A formal statement will follow shortly once @kitgonzo.bsky.social has totted up his moral victory points

19th July - Ending the season strong with a dive into dark fiction with @pauladashe.bsky.social award winning author of We Are Here To Hurt Each Other, developmental editor and Hellraiser obsessive!

His debut, The Republic of Memory, comes out on 14th May. Based on a city ship, 200 years into its voyage from the ruins of Earth towards a new habitable world, with a crew that is beginning to ask questions...

Join us live in the Discord, next Sunday, 26th April, 8:30pm UK time
discord.gg/mTYWhCsf

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The cover of The Republic of Memory, featuring all blue, a woman with large wings, and a futuristic city in the background

It's that time again! Season 14 kicks off next week with the brilliant @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social

Mahmud is a British-Egyptian SFF writer and translator. A former journalist, he now writes about generation ships, sentient libraries and memory taxes instead.

5th July - @helencooperwriter.bsky.social - we're jumping across to the world of psychological thrillers next with the author of the upcoming The Woman In The Villa! Expects twists, turns, thrilling secrets and lots of Italian food!

21st June - @mikebrooks668.bsky.social returns to discuss his upcoming release: This Is Where The Future Bleeds. Another fabulously-named book, this one about an epic quest to meddle in destinies. Definitely nothing that can go wrong there...

7th June - @emmanewman.bsky.social - whether you're a fan of her sci-fi novels, her latest swashbuckling vampire book, her podcasts or just her fabulous coats (that she makes herself!), I think we can all agree this episode is going to go off on a lot of tangents!

24th May - @starkholborn.bsky.social will be returning! Novelist, games writer, film reviewer and author of books with fabulous names like Triggernometry and Nunslinger, there's never a shortage of things to discuss with Stark on the show!

10th May - @dancoxon.bsky.social - A multi-award-winning editor whose anthologies feature many stories and essays by both overlords and guests of Writeopolis.

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Season 14 is closing in fast so we'd best get announcing guests!!

26th April - Kicking things off we have @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social!
A former journalist, Mahmud now writes about generation ships, sentient libraries and memory taxes instead. His debut, The Republic of Memory, comes out on 14th May

Tonight! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @realjacksonford.bsky.social!

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This Sunday! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @realjacksonford.bsky.social !

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He is a former award-winning journalist, broadcaster, rapper & sound engineer and delights in getting fans to proclaim cheese as their god (quite rightly, too).

Join us live in the Discord, next Sunday, 22nd March, 8:30pm UK time
discord.gg/WaGFxYGs

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The cover of Sisters of the Lizard by Jackson Ford, featuring two women in black and red armour looking at each other and giant lizards in the background breathing fire

Closing out this glorious season is the fabulous @realjacksonford.bsky.social!

Jackson's latest series starts with The Bone Raiders & follows a bone-wearing clan who decide riding giant fire-breathing lizards (totally not dragons) is the only way to stop every raider in the land being wiped out.

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social!

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This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social !!
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Charlotte is also a co-host of the fabulous Breaking the Glass Slipper podcast, which has won two BFS awards for best audio and was long-listed for a Hugo!

Join us to find out about all this & the usual Writeopolis chaos, live in the Discord next Sunday 8th March 8:30pm UK time
discord.gg/SNGXZWg8

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The cover of The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond, featuring a woman in armour, holding a sword, with a white dragon behind her

Our next guest is the wonderful @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social

Charlotte is an author, ghostwriter, freelance editor, proofreader, reviewer and podcaster!

The Fireborne Blade & The Bloodless Princes duology follows a knight trying to steal a sword from a dragon! Sapphic women with swords FTW!

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @thomasdlee.bsky.social !
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This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @thomasdlee.bsky.social !!
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Tom frequently considers emulating Merlin & becoming a hermit in the woods, speaking only in riddles. When not writing, he can be found playing Dungeons & Dragons & letting his cup of tea go cold

Join us for the usual Writeopolis chaos, live in the Discord Sunday 22nd Feb 8:30pm
discord.gg/DvxNQKWG

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Next up we have @thomasdlee.bsky.social!

Tom's Sunday Times bestselling debut, Perilous Times, sees Sir Kay & his fellow knights awakened from their mythical slumber in modern times. Britain is divided, there's a dragon, & Kay is not the only ancient & terrible thing to crawl out of the ground...

Tonight! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @nicholaseames.bsky.social !

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This Sunday! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @nicholaseames.bsky.social!

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The Sandwich Shop of Dreams is already on high alert.
The baked beans have been safely locked away and the croissants are being guarded until it can be determined whether or not they count as a sandwich and therefore just how offended the SSOD should be by the crimes committed upon them

Suddenly it's time to get the band back together for one last, epic quest! Bloody Rose followed soon after and Outlaw Empire, set 14 years later, is on its way.

Join us to hear about all this, live in the Discord, next Sunday, 8th February, 8:30pm UK time
discord.gg/jqDpubdP

The cover of Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames, featuring four men in armour with shields, swords and axes. With the tag line 'The Boys Are Back In Town' above

A photo of Nicholas Eames wearing a blue shirt

Season 13 continues with @nicholaseames.bsky.social

Nicholas is the author of The Band series, which starts with Kings of the Wyld and follows a band of mercenaries that have long split up and grown old and drunk. Until an old bandmate turns up with a plea for help...

Tonight! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @aliettedebodard.com !

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This Sunday! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @aliettedebodard.com !!

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Aliette de Bodard will be joining us to talk about everything from Xianxia-inspired space operas to dark Gothic fantasies set in a turn-of-the-century Paris devastated by a magical war and everything in between!

Join us in the Discord next Sunday 25th Jan 8:30pm UK time
discord.gg/AWaD9x4E