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-...

Fredericton friends, drop by Westminster Bookmark this Sunday, Jan. 26 @ 3pm. I'll be reading (something dark) alongside local writers Alison Taylor and Chuck Bowie. Thanks to the great Fawn Parker for setting it up.

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Listen to episode 15 of craftworkpod.bsky.social! @mikethorn.bsky.social and I chatted with rodmoo.bsky.social about the revision process, capturing tone, reading like a writer, and so much more! tinyurl.com/3zmrd5x5 breakwaterbooks.bsky.social

We've had an amazing first year—thanks for all the support! If you've enjoyed our show and would like to see us keep going, please share, rate and/or review! Your support means everything. Happy new year 🖤 📖 ✒️ Apple: tinyurl.com/cz97j9dj Spotify: tinyurl.com/5th8pd5d

If you've been enjoying Craftwork, please consider sharing, rating and/or reviewing. This podcast is a pure labor of love for @miriamricher.bsky.social & me. Your support means the world to us. Apple: tinyurl.com/cz97j9dj Spotify: tinyurl.com/5th8pd5d

I spoke with Fiddlehead contributor Petra Chambers about mythic imagery, the poetics of time, the art of picking titles, and so much more. Check out her deftly crafted poems in Issue 301 of @fiddlehd.bsky.social!

I'm honoured to have my first work of interactive/HTML fiction featured in the forthcoming issue of @overexposedlit.bsky.social

I spoke with @fiddlehd.bsky.social contributor Margaret Watson about thematic resonance, hypothetical futures, the challenge of endings, and so much more. Check out her deftly crafted story, "The Returning Wife", in Issue 301 of The Fiddlehead!