they're being a bit koi about it... 😏
October 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Attempting to make some new friends but they're being a bit koi about it... 😏
Eeeee! My gorgeous @sefirotgame.bsky.social Kickstarter just arrived and I'm going to be staring at it ALL DAY 😍
@eliotbaum.bsky.social and @vivtanner.bsky.social have outdone themselves, this is really really special 🖤
@eliotbaum.bsky.social and @vivtanner.bsky.social have outdone themselves, this is really really special 🖤
August 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Eeeee! My gorgeous @sefirotgame.bsky.social Kickstarter just arrived and I'm going to be staring at it ALL DAY 😍
@eliotbaum.bsky.social and @vivtanner.bsky.social have outdone themselves, this is really really special 🖤
@eliotbaum.bsky.social and @vivtanner.bsky.social have outdone themselves, this is really really special 🖤
Your email finds me slowly & resentfully persisting ✨️🐌💀
August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Your email finds me slowly & resentfully persisting ✨️🐌💀
Deathworlder en français!
I'm so excited to see my Warhammer writing in translation for the first time!
And SUR UN MONDE CANNIBALE goes *extremely* hard as a title 😂🖤 Delighted!
I'm so excited to see my Warhammer writing in translation for the first time!
And SUR UN MONDE CANNIBALE goes *extremely* hard as a title 😂🖤 Delighted!
August 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Deathworlder en français!
I'm so excited to see my Warhammer writing in translation for the first time!
And SUR UN MONDE CANNIBALE goes *extremely* hard as a title 😂🖤 Delighted!
I'm so excited to see my Warhammer writing in translation for the first time!
And SUR UN MONDE CANNIBALE goes *extremely* hard as a title 😂🖤 Delighted!
The Catachan I painted + the Catachan novel I wrote! 🖤😎🌴
Thank you so much *everyone* who has picked up Deathworlder (you sold out the first print run 😱) & shared in the grimdark good times! 💀🖤
Thank you so much *everyone* who has picked up Deathworlder (you sold out the first print run 😱) & shared in the grimdark good times! 💀🖤
July 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Catachan I painted + the Catachan novel I wrote! 🖤😎🌴
Thank you so much *everyone* who has picked up Deathworlder (you sold out the first print run 😱) & shared in the grimdark good times! 💀🖤
Thank you so much *everyone* who has picked up Deathworlder (you sold out the first print run 😱) & shared in the grimdark good times! 💀🖤
The faces of my pet quail listening to the latest ep
July 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The faces of my pet quail listening to the latest ep