Vanessa Fogg
@FoggWriter
Science fiction and fantasy writer. Also lapsed scientist and freelance medical writer. Stories in Lightspeed, Podcastle, GigaNotoSaurus and more.
Pinning this here: my debut short story collection is coming out Nov 3! Pre-orders open now! interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillusio…
Poem for the day, by Song Dynasty poet Chiang Chieh (pinyin Jiang Jie). Translation by Kenneth Rexroth from the book Songs of Love, Moon & Wind
Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ nature.com/articles/s4422…
My latest short fiction recs, from April to June, are now up. Featuring stories by T.K. Rex, @FoxesandRoses @ThomasHaWrites Nuzo Onoh, Maria Haskins, @liu_angela Madison Jozefiak @CarrieVaughnAu and Aimee Ogden itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/07/short-…
In this piece of brain tissue the size of sand grain are 200,000 neurons and nearly 2.5 miles of axons. While it may seem small in size, it was previously thought impossible to map. The road to this beautiful image is both a scientific and human triumph: alleninstitute.org/news/scientist…
It’s out!! My cursed tattoo story “A Contract of Ink and Skin” is in here alongside some of the best weird stories of 2024 (with one of my favorite covers in recent memory)! Loved @AlexWoodroe's foreword and the idea of “a garden of Weird and wonder.” store.tenebrouspress.com/products/brave…
I have a short story collection coming out!!
Announcing our newest short story collection by Vanessa Fogg: The House of Illusionists and Other Stories! Now available for pre-order and on @netgalley. magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/introducing-th…
Today's Poetry Thread: FATHERS This poem will live as long as fathers do. Feel free to add poems.
Tysm @BookRiot for including TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE on this awesome list of upcoming speculative collections. Grab your copy at the l!nk in my b!o 💖 bookriot.com/new-sff-collec…
I have a new sci-fi story out at @CastOfWonders (my first audio reprint!)! “KAOSU: The Last Moving Country In The World” is about dark tourism, influencer culture, and a train closed off from the outside world. castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast-o…
Thrilled to have a story up @uncharted_mag_ . It's got Crow. It's got Death. It's got a carnival. Go on... You know you want to read it. unchartedmag.com/stories/come-c…
One of the more insidious ways in which technology kills creativity is by depriving people of time to be alone with their thoughts. You need hours of unstructured thinking. You need to be going for walks. You need time for solitude and silence.
ICYMI, I had a new story published this week! A story about Internet forums, cult dynamics, and angels who promise to heal every wound in your soul. unchartedmag.com/stories/suppor…
Don’t listen to anyone who tells you a poem isn’t a poem just because it doesn’t rhyme or follow a fixed form. A poem is a distilled feeling, a condensed moment in time—it's language at its very best, like a punch to the gut that leaves you winded, dazed, longing for another.
I'll never get over this poem a child wrote with one of my poetry prompts.
I have a new story out today! “Support Forum for the Care and Feeding of Your Personal Spirit-angel.” This one is dark
New SFF story by @FoggWriter “Welcome to the forum! You have successfully registered and now have full access to the site and all its resources. And congratulations again on the summoning of your own personal spirit-angel.” unchartedmag.com/stories/suppor…
I'm looking for some volunteer readers for both @FracturedLit & @uncharted_mag_ I love for readers to have a bit of publishing success and a love for the genre/form! Let me know if you're interested! It's 2–4 hours of reading per week, but I'm flexible!