Caroline Bicks is the first scholar to be granted extended access by @stephenking.bsky.social to his private archive. We interviewed her about Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King (one of the best books I've read this year). tinyurl.com/4b55uhpa @carolinebicks.bsky.social

ICYMI: @mikethorn.bsky.social and I interviewed @lukefrancisbeirne.bsky.social on the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about ghostwriting, Cold War propaganda, and relearning to write after a five-week coma. tinyurl.com/2s3zm3md

Went slightly overboard at the local book fair w/ @miriamricher.bsky.social (who practiced much more restraint than me). The Straub & King books are replacement copies.

Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, in which @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Luke Francis Beirne about classic film noir, New Brunswick settings, collaborating with editors, and much more. tinyurl.com/3xhdbdx3

ICYMI: @mikethorn.bsky.social and I interviewed the brilliant @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social on the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We spoke at length about collecting pieces of lore, bringing levity to fiction, being "on thin ice" with our devices, and much more. tinyurl.com/325mv3fe

Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with the great @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social about cacophonies of voices, mercurial relationships with phones, Gordon Lish heads, and more. tinyurl.com/48fwkktn

Want to listen to two intelligent people and a goober talk about writing? Here you go. Miriam Richer and Mike Thorn are great hosts. Check out all the CRAFTWORK PODCAST episodes. ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTmh...

ICYMI: @mikethorn.bsky.social and I had a riveting conversation with @michaelwehunt.bsky.social on the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We spoke about "earthy" writing, rendering dread on the page, the unanticipated weirdness of public selfhood, and so much more. tinyurl.com/cjv95742

Check out the latest episode of Craftwork! @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with the brilliant @michaelwehunt.bsky.social about the weight of dread, the erosion of truth in contemporary online life, and much more. This is a great one. tinyurl.com/cjv95742

Also, in case you missed our @craftworkpod.bsky.social interview with the brilliant and erudite Hajer Mirwali... We discussed cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs, and a whole lot more. open.spotify.com/episode/4AUu...

New episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @mikethorn.bsky.social and I chatted with @danielbraum.bsky.social about exploring the ecology of the supernatural, finding inspiration in liminal spaces, cultivating a sense of awe, and so much more.

Read my first essay for @nightmare-magazine.com, "Plumbing the Depths: Haunted Writers and Hauntings Writings," which examines @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social's The Red Tree & @joycecaroloates.bsky.social's Jack of Spades as exemplars of 21st-century writer-centred horror. tinyurl.com/ym4xzvbp

My debut novel turns 5 this month! Nice words from writers I admire: “A full-bore, vicious death metal roar through suburbia towards hell.” — @gemmafiles.bsky.social “Superbly written.” — @laurelhightower.bsky.social "[A] coming-of-age story with teeth and claws.” — @spmiskowski.bsky.social

We could listen to Mike, Miriam, and Hajer talk poetry all day! 🤩

New @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Hajer Mirwali, author of Revolutions (@talonbooks.bsky.social, 2025). We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more. tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa

Miriam Richer's review, "Citizens of Ulro: A Review of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead", offers a critical reassessment of the (anti-)anthropocentrism in Nobel laureate Tokarczuk's novel. @miriamricher.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2hp6967b

@mikethorn.bsky.social and I co-wrote "Chlorophilia" as a fun little diversion when we started dating. It's wild to see it in print at @augursociety.bsky.social! augursociety.org/chlorophilia/

recent thrift store finds w/ @miriamricher.bsky.social

Miriam Richer & I co-wrote a weird, epistolary, cyber body horror story, which has been published in the latest issue of @augursociety.bsky.social! Thrilled to be included. 🍃🖤💀 Read here: augursociety.org/chlorophilia/ Full issue: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... @miriamricher.bsky.social

Issue 8.3 features... ✒️ "On Fields of Purple Grass" by @ianli.bsky.social ✒️ "Tapetum Lucidum" by @nebulouswrites.com ✒️ "The Great Divide" by Meryem Yildiz ✒️ “Chlorophilia” by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

We've got 2 samples on our site! ✒️ “Rocky Mountain Gothic” by @evdatsyk.bsky.social, a girl in between the wild & human world ✒️ “Chlorophilia” by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social, about metamorphosis, betrayal, & nature’s revenge READ NOW 👉 augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

It was a pleasure to feature a dialogue with the incredibly talented Kasia Van Schaik on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about braided essays, the objective correlative, the "solitude collective", and so much more! tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp

Another exhilarating conversation about craft! @mikethorn.bsky.social and I spoke to Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, building writing communities, reading the comments section, and lots more. tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s

Listen to our our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, literary scenes, flipping the script on what a book can be, and so much more. tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s

fit check (convocation happened) 🎓👨‍🎓🎓 @miriamricher.bsky.social

It was an absolute treat to chat with the inimitable @ramseycampbell.bsky.social on our latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We discussed creative instincts, happy accidents, eerie children's tales, and a whole lot more. tinyurl.com/5xau9djn

Listen to our latest episode! We chatted with Ramsey Campbell about creative instincts, happy accidents, eerie children's tales, and so much more. tinyurl.com/5xau9djn @ramseycampbell.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to have a dialogue with Michael LaPointe and @mikethorn.bsky.social on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, and finding liberation in failure. tinyurl.com/4urvw3mc

"Nothing human should be alien to us." - Gemma Files ❤️

On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water. tinyurl.com/572zhet3

Listen to our latest episode! We chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more. @emilyabanks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/572zhet3

@MiriamRicher.bsky.social reviews Dead Writers, a new fiction project from Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum, which Richer calls "a series of literary case studies in the lies we tell ourselves in order to go on living": ex-puritan.ca/dark-entries...

Listen to our latest episode! We chat with Naben Ruthnum about character generation, TV brain, interpreting first-reader notes, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWE19NR @undertow.bsky.social

I really love this @craftworkpod.bsky.social conversation because it could still be going on, rolling, curving, branching everywhere as it goes. tinyurl.com/4nef5hrr Thanks as ever to @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social

"If You Knew Me is a twisty, gripping psychological thriller that isn't afraid to raise the issue of morality. Are we victims or co-conspirators? A novel you'll be thinking about for a long time." - Alma Katsu, author of Fiend

I had the honour of writing on DEAD WRITERS for @ex-puritan.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to read and review @invisibooks.bsky.social's mesmerizing collection of horror-tinged novellas. ex-puritan.ca/dark-entries...

Check out my latest feature for In Review Online, "The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema." I went long on horror cinema's depictions of writers, focusing on Clarke's Exposé, Kubrick's The Shining, & Kurosawa's Loft. tinyurl.com/inrogoth

Very excited to share the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, in which @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Sarah Bernstein about the abnegation of self, generating meaning, Fredericton memories, and much more. tinyurl.com/CWE18SB

OK, it's *really* available to order! Get your hands on THE WEIRD: A Companion, coedited by Kristopher Woofter & Carl Sederholm. Contributions from Thomas Ligotti, Eugene Thacker, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and many others! Also included: a new little piece by me. www.peterlang.com/document/132...

Very excited to announce that @augursociety.bsky.social will soon be publishing "Chlorophilia", a work of epistolary weird fiction that @miriamricher.bsky.social & I co-wrote together! 🖤🌿💀

Contributor copies have arrived! Very grateful to be included. All sales donated to the indigenous Cucapa community of Mexicali, B.C., Mexico. Buy: tinyurl.com/2hx67s4d

Issue #28 of Black Fox Lit is here! It's been a total privilege getting to read work by amazing writers then put them all together in one issue. We hope you enjoy #28! Cover by the amazing Britnie Walston! What do you all think? 🦊 blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issue/ #litmags #writingcommunity #booksky

Contributor copies have arrived! Thanks to pulp MAG for publishing my new story, "Dread Robin."

My new story "Hell is a False Abyss" is included in this anthology, edited by Juan Valencia, concept by @valeriecomplex.bsky.social. All sales go to the indigenous Cucapa community of Mexicali, B.C., Mexico. Also feat. @saderotica.bsky.social, Alissa Nutting, and many others. BUY: a.co/d/g8RHVDH

Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social for an engaging conversation with the wise, charming, and brilliant @spmiskowski.bsky.social. We chatted about Asian horror cinema, the power of grief, the relentless desire to shape the self, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWS01E17

We ( @mikethorn.bsky.social & I) learned sooo much about craft from the brilliant @fparker.bsky.social . I highly recommend "Hi, It's Me" (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social); it truly is ~ a heartbreaking work of staggering genius ~

Last summer I went on an early-2000s teen movie bender, and it inspired an interactive HTML narrative. Check it out in @overexposedlit.bsky.social Issue 3! overexposedlit.uvic.ca/issue3/

excited for the release of my early-2000s-teen-movie-inspired html fiction 'experience' ;)

@miriamricher.bsky.social appears in Issue 3 with"Homesick," a beautifully tragic interactive narrative. Miriam's work has appeared in Plenitude, carte blanche, and she is the co-host of the @craftworkpod.bsky.social podcast.

Our podcast is getting broadcast! Local friends, tune into CHSR 97.9 FM every Wednesday @ 10 pm AST to hear our show. Online friends, you can hear the live broadcast at the link below. Tonight: an excerpt of our chat with @rodmoo.bsky.social! @bondosucks.bsky.social chsrfm.ca/blog/listen-...