Alice Rowena Wilson

today I said to some students: 'I really can't think of a better way of phrasing this, but Cicero opens this speech by negging the senate', and I felt like a youth pastor sitting on a backwards chair

🇪🇪 Niina Petrõkina’s Cell Block Tango murders: Ilia Malinin, Junhwan Cha, Tim Dieck #MilanoCortina2026

I am incredibly excited to say I have received a New Writer's Award from @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social for 2026! I'm very much looking forward to this year & spending more time with the wonderful cohort of writers.

I am very excited to have a poem in the new issue of the Rialto!

www.therialto.co.uk/pages/produc...

very grateful to dishsoap quarterly for the nomination; I cannot recommend submitting to them enough!!

Delighted to have a piece today in Dishsoap Quarterly!

Piece up this week with a momentum build so strong you'll have lost your breath by the end of it. Ready, set, go read "Tennis Players" from @alicerowilson.bsky.social

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-16-25

glad to see the glory of herefordshire getting some recognition

I have a poem in issue 2 of sextet!

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Also go along to six foot gallery in Glasgow and you will hear me reading it

Thank you, and you too!

I have a poem in issue 2 of sextet!

sextet.co.uk/alice-rowena...

I unintentionally read this with the affect of a contemporary poem and was oddly taken by it

today, I had very exciting news about an acceptance, had two cream scones to celebrate, and I'm now off to a writing group - not a bad day in all!

As my mother pointed out, "you couldn't get two more different things". But they're both pretty gay so there's that

currently working on revisions of the Renaissance Florence vampire novel, and have become incredibly distracted by a gay tour de france novel

‘Bl0ss0m’ by Katy Finnegan — Banshee Press @ImYourMan he called himself. She liked it, liked the reference to Leonard Cohen and the playful tone of the username. She thought she detected a romantic soul in the photos he had up – a tall, broad ...

I just read this short story by Katy Finnegan and really really loved it

bansheepress.org/read/bl0ss0m...

Thirst Trap by Sean Dowie No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue. Travelers often discovered it. Their passion for deserts was as fiery as the temp...

"No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue."

This week, we bring you the Great American Short Story, a brand new one by @seandowie.bsky.social. This one is a jaw-dropper. Hilarious. Unexpected. Don't miss "Thirst Trap!"

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anyway I'm writing fantasy atm it's fun I'm having a great time

I have recently been submitting to lit fic magazines where it is just a black hole of work hanging around for months (not complaining, I know it's how it is), and I have just submitted something to clarkesworld, where there is a TRACKER on how many works are before yours in the queue?? crazy

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

today's intriguing reading (allegedly for novel research, but sort of just bc I am interested)

I know I'm still a classicist at heart bc I was genuinely thrilled by the revelation of what the secret manuscript was in the name of the rose

Issue 4.5 - Carmen et Error Limbs, Limbs, Limbs (to the tune of “Bills, Bills, Bills” by Destiny’s Child)by Viola Volée She wore his skin to dinner, but got onto sucking the blood by her mouth like a bitten lip.Little did she kn...

deeply obsessed with the piece "You are buying a Pope Francis condom, and I, the cashier, hand you a survey" by Adriano noble here: carmenerror.com?page_id=183

I take an anti-AI stance for many reasons, including that I just literally have 0 use-cases for it in my life, but one of its more egregious impacts on my life is that the spell-check in Word is NOTICEABLY worse after they integrated Copilot, and just hallucinates errors where there are none

I feel very sad about the itv4 tour de france coverage ending - I have very fond memories of watching the highlights show with my father as a small child

currently watching Wimbledon, eating frozen strawberries coated in dark chocolate, and drinking a non-alcoholic white wine that I accidentally froze so it's become sort of a slushie

I've begun learning some rlly basic mandarin and I'm so fascinated by words when you get this kind of list of definitions

Huge discovery for me is that I don't actually dislike audiobooks, I just dislike fiction audiobooks. All my minor tasks over the past few days have been accompanied by Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards and it has been a truly excellent experience

Oh I can definitely imagine something great being in that world - the city with intrigues & the forest full of fairies!