I found out from my mom that someone has been stealing the flowers she puts on my grandpa’s grave and putting them on another grave a couple rows over and I am dying to know everything about this situation

I’m in that weird in-between place where I’m working on a new manuscript but getting ready for the publication of the old one, so I’m constantly flipping the switch like I’m cheating on one with the other one.

This is so funny because the book I was writing that didn’t start out as horror turned out to be horror

I love Ray Bradbury’s description of a library

If you start today and write just 2 double-spaced pages a day, by the end of the year you’ll have a book

I joined a horror book club at my local bookstore and we just read Diavola. Very fun summer “vacation gothic” novel

I love it when people come to visit, and I also love it when they leave (and I can get my clean orderly life back) 😂

New @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and @karenkay.bsky.social for another fantastic issue! pitheadchapel.com/2026/06/01/v...

If there are authors you want to support but you can’t afford to buy their books, request them from your local library!

Hey weirdos we're open for submissions for print issue 27.

Have you seen the June issue of Pithead Chapel? It’s a good one pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Death hangs over every room in Brittany Terwilliger’s THE HOUSE OF BUG MAN. Small-town Indiana grief, disappearances, suspicion, and the slow realization that something is deeply wrong inside the family home. Coming Spring 2027 from Maudlin House.

I finally get to announce my second novel will come out next spring! 🎉

New @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to editors @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, etc., for another great issue! pitheadchapel.com/2026/05/01/v...

I have publishing news that I’m soooooooooooooo excited to share, YEARS of anticipation for this moment, and I have to hold it in for a few more days 😫

Our May Issue is live!!! pitheadchapel.com/2026/05/01/v... cover art DEEMS ORTEGA fiction REBECCA TIGER JAIME GILL SOPHIA HYLAND-WOLZAK MICHAEL ANTHONY RANFONE nonfiction HOLLIE WARREN prose poetry AMANDA CHIADO

Croissant mode activated

“Mr. Blowhard!” is taking me out

our new issue! pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is... SERGE LECOMTE MEGHAN PROULX MATT BARRETT @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social JENNA CROWDER ERIK KLASS TRACIE ADAMS @tracieadams.bsky.social SHERI VENEMA @sheriven.bsky.social HANNAH AHN RUSSELL BRAKEFIELD @russellbrakefield.bsky.social CHOISELLE JOSEPH

Best buds

There’s neuroscientific evidence that looking at beautiful things, esp. plants & pausing to take in the details can alleviate stress & lift mood. Found these in the garden just now-they’re in a pale blue Victorian ink bottle. Pause to give your brain a small rest 🧠🌿

He’s got the idea Happy Saturday everyone

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to spend the weekend reading Agatha Christie and eating emotional support scones by a crackling fire in a Scottish Highlands cottage is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

I told my boyfriend about all of this week’s literary twitter drama and he said “you’re like the Lady Whistledown of the writer world” 😭

Unfathomably massive, life critical news that 97% of people won’t know because of the cretins who own and operate the mainstream news. (Sometimes it helps to say/write it out loud even though it does almost nothing at this point)

I didn’t think it would happen this year because I’ve been so busy, but here we are again, it’s happening: AWP envy.

The new issue of Pithead Chapel is here and it's a good one pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

New Issue! Words: @dallonwrites.bsky.social , @alexmiller77.bsky.social , @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social ,CHRISTOPHER NEGRI, KIMBERLY BRYANT, @liamcarnahan.bsky.social , EMMA HEATH & EVAN MURPHY, DAVID MCARTHUR, PATRICIA CASPERS, ANNE DUNCAN, SPENCER ECKART pitheadchapel.com/2026/02/01/v...

One week back at work and the headaches have returned

The feedback thing is so important to stress. When I do coaching, I've talked to people who have workshopped first chapters to death, and they don't even have a finished draft yet. This very often keeps them from moving forward. No one should see your novel for a LONG TIME imo.

Our first issue of 2026 is officially live! pitheadchapel.com/2026/01/01/v...

Instead of a new years resolution, I'm declaring 2026 the year of rest. We've done enough. Do nothing.

This is a fantastic issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and their entire staff, and to all these talented writers. pitheadchapel.com/2025/12/01/v...

My winter vacation starts in 2 days, in which I will be holed up in my snowy Maine cottage with an Agatha Christie novel, a warm dog on my lap, a kettle on the stove, and a crackling fire, and I CANNOT WAIT

Whenever a new issue of Pithead Chapel goes live, I email all of the contributors to let them know and to thank them for letting us publish their work, and this morning in that email subject line I spelled it Pinhead Chapel 😭😭😭

Our December issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is... Words: J. CONDRA SMITH @rebecca-turkewitz.bsky.social @willwilloughby.bsky.social NICK REES GARDNER MAX LIN JASON FRALEY Cover art: DEEMS ORTEGA

Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue! pitheadchapel.com/2025/11/01/v...

Our November issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is... Words: NINA Y. MORAGON HAL WRIGHT @meliseliz.bsky.social RACHEL EPHRAIM MAGGIE LEVANTOVSKAYA @mooninabucket.bsky.social JENNY CHU CAROL ROSE LITTLE Cover art: SUSAN POLLET

This is my favorite thing I’ve written in a long time, in which a hunter is reincarnated as the deer he just killed. Thank you so much to Chris Dankland and the X-R-A-Y team, I’m such a huge fan of X-R-A-Y!! 🥰

Congrats to the @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fine issue! @kimmagowan.bsky.social @brttnyblm.bsky.social @karenkay.bsky.social

The October issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-10/ Words: @bizzycoy.bsky.social @katieburgess.bsky.social @johnwaddy.bsky.social JEFFREY FEINGOLD SARAH HARLEY ELIZABETH HASHIMURA BETH GILSTRAP SARP SOZDINLER YASHASVI VACHHANI Art: NATALIE NEE

I wrote one short story this year (because all my writing time has been focused on my novel) and it just got picked up by X-R-A-Y. Sooo excited to see what you all think of it, it’s a weird one.

Six weeks remain to send us your best short story! Read all details here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

Today I learned about Tyromancy: the ancient practice of divination that involves telling fortunes by interpreting the omens of cheese

Please join us in congratulating our Best of the Net 2026 Nominees! Good luck everyone!

Massachusetts has its perks

Congratulations to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, and the whole @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another great issue! New work by @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dawnwriter.bsky.social, and a bunch of other talented folks. pitheadchapel.com/2025/09/01/v...

Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?

Saying I like a show is not the same as saying it’s good. These are two different things.

Good morning