Just over three weeks left to submit your SFF short story or poem to our second unthemed issue of 2026! Don't overthink it, smash that send button 👇🏿 fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

I've had 9 responses to the survey so far (and I would love some more!! www.cognitoforms.com/InnerWorlds1...) which have been incredibly interesting to read and very helpful in gradually organising my thoughts.

Just sharing that this wondeful story on @diabolicalplots.com reminded me of reason I write and read stories about grief, and how much that is needed in the midst of processing our own. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-4...

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An excellent article on monsters, the construction of the normal human, and the history of treating people as being less than that.

Dolly Sen dismantles psychiatric authority through art activism, exposing the politics of diagnosis and reclaiming the narrative of madness. thepolyphony.org/2026/01/02/d...

Delightful 😊 www.tumblr.com/napdragonic/...

A new book by Historic England & Liverpool University Press, studies the architectural legacy of the Temperance movement. 👇 BBC News - Buildings from the Temperance movement explored www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Honestly one of the standout stories I read this year. About rooftop parties, female solidarity and the monsters within us and without.

gotta say chat i'm having mixed feelings about my fiction career picking up during the end of the world

Are hair-pulling and skin-picking linked to deeper beliefs from childhood? 🤔 This study of 283 adults found early maladaptive schemas were elevated across trichotillomania, skin-picking and OCD. #MentalHealth #Trichotillomania #SkinPicking #OCD #BodyFocusedRepetitiveBehaviours 🧵 THREAD

When casting sugar gems for your creature-holding-a-branch-of-gem-leaves cake, GENTLY use fire to melt surface bubbles away. Epoxy+chopsticks+wire = reasonable armature for branches, cover w royal icing. Don't order modeling chocolate for summertime delivery, it'll melt en route.

In 2026, we are seeking submissions of articles for Interstellar Flight Magazine that revolve around the topic of queerness, disability, and/or speculative poetry as a complement to our new poetry series, Infinite Branches: www.interstellarflig...

This year will see the sixth running of the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL here in Derby, with more spookiness over three days than you could shake a stick at! www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/ #ghosts #ghoststories #spooky #supernatural #gothic #gothicfiction #festival #festivals

People who hear, see, or sense things that others don't find many creative ways to cope with, manage, or live alongside their experiences. What helps one person may not be helpful for someone else, of course, but this a great library of ideas and examples: understandingvoices.com/living-with-...

"Through creating and sharing art, we can connect with one another’s experiences, foster empathy and understand our collective reality." Lydia Rose examines how we might imagine and practice inclusive, equitable spaces for collective care through art. www.nsun.org.uk/transforming...

Beautiful piece. Cw child abuse, religious trauma

Star Trek TNG Twin Peaks (the end of S2, I mean) Black Sails The Good Place Succession Buffy (if you ignore the parts of their big plan that make no sense at all)

Any list of the Best Films of 2025 should go like this: 1. Sinners 2. The Rest This is not to say there weren't a TONNE of amazing films in 2025, it was a really good year for film! But Sinners is an all-time masterpiece and Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan deserve their flowers! #Sinners

Went to the Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library today, and I think my favourite thing there was the paper map of the internet.

Another for my collection of descriptions of haunted houses, from ‘Mr Jones’ by Edith Wharton: “The house was too old, too mysterious, too much withdrawn into its own secret past, for her poor little present to fit into it without uneasiness.”

Been thinking about this lately too as, beginnings do their branching off - creative seasons and cycles, all the shapes they can take when we meet them with our whole selves. As whole as we can be in the moment, anyway, given *waves arms* everything. Forging compassion anyhow.

Ann Radcliffe! <3

This year, I'm running a lot of courses through other organisations, but I'm also running one myself! A deep dive into the work of Ann Radcliffe. Come and explore the works of the Gothic Enchantress with me and go beyond the stereotypes! buytickets.at/romancingthe...

things like this are why indie bookshops are thriving people want this they want it so much (not just sapphic bandits, but yes, that too! I mean personal connection and handwritten notes like this) #booksky

Today is a good day to tell an artist about AdorkaStock! 📢✨

Another shout out for this survey, if you have 10 minutes to spare! Working on the conference abstract today :-)

The Winter issue of Kaleidotrope is here. kaleidotrope.net

Enjoyed this, about the Queer Gothic (research for my WIP!) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Big hair don’t care.

DREAM LITMAG REALIZED! This is the VERY exciting acceptance I got in November, I've been sending my work in to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for FIVE YEARS! This piece starts, "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife..." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona... #FlashFiction #FlashLit

TBH, Princess Mononoke hits everything I need in a movie (environmentalism! politics! grey areas!) but Porco Rosso is so gooooood. "Better a pig than a fascist"

Yay I am going to this! Relevant for my work but also @innerworlds.bsky.social

Laputa / Castle in the Sky for sure. The robots! The pirates! The score! (And the silence!) The tree! I first saw it when I was 7 or 8 maybe, and it sank right into my marrow.

I think the link got scrambled last time I posted it, but Bandcamp lets you make public playlists now, here's one I made for new year: bandcamp.com/sarah_i_jack... (Currently on my commute, enjoying the soaring chorus on 'Snails' by tunng: "It was the snails causing TROUBLE!!!")

Dear social historians, Thank you for your efforts, especially those of you who publish your research under open access. Signed, Historical fiction author trying to find out what it was like to do X commonplace thing in Y time period. PS please do include descriptions of how everything smells

I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February! Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...

Reading the Paris Review interview with Alice Oswald. 'You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.'

I saw this sundog on my walk today. I needed a moment of beauty, and the sky delivered. The image is softened here; in real life, it was far more vivid. 🌞🐶🌈☁️

Happy 33rd birthday to Deep Space Nine :) :) :)

"There’s much to enjoy in this collection: a panoply of voices, styles and ideas, with stories tackling different aspects of similar issues... A sobering but heartening theme [of] We Will Rise Again is that there’s no final battle, no completed revolution—only the work to build a better tomorrow."

If any #horrorwriters have a release coming out in January, let me know and I’ll be happy to add you to my new weekly new release post on my blog. barksbooknonsense.blogspot.com?m=1

Boosting this today led to a load of people signing up so... boosting again! Come join us! We'll be reading a book a month and I'll be providing contextualising and critical material, questions AND creative prompts.

Started the new year with adding some new books to the intersex ownvoices books database! www.bogireadstheworld.com/intersex-own... Almost to 75 books, this was unthinkable to me when I started!

first entry in The Sasquatch Diaries (now a subscribable version: sasquatchdiaries.thecomicseries.com , might take a while to make it as neat as the neocities version)

I found this podcast ep interesting; a mix of lived experience and psychotherapy perspectives on maladaptive daydreaming podbay.fm/p/parallel-l...

Took my neglected WIP out for a walk. Think I have untangled a few knots, and I definitely saw some cool trees, light, and ice, so either way it was worth it.