Day 29! I read Cholorphilia by @mikethorn.bsky.social and @miriamricher.bsky.social published in @augursociety.bsky.social They say the grass is always greener... read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/s...

We could listen to Mike, Miriam, and Hajer talk poetry all day! 🤩

New @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Hajer Mirwali, author of Revolutions (@talonbooks.bsky.social, 2025). We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more. tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa

Listen to our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Hajer Mirwali about cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs, and so much more. @talonbooks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa

Happy birthday to the great @ramseycampbell.bsky.social, a true master of dark literature. Interviewing him was one of my personal highlights of 2025. Listen here: tinyurl.com/56eb5arb

Miriam Richer's review, "Citizens of Ulro: A Review of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead", offers a critical reassessment of the (anti-)anthropocentrism in Nobel laureate Tokarczuk's novel. @miriamricher.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2hp6967b

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

"The Playground", an original work of fiction by Kathe Koja (The Cipher, Dark Factory, Straydog), traces a shift in ecological sensibility to what might be called a necessary violence. @kkoja.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2hp6967b

It's alive! I served as guest editor for this special issue of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, MONSTRUM: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror. - 6 feature essays - 2 original fiction pieces (by @kkoja.bsky.social & me) - 3 retrospective reviews And more! Read now! tinyurl.com/2hp6967b

Happy New Year!! Very honored to find WRETCH on the Most Anticipated Horror list from Goodreads 🪲🕯️🖤 www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30...

A ‘best of’ list of 2025 Canadian poetry books dusie.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-be...

It was a pleasure to feature a dialogue with the incredibly talented Kasia Van Schaik on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about braided essays, the objective correlative, the "solitude collective", and so much more! tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp

Listen to our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Kasia Van Schaik about reverse outlining, asking "what if", sublimating emotion through landscape, and so much more. tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Final CFP reminder (deadline November 30)! PETER STRAUB: NEW CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES. Seeking proposals (up to 500 words) on Straub's novels, stories, poetry, and essays. More info: mikethornwrites.com/2025/11/17/p... @igagoths.bsky.social @horrorstudies.bsky.social @scmshorrorsig.bsky.social

Another exhilarating conversation about craft! @mikethorn.bsky.social and I spoke to Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, building writing communities, reading the comments section, and lots more. tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s

On the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I talked craft and process with Jean Marc Ah-Sen. Good conversation! tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s

Listen to our our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, literary scenes, flipping the script on what a book can be, and so much more. tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s

🚨 Announcing: The Great Canadian Art Book Sale! 🚨 On November 1, we'll be launching our biggest sale yet: a whopping 50% off select art books! Get ahead on gifts this year — or treat yourself, you deserve it — while giving your wallet a break. More information to come - stay tuned! 🤩

If you're a reviewer and willing to do a girl a solid, there's definitely something on this list for calls for reviews that would treat you right. And also there's my hoodlum of a book ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/02/c...

I spoke with CBC Calgary Eyeopener about my list of 100 favorite horror books. I discussed the literary greatness of @kkoja.bsky.social's The Cipher (@meerkatpress.bsky.social), the perennial relevance of Shelley's Frankenstein, & more. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Continuing an annual October tradition: my 100 favorite horror books as of this very moment. Happy reading / happy Halloween! 💀 mikethornwrites.com/2025/10/26/1...

I recently left Facebook after almost 17 years, making this my only active social media presence. It's mostly a relief, don't get me wrong, but I suppose I should be a bit more proactive about promoting my work. To that end, if you dig pulpy fun horror with a literary heart, I think you'll like...

It was an absolute treat to chat with the inimitable @ramseycampbell.bsky.social on our latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We discussed creative instincts, happy accidents, eerie children's tales, and a whole lot more. tinyurl.com/5xau9djn

Down in the UK! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social offers the Funhole for your amusement, edification, and emotional dismemberment :) Preorders are live right now. #funhole

Ramsey Campbell needs no introduction, but Stephen King once called him "better than just good" and Peter Straub deemed him "the best of us all." He really does rank among dark literature's finest. This was such an incredible honor. tinyurl.com/5xau9djn @ramseycampbell.bsky.social

Listen to our latest episode! We chatted with Ramsey Campbell about creative instincts, happy accidents, eerie children's tales, and so much more. tinyurl.com/5xau9djn @ramseycampbell.bsky.social

Halloween's in sight! Seasonal reading! On Peel Back and See: "a stunning show-stopper of a fiction collection." — Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke On Darkest Hours: "an amazing collection." — Trevor Henderson (@slimyswampghost.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/28hwvecx

There’s No Going Back : the Life and Work of Jonathan Demme Author David M. Stewart is on Writers on Film today podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

Like everything Kathe Koja writes, Dark Matter is a must-read. Get on it. meerkatpress.shop/products/dar... @meerkatpress.bsky.social

Best first reads, September 2025 @kkoja.bsky.social @meerkatpress.bsky.social

@victoriadalpe.bsky.social and @mikethorn.bsky.social say #DarkMatter is "Lyrical, frenetic and beautiful" and "A rebellious model of creation from ruins" and I say THANK YOU 🙏♥️ #darkfactory @meerkatpress.bsky.social

Thanks to Dave Simms for this splendid review at Cemetery Dance!

It was a pleasure to have a dialogue with Michael LaPointe and @mikethorn.bsky.social on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, and finding liberation in failure. tinyurl.com/4urvw3mc

On the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a far-ranging conversation with Michael LaPointe about routine, curiosity, and much more. Check it out: tinyurl.com/4urvw3mc

Listen to our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Michael LaPointe about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, finding liberation in failure, and so much more. tinyurl.com/4urvw3mc

"Nothing human should be alien to us." - Gemma Files ❤️

Listen to the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with the brilliant @gemmafiles.bsky.social about fantasies of power, Straubian recursiveness, dreams, matter & antimatter, and more! tinyurl.com/4s4amr4z

Listen to our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Gemma Files about horny monsters, Lovecraftian Airbnbs, the female gaze, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWS1E21 @gemmafiles.bsky.social

I'm excited to teach Reading Like a Writer, a writing workshop focused on strategic reading practices, through the University of New Brunswick's College of Extended Learning this fall. Oct. 1 - Nov. 5, every Wednesday, 6:30 - 8 pm. www.unb.ca/artcentre/le...

On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water. tinyurl.com/572zhet3

I loved chatting with Miriam and Mike on @craftworkpod.bsky.social!

Listen to our latest episode! We chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more. @emilyabanks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/572zhet3

The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in literature. This year's crop of nominees includes two debut novelists going up against a previous Booker Prize winner.

Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave, the second book in the middle grade Scarewaves book series, is out today! If you read it, I really hope you enjoy it! It’s slimy and full of monsters, the exact kind of thing I would have loved at that age. Available at most major book retailers!

Morning music, playing it loud, finishing up a story for @mikethorn.bsky.social MONSTRUM animal liberation issue tinyurl.com/43b6a5h2

Cthulhu-ass watermelon 💀 Next time local or I don’t need one.

Reminder of this great eBook bundle sale on til the end of the month. A whole bunch of great British SFF at a steal.

I'm in good company here. Thanks for the shout-out, Steve!

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Writers, this chat with Naben Ruthnum is well worth your time.