I loved this conversation -- nerding out about Doctor Sleep, recovery, horror and hope 🖤 Listen to the full episode and other great conversations on The Movie Method podcast 》》》

We are over halfway to the cap for short stories, still plenty of flash space at the mo 🦝 trashcatlit.com/general-subm...

Huge congratulations to @alexherod.bsky.social - we're proud as punch and absolutely thrilled for her 🤩 We loved Trespasser, Singular and to see it get this recognition makes us very happy. altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f... You can read Alex's story here: trashcatlit.com/trespasser-s... 1/2

Ahh thank you for capturing this @hugginscooper.bsky.social 💖

My workshop is today! Can't think of a better way to celebrate #internationalwomensday than writing weird words with weird women. My workshop - This Haunted House of Mine - is about how horror can help us understand ourselves (and be lots of fun to write!) 🖤

My current read: What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay Close @saraband-books.bsky.social Crime drama, 1970s Leeds & Bradford, and a feminist collective at the heart of the story. Enjoying this, looking forward to getting home so I can pit the kettle on and sit down with it ☕️📖

Pupper posts from @crobertcargill.bsky.social are bringing some much needed joy ❤️ Nyx 🐕

Excited to be part of the Weird Women programme 🖤 My workshop - This Haunted House of Mine - is about using horror writing as self-exploration. No experience necessary, it will be a fun & supportive session. Sat 8 March 2-4pm. The other workshops look amazing 》》》

Further adventures in solo, sober gigging: danced my tits off at Gogol Bordello & Dropkick Murphys tonight to the extent that my fitbit clocked it as mountain biking 😂 [Obligatory crap gig pic]

Coop has chosen our next bedtime book: The Great Orme by @pauldcoombs.bsky.social 📚

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

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I liked it better when everyone was obsessed with the baby hippo

February grinds ever closer 🦝 We'll open for REPRINT subs of flash and short stories. Springlike theme - can be super tenuous. The essence of renewal and change, landscape, fresh starts, hope, lore and enchantment. Guest reader @sarahkat.bsky.social 💚 trashcatlit.com/spring-2025/ #SubmissionCalls

I just stumbled upon the Roseanne maga rap. What. I.... What. Can we not just keep sharing wonderful David Lynch stories and inspiree creativity? 😭

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Well, fuck 💔 Thanks for everything, David ☕️

Aaaaah LONDON this will be amazing

Missed parkrun yesterday as working so just did a chilly 5k near my house. Less fun but has set me up for a cosy afternoon of coffee and writing (and rewatching Criminal Minds as current comfort background) 👍Tempted to start a story set in the old mill building round the corner (Warwick Mill, 1907)

The last three days = lots of sky moods 👌

Today our highlight from the winter pop-up is from @alexherod.bsky.social We loved the voice in this relatable story, how the MC's mental health is explored so masterfully, and the humour used so precisely. You might never see animals in the same way 🐄 trashcatlit.com/trespasser-s...

Waking up to new followers each morning 👍 Blocking them all because they're 🌽 bots 👎

Joined an online write together session this morning. The prompts were gentle and mindful, discussion warm and reflective. I have, inevitably, started a gross little body horror piece off the back of it 😂

Obligatory snow photos ❄️ Zorro is originally from a rescue in gran canaria. This is his 4th UK winter. He has just about made peace with the cold white stuff. 2nd pic - the trees look painted on one side.

Handed in a big piece o' work on new year's eve, then had a busy couple of days. This morning = first parkrun of the year (over 1k runners at Heaton Park today 🙌) and all the errands, xmas tree/decs away, tidying. So now to settle for a weekend of no plans except films+book+pets+jigsaw...

Trash Cat is looking to host writealongs using prompts. Expected 80min meet with intro, 45mins write time, and time for reading/ feedback. We need to nail the 'when' so please help us out if you'd be up for writing in the bin. Is your preference for weekdays or nights? Or weekend days or nights?

As you get stuck into the animal stories in our Winter Pop-up, here's a reminder of the two calls we have for Spring. Opening 1st Feb - flash and short story REPRINTS trashcatlit.com/spring-2025/ Opening 1st April - flash >1000 - Collectors and Collections trashcatlit.com/flash-pop-up...

🚨 ATTN SPOOKY BITCHES 🚨 The Skeleton Dance is now public domain

"It started with the books. Why? Because in the pages of the 'quit lit' I saw myself." I've written about how books helped me get and stay sober, and shared some quit lit recommendations 》》》 ❤️📚 www.thebetterwithbooksclub.com/post/quit-lit

for the potato fears not death

Ooh! I've got a 🐄 story in this. Gonna have a read of them all. Lovely end to the writing year 🎉

Uggggggggghhhhhh. Ffs.

Since everybody is rightly obsessed with pygmy hippos now, sharing a silly little poem I wrote in 2007 about Aldo, a pygmy hippo born in Paris zoo and who I visited that year 😂🦛

These boops were made for Walken

There are apparently only six LGBT marked sessions at the Oxford Literary Festival, two are by anti-trans campaigners, one is by a straight person and none are by trans people.

Coffee ☕️ & book 📖 before anything else today. Starting what is likely to be my last read of 2024. Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: "meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers"

Something in the woods: horror A deer with a stick crown: folk horror A stick crown and fangs: creature horror It's disembowelling you: gore horror You grow fur and horns: body horror You're the deer now: possession horror You make these tiny mortals worship you, the horned god: cosmic horror

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize now for the "unputdownable" novel f RT on unpublished women. The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors get a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent. Please share. www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize

25th parkrun today 🙌 (24 this year) My key to consistency =movement that makes me happy(dancing,swimming). Discovered parkrun community which along with the being outdoors joy of it has led to enjoying running for the first time in my life. Knocked 12m40s off my 5k time aged 41. Proud of that.

Lovely bit o' news 🎉 Thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social 🦝

Im sorry but there’s a new standard now if we are talking about acting range.

So excited for the return of Feathers McGraw 🐧

Almost time to put Die Hard on. Raising a glass to little tree dec Hans Gruber. (I know he falls facing t'other way but he came stringed like that) [It's Martini vibrante alcohol free aperitif with fever tree aromatic tonic -- great booze free option if you like bitter/spiced/citrus type drinks]

Dog walk >> late breakfast+a film >> writing. Enjoying the A Chorus Line/Black Swan/Suspiria dance vibes from the start. Assuming this will lean towards the latter, not expecting many gold top hats 😂 Rosemary's Baby was one of the first horror films that hooked me so definitely intrigued...

*Werner Herzog voice* now, the Jingle Hop has begun

I love these 😂 So intrigued, & can't wait to read the others. [Mine is the cow 🐄]

Right then. *cracks knuckles* Who is writing today? *puts the kettle on for another coffee, finds different cosy hoodie to wear, rearranges workspace, and spends an hour deciding on background music* LFG

I sense a great disturbance in the force, like thousands of people cried out and we're then sent to whamhalla to enjoy the glory of George