31 Dec: On the cusp of a New Year, nature carries its promise. These winter buds hold next season’s life, hope wrapped tightly within, waiting for the light to return. As midnight nears, we celebrate new beginnings already stirring beneath the earth and in the trees. #NewYearsEve

Our charity anthology authors share the love! "A Crossing gives us pilgrims almost meeting on the road – but centuries apart. Rich with authenticity and memory, deftly unspooled in under 1000 words. A gem." Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... @leighloveday.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social

Our charity anthology authors share the love! "This story is a glittering shard of dark urban magic from the king of creepy-trippy-cool. Come scream into the void; you know you want to…" Paperback £7.50: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... @sarahkat.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social

Roger Clarke and I are writing a book about ghosts. We need a publisher. @tomsbrown.bsky.social and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.

Day 20 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration comes. We set the Frost Witch to the tree, Drape the chain of miniature icicles falling from her cloak, unfurl the white lace trail that mimics her decoration of the lanes on winter mornings. Say a prayer for those sleeping rough.

Happy Christmas panic-buying onset for those who celebrate! Must be time to bump this, suitable for anyone in your life who likes a) charity and b) animals. And optimally c) reading. 27 snack-sized stories curated by @trashcatlit.bsky.social for The Wildlife Trusts: trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...

Can't wait to hear this!

David's work is such an inspiration. Because of Hookland, I shiver when I pass between two pylons. I often ask myself: "What would Emily Banting do?" And I know that the most ordinary places are alive with strangeness. Sending gratitude and well wishes to you, David! @cultauthor.bsky.social

Delighted to be in the latest issue of WestWord (and alongside some other wonderful pieces from brilliant writers) with this little story from earlier this year: open.substack.com/pub/westword...

Woohoo! Good luck all!

I'm ready for Halloween with this stunningly creepy anthology! 🖤 Silent Screams: An Anthology of Quiet Horrors share.google/gafGIwAXtsZR...

Every pylon was portal. Each transmission tower a temporary temple. We followed The Hum as an act of ecstatic pilgrimage. We were the 'filthy hippy cult' parent were afraid their child would run away to join. You either heard The Hum and understood or you didn't. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH

Want to read something a little folky, a little mystical? Our print anthology has that among its 27 glorious short fictions. Here are some teases to tantalise your storybuds 🦝 Then click here to buy our book and help raise money for charity 💜 mybook.to/WhatComesToL... 1/2

Very proud of this beautiful baby! 🦝 If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌

Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed... My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social Read all about them here: matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...

Silent Screams is out now. It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it. If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you. eBook and paperback: mybook.to/SilentScream... #Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity

Really valuable insights from @mattkendrick.bsky.social on feedback and editing processes, as always! No Writer is an Island - Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/prattlef...

Resistance is fertile in this powerful piece! "Sporesong" is visually and lyrically stunning 👌🍄✊️

A briny blast of soilpunk (with extra punk), and a masterclass in character, setting and voice. Love this!

So excited to be part of this gorgeous anthology from the wonderful @trashcatlit.bsky.social ! My story follows two veterans walking the Icknield Way, 600 years apart, and a pilgrim badge that's lost and found.

If you read anything today, read this. Gorgeous soil and fungi prose, masterful worldbuilding 💚

In the shadow of the Reserve of Persisting Complexity, a rag-tag community finds that webs are stronger than walls... I'm thrilled to introduce my Grubbers to the world, with such beautiful illustrations by Manon Cezaro!

"Trees [...] never fully trusted humans. Their chemical-trace sign for us includes the ideas of movement, fire, seeds, and danger." Gorgeous, mind-bending mycelial writing from @culagovski.net 🍄🌱💚

My tale of queer folksong collectors and the music of the dead is out now in Rawhead! Thrilled to be part of this stunning issue 🖤

It’s my birthday, the autumn equinox and the first day of fall 💛🍂 It would mean a lot if you could share my work today. Thank you for all the support this year. It’s everything to me Hope Persephone’s blessings find you today ✨

Luscious urban soilpunk from @poojajoshi.bsky.social 🤩🍄💚

Hydrangeas are such a bisexual bush: whether they appear blue, pink, or purple depends upon the environment they're in, but they are capable of all of these colours regardless of how they are perceived. Today I'm thrilled to have a poem out in 'Bi All Accounts' claiming the hydrangea #bivisibility

"Some things cannot be hurried. Some things take years, yes, years, slow underground." Our first story in Issue 3, "The Fruiting," written by Anna Kahn and illustrated by Rui Pu, follows Kiera and an unnamed driver on a secret mycological mission. Will it be sabotage or salvation? 💥🍄🚙

"Sometimes decay is tender, sometimes it is traumatic. Sometimes decay is new life bursting with potential, sometimes it is unclear." Read guest editor Dr. Patricia Kaishian's thoughts on the collection of stories in Issue 3: SOMETHING'S ROTTING in her editor's note, out now at tractorbeam.earth! 🍄

Introducing our Issue 3 guest editor, Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian! 🍄🌱🪱 Dr. Kaishian is the author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, a blend of memoir and science writing that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.

Every metamorphosis requires some kind of breakdown. Today marks the Autumn Equinox, the beginning of a new season and the launch of Issue 3: SOMETHING’S ROTTING. Join us as we fall into decay! 🐌🍄🍂🪱🕷️ Live now at tractorbeam.earth 🚜🛸🌍

It's the last full week of the Writing as Resistance Festival and we have A THOUSAND BLUNDRED BILLION EVENTS and you should come to them all. (But also they're all recorded if you can't make them all because it's a lot...) 🧵

September's newsletter is live 🦝 We've got subs, Trash Family stuffs from @cbigs.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social & @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, three quick reads from Genrepunk Award nominees and some autumnal ekphrastic writing prompts 🧡 trashcatlit.com/2025/09/22/h...

Tomorrow... Fall is coming to Tractor Beam 🐌🪱🍂🕷🍄 Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first in the know 👀 tractorbeamearth.substack.com

One of my most devastating stories EVER is in this anthology! You're not going to want to miss 'Mother Nature', and much more from talented horror writers. Check out that amazing cover by Eric W. Brenner! Pre-orders open now: htthttps://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FRSJ488M?ref_=ast_author_dp

A thread of warning about a what looks to be a predatory promotional website, Readiln..com

It can be a struggle to work out if what is being depicted is the Wicker King, the Lumbering Man or even one of the Children-Made-of-Thorns. It can be even harder to work out if the intent was ward or summons. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1981

Apples are swollen. Blackberries sugaring. Hedgerows a riot of haws and hips. The wood's shadows speak again of the Hoarse Hag walking. Our lungs begin to fill with the incense of autumn. The year turns. We harvest the magics of today against tomorrow's ice. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

My collection of 38 flash & short fiction, One for Sorrow is available to buy on the 'Zon. Includes published works from: @underbellypress.bsky.social @nffr.bsky.social @retreatwest.bsky.social @crankedanvil.bsky.social @loftbooks.bsky.social @frazzledlit.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk and more!

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My collection of 27 dark flash and short fiction, Sick Ink is now available to buy on the 'Zon. Includes published works from: @molotovlitzine.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @frazzledlit.bsky.social @urbanpigspress.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social and more...

I was crawling around in between all the nettles on the steep side of the hill this morning, I was getting some funny looks but I promise I was just taking photos. 😂 Photo of a spider and it's intricate web this morning on Glastonbury Tor.

hey, you wanna read African novels in translation? they need $2500 by the end of August LET'S DO IT ko-fi.com/africantrans...

I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.

Been a while since I’ve rattled the alms tin so if you enjoy our peculiar brand of weird shit, have a few quid/dollars/euros/whatever to spare and fancy chucking it our way you can do it on our Patreon. It’s the only thing that keeps the lights on round here so it’s much appreciated.

ICYMI, PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

This looks fun (free, online).

really appreciating the onion as physical media.

Wizard's Tower Press ( @wtpress.bsky.social‬ ) Is Open To Double Feature Novellas horrortree.com/wizards-towe... Payment: Equal shares of royalties on net sales receipts Theme: Novellas to be combined - Fantasy and SF novellas, including steampunk, slipstream, weird, gothic. No full-blown horror

In Hookland, the most common collective noun for pylons is 'a march of pylons'. This is probably down to the Children of The Hum.