Erasure of Dickens A CHRISTMAS CAROL 1843

Everyone else is doing their awards nomination posts, so I guess I should do mine before I forget what I even wrote this year... 😅 Poetry has been a big deal for me, so considering any of my @seattlein2025.org poems for a Rhysling, or Con-Verse for a Best Related Work Hugo, would rock my world!

Are these the hands of a zinester?

I will have 4 packs of these Charles Dickens blackout poem holiday cards at Houston’s Zinefest tomorrow!

My totally normal workspace

Guess the timely topic of my latest radical left zine Hoping to get my act together and finish this for Zinefest

My 2026 workshop schedule is LIVE! Includes two new workshops all focused on using visual art for inspiration. Learn how to observe like an artist to enhance your writing with detail, focus, and other artistic techniques. www.hlwalrath.com/wo...

Erasures for the erasure gods

My 2026 workshop schedule is LIVE! Includes two new workshops all focused on using visual art for inspiration. Learn how to observe like an artist to enhance your writing with detail, focus, and other artistic techniques. www.hlwalrath.com/wo...

....I mean, yes, I'm part of this, so BIAS ALERT, but also, I think everyone else in this group is awesome.

This event is happening tomorrow! Readings by Hugo Award winning and nominated poets with Electric Sheep. us02web.zoom.us/meet...

A favorite from @angelvleal.bsky.social for Speculative Sundays (poetry readings) "All the peaches     I ate falling in love. The animal knows me better than a policeman." strangehorizons.com/poetry/wildl...

Five Years of The Art of Flash Fiction: Reflections, a Prompt, and a Special Offer 💙 open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Reminder that you are capable of leveling up as a writer. I get authors all the time who make huge improvements on their work. It's a delight as an editor when one of my authors absolutely nails a revision. It may seem hard and a struggle but you can improve.

It’s a bad day when both mom AND the two dogs are sick. Nothing to do but cuddle it out.

At Interstellar Flight Mag, Priya Sridhar explores how to worldbuild for today's writer. "Stories need scaffolding, not structure. A first draft supports a narrative with the bare minimum and builds on it." magazine.interstella...

I have in my possession… Little Debbie Christmas Tree donuts. They are sublime. 🤌

Whenever I get sort of disillusioned with the world of small press publishing, my volunteers do something absolutely magical and helpful, and I just sit here teary-eyed at the love for books that the @interstellarflight.bsky.social community has.

My main contract gig is being cut, and my family responsibilities are less demanding than a few years ago. So please get in touch if you know of writing/editing/research/workshop positions, any hours, ideally remote or Ottawa. Extra points for good causes. I know it's rough out there for everyone.

I am sharing the GoFundMe for one of our dedicated @interstellarflight.bsky.social writers, Archita, who is also looking for freelance writing opportunities. She would make a fantastic sensitivity reader if you need one. www.gofundme.com/f/help-archi...

To paraphrase Umberto Eco: treat your library like a medicine cabinet. Your stack of unreadable should be broad and diverse so that it always has the exact book you need for the moment.

My unread book pile is where I hoard all my treasures. The books I've kept but not yet read are promises to myself so the longer I hold a book the better I'm expecting it to be. A treat for when I really need it. I've whittled it down to 4 and they're books I'll most likely keep.

Tell me about your unread books. What books do you own but have never read Why do you keep books but don't read them What books do you give away or get rid of and why How do you feel about your unread book pile

So excited for @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social to be guest host of the upcoming Electric Sheep speculative poetry reading - Hugo Edition! Holly worked tirelessly with the Speculative Poetry Initiative, and I think she deserves a huge grand prize! (Or at least a lot of thanks!)

Tell me about your unread books. What books do you own but have never read Why do you keep books but don't read them What books do you give away or get rid of and why How do you feel about your unread book pile

Always astonished when I see a magazine that forbids submissions of second-person POV. I'd much rather see third-person omniscient banned 🫠

Join me on November 12th as speculative poetry takes over Electric Sheep! Readings by: Brian U. Garrison Ai Jiang Oliver K. Langmead Angela Liu Mari Ness Brandon O’Brien us02web.zoom.us/meet...

I think one of the reasons adulthood sucks is we don’t celebrate achievements. No graduation, few milestones. So you gotta enjoy the little stuff. So I’m taking my spouse roses & his favorite sweet treat tonight when I pick him up at the airport from his work conference where he presented. ❤️

Ordered some prints to make A Christmas Carol erasures, hopefully in time for Zinefest 🎄 As my hubs put it: “Railing against excess, class inequality, and unfettered capitalism in the most christmassy love thy neighborly way”

Happy Halloween ✌️💀

It took me three patient years to manifest this Danny Torrance costume from THE SHINING for Halloween but in the year of our lord 2025 the eBay gods smiled upon me.

Woof woof baby

Also now open for registration, my first-ever ekphrastic workshop. I've been teaching ekphrasis for a while now, and in this class, we'll spend time via Zoom discussing artwork. I rarely offer Zoom workshops, so this one is special! writingworkshops.com/products/ekp...

A sneak-peek at my biggest workshop yet. This summer, I visited the town where Van Gogh lived his last days. In the last 70 days of his life, he made a painting a day. This workshop is for creatives of any persuasion who want to try creating 70 works in 70 days. writingworkshops.com/products/van...

“I had worked hard for nearly two years…” Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!

A lovely interview about this groundbreaking poetry book. LISTEN is a treat for the SFF canon nerds and so subversive.

This is IFP’s first translation (from the Italian by J.Weintraub!) and Nicola is a fantastic writer. Full of squirm-inducing body horror and a protagonist you will love to hate 💀

"With a little bit of luck, I'll die before that takes root. I'm much more interested in talking about anything you want except that." Guillermo...same.

Starting in December. Join me to explore writing in the confessional mode. www.poetrybarn.org/p...

As part of the Hugo Award Speculative Poetry Initiative, we're having a reading with Electric Sheep on November 12th. This is a stellar group of speculative poets. If you want to learn about specpo, this is the event for you. us02web.zoom.us/meet...

Bumping my database of intersex ownvoices books + a bonus list of ALL books by Black intersex authors, for #IntersexAWarenessWeek!

Prepping some fan art for Houston’s Zinefest. I’m hoping to do a series on feminist Horror icons. Here’s beautiful Shelly Duvall.

🔥SALE🔥 We're revealing the cover art to BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror (+ More) Volume Four in tomorrow's newsletter! So just for the heck of it, copies of Volume Three are 20% off in our webstore through the end of Halloween weekend🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra...

Yes!!! Buy Nothing is incredible and. And if you don't have a Facebook account, there's an app: buynothingproject.org Typically the FB groups are better (more hyperlocal, active, better admin) but the app is solid and the more people who use it, the better it'll be.

If you want to help people in your local area struggling with food insecurity a great way is to join your local Buy Nothing group on Facebook. People often post on mine looking for food or groceries, you can also post extra pantry items you might otherwise throw away.

Read my review of FIND YOUR FRIENDS, a horror film about a chaotic girls trip gone wrong that premiered in the US at Fantastic Fest. "It's clear that women need and want the release of watching raw, complex, violent horror films." magazine.interstella...

Not sure I want an extra hour.

Haven’t done an erasure of a reply guy in a while. 😌 (Re: Man convinced the film WEAPONS has no deeper message or plot when all the characters who die are marginalized)

Haven’t done an erasure of a reply guy in a while. 😌 (Re: Man convinced the film WEAPONS has no deeper message or plot when all the characters who die are marginalized)

Me: this film is problematic because of how it treats marginalized characters A rando man: NOt eVerytHinG has a MeSsAgE I’m an English major babe, everything is interpretable and if you can’t find a message you’re boring ✌️