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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.
Text 1000 copies sold! with the Storyteller a Tanith Lee Tribute anthology cover and the URL tanithleestoryteller.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
carinabissett.bsky.social
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)!

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Oversight: Erasure Poetry is a Defiant Act of Representation - PR.com
“…these verses are mine,” wrote Greek noblewoman and influencer Julia Balbilla, who carved three epigrams on the foot of the Colossus of Memnon in...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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dianthewest.bsky.social
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
Fractured Reveries. Blue, red, aqua and gold paint strokes with fingertips emerging from them.
August 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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antoniaeliason.bsky.social
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.

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Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon
Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon - Kindle edition by Bissett, Carina , Pang, Allison , Conradt, Chelsea, Wagner, KT, Colwell, Alison , Sulway, Nike, Tomova, Daniela, Yardley, Mercedes. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon.
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August 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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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.

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#sffh
Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon
Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon - Kindle edition by Bissett, Carina , Pang, Allison , Conradt, Chelsea, Wagner, KT, Colwell, Alison , Sulway, Nike, Tomova, Daniela, Yardley, Mercedes. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon.
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August 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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thisjulieday.bsky.social
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
June 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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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...
Baba Yaga and Fairy Tale Architecture
Part I: Traditional Tale, Contemporary Retellings, & Related Resources
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June 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
carinabissett.bsky.social
Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations is a Shirley Jackson nominee! I'm over the moon! <3
June 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
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!

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Review: Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology – acwise.net
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June 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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mariahaskins.com
Great thread and some great opening lines from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!
June 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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My poem "Grendelsong: A Merewif's Lament," (Mother Knows Best, edited by Lindy Ryan) was nominated for a Rhysling Award. Happy dance!
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
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.
Cover reveal for Chuck Wendig's THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, listed as Coming April 29, 2025. On the cover a spiral staircase rises through eerie mist in a dim forest of crooked trees. A crow sits on the railing of the staircase. DEL REY is the publisher. Cover design by The Boland Design Co. Text: A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents. Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what. Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere. One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears. Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy—and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods. . . .
November 20, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
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
February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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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...
Got my Kathleen Jennings artsy postcards framed together; a combination of characters as well as art+quotes from Angela Slatter’s stories. Closeup from the collage: a character postcard by Kathleen Jennings. A red haired woman seen on a green background Closeup: Jenning’s artwork shows the women on top running, and those below: bridal scene with one woman holding a crowned veil and the one behind her seemingly offering support. The Angela Slatter quote reads: “they run through the night streets like glorious, terrified, ghosts, flashing past windows and open doors, glowing in the lamplight as they pass from shadow to light and back again” Jennings art from Slatter’s story “The Badger Bride” shows some really cute badgers Slatter quote below reads: “I begin to think of worms and beetles, of windfall apples, blackberries, and wild cherries. I begin to think badgerish thoughts”
February 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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ktwagner.bsky.social
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
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Submitting Short Fiction for Publication
A short workshop filled with strategies on getting your work out in the world
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February 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
carinabissett.bsky.social
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!
New Sections Added for the Season of the Bee
Registration is open for Thursday evening and Saturday sessions
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February 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Book mail!!! @angelaslatter.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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nadiaborn.com
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! 🙏
The Ice Cutter’s Daughter and Her Looking Glass
The ice cutter’s daughter dreams that her world is melting. She knows the theory of thawing from common things: how candle wax weeps or sugar hisses in a skillet. But she’s not prepared for the sev…
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January 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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!

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Flash Fiction Online #136, January 2025 - Tangent Online
Flash Fiction Online #136, January 2025 "A Promise of Persimmons" by Allison Pang "The Heartbreaker's Apprentice" by Catherine George "The Northerner's Tale" by Jason P. Burnham "Spoon, Fork, Knife" by Daniel Roop "The Hag of Beinn Nibheis" by M. R. Robinson "Moist Breath of a Cold Stranger" by KT Wagner "The Ice Cutter's Daughter and
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January 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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psychopomp.com
Announcement:

Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine

WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!

full details here:

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the promo cover of Fantasy Magazine shows a women in the grass with a glowing sky behind her. The text says Returning June 2025 Fantasy Magazine
January 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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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:

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Submission guidelines
“No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.” ~Catherynne M.
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January 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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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.

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A Promise of Persimmons
The snow crunches beneath the soles of my boots. My footsteps echo, as though I walk upon the skinned hide of a drum, and when I pluck the last persimmon from the tree, I feel the rumbling swell. I…
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January 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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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!

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Author interview: Kirstyn McDermott
Issue three: interview
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November 23, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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thedeadlands.com
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!

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and hey, if you love what you find, give that Support Us button a click 🖤💀
Here It Is, Issue 36 of The Deadlands
Issue 36 of The Deadlands contains fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from incredible authors all about Death. Get your copy now by joining our Patreon. 💀
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November 12, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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merryrobin.bsky.social
Mary Dering (1629-1704) was an English composer.
She studied music with Henry Lawes, who dedicated his Second book of Airs to her.
Dering's only surviving works are the three songs that Lawes published in this volume -incidentally, the first [known] published music by a composing woman in England.
A formal portrait of a young white woman, Mary Dering. She wears a rich, warm-colored gown with gold and brown tones, layered with draped fabric that cascades around her shoulders. Her dark, curly hair frames her face, and she gazes directly at the viewer with a calm expression. The background is dark, with a classical architectural column and red drapery.
November 12, 2024 at 2:02 PM