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Writer + visual poet with #mecfs. Orchid in my Belly Button (Elsewhen 2025) Let Them Float + 51 Trillion Bits (2023) Snapshots of Apocalypse (2022)
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Thanks to my lovely friend @rutharnoldillustration for designing such beautiful mugs. Her new Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/RuthArnoldCreations #art #design #birds by @whimsylph
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3 months ago
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#booksky #magicalrealism #amwriting #books #booksofinsta Always nice to get a lovely review of the book from a random stranger on GR Anyone want indie press magical realism and eco fiction summer? That features orchids, mushrooms, metamorphosis, crab ghosts + more? Book by @elsewhenpress Thanks to @amyorrell_author for the graphic by @whimsylph
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4 months ago
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Voted. @thegreenparty #localelections by @whimsylph
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5 months ago
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What books will you celebrate on the second ever #indiepressday Which indie presses and writers have impressed you most this last year? Join in on the hashtag on 1st May #booksky #lovelsewhen #indiebooks #amwri̇ti̇ng writersofinstagram by @whimsylph
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6 months ago
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A year since this collection of short stories was published by @elsewhenpress Thanks to everyone who has bought and/or read it https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/title/an-orchid-in-my-belly-button/#magicalrealism #amreading #amwriting #books by @whimsylph
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8 months ago
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Thanks to @arcpoetrymag for publishing my visual eco poem Extinct in their The new material eco poetics edition. Copy arrived this week from Canada. Lots of stunning works in the magazine. by @whimsylph
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8 months ago
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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It’s invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where - Louise Erdrich by @whimsylph
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8 months ago
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🌾Book Review🌾 Book:-An Orchid In My Belly Button Author:-@whimsylph When reality grows strange shoots, Katy Wimhurst tends them with wit, imagination, and just enough darkness to make them bloom. Katy Wimhurst’s An Orchid in My Belly Button is a collection of short stories that delights in blurring the familiar and the fantastical. The surrealism is not just for spectacle—it’s a lens through which our fragile world, both environmental and social, is refracted. Ghost crabs, fox-tailed schoolgirls, and models with greenery sprouting from their scalps may sound absurd, but Wimhurst uses these eccentric conceits to probe pressing issues: the climate crisis, consumerism, alienation, and cruelty in human relationships. Yes, the stories often drift toward dystopian and unsettling territory, but they are buoyed by a playful inventiveness and sly humour. This prevents the book from collapsing under the weight of its bleak subject matter, instead making it both thought-provoking and unexpectedly joyful. Wimhurst’s style is crisp and imaginative, with flashes of lyricism that anchor her more surreal flourishes in an emotional truth. The stories work best when the strangeness feels like an organic extension of the theme rather than a decorative quirk. At her strongest, Wimhurst achieves something close to modern fable-making, where the bizarre becomes a mirror for the ordinary. A few tales risk feeling like sketches rather than fully fleshed narratives, but even these carry sparks of originality that linger in the mind. Overall, An Orchid in My Belly Button is a lively, eccentric, and quietly urgent collection. Wimhurst invites us to laugh, squirm, and reflect in equal measure—and in doing so, she makes the surreal feel strangely essential. A quirky, environmentally attuned, and darkly playful collection of surreal tales that leave their roots deep in the reader’s imagination. Must read♥️♥️ by @whimsylph
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a year ago
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I always think of amaryllis as the magical realist flower, at home in a Marquez or Carter book. This one, which was gifted to me years ago kindly by @angelinawcart , blossoms every year in magnificent deep crimson (plus the hawthorn is wild outside) #bloomscrolling #nature by @whimsylph
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a year ago
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Today is #maythefourthbewithyou and a #LoveElsewhen day when @elsewhenpress authors and readers are celebrating SFF books by this indie publisher. They were fantastic to deal with. I am very happy with my recent book by them which looks fantastic- as lots of readers have told me (even my dad was raving about how well it was produced and he isn’t one for much praise) Why not take a look to see other books they do if you like thoughtful speculative fiction? https://elsewhen.press by @whimsylph
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a year ago
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Today is the inaugural #IndiePressDay, a celebration of indie publishers who help create a much broader ecology of storytelling than would otherwise be available for readers. Indie presses take risks on more thoughtful or unusual stories than are widely available for readers. Most indie presses are run by a passionate individual or small team of dedicated individuals who have to do everything (and don’t have large marketing budgets like the big publishers). I was fortunate to work in editing for several years for a large book publisher in London, so I am more familiar than many with how big book publishers work. I can say it has been a pleasure to be published by various small presses including @elsewhenpress @flyonthewallpress and @trickhousepress . All were highly professional and efficient to deal with. They care about their books and work to ensure authors get paid. Let us celebrate the indies! by @whimsylph
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a year ago
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On #EarthDay a shameless plug for some of the images in my book of eco visual poems by @trickhousepress Fifty One Trillion Bits with environmental themes #bookstagram https://www.trickhousepress.com/product/-fifty-one-trillion-bits-by-katy-wimhurst/18?cs=true&cst=custom by @whimsylph
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