Chelsea Davis
@chelsead.bsky.social
Writer. Audio producer @Pseudopod.org. https://chelseamdavis.net/writing/
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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.
A Provocative Story Collection About Immigrants, Bodies Under Siege, and the Horror of Being Perceived - Electric Literature
Kristina Ten’s “Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine” gets spooky about girlhood
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October 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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.
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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
August 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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
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Please help Mohammed in any way you can!! 💕💸🍉
Support Mohammed Al Harazin's Survival in Gaza
Hello dear friends I hope you are well when you receive this message
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October 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Please help Mohammed in any way you can!! 💕💸🍉
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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
Et al. Gallery at 6pm with @milesklee.bsky.social @spookymeatball.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social, Colin Winette and Lucy Corin
September 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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
Et al. Gallery at 6pm with @milesklee.bsky.social @spookymeatball.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social, Colin Winette and Lucy Corin
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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-...
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-...
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September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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-...
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-...
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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.
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.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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.
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 ✨
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tinyurl.com/yc53d83u
Annalee Newitz’ ‘Automatic Noodle’ – Queer robots in futuristic California
“I love writing gay robots,” Annalee Newitz says. It’s clear the Lambda Literary Award-winning author and science journalist had a ball writing “Automatic Noodle” (Tor), their fourth queer sci-fi book...
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August 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
tinyurl.com/yc53d83u
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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.
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.
July 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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.
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.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Haunter | Los Angeles Review of Books
Chelsea Davis hangs out with dead people in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Bewitching.”
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July 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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-...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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"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/
July 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"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/
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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
Congratulations to The Tiny Bookcase, Breaking the Glass Slipper and, of course, our friends in the Castle! @podcastle.org
June 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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
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.
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June 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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
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For The Brooklyn Rail, I reviewed Naomi Falk’s mesmerizing memoir-in-art, The Surrender of Man.
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Naomi Falk’s The Surrender of Man | The Brooklyn Rail
An editor and art book designer who has worked in galleries and museums, Falk offers up her own existential and emotional bildung (education) as a case study in how artistic experience might help nonb...
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June 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For The Brooklyn Rail, I reviewed Naomi Falk’s mesmerizing memoir-in-art, The Surrender of Man.
brooklynrail.org/2025/06/art_...
brooklynrail.org/2025/06/art_...
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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
🧵
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
🧵
May 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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
🧵
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
🧵
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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!
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
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
PseudoPod 977: The Fruits Of
They’d long since passed the point where road gave way to trail gave way to forest. Bright green ferns now rose to their knees. Around them, old-growth redwoods loomed forth. It had been like this for...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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!
I hope you like it too!
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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
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
PseudoPod 977: The Fruits Of
They’d long since passed the point where road gave way to trail gave way to forest. Bright green ferns now rose to their knees. Around them, old-growth redwoods loomed forth. It had been like this for...
pseudopod.org
May 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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
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
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I love this piece because the dude is clearly completely satisfied with his hairline
April 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I love this piece because the dude is clearly completely satisfied with his hairline
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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]
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]
a very ornate wooden door with a fancy handle
Alt: An ornate wooden door which opens to reveal a character with a pumpkin head, who beckons a girl to join him.
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April 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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]
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]
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Happiest of birthdays to our audio producer, @chelsead.bsky.social!
a neon glowing skull wearing a party hat blowing a party horn
Alt: a neon glowing skull wearing a party hat blowing a party horn
media.tenor.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Happiest of birthdays to our audio producer, @chelsead.bsky.social!
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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...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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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:
Airplanes! Sex! ‘Sky Daddy’ Takes Object Fetishization to New Heights | KQED
A visit at SFO with Kate Folk, author of this year’s No. 1 book for those sexually attracted to planes.
www.kqed.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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:
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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.
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.
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
There’s a plodding pace to things in Private Rites, and by design.
strangehorizons.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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.
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.
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:
Airplanes! Sex! ‘Sky Daddy’ Takes Object Fetishization to New Heights | KQED
A visit at SFO with Kate Folk, author of this year’s No. 1 book for those sexually attracted to planes.
www.kqed.org
February 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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.
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“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
Chickamauga, by Ambrose Bierce
Narrator: Brian Lieberman
Host and audio producer: @chelsead.bsky.social
This story first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, 1889
PseudoPod 921: Chickamauga
One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved. It was happy in a new sense of freedom from control, happy in the opportunity of…
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May 27, 2024 at 9:02 PM
“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
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...
January 8, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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...