Ida Keogh

@idakeogh

Neurospicy and queer BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning SFF author and occasional mermaid. Equality and Diversity Officer for the British Science Fiction Association. Foodie SFF collection 'Taste' out April 2027!! she/her

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Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

I came home with fabulous memories and SO MANY BOOKS including three with the word 'Salt' in the title. It's like they saw me coming 😂🧜🏻‍♀️

The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty, Paris Celestial by AY Chao, The Misheard World by Aliyah Whiteley

Saltswept by Katalina Watt, The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson, The Salt Bind by Rebecca Ferrier

Wrath of the Never Queen by Storm Lomax, Tide by Fran Morton, You Are Going To Regret This by Tom Byam Shaw, Writing the Magic by various authors

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

I didn't leave until Monday morning, which meant there was a little time to explore the beauty of nearby Holyrood Park as well!

Ida Keogh standing in front of the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

There were too many fabulous people there to mention! But have some snaps of @fdleeauthor.bsky.social with @stormlomax.bsky.social, me shmoozing with @aychao.com, my mini Milford reunion with @bernahudson.bsky.social and @tiffaniangus.bsky.social, and the lovely @jjbker.bsky.social 📸

Storm Lomax in a pale pink dress with corset, and FD Lee in a red and turquoise dress with daisies, both making peace signs

Ida Keogh with Tiffani Angus and Berna Hudson

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

I got involved too, with a reading in the open mic hosted by the lovely @samkhorton.bsky.social, and made a new friend in Scottish author RM Brown

Ida Keogh wearing a Strawberry Thief dress, reading from her collection Taste

RM Brown reading from her novel Song of the Stag

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

@jennicoutts.bsky.social hosted an incredibly useful workshop on writing wounds

Jenni Coutts sat behind a table on which stands a replica human spine and skull

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

...and last but not least an amazing folkloric fiction panel from @shonak.bsky.social and Rebecca Ferrier

Beth Cochrane, Shona Kinsella and Rebecca Ferrier sat on a stage behind tables displaying books - Daughters of Nicnevin and The Salt Bind

Beth Cochrane, Shona Kinsella and Rebecca Ferrier standing on stage after the panel

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

Panels! Highlights included finally meeting @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social, hearing Aliyah Whiteley and @voidcricket.bsky.social talk unreliable narrators, and being mesmerised by two Clarke Award nominees @catamaroon.bsky.social and @rainewilson.bsky.social

Ida in a long dark blue dress leans on a table next to Shannon Chakraborty,who is signing her books

A black and white photo of Aliyah Whiteley, gazing up to the gigantic visage of virtual attendee Ren Hutchings

A black and white photo of Lorraine Wilson, smiling as she talks about The Salt Oracle

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

This time last week I was heading home from my first @cymerafestival.co.uk. What a fantastic weekend it was! There were so many of my favourite people there and a lovely crowd generally. I made new friends and discovered new (to me) amazing authors. Highlights in the thread! #booksky #amwriting

Black and white photo of FD Lee in a giant hat, Ida in 50s style sunglasses and Glyn

Not strictly Cymera yet - but a fun pre-festival hot tub party.

A black and white photo of Shona Kinsella and Rebecca Ferrier signing books

A black and white photo of the Pleasance Bar, featuring Shona Kinsella, David Green and others

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 1

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🥳🎉🌈 My collection 'Taste' coming out next year is hella queer and full of excellent cake, so I really wanted to include some very tasty rainbow cake in my shoot with wonderful photographer @ingridweel.bsky.social yesterday! #UKPrideMonth #Booksky #Queerjoy

Ida taking great glee in licking buttercream off her fingers from a six-tiered Pride flag heart-shaped cake

Ida dressed in a green metallic halterneck holding a six-tiered Pride flag heart-shaped cake

Ida holds a heart shaped Pride flag rainbow cake and Ingrid sucks buttercream from her finger. There is a suspicious amount of buttercream on their noses.

Ida opens her jaw as wide as she can to eat Pride flag rainbow cake.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 1

But in case you thought this was all glamorous, remember I am a chaos goblin and was very delayed in my preparation, so literally sewing dresses and decorating cakes mid shoot. Fortunately Ingrid is a wonderfully patient soul! 😂😅

Ida wearing a Strawberry Thief dress, looking terribly glamorous whisking icing sugar into buttercream in a kitchen which looks like an explosion in a cake factory.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 1

This kind of shoot takes planning and coordination. I love @ingridweel.bsky.social's style - discussion both in advance and on the day about what shots we want to achieve together, the mood, lighting, backdrops and outfit changes needed. This shoot was so extra - wait until you see the final shots!

Ida is wearing a Strawberry Thief dress and holding a bitten strawberry. Ingrid is showing her photographs on the back of the camera.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 1

I had a tremendous photoshoot yesterday in collaboration with my favourite photographer, @ingridweel.bsky.social to get new headshots for my forthcoming food themed SFF collection 'Taste' (out April 2027 with @flametree.bsky.social). Here's a behind the scenes look at fun with cake! #Amwriting

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· May 11

I'm on retreat! Enjoying a much needed boost to my dystopian sapphic obsession sci-fi novel with a week at the stunning Gladstone's Library in Wales, with the Milford SF Writers. I crept over 10k yesterday, so feeling pretty proud of myself. #AmWriting #Writersky

Ida wearing glasses and a black t-shirt with large white writing: "I wrote today", sat in Gladstone's Library, Wales

A view from the upper gallery in Gladstone's Library, showing a long double height room lined on both levels with book stacks. The room has a beautiful vaulted roof with wooden beams.

Hawarden Castle, a circular ruin reminiscent of a jagged tooth

Hawarden Park. An undulating lawn filled with buttercups stretches yellow towards green grass in the distance dotted with large ancient trees, with woodland beyond and downhill.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· May 10

Happy birthday @ewacat.bsky.social! Here is my kitten Nyx being... well, quite normal for her actually.

A grey kitten sat upright on a cat tree, mid yawn with fangs showing, tongue out, golden eyes squinting and ears at very deranged angles.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· May 2

"Another world. Another time. In the age of wonder. A thousand years ago this land was green and good. Until the crystal cracked." My first big screen viewing of Jim Henson's masterpiece The Dark Crystal at the Prince Charles, Leicester Sq 💜 #UrskesesRule

Ida in her purple Dark Crystal t-shirt in front of the electronic billboard at the Prince Charles cinema, where The Dark Crystal is showing.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Apr 30

That may well be what you said last time.

Lion-O from the cartoon Thundercats. A cat-man with wildly bouffant red hair and some fetching periwinkle blue pants and vest wields a gigantic sword.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Apr 23

I love this time of year when butterflies start emerging again. 🦋

A peacock butterfly, red wings spread, sat on a bluebell

An orange-tip butterfly sat on a bluebell.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Apr 19

I used the Merlin Bird ID app yesterday for the first time on a lovely hike through Albury Park. The existence of the Common Firecrest must imply the existence of the Legendary Firecrest, right?

A screen shot of a sound recording of bird song in Albury Park, Surrey, UK. Underneath is a list of birds heard, with their pictures: Great Tit, Eurasian Wren, Ring-necked Pheasant, Common Firecrest, Coal Tit, European Robin, Goldcrest

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Apr 18

FAAAALKOOOOOOOR!!!

A white llama who looks very suspiciously like Falkor

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Apr 18

Another fabulous @srfantasyclub.bsky.social this week, with @felipeazucares.bsky.social ("It rhymes with face huggers") and @georgiasummers.bsky.social. #Booksky #Writersky

Ida with author Philip A Suggars, holding a copy of his debut novel 'The Lighthouse at the End of the World'

Philip A Suggars reading from 'The Lighthouse at the End of the World' at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club in Kings Cross, London. He is wearing glasses, a black cardigan, and a grey kilt.

Georgia Summers reading from 'Trollheim, Tales of Systir' at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club in Kings Cross, London. She is wearing glasses, a burgundy cardigan, a floral shirt and a bright yellow skirt.

'The Lighthouse At The End of the World' by Philip A Suggars- a surreal jaunt in a richly reimagined Greater London - and 'Trollheim: Tales of Systir' by Georgia Summers - the first book in an exciting Nordic shared universe.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Apr 12

I had a day to myself yesterday so went on a hike in the countryside to a lovely pub to sit, write and enjoy an exceptional pub lunch. My basic novel outline is now complete - time to start drafting! 🥳 #Writersky #Booksky #Momentsofbeauty

A river runs past verdant greenery on one side and a path with a bench and trees behind on the other.

Ida wearing a dark blue tshirt and glasses, sat at her ipad in a pub with wonderful duck wallpaper

Porchetta with vibrant green pea purée, salsa verde and fried gnocchi, dotted around with green peas and dark green capers. This was so delicious!

A hoverfly sucks nectar from a dandelion.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Apr 11

Don't you just love it when visiting beetles match your nail varnish?

Ida's finger with deepest blue nail varnish with iridescent blue glitter, and upon it a tiny beetle also of the deepest blue with an iridescent sheen.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Apr 8

This was my first Eastercon art show. I am humbled by the lovely things people have said to me about my art this weekend and delighted that so many works have found their way to loving homes. 🥳🥰 (Watch to see the secret UV layer!) #art #spaceart #octopusart

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Apr 4

I am thrilled to announce that my new collection 'Taste' will be published by Flametree Publishing in their Beyond and Within series, and is due to launch at next year's Eastercon! If you're at @easterconuk.bsky.social I'll be having a small celebration in the bar tonight! 🥂🥳

A photo of Ida Keogh wearing an ivory dress. The caption reads:
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Beyond and Within
TASTE
Speculative Stories to Devour and Relish

Text reads:
Written by Ida Keogh
BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning author
An anthology of science fiction, fantasy and hopepunk exploring our shared experiences of feast and famine, from 2050s London ti galactic restaurants, parallel universes and magical mazes, ranging from the cosy to the dystopian, alongside recipes to tempt and delight.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Mar 25

More #momentsofbeauty today! Look at these cute babbies! 🐥🐥🐥

Two tiny yellow and brown ducklings swimming away happily

A dozen tiny yellow and brown ducklings huddled together on the river

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Mar 23

A few close ups: #art #queerart #queerjoy

A lesbian flag robot floats up on a gold balloon

A polyamory flag robot releases a balloon and stands on the rainbow. A gay flag robot is sitting on the rainbow ready to slide.

A trans flag robot sits on a cloud waving to their friends.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Mar 23

It's finished! I hope this brings you all some #queerjoy this morning.

A painting by Ida Keogh showing a rainbow and pink clouds against a blue sky. Robots painted in the colours of pride flags (trans, polyamory, gay, bisexual, asexual, lesbian and non-binary) float up on gold balloons, sit on clouds and slide down the rainbow having a jolly good time.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Mar 22

Who's in the mood for some queer joy?! 🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈 Watch this space later, I'll post the finished piece in a reply when it's done. #art #queerart #queerjoy

A large canvas painted with a blue sky, baby pink clouds and a rainbow, with white outlines of little robots sitting on clouds, floating on balloons, and sliding down the rainbow having fun.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Mar 21

This void was so perfect I had to paint them immediately. #art #catart

A tiny black canvas held in Ida's hand. On it are painted two gold cat's eyes, and the barest hint of a cat face outline in dark grey.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Mar 19

Another day of #dragon painting. As at last night there were 25 shiny dragons, and another 41 to go. But they are getting smaller! I hope to finish today. #art #fantasyart