Victoria Hayward

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Writer / Science Fiction / Fantasy / Birds / 🍸 Warhammer 40K Darktide / Black Library Author / Lancaster University Creative Writing Scholarship PhD Candidate 🌈 Principal Investigator: Fair Realms Project (BA/ACE/AHRC funded) All views her own, she/her

A grey and yellow budgie lands in a very upright pose, his wings outstretched, his little pink claws dangling in front of him
A beautiful young wood pigeon sits on a branch
Two wood pigeons grooming each other and looking in love
A French version of Jude Reid's Fulgrim Black Library book
Black Library author Victoria Hayward stands outside the Games Workshop headquarters beside the Warhammer 40K Space Marine statue
A black and white photo of Black Library author Victoria Hayward leaning on the car park Rhino tank at Warhammer World. She is wearing a black shirt and trousers and smiling.
Tory holds a work in progress miniature - the Warhammer Green Knight model against a background of green wallpaper with parrots on it
Author Victoria Hayward wearing a sequined evening dress in front of the the Warhammer World tank at Games Workshop headquarters
A kuukkeli bird lands on Victoria's hand in a snow covered forest
An astrophotography image taken of the night sky during the aurora borealis. A wash of colour - pink, green and purple - sweeps across the dark of the night sky sprinkled with the bright pinpoints of stars.
Victoria wears a burgundy velvet dress and stands in front of trees and snow
Victoria holds up a copy of issue 3 of New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine
Cover images of women characters from Black library Warhammer 40,000 stories by Sarah Cawkwell, Rachel Harrison, Danie Ware, Victoria Hayward and Jude Reid
Victoria wields a giant bolt gun and wears a black and red floral dress
A group of around 40 people stand in front of the Rhino and Space Marine statue at Warhammer World, Games Workshop HQ
A small yellow budgie jauntily grasps the edge of a glass of red wine with one claw
The camera zooms in on a potato with a face drawn on it
Tory stands in front of the Warhammer World space marine at Games Workshop HQ. She wields a sword and an Imperial Fists Soace Marine helmet
Tory holds a copy of her Black Library novel Deathworlder in from of library shelves
Victoria stands in front of the Warhammer World 40K tank. She is a woman with long blonde hair and a purple velvet dress
A close up image of a budgerigar's face
A nuthatch picks up and flies off with a whole nut
Lobelia, a magnificent Eurasian Griffon Vulture at World of Wings in Cumbernauld walking along the top of a fence with her rings slightly raised
Victoria holds up a copy of Adam Roberts' book Lake of Darkness against a snowy backdrop and lichen-covered trees
Victoria is aboard a boat looking out at the Scottish scenery
A grid of 9 images: 1. Victoria Hayward and Gav Thorpe at World FantasyCon Brighton grinning having stolen Mike Brooks' author badge 2. The Darkness Eternal anthology cover 3. The Death and Duty anthology cover 4. Image of the French Deathworlder translation 5. Victoria at Lancaster University 6. An advert for Victoria Hayward speaking to Alex Doddy on the WHTV show Scribes and Scrivener 7. Advert for the Warhammer 40K Darktide Arbites Character 8. Victoria outside of the Warhammer Games Workshop Tokyo store 9. An image of the rankings for the top ten Black Library novels of 2024
Victoria holds up a copy of Dan Abnett's Black Library Interceptor City Warhammer 40K book
Tory holds a photo of Robert Rath's Warhammer book, The Fall of Cadia
A glass of prosecco in front of a cinema screen saying Die Hard
Black Library Authors Rob Young, Jude Reid, Victoria Hayward, Rob Rath, Noah Nguyen, John French, Rich McCormick, Gav Thorpe, Jon Beer, Marc Collins, Mike Vincent, Robbie MacNiven and Mike Brooks
Tory holds a Games day coach ticket and a High Elf Archer
A black and white photo of Victoria sitting on the Warhammer World Car Park Space Marine plinth with her arms folded
Screengrab of Goonhammer review for the Games Workshop 40,000 anthology Darkness Eternal 'I really enjoyed this one. I like a good Catachan badass, I like the Kroot as enemies, I like anything dealing with the Imperium's population of abhumans and, most of all, I like well written and evocative landscapes and environments. They're all here, present and correct, giving us a kind of escort mission meets cannibal predator story where the good of the imperium comes from disobeying orders - which it always does when the Catachan are involved. There's a craft in a short story that's variably achieved in most Black Library collections, one of creating a world, stakes, characters and plot all within a page or two and then letting them play out - Hayward pulls it off and I think this is the other great story in Darkness Eternal.'
A photo of work by Linnea Sterte including a Gaeden of Spheres and Stages of Rot
A black and white photo of Victoria outside Warhammer World with the car park Rhino and Space Marine
Victoria is dressed as Garth Marenghi. She wears a dark wig and leather jacket plus purple tie. She is lit in green with a ram skull in front of her.
A collection of Black Library books on a shelf including Death and Duty, Darkness Eternal, Emperor's Finest, Sanction and Sin, Deathworlder, Galaxy of Horrors, Once a Killer and Inferno Presents the Inquisition
Tory holds up a copy of two vintage Science Fiction magazines - British Science Fiction and Nebula
Tory stands in Tokyo outside a brightly lit, neon store with a hand on one hip, looking away from the camera
Dr Phibes budgie jumps into a spray of water in slow motion
A photograph of the Gods and Faith in Fantasy Panel participants at World FantasyCon Brighton John Gwynne Willow Woods Joanne Harris Gav Thorpe Chair: Theodora Goss
A piece of paper with 'mike brooks' scrawled on it
Tory and Gav have stolen Mike Brooks' badge and are looking mischievous
The cover of the Warhammer Darkness Eternal audio anthology
An image of the Warhammer Death and Duty Astra Militarum anthology
Victoria stands at the Shibuya Scramble crossing with the neon lights of Tokyo behind her
Tory pretends to attack a good humoured staff member at Warhammer Tokyo
Tory outside Warhammer Tokyo
Stormcast Eternals Armies on Parade entry featuring Draconith
Tory leans over a small bridge in a Japanese garden and feeds koi fish in a pond
A spread of the Kickstarter contents of the Sefirot Silver Seals package showing the game box, prints, box cards and zine
A snail crawling up a pane of glass. It looks like it has a downturned expression on its mouth
A screengrab of the Warhammer Community preview showing the translated Catachans versus Tyranids book 'Deathworlder' book in French
A painted Catachan Sergeant Ripper Jackson model in front of the cover of the Warhammer 40K novel Deathworlder
Two quail. One peers put of a window of a little wooden house, the other stands on the roof
A black and white photo of a group of Black Library authors standing in front of the car park space marine
Close up of a beautiful baby pigeon. It is looking dead on at the camera and has big googly eyes. It is still growing its adult feathers so is covered in a mix of quills and yellow fuzz
Black and white photo of Tory with a wood pigeon on her shoulder
A screengrab of a spreadsheet stating 'consumption' and 'old tyranid munch timeline'
A black and white photo of Tory's budgies perched awkwardly on her head and glasses