Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill)
@gothicquill.bsky.social
🐍 Rural grit & working-class stories
🩸 Writing about an outlaw family history of true crime
📕MFA Brown University | PhD Denver
📍From a gravel road, IA
🩸 Writing about an outlaw family history of true crime
📕MFA Brown University | PhD Denver
📍From a gravel road, IA
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👋 Wonder if any writers from the twitter days remember me? I was the gal working on a folk horror...but it's real (still writing a true crime memoir rooted in a family tragedy, btw).
Let's catch up and talk all things gothic/horror/macabre, ya'll! 🦇🦇🦇
Let's catch up and talk all things gothic/horror/macabre, ya'll! 🦇🦇🦇
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Make ghosts your target audience.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
June 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Make ghosts your target audience.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
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Don’t forget that stories are the bridge between here and the afterlife.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
June 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Don’t forget that stories are the bridge between here and the afterlife.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
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the milky third eye of ancestors. the dried-up riverbed. the letter opened with a swiss army knife.
June 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
the milky third eye of ancestors. the dried-up riverbed. the letter opened with a swiss army knife.
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Not to brag but one of my eyebrow hairs grows very long, very fast and won't listen to reason.
June 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Not to brag but one of my eyebrow hairs grows very long, very fast and won't listen to reason.
Don’t forget that stories are the bridge between here and the afterlife.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
June 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Don’t forget that stories are the bridge between here and the afterlife.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
Make ghosts your target audience.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
June 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Make ghosts your target audience.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
Follow for more practical writing advice.
night hooks: the plot turns that can only occur in the fog after dark (with whiskey)
June 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
night hooks: the plot turns that can only occur in the fog after dark (with whiskey)
the milky third eye of ancestors. the dried-up riverbed. the letter opened with a swiss army knife.
June 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
the milky third eye of ancestors. the dried-up riverbed. the letter opened with a swiss army knife.
saw a hawk with a snake in its mouth
June 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
saw a hawk with a snake in its mouth
out with the bugs today
June 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
out with the bugs today
One of my long-standing hobbies is going to estate sales, where I found this folk horror fairy chair. I keep it in my writing room.
June 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
One of my long-standing hobbies is going to estate sales, where I found this folk horror fairy chair. I keep it in my writing room.
If you’re interested in folk horror and american gothic, let’s fuckin’ kick it. Let’s get muddy.
June 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you’re interested in folk horror and american gothic, let’s fuckin’ kick it. Let’s get muddy.
I’ve always been the type of writer who has to fight by the skin of my teeth to help get my story out there. Have see too many failed attempts to count. If you’re interested in folk horror and american gothic, let’s fuckin’ kick it. Let’s get muddy.
June 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I’ve always been the type of writer who has to fight by the skin of my teeth to help get my story out there. Have see too many failed attempts to count. If you’re interested in folk horror and american gothic, let’s fuckin’ kick it. Let’s get muddy.
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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
June 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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To thine own self be truant
May 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
To thine own self be truant
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The American Dream has disadvantaged the imagination of possibility
April 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The American Dream has disadvantaged the imagination of possibility
baby’s first meme xo
April 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
baby’s first meme xo
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Dominic Sessa is officially set to star as Anthony Bourdain in the biopic, Tony, from director Matt Johnson 🤍
The film will be released by A24
Add to watchlist ➡️ boxd.it/OJaa
The film will be released by A24
Add to watchlist ➡️ boxd.it/OJaa
April 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Dominic Sessa is officially set to star as Anthony Bourdain in the biopic, Tony, from director Matt Johnson 🤍
The film will be released by A24
Add to watchlist ➡️ boxd.it/OJaa
The film will be released by A24
Add to watchlist ➡️ boxd.it/OJaa
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When a publisher gets ready to go on submission
a man in a suit is singing into a microphone .
ALT: a man in a suit is singing into a microphone .
media.tenor.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
When a publisher gets ready to go on submission
The Amish think that taking a photograph captures your soul, at least they do where I grew up. If that’s true, then, I can say that this one captures my soul and sure makes me wish that I was at a dive bar. My soul is a dive bar? I’m fine with that.
April 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The Amish think that taking a photograph captures your soul, at least they do where I grew up. If that’s true, then, I can say that this one captures my soul and sure makes me wish that I was at a dive bar. My soul is a dive bar? I’m fine with that.
I talk about growing up in a small Amish town in Iowa (with a touch of folk horror thrown in for good measure) in my new Substack. Link below!
April 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I talk about growing up in a small Amish town in Iowa (with a touch of folk horror thrown in for good measure) in my new Substack. Link below!
Anybody else here grow up in a haunted house, legit?
April 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Anybody else here grow up in a haunted house, legit?
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give me a top of a line camera and I will document working class life with the poetry they speak about their lives
April 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
give me a top of a line camera and I will document working class life with the poetry they speak about their lives
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🕯️ a spell in a cabin
👻 a phone call from beyond the grave
❤️ true love
🏡 small town setting
🎃 hallowe’en time
🌄 second chances
🔦 friends solving a mystery
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/Lnobp
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...
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👻 a phone call from beyond the grave
❤️ true love
🏡 small town setting
🎃 hallowe’en time
🌄 second chances
🔦 friends solving a mystery
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/Lnobp
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...
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April 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
🕯️ a spell in a cabin
👻 a phone call from beyond the grave
❤️ true love
🏡 small town setting
🎃 hallowe’en time
🌄 second chances
🔦 friends solving a mystery
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/Lnobp
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...
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👻 a phone call from beyond the grave
❤️ true love
🏡 small town setting
🎃 hallowe’en time
🌄 second chances
🔦 friends solving a mystery
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/Lnobp
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...
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