Syr Beker

@syr.bsky.social

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Art/Stories/Immersive at the End of the Anthropocene * Horror Queer * they/them * Author of What A Fish Looks Like (Stelliform Press!) New social platform, same cat-laddie/ free 🍉/ ACAB/ punnery-before-dignity/ neurofabulous energy. Oceans > AI.

Screenshot from Otherwise Awards page showing my book, What A Fish Looks Like on the Honor list, with a tiny description of the book beginning: A delightfully metafictional book of (recast) fairytales set in a deteriorating landscape punctuated by impending doom. Full text at Otherwisewiseaward.org.
ID: Flyers for Voyage, a Yearlong Writing Adventure. Each flyer has a sparkling space theme and a spaceship with rockets powered by light and little pink hearts. This one features a testimonial: The first flyer says: The Voyage, Registration Open for 2026: THE VOYAGE IS A YEARLONG ADVENTURE & ART ACCELERATOR FOR WRITERS!
Cover of The Deadlands Magazine by Carly AF featuring a kind of apocalyptic road up a narrowing cliff leading up to a giant skull in a red sky shattering into maze.
Image ID: Flyer for Stories vs. Apocalypse at A Room Of One's Own Bookstore, Wednesday November 5th, The Reading Room. 2713 Atwood Ave. Flyer features a meteor flying through space and announces: and Q/T open mic and raffle prizes and spaceships! On the flyer are portraits of writers and their books: B. Pladek, and his book Dry Land featuring a tree with many roots bursting through the soil, and Syr Hayati Beker, and their book What A Fish Looks Like, featuring a Merx and a hybrid fish leaning in for a kiss as the ocean becomes space.
Image ID: Flyer for Stories vs. Apocalypse at A Room Of One's Own Bookstore, Wednesday November 5th, The Reading Room. 2713 Atwood Ave. Flyer features a meteor flying through space and announces: and Q/T open mic and raffle prizes and spaceships! On the flyer are portraits of writers and their books: B. Pladek, and his book Dry Land featuring a tree with many roots bursting through the soil, and Syr Hayati Beker, and their book What A Fish Looks Like, featuring a Merx and a hybrid fish leaning in for a kiss as the ocean becomes space.
Photo of perfectly furry orange and white cat napping in sun with face planted on copy of my book, What A Fish Looks Like. Her ears are forwards so she looks like a rocket.
Flyer for TBR con panel, What is the Future of Dystopian Sci-Fi? Tuesday Jan 21 @9am CST, featuring Syr Beker, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Brenda Peynado, Adrian M. Gibson, Rebecca Campbell, Nick Snape.
ID: Beautiful graphic surrounding a Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report. The graphic contains filigreed fish tails. The deal reads: Lambda Fellow in Fiction Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE, a queer climate novella in fairy-tale retellings, to Selena Middleton at Stelliform Press, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2025 (world English).