Fiona Mossman
she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
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- Reposted by Fiona MossmanThe Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction is open to any writer living in Scotland or Scottish by birth or inclination, aged at least 14 years. Submissions are open from Monday 12th January 2026 until 8pm BST on Sunday 22nd March 2026. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2026-prize
- Reposted by Fiona MossmanCome join the team at @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social! Great role helping us take care of the Library and Archive! Closing date - 16/02/26 Salary - £42,765-£46,051 Hours - 35 pw
- Exciting job opening @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Library and Archives Manager. Details here careers.nms.ac.uk/job/827960 #museumjobs #libraryjobs 📜
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- Reposted by Fiona MossmanI was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter.... (1/10)
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- Reposted by Fiona MossmanWhen we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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- Yesterday I re-read 'The Story of Your Life' by Ted Chiang, which is a short story I will always go feral for. What do you mean, he managed to splice together mind-bending concepts in linguistics, physics, & philosophy into the most formally satisfying & emotionally gut-punching story? Just, awe.
- Reposted by Fiona MossmanNew guest post 📰 Glacier – Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem Read the full post: buff.ly/VdmjNVJ #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
- Catching up on the free serialised story from @amalelmohtar.com for Book Week Scotland and yup, I'm definitely hooked! A messy queer breakup made messier by a mystery related to the Louvre heist crown jewels? yes, please, more, please! www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
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- I've been missing my previous method of reading short stories by sending them to my Kobo e-reader from Pocket, since Pocket was taken down in August. Now I'm super excited to see that there is a replacement, Instapapers, integrated with my Kobo! Have I mentioned that I adore short stories? 💃
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- Reposted by Fiona Mossman'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
- Excited to read the rest of the stories in this magazine - tucked in it's pages you can also find a story of mine: "Thank You For Feeding The Algorithm Today". Thanks to Penstricken for giving it a home!
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- Hydrangeas are such a bisexual bush: whether they appear blue, pink, or purple depends upon the environment they're in, but they are capable of all of these colours regardless of how they are perceived. Today I'm thrilled to have a poem out in 'Bi All Accounts' claiming the hydrangea #bivisibility
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- Stoked to be on this longlist! Congrats to my fellow poets 🦊
- Reposted by Fiona MossmanPhilip Larkin said "What will survive of us is love," but research based on previous collapsing civilizations suggests it's more likely to be inorganic items that can be buried, burned, or struck without significant degradation. Likely what will survive of us is ceramic toilets.
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- Love it when @cuttinghail.bsky.social gets published in Tiny Wren Lit because it means I get to do a little zine making. The design on these is just gorgeous 🥰
- This book is brilliant: the premise (it's a post-internet world and we're haunted by the ghosts of our data) delivers on multiple levels, the characters are full of soul and the story is full of heart, the writing is so gut-punching I lost count of how many times I teared up. Plus, fab ghost cat 🖤
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- Reposted by Fiona MossmanThrilled to share the news that THE UTOPIA OF US has been shortlisted for the The International Rubery Book Award! Many congratulations to all the authors who, collectively, made this such a fantastic anthology, and huge thanks to editor Teika Marija Smits for bringing them all together!
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- I'm celebrating 100 writing rejections 🥳 It marks three years of treating my writing more seriously and also more playfully, of sending it out into the world for other people to judge and yet holding myself to nobody's standards but my own. It's perseverance and confidence and joy.
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- Honoured to have a flash piece out in the lovely @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. Thank you for giving a home to my little ode to languages and belongings that stretch beyond humanity inkfishmag.com/what-the-bir...
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- Happy Pride from me & my cat!
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- When two writer pals from two different writing groups sign up to two different open mic nights in Edinburgh and tell you two days beforehand, what do you do? ...If you're me, you go to both! Edinburgh Sparks and Push the Boat out, sorry for walking out/in partway through, but I had a fab time!! 💖
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- I really enjoyed seeing Through the Shortbread Tin at Eden Court the other day - Martin O’Connor has made a banger of a script and performs the hell out of it. Glasgae meets the Highlands in this funny, poignant play about authentic mythmaking.
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