I'm absolutely thrilled to see Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology make the finalist list for the Locus Awards! An enormous congratulations to all my fellow finalists. It’s amazing to be in such great company! locusmag.com/2026/04/2026... @carinabissett.bsky.social @ethereallad.bsky.social

@leemurraywriter.bsky.social and I are excited to share this glowing review of OVERSIGHT from @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social. Coming to bookstore on March 8th! @runningwildllc.bsky.social

Coming out on March 8th with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @runningwildllc.bsky.social . Have you preordered your copy yet? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/oversight-...

Today (February 11) is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Virginia Apgar is one of the sixty women featured in OVERSIGHT: Erasure Poetry, written by myself and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social. Our book comes out on Mar 8th w/ @runningwildllc.bsky.social. Preorder links in the comments!

The mark Tanith Lee left is wide & deep. My hope is that Storyteller maps a bit of that landscape for those who were unaware and that the wonderful stories found within the book find many readers! @clhellisen.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @carinabissett.bsky.social @ethereallad.bsky.social

Thanks to @carinabissett.bsky.social & @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for this insightful guest post on their experience crafting erasure poems from writings by women from history. buff.ly/jixqJkV #erasurepoetry #foundpoetry #poetrycommunity

All of which is to say, we just crossed the 1000 copies sold mark with Storyteller!!!!! It's available @bookshop.org @weightlessbooks.bsky.social and many other online retailers. Plus directly from Essential Dreams Press at tanithleestoryteller.com.

Lee Murray and I thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of our collaborative project OVERSIGHT: Erasure Poetry. Best of all, it will be released by Running Wild Publishing next year on International Women's Day (8 March 2026)! www.pr.com/press-releas...

Book release! My new #poem, "Some Shining Earth," is a #solarpunk sequel/retelling of Christina Rossetti's #Goblin Market, mashed up w/ The Green Children of Woolpit. Read it here first! --> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKPPNT7X ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social #SFFH #fantasy #darkfantasy #SFWA #SFPA #poetry

I've got a story in this collection. I'm in such awe of the amazing company of authors I get to be in a volume with. @carinabissett.bsky.social's workshops are the reason I write fiction again, and the reason I write much better than I did a few years ago. www.amazon.com/Fractured-Re...

Excited to have my short story "Pennies for Dreams, Pounds for Nightmares" in the FRACTURED REVERIES anthology edited by @carinabissett.bsky.social. My story was inspired by "The Boy Who Set Out to Know Fear" fairy tale...but, you know, make it feminist AF. amzn.to/3UGF6rk #sffh

10 days! Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology ships JULY 1st! I'm thrilled with how it turned out. These authors are fire! tanithleestoryteller.com @marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and more

If you've heard me talk about the Baba Yaga/Fairy Tale Architecture discussion that spawned my story seed for THE FARMHOUSE, @carinabissett.bsky.social has posted it on The Storied Imaginarium! open.substack.com/pub/storiedi...

Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations is a Shirley Jackson nominee! I'm over the moon! <3

I just posted a review of the forthcoming Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology edited by @thisjulieday.bsky.social, @carinabissett.bsky.social, and Craig Laurance Gidney. It's a lovely anthology and it'll be out in July! acwise.net/review-story...

Great thread and some great opening lines from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!

My poem "Grendelsong: A Merewif's Lament," (Mother Knows Best, edited by Lindy Ryan) was nominated for a Rhysling Award. Happy dance!

As I am a writer and must peddle my wares lest I die in the abyss, hey! In April 2025, THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS emerges from the fog and the trees and if you wanted to pre-order it from your favorite local bookstore -- or get signed, personalized copies from Doylestown Bookshop -- that'd be nice.

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

Day 16: My collage of artsy postcards with #art by @tanaudel.bsky.social (done for @angelaslatter.bsky.social’s stories). Kathleen’s store: www.redbubble.com/people/tanau...

Sat., Feb. 22nd at 10am Pacific, I'm teaching an online workshop on submitting your short fiction for publication. With close to 60 short story & poetry publications, I have lots of info and strategies to share. @carinabissett.bsky.social storiedimaginarium.substack.com/p/submitting...

Looking for community and a creative boost? The Season of the Bee starts in three weeks! I have two open seats for Tuesday night and three open seats for Thursday night. As a participant, you'll receive 5 modules and have 6 opportunities to critique your poems, stories or CNF. Come join us!

Book mail!!! @angelaslatter.bsky.social

So thrilled (+chilled?) for my debut #fantasy story now out in FFO’s “winter #folklore” issue! ❄️✨ Check out “The Ice Cutter’s Daughter and Her Looking Glass” here ➡️ www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-... Thank you @flashfictiononline.bsky.social & @carinabissett.bsky.social! 🙏

Excited to see this review of the Winter Folklore issue @flashfictiononline.bsky.social from C.D. Lewis at Tangent Online. Congratulations @allisonpang.bsky.social, Catherine George, Jason P. Burnham, Daniel Roop, M. R. Robinson, @ktwagner.bsky.social & Nadia Born! tangentonline.com/e-market-mon...

Announcement: Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine WELCOME BACK, FANTASY! full details here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

The Orange & Bee is open for submissions (poetry, flash, and short fiction) for a few more days. (Closes at midnight on 1/14 Australian time.) Submit through Duotrope. You can read more about what we are looking for here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/submission...

The snow is falling in Colorado, a perfect time to dive into A Promise of Persimmons by Allison Pang. So happy I had the opportunity to work as the guest editor on the Winter Folklore issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/a-pr...

I've been interviewed by The Orange & Bee about fairy tales, ghost stories and other writerly matters. Many thanks to @carinabissett.bsky.social for the very thought-provoking questions! theorangebee.substack.com/p/author-int...

clacks jaw stretches bones opens The Deadlands over a steamy mug of tea we're still rolling out issue 36! see what we've shared so far here! thedeadlands.com/issue-36/ and hey, if you love what you find, give that Support Us button a click 🖤💀

HWA DIVERSITY GRANTS open for added period Nov 1- 11 (1:00am). Each Grant worth $500 and may be spent on approved expenses for a period of two (2) years. Please REPOST. Fill out application: Go to url: horrorscholarships.com/diversity-gr... At bottom of page and select [CLICK HERE TO APPLY]

Ten days to go in our annual fundraiser. Do you love what we do at @thedeadlands.com and @psychopomp.bsky.social? Strange but true: we can't do it without money. Support us, and get a beautiful coin for the ferryman. psychopomp.com/fundraiser-2...

The winner of the 2024 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel - Adult is: THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) #Ignytes2024

The Kickstarter for STORYTELLER: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology is LIVE!!! These rewards and add-ons are amazing! Signed art prints by @terriwindling.bsky.social! Signed books by C.S.E. Cooney, Theodora Goss, @marthawells.bsky.social, and more. So exciting! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ess...

Women in Horror Month By Carina Bissett gnofhorror.com/women-in-hor... 💙📚 @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @carinabissett.bsky.social

People may think horror writers don’t scare easily, but I think many of us scare even more easily than most. I’m scared of the dark, mirrors, tight spaces, heights, silence, and public speaking of course. 💙📚 @carinabissett.bsky.social @angelasylvaine.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/angela-sylva...

So, this is a first for me. I have two poems on the longlist for the Rhysling Award: Sleeping Beauties • HWA Poetry Showcase X (Short Poem) & Between Scylla and Charybdis • The Future Fire June (Long Poem). sfpoetry.com/ra/rhyscand....

My debut collection DEAD GIRL, DRIVING AND OTHER DEVASTATIONS will be released into the wild on March 8th! Preorders are available now! journalstone.com/bookstore/de... www.amazon.com/Dead-Girl-Dr...

1 week left on the Twisted Folklore bundle featuring SHADOW ATLAS. This book is packed with great stories & the bundle includes 11 more great books! "Think The DaVinci Code or Indiana Jones, but with more literary force." —MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW www.storybundle.com/folklore @carinabissett.bsky.social

Some winter reading and chocolate recommendations from the @houseofgamut.bsky.social team, including me!

Looking for the perfect gift for the speculative fiction fan in your life? Why not buy them a subscription to Apex Magazine! $27 for the next 6 issues! It's the gift that keeps giving all year long. apex-magazine.com/product/apex...

new poetry today! How the Blubber Boy Came to Be, by Shantell Powell The young widow is clad in the patience of ancestors. Her hands are capable. Her needle thrusts strong. Her stitches neat. But in the other world she isn’t sewing. read the full poem here 🥀 thedeadlands.com/issue-31/blu...

I'm right around the 3/4 mark (70K) on my novel rewrite. The original was 105K. I think this one will be closer to 95K. The new manuscript has some of the same characters and beats, but it's a very different book. Much harder the second time around, but I swear I'm going to finish it. So close!

My new short fiction roundup features stories by @vanessafogg.bsky.social Kathleen Schaefer, Cameron Fischer, @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social @georgiemorvis.bsky.social AA Ademola, @carolscheina.bsky.social @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social Beston Barnett & more:

Book mail! My poem "Carina, Carina" is in this poetry showcase benefiting the Pixel Project. As a survivor of domestic violence, this is an intensely personal poem. Happy to represent.

Just a reminder that @thedeadlands.com opens tomorrow (Oct. 1) for poetry for two weeks! Get those submissions ready. I can't wait to read your most heartfelt spectral stuff! thedeadlands.com/guidelines/

Finally I was able to curate, translate my own anthology of Chinese scifi. Sinopticon was a milestone in my long-term goal of bringing Chinese SFF to Anglophone spheres. The ebook's on sale right now until Monday! You can buy it @solarisbooks.bsky.social here rebellionpublishing.com/product/sino...

Ah, October, there you are. I’ll be editing Northern Nights, an anthology of dark fiction from Canadian authors. Submissions open now. Complete submission details can be found here: undertowpublications.com/northern-nig...

So, I found this beauty and need to add it to my Etsy shop. Just had to share a closeup. It's BIG (28.5"×26.5") in a gorgeous wood frame. The subject of the portrait is Nicholas (handwritten on the back), and it is a charcoal made by John M Galvan in 1982. I just love it! <3