E. J. Swift

Woke up this morning and this beautiful trophy was in the house and it was not a dream. Utterly stunned, extraordinarily grateful, deliriously happy. Such a privilege to be part of this year's shortlist, huge thanks to the Clarke Award judges and congrats again to all the brilliant nominees 💫🤍🐺

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers futurism.com/future-socie...

November! Chatting with some awesome people, visiting some awesome libraries and bookshops ☺️ More info and booking links here: ejswift.co.uk/events/

Places are becoming increasingly unliveable — even where you live #NomadCentury

Finished When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift last night. Engrossing and slippery. My thoughts kept trying to see it pigeonholed. Either the bleak trudge into dystopia or the Pollyannish float into utopia. It could have never been either. Life is neither. What a triumph this book is. #books

Here's Geoff Ryman talking to @catamaroon.bsky.social about her novel 'When There Are Wolves again' for @resonancefm.bsky.social. You're welcome. #climate #rewilding #ScienceFiction www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8qL...

Really enjoyed this review of Dooneen by Keith Ridgway, which I think pairs interestingly with M John Harrison's The End of Everything in its anti-explanatory approach. And they both have such a glorious use of language.

Paperback incomingggggg!

Absolutely made up to see this review of Wolves from New Scientist 😊🐺

📡 Signal Boost! Join us for a special night focused on environmental writing across fact, fiction and hopeful futures, with authors @calflyn.bsky.social and @catamaroon.bsky.social Weds 11 Nov 19:00 at Waterstones, London - Gower Street Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/wolve...

So, I'm still going with the #ScottishSFF from Glasgow 2024 to @pictcon.bsky.social, which takes place tomorrow. Unfortunately, I myself am not going to PictCon because I'm ill, but in lieu of my presence I offer con-goers this review of @emfaulds.com's lovely collection, These Broken Little Worlds.

I think I missed publication day for my own novel! I am far from ept as a self-promoter. Anyway, it's out now: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/frankenste...

All welcome! Looking forward to this 🙂 RSVP link: housmans.com/event/book-l...

Omg The Red Scholar's Wake on Oprah Daily www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen... "all the familiar trappings of a deliciously dramatic romantasy—just set in space"

On Wednesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—please join us as we announce the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! The announcement will be on YouTube at 9 am Pacific time. www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

“No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque” Ministers have publicly committed to open up data on land ownership - but the Land Registry themselves are dragging their feet. Tag your MP: let’s finally reveal who owns England! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Got to visit the lovely @resonancefm.bsky.social studio last month for this conversation with Geoff Ryman 😊 Airing this Friday 8pm (repeats Monday 10am and will also be available online via mixcloud) www.resonancefm.com

UK readers! The Silverblood Promise is just 99p in ebook TODAY (14th October) across all retailers! So, you *could* put that pound towards quarter of a bad coffee, or . . . you could spend it on 593 pages of swashbuckling shenanigans. Just a thought.

IT'S ME. Returning to my beloved Luna Press, who first opened the door to publishing for me. This book is one I am so proud of, guys, it's strange & hopeful & sad, and I'm so glad it gets to live 🖤

I’ll be talking about ALSTON MOOR at the historic @housmansbookshop.bsky.social. What’s more, I will be in conversation with the amazing @sannewman.bsky.social RSVP for this free event: housmans.com/event/book-l... @unamccormack.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

Out now, the latest issue of the arts and culture magazine, Odyssey. We lead with an editorial on rewilding, plus book reviews, space art, EJ Swift winning the Arthur C. Clarke book award, and our look back at Alan Shepard's historic flight in Friendship 7. Don't miss it! @catamaroon.bsky.social

When There Are Wolves Again is on the UK Kindle Daily Deal today (5 October) for 99p. Bargainous! 😊🐺 amzn.eu/d/0en8hTOd

99p? You simply cannot go wrong. A wonderful book and perhaps the most consequential SF novel of the year.

‘a novel that sticks your hand in the dirt and forces you to look at nature’ gavreads.co.uk/2026/08/22/r... FYI: Kobo is also price matching.

When There Are Wolves Again is on the UK Kindle Daily Deal today (5 October) for 99p. Bargainous! 😊🐺 amzn.eu/d/0en8hTOd

Hey Team 🐺 Join us for a night of eco-writing and hopeful futures with E.J. Swift, winner of the 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Cal Flyn, winner of the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing. Weds 11 Nov Waterstones, Gower Street, London Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/wolve...

What is Rockets on Tyne, you ask? Why, it's a day of SF events taking place on 26 November as part of this year's Books on Tyne festival! Details and tickets here and in the following thread: booksontyne.co.uk

Well, this is lovely! City of All Seasons by Aliya Whiteley and myself has been shortlisted for the Aldiss Award for World Building in speculative fiction!

“the possibilities of rewilding are coming to the forefront of speculative fiction” - @suchmayer.northsky.social on my latest, ALSTON MOOR, and WOMAN WOLF/CARBON CAPTURE and WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN. 📚💚📚 @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

Wolves & wild horses have returned to Portugal’s Côa Valley. Rewilding Portugal has been working across the Greater Côa Valley, releasing Sorraia horses & Tauros cattle since 2021 to restore natural grazing. Iberian wolves have now returned to the area on their own buff.ly/xEAcxIx #ShareGoodNewsToo

Start your morning with a wild and wonderful @theguardian.com country diary by @katebradbury.bsky.social. #naturewriting #countrydiary

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

I loved to bits The Coral Bones by @catamaroon.bsky.social: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

Rest in peace, Joe Harkness. I was shocked and gutted when I heard the news. He was a generous, inspirational teacher and such an important writer. He was brutally honest, inclusive and funny too. When I interviewed him last summer (below) he was so full of life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A quick review of a book I just finished (and adored). I love fairy stories, and I think this one handles them precisely how they are best handled.

I explain my decision to centre historical fiction in my latest climate novel set on the remote peatlands of the North Pennines. @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

Christopher Priest was working on a biography of J.G. Ballard when he passed away from the same cancer that killed Ballard. Our own Teika Marija Smits chats with Nina Allan, Priest's widow, who finished the biography as a love letter to two great men. britishfantasysociety.org/the-illumina...

Exciting set of large nature restoration and rewilding projects in Northumberland... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

End of week status. Or, TGIF