A reminder to myself, and anyone else who needs to hear it: there comes a time when you should stop editing. #writerslife

This starts well. #dystopia #billionairesbunker #netflix

Thought for the day youtu.be/XEeAmmKonpo?...

On my reading list, and this collection should definitely be on yours, dear #readers

Ticket booked. Looking forward to this talk in #Bath. Should be a most enlightening #gothic delight🖤 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic... #seedtalks

Scrolling through my photos and found this delightfully rustic scene. I have no recollection of ever seeing this image before. This weekend touch some grass and connect.

In Sandra Noel's 'The Sea Happens to Me Today', we are taken to the sea for balance and to 'reassemble', and come away with more. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sandra-noel-2/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission

Here you go, your chance to shout about something you're doing, thank you HWC folks for diving into the questions. Please do promote your teammates, we're all in this together. And if you haven't been in the chat, don't post up your links. We do know, we will remove the quote, you will look silly.

Not long now until @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social 🖤🩸👻

SPOOKY WRITERS!

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

Love this!

Share a beautiful brunette from film or TV 🎥

Hard at work building worlds to get lost in

Drop some COATS 🖤🩸

Acquired Taste by @claymcleod.bsky.social is a STELLAR collection. It's weird, it's strange, it's terrifying, it's strangely weird and weirdly terrifying! And it has a story about baby carrots...yeah. I highly recommend it.

Weekend listening illusionsofgrandeur.bandcamp.com/album/the-si... #metal #alt

Autumn is in the alleys, cut-throughs and wynds. In the next few days they will be carpeted by squidged rosehips, crushed apples. Their shadows seem stronger. Their ghosts more awake. Everywhere, the luck of falling leaves waiting to be caught. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Autumn

One for the diary 👀 darksecretsexhibition.com/london/

"Horror is serious business." -- Alma Katsu Deadly serious, and it's also got serious heart. For days and days and days and days. #whyilovehorror Why I Love Horror, edited by @raforall.bsky.social and published by @sagapressbooks.bsky.social, releases 9/23. Get your orders in!

These stories pack a hefty punch. This collection is worth your time 💙📚🩸📚

Well, hey there! We're excited to be here, and excited to share what's coming 👀👻 📚🌈

Thanks for sharing, @sagecollins.bsky.social!

Thanks for sharing, @smoking-gnu.bsky.social!

Thanks for sharing, @jangoeswriting.bsky.social!

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Treat yourself to some creepy reads lurking in the comments section of Matt's post 👇

Buy from your favourite small/indie press and help keep them supplying you with great reads. Salt Publishing puts out some excellent books. Go treat yourself. 💙📚

Robert Louis Stevenson celebration event to mark his 175th birthday at Skerryvore Gardens - his former home where he wrote Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde. Thursday 13th November 2025, 7pm. Details and tickets available here: www.bournemouthwritingfestival.co.uk/networking-e...

🌭 RELEASE DAY! 🌭 Where The Soul Goes is now serving up to readers everywhere from @trubornpress! Grab your copy in paperback or ebook now at the following links: PAPERBACK: www.trubornpress.com/shop/p/produ... EBOOK: www.trubornpress.com/shop/p/where... 1/2

It's important to remember that fascists work to foster a dog-eat-dog atmosphere where people look out for themselves and throw others under the bus. We don't have to live this way or think this way, no matter what the fascists say. Through all of this, it's important to help others when we're able.

In the world of submissions where rejections can often feel as regularly as the rising sun, a note to say, 'You've made the longlist, is a kindness. #writerslife #writingcommunity

The submission deadline is this SUNDAY for our #clown themed #horror anthology. Have a #story to share? We're DYING to see it! #horrorwriterscommunity #indie #writers #shortstories

So proud of this gorgeous vintage wraparound cover designed by Adrian Baldwin and illustrated by Mutartis Boswell. Brought to life by @demainpublishing.bsky.social #supportartists 📚💙📚👻📚😱📚🩸 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FC...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: I'm currently holding a call for submissions for a charity anthology focused on Queer Joy! For more info and submission guidelines, you can check out the link below 👇 savingqueerjoyanthology.carrd.co

We are excited to announce that the first edition (pilot) of the GossamerWight Literary Magazine Anthology has reached the advanced planning stage. We will advertise the anthology's theme on our website on Monday, 15 September. Details: www.gossamerwight.com/the-gossamer...

Horror can be cathartic. Horror can be subversive. It can help us understand the human experience. It can help us shine a light on beliefs and norms and systems that cause people pain. It can help us find strength. It can expand our consciousness. Horror can be so many things.

Racing the rain today

All I kept thinking about during the screening of this yesterday was the very bloody Evil Dead Rise. www.imdb.com/video/vi3519...

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy. Yep.

Flame Tree Press are renowned for publishing fascinating anthologies and @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social have created a powerhouse of an anthology with This Way Lies Madness gnofhorror.com/this-way-lie...

I fucking love semicolons, and am horrified to hear that ChatGPT is making people afraid to use them. Make friends with the semicolon; it'll be a friend for life.

The calendar is filling up 👇

I’ve got a new essay about archaeology in horror fiction at Nightmare Magazine. I can’t believe I forgot to share it last week. 🤦‍♀️ I love that you can read for free, buy single issues, or subscribe, because they publish a lot of cool stuff. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/p...

A rousing evening of verse, sea shanty, and rebellion at The Platform in the Camden Bar Westbourne. Thanks to C.W. Blackburn and Abby G Poetree for organising a great event. No photos due to some legend forgetting to take them. #poetry #southwest

Looking forward to this tomorrow. Not selling this time, just having a gander and saying hello to a few folk.

Thank you, Erin! Loved the questions. Might even have an idea for a new book, haha. My 80's gastro-horror road-trip grief novel, WHERE THE SOUL GOES, comes out next Tuesday! Pre-order yours in my shop now. www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/shop/where-t... #horrorwriterschat

It’s out in a couple days, it’s my birthday the same day (9/5), it takes place in Septembers through the years as inhabitants experience and try to understand the specters that haunt the Backlund House. Thanks, Eryn, for a great #HorrorWritersChat!