Started an Instagram account! Roll on 2026. Here: www.instagram.com/black_candle...

"Without further ado, please put your hands, feet and tentacles together for 2025's BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners" --I made the list with a weird sonnet, and am so very darkly honored!

Thrilled to have made the Brave New Weird 2025 shortlist with a dark little sonnet about death and shapeshifting cattle: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/1/...

Three of my bleaker poems are up at Blasphemous Journal today: blasphemousaliteraryjournalfortheforgotten.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/j...

My contributor's copy of the HWA Poetry Showcase arrived. An honor for my sonnet to be in such dark poetic company!

My poem published in Amazing Stories was selected for their Best of 2025 anthology! I am so honored. And a bit giddy at the news. amazingstories.com/2025/03/robo...

My short story, "Henry Cooper's Obsession", appears in this blood soaked Lizzie Borden anthology.

Darkly delighted that my poem concerning vampires and underground clubs in Utah is now out in No Exit: A Collection of Utah Horror.

I have three dark spell sonnets in BloodLore (White Stag Publishing)! Happy Halloween!

A rare prose-poem of mine in Tough Poets Review. I wrote it about what happened to my husband two years ago...

Werewolves...they can be wretched partners if you let them... my sonnet on the subject is up at Corvid Queen: corvidqueen.com/stories/i-kn...

TV-63 announced their Pushcart Nominees. "Every work in TV-63 beat incredible odds just to wind up in print. But to end up with a national literary award nomination? You wouldn’t want to make a bet on it in Vegas"-- Editor Matt McGee. I am so very honored to be one of them.

TV-63, an anthology that came about because of mass rejections, is out! I am proud to say I have two pieces in it. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRZHG82...

Very honored to have my Christopher Marlowe sonnets published by Pulsebeat Poetry Journal. And to be in such distinguished company. pulsebeatpoetry.com/pulsebeat-12...

I have a poem in this anthology. www.kickstarter.com/projects/crl...

Five more poems from @juleigh.bsky.social were published in Alien Buddha Zine #75 on May 29, 2025: www.amazon.com/Alien-Buddha....

Gruesomely delighted to have two poems appear in SKUMMEL today, thanks to @ghostlyverse.bsky.social for telling me about this venue. skummel.net/malum-folium...

Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s (@juleigh.bsky.social) poem "When the Ten of Swords Shows Up, No Matter How Big or Toxic an Issue Is, Realize Something" was published in the Teacakes and Tarot anthology from Spell Jar Press on May 1, 2025: www.spelljarpress.com/anthologies

Honored to have a poem in this happy abstraction!

Today is one of those days...the dog is sick, my head is killing me & I had a set of poems accepted & just found out they were published online--the publisher didn't let me know...(advice - Google your own name once a month)...anyway, the poems: www.bookxi.org/issuexviii#/...

Delighted to have a poem of mine in this just released anthology : a.co/d/bZ3iyUh

My contributor copy of Dark Hearts (Parsec Ink) arrived. Not only a great looking book with marvelous illustrations / superb content, it was packed so very sweetly too. I am honored to have a poem in it.

A beak shaped sonnet of mine is free in the world: eyetothetelescope.com/index.html

I have a sonnet up at Italiks. Is it darkly speculative? Depends on how literally you imagine the skeletons... #poetry #sonnet www.italiks.com/issues/unexp...

My quirky mermaid/(non)werewolf flash piece went up in May on 101 Words but I missed it at the time. Here it is now: 101words.org/when-the-wer...

Wyrdly delighted to share my unusual (for me) poem up at Eternal Haunted Summer's Solstice Issue --the theme was music: eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/summe...

One of my more wickedly inspired spell sonnets is up at formalverse.com: formalverse.com/2025/06/13/s...

A prose poem accepted to Tough Poets Review. Toughly and honestly delighted.

2 Poems accepted to LE FANTASTIQUE – A Literary Tribute to Clive Barker (Nocturnicorn Books). I am deeply and darkly honored...and very excited.

I just had a story accepted for the Week of Terrors anthology (Thursday); thanks for sharing the link LindaAnn! @ghostlyverse.bsky.social

I have 2 poems coming out in this anthology! www.middlewestpress.com/2025/06/midw...

My poem, "When the Ten of Swords Shows Up, No Matter How Big or Toxic an Issue Is, Realize Something" is part of this enchanting Spell Jar Press anthology.

Now that my dog's turned 13, he's taken on a somewhat hell houndish aspect. Oh well, it fits around here!

In the mood for a deadly wild west shape shifter sonnet? I've got one up at Uppagus: uppagus.com/poems/howard...

An unusually matter-of-fact poem of mine is on page 1 of SHIFT Literary Magazine (Middle Tennessee State University). I see LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social has work in this issue too!

I've submitted to Triangulation for years, finally I have a poem in this anthology (although I'm not reading it virtually).

@ghostlyverse.bsky.social / LindaAnn LoSchiavo and I have two ghost poems up at Collaborature! collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/04/etiq...

I have a poem in each of these showcases! Plus all proceeds for UNDER HER EYE continue to be donated to The Pixel Project to support advocacy and efforts to end violence against women worldwide.

Thanks for mentioning this!!

Issue 13 contributor @juleigh.bsky.social has work in the new anthology, Alternative Liberties, a collection of speculative fiction that speaks to implications of the politics of our time, from B Cubes Press. bcubedpress.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/a...

Reading for the 2025 Elgin. What a variety of ways to write poetry there are.... each of them fascinating. NOTE: If you are a member of the SFPA, get your nominations in before May 31. Nominations should be e-mailed to me: [email protected].

SFPA Members, the nominating period for the 2025 Elgin Awards is now open! The Elgin Awards, named for SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin, are presented annually by SFPA for books published in the preceding two years in two categories, Chapbook and Book. 2025 Elgin Chair: @juleigh.bsky.social /

Estate sale asked $1 for hardbacks, 50 cents for paperbacks. I found the literary ones first then spotted the Alice's Restaurant cookbook--it wasn't until I got home that I noticed it had been autographed by Arlo Guthrie....yes (and it still has the record attached to the back cover too)!!

Anna Mond

Three frightful poems of mine are up on Fright Lit today! frightlit.com/3-frightful-...

My Fibonacci sonnet is up on Amazing Stories. Ahem. (I didn't do the reading, that might be an actual robot). amazingstories.com/2025/03/robo...