Absolute dream speaking with @chelsead.bsky.social for @electricliterature.com about the great Dorothy Allison, the agency in body horror, my perpetual motion sickness, where people-pleasing gets dangerous, being your own absent babysitter, and more.

Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other

Please help Mohammed in any way you can!! 💕💸🍉

Hey! I'm reading in SF this Thursday! Et al. Gallery at 6pm with @milesklee.bsky.social @spookymeatball.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social, Colin Winette and Lucy Corin

Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'! Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.

It was a total delight to interview @annaleen.bsky.social about their new queer sci-fi novella, Automatic Noodle. You can read the interview online now, or in print this Thursday ✨ tinyurl.com/yc53d83u

Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish. Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.

I reviewed Silvia Moreno-Garcia's newest novel for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. The Bewitching is a reflection on misanthropy, cross-cultural witch lore, and the pleasures of research. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

"But who needs sex when you’ve got books? Minerva’s emotional connection to the dead authors she studies is so hot-blooded it verges on the erotic." @chelsead.bsky.social reviews "The Bewitching." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-heart-is-a-lonely-haunter/

Woo! Delighted to have been nominated by the BFS for Best Audio! 🎉 Congratulations to The Tiny Bookcase, Breaking the Glass Slipper and, of course, our friends in the Castle! @podcastle.org

In the latest edition of my horror-comedy newsletter, Shrieks & Howls, I wrote about Bring Her Back and Bring It On. File under: mourning & melancholia, pirated copies, Nancy Kerrigan. Read here, & subscribe for free at the link in the comments to catch future installments. tinyurl.com/5b8hs6r3

For The Brooklyn Rail, I reviewed Naomi Falk’s mesmerizing memoir-in-art, The Surrender of Man. brooklynrail.org/2025/06/art_...

ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely please read on 🧵

So this story by @chelsead.bsky.social means a lot to me, and I am very proud of the narration for it. I hope you like it too!

They’d long since passed the point where road gave way to trail gave way to forest. The Fruits Of, by Chelsea Davis Narrator: Dani Daly Host: Kat Day Audio: Chelsea Davis pseudopod.org/2025/05/20/p... C/W for dementia, suicidal ideation, death of a family member

I love this piece because the dude is clearly completely satisfied with his hairline

The PseudoPod portal is open, you say? Yes! But ONLY FOR stories that have been, or will be, published in anthologies or collections in this year of our lord* 2025. Hold on to your previously unpublished work for now: that door's opening in the summer. [*we'll leave you to decide who that is]

Happiest of birthdays to our audio producer, @chelsead.bsky.social!

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

In her new book ‘Sky Daddy,’ author Kate Folk explores uncharted territory: It's the gently empathetic fictional story of a Menlo Park tech worker who spends her free time at SFO — because she's sexually attracted to airplanes. The author chats with KQED:

Another week, another @strangehorizons.bsky.social issue, another Monday review. Good one of an important book, too: @chelsead.bsky.social on Julia Armfield’s Private Rites. This novel has already rightly occasioned much comment, and right before its US publication Chelsea has new things to add.

I reviewed @katefolk.bsky.social 's forthcoming novel, Sky Daddy. For the piece, I also spoke with Folk about the inspiration behind the novel, the banal miracle of air travel, and blackpilled desire.

“One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved.” Chickamauga, by Ambrose Bierce Narrator: Brian Lieberman Host and audio producer: @chelsead.bsky.social This story first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, 1889

I wrote a plot for this play-to-die horror RPG & it's finally available in meatspace! Enter The Zone, where your body is changing & it's not going to be ok :) :) thezonerpg.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

LOVED this observation:

I interviewed Anna Biller, one of my favorite living filmmakers (The Love Witch, Viva), about her debut novel. Bluebeard's Castle uses the ancient legend to comment on modern-day violence against women. electricliterature.com/anna-biller-...

Every year we do everything we can to promote anthologies and collections at PseudoPod. Take a look at our blog post (link below) and be reminded of some of the pieces we’ve already published, and salivate over some of the things we’ve got coming up… pseudopod.org/2023/11/09/a...

I wrote about the best horror film of the past year, & a film that some would certainly call a comedy! Check out the latest edition of Shrieks & Howls, my newsletter about horror & comedy. And subscribe at the link in the comments so you never miss a bonkers pairing. tinyletter.com/chelseamdavi...

Anyway i havent posted resources here irt to palestine and no one on this dash is posting anything so heres smn I stole off twitter

Old-timey tough kid beholding a Lovecraftian horror: He ain’t so squamous

I interviewed Mona Awad about her latest novel, Rouge, which is about skincare and the death drive. electricliterature.com/mona-awad-in...

As guest host for @pseudopod.bsky.social this week, I got to think & talk about @joshrountree.bsky.social 's short story "See that My Grave Is Kept Clean," a desolating meditation on guilt and siblinghood. Listen (or read the text) at the link below. pseudopod.org/2023/09/08/p...

“Dig a hole, climb in, cover yourself in grave dirt. Not your face. You aren’t ready to join the dead, not yet.” See That My Grave is Kept Clean, by Josh Rountree Narrator: Kyle Akers Host and audio production: Chelsea Davis This story is a PseudoPod original pseudopod.org/2023/09/08/p...

Looks like someone(s) with the right mix of ability, interest, time and either funding or willingness to figure that part out, is needed to keep this going. Sharing in case perhaps that's you or someone you know.

I interviewed @lydiakiesling.bsky.social about her new novel, Mobility, which is both a closely observed bildungsroman and a lucid history of a dizzyingly vast industry: oil. theracketsf.com/home/chelsea...

I've been helping some friends and colleagues block some of the site scraping bots that are feeding "AI" models. Decided to take some of my notes and make something others could use too. It's a work-in-progress. Happy to add to or correct things. neil-clarke.com/block-the-bo...

I hosted @pseudopod.bsky.social's reissue of @christinogle.bsky.social's exquisite story, "Resilience." Listen here to her portrait of hideous survival & the slimy darkness we all keep inside. Stick around to the end for my commentary on the story. https://t.co/73N8W6X8tc

The person who invites you to Bluesky is the closest thing we have to vampire sires.

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ok. ok. acrostics are fun. One with books, now: Cipher(, The) Her Body and Other Parties Exquisite Corpse Lunar Park Sydney Bridge Upside Down Eileen Aura

this is such good clean fun Carnival of Souls House that Jack Built(, The) Exorcism of Emily Rose Les Diaboliques Scare Me Event Horizon As Above, So Below

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