Samuel Poots

Fiction and games writer
Ulster University PhD researcher and Writer in Residence
Cast of Wonders | Dark Matter | WFRP | Jim Henson's Labyrinth: RPG
SFWA

[Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle]

@DavidGreenWrite Hope you're doing ok there

[Azrai @TheOneAzrai]

So after everything else written about this had to be erased, let me uh... tell you a story https://t.co/8XYD4jA22p

[IWGB Game Workers @IWGB_GW]

"The next few years are going to be pretty massive for IWGB Game Workers Union."

Work in games in the UK? Want to see a better, fairer games industry?

Join us today:
https://t.co/Xm08SjCMBI

[Uncanny Magazine @UncannyMagazine]

PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! https://t.co/vX0moQt8Wb

[IWGB Game Workers @IWGB_GW]

We are incredibly disappointed by the Labour government's decision to seek advice from such a narrow segment of our industry. You can find our full open letter here: https://t.co/3Cv5y8BTqL

[Marie Croke @marie_croke]

Have a brand-new story out today!!

"Yet Deep Below We Writhe" is a flash dealing with the pain of how women constantly change themselves to suit others. Published in Metastellar

https://t.co/9iPgZwkvFI

[Rhianna Pratchett 🧙🏻‍♀️ @rhipratchett]

THE BIGGEST NEWS! Rob and I are offering up a hand-signed hardback, first edition/first printing copy of Monstrous Regiment straight from the Pratchett archives. Those who know the story will know why it’s a pertinent one for this cause. (More pics later)
https://t.co/EtlhqLlMy7

[Rhianna Pratchett 🧙🏻‍♀️ @rhipratchett]

More news! Rob of @terryandrob is offering up 3 signed copies of Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes (the official biography of my dad) for the Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the U.K. and SA auction https://t.co/Z7xS34GaHM

[English at Ulster @at_ulster]

We've a funded PhD opportunity on the poet Robert Huddleston in partnership with National Museums NI.

[Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle]

@SquareEnix @faetrouble

[Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle]

@stephenRB4 Would you be interested in an unpublished novella which falls into this category?

Otherwise, The Salt Grows Heavy is one I'd highly recommend.

[Hannya Kay @Hannya_Kay]

Nice personal rejection telling me to check experimental literary journals instead of genre markets. Now, where do I find those? Details: anti-capitalist scifi, kind of futuristic espitolary 1.2k story, with lots of fun formatting.
Any journal interested, please query 😅

[Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle]

@torbooks Just finished Neuromancer.

[Uncanny Magazine @UncannyMagazine]

Writers! Spread the word! Uncanny Magazine will be open for Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from March 24-28. https://t.co/vX0moQt8Wb

[Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle]

@Hannya_Kay I feel this. If I don't write flash, it spirals out of proportion. Have a novella at 20,000 words I've been trying to find publication for a while now.

[NVTV Belfast @northernvisions]

All episodes of A Wee Drapp an' a Yarn now available at https://t.co/5xP0jr765F and on the NVTV YouTube Channel.

Enjoy some relaxed discussions about Ulster-Scots writing!

Produced with support from the @NIScreen
Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund.

[Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle]

More than this, Dracula does ALL the house work. So he was doing the washing up too. Which conjures a wonderful image of Count Dracula, descendant of Attila, terror of Transylvania, lord of all lesser creatures of the night, wearing a pair of marigolds and scrubbing up the silver

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

Something very funny about Dracula is that Jonathan describes his dinners at the castle as delicious and assumes unseen servants are cooking them. He is later horrified to discover that there are no servants which means Dracula himself was thanklessly cooking his succulent meals.

[Azrai @TheOneAzrai]

oh Disney's rolling back their DEI policies? Seems like a good time for a reminder that "The Fairytale King" Ludwig II of Bavaria, who built the castle that DIRECTLY inspired Cinderella's castle and Disney's LITERAL COMPANY LOGO, was AS GAY AS IT IS POSSIBLE FOR ONE PERSON TO BE

[Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle]

@somto_Ihezue @factorfourmag @BSFA Congratulations to you too!

[Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle]

Jumping back on here briefly to say my story "She Keeps the Monsters Behind the Ice" published by @factorfourmag is on the @BSFA awards longlist!

So excited, it's my first time on an awards listing like this. Link to the story below.
#BSFAAwards2024